Sidney Earl Goodroe

Took six fresh installs to get it to finally work!!!!

Had to reinstall Assistant again!!! Finally got CbB update!!!

Had to jump thru several hoops to update Assistant!!!!! NOW. Having connection problems to update CbB!!!! Finally gave up after 5 tries and reboots. Will try later.

Melda Productions has a nice freebie and a pay pitch tuner that is very affordable.

Sorry, been busy. I apologize for omitting the fact in my prior post that I was referring to older vst instruments as to them not bouncing to audio without leaving problems at higher sample rates. Recorded audio utilizing audio plugins for me has had few if any problems on the other hand.

This topic has been battled over for years. My own experience has taught me that converting 48k to 44.1 is just not that beneficial! Besides that, 48k sample rates have revealed artifacts in some VST plugins both during playback and worse on bouncing the track to audio or conversion to 44.1. Personally, everything I do is 24 bit 44.1 k samplerate and have never had a problem or complaint. I work in a professional capacity doing everything from demos and commercials to full blown orchestra and choir projects. Country to fusion jazz. I have not had one complaint over all this time as to the quality of my work. I think I will stay at 24/44.1.

The vst plugin still responds to controller automation for any assigned in the Prochannel just as in the fx bin. So you still have as much control as ever. You can assign the most used controllers to the six buttons for convenience. I prefer to use automation lanes.

If I may expand on my original reply. You can think of GPOs mixer sliders as controller 7. If you were recording in real time on the mixer you would set that slider to the best possible position for that section of instruments and leave it. Set your volume to the best OVERALL volume in the DAW track or use an automation track to set controller 7. Now using a controller 1 or 11 to control dynamics on the same track, the volume or dynamics will be controlled as if the players are performing the changes. The main advantage of this is you can leave the dynamics or controller 11 data in tact and just reset the volume or controller 7 data for each track if you are moving your project to a different DAW. I know it is confusing. Just think in terms of the mixer slider (controller 7)as a one time setting. The orchestra will be performing the dynamic changes as they play (controller 11). One more thing! There is a setting in CbB preferences that disables Cake from resetting all controllers to zero on restart. Make sure you uncheck that box!!!!!! Otherwise all your controllers reset to zero and your sound will be completely shut down to zero!!!

I use automation lanes set for controller 11. Controller 7 adjusts the mixer level in GPO. Controller 11 allows you to get the smooth transition from soft to loud.

Melda Productions has a nice freebie and a pay version. I have used them both and they are superb!

Just checking out the new hangout. Great looking place but sure will miss the dedicated Software and Deals threads! I hope there are plans to expand and add those soon. Meanwhile, HI, EVERYONE!!