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Companies are not people. They are not free to act as they choose. They are legally responsible to their investors/stock-holders. Companies must act for profits. It's a good thing from the perspective of the investor. They should use the money we invest in them to make more money. Otherwise, why would we invest? Who protects the grandma and grandpa who put their life savings in the hands of young companies? Right now, the courts. From my perspective, the weird thing is that the courts protect companies as if they are US Citizens. They are not. They should not be protected by the constitution as citizens. They are just objects within the country... People participate in corporations usually, but it would be possible to imagine a bot corporation that doesn't have a human in it. Only human investors that give the bot fuel to create more money. So, I think we should undo the court rulings that protect companies as if they were citizens themselves. It's possible for companies to be owned by foreigners all together. Non-citizens. All you need to do to get protections as a US Citizen is to buy a US Company? How weird. We are the government. We choose what power to grant to companies. We can make constitutional amendments to force the court to treat corporations like the untrustworthy entities they are. We have centuries of corporate history to predict future behavior with. Corporations are like bots. They are not full of good-will. They are not interested in making the world better. They are structures for money making. And we want them to be that. We just want to legislate them like they are nothing more than money-making bots.

idk. Interesting to read predictions. I think the impact of Open Source should be considered. I don't think there are that many people who can be pressed into staying with Windows. Lots of younger folks don't understand OS and related installed apps. They live on the web and any web conduit does the job. If Microsoft begins leaning on everyone for subscription dues, I think they will be much more poorly received than ol' Cakewalk. We love Cakewalk and signed up for the dues out of loyalty. If I wasn't so thankful to the devs who give us this tool, I would have jumped and not returned. Many of us gifted when asked. I don't use many apps these days that don't work fine on Linux, and I have Cakewalk (which I miss when I'm booted to Linux). My daughter would barely know she wasn't using Windows. Surely, she would not send them money. So, it would probably work on the older generation. Are there enough retirees, flush with cash, who don't want to learn something new to bring Windows to a forever-end for a final pay-check?

It was weird. All number keys except for 5 and 6 stopped working. Those were the only keys that didn't work. I'd love to know what went wrong.

Really? I was thinking of finding an old cast off for free. High dollar keyboard hadn't even crossed my mind. What makes it worth it?

It's wired. My wife's keyboard works. Never had this happen before. Guess it's time for a trip to the store.

This is a strange problem. Today, I can't use 5 and 6 are the only numbers working on my computer keyboard, including all of the special characters related to the numbers that I can't use. I have no idea what's going on. Everything was working yesterday. I could do a system restore, but I just can't figure out what's up. Had the hardest time logging in because I use those characters in my password. I ended up using the on-screen keyboard. Any ideas? Thanks ... no exclamation marks b/c it doesn't work. I can't do smiley's either.

My daughter watched the star wars movies too quickly i think. She was vaguely interested but not how i expected.

People trust open source because anyone can read the code. Might be safe. Might not be. But it is at least public.

Right click and save these things into a folder... http://gswitz.blob.core.windows.net/tunes/20190509gswitz_4fcb1010.fcb http://gswitz.blob.core.windows.net/tunes/20190509gswitz_4fcb1010.syx The app is available here... https://mountainutilities.eu/fcb1010 ... For some reason, some people sell a a special chip. I could be wrong, but it may be it's only settings loaded. haha Any version of the FCB 1010 will do I think. I'm not sure it matters. I could be wrong here. I got mine used on Craig's list. Since I turned on a friend. He borrowed mine for a 6 months and the got his own when I stole mine back. To load these settings, 1. plug in the midi input only 2. turn off the fcb 1010, step on the down pedal and hold it down when you turn it on. 3. switch it to the input setting. 4. click send from the app you've opened my settings into 5. step on the down pedal for a few seconds and it will count down from 10 or so. 6. Turn it off and back on. >> have fun! Next... 1. open th3 2. map the stomps and expression pedals to anything you like.

Pan rules on cakewalk are different for mono and stereo tracks. But, in my example, i took themono track to stereo when i added breverb. Then, using channel tools i sum to mono and see a 3 db gain as expected. When using interleave to sum to mono, you can see it is still after the addition of breverb, but it does not add 3db. Only cakewalk knows for sure, but my guess is they are reducing by 3db after summing to hide this complexity on a mono track. Could be another reason... Idk. Linux DAWs like mixbus show you when your mono shifts to stereo with little lines between the vsts. In cakewalk, it isn't obvious. Mostly, i don't care and feel in control.

So glad I'm not the only one with feedback issues.

I never got the chip thing. Don't spend extra. The app is a free download. I'll post more later.

peace. I'm coming your way. Dunno when exactly. I'll reach out.

I love mine. The key to success for me was the app for programming it. It is a little weird. I can send you the settings i use so you can import them if you want. I can give you lots of specifics if you want them but i tend to go overboard and give turn by turn directions when the person only wants me to point. Basically, it is dead useful. Works as 100 stomp box controls and 20 expression pedals. I've also set it up to play evolving bass synth notes. Sometimes i set it to notes in a key, sometimes chromatic. Takes about 15 seconds to load different setups if you use the little app. There are some things i have to relearn time to time. Like, to load from the app, only the midi input can be connected for some reason. I mainly use it with th3 as a pedal board. I also have a reamp box. This means i can use the th3 stomp boxes but my amp. I do end up with a lot of cords on the floor. While you can control a host of things with it, i tend not to. I'll have one bank to control the th3 Looper, guitar bank and sound next and previous and output volume. Anther bank or two for expressions and stomps. That's only 3 of 10.... But i tend not to remember more than that. Th3 let's you map things so when you change guitar sounds your reverb stomp now powers that reverb in that sound even if it isn't the same one. That way you only have to remember which stomp toggles reverb.

Shift+L turns selection into looped region. L by itself toggles whether the looped region is enabled. Ctrl+L turns a selected clip into a loop you can stretch.

Check the application event log in widows. Right click computer and open computer management then drill into the logs. Check for errors in the system log. Then in the application log around the time the app disappears.

I believe if you have a stereo track that is mono... Add effect that outputs to stereo... Click interleave to mono... Your volume will increase 3 dB. I tend to use the interleave button to do a mono check, but i don't use it normally. By this i mean to see what a mix sounds like in mono.

Yet.

Most tracks in cakewalk output in stereo unless interleave is set to mono. This is fine. The same thing in both channels is equivalent to mono. Most vst fx can process in stereo. You want this. I don't think this is your problem. Remember you can use the vector scope to see whether your single track is in mono or is stereo. The same signal in left and right get a vertical line. If you get fuzz in the scope then your left right output are not identical. When not identical and you think it should be, try to answer why.

Glad it was helpful.

This video might help.

Basically, the way these things usually work, is... First they take a stereo input... a line from the top right corner to the bottom left corner is panned all the way right. a straight line going from the top left corner to bottom right is signal panned right. You can test this by playing with what you feed into the meter. Mono signal is a vertical line. This would be the same identical signal in both channels. If you take a signal and send it to the left channel and the inverted to the left channel then you get a horizontal line. The horizontal line is phazy and will cancel if you switch the stereo to mono. Most of the time you get signal that is mostly up and down the vertical with some going left and right. If your music looks like an hour-glass, you have little phase issues. if it looks like a ball of steel wool, you're dancing with danger. the more you have to right and left of center in the middle, the less phase correlation. Usually this meter comes with a phase correlation level. If you watch movies while watching the meter, the tense scenes can have pretty phasy sound. idk if phasy's a word. don't laugh at me. I'm just learning too.

Have you used a goniomter or vector audio scope to check your phase correlation? https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/3-Studio-Tools/79-Metering/5044-4U-Goniometer-Korrelator