Terry Kelley

There is only the Raspberries.

Naw, just put your music on Landr, Jango or SoundCloud. Fame will be guaranteed! Maybe.

Interesting points. I ran an i7-4790 up until recently (switched to an i7-12700k) and I've been totally impressed with what CbB could handle. I'm sure Sonar would be better but CbB most impressive. I have a couple of VSTs (inst and effects) beyond Arturia that drag the system down. In several DAWs I've used, none of the performance meters show any obvious high loading. As I built up a project, when it finally does goes south and tweaking the block size doesn't help, I know exactly where to go to fix it. Freeze time or temporarily disable something. Very, very rare though.

My point isn't about how good Sonar is (it is), it's that if a few instruments bring CbB to its knees, something else is happening that I doubt Sonar itself will correct irrespective of the block sizes. Sonar has some awesome improvements but CbB isn't a slouch by any stretch. I play with Sonar and has some advantages but I have yet to find one of my overloaded projects that works in Sonar but not in CbB. When I have to freeze Arturia Augments Everstuff to get CbB to play without glitching, I have to freeze in Sonar too. I'm sure there is some thinly sliced addition or subtraction in VSTs that would make Sonar hang on a bit longer. Or am I giving the developers that worked on CbB and it's predecessors too much credit.

I haven't run into any issues with the latest CbB and New Year's Wishes. Maybe someone else can join in.

I have to load CbB beyond rational thought with VSts before it even flinches. If someone notices a difference between CbB and Sonar with a few instruments, something else is amiss. CbB can handle A LOT. Excluding Arturia Augmented "Anything" ... And no, it doesn't get any better in Sonar.

Don’t let me run into you on the street. I’ll beat you about the head and shoulders with a rolled up newspaper.

I was talking about me because I was starting to rehash the argument.

And this time it's pissed!

With the flood of new Sonar users, Bandlab has little to worry about.

No doubt Melodyne is not for everybody but in the end it works. Just don’t overdo it.

Rehash mode off.

But with Bandlab ... !

Munt MT-32. Free and stable and sounds like a clean MT-32, not the 14/15 bit shenanigans they originally did with the hardware version.

My father-in-law had jet black natural hair at 70. You could just see some gray flecks showing up. His mom (who lived until 92) was the same way. Mostly black into her 80's. On my side my grandfather went white at 16 but had a full head of hair at 94. My dad was solid gray at 40. and white at 50. I'm still gray with no significant white. When it happens I'm going platinum blonde.

Do what I do. Don't.

I caught Melodyne during a sale and did the purchase and three upgrades to Studio in one day. I effectively got it for less than half. You just have to watch for sales. I was surprised Celemony let me do it but they did.

Just like most 75 year olds with brown hair.

Saw the Beato podcast. It was great! I never imagine Parsons being 6’6” though.

V-Vocal stability is now hit and miss. The general rule is to use it early and before you start to add many more VSTs. At some point, it will start to crash. Too bad, I liked it but finally accepted my future and got Melodyne. Based on my EXTENSIVE research there is no hardware upgrade, software change or usage that will make it stable. Yes, a few people get away with it. V-Vocal’s issues go back many years.

You might want to test cooling fan speed and noise when the CPU is loaded up. In a laptop, it could be quite loud.

And beer.

I’ve used plugins whose CPU usage escapes the System/App performance meter. And not just on Cakewalk. Usage is really low and its crackling like crazy. I’ve tweaked ‘till the cows came home to no avail. But these plugins problem's are known to many users. Freeze and move on.

I listen to my stuff regularly. I have no illusions about its quality but I enjoy writing stuff like this or that style. I also end up in mix down/fix hell and can’t leave them alone. But I consider my stuff demo quality and not production polished. Nothing ever turns out the way I planned but I enjoy the results. And I kept my day job.

Not native but TX16Wx is a good sampler and sample player. It works well in Sonar and CbB and isn't a CPU hog.