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Another thing to ask is what version of "SCSI" it actually is. My hunch is that it is more likely a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drive if only 2 years old, so is not the parallel SCSI drives that we remember best (can tell by the connector on it). That link above has more information on both types if interested. I do not know of any parallel SCSI drives that are 4TB, but weirder things have happened (you can find 4TB SAS drives online, but not parallel SCSI). You may need to actually talk to the person that installed it to know exactly what it is.

The legacy drivers pre-date Win 10 (by a lot), so the only thing to check would be that your FW card can be installed. If you are not transferring a card over (i.e., using VIA port on the current box), be sure to get a FW card with a TI chipset on it. The legacy driver is called "Texas Instruments 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller," version 10.0.19041.1, and dated 6/21/2006. Other chipsets were known to have issues even before Win 10.

+1 to the above, if you have Windows set to giving exclusive control to your device, or use your interface as default audio output, the first app that uses it it will lock sample rate on you. Check if you have other apps that are running before you are open CbB that might be using the interface. Disabling exclusive mode in Windows Sound Settings could help (also check the settings versus your project you are opening there), but I have gone so far as to have RealTek as my default sound device, so no app other than ones I specify will try to use the audio interface.

MSoundFactory is starting to give other orchestral libraries a run for their money. Melda releasing new libraries to owners for free is a nice perk.

You can even simply use the track FX bin and disabled/remove the FX when exporting. No need to get too convoluted with things. As mentioned above, the wav file on disc is the recorded signal, so you can even drill into the project folder to get it, or even drag/drop (grab the clip by the top bar) the wav from the track view onto your desktop or such. Unless you bounce to tracks, the contents of the FX bin will not be printed to a track's audio data. Stupid side comment I've made before (the above post gave me a chuckle)... in college we had an acoustic dead room (leave it to physicists to create such a thing), but an environment with zero reverb is so unnatural that it affects the listener dramatically. Just being in that room and talking to someone was the strangest feeling.

You can try dragging each one of those audio tracks (in Cakewalk) to an empty MIDI track (also in Cakewalk) and see how well each converts. The bass may do well, the drums would be hit-or-miss (and also mapped as general MIDI), but the guitar is most likely a no-go (especially with leads). Where BIAB will help you is it converts RealTracks to proper tempo/key for you, so importing that into Cakewalk may be what you want anyway (if you like the part). Doing guitars with MIDI is often a bit painful, so the BIAB conversion of RealTracks may be the simpler approach.

Side note with the Step Sequencer specifically. In order to create shuffling beats, you need to adjust the Steps per Beat so you have access to more timing options (can be up to 16). Below is an old video from SONAR X2 that is still applicable and marked at that section. If the Step Sequencer is new to you, it is worth watching the entire video (12 minutes) to get yourself familiar with it.

Have you considered using an EQ that has a modulation matrix to use an LFO? Anytime "sweeping" gets refereed to, an LFO is often the best choice since you can sync it to tempo (if desired), and change the behavior/rate/depth of the FX willy nilly (no automation required). I had to check Melda's freebies quick, but none of those EQs have the mparameters (i.e., modulation matrix) available. The comment above on Z3TA+ inserted as an FX may work as well (for the LFO). I am not sure if any free EQs come with the modulators offhand, but if you are sweeping (as in cycling) the EQ, an LFO would be the least overhead once set up.

I have a hunch this may be a primary factor in what you are seeing. Are you using the Piano Roll View (PRV) to work with firing MIDI samples? That makes editing simpler in the MIDI world, but sometimes working with the audio output on the track level via automation is even simpler per song section depending on what your intent is. Again, the PRV (or even Step Sequencer) is the place to focus to alter a MIDI pattern most easily (the SS is nice because you can work 1-2 bars at a time and drag it out for the applicable song section). Another side note that may be contributing "driving drums" are "straight beats" where the bass/snare dominate and are perfectly timed to grid and at the same velocity/volume. Beats with a "shuffle" to them (e.g., Toto's Rosanna or Africa, but examples abound) give a more laid back feel, even at higher tempos. Both the PRV and the SS are places to try things with the samples you are using... basically focus with velocities and timing... for many shuffled beats either the snare (or bass) will dominate, while the other will be significantly lower in volume.

OBS might have been used just to capture the video (thanks for posting that). If that is one project and repeatable, that is worth sending off the the bakers (sans audio) for them to take a look at. That is not merely the Console opening/closing as I was initially thinking, but does look more like an issue with work spaces cycling on their own. @Noel Borthwick may pop in and give better guidance, but only the bakers would be able to dig into that project file to see what is going on with it.

Typo there... it is actually under 1GB (not TB) and Scaler2 allows you to install it to another drive if desired. That is a pretty small footprint compared to the vast majority of sample libraries out there (even some apps alone are well over 1GB). But I agree, with a stand-alone "DAW" mode, it won't be any smaller, especially if Scaler3 allows importing/rendering audio (since I saw pics similar to a track view in some of the marketing, I assume this is the case).

Yeah, I would go that route, especially since that is mostly likely not a off-off scenario (they did it before and/or intend to do it again) and was very much intentional. I had a coworker who had a "friend" that kept showing up where she was. She said her phone was getting hot, and turned out this friend had enabled "friend tracking" or some such on Facebook when she had walked away from her phone (while this person was at her house visiting). She didn't want to follow up with an investigation (people are so weird when they are victims of crimes), but that incident shouldn't just be ignored. You have no clue what the ultimate intent of that person was for doing that, and that is the really scary part.

Can you expound on this a bit? Is the console redrawing itself (flickering with a black space where it was) or is it actually opening/closing (revealing the view behind it)? I have not seen a redraw issue before, but if the console is opening/closing you might have stuck keyboard keys or sending spurious show/hide commands to SONAR via a plugin. If you can post a brief video of that it would help us understand what you are seeing.

+1 With a Smart TV, also checkout which "screencast" features it has enabled/available. Depending on your setup, that may be a simpler option if you have it, but cannot use the remote This is also a good option. I am in the sticks, but a good digital antenna is roughly $50 (mine is on the roof) which has a built-in amplifier to boost the signal from them (they are merely analog antennas with a booster). Because of the digital format, most stations come with 5-8 channels. Some of those extra channels just mirror what is playing "now" on another service. Unless you are looking for something specific (i.e., Netflix), there is a buttload of stuff free and "on demand" from places like PlutoTV, Fandango, and similar. If your smart TV is an LG, there are also (free) on demand options with them in addition to all of the LG channels. Mine are LG models... I disabled all of the tracking in them which ends up being comical at times because I will get spurts of commercials in Spanish (can Google how to do this for your particular brand if interested). My stay time in front of a TV is terrible, but I do leave it on for background noise quite a bit.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing... I pulled this up on my phone and the conversation is so disjointed now you cannot track the conversation. Moving a solution to the top makes sense, but re-ordering every post doesn't... is like ripping all the pages out of a book and randomly handing them to someone one at a time without page numbers.

Without the ability to shut off or disable features this is a possibility. Melodyne is a good example of this... I went from 3 Editor to 5 Studio, and the thing that impacted me first was the Sound Editor (which I have only ever used in passing). I tend to open entire commercial tracks to view them like a score at times and the time to do so went up by a factor of 5 (from 10-12 seconds to nearly a minute for the same song). As apps become more like "their own DAW" features are enabled and running just in case someone decides to use them. There are rarely means to actually shut that processing off (requiring a restart of the app). I use anacrusis and stagger chords a lot, so trying to compose inside Scaler itself was a no-go for that. Will see what they come up with, but I wholeheartedly agree with focus on DAW integration and making that as seamless and intuitive as possible.

If that fader responds to electronic input, then it is a servo control. It is possible that it is a connection/cleanliness issue, so definitely check those first. If you take it apart, look up the part number online for that fader and see if you can find one (I just found nothing with a generic Google search). It can be hard to find such things unless the servo itself was generic, but there are also used units online for roughly $100 if you hit a dead end with it. Another option is to contact the manufacturer and ask them how to get your hand on the part once you know the number.

Even people who live in areas that get snow often have no clue how to drive in it. My roommate in college had a saying that always made me laugh, more because of how/when he said it... "You can't push a rope!" I got to see quite a few vehicles spun out yesterday and could hear him saying that as I passed each one. Ironically, this weather was no surprise to anyone, but my local government neither prepped nor plowed side roads properly, so the amount of ice from the thaw/re-freeze was a bit over the top, even for here. It is a little different world when you have to remind yourself to take a chainsaw with you when you leave the house (I live between two state forests, so wet snow/freezing rain can bring leaning trees down with ease). It is cool the grand kids got to see it though! I often have people who have never seen snow say they are SO eager to see it... I just tell them, "Yeah, it is cool to look at and play around in for a bit, but that is often about it."

This is the crux of the OP's question, so a lot depends on how much the original audio was altered. About the best one can do in that situation is use an FX with upsampling that will alter the existing audio file (add content based on the FX), but even this is a hit-or-miss scenario depending on application. You can never recover the lost information, but can sometimes put it into a usable format.

Just bear in mind with a virtual audio cable (or loopback) scenario that two DAWs are going to default to main outs (i.e., hardware) and inherently want to output both there (hearing both the dry and wet signals). If SONAR is the feed, you will need to send the main output to the virtual cable (not the hardware) and use that as the feed to the second DAW to allow the second DAW ownership of the audio interface. In common loopback scenarios the final result is often best muted (will still record) with input echo off to prevent a feedback loop, but in your case that isn't a viable option (or really relevant) since you want to hear the second DAW's FX. Just be mindful of of doubling up the signal at any part of your cabling path (in your case, this isn't a true feedback loop, since the second DAW won't feed back into SONAR, but you would still risk the output being both outputs combined otherwise).

If you own other iZotope plugins, the biggest advantage is being able to use instances of iZotope's Relay to feed specific instances of Insight 2 when working at a buss or project level. Their overview video walks through a good portion of what Insight can do.

For offending VST(i)s that you have, go into the Plug-in Properties (via the dropdown in the plugin title bar or via the Plug-in Manager) and select the option "Always suspend on stop." That will force a VST(i) to stop when the transport does.

Just about all issues that have this response (crash on program load) have been associated with bad Microsoft Redistributables. Please refer to this post for more information and an installer that Noel made to ensure they are updated.

Audio Normalization is nothing more than raising/lowering the entire clip or track by a constant value to hit the target you specify. It does nothing to "smooth" or change the relative dynamics of the audio. Where this can be useful is to prepare tracks to a given level prior to mixing and/or so that they hit more common threshold targets for follow-on FX (specifically compressors) more consistently. Visually, normalization does essentially the same thing as applying clip gain (CTRL-click-drag) on the waveform in the Track View (just that with normalization you are specifying the target for the peak in the entire clip and a single gain is inserted on that entire clip to make it land there).

Initially when I loaded this machine 7 years ago I would track junctions pretty meticulously, then I started be-bopping things back and forth between the D and F drives as I swapped them out and ended up putting close to 50 junctions in place over that time. That is a little too much to track, but Windows has a built in way of tracking them for you. This page is a nice reference if interested, but essentially a simple command prompt will let you offload all of the junctions/symbolic links (and hard links in the "Option Two" section of that page). What is exceptionally nice about this is it offloads both the junction point and target locations in a fairly readable format. It may take a little while to process, but using the text offload version comes in pretty handy (I just command prompt DIR /AL /S "C:\" > "%UserProfile%\Desktop\Junctions.txt" to create a file called Junctions.txt on my desktop of the C drive, but please see the above link for more information or how to get hard links as well).