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Doesn't surprise me, since a couple cartridge replacements can cost more than the machine itself. HP has been playing around with the chips on those cartridges for years. If you go in and disable the "HP SI Service" manually, it keeps their printers from phoning home.

Depending on where you are getting your source material from, 4K Video Downloader is another option. In addition to video download options, there are also audio-only options available. IIRC, the free version does 30 downloads per day, and it also alleviates the hassle of loopbacks or recording in "real time."

That is the story with half of my projects for sure, I buy things well in advance of using them at times as well. Have you tried tackling this from another perspective? I.e., you really only need an audio interface to get audio in (and cannot really get around this)... can you pull the Behringer out of the loop and play the project back on the RealTek chip in WASAPI mode? Be sure the project sample rate matches the RealTek in Windows Sound Options, but if you have a system (or even headphones) to use the Onboard audio that should be an option (for playback/mixing). You will take a latency hit for that playback option, but I use that to mix surround quite often.

There have been a couple posts recently that were funny... one had "notable quotables" in it, and the other referenced IT folks gravitating to DAWs for the "past few years" (has been a LOT longer than that). But a notable quotable from you from the old forum (I appreciate good sarcasm) was to the effect: "Everyone with a DAW thinks they are a producer."

Not sure if that Behringer UMC404HD is within the return window (hopefully it is), but there are bigger names in the game with an interface in that price range that make their own drivers. Behringer has had a lot of posts over the years with people having issues with them. A trial of Studio One Pro has more analytics/latency options available internal to the app, but if you have already replicated the issue with Reaper, I doubt that is going to help you find a solution to the interface itself (which is what it appears to be).

I think that is really how I read into the OP as it was, but from the standpoint of Studio One. I.e., the development horsepower in house is sufficient to let the tech savvy folks "play around" with another variant. I doubt that it is really an intended market, but more the "we wanted to see if we could do it, so we did." The most destructive effect from the Gibson debacle was the gutting of the Cakewalk development team. Being out manned by an order of magnitude makes everything harder.

That is a really odd one, and the only other internal thing that comes to mind is if they show up in the Plugin Manager. I have very rarely tweaked things in that, and am wondering if tweaking folder layouts can cause such. But, there is still the question if it is a Windows issue or CbB itself. Any DAW (free or demo) that can use VST3s would be a quick way to check. If they do not show up in that either, then Windows is having the issue. With the VST2s working, it is certainly not paramount to run to ground, but it sure is baffling.

To the chassis itself? That is a bit odd since everything in the rack should have a 3-wire power input on it and designed to fault out that ground. The chassis itself should never see power except for things like you walking on the carpet or similar and shouldn't transmit to the circuitry either.

Hey John, it is good to hear from you and that you are doing well. Is weird I dropped @Ampfixer in a couple of posts over the past year hoping you would chime in. I was thinking of you a couple years ago when a coworker was telling me about a "bulbs" her father had collected before he died. I had to stop her to get a better description of them (she had no clue what they were), and of course she starts describing various valve sizes. I then asked her how many she was talking about and she said "hundreds." I just laughed and told her those are valves and she is sitting on a small fortune there. I was chuckling after that thinking if I could get in touch with you she would probably have unloaded them all for a buck a piece. Bulbs, lol. No wonder people make money going to yard sales and thrift stores.

Recommend reinstalling the plugin next. It is possible you got a bad installation, so the registry entries required to validate the plugins are not present. The scan usually runs slow enough that you can read what it is scanning, so if that pops up on the toast message, but doesn't show up in the FX list in the CbB browser afterwards, then it didn't pass muster on scan for some reason.

Just to be clear, ASIO4ALL is a WDM wrapper, so not only are you dealing with the translation of a program "thinking" it is using ASIO when it is actually WDM, but also WDM has fallen by the wayside in term of performance (to WASAPI). To parrot the above, ASIO drivers that come with hardware are always preferred.

The "autopitch" functionality provided in CbB comes from Celemony's Melodyne. Melodyne Essential is included with a lot of paid-for DAWs (was also included with SONAR back before it converted to CbB), but you would need a version of Melodyne installed to access all of those features from within CbB. Most DAWs that support it will run Melodyne; it is independent of the DAW host and can be run in standalone mode as well.

I haven't used the unmask feature either but just checked this out quick. Nectar needs to be on the track you want to unmask and Relay needs to be on the source you want to unmask against. If you are running a loop on any of the material you are working with, be sure to set the loop points to the selection you choose (Shift-L)... when I first enabled looping it defaulted so short that the unmask feature couldn't run properly.

Which motherboard? There are a lot of motherboards now with 4 M.2 slots, but also allow for even more SATA connections. It helps to know what motherboard you are referring to. As long as an old drive doesn't have the O/S loaded on it (i.e. the old C drive), you can just unplug a drive from one computer and move it to another for the most part. Be sure both machines are powered down and unplugged, and you ground yourself to the case before disconnecting/connecting any drive. The formatting used on the old system drives will still be recognized by Win11. The new machine just needs the available connections (either M.2 or SATA) to connect them all.

There are still some standalone apps out there that require "ASIO"... some have added Windows defaults (pretty large latency hit), and even fewer have added WASAPI.

I never even knew NOVUM existed until someone mentioned it a few weeks back. They also mentioned that NOVUM rarely goes on sale. It is $75.18 with GROUP applied... has it ever gone on sale better than that?

It has been a while since I have touched a Lenovo laptop, but IIRC there is a proprietary software on them (at least for Win10) that overrides the Windows controls. Yours probably has something similar, so see what options are available in that before delving too deep into Windows specifically. But Glenn is spot on about airplane mode... the other is to keep the laptop plugged in and disable all sleep/hibernate functions when plugged in (I believe that was also in their app, especially battery-saving stuff).

^^^^ You only pay for the major versions, all others are free updates. The .5's have a lot of hoopla associated with them (released on the off years), but they are free updates to the version they go to. The main versions are every other year. After seeing these posts so many times, it makes me wonder if people are buying 6.5 to "upgrade" 6 now! The only software vendor I know of who intercepts that is Melda (if you buy directly from them)... everyone else seems happy if you buy 5 copies of the same thing.

PreSonus is another manufacturer to consider. Beyond just the tech specs for the interfaces, several also offer software, FX, and other goodies as Pragi mentioned. Definitely take a little time comparing specs and reading reviews (especially the negative ones) on items that you are considering.

That is the conundrum... it is being used on the Master Track itself.

Another nice utility to try is Moo0 System Monitor 1.83 (Free). The "Portable Version" is most convenient, since you can just unzip that anywhere (even a flash drive) and use it whenever you feel a need for it rather than to install anything. For your scenario, run that so you can see it (you may need to resize the Cakewalk app) while opening a project and pay attention to the [Bottleneck] and [Burdened By] fields at the top. It is a nice dashboard for all of the Windows System parameters in play at a given time, so may shed some light on what is happening (disk reads for sample loading, RAM, etc.).

You can't keep it from installing, there is no option to do so during the installation, but you can go into the registry afterwards and remove them in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ASIO At least NVIDIA finally has the option not to install their custom audio driver, but I have not seen this option with MAGIX (it is really just ASIO4ALL anyway).

There are a couple of ways to do that, and doing it after recording (post-production) is simpler than real-time (while recording) in most cases. What you need to do in all cases is lower the guitar audio by 12 semitones (a full octave). You also want to record a clean signal (without and FX), and then apply FX to the signal after you transpose. In all cases, you want to play your guitar like it were a bass. If already recorded, you can keep things in the audio realm by selecting your clip, and then using the "Process->Transpose," set the Amount to -12 (semitones), be sure "Transpose Audio" is checked, and use a Type of either "Radius Mix - Advanced" or "Elastique Pro." You can try all of the types to see how they work, but this is probably the easiest method, although not "perfect." As you mentioned MIDI, you can also convert the guitar to MIDI (see if shift-dragging that audio onto a MIDI track converts the audio to MIDI for you) and then use that MIDI track to drive Ample Bass P Lite (free bass VST instrument you mentioned in the OP). This is a little more complex workflow, but will sound better and let you tweak things more easily after the fact, or even add/edit notes in the Piano Roll View. Side note: For bass tracks, you may find it easier to compose using the Piano Roll View only and can use the "Virtual Keyboard" to act as your MIDI input. If doing in real-time, there are pedals and guitar amp sims (that have those pedals included) that will de-tune 12 semitones down; however, few of them sound particularly good, and you are already destroying the audio prior to recording it, so you cannot do much in post-production on that other than convert to MIDI and use the VST Instrument route mentioned above.

If doing new installs or especially if loading a new machine, another thing to check is "Services." There are a lot that can either be set to Manual start (because you trigger them on open) or disabled completely (if you never want them to run at all), but many program installs set both of those categories to load into RAM on boot by default.

@azslow3 would be your best bet to see what is recoverable from the file itself, since he has written some tools to convert cwp files in the past. Just a quick side note on the "was about to crash" comment... if you know it is going to crash, it is sometimes best to just let it. The exception handlers can sometimes catch the file and crash dump as the application goes down and ask if you want to recover that file on the next app start. When you insert another operation into that cycle you can interrupt the exception sequence. Another side note with other things that can cause the crash... the number of undo steps you have specified in "Edit->History..." should have a reasonable number (I use 10) at the bottom. Unfortunately, you have to make an edit first to access the "History..." but that is simple enough. Undos consume RAM, so no need to have the default value there (I "think" it was either 100 or even 250, which is way too high). Additionally... another reason to save often (besides just to protect your file) is that it clears some of the RAM when doing so and has been noted fairly frequently as a tip to keep long sessions running smoothly.