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Edit your initial post. The thread title is part of that.

This would be worth submitting feedback to the developer on if you like it and want to keep using it. Many complex VST(i)s have a Panic button in the VST GUI itself, but the Panic button inside the host (any host) is going to try to the same routine Cakewalk is doing. If the VST doesn't accept that input, there is no way to control it externally. The host is doing its job (and no way to make it better), but the VST is in its "own little world." Side note: some VST(i)s have that kill switch hard coded to a specific MIDI note, but I couldn't find any documentation on Loop Track.

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Check the number of Undo's you have set. The defaults for many audio/video apps if often rather excessive, and each undo is eating up RAM space (I tend to use 10 on most everything... but in painting apps each stroke is "1" so 10 might be a little light). I got a large brush set for Painter at one point, and the initial launch times took a massive hit from that. Painter has a load of "hard to hit" options in the control palette and the GUI gets finicky from time to time. Upgrades to Painter also tend to be a PITA, and I have found the simplest way to carry things forward between versions is to use the "Restore Purchases" in the menu options (depending on what you have purchased, this alone can take some time). Rebelle actually does some updates on launch and loads much faster. There have been a dozen or so updates to Rebelle 7 and the developers listen/interact with users a lot more. The software has a 30-day return policy, so you can run it through the ringer. Having the Visual Settings panel open while working is ideal... and things like modifying paint (especially metallics) after painting is a nice touch... this is by layer, so be sure to take advantage of layer use/management (layers can also be toggled to masks while working). Even though the GUI is simpler, there are a lot of functions in the panels, with most "right there," like shifting from Paint->Paint and Mix->Paint and Blend->Blend->Erase. Not sure which tablets you got, but programming buttons is a massive time saver (Ctrl-Z is always one of them). I find that using a mouse while working is very distracting so I got an XP-Pen model years ago specifically for the scroll wheel (center is a touch pad). That model (on sale for one more day) is the only one with that wheel now (but is also BT capable which mine is not) and the control utility allows setting functions by app so you can mirror your workflow/controls between Painter and Rebelle (and whatever else) to save confusion. Setting those up takes a little bit of time, but is worth the effort down the road (much akin to a MIDI controller). Delve a little into the controller app for your tablets and see what customization you can make to them. The "NanoPixel" functionality is rather impressive... on low resolution images you can zoom in on a pixel, but it is not square... it is a dot, and it is also blended into the areas around it. If you ever zoom in that far, you immediately get a feel for the performance differences between the apps. Even silly things like right click-drag being the default pan in Rebelle is "just nice" (that doesn't fly in Painter). Rebelle has significantly less time to get up to "actually working" IMO.

+1, Painter has a lot of features (like pic-to-painting, clone tinting, morphs, etc.) that do not exist in Rebelle (yet). Rebelle got its start with adding realism to water coloring (not a massive need for that medium), then expanded that approach to more mediums. Color diffusion into paper (including "water" loading in a brush), tilt of canvas, and the like Rebelle excels at. Masking is simpler, and the addition of structures (where you can embed a picture/drawing into the paper to give it texture) I absolutely love. A good metaphor would be a coffee filter, where the stain will darken and move to the edge... with structures you can make the paper texture into edges to stop diffusion, and a mask the edge the complete object as well. Once that is set up, you can easily use a large brush with proper tilt, loading, diffusion settings to have an object almost auto-paint for the background work (the tilt will make the object "auto shade" as the diffusion works). The texture of the paper and response of the medium is also better in Rebelle (e.g., like charcoal on a rough canvas is not going to get into the tiny pits of the canvas). To Brian's point, Rebelle is more focused on realism, and while it does have a lot of the same features of Painter, its use with pictures is a little more limited.

That is an incredible deal for folks who like to paint/draw (half the price of the pre-order almost a year ago). I didn't see an "end date" to the sale though? Rebelle 7 Pro has some really nice features and additions over prior versions. The past couple of years they seem to have focused on "get the word out" and it seems to be working well.

OBS Studio is another option that is gaining a lot of traction and also free. I did a quick search and it supports VST2 plugins (not VST3) but I have never tested that. I have only used OBS few times, and a lot of the setup revolves around the "scenes" you set up at the bottom left. Basically OBS allows you to "assemble" both audio/video streams resident in your machine and send to your desired output (streaming, video capture, etc.). I apologize that I mentioned OBS early on in this thread, but it is not bound to any specific hardware/software; it is its own thing. I am glad you found something that works for you! Best of luck with everything!

I had to look up a topographical map of Asheville out of curiosity. There are areas right outside of town with 600' drops in less than 1/4 mile (essentially the edges of the missing lights in the map above). I was talking with someone about the Titan submersible last week and told them the thumb rule is 44psi/100' depth, but that is only static pressure, not including the momentum involved in a run-off situation. Even a wave slap on the open ocean can reach hundreds, if not thousands, of psi from "relatively" neutral ground. Standing water is bad enough, but moving water has such incredible force. My heart goes out to all those impacted by this. The only flood I ever "experienced" was Agnes in 1972, and even though that one was an oddball event, it truly pales in comparison to what Helene did.

The "on the fly" aspect really throws a wrinkle into your situation. Be sure to review headsets (especially the 1-star reviews). The Logitech headset I have had foam ear pieces that dry-rotted and crumbled to dust after a few years, and the faux-leather ones seems to exhibit the same behavior where the surface chips off and only leaves the underlying cloth (some said within months). I did a cursory check of some headsets after posting last night and some blatantly stated, "The noise cancellation feature doesn't work!" If you go that route, definitely get one from a vendor with a liberal return policy so you can test them thoroughly. Quick edit: Another option is to use a cell phone. For those meetings I bought a phone case with a kick-stand on the back and some phones have better noise cancellation (especially with 2 mics built in). Bandwidth/connection and provider can become a concern that route, but I always do Zoom "on the fly" meetings from my cell.

Quick question... are you using only the audio stream from the mic and the meeting app (i.e., no mixer required for other apps)? Reason I asked is that when you mentioned "simple setup in a hurry" *if* you only need the mic/headphone combo, your simplest solution may be a "call center headset" like receptionists use. That may be another option to consider. I got a Logitech model 20 years ago for dictation that is not even made anymore, but there are a slew of options available these days (most models come with specific noise canceling by default because of how they get used).

+1 on the PreSonus Revelator Dynamic. That comes with its own software mixer (Universal Control), which includes a simple mixer and FAT Channel components (gate, compressor, EQ, De-Esser, etc.). This video walks through a major overview of the Universal Control app (which only works with PreSonus hardware, unfortunately). I grabbed both Revelator versions last year to run them through the ringer, and the dynamic version was rather impressive for streaming/video creation, and capturing multiple source streams. It even comes with its own OBS drivers (if desired), but the Universal Control allows you to tailor your mix before sending it to another application. Caveat to the Universal Control installation... it offers the option to install drivers for ALL PreSonus hardware on installation... only install the drivers you actually have hardware for (it won't hurt anything, just makes a clutter otherwise). Here is the quick review I posted on them last year if interested.

There are still 2 million without power, so the checking in may take time. Potable water is the highest priority, and without power that can affect even more . The geniuses that are trying to ban gas appliances to "protect them" are putting them far more at risk in this situation. I had never really thought of LifeStraws being included in emergency kits until these recent events. I hope folks that were affected are able to recover safely. Please check in when time/situation allows.

@Jim Roseberry might also have insight on this at a system level. DELL and HP have a tendency to run proprietary drivers, but I am not sure with the what/where, or how they would relate to Win11. Have you tried testing using WASAPI Exclusive mode? If there is a rogue driver in play, that may cut it out of the loop.

This one is puzzling to me because of the duration. A full second gap being stitched together seems like the clock signal isn't being utilized from the audio stream (and is butting received buffers end to end like David mentioned). One of the bakers would need to chime in on the mechanics of this for more details. I have never seen this occur, but I am very curious as to the why.

The TH products default internally to stereo and low sensitivity. In the upper left of the TH3 GUI click on the "Master" button, then move "In Source" (on left) to whichever you are using (left or right), and set the "Sensitivity" to HIGH. Between that popup and your input gain, you might need to tweak things a little more. If that still does nothing... focus first on recording a simple dry guitar signal (no TH3), so you have verified you input path and recorded a little dry guitar. Once recorded, you can add TH3 as an effect and jump back into the TH3 GUI to tweak it. You may have two issues going on, not sure.

Another niggle with this setup (ARIA) is a keyboard with a spring-loaded mod wheel (like the Roland A-XXX Pro series) will zero volume out as soon as you touch the MOD wheel and release it (because of the spring). The player doesn't respond until that wheel is touched, but this is something to keep in mind as it requires either 1) editing parameters or 2) physically controlling the MOD wheel continually once it has been moved. Once touched and released, the keyboard itself can drive volume to zero on its ARIA's default settings.

This was my reaction too... I saw that I thought YouTube didn't allow an upload that long???

This could be a fair assessment, reason being that if it remains hard-coded it would have to use a common player that contains enough instruments to map the MIDI file. If opened up to users to select a "default player" then it would most likely fall back on the user to make that instrument map. There has been no official response that I am aware of as to future intent, so anything "non-official" here is just speculation rather than an answer.

The Macrium Reflect free app (which was retired on 1/1/24, but the free trial should work fine) will restore a disk image to a larger drive, but you need to resize partitions to achieve it. Below is a video that details the process without being too long. I upgraded from a 250GB to a 500GB C drive a few years ago with this method, and another thing to watch out for is the first ("Recovery") partition defaults to 500MB... that was always around 490MB for me and causing issues, so I upped that to 1GB on the new drive (in addition to expanding the Primary partition to use the full drive as in the video). I have 808 applications installed and only use roughly half my C drive which images to roughly 120GB (I have a LOT of junctions... another advantage is images are faster to store/recover... other drives are simply straightup xcopy/robocopy to an external drive for new/altered files).

There are several stand-alone apps that were made before WASAPI came into play (Melodyne was one of them) that only have two options... ASIO and MME. ASIO4ALL is simply a WDM wrapper, and as mentioned above if using onboard audio, that gives the option to use a much lower latency than MME, especially for instruments. Unless recording audio, the RealTek chip is perfectly fine for most applications and boils down to what it is driving (headphones for many). There are situations for me personally that I prefer driving a surround system to create, which is something my audio interface is incapable of, but the RealTek chip most certainly is.

Some of the last few iZotope releases have been excruciatingly CPU-intensive, so the older versions have stayed in favor with me. I only got newer versions with the last MPS and Nectar 4's analysis algorithm did a very obvious system-level stutter on my machine. The CPU breakdown is pretty obvious as well for those that own the DWSNBN (pictured above).

This is the crux of the issue. TTS-1 is hard coded for this functionality so there are no preference options to change that behavior by the user. There is also the mapping issue of what instruments go to which patches, but that could also be user/community created similar to a drum map now.

Before tackling that, get something like TreeSize Free and see what is taking up space on your C drive. Use that as your guide as you go. For things like Cakewalk Projects, that folder can be moved to another drive and the path to that is exposed in Cakewalk preferences. A lot of space is consumed by audio/video data files if they are on C. Temp files in C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp and C:\Windows\Temp can be safely deleted... if they are in use, they cannot, so skip those. The C:\Users\[username]\Downloads folder can be moved/deleted at your discretion. I typically use directory junctions for things over 4GB, but before you jump into that, come up with a strategy for how you want to move things to make sense to you. I would start with TreeSize Free and get a feel for what are the biggest problems first. The junction process can be slow, so you will not be able to do it in one sitting, but you can make junctions to the heavy hitters first and free up space and get the low-hanging fruit. Some things cannot be moved, or do not take kindly to junctions (Melodyne being one... so you cannot move/junction your VST3 folder), but a lot of HUGE program folders and data sets can, so junctions make the C drive "look" like it did, but the junctions are folder pointers to another drive. The advantage to them is you can leave installs to "default locations" and most programs don't care (but a few do, like Corel and Adobe).

This topic was another thread and I had asked if it also existed in with a commercial track imported into Cakewalk, so assume it does (no idea). Connectors are common sources, which can also be cleaned at times by rotating them back and forth in the jack, but a damaged cable from being stepped on or having a chair run over it can cause a similar issue. If the issue is in both speakers and headphones with a commercial track imported into Cakewalk, it could be a ground loop... plugging all devices into the same outlet temporarily and shutting off all other electronics (especially AC systems) would help to troubleshoot. Before jumping into a "mix issue," verify your hardware is online properly with a commercial track (that you know well).

Also, as you just upgraded to Win 11, did you check drivers and updates on your system? Does CbB playback a commercial track without issues if you import it to CbB?