Byron Dickens

I guess the OP lost interest....

CbB is Windows only.

What's wrong with rebooting if it works?

Thread 51,001 on this exact same thing. Does no one do even a cursory search or - God Forbid! - RTFM? http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=0x1A5A0

Magic plug-ins aren't going to fix crappy mixes.

I said "about ....."

There's only about 52,000 threads on this.

I was on the fence, thinking I don't really need another synthesizer but for some reason I kept trying and I finally managed to get in there during the window off opportunity and get a hold of this thing. I played with for a while before going to work and I've been able to get some really nasty, mean, raunchy, dirty, ugly sounds out of it! ( That's a good thing.)

"It's nothing but a fiction" doesn't necessarily mean the same thing as "it isn't real."

Even the idea that gold itself has any value is nothing but a fiction.

Money itself is all fake if you really think about it. Except it isn't.

All my Spitfire Labs stuff is there and working like a charm Right on. There is absolutely no need to install 32 bit versions.

What we have all been saying. You really ought to develop your skills - and your ears - instead of searching for more magic plug-ins. Geoff Emerick and George Martin didn't need all that crap. Eddie Kramer didn't need all that crap. Glynn Johns don't need all that crap.

Yes. Delete it completely.

I won't discount the possibility that I am conflating "high pass" and "shelving." I do know that when recording live instruments I get a fair amount of low end rumbling stuff that is really nothing but noise and mud and that drastically cutting it clears things up tremendously.

Yes. GET RID OF THAT GARBAGE ASIO4All DRIVER!

This thing must be majorly awesome....

I gotta disagree. There just ain't no "body" to nothin' down as low as I'm talking about. The "body" of most instruments is in the 200 - 500Hz range. The lowest note on a bass is about 40Hz, Guitar about 80. (Standard tuning, of course). Anything below that can go. Vocals? Unless you're recording an operatic Bass, anything below about 100Hz can go. Often higher. Obviously, if your ears are telling you that things are thinning out, you'll want to move your cutoff back down but you'll be surprised at just how much low end you can cut without losing anything.

I kept my X3 & am using it again.

That's weird. Lots of people here seem to be using Waves plugins with some manner of success.

How does software go out of stock?

Do you have it plugged into a USB hub?

And which VSTs?

Instead of playing whack-a-mole with all this continual squashing and boosting, you should be carving out a space for each instrument by using complementary EQ. https://blog.discmakers.com/2016/04/complementary-eq-home-studio-audio-mix/ https://www.recordingrevolution.com/5-minutes-to-a-better-mix-ii-kick-and-bass-eq-part-12-of-31/ Also, you should consider a high pass filter on almost everything. While the range of human hearing might extend down to 20Hz, there really isn't much in the way of musically useful information down tthere. No hard and fast rules, but generally anything below 50Hz can be drastically cut. Guitars and especially vocals can't have a high pass considerably higher. I've mentioned this before, but it bears repeating: bass traps will do more for your mixes than all the magic plug-ins in the world.

Absolutely. If the song is mixed well enough, it practically masters itself. And if it is recorded well enough, it practically mixes itself. I am of the firm belief that the more (useful) effort you put into this on the front end, the easier it is for you on the back end.