Byron Dickens

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.

Sure. Update. It's way past time.

Probably has something to do with SONAR 8.5 being 12 years old and not having VST3 support.

ASIO4ALL is garbage. Why are you using that trash when Tascam supplies a real driver?

Do they require full Kontakt?

Never heard of such a thing. Never heard any of that other cockamamie nonsense either.

Me? If an ancient, obsolete, no-longer-supported GM synth wasn't working for me I would just ditch it and move on with my life. There must be 400,000 GM sound sets out there.

Because you haven't loaded them into anything that plays them back.

So, what is the deal being discussed?

My God, what a mess!

Fortunately, VST3 created a standard as to where the plugins are installed. For VST2, it is the wild west as to installation paths. You really ought to organize your VST2 installations and put them all in the same place instead of just blindly accepting whatever cockamamie scheme of manouver the developer dreamed up and then having to go on a hunting expedition later on to find them. C:\program files\ Steinberg\VST plugins is always a good choice; that's what I use and that's what Steinberg intended although they didn't enforce it.

dupe

Oh, what I really hate is - I forget what they call it - that one where a real carrier (take your pick) moves your shipment most of the way and the post office makes the delivery. I've seen a package come all the way across the country in two days and the post office sit on it for TWO WEEKS!

Not to my knowledge. Why not learn to read music? It's not that hard and being able to do so even half- assed really opens the world up to you.

That's not a bug. That's operating as designed. You have to change the MIDI channel of your CC events as well.

You sure you don't have a bad cable or connection somewhere?

Maybe your bass is stuck in the Suez canal....