Byron Dickens

But that's how you have to do it. Why are you so adamant about this anyway? Are you trying to conserve valuable, expensive parchment and ink?

Why on earth would you want to do that?

A lava lamp I believe is required by law.

Cakewalk and other DAWs are really intended as a multi track recording tool more so than a live performance tool.

You said it!

No. CbB is SPLAT with about three years worth of updates and improvements.

Death threats? Really?

Playing vintage instruments and recording actual performances.

Practice.

That is correct.

Which instruments did you buy?

So true. Get everything right up front and the record practically mixes itself.

I'm jealous....

" General MIDI" is not a specific sound, but a standard protocol intended for interchangeability; so that a song done on my gear will sound reasonably similar on yours. https://www.midi.org/specifications-old/item/gm-level-1-sound-set 1 is always "piano," 53 is always " choir, " etc. I am unaware of any reason why GM sound set can not be compromised of high quality samples on the level of Spitfire Audio or something. The GM sounds in my old Korg X3 are actually pretty decent, as are the ones in TTS1. Neither is going to fool anyone into thinking they're hearing a real orchestra, but they don't sound like pure unmitigated crap either. As far as the MS wavetable, I can really think of no worse sounding GM sound set than that. But, hey, if that's your asthetic, go for it and don't let me dissuade you.

The most simple setup is to use the headphone out on your interface.

Why in God's name would you want to listen through the crappy onboard chip when you have a Focusrite?

Yes. Any time the computer is not receiving active input from you (ie typing or clicking with the mouse), it thinks it is sitting idle.

Well, there's a big part of your problem right there. You need to go into your power management settings and change them so that nothing turns off or goes to sleep ever. Everything should be "always on." Also, plugging your interface into a USB hub is going to cause you pproblems Another thing is to exclude everything related to your music production from being scanned by your antivirus.

They can't, because it isn't a Cakewalk issue. It's a Windows issue.

Of course there's no waveform. Read abacab's earlier post.

Octavers are very unconvincing. It's a cryin' shame that the aquisition of an actual bass guitar is seemingly out of the question for the OP.. A number of years ago, I picked up a Squier P Bass for dirt cheap at a pawn shop. I didn't know what I had and neither did they. When I got a hankering for a 5- string, I was going to trade the Squier towards it but I found out that it was one of the Korean made ones and that they are actually quite good.

"Works" is often pretty loosely defined. Focusrite and Personas both make good stuff that isn't very expensive.

I wonder if vintage DAWs will become a thing. Like vintage instruments & hardware.....

I got the slot volume thing. Problem is I have to turn the track volume faders down to almost nothing, which doesn't give me a whole lot of room for fine adjustments. I'm used to plugins like Sampletank which have a master volume. I posted this on the CWITEC forum too. Apparently, this is normal behavior. I'll have to find some workaround. In the meantime, it looks like I have finally found a use for the HaLion 3 I wasted money on so many years ago.

Start by ditching that garbage USB guitar cable and get a real interface.