Byron Dickens

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.

You sure do. Gibson pulled the plug on SONAR over three years ago....

I don't miss the Portastudio one single bit. The Fidelity is terrible. There's only four tracks. Actually only three because one of them you have to give up to record timecode onto in order to sync up your MIDI gear. And that has to be recorded at the right level because if it's too loud it cross talks onto the next track. If it's too quiet then your midi gear keeps losing it's synchronization. Of course there's also cleaning a demagnetizing all the time and the expense of buying media which racks up real quick. Speaking of expense, the initial cost of the thing was as much as Cakewalk was back when it was SONAR and they were still selling it. Plus it didn't have any effects, or any instruments. If you wanted effects you had to buy outboard rack gear which was expensive.You also had to buy a stereo cassette deck to mix down onto which is more money. No, I don't miss the Portastudio one bit. It's well worth it to invest a little time and effort into learning how to use the software. (Which you had to do with the Portastudio anyways.)

More Reductio ad absurdum

Now we're getting to the point where I need pictures? I would be ever so thrilled if I could get this thing working

Ditch the sound blaster and get a real audio interface.

Reductio ad absurdum

For bass guitar plugins, I just plug in a bass guitar....

I guess you missed the point, which is: how can you be sure that any software is going to be around forever?

Sheesh, I don't know. How can we be sure Word Perfect will continue development so we can continue to work on our projects in the future? Oh, yeah....

What is "Vst Levelling tool?"

I don't know where you heard that nonsense. You can also turn off the analytics.

Well, I left it plugged in for a few hours and nothing seems to have gotten warm at all. I happen to have another 9VAC adapter and I get the same results with it.

Known garbage.

An OS is not a car.

It's well past time to update that, too.

Um.... That's why W10 is more secure: they're still issuing security updates.

Cough up $100 or so and get a usable audio interface for starters.

I don't know where you get that idea, but you don't have to be connected to the internet in order to use CbB

If I win, I will also need 2-3 million dollars. That's so I can quit my job and spend the rest of my life holed up in the studio playing with it all.