Byron Dickens

Because it is still their property and you stealing it is still theft. If I have a car sitting in my driveway and I never drive it, does that entitle you to come take it ?

Bingo. Newbies need to learn how to RTFM. I don't know what they teach in school these days, but researching - and reading in general- seem to be a lost art. Everyone wants to be spoon fed silver bullets to fix their immediate concern instead of learning the basics of how things work. Because that takes effort.

So, have you submitted any bug reports? The developers are the ones who need to reproduce them, not all the members of the public forum. But of course, as a software developer yourself, you already know this.

So in other words, no. I'm not attacking you. I asked a simple, direct question to which you replied with a really long winded bit of defensive sniveling about fanboys and gaslighting and whatnot. Plenty of people come on here with issues, ask for help, and get it. Sometimes within minutes. Go ask for help on some other forums and you get crickets. If you put half as much effort into communicating with the developers as you do whining on youtube, you might get some of this stuff fixed.

You have to route your MIDI track to a sound module of some sort whether virtual or physical.

So, do you document things & send bug reports or just bitch?

No kidding. Computers do what you tell them to, not what you want them to.

Well, they're creating something. I doubt little Wolfie's first piano piece under Leopold's whip hand was quite up to the level of The Magic Flute or the Requiem.

Didn't we just go through this a few months ago?

No, you didn't get attacked. You can't unbake a cake. If the musician on the Real Track played a 7th chord when he recorded his track, then you get a 7th chord. Simple as that. The only way to get rid of the 7tb would be to re-record the track. For some reason you seem to be either unable or unwilling to understand that.

I think he's... Ummm.. shall we say, retired....

I prefer to do my own arrangements and put my own sonic stamp on things.

It's probably not the gear.

I ain't got that kinda money....

What's causing the problem is rather obvious.

Get rid of the VSTs you installed just before the problem started.

I just treat an amp sim like I would a real amp. Start with everything in the middle and start turning knobs up and down until I get the sound I want.

I got the ST4 CS a while back. I took a look at the sounds list and it seems like I somehow have all the sounds already.

Demons. That's the only logical explanation. There is no real reason to scan for VSTs every time you start up. Seeing as how CbB only started acting up with these new VSTs you got, you're on the right track; one of them is probably conflicting. Where to find them? Well that depends. They're supposed to go in c/program files/ steinberg/ vstplugins but developers stick them all kinds of everywhere.

Use your ears. Don't just copy my settings. It won't sound the same anyway.

More is always better ?

IK has it

No. You gotta copy over your AT4 presets to the correct folder in AT5 manually. I also had to go to the CS and "restore gear" or something to get some things back. Could be a lot worse. Could be trying to reauthorize a Waves plugin....

X1?????