Byron Dickens

Before, you were using your ears instead of relying on software to do it for you.

Soundblaster cards are garbage. Not even worth it as a paperweight because they're too light. Take it to the electronics recycler and get a real audio interface.

NEVER update in the middle of a project.

I think you probably hit the nail right on the head. These "investment" companies aren't really interested in actually investing in anything and developing it so much as they are in buying something and skimming the money off the top. As long as it's profitable. Then they dump it.

I have no idea what you're talking about. After FINALLY getting real internet at my rural house, it took me maybe about 30 minutes -if that- to dl & do a fresh install on my desktop where I had been stuck on SPLAT & I have been working ever since.

I thought that's what all the faders in the console view were for.

Maybe if you try both John's suggestions and adopt a sensible workflow instead of the convoluted nonsense you've got going on? No one else is having issues like this. No one else is driving all the way around the block to get next door, either.

You can't just slap a bunch of orchestral samples on a MIDI file and expect it to sound like anything.

Presets are designed to sell product, not to sound good in your mix.

This all sounds unnecessarily complicated.

That's not very nice. It's funny, but not very nice.

Time to update the interface, too.

I know this is OT and not much help, but why do those people always have such poor taste in music?

That would be weird. Any purcussion hit should ring for its full duration no matter what note value is drawn in.

Maybe an alternative is the fix. The Sonitus plugins are getting pretty long in the tooth. Sometimes when things start getting really old and are no longer updated they stop working so we'll. You'd be surprised. In a former life, I can't tell you how many cars I saw get towed in for no-starts and the fuel gauge wasn't lying when it read "empty."

Aha! Windows updates are notorious for messing up your carefully crafted tweaks to make your computer work right. ?

You really should upgrade.

That desk looks bigger than my whole room!

No. I haven't seen any such change

The way these cc are intended to work is this: CC7 (Volume) is like your volume knob. It sets the overall volume for a track. CC11(Expression) is the dynamics of an instrument. Swells and fades. Crescendo/ Diminuendo. Think violin or horn melody rising and falling. Velocity is how hard a note is initially struck. Think pressing a piano key softly vs. pounding on it.

My car won't start. What do you think is wrong?

1) the desk needs to be centered and the speakers need to be NOT in the corner. Move it to another wall if you have too. 2) the speakers need to form an equilateral triangle with your head. 3) absorbtion needs to be placed symmetrically, focusing on the first reflection areas. 4) those foam corner "bass traps" are less than completely effective. Even so, they would be better employed filling whole corners floor to ceiling. As others have pointed out, all the money thrown at expensive monitors and room correction software is wasted in an untreated or poorly treated room Things like ARC really only work well in a room that is fairly decent to begin with. I have OK monitors and ARC myself. The software really does make a difference but the #1 improvement I have made in my mixes is building real bass traps.

Zilhouette Strings looks pretty interesting. I just might have to run it past the Boss for approval....

A password manager keeps everything sorted out and even generates truly random passwords for you. I like Lastpass because it is cloud based and zero-knowledge. Cloud based means that you can log in on any device you have registered with your account and any changes you make don't have to be synced among them. Zero-knowledge means they have no access to your passwords. Even if they got hacked, all anyone could get is a bunch of garbled nonsense because it is end-to-end encrypted as well. I don't even know any of my passwords any more, except the master passphrase to get into my password vault.