Byron Dickens

32-bit or 64 bit?

You been living with your head in the sand or something? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=data+breaches+list&t=fpas&ia=web Consumer Data: Increasing Use Poses Risks to Privacy If you think this is only about companies trying to sell you mouthwash or barbecue grills then you're just naive.

MasterWriter doesn't harvest your personal data and sell it to anyone with a bank card either.

(3) Sound Blaster cards are garbage for audio production.

You got dial up or something? Something is definitely wrong.

I think I would make a point of cussing out the lazy M-F's supervisor.

Yeah. You drove to the music store and then drove all the way back with the thing in your hand, so to speak. Same day delivery and never a doubt as to where it actually was.

He's far from the only one. Option paralysis seems to be a common affliction. Truer words were never spoken.

Are you trying to use the VST3? I can think of several instances where the VST3 doesn't work right but the VST2 is just fine.

No

Divide and conquer is the most efficient strategy.

Looks like I will wait.

A perfect example of how perfection can be the enemy of great. Also why I avoid (other people's) presets like the plague and treat the amp sim like it was a real amp, dialing it in the same way. That I save and then don't f*** with it. Otherwise, I've largely gone back to real amps and pedals.

Turn off ripple edit.

I think it's nature's way of telling you you're way overdue for an update....

Yeah, I know that. That's why, in my former life, I was able to fix cars that nobody else seem to be able to fix. Because after some other Jackleg hack had thrown hundreds or even thousands of dollars worth of parts at the car and not only not fixed it but created additional problems, I would inherit the repair order and the first thing I would do would be to close up my toolbox, grab a cup of coffee and go sit down and start looking through the service information. And then I would often go put all the old parts back on and start over from the beginning and find out it was something stupid simple. Simple that is for someone who's not scared to crack open a book. People wouldn't get it when I would tell them that I didn't know anything about cars, I just knew how to read. It just boggles my mind the thought process of some people: "this thing looks really complicated and difficult and the manual for it looks complicated and difficult too so I'll just start randomly plugging things into other things and randomly poking around on buttons and by some miracle I'm going to magically figure it out." Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. I'm sure I'm in the minority here too as well, but what is there to be anxious about? Nobody had a heart attack, there's no arterial bleeding, no sucking chest wounds. It's just software. Nobody's going to die and nothing's going to blow up or catch on fire if you make a mistake. True, some things aren't in the documentation but most things are. Certainly "how do I get my MIDI keyboard to make sound" and "how do I get my microphone/ guitar to record " are. It constantly amazes me how much harder people end up having to work from being lazy.

Being new to all this is even more of a reason to RTFM. Maybe I'm just stupid but when FedEx drives by and drops off that box from Sweetwater, when I open it up and want to hook up my new toy, my first thought is where's the manual?

I suggest perusing the documentation for both Kontakt and Cakewalk. Everything works perfectly when set up correctly. Yours is almost certainly a routing issue.

99.9% of these issues can easily be solved in short order by READING THE F---- MANUAL. If they had bothered to look at the documentation that came with their audio interface, they would have downloaded and installed the driver for it and it would be working properly from the beginning.

Really? Are you naturally that obtuse or did you have to practice? I can tell that critical thinking is not exactly your forté. I suppose that since "no poly-ticks or religion" is the order of the day here that means no Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, certainly no Rage Against the Machine or Body Count and definitely no hymns either. Forget about Johnny Cash too. JS Bach is off the table as well; much of his catalog was composed as religious music. Probably ought to leave out much of the R&B from about 1964 through at least the '70s. And that's only a tiny sampling....

If you can't get the difference between a song about it and political and religious discussions themselves then I don't know what to tell you. You must be one of those people who thought IceT was actually encouraging people to go out and murder law enforcement officers.

They misspelled "vulture."

Lay off the poly-ticks and religion, please.

There probably aren't any. What bitflipper & I said is probably the closest thing.