Byron Dickens

One more time: "not saying you are doing this...." I don't know; you don't tell us. Some do. And they rapidly run into similar problems. Tell me how I'm supposed to know that. Nevermind that those 2+ decades don't matter much if you've been spending all that time with some cockamamie problematic working habits. Again, I don't know. What that really sounds like is "the last thing I want to do is consider any changes to my workflow habits that might make things easier." Once again, you've given no information about what you're doing in this regard. But you know, if you are piling on the instances of Kontakt, Spitfire and Amplitube 5 then you're probably gonna need that high end, top of the line $4K machine you accused Mark and me of having. Not that your suggestion doesn't have any merit but maybe, just maybe, there's something else going on besides just "Cakewalk sucks."

Nor do I. I have half the RAM and all spinner drives on a 6 year old refurbished HP. Yet I don't have the issues you describe. How can that be? Raise your buffers. Part of good project hygiene is getting the sound you want at the source so you don't have to do so much processing as well as thinking long and hard about whether or not you really need to add that plugin.... Not saying you are doing this but a lot of people ended up going around and around in circles because they don't know what they are doing and keep adding plugins to try fixing the problems they created with the previous ones.

That's what I was thinking. Sounds to me like a computer processing power issue, not an audio device driver issue.

Flip the switch on the wall. Simple. Elegant.

OK. So what's your suggestion? Keep fiddle- f**king around with problematic abandonware last tested for Windows Vista? Since it worked so well for you in W10, might I suggest buying a lottery ticket; I've seen pages and pages of people having nothing but headaches. Maybe pairing up with ASIO4ALL is the secret. And what are these missing "capabilities?" The ability to record and process your own samples? Whoop-de-do. How many people even do that? How many did it 20-30 years ago when this stuff was current?

There's no way BandLab could have taken the E-Mu software off the hands of Creative Labs because Digital Sound Factory has exclusive license to that material since 2007, still making them your best bet just like two years ago when I posted the link the first time in this zombie thread.

I'm in agreement with some of the others on this: the most realistic way to humanize a MIDI track is to have a human play it. You can slow the tempo way down if you have to. I have even gone so far as to record one chord change at a time. Even if you are a terrible keyboard player, I think you get better results if you go the opposite way of trying to "humanize" a part. Instead, play it in the best you can and then use the tools at your disposal to tighten the performance up. But don't lock everything strictly to the grid. If you are working with an already existing MIDI file, then you are in for a long slog of manual editing. when doing this, you need to be cognizant of how a real musician plays. Probably the most important thing is to put in accents where a player would do that. That all depends on the field and the rhythmic pulse of the material. For example, there is a very famous drummer who has a definite habit of playing the second of every pair of eighth notes on his hi-hat softer. Also, where the musician places his notes in relation to the grid is much of what determines the feel of a part. Playing slightly behind the beat gives a kind of relaxed groove while playing slightly ahead of the beat drives things forward. Understand that "ahead of" and "behind" the beat do not mean out of time. We're talking milliseconds. It is not really heard so much as felt. Stuff like this gets much better results than any so-called "humanize" feature.

I just refreshed mine a few days ago. No band lab assistant.

Oh yeah. I refer you again to George Carlin: https://youtu.be/WDUIX2-akuQ

I thought you were leaving.

It does. I haven't changed anything and Cntrl+S always saves .

Yeah, how do you think you're going to hear an output that goes nowhere?

I'm using it in the more modern sense of "misleading with truthful statements."

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Instead of Rube Goldberg contraptions, why not just have a lighted sign with a switch?

"Most computers." "42% of web devices." Etc, etc. This is a prime example of what my wife calls "technical truth." In other words, paltering. While technically true that smartphones, servers, IOT devices and gaming consoles are in fact computers, using that definition is misleading and in the case of our religious zealot OP, intentionally so. But it really isn't an answer that facilitates clear communication. Most people, when you say "computer," call to mind a box sitting on your desk with a monitor and keyboard attached to it; a desktop or laptop PC. Even those who know that their smartphone and the PCM (powertrain control module) in their car are also technically computers. So, in the real world this is what the figures really look like: Even for those who "know better."

It should be a red flag.

"Linux Daws Are The Best." Yeah. That's why all the major studios use them. Oh, wait....

Very much so.

That is a function of the instrument, not a function of the PRV. Aside from that, you can't put rests in the PRV because you don't need to. If there isn't a note, then there's nothing to play. In other words, a rest.

That explains it. One of those "moon landing was a hoax" nutjobs. Don't tease us like that.

This is exactly the kind of thing where 5 minutes with the documentation would have saved possibly days of aggravation.t

I really don't get why people insist on loading in the mastering plugins while they are still tracking and editing.

That's the problem.