Byron Dickens

Oh my God! The Horror! Don't listen. Problem solved. Don't respond. Problem solved. The world has been "going to hell" for at least the past 2000 years. Bullshit. Wait a minute... You are so computer savvy that you've been writing your own music software for 43 years and you hacked the driver for your obsolete MIDI interface to make it work with W10 but you let viruses take out your machines? How does that happen? WTF are you doing?

ChatGPT is also wholesale stealing intellectual property. There have been several lawsuits already. I really don't care if its done with black magick but people really need to slow down and think before they jump headlong off the AI cliff alongside all the other lemmings. Like I said before, pushbutton insta- songs ain't the half of it....

Yes. Undo the mess you made by copying and moving files around willy-nilly and install Cakewalk properly on the C drive where it belongs.

Both of your projected case scenarios would be better accomplished with your own ears and aesthetic sensibilities.

More and more steps towards "push button, out comes song." No skill or work required. Not to mention the further devaluing of those skills. That would be a worthy discussion. Push-button insta-songs ain't the half of it....

Wow! That is sweet.

ASIO only allows one driver at a time.

It's part of the race to the bottom is what it is.

My first really good guitar I put together with parts from Warmoth.

Without an account, it ain't gonna happen. Trying to use 20 year old software is a recipe for frustration. So is using 10 year old software. All the bugs have been worked out of X3 and then some. Its called Cakewalk by Bandlab.

You should definitely have everything connected and turned on prior to launching CW

Three-year-old dead thread.

That's 99.99% of your issue right there. Why in God's name are you using that garbage ASIO4ALL driver when Focusrite supplies a real one?

Fortunately, I don't have the money for much in the way of GAS....

Wow. Overreact much?

Any more than 6 knobs is just excess: ?

https://sonicscoop.com/diy-studio-design-part-2-build-cost-effective-bass-traps/

Who the hell cares about how good or bad a metronome sounds? Why in God's name would you not be using a proper audio interface any more when you did before? What specifically are these alleged bugs?

Sure beats "help!"

I have to wonder, like somebody else mentioned before, if the real problem isn't what is coming out but what is going in.

Perhaps its just my skeptical nature, but I'm always suspicious when someone is that specific. 88ms? Really? You measured it? 88 for sure and not 90 or 82? Especially when they are apparently unaware of such basic steps like looking for troublesome plugins...

I think it is so strange some of the rarest boutique amps that few people have even heard of and other assorted oddball stuff that gets modeled. Hell, Overloud has a whole collection of models of converted film projector amps! But one of the most iconic amps in the world, used for years by one of the most influential guitarists of all time on some of the most influential recordings of all time is ignored.

I had a chance to play around with this some more until I got interrupted and I found out IK's Hiwatt cab model has Fanes. I dropped it in and got closer. Interestingly, replacing the Plexi model with the JMP one seemed to be closer still. You're right on the mark here as far as making it sound right but in the course of working on this and thinking about it I realized that what I really want to do here is not so much copy the exact sound of any particular record or get a certain guitarist's "tone." (I'm long since past that) as to see what I can get for myself out of the same amp.

I think saying "always* is inaccurate and unfair. It's probably only something like 99.99% of the time.