Byron Dickens

Are you using VST2 or VST3?

Even simpler is to create 16 MIDI tracks and assign each one to a different channel.

This belongs in "instruments and effects," not "deals."

Not necessarily. I can plug my Korg Minilogue into a USB hub and Windows will see it, but it won't work.

Yes If you had done that first, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation.

Why aren't you using the manufacturer's ASIO driver?

I don't know if it's any consolation, but I've had a project before go totally fubar and I had to rebuild it all over again from scratch.

Why do you have to go through this every time? If you have such great luck with ASIO4ALL then I'm happy for you and you should go play the lottery. I only mentioned your name because I knew you were going to pop back in here with your speil about how ASIO4ALL is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Why do you keep shilling for it? You on their payroll or something? You're the one who needs to grow up and just accept that it might actually take an amount of money greater than zero to make this stuff happen with any kind of reliability. I'm offering real help, not half- assed workarounds like BS wrappers for WDM drivers. That's all ASIO4ALL is anyway. I gave up a long time ago on fiddle-f__ing around with band aids and half-assed workaround wrappers and just bit the bullet for proper equipment. Even if I'd did work correctly for anyone but you, its redundant anyway because of WASAPI. Anyway, why do you keep arguing with me about this? Go argue with the developers. They're the ones who say ASIO4ALL doesn't work properly with Cakewalk, that the Realtek ASIO driver is the worst they've ever seen and, barring a real interface, to use WASAPI instead. You have a wonderful evening yourself.

The Realtek ASIO driver is known crap Despite Will's protestations to the contrary, ASIO4ALL is known to be problematic. I didn't say that, the Bakers said it. You're probably not going to want to hear this, and I seem to ruffle some people's feathers every time I say this, but if you get a proper audio interface with proper ASIO drivers, 99% of your audio problems will magically vanish.

Midi Quest can do what I want. Unfortunately, I don't have an extra $400 laying around. It looks like it can also address what my next question was going to be and that was switching back and forth between program and combination mode.

What mode of thinking led her to that conclusion?

When I was younger...

You can't do this by running two instances of it?

For what purpose? The only way that can possibly work is if the particular VSTi you're using can be configured as an audio effect and then it has to be placed in the effects rack of an audio track.

MOTU is a very Apple-centric company. It seems like Windows is merely an afterthought. You should contact their support.

That's just COMMUNISM!

Yep. You can't possibly get the advanced stuff until you master the basics.

Turn the volume down on tracks if you must in order to avoid clipping and turn the volume up on your audio interface.

I have found that program changes do not work in the VST3 version. VST2 works better.

I have had some success with Blue Arp.

That can happen with buggy or obsolete drivers. It can also happen if if a plug-in or something is not closing correctly.

That's bizarre. Have you tried closing Cakewalk down and then reopening your project?

You can find one in the Inspector. There is also an MFX.

? Damn. The zealots are getting serious! Next thing you know they'll start burning heretics at the stake.

That's not accurate. And has been discussed extensively already.