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  1. August Spencer
    This is my current pc set up. HP Spectre x360 touchscreen laptop. I do not use the touchscreen function but it is there. Pavilion 32" external monitor. Perfect for DAW editing. Attached screen of display setup.
  2. August Spencer
    The great variety of Virtual Keyboard GUI's shown by this thread readers point to some odd coding thereof and an undesirable octave reduction in new Sonar. Here are my screenshots of my Bandlab Cakewalk version and the new Sonar one on exactly the same laptop, monitor, etc. Cakewalk opens a nice 5 octave keyboard, clear and unclaterred whereas new Sonar only 2 large unwieldy 2 octave keyboard. For the record.
  3. August Spencer
    Good to see that I am not crazy about the oddity in New Sonar's virtual keyboard GUI behaviour compared to Cakewalk by BandLab. Also, I am not looking at a piano VST, I have plenty of excellent piano sounds, but thanks for the suggestion. Maybe it will have to be a workaround if Sonar does not fix its virtual keyboard pronto. Really, the Virtual Keyboard GUI should be a user's choice in octave coverage instead of a mysterious hard coded imposition. To be clear, the built in virtual keyboard is just that and is not a sound VST module. Therefore, it generates a MIDI note message but Cakewalk or Sonar outputs to any desired sound. Very useful for inputting difficult passages note by note...
  4. August Spencer
    Opinions but no answers. Presently, and verified, Cakewalk by Bandlab opens 5 octaves of virtual piano which is very convenient for inputting melodies, chords etc mostly without shifting scale. The new Sonar opens the same GUI but with only 2 octaves. This requires constant shifting scales, an unneeded nuisance. In addition, I now find that I cannot edit Velocity in Piano Roll View in the new Sonar, whereas Cakewalk can easily.
  5. August Spencer started following Notes assignment list for TTS-1 synth Standard Kit , Cakewalk Sonar Default virtual piano keyboard and TTS-1 Drum Brushes access.
  6. August Spencer
    Too short. Cakewalk by bandlab had 6 octaves. How to get back full keyboard.
  7. August Spencer
    Thank you Kurre. That worked. I thought that the brush set was going to be just that but it turned out to be a modified Standard Kit with a few brush strokes. The tap and the swirl notes were down in the keyboard. Good enough for elementary, easy, smooth rhythms.... Cheers
  8. August Spencer
    There is mention in another thread that the TTS-1 brushes can be be accessed via a 041 selection, where as the regular Standard Kit is accessed via 001 selection. The TTS-1 Editor tree shows both selections, plus others, however they do not seem to work. They just just stay Standard Kit. Where are those drum brushes ? If Bandlab retained them, how can they be accessed ? Thank you.
  9. August Spencer
    Thanks for the answers. In the meantime, I was pointed to the TTS-1 Edit where one can scroll the Standard Kit content and gives the note and sound. Cheers
  10. August Spencer
    Is there a text list of which note plays what drum kit instrument in TTS-1 synth on Standard Kit channel setting. Thank you
  11. August Spencer
    In order to address 2 different software synths, I currently use internal Loobe1 and 1 cabled loop through in M-Audio 2x2 midisport module. This provides me with 32 independent Midi channels. Has anyone used successfully 2 cabled loop throughs in M-Audio midisport ? Thanks.
  12. August Spencer
    I have auditioned some of he instruments as loaded in Cakewalk with the following results: 1.- Initially, the selected instrument sounds clean. When a new variation of the instrument is selected, notes play with clicks. Returning to the original variation retains the clicks. Reloading the Orchestools synth, the instrument plays clean. All sections behave similarly. 2.- Clarinet only loaded notes from G2 down. 3,- Bassoon only loaded notes from G2 down. 4.- Cello and Bass long notes do not loop smoothly. There is an abrupt restart. 5.- Timpanis are not tuned, difficult to include them in a classical orchestral score. Overall, this is a fine effort and some instruments sound very acceptably for Solo orchestral complement.
  13. August Spencer
    Thank you. Download and installation process worked as instructed. Now to audition the instruments.
  14. August Spencer
    Sorry for this newbie question, but better to ask than to make dreadful mistakes. When presented with the download page of the Orchestools Sections, at the bottom of each are 3 download buttons. A VST3, a Samples and a Github. I want to download the 4 Sections and use them in Cakewalk by Bandlab. What is the correct download and install procedure ? What do I download ? Thank you.
  15. August Spencer
    Since 905133 referred to the Emulator X, I ran into the Emulator X3, downloaded it, installed it. As expected, Windows 10 does not run it BUT using compatibility mode Windows 7 the X3 works perfectly. GUI looks similar to PVx but seems to have more bells and whistles requiring further study. In addition, there are Giga files with the original EMU sounds in exb format which play directly in both PVx and Emu X3. Of note is the Modern Symphonic Orchestra from 5 DVD iso files. Such riches. EMU lives.
  16. August Spencer
    Tnx 905133 for your help. Regrettably as you indicate, PVx does not respond to SysEx neither in send nor receive per implementation chart. The volume slider lower right is a global volume control for all the voices and does not have MIDI control access. The volume control wheel, upper left on single voice is also a global volume control but only for the single selected voice and does not respond to any MIDI message. Therefore it is useful to manually balance initially an ensemble, one voice at a time. And in Multi 1-16 etc, volume and pan respond to MIDI messages and the sliders move accordingly. Having finally deciphered how PVx implemented volume control, I can now hear clearly when I audition different voices. Also, now I see that one has to save the current settings upon exiting PVx in order to retain the single voice settings for the project. PVx is still the best sounding Orchestral module for me with Virtuoso.ebx bank. Emu did a superb job.
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