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I've had several different mains monitors in the walls since 1988, my all time faves being Westlake HR-1's, followed closely by some Genelec 1234's and Massenberg units (at Blackbird in Nashville). But I've been mixing 98% on either Yamaha NS-10M's [with a SONY consumer 5" sub] (yeah... I know, go ahead and laugh) since 1989, and for the last 15 years an additional pair of Mackie 10" powered units. Once you get really used to what they sound like in a reasonably treated room, mixes translate very well nearly everywhere else, at least in my personal career. It really does come down to developing the muscle memory for what ever you prefer to use and LOTS of ear training. And NEVER listening too loud for an extended period. If ya gots the ears, you're golden... if ya don't... hire someone that does. I do most of my tracking and Ivory Soap mixing using headphones (Beyer DT700 pro-x or AT D40fs's) and never have had anyone complain that "it doesn't sound good" when the final product is delivered. I never liked 'em, but had a colleague who swore by Sony 7506's, which were great for FOH live work, but IMHO sukt in the studio. To each their own...

If the VST3 files have indeed been deleted from your C:/Program Files/Common Files/vst3 directory, then search (as you have) for all "kilohearts" references in the registry and delete the regkeys. Most of the references will occur in: Computer\HKEY_USERS\{your user ID}\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Cakewalk VST X64\Inventory\c:/program files/common files/vst3/Kilohearts/kHs {actual plugin reference} Then rescan in the DAW and they should be gone.

Last time I looked, this was free.

The WAVES wrapper cannot be moved from its installed location. Talk to the folks @Waves about that.

Glitches can occur in the Prefs for no known reason on occasion. My favorite excuse is that the nutrinos that are constantly bombarding the planet can bob through your computer and change a bit in storage without warning. 😁

That's one way, yes.

It's my laptop. I'll keep running Win10 on it until it dies from old age. And be very careful from a security standpoint.

Check for compatibility of your MOBO & CPU with Win11 upgrade. A lot of the i7 7xxx series are not compatible. I have a laptop that is just below the CPU cutoff by one digit, and hence cannot upgrade.

One of two ways; 1. Change the base octave setting in CW preferences... Or 2. Build & use articulation maps for your instruments (which actually are the better way to go because then the articulation data gets FIFO priority in the serial data stream).

Echo input on the VSTi in question?

That's almost like I just witnessed Roger Waters and Ry Cooder in my living room for a jam session. Good work!

I import OMF files from clients quite regularly without issue. From the documentation;

Enable <Ripple Edit>, select all tracks (Ctrl+A), select bar 1 in timeline ruler, Delete. Disable <Ripple Edit>.

They are shown as the primary of a pair in Preferences, but are coupled in fact. Once you have a track with one of the inputs you will see that you can record in mono from either 1 or 2; OR as a stereo pair from "Focusrite ASIO Input 1" which is actually 1 & 2. Try it , you'll see.