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In the hand of a neophyte amateur, all-in-one mastering solutions are a fine tool, but in my market and what remains of the professional record genre, if you think that a great mastering engineer the likes of Merrill, Grundman, Leonard, Kutch, Reierson, et al, are out of business because of a piece of software, you're sadly delusional.

Probably one of the first dozen artists in my youthful record collection. https://variety.com/2024/music/obituaries-people-news/john-mayall-dead-blues-legend-1236082294/

ARM processors may be lightweight, run cooler, and use less power to execute the RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) single instruction per cycle, but they are not, and probably will not be, compatible with any x86/x64 operating system, which run (including all Apple products) on a CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) architecture. Using multiple ARM processors, parallel path instruction sets have been able to emulate the complex commands required by a Windows OS, but that makes the overall advantages moot when it comes to footprint & power consumption, much less support components (I/O chipset for example). There is no serious plan to manufacture anything other than small mobile devices (tablets, phones) using this architecture, no one is even thinking of using them in laptops or larger surfaces, much less desktop computers. However, if you want to try to run a (IMO toy crippled) DAW on a phone, there are options out there, including several that run in a browser window. So, yeah... you are in a very limited population.

Why are you using the Global Audio folder? Especially on a drive with little room left. "Save as" the entire project to a drive with space using "Per Project Folders" & "Copy all audio" settings. Problem solved.

Have you ever tried to power cycle your audio interface for a ten count when it hangs?

Google "GM drum notes"

There seems to be great opinions on this forum (and many other DAW forums too) that the Focusrite Scarlett line are fairly bulletproof.

Network Interface Controller; your wifi or ethernet chipset.

@Misha Have you spent any time interacting with other humans? After all... corporations are "people" too.

Try moving start of all tracks to Bar2/beat1, and start playback/export at Bar1/beat1, then edit heads later to see if anything is different. Also extend any automation back to B1b1 as well so there are no jumps.

Since Win Vista, all FW interfaces have required a TI (Texas Instruments) chipset. Others won't work.

FYI; I've been running two dissimilar video cards for a decade without any issues, albeit they use the same GPU Architecture and driver. Never caused any issues with CbB or my video editing sled, probably because I've always run at 48k. However, I am currently sourcing candidates for another, newer quad output card so as to be compatible with a Win11 upgrade. $$$$

Technique #3 from @Promidi previous post is just the ticket for that scenario.

This has always been somewhat 'hit or miss' for me. I have to REALLY make sure that I'm pressing intently on the shift key and wait, because the response time is longer than expected as compared to the other tools. But I'm practicing and it works.

Have you ever heard of "backups"? If your HD dies, CW will be the least of your issues. A good & recent backup image to an external drive will solve that. There are many free applications that will work.

I heard some soundtrack stuff that was generated by UDIO over 18 months ago and immediately saw the beginning of the end for producers like myself. Time to grab my hat and shuffle on down the road to full retirement. It's been a great journey...

Luna has potential but it (currently) doesn't support Kontakt or VSL instruments. I'm watching it for updates.

Remove the dot/extension from the directory name in Windows Explorer & rescan.

Who am I to know where and what the Guardians of the Software Vault may penalize.? It just seems logical that the progression of a waveform/data stream from left to right may be a natural thing (except in Arabian locales where right to left may be more so, or east Asia where too to bottom prevails). I do know that the plasma displays on Harrison Series12 & MPC consoles actually could display signal waveforms from bottom to top, which required some acclimatization. As for the Inspector/Browser locations... whatever works is fine with me. "Mine is not to question why... mine is just to... mix!"

It probably stems from the logic that written sheet music has horizontal staves, preceded by (most) 'western' languages that have been written in a horizontal form. I'm not going to lose any sleep pondering a question that relates to the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" paradigm. Followed closely by the "curiosity killed the cat" idiom. ?

He had just called me the last week of May and we had a long conversation about designing and installing a new & updated A/V system in his house. Kind of a good thing that I hadn't invested a lot in research, but sad that he expired. Altho, I'm pretty sure that the way he would have preferred to exit.

With the advent of the S MkIII series hardware, NA 2.x, and Kontakt 7, I had stopped updating from Kontakt 6 because, nearly two years later, they [NI] still don't have many of the really show-stopping bugs worked out of the system. Komplete Kontrol was originally developed to specifically port the NKS plugin data to the keyboard controls, screen, and light guide, and I have only ever used it for single instruments. However, I have orchestration templates that have more than 60 instances of KK inserted {the footprint is miniscule} without any issues (other than the CbB/NI refusal to auto-focus), and prefer to work that way. I have only rarely used Kontakt multi's because, unless I specifically want to layer sounds, there is no easy way to control more than one instrument conveniently. That being said... THIS is an article that leads one to believe that Kontakt 7 now has direct connect NKS interoperability, but I have many colleagues that have too many issues with it crashing or not functioning as prescribed for me to risk downtime in my studio schedule. YMMV.

Troubleshooting 101: Cold reboot computer Open DAW & create new empty project with only Master bus to HW output, fader @ unity. Add one audio track (empty), bus to Master, fader @ unity. Input echo & record arm track. What results?

A few of y'all seriously have ur panties in a bunch over something which you have no control. Let it go. Que Sera, Sera.

Export track stems as Broadcast Wav & they will be timestamped for exact location in the new project. I used to do large track count, long multiple-movement projects that way, but the last 8 years, I've had enough horsepower to do it all in one project, mostly by freezing (or section bounces) as much as possible during the process. [Up to 75+ tracks, over 30 minutes duration]