Steve Patrick

I just got the new MOJO 2 Horns library and loaded it on one of my external ssd drives. I registered my serial in Native Access with no problem but Native Access refuses to "locate" it no matter where I put it on any drive in my DAW. It looks like it wants to put content in C:Users\Public Documents but I have zilch in there and eleventy jillion libraries on multiple drives. Have emails in to all concerned but have only heard crickets so far. So...I'm turning to the brain trust here. Or am I???

My long time gripe with power supplies is that 99 % of the time they bear no marks/info or relation to the unit they go with. So if you don't label them...and who does??... you can end up a dozen or more power supply units that you have no idea which processor they go with when you're re-arranging your studio.

Agree with Jim, as per usual. But as an addition...if you want the best inexpensive, bang-for-the-buck mic check out the Aston Element. We use them here at the studio for voice over AND the occasional background sing sessions. Usually $149 but sometimes on sale for $99.

I recently received an email promo from the folks at Sonible that, for me, was too good to pass up. I currently own their smart gate and smart reverb and have been mightily impressed with both. And after watching myriad videos on the other three plugs in the bundle (smart eq3, smart comp & smart limiter) I'm sold on their system and performance. The promo was: as an owner of one or more of the bundle I could purchase the plugs I didn't yet own for $39 each. Just go to my account at Sonible, put them into my cart and purchase. There was no promo/discount code in the email so I figured it would just happen automatically once I logged in. No such love. No matter how I tried adding them to my cart and no matter how far I got in the purchase process they rang up at $65 each. Dern! I removed them from my cart and sent an email to support. Since they are in Austria it took a day for a reply but then they started by asking if I owned any of the bundle plugins. Since I already gave them my email this amused me. In any case they verified that it was a valid offer but did not tell me how to avail myself of it. I emailed back stating that I indeed owned two of the plugs already (and they could check in my account...duh) so would they please send instructions on how to get the deal and purchase the remaining plugs. But so far....crickets. Anyone else take advantage of this great deal??

I recently picked up a pair initially to replace my "B" monitors (Equator D-5s). My main monitors are an aging set of KRK V6 system 5s and I love them dearly. To say I was gobsmacked by the MTMs would be an understatement. Right out of the box, running flat they beat my KRKs hands down. And...after calibration with the included ARC mike and built in system they are simply amazing. How they get that much tight accurate bass response out of such small monitors is beyond me but I'm not complaining. And totally phase coherent. Wow. Highly recommended!

Thanks ol pal! Yup there was a 4/4 bar stuck in there from my default template. Fixed!

I started a new project today in 6/8. Opened my default template and set the time sig to 6/8 beginning at measure 1 and all the bar lines shifted accordingly. BUT the 6/8 only persists for 10 measures and then reverts back to 4/4. What gives?

Once again I'm needing to mix a song that was basically done in Garage Band. This time they were able to port out both the midi tracks and audio tracks but using multiple steps as Garage Band apparently doesn't want you exporting anything. The midi tracks all imported to Cake fine and were synced to each other. And the audio tracks seemed to import fine and be synced to each other. However...they were out of sync with the midi tracks and, worse, sped up as the song progressed. The original was at 93 BPM and the tracks were cut to a click. But the audio tracks start out right at 92 BPM and speed up to almost 93 BPM by the end of the song. Anyone know what might be causing this or have any info on how best to export out of Garage Band for importation to Cake?? Thanks for any info.

That's probably the reason...and thanks for the tip...as my keyboard controller is in a drawer under my workspace and I'm constantly forgetting to turn it on before firing up Cake to work on something. Then, when I need to use it to record something I turn it on and get prompted to add it back to the midi devices by Cake.

Well whatever it was I did or it did...it's working again. So, there's that.

Now Cake won't show the last project I was working on in the recent project pop up during scanning and loading. Is this a "Workspace" thing also???

Welp...I guess I need to be hipped to "Workspace" as I have no clue what that is...although I do see that word in the upper right hand corner. This also probably explains why my default template quit working and I had to go to a regular cwt project file. What's Workspace? (EDIT...I meant, of course "cwp" file)

I have a basic .cwt that is my default setup when starting a new project. But the last 6 months or so most every time I load it up all the midi tracks have been reset from All External Inputs Midi Omni or None to one of the available midi devices in the system. I have to physically change every midi track back to "None" to get them to work again. Why is this happening?? Thanks.

Yup...I think most folks don't know the difference between profiling and modeling. A profile just captures a certain state of the amp/cab where a model is a complete working clone of the original amp/cab. As a profiler...Tonex is quite something. Especially at it's price point. But to me the modelers are much more useful.

Yup...got the pedal as it includes Tonex Max software...which costs the same so it was like a BOGO. At least that what my gearslut self told me.

After the cluster f**ck with Waves and the subscription model I figured I'd wait to WUP everything I have (which is, of course, everything) to the latest version. And, just as I suspected they did a 25% off WUP a few days ago and Koby got me the discount on that so now everything is the latest 14 version. It's been so long since I had WUPed everything that I've forgotten...if all the plugs you have are the latest version can you move or delete all the lower "waveshells"?? Seems like they're just cluttering up the drive and causing Cake to take way longer to scan. Any info will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks ol pal!

I'm finally getting around to try and figure out IK's Tonex (I have the SE version) and Tone Net's downloadable captures. So far it's not making my putter flutter. I'm a fan of Paul from the Studio Rats on YouTube and IK sent an email out linking to him capturing his Bad Cat Cub with Tonex. The video had a link to Tone Net and instructions for what to search for. But no matter how or where I searched on Tone Net (or Tonex) no such amp existed. Anyone here using Tone Net?? Hip me, will ya!

Ok...I reset it to CC1...And it's listed in Cake's midi devices...Now what??

Let's go way back in time shall we? Late last year I finally replaced my very old but still great Alesis QS8.1 that I was using as my studio keyboard controller with a lighter, better sounding Yamaha digital 88 weighted keys piano (which has the usual keys, organs and strings). It works fine but when I recently purchased a new brass library from 8DIO which utilizes the mod wheel for timbre changes I remembered...Hey...I don't have one of those anymore. Doh. But rummaging around the studio I found and old Korg Nano Kontrol (the original one). I plugged it up and added it to Cake's midi devices, downloaded and installed the Korg editor, set the first knob and slider to CC#0 (which I think is Mod Wheel)...and that where I'm stuck. It's been so long since I've added any kind of controller to Cake I don't remember how to do it. Can someone hip me or point me to where I can git-er-done???

Nolet's Silver Gin. On special occasions. But it's Costco's Kirkland Gin as a daily sip.

Will do Bit...but the weird thing is I've done this scads of times in the past as I've added or subtracted instruments from my template and never had any trouble with it. The only change on this one is that it has EZDrummer 3 instead of Superior 3 and I've also added my newly acquired Kontakt 7 over Kontakt 6. And, again, it's saved as Default.cwt, Normal.cwt and Basic.cwt in three different folders and I've tried setting each location in preferences but no love. Sheesh.

I'm having a devil of a time trying to get Cake to load up my default template (which has my starting line up of instruments & libraries). I've recently revamped it and even though I've saved it as Default, Basic & Normal in both C:\Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Core\Project Templates AND D:\Bandlab Templates and have tried pointing Cake to each of those folders in the Folder locations section and instructed Cake to load default template on startup in the "Advanced" dialog in preferences all that happens is a generic "blank" project screen on startup and not my template. I don't recall this being a problem as I've changed out my startup template many times over the years and have never had this problem. So...what am I doing wrong and how do I get my template to load on startup?? Thanks.

Just discovered that my C:\Users\StevePatrick\Documents\IKMultimedia\IKMultimedia Product Manager folder has over 330 gigs in it. It's eating up all the room on my C drive. Can I move this to another drive without screwing the pooch?? Figured one of you geniuses would know. Thanks! PS: Most of the files are zipped files which I assume are download files and backups...can I safely delete these??

My Dear Forumites, I have a friend who has asked me to mix a tune he and his musical partner have done in Garage Band. He was able to export both wav and midi files from GB (although the process is very un-intuitive) and provide them to me. However, the wav files are not recognized by ANY of my audio programs and will not import into SPLAT and the midi files are seen as "damaged". Is it possible to import files from GB and if so...HOW????