Steve Patrick

Sound Spot is having a massive Summer Sale.  I've got a couple of their plugs and find them useful.  I tried to purchase two more yesterday...and think I succeeded as PayPal said the transaction went through but it was a weird buying experience.  They might have been being slammed but the site was running EXTREMELY slow and just getting from page to page was taking an eternity.  After paying, PayPal attempted to return me to the Sound Spot web page but I just got their blank page with a spinning "S".  This went on for about 5-10 minutes (I minimized it and kept checking back).  Finally I just shut it down and figured I'd get an email soon regarding purchase and download/installation instructions.

It's now Monday afternoon and still no love.

I've emailed Nathan but haven't heard a peep.  Hope this turns out OK...but it was only $9 bucks.  I'm just worried about my PayPal account.

Anybody else bought anything from them during the sale??

There's just a handful of their software titles I don't already have but I think I could think of 5 or 6 to get.

I see that you can use jam points for your initial purchase...does this lower the value of what your freebies can be.

I mean if I buy something that's $199 but use jam points...can I still get other freebies that are $199??

Curious minds want to know!!!

Just did an audible export of a HUGE project with no glitches at all.  Makes me think it's a certain plugin I'm using in that glitchy project.  Will investigate further.

Sorry for the late reply...and thanks for all the suggestions...I've got some time this weekend to investigate...will keep you posted.

(and try your suggestions) ?

PS:  I gotta start remembering to get notified when somebody replies...I'm such a dunce.

On the voiceover suite DAW I'm getting these bright red pop-ups when opening Cake that I have "12 days to sign in and activate"  And even when I try to sign in I get the "invalid name or password" thingy.  I've never had this...and don't have it now...on my music production DAW.  

What gives??

(I even tried updating Cake using the BL Assistant...no love)

I finished a mix of a clients project and tried to export it to the desktop using, as I always do, audible bounce but could never get it to play more than a 1/4 way through before the program locked up and started generating loud digital hash...forcing me to ctrl/alt/delete and end Cakewalk in the the task manager.  I tried replacing some more power hungry plugs...that I use all the time...to no avail.  My buffers were set to 4096 which should be way more than enough headroom to handle the project.

While mixing I played back the project multiple times with no issues at all...only failed when trying to export.  

Any clues???

Thanks for all the ideas...I'll give em a try!

Yup...I tried that when it first started happening...no love.

Hey Noel, ol pal...I use an Audient ID14, asio, everything set to 44.1...I'm usually buffering at 64 or 128 when tracking and 2048 or higher when mixing/mastering. And, yes, I have Cake set to share the audio device with other apps.  It's a puzzler as I've never had any trouble minimizing Cake to check the news or watch a quick video before.  Just started happening the other day.

The plot thickens...

Turns out if no project is loaded in Sonar I CAN minimize it and hear YouTube...BUT...if I load a project all non-cake audio goes away...and yes, everything (win & cake) is set to 44.1

Hmmm...

Well hello fellers...I've been away for far too long.  Thanks for thinking about my old self.

I do miss you all and will try to get back here more often.

You're much better off checking out my Bandcamp site

www.doghouseriley1.bandcamp.com

More later...

yorolpal,

Doghouse

Or any other audio on any other site...what changed??

And, yes, it's me again, Margaret...

DR

I only do real time export on my music projects...so it was happening for me in "real time".  But I agree with Noel...this is plugin problem.

Tee Hee...Noel said capture a dump...( I know...I'm so juvenile).

@ Bapsi...It's still just SPLAT to me:-)

Yup...that's what I'm using now in both suites...the latest version ( I think)

Recently I had a large project I was mixing (tons of plugs, etc...) and every time I tried to export it to the desktop SPLAT would freeze and my speakers would start squealing and the only way (or so I thought) to get it to stop was to use the task manager to end SPLAT.  After several attempts I just started turning things off one at a time on the master and other busses  to see if I could locate the culprit...which I did.  It was Nimbus from exponential audio, a recent cheap acquirement.  Nimbus replaced I had no more problem exporting the mix.  Too bad as it's a nice verb...but, of course, I've got eleventy jillion others so no prob.  Anyone else had problems with this little jewel??

Yup...that was it.  The update had set all the default Windows audio settings back and the sample rates were miss-matched...plus, and probably just as important...the "exclusive" settings were turned on which can lock the audio to a single device.  I re-set the sample rates in both the EVO and Windows and un-clicked the exclusive settings and I'm running hot straight and normal again.  Thanks for all the info!

I use ASIO and can play anything I want as long as Cake is minimized.  Have for eons.  In fact I'm doing it right now:-)

Donald Fagen's new "Rhymes"...check it out.

(But not on the voice over suite DAW)

Have just updated Cake by BL and now I have to shut it down to play something on the desktop or web.  Before I could just minimize it.  Still can in the music suite (which I don't think I've updated recently) but not the voice over suite.

Another hitch is that I just also update the firmware in my EVO 4 as well...and have sent them a similar heads up.

Anyone else experiencing this??

Or, as per usual, is it just something I'm too dim-witted to figure out?

Thanks scook...will do.

On 6/9/2020 at 1:36 PM, Noel Borthwick said:

Are the plugins actually there but not visible in the menus? If so you may have a plugin layout loaded that doesnt include all plugins.
Have you tried opening a project that references one of the missing plugins - does it load ok or do you get a missing plugin prompt?

I'll give that a whirl...I'll have to remember a project where I use the Scuffam amp sim (and/or any of the KiloHearts plugs).  The Scuffam shows up in my custom guitar vst folder but greyed out...but it doesn't show up in SPLATS VST2 or VST3 plug lists.  The KiloHearts plugs are all in my Cakewalk\VST folder but don't show up at all in either the SPLAT VST2/VST3 list OR the KiloHearts folder in my custom setup.

I've recently switched over to the BandLab version of SPLAT in the music studio (I switched last year in the voice over suite) and I've discovered an odd anomaly.

As most of you who know me are already aware I've got about elevnty jillion vst plugins.  I was able to move my custom folders over to the BL version and everything seemed to be running hot straight and normal.  However, I happened to notice that my Scuffam guitar sim wasn't showing up with all the others in my "Guitars" vst folder. When I pulled up the plugin manager I saw it was greyed out.  So I went to my VST folder in C:program files\Calewalk\vst plugins and...there it was.  So then I went back to the plugin manager and looked through all my different folders in my custom setup and found that both the Scuffam and all my KiloHearts plugins were not showing up...in fact the KiloHearts folder was completely empty...not even there but greyed out.  Yet they are all installed properly in my Cake VST folder AND they all show up in the old version of SPLAT.  They don't show up as failed plugins so that avenue doesn't work.  Any suggestions??

Thanks a bunch, emeraldsoul, ol pal...if you've been listening to me on Soundcloud you should switch to my Bandcamp page doghouseriley1.bandcamp.com

(and for some strange reason...and/or...I don't know what the heck I'm doing...more likely...this new Bandlab forum thingy won't let me use my musical persona)

What's funny about this new development is that I can hear notes lower than G just fine...it's only that one note.

Apparently and weirdly not as low as I used to.  

Seems I've developed a strange hearing problem with low bass notes.  At first I thought I'd discovered that one of the basses in the Modo Bass package was out of tune.  I mean really out of tune.  The song was in G and every time the low G on the E string was played it sounded way flat.  So, I switched it out for a Trilian bass but guess what?  No, go on, guess.  The low G on that one was flat as well.  As was every other bass I tried.  So, it's me being unable to discern the low G accurately.

Only it gets weirder.  I can hear notes below and above that low G just fine and in tune.  

It's hell gettin old:-)

Nope...when I noticed this happening I deleted ALL plugins in the project and it's still happening.  What's even crazier is that, one, my DAW is a boss hoss quad core with 32 gigs of memory and a super fast processor and, two, that there are only six tracks of audio in the project.