JoeGBradford

I mentioned a potential SCAN spec a while back but had no responses - as it turns out I am now favouring sticking with Chillblast who built my current PC which has been very reliable but is not Win 11 compliant and at 10 or 11 years old is due for replacement. Chillblast have the advantage of a 5 year guarantee. My current PC is an i5 with 8Gb RAM which I have managed with to date but it has not been intensively used with Cakewalk and has managed most things I have tried to do with it. I only work with midi so no live recording. Chillblast has suggested a music production / light gaming spec as shown below. It has an M2 system drive but, on the advice of a friend, I am considering upgrading the data drive (which will have my samples and instrument sample sets) to M2 as well. I have been reading though that M2 makes little difference to sample time loading or performance. Does anyone have a view on this, or on the spec as a whole? Thanks in anticipation 1x Fractal Design Meshify 2 Mini TG Case - Black 1x Asus PRIME B660M-A WIFI D4 Motherboard 1x Intel Core i7-12700 CPU, 12 Cores* / 20 Threads, 2.1 -4.9GHz 1x 32GB DDR4 3200MHz Memory (2 x 16GB Sticks) 1x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB Graphics Card 1x 1TB Samsung 980 PRO M.2 PCIe Gen 4 Solid State Drive 1x Corsair RM850X 80 PLUS Gold 850W PSU 1x Windows 11 Home 2x Noctua NF-A14 PWM Chromax Black 140mm Fan 1x Noctua NF-S12A PWM Chromax Black 120mm Fan 1x Noctua NH-D15S Chromax Black CPU Cooler - Full Custom Air Cooling setup. 1x 2TB Samsung 870 QVO Solid State Drive 1x 5 Years Warranty (3 Years Onsite & 2 Years Labour) UK Mainland Only*

yep me too ?

Peter & abacab - time for a friendly truce ? Love you both!

Ah thanks for that. What a pity. One for the recycle bin then!

The demo is showing up in my free Kontakt Player but I haven't tried it yet

I'll be getting a new PC soon and intend to pare back a bit - I have over 1,000 according to Cakewalk though I assume that includes duplicates of 32bit, 64 bit and VST3. I'm just doing a back up of my VST installers folder now and there's 225gb in there though that includes samples for sample based instruments I should add that the vast majority of these are free ones and others were bargains such as Total Studio Max for £125

You can download to any disc location you like by going into the settings cog in Product Manager. I would recommend backing up your existing zip files to another location as IK charge around £10 for opening up downloads after 180 days

I got all excited there but then remembered you can't use Rewards Points on Base Price. It's a great library

Seems that the login part of the GUI has disappeared!

Hope there are no security compromises as a result of this! Probably not but I am wondering whether to change password!

Welcome back Larry - you have been missed - but you probably know that ?

That's saved me rushing up to the PC - thanks for the bad news!

Thanks for the essential clarification ? I forgot to suggest setting up a template so glad you advised on that too

Yes you need to put an instance of BBC Discover on each track - it is not multi timbral. There are key switches for the articulations in each instrument group though. I understand that the (paid for) Unify VST will allow you to combine instances of Discover but as I have not got this others would be better placed to advise

I had similar problems recently - I updated to most recent Decent Sampler and that seems to have helped I did, however, have a crash a few days ago when scrolling through my library of DS sounds when after loading a few sounds there was no audio coming from DS and the coloured keymapped area on the GUI turned white. When I closed the project CbB crashed but did produce a dump report which Dave Hilowitz is looking into

Hi all - processor advice & drive advice please! It looks like I may have to replace my PC a year before I was going to (it is not compatible with Windows 11 and is getting long in the tooth anyway). Every time it boots up it gives me a warning message about a power surge - I'm going to check the cables between my PSU and mobo but if that doesn't fix it there is probably little point in forking out for a new PSU when the machine is going to be redundant before too long I'm in the UK and probably going to go with a custom built system from Chillblast (my current PC was from them and it has been very good - they also offer a 5 year warranty) or Scan (A friend's suggestion) - though suggestions of other suppliers would be welcome Two possible options are here: https://www.scan.co.uk/3xs/configurator/3xs-student-composer-system https://www.chillblast.com/chillblast-fusion-tempo-music-production-pc-1.html?category_id=709 I have an Intel i5 processor in the current machine and am probably going to upgrade to i7. i9 or equivalent. Does anyone have any thoughts whether Ryzen processors are as good. Years back I had an Athlon an that seemed pretty sound. Are the RYzen 7 and 9 equivalent to i7 and i9. Some of the machines under consideration have Ryzen processors. I'll be using the PC for Cakewalk - midi (particularly using orchestras, Sampletank, Syntronik etc & loops only - no live audio recording) and for light gaming My friend has strongly suggested that I get M.2 PCIe (NVMe) drives due to their speed over SSD drives - Scan do a few ready built audio workstations with these but Chillblast only has one with the system drive as a NVMe but do not allow you to customise and add any additional NMVe drives (though they do allow other customisation which Scan do not). My friend is however a computer geek and always wants the best where I am satisfied if stuff works reasonably quickly! Be grateful for any thoughts on the above.

A great starting place is the Creative Sauce series here - there are many other excellent tutorials around by Xel Ohh and John Vere to name but two!

......oh and welcome! This is a great community and I've had loads of help from the kind people here!

+1 for Creative Sauce - Mike is a superb tutor and a top man all round. There is also a Creative Sauce - CbB Facebook group where you will find help to complement the excellent advice offered here.

Thanks PC - as Zok said if you are in touch give him our best wishes and let him know he is missed!

Ah I didn't know that! Mind you apart from BBC SO Discovery and LABS I don't think I own any Spitfire libraries

Sounds awesome! Being a tight git I might wait and see if they do a half price Originals sale again!

That's a very generous offer!

Yep it's a great film - I've watched it once and recorded it again when it was repeated on TV