JoeGBradford

There are some very nice sounds indeed included in the free Zenology - especially a few very usable pads. Well worth the price ? 0

Ah thanks - that definitely looks worth a download! Thought it might just be bare bones with a tiny number of sounds

What does the free version contain Zinc T?

I think Elements will be more than enough for me ?

That's the one that got me the recent Total Max crossgrade after a bit of hand holding by Larry persuading me it would work ?

Many thanks - I've only used the EQ facilities on 8 so far and the improvement you mention there alone makes it worth moving to 9.

Thanks - Extremely slow download for 55Mb - saying 44 minutes left. Presumably their servers are busy?! EDIT - tried a few minutes ago and downloaded fine this time. I've got Ozone 8 Elements so will have to see what the differences are

Larry's on commission from Bandlab to keep us coming back here ?

yeah took me a while to realise where he meant! The woodwinds in there sound a bit dodgy. Strings and brass probably usable but not sure there's anything there that's better than Garritan or Miroslav that I have already - though appreciate this is a good deal for anyone starting out - especially at the questionnaire price!

I mentioned earlier that I thought the Freeware threads should be stickies. I think it might be worth the mods reconsidering this?

There is one as I mentioned before. It's here

I put 'The world's best radio ' ?

Vacuum Pro and Hybrid playing fine here!

Oh! See what you mean!

Phew - thanks for the warning!

I'll check out Vacuum Pro. Not had a problem with that previously but we'll see!

The first thing I did was increase my buffer size ie increased latency but that didn't solve it. The same thing occasionally happens in Sampletank and related VSTis but not in any others. There doesn't appear to be an issue with CPU performance looking at the meters in CbB and Task Manager. My only other thought is that I transferred all my VSTs and their libraries to an external SSD and wondering if the USB 3.1 (old 3.0) transfer is too slow though I understood that it shouldn't really be any slower than when they were on my internal HDD

I can't get it to stop crackling after loading a few presets and got no response from support so haven't bothered with it much. Seems a bit clinical sounding for me anyway

Dodged a friendly bullet there. Thanks Matthew!

I should mention it's a while since I've had a crash now. I don't think I have had one since I finished going through the ST3 sounds and moved on to the 'extras' and Syntronik Of course I have probably just tempted fate!

Phew that all sounds a bit complicated! They should really work seamlessly together. A bit of a rewrite required for IK I think!

I've just been looking at Syntronik and ST4 this afternoon and was pleased that the FX rack was the same in both Trying to decide if there any advantages to using the Syntronik interface apart from the text being clearer? I must find those multis tomorrow!

I haven't tried recording with the Strat or Acoustic Amplesound models I got quite recently but I've just opened a project with the Strat in it and it seems to be playing fine and I'm on Windows 10 1909 so I don't think it is specifically a Win 10 issue

Don't worry Einstein - most of us knew you were making a reasonable suggestion and not knocking Cakewalk. I think abacab above expands well and with more knowledge on the issue I raised about the complexities of bundling other software. There are a lot more tutorial videos around now and I'd particularly point newbies to Mike's tutorials at Creative Sauce and I'm glad to see you're contributing to the tutorial base coming from a different angle. These forums are also a great place for people to learn about Cakewalk of cours. I spend more time on here than making music!

I really like it - a huge range of sounds which can be stacked up to four parts. Some really nice arpeggios and sequences. A bit picky about where it has to be installed - I was advised by Air to store it on my system drive when it wouldn't work from data drive. Probably one of the synths I go to most for a bit of inspiration. It's often on sale at around £15 or less - I might have even got it free I can't remember - so don't pay too much for it. I have their Hybrid, Vacuum Pro and Loom 2 as well and would say I'm a satisfied customer. I should add that I am very much a hobbyist so other might be best to advise if the quality of sounds are high enough for more professional use! I've not really used TTS 1 as I have so many cheap or free synths that appear to be better - also I had a long running problem where TTS 1 refused to open so I gave up with it - I think that was on my old Sonar 8 LE / Music Studio though rather than CbB