Syphus

I updated this this driver and had the same type of thing happen:

1 BSOD caused by selecting the driver window (for adjusting the buffer)  - when I went to close the window the BSOD happened

1 BSOD caused by unplugging the USB cable from the device (focusrite 2i4)

After the second "Blue Screen" I reinstalled the driver (make sure the USB is unplugged during update) AND waited for everything to settle. Plugged in the USB back in and gave it a couple of minutes (I thing I got a message the the drive was installed)  and things have been working good ever since...

Don't know if that fixed things but it seems stable now.  You could try that.  I don't know if the older drivers are available (I think they should) you could always revert back.   I always keep copies of the older drivers for just such an occurrence.

I'm running a laptop with Win 7 OS

Syphus

I got an email news letter advertising that the Brian May version was available a couple of days ago. . . .

Then, this morning, I received another that appeared to the Japanise version.  That happen to anyone else?

I thought that was kinda funny . . .

Syphus

5 hours ago, LadyFuzztail said:

I think the reason for this disconnect is because essentially Instachord is a crutch for sequencing and composition. Granted it is a very fine crutch that allows you to create chord progressions you otherwise wouldn't consider, or arrange them in yet undiscovered way due to your own limited understanding of certain music genres, what it does is little more than plop notes into the MIDI track which the synth then reads.

The better you are at sequencing, composing and arranging, the less this plugin can do for you.

@LadyFuzztail - I agree with your last sentence,  I for one am not the most experienced in chord progressions.   Could explain what you meant by " I think the reason for this disconnect is " . . .    What disconnect - I'm just curious what the reference is?

Syphus

No problem Starship Krupa ,  I did get it to half work via your instructions.  I think eventually I would have figured out (maybe - LOL).  I think I have a better understanding of the configuration (for synths) in cakewalk than when I started this endeavor.

I have messed around with various synth type VSTs and never ran into this configuration . . .   Now we all know .

Syphus

Ok Folks . . . I got it working !

Thanks to @scook and @Paul P for guiding through this and providing me the info I need.

I believe I can say my problem is solved for now - great job guys!

Syphus

I will give a try later today  - Thanks for info @scook.

One question (lol - for now)  Since the "instrument" only shows audio type outputs (from complete routing as an instrument track), when I go to connect the synth

input should I be seeing something other than the "fake audio outs from my VST"?  (i think I see "instachord-1 . . . ouch . . .   more brain hurt)

I can get the VST (instachord) to run with my controller, but once create the target instrument (i.e. synth), seem to lose the ability to drive the VST. For instance,

as soon as the target track is create, my controller will latch on to it, moving things around (trying to get controller back to VST), the VST will no longer connect to the

VST.   Mull that over and I will get back to it later and verify whether your suggestion works out and report back.   Sometimes thing can get a bit frustrating!

Thanks for the help  . . .

I know it has been a while since anyone has posted here . . . but:

I just recently got a copy of instachord and for the life of me, I can not get it to work correctly from a configuration point.

I could get instachord to run the synth by triggering the keyboard display on the VST, but I can not get the virtual keyboard to

trigger instachord . . .

I have been at this for hours (I keep telling myself it can't be that hard . . . ) the last post explains a simplified version of the youtube video,  but

it does not work for me (and the youtube video was not that clear).

Starship Krupa,  Can you detail this out for me perhaps . . .   I gotta go lay down due to brainlock  -  thanks

Syphus

Thanks guys for the answers -  After reading these and looking at the file (project), there is probably a lot of stuff that could be cleaned out from the tracks.

I have never had to clean out any of my projects due to the Audio Folder being too big so I wanted to be sure I was not missing anything

If anyone else wants to chime-in, I open to any more suggestions but for now I think I just have to clean things up. . . .

Syphus

Here is the scenario:

Got a cakewalk file and audio folder from a buddy.  Unfortunately, it is rather large.  I believe that some of the audio data that is in the folder may not be needed.

There were several "versions" of the song created via doing a "save as" - I only took the "cwp" file that I wanted to work on.  All these versions share the same audio folder.

I tried:

Loading the file version I wanted then saving as a bundle format file.  Once pulled in to CW,  I save as a regular project  (with its own audio folder).

Also - I did try running the "Audio Clean" utility, but it did not report anything

Result:

Project file on disk seemed to be as large as the original (around 2Gb) 

This seems a bit too large for this project and I was wondering if there was a clean way to purge the "extra"  audio from the folder if it is not necessary (don't want to wreck the file).

I'm just looking for a quick idea as to how  I could do this . . .   Has anyone dealt with this situation?

Thanks  . . .

Syphus

Here you go - the original manual:  I bought version one (30 years ago) from a music store that sold it to me without a manual.  I ended up talking to Greg Hendershot (spelling), as he called me on the phone to find out why I needed a manual . . .  Long story short,  he sent me a manual and this is from the original Cakewalk program.

Part of history now . . .  (BTW - This is a pic of my manual from today)