Is anyone else having the problem of SI not installing as a plug-in? I followed the instructions for installation, made sure the path pointed to the default Cakewalk plug-ins common folder path.... but then when I go to my Sonar and select View/Synth Rack, Insert Soft Synths and Rewire devices, Studio Instruments is not there to choose from. Anyone have an idea what's going on with this?
Thanks!
John

Robert: you nailed it, thanks! I was not running the VST Scanner - once I did that, it let me select all 4 SI's and then after I did the soft synth pull-down, they were all in a sub-menu, all 4 SI's. When I select each, they automatically launch now. Cool ! Up till now I was using them in stand-alone mode and drag-n-drop them into a MIDI track. Even that worked well enough, but I knew they were supposed to work as a plug-in.
Hey I'll check out your SoundClick page tonight I don't have sound on my work PC here; my page is "FreeAfter5" on SoundClick and I'm just getting started.
thanks again!
regards,
John

I have just bought studio intruments box version online today, I hope I will enjoy it.

I guess you get what you pay for. Check out the Scarbee electric pianos. They'e always sounded best to my ears. www.scarbee.com

I ended up buying the Studio Instruments. I got a good deal on it and I like the strings. Although truthfully i have similar if not better sound banks in Dimension Pro. I also added the Studio Proteus expansion strings pack and "that rocks!" So added with what already exists in Dimension plus I also have some nice dark strings in Rapture I find I don't use the Studio Instruments that much.
Dimension has some nice electric pianos...

Losano: sorry you've been a couple days with no reply, I just now checked back here on the SI forum; I spend more time over on the MC4 forum.

If you are still having the problem of SI not operating as a plug-in, it's most commonly the same issue I had above (see a couple of posts above this one). RobertB helped point me to the VST scanner step, and that's what puts it into the drop-down list of "plug-ins" from the SoftSynth drop-down menu.

Aside from that, your wording indicates perhaps not being fully clear about how to USE the plug-ins. You said: "...I want to lay it down on the track (midi track), so I can see all the wave and so on. " When you open up a softsynth you should have TWO tracks - one MIDI, the other Audio. You do not "see all the wave..." in any MIDI track - MIDI will not show up as a wave, only like, dashes. Technically, those dashes are instructions or directions, for the system to process sound THROUGH an audio (wave) output.

So, make sure you're working withh SI as a softsynth, into an audio track or if you insert MIDI from any source INTO the MIDI track, make sure its output is set to go out to the audio track, so you'll hear it. Hope this helps, and best wishes in your recording!

well i just bought studio instruments (download) and saw no "serial number' referenced anywhere....when I tried to install it , it asked for a serial number....now what??????

lserafin

Update, when???

I just bought studioinstruments.
I BOUGHT IT cause I have a new song that couls use strings.

How do I play the strings so it fits into my song,
which BTW, is in SHS6

Thanks for any advice ahead of time.

Paul

I recorded a song with three guitar pieces playing off each other. I thought it would sound real
nice with some strings. I don't have a piano or keyboard of any kind. I'm guessing you could hook up
a keyboard and play live through the keys. So, I would like to play live/ in actual time and not prerecorded ( my own playing)
I guess I could do it with my computer keys but I don't know how to do that or play live against my song and record it.

Do you know what I'm after?

Thank you very much Bob

ok,( I'm back ) I bought keyrig49 to ad some strings and piano to my songs.
I have one song that I have added strings too and now I want to add some piano to the same song
or others and I don't know what I did to get the strings to work but now I can't get anything to work'
or at least record.

If you have this product or something similar.
It's SHS studio instruments and keyrig 49 from m-audio to shs6

To tell the truth I rather use the keyrig piano, rather than studio instruments
and not use soft synth, unless that's the only way.

If you could give me the run down on how to record shs studio instruments to record everytime on shs6
using m audio keyrig 49 as the midi input. and I already no to use soft syth and add it as a plug in
but it still doesn't record after that.

So, if you could tell me, step by step how to proceed, that would be great,
thanks, Paul

Cakewalk has a new youtube video about using Studio Instruments.. It really spark some inspiration for me, it might for you guys too check it out..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6qTSPN7_TE

I haven't experienced any note sticking.. have you tried adjusting your latency? or switching your Midi timing adjustments?

I'm using Sonar 7.. It's worth a shot in shooting an email to cakewalk, and see what they have to say.. I will shoot an email and how about you..

This is great I am excited to have it. It is alreadt registered and I have a registration code on file. The problem is it is beyond the thirty days grace period and it won't allow me to put the registration code in. Well, I can't use it. I thought I had put it throught this process but after a couple of weeks of not using it. The time has expired and it prompts me for the registration code. I can't use it now!!! Is it just useless and I am plain out of luck or is there a way to do this? I thought I would check here before I contact technical support. Maybe you guys know and it would be faster. Can anyone help me?

MikeRR34