Still having trouble with Z3ta

How long can you hold the note?

My finger got tired, Chris. I'm just not getting the volume fluctuations. I have the standalone here somewhere, but I never use it. But I couldn't reproduce your problem in the VSTi or the DXi version, with Project5 v2 as host. I can try it in Sonar if you like.

Now you've got me wondering about all sorts of things, like an unstable mouse driver. I suppose that you've also used a controller note-on, though. But this direction is better: go to the Options button, and click on Show MIDI Config file. See if there's anything listed there. This is where all the MIDI Learn stuff gets stored. You can find out what's there, and navigate to that listed control. Right-click, and "MIDI Forget" it.

IIRC, you can safely delete the file and it'll be regenerated clean. Editing a line doesn't work (in an active situation). The reason that I mention all this: I had a volume envelope dropoff that was driving me crazy. Rene pointed me in the config file direction. It turns out that I was fooling around with MIDI Learn when I first got z3ta+. An old ailing Oxygen8 was spewing intermittent controller messages that I was unaware of. P5 has that default MIDI Override track switch. Need I go on?

And Rene bailed me out. Way before the Cakewalk thing. It's the first thing that I thought of when you reported the original volume problem. I may be way off base, but it's worth a quick look. I'm hoping that it's this easy.

How do I know which version Sonar or P5 is loading? (VST, DXi)

In P5, the DXi version is "above the line", with the rest of the DXi synths. The VSTi version is under "VST", and wouldn't show up there if the .dll isn't in your VST folder, and it wasn't scanned in by the VST adapter. In my version (I bought it from RGC), the DXI shows up as "rgc:audio z3ta+", and the VSTi reads "z3ta+". In both the Track Pane, and the open GUI header.

Sonar: I'll have to refresh on that; I don't have that memorized. Hmm ... there's another difference. I *think* that the VSTi doesn't have an Enabled automation parameter. Or something similar. Anyway, I'd like to help, but nothing else is coming to me at the moment. If it does, I'll drop it here.