Yes, Beatscape the synth was dropped but all the samples that came with it are installed with the "loops and one shots." Beatscape installs the 4 GB of loops in a different directory. It is a small matter to delete the Beatscape library and point the directory to the audio loops in X2 Cakewalk Content but it is not immediately obvious to do so.

Thanks again, I am amazed that nobody flattened me for asking such dumb questions....aaahhhhh!!

I am absorbing all this stuff.  Definitely avoiding Beatscape.  I have decided to back out of X1 before I install X2.  I have all the files downloaded now, including the loops and one shots.

Damn the torpedoes,..... we're ready to get this show on the ROAD!

RT1

There are certainly no "dumb questions" when you jump into using X1/X2... There are quite a few folks who are very knowledgeable and will respond pretty quickly with good advice (like the folks who responded to you here). As you use the forum more, you will see their names again and again. The more detail you can give, the better.

One of these days when I can set aside enough time to learn more I might be able to shirk my "noob" status myself... and I officially signed up here in 2005! :D

Status report from the new guy!  I have it all set up and running well.  So far no locks or crashes and no latency problems.  All of my soft synths are working very well and I am having fun auditioning all the massive sounds available.  Audio is recording flawlessly (well, garbage in=garbage out ). 

 Having fun learning the interface and watching tons of video tutorials.  I have a few little dilemnas that I won't trouble you guys with, because they are learning curve issues that I just haven't figured out yet.  Actually, part of the fun is learning.

I do have one weird question.  When I use any soft synth (and I do mean any) the overloads light up on the peak meters in the MIDI tracks.  They do not stay lit like if you clipped a signal, they just flash every time I strike a key.  I have watched for this phenomenon in several videos and don't see this happening.  No matter how low I push my MIDI channel levels, it still does this.  It does not seem to adversely affect the quality of the sound, but it bothers me.  I have gone through my Preferences and my sound card settings trying to find some signal that is overloaded, but I can't find anything.  Anybody else have this occur?  I may just be a little paranoid, LOL

Thanks for all the help!

RT1

RT1

There is another current thread that raises this same question (apparent clipping of peak meters in the midi track). It has been pointed out that this is not clipping and in fact it is nothing more than a midi indicator. This does make sense as there is no apparent clipping of lose of audio quality.

Having said that I believe it is very confusing to have peak meters that have nothing to do with levels and I dare say plenty of people freak (as they should if it had anything to do with levels or audio).

Hope this helps and good luck with Sonar.

Phil67P


RT1

There is another current thread that raises this same question (apparent clipping of peak meters in the midi track). It has been pointed out that this is not clipping and in fact it is nothing more than a midi indicator. This does make sense as there is no apparent clipping of lose of audio quality.

Having said that I believe it is very confusing to have peak meters that have nothing to do with levels and I dare say plenty of people freak (as they should if it had anything to do with levels or audio).

Hope this helps and good luck with Sonar.

That sounds great Phil, I was kind of getting obsessed with it.  Very counterproductive!  Thanks and I will find my way to the other thread to check it out as well.  You have certainly improved my day!!!

Had a problem getting Pentagon to load, also DreamStation.  Thanks to this forum, I learned how to  turn off the UAC and set up to run program as administrator.  Pentagon loads flawlessly now and it is awesome.  It has a really cool vocoder mode and I have been experimenting with that.  Finally figured out how to make it work, with a little help from a YT vid.

Could never get DreamStation to load so forget that.  I have tons of softsynths anyway.

Thanks to the forum, it seems I can find just about anything if I do enough searches.

The folks at Cakewalk gave me an all access pass to GROOVE3 which has tons of instructional videos for all kinds of DAWs and other software.  I have spent several hours this evening viewing this stuff.  What an amazing resource!