No need to apologize at all, Bob. It was an educational journey to the ghosts of Cakewalk past. I've only been on board since X1 (Production Suite) so it's interesting to see what used to be around.
As I said I would like Cake to include those plugs with a warning or probably a better plan is to just put them online for free download by registered users (of course with a warning). It's the phase out of 32bit plugs that's made us lose a lot of this stuff (more recently we lost the VC64 and other goodies due to that).
bapu
My guitar/bass signal chain is Tuner->Preamp/Comp->RME Interface.
We doan need no stinking software tuner when we gotz a Peterson Strobo Stomp Tuner.
I've got my Boss TU-2 pedal which blows any of the virtual tuners out of the water but to keep it in the chain I lose a good patch cable (which are in short supply), requires a battery (9v be expensive yo) or adapter (which requires an outlet which are in short supply in this room/adds noise), makes an extra mess of cables in my cramped room/on my cluttered desk and even with just the 9v the extra cable adds a touch more line noise I find.
My usual solution is to keep the TU-2 out of the chain and just unplug from the input device, into the pedal, tune up once, then tune manually as I record (totally awesome for bass which doesn't go out of tune, not bad for my main guit for simpler stuff). Since I've been doing a lot more crazy dive bomb whammy work and hyper bends (2 semitones or more) though on my non lock tuner guit I have to tune up after almost every take.
So I use the sim tuners on GR and TH2... both of which I like FAR less than my pedal.
Meh... whatever works. One day I'll have better cables and a more spacious room (and a 24 pack of Procell 9v) and the TU2 will be a permanent fixture in my chain. It also acts as a handy DI splitter too which is useful.
Hope yu been well, Baps.