Last week, I remotely connected with a client who I have been working with for a number of years. He needed my help as he was experiencing glitches in his audio whilst running Kontakt instruments in Cakewalk by Bandlab. (This software is also branded as… Read More »Audio Glitches When Using Kontakt in Cakewalk by Bandlab- Solved
As part of a recent remote support call I helped a client by diagnosing why certain Kontakt instruments were very slow to load on his system. He was running the latest version of Logic Pro on an M1 Macbook Pro. Some of his Kontakt instruments… Read More »Diagnosing Slow Loading Problems in Logic Pro
Hi Paul. I can’t see any of my instruments in Komplete Kontrol in Logic Pro. Can we connect for you to sort that out for me? – Sam I received the above message from Sam and we arranged a time to connect for later that… Read More »Komplete Kontrol Missing Presets in Logic Pro
Waves plug-ins are causing similar slow loading problems in both Cubase and ProTools. In recent years, Waves have started using a complicated system of licences/update plans to force their customers to buy updates to keep their products compatible with the latest DAWs. Users start to notice problems when they try to load old plug-ins within new DAW software or new plug-ins within older DAW software.
This week I was booked for two different remote support requests involving different DAWs. One client was running Pro Tools and the other Cubase. Both problems had the same underlying cause. The Problem As Pro Tools loads a session template, the loading bar moves across… Read More »Pro Tools freezing when loading a project on Windows – Solved
Hello Paul. I would be pleased to hire you if you know how to solve this issue: “Audio Unit plug-in reported a problem which might cause the system to become unstable. Please quit and restart Logic Pro”. I am on Mac Sonoma 14.3 – M1… Read More »Logic Pro 10.8.1 Error Message Using Kontakt- Solved
Hi Paul, I have a problem where every time I start my song in Sonar Pro I have to re-select the patch in certain Kontakt instruments. Very annoying! Can you help? I received the above message from a client and we arranged a time to… Read More »Kontakt Patches Resetting in Sonar Professional
Last week, Apple announced the release of Sonoma 14.5. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/13/apple-releases-macos-sonoma-14-5 This is welcome news to some of my Audio Support clients who have recently purchased Macs running Sonoma 14.4.1 and want to use pro-audio plug-ins in Garageband and Logic Pro. Sonoma 14.4.1 contained bugs which… Read More »Audio Unit Crashes in Sonoma 14.4.1 – Resolved by 14.5 Update?
Paul identifies why his clients’ audio recording was out of sync with other tracks in Logic and works out how to solve the problem.
Hi Paul. I am having problems with Native Instruments remembering which instruments I have registered and downloaded and I cannot then access them and use them in Kontakt. I also have issues with certain instruments within Kontakt timing out as they still think they are… Read More »Kontakt Sample Libraries Missing in Native Access – Solved