Waves doesn't use ilok anymore. Licence files are downloaded from a cloud. Should you lose them (or in my case, purchase a new PC), you can get them back up to the cloud and put them on a different device once a year (if you need to do it more than once a year they charge you).
My waves...
Yeah that's pretty much how people who have a plank on thier boat do it.
Personally, I have mine on a powered usb hub that it tucked behind my desk. Out of sight, out of mind (and feet and hands).
I can only comment on what I hear and in my opinion the Kemper is the best emulation of real amps. It's so dang close I really doubt I could pick which one was a kemper and which was the amp it was profiling. However I have also heard that out of the box, a lot of people don't like this thing...
Without a manual this is pretty much anyone's guess. Do you know anyone with a boss fsu-5? That would be my my first try, but tbh IDK.
Also, searching for high res photos of this unit was interesting. Apparently nobody with this thing owns a camera capable of taking a photo larger than 500...
I built another one. This is a muff clone, but IMO not a very good one. I would show a gut shot but this one doesn't show all the components like the first one does. The bottom basically looks like any boss pedal, it's just solder joints and a battery area at the bottom.
Also first time...
I know this might be surprising, but I actually don't have any computer fans kicking around. I actually built my first PC in 2016 at the age of 33.
I was using mac prior to that but they always got recycled shortly after retiring them. Never thought to pull the fans out.
I guess chip quick is actually the brand (I had no idea).
This is specifically what I am referring to. It's just some kind of solder (or maybe it's not I don't know) that stays liquid a lot longer.
Chip Quik - ChipQuik Alloy (10)
ecc83 describes the exact habbit I have when soldering.
Turn on, wait until it gets up to temp (750 has been fine), wipe off the solder on some brass (the hakko stuff), tin the tip, wipe again, tin once more and off to the races.
Once done wipe the tip, put a bunch of solder on it, put the pen...
Yes every single bit of solder was applied by myself.
I invested in a Hakko FX888D a couple years ago for Christmas. It's a fantastic iron and I find it easier to use (much easier) than the cheap $15 radio shack ones I used to use.
Yeah unfortunately I haven't used LE since version 4, and it was version 1 prior to that. They have changed a lot about the LE platform. Some of it good, some of it not so good.
I like that Steinberg finally made it backward compatible though. It used to be if you opened an SL project in SX...
Right click on the track itself (where the R/W buttons are not the audio portion).
Select "Track Control Settings..." in the next window.
It should open settings and default to the Audio tab.
In this window make sure "Lane Display type" is in visible controls and not hidden.
Use said button...
No problem. I recommend saving the setup so you can easily recall it again should it ever reset on you.
Just hit the little "+" folder next to the presets drop down (in that first picture) and give the setup a name.
You can also click on the busses and name them something easier to remember...
Cubase can indeed do that, however from that screenshot it looks like he recorded a 5.1 track.
Exporting a surround mix
Use mono tracks in the future. :)