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I think this is the OP's issue. Laptops are designed so that if headphones are present, that is what gets used (default behavior). Most DAWs can be latched on to a device (which you want), but if that device is set "Windows Audio" it should follow what Windows (or the laptop) is doing. From the OP it seems that Windows' behavior is being overridden by the DAW in this instance. If you plug headphones in, the laptop speakers are supposed to go offline.

Yay! The 4th iteration for managing IK product licenses, installations and purchases! Now, in addition to the website, we have Authorization Manager IK Product Manager Custom Shop Modules Manager And they are all free! We want more! Setting irony aside a) Thank you Starship Krupa for mentioning about this. b) For IK however... I'm split between being grateful for the new functionality (selectively disabling/enabling modules) and annoyed at what feels like multiple changes in direction. Is this a turf war between different developers that are spending time on shop apps instead of the actual instruments and effects? IK, please get your act together, pick a single winner and add/update functionality as needed, instead of letting different teams come up with their slightly different new version. Do we really need so many ways to manage IK products? It does make customer life more difficult (e.g., when I was evaluating the most recent GB, I couldn't understand easily which products I didn't yet have)

Yes but that is a completely different issue that I think you are referring to. That is the issue with using a proper ASIO interface but there’s 3rd party ASIO drivers present in the system that can take over. In a system that only uses the computer audio you should also get rid of 3rd party junk and keep it simple. Windows Audio using WASAPI drivers is a solid system and a big upgrade from years ago when all we had was MME and WDM modes. There is no need to use Asio4all anymore as example. The OP’s issue is simply that Sonar has never liked it when you make a change to the on board audio set up. Computer audio uses 2 or more outputs in most cases it is Speakers or Headphones. In windows settings you can set a default but that doesn’t always stick. You plug in headphones and It kills the speakers. But Sonar might interpret that as the audio system was just turned off. It should pop up a dialogue box and ask you to do something but this is hit or miss. How many threads have we all seen that the OP said they couldn’t hear anything and the solution was the Master bus was set to “None”. That’s what I found when I plugged in my headphones with Sonar open. The solution is always keep the headphones or a set of powered speakers plugged in. Plug them in before you start Sonar. I generally never use my laptop speakers because they suck. But because I was only messing around with installing a couple of plugins I didn’t plug the headphones in. That was when I discovered that Sonar didn’t like it when I plugged them in when it was running. But I knew what to do right away so not really a big deal.

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Just for the record., the OP wrote, "I use Sonar strictly for editing MIDI files." I quoted him. Hasn't there been discussion about this operation in the past? Wasn't it due to how Sonar exposes ASIO drivers? or some such tech talk.

There's also major free updates released for these that may be of some value to you. From Sonokinetic:

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I'm a fan of Modo Bass. I would love to see other developers delve into sample modeling instead of promoting bloat. I'm jealous that deals like this never existed around the turn of the century. Free stuff back then was bad as well.

The future proofing of any Daw’s output involves a few easy steps. First is even if your project doesn’t contain any midi you should still save as midi type 1 file. This not only future proofs any midi tracks, it will save the tempo map of the song. Midi files can easily be opened in any Daw past and probably way into the future. Next is to export everything as a high quality wave file or what people call Stems. I use 48/32. Sonars export system is very good because it allows lots of different options. I first export using Tracks through entire mix in stereo including all midi instruments. This will include all automation and effects. These alone will make it possible to do a remix of your music. Then I do a second export choosing only the audio tracks. Then using Tracks No effects or Automation and choose Follows source for audio stereo/ mono . This gives me the raw audio and mono tracks remaining mono. Stereo tracks are stereo. That now gives you everything to rebuild any project in any Daw. Lastly you will need to take screenshots of any effects and instruments you used. That’s the hardest part if you’re a crazy effects person. I also have been saving as the CXF format so I can open in Next. If I switched to a Mac Im covered. And that is also covered as follows. Long time Sonar user @azslow3 has a tool on his website that allows you to convert CWP files into both Studio one and Reaper files. So that’s an awesome backup system because now I’m covered by 3 good Daw’s. It’s doubtful all 3 would disappear in 20 years. And Studio one is also available on a Mac. And worth mentioning is to always keep your old computer as a Time Machine. Example having a complete set up on W7 using Sonars Legacy versions will allow access to everything in the off chance the current version disappears from the face of the earth. I spent a couple of months backing up all my important projects and Im glad I did.

that one is not so tempting. I have 3 of those so the other two are 79 euro each.

I installed SOL in the default directory chosen by the installer (one with many other installed plugins), but it wouldn't show up after the plugin scan. After trying a few different things, I wondered if the problem had to do with an existing plugin named Solaris in the same directory. When I removed the Solaris vst3 file and ran the plugin scan again, the new SOL plugin showed up as expected. I don't know if this is a bug in the Cakewalk Plug-in Manager or just something odd in the two vst3 files, but at least there was a work-around. I wasn't using the Solaris plugin anyway.

The main selling point for me is tje spectral compression, I and I use it for sidechaining in almost every mix. It only ducks the prominent frequencies of the sidechained signal.

VOTA isn't very good for a EW library.

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Depends on how far you want to go with this. As a minimum, I would do this: Do a "save as" to a new location with a new name. This will only copy the audio actually used in the project Render all soft synths down to pure audio. This negates the possibility of a plugin not working or being available in the future You could do the the same with Fx plugins. Either render the Fx or freeze the tracks Make multiple backup copies and save to unique locations, including removable drives for storage, preferably offsite