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Was very surprised at this article in one of my fave nerdy websites. Thought some of us would enjoy it too: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/12/guitar-amp-sims-have-gotten-astonishingly-good/

#'s 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 made me wonder if you had indeed discovered even prime numbers > 2 and you were trying to show off! 😇

Yes

It's going to get MUCH worse: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/

Nobody else finds this a PITA? I guess the workaround is to start the tracks as Simple Instrument tracks and then split them, but that's another annoying step.

I was reading about the memory prices skyrocketing. From what I've read it's due to all the AI and bit mining farms popping up all over and there is a shortage on ram and its only going to get worse. The memory I was going to get was $84 each x 2. Now it's $234 each x 2. And the m.2 drive more than doubled as well.

A video seems to be worth 1000 forum posts when it comes to getting the devs' attention. Seriously, if you want something fixed, make a YouTube video and make sure the developers see it. This has worked for XELOhh and Creative Sauce to various degrees. In regard to this topic, one long-requested fix regarding MIDI is that clip healing work the same way that it does for audio. That is, swiping across with the Smart/Comp tool automatically heals split MIDI clips without having to Bounce to Clip(s). The documentation says that it's supposed to work; I've been told that it used to work but was broken somewhere around SONAR X2.

Thank you sir, there is absolutely no hidden meaning or number magic behind the titles. It simple total laziness, with a lot of zero imagination. They are just chronologically numbered, as they are composed they get the next number. I suspect you might even know what the title of current one under composition is 😀

The offer might be common, but the requirement (as in subscription ONLY) is not. There are only two DAW's currently on the market that are subscription-only and Sonar is one of them. The other is Adobe Audition. My computer system has many programs installed, and Sonar is the only one that is subscription-only. Not that there aren't multiple companies that would prefer to be selling their product solely via subscription. I mention this because I believe that it's not valuable to express resignation about software subscriptions being "typical" or "the way things are going" or whatever when that isn't the case. It's indeed becoming more the case with software that is mostly used in business and office desktop environments (for sound reasons) but not with consumer/hobbyist software. Witness what happens when companies try to make it subscription-only. The user base rebels and competitors thrive. Fortunately, with Sonar, the nag screen is pretty much the only pain. None of the other omitted features except for Workspaces and the fancier dithering options was even included until a couple of years into Cakewalk by BandLab's existence. The fancier stretch options, updated export dialog, and multiple Arranger Tracks are all CbB innovations. The Core FX are still there in their original Sonitus DXi forms. SONAR never had an Arranger Track much less multiple ones.

https://www.meldaproduction.com/MMicSim

Eeeeeyeah, no, it's not necessary to export your tracks as .WAV files and then mix them down in Audacity. There's nothing wrong with SONAR X1's summing engine. Where things CAN (and did for me until I figured it out) go wrong with exporting from SONAR/CbB/Sonar is when you decide where you want to take the export from. I never use the "entire mix" not after some early experiences with "entire mix" not sounding quite right. Entire Mix is just another term for "render whatever's coming off your hardware outs." So if you happen to have your hardware outs turned down as a volume control for your monitoring system, or if you are using multiple hardware outs, such as speakers and headphones at the same time, you will get unexpected results. A much better way is to take the export from your Master bus, or better still, create a dedicated Export bus. That way, as long as everything you want to render is coming into that bus, everything you want to render will get rendered. This is reminding me that I wanted to request better clarification of the Entire Mix term in the Sonar documentation. The OP may not be running into Entire Mix issues, but if playback from SONAR/CbB/Sonar and render sound different, the program isn't being used correctly. Entire Mix is the most likely culprit, but there can be others, and they need to figure out which one(s) it is. With free to use fully functional newer versions of the DAW having been available for the past 8 years, it's quite easy to test this. Grab the latest Cakewalk Sonar, run it in Free Tier mode, load up your X1 project(s) and export to your heart's content. I suspect that there will be no difference, as it's so likely a matter of configuring the export options. You may even find that you prefer modern Cakewalk Sonar Free Tier, there is nothing that X1 will do that it cannot and much more that it can. Going back is always an option. To the extent that it may have been "corrected," CbB and the current Sonar Premium Tier have a revamped export dialog that may result in better choices being made, but those choices can also be made in the X1 export dialog to the same effect.

Please elaborate on this. I haven't noticed any difference in coloring track headers. Me, I at LEAST want access to all of the color choices that are different in the various existing Sonar factory color schemes. The factory schemes are proof that these colors can be changed, so there's no reason not to allow users to change them as well as developers.

Does anyone still have DearVr Monitor? I had it when I first downloaded the zip files, but my PC had to be formatted since and I forgot to make a backup of these DearVRs. Grateful if you could share a link to the file! Thanks

I bought a couple things that weren't black Friday deals but happen to be in season - Omnisphere 3 upgrade, Behringer B-Tron III pedal (HW), it's been back ordered for a long time, I was finally able to snag one. Black Friday deals - Upgrade from Live 11 to Live 12, A couple AD2 adpacks.

I picked up Rebelle in their last Humble Bundle deal and it's great fun. It does amazing things in regard to simulating physical media. The canvases and paint blending are like nothing I've seen. Also seems more stable than Painter. Both Rebelle and Painter successfully duplicate the same vast chasm that advertising for physical materials has between the quality of what I'm able to create and the examples of pictures created by other people using the same tools.

This is exactly what happens to me.

You must have a lot of HorNet plug-ins.😁 Easily the developer from whom I have the most plug-ins I never use, but I keep buying them because they're inexpensive and Saverio is such a likeable guy. No ding on the quality of his merchandise, either, the issue is usually that I have those needs covered elsewhere. They're like the $5 CD I buy off the garage band at the local nightclub.

Thanks. I had no idea of that function or what it can help with.

Deluxe reverb captures are a dime a dozen with Tonex (though obviously of vastly varying degrees of quality). Tone Junkie has a 65 deluxe V2 capture pack he gives away for free with email sign up. I'd start there. https://tonejunkiestore.com/free-deluxe-reverb-v2 I think first of all there needs to be a discussion of what the "vibrato" circuit actually is. In most amps, like a Deluxe Reverb that circuit is NOT a vibrato circuit but an Opto-Tremolo circuit. Now an amp that has an actual vibrato circuit has harmonic pitch shifting in it. So before the search, I'd say be clear on what you are actually looking for or trying to emulate. I think Optical Tremolo is very useful....harmonic vibrato rarely gets used. MOST fender amps mislabel what it actually is, Vibrato in Fender terms usually means Tremolo, which confuses things. As for tremolo / vibrato. I have a number of pedals so don't rely on in the box all that much. That said, here are some options: 1) Tonex does have a built in Tremolo. While the Deluxe Reverb says Vibrato channel, they use an optical tremolo, which isn't much different than what Tonex is going to try to simulate. 2) Audiority Tube Modulator. This has tube and harmonic trem simulations (along with uni-vibe stuff). 3) Melda's MTremolo is free. Certainly a different layout than an amp knob or a pedal, but it can be effective 4) Malibu plugin is also free, I like it because it is literally like a guitar pedal. https://en.vztecfx.com/malibu-plugin 5) Sound toys Tremolator (they have given this away before) 6) Noise Ash Action Tremolo - also free 7) Goodhertz Trem contorl - cool, but the interface I think could use some work. Costs about $35 As for pedals. I have an Empress Tap Tremolo, TC Electronic Pletora X1 (which can load a number of different Trem/Vibrato algos), A hand made tap tremolo, Strymon Flint, I've owned others but these are the ones I currently have. I would absolutely take a great V2 Tonex Profile paired with a decent tremolo effect over UAD personally.

Just be aware that for hardware drivers (doesn't apply to ASIO4ALL), Windows updates will very likely re-install and re-activate them. It is better to disable them in the Sound Control Panel (leaving them in the registry is fine), since disabling there tells Windows, "Even if you see it, don't use it."

Netflix must have a deal with Roku to change their player app requirements often enough to sell new Roku boxes. The Apple business model. Last I checked, those were still around $30 and let you set up a great deal more apps/channels besides Netflix. Woulda been $100 less than replacing your TV. I have experience with this because I never buy TV's (not new ones anyway). I get them on Freecycle or Craig's List, and in the last 10 years or so, used TV's all seem to come with Obsolete Streaming Apps. This is a drag for people who bought streaming TV's because they save on not needing a streaming device, but is a boon for people who get their streaming elsewhere. Apps eventually do become unable to run on older Roku models, but they seem to be better at updating the OS than TV manufacturers, so the $30 Roku can be expected to last 10 years before it starts throwing messages saying that this or that app is no longer compatible. And if your sole video entertainment is Netflix and you have a device that can run their apps, you would do well to check out Kanopy and Hoopla. They're streaming services that you can access with a library card. Kanopy in particular has some great stuff on it, including various selections from the Criterion Collection. Lots of foreign cinema (Kurosawa, Bergman, French New Wave) , and documentaries about music and other cultural topics. Hoopla has (among many other things) a selection of British TV shows if you (like me) like those. Hoopla also has digital media other than video, such as a DEEP collection of music albums and electronic publications, readable and listenable via smartphone and tablet. There are also LOTS of free streaming services like PlutoTV and The Roku Channel. An old favorite of mine from when I got my first Roku box is Pub D Hub, which streams a century of public domain movies, TV, and vintage advertisements. Also educational films.

Yeah, the banner is gone now. Unfortunately a lot of deals never specify the end date, but I suspect it will come back in a couple of weeks.

Got it now! Thank you all.

I had the same issue when I tried to select ASIO with Sonar version 2025.09 Build 038, X64, from November 2025. As mentioned above, I went to registry editor under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ASIO, and deleted the entry for my onboard Realtek audio card. After rebooting, I had to do a little updating in Preferences/Audio to select timing masters for playback and recording for my Tascam interface, but now working as expected. I haven't checked the latency yet, though. It was lousy with the WASAPI setting. EDIT: latency much improved with ASIO.

im going to get you a virtual beer. Well said, I feel like with so much competition it's only going to be good for customers. Companies like UAD and a few other really don't care about existing customers and going out chasing new ppl. Community is what good business thrive on. I was going to pick up a bundle from UAD but I passed, I did however spend $250 on the Bernard Herrmann library ( I had a gift card). So jokes on me.