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V4.5 ~ New Features Overview: Recording and Mixing • Redesigned hardware controls gain-phase-48V on mixer channels for compatible PreSonus interfaces • Input Mixer: software gain - phase controls on every input • Software input gain - phase controls on every channel, bus and FX channel • Extended grouping system with attributes Volume, Pan, Mute-Solo, Inserts-Sends • Groups definable as Edit- and-or Mix-Groups • Commands-shortcuts to suspend any group • Command to suspend all groups • Support for unlimited nested groups groups within groups • New Groups section in Track List and Channel List • Optional group name displays on channels with Group assign and renaming options • Customizable Channel Components in Console • RMS-Peak metering option per channel • Global Pre-Fader Metering option • Quick-assign I-O routing for multiple selected channels • Quick-assign outputs in ascending order • Basic and Advanced Plug-in menu styles • Alternative reverse Sidechain routing • Copy Plug-ins with Sidechain routing Arrangement and Editing • Lock Events with position and editing options • Lock Tracks option • Independent Quantize-Timebase-Snap options • Snap to Zero Crossings Musical MIDI Editing • Chord Audition option in Chord Selector • Chord Audition option for chord events in Chord Track • User assignable Chord Audition sound • New Major-Minor Triad scales • Re-organized Musical Actions menu • Stretch multiple notes by dragging • Note Action: Apply Scale • Note Action: Distribute Notes • Note Action: Randomize Notes • Note Action: Quantize Notes • Note Action: Mirror Notes • Note Action: Repeat Notes to Part End • Note Action: Thin out Notes • Note Action: Fill with Notes Workflow • Independent Macro Toolbars for Arrangement, Music Editor and Audio Editor • Macro Toolbar: custom menus • Macro Toolbar: direct macro editing • Macro Toolbar: Duplicate Macro command • Macro Toolbar: “move to Group” command • Impact XT: drag more than 16 samples or slices • Patterns: support for Quintuplets - Septuplets resolution • Improved swing timing for patterns with individual lanes resolution • Stem Export: quick drag select tracks-channels • Stem Export: save selection when closing window • Song Data Import retains “Disabled” track state when importing • Fat Channel XT modules retain state when switching • Instrument list: “disable all” option • Instrument list: “remove unused” option • Store Presets with folder selection • Assignable F13-F24 keys • Recall any Marker with shortcut • One-step Audioloop export drag&drop User Interface • Smooth audio waveforms option • Macro Toolbar icons update • Sample One XT - Impact XT: improved unit readouts Performance • Improved CPU performance with Multi Instruments • Improved CPU performance with Mai Tai, Sample One XT, Impact XT and Presence XT Hardware and Installation • I-O Setup: add multiple inputs or outputs • I-O Setup: re-order inputs - outputs with drag & drop • New Plug-in Manager with filters by format and vendor • Plug-in Manager: list and reset blacklisted plug-ins individually Import - Export • Import - Export I-O Setups • Video Export option with multiple codec support platform-dependent • MP3 Export with variable bitrate • AAC support Import - Export , including ALAC Apple Lossless • Mono option for Export Mixdown

It's for v4.5. Here's a review video. Hope they didn't jump the gun, and the video gets pulled.

35 free zine graphic texture overlays. Might come in handy if you dabble graphics. https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/free-zine-texture-overlays A small sample of the textures you’ll get in this free pack.

Why do crashes occur? Crashes occur when an application encounters an unexpected condition. There can be a myriad reasons for this including bugs, memory overwrites, problems in plugins or other third party components or add on's, driver errors as well as actual hardware problems. Minidumps Many crashes can be specific to a particular user's environment, therefore for troubleshooting it's important for developers to be able to do "post mortem" analysis to determine the cause of the crash. When a crash occurs Windows takes a snapshot of the crash and saves a file called a minidump file (.dmp). This file records information about the state of the system when the crash occurred and can be very helpful to diagnose these problems remotely. For problems that are not reproducible such dump files can often be the only means of diagnosis. Locating crash dump files for Cakewalk If you encounter a crash when using Cakewalk you will normally see a crash dialog telling you that a problem occurred. In most cases Cakewalk will automatically save this crash dump for you. This dialog will list the name of the minidump file and also the name of the faulting module. If the crash occurred within the application the module will be Cakewalk.exe itself. If the crash site was inside a plugin the module listed will be the plugin name. Most crashes are reported within the application. While crash location data can be useful, locating the root of the problem often requires further investigation. Minidump files saved from Cakewalk are stored as timestamped files with a .dmp extension in the following folder: %AppData%\Cakewalk\Sonar\Minidumps (for Sonar) %AppData%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\Minidumps (for CbB) You can type that path directly into Windows file explorer and it will take you to the dumps folder where you can locate the file. Note that if the crash was in a plugin the file may be in this folder instead: %AppData%\Cakewalk\Sonar\Minidumps\Plugins (for Sonar) %AppData%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\Minidumps\Plugins (for CbB) You can normally locate a minidump file of interest by its timestamp if you know when the crash occurred. What if the application hangs but doesn't crash? In some cases you may not encounter an actual crash in the app but the application appears hung and unresponsive. In such cases Windows will not save a crash dump file automatically. There are a few ways to manually create a dump file in such cases. The easiest way is to go to task manager and right click the process name (in this case it would be listed as "Cakewalk Application") and then choose "Create Dump File". See attached screenshot. The downside to this method is that it saves a full dump which includes a memory snapshot. These files can be pretty large if you have a lot of RAM. Alternatively if you are familiar with running command line tools you can run the Microsoft Procdump tool and save a minidump. Once you have installed that tool you can capture a minidump by typing this into a command prompt (note you will need to run the command prompt as an administrator by choosing Run as administrator): procdump64.exe -ma Cakewalk.exe cakewalkhang.dmp Sending the dump file to Cakewalk for analysis Once you have the dump file you can put it on a share like dropbox, google drive etc. Next, log a problem report case with Cakewalk and include the link to the dump file. If a Cakewalk staff member has requested info you may also PM the dump file link to them directly this way. Note: Dump files may include personally identifiable data so please do not post links to them publicly in the forums or elsewhere to protect your privacy. Cakewalk currently doesn't automatically submit minidumps via problem reports like SONAR did. Here is an older KB article (from SONAR) with some more information.

.... but I haven't invented any others. ❄️

$34.95 at EveryPlugin with code YNY23 http://everyplugin.com/oneknob-series.html

I use the reverbs that come with the amp sims and I also use PSP's Springbox if I'm going for a spring reverb with a heavier mix and I like Eventide's Blackhole for ambient things and there are various reverbs I use in Reaktor.

I finally decided to take the plunge and went for Cubase 10 Pro crossgrade direct from Steinberg while it's at this crazy low price. Also picked up the Padshop Pro upgrade. I used Sonar Platinum screenshot for crossgrade verification (could also have used Studio One Pro) and it was almost instantaneous with the email arriving a couple of minutes after submitting the screenshot on the Steinberg website. If you are in the UK a few music stores seem to be OOS of the USB e-licenser including my local one Gear4Music probably due to the Steinberg sale. Andertons had 2 in stock yesterday so I ordered one and it arrived this morning. Just downloading the software now. I moved a few USB devices around to give me a spare slot for the USB e-licenser and also noted that it allows you to transfer all soft e-licenser keys to the USB key.

I'm not sure if people are aware of this being available again... I've only just become aware of it myself. @cclarry mentioned the product on the old forum back in 2015: http://forum.cakewalk.com/O-Deus-Audio-releases-ASIO-Link-Pro-v24-m3283843.aspx, however when I tried to purchase it about a year ago, I found that I couldn't because the original developer had sadly passed away... and now the original website has gone. "This ASIO driver extends your audio interface ASIO driver and adds windows audio with no additional latency. It also allows you to use your ASIO driver from more than one application with the inbuilt multi-client support, and you can even send ASIO audio over the network. The driver is great value for money for people who need to monitor or record from windows audio or just want to jam with their favourite tunes. Features: Extremely high performance for Pro Audio apps. Zero added ASIO latency. 64 IN + 64 OUT virtual ASIO channels. 32 IN + 32 OUT WDM audio channels. 16 IN + 16 OUT network audio channels. Multi-client mode means ASIO for up to 25 apps. Works without internal WDM or ASIO audio resampling. Record lossless 8 channel audio to FLAC file. Supports Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10. Route audio to/from WDM/MME/DirectSound/WASAPI and LAN/NET." This effectively allows you to use more than one ASIO interface at the same time in CbB (even ones on an external networked PC), allowing up to 64 input/output channels. At the moment I've no idea how this affects latency, but I guess if it's lots of inputs you need then it's likely it's a whole band you're recording and this will be less of a concern. I can also see it being really useful for making tutorial videos. The good news is, it now looks like the developer's nephew has authorised it to be released for free with a patch to remove the registration/authorisation: https://give.academy/posts/2018/03/02/AsioLinkPro/ You can download it here: https://give.academy/downloads/2018/03/03/ODeusASIOLinkPro/

So, here's another Theme for you, M-Lux Orange with a blue version, M-Lux Blue. (Updated May 9th 2019 to fix an issue with the Event List/Viewer) M-Lux Orange has mostly orange buttons and text and was the initial color choice intended for this theme. M-Lux Blue has had all the orange buttons and text changed to blue with the exception of the input echo button as this is the chosen color for this function, and also the transport pause button which has been changed to yellow. Both themes feature: Various other color buttons and text. A smooth, slightly shiny rubber effect on buttons and the same effect but darkened on display windows makes them look a bit more like, well, display windows, ie: effects in the fx rack, loop, select, transport etc. Highly transformed Prochannel PC4K Compressor, PC-76 Compressor, Eq and Eq Fly-out backgrounds. My usual helpful green=on / red=off fx bin bypass button, and a red background for separately bypassed effects, these are as standard in all my themes as they make it so easy to see at quick glance across the tracks what is bypassed and what isn’t. Cakewalk’s ‘Mercury’ theme style knobs but with a more metallic effect to the color and also with the position indicator surround as seen in Cakewalk’s ‘Tungsten’ theme, I believe this is the first theme to ever feature this and it’s even on knobs that don’t even feature that in ‘Tungsten’. And a dose of luxurious goodness. Free Download Here... M-Lux Orange and M-Lux Blue Cakewalk Themes A combined total of around 150 hours, sometimes much more, goes in to creating each Theme I make, then there's more time spent to update them whenever BandLab makes changes or additions to the Cakewalk GUI to ensure any changed or new items display correctly and match the Theme, I also don't make all these Themes for myself, it's more of a hobby and to share the end results with the Cakewalk Community for their use and enjoyment at no charge, Any Tips/Donations via the following link for my time and efforts in creating and updating these are greatly appreciated, however small. Thank You! ❤️ https://www.paypal.me/MatthewJohnWhite M-Lux Orange Track View M-Lux Blue Console View M-Lux Eq, PC4K Compressor and Eq fly-out

Vocals - Zargg (Ken Nilsen) Guitars & Synth - Jyemz (James Griffiths) Bass - Bapu (Ed Kocol) Drum - Hugo Ribeiro Dead End © 2019 BJZ Verse 1 Walking through the dark and cold I’ve made this maze, or so I’m told Pre Chorus As I make my way through these tunneled walls ‘Come unto me’ this labyrinth calls Chorus A mile of thorns and spikes I descend Into a cruel and vicious dead end Verse 2 No cotton thread to leave behind This endless path vexes my senses Repeat PreChorus & Chorus Bridge (twice) Dreading every turn ahead I'd be a fool who believes I’ll never run into a dead end Verse 3 No guardian angel will ever follow Me into all my tomorrows Repeat PreChorus & Chorus Interlude Repeat Chorus Verse 4 I could see the light of day again Like Daedalus I will escape this dread Repeat PreChorus & Chorus Repeat Bridge I've run into. I've run into, I’ve run into a Dead End

I am producing a track now. The track needs this live feel, so I don’t want to squeeze the sound out of it, but do you guys hear any on your speakers? Artist is Stine Grytøyr, and she wants to get feedback from as many as possible before we go further. Yeah, she asked me to check what you guys say about the mix. So, I don’t break any with posting this. Might be deleting the version on SoundCloud later tho. And also all versions when releasing...

We have something special planned. Be the first to find out what we’ve got in store for you! You’re invited to attend our exclusive online premiere event, where we'll announce our latest innovation—based on our most popular customer feedback. When: Tuesday, May 21 10:00 a.m. Central Time Where: The PreSonus Facebook or YouTube Channel

AnalogConsole v1.0.3 Update. Free download here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ku--pqVEuGOqdl9mIKkN_d6r9O9_qJef?usp=sharing&fbclid=IwAR12SNUHdiJooW3qQF-dyPZlCF2lExWbFCggv-JGJFmUIPxlbbDTBnjJAHM What's new? - Control Bar: Left Grip and seperator are black and white now for well defined module seperation and 3D appearance. - Track View: Track View Header Warning Text is set to Red. - Track View: Unfocused channelstrips are much darker now for better visual seperation between them and the Track Inspector. The focused channelstrip now has the same colour as the Track Inspector Track and Bus Strips to achieve a clear visual and functional connection.

Wow great job with this theme!!!! The Eq plugin colors are def my style!!!

The bundle has eight plug-ins. From the Waves webpage: https://www.waves.com/bundles/oneknob-series#tab-includes I noticed the YouTube demo videos were published in 2014 so the plug-ins are five years old.

This is a really nice theme, brings me a different feeling when producing!

Thank you!

I really like the Control room. Not sure there is any other DAW that has that functionality. Here is another vid on YouTube Zo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiLRGsNI9U0&list=PLeAGmrQnjblZIeZtH-HctrnTsKI54t_Vk&index=8&t=0s

I invented the Am bass note. No one can C it.

I can't recall ever needing a wav file from a single MIDI clip, nor have I seen anyone complaining about in this forum or the old forum (until now). It's just never been in my workflow. However, if I needed this, I would just select the clip and export audio. It would take a few seconds.

Go to "Account Settings" page with clicking down arrow on the right top of this site and then click "Signature". You can edit it there.

Hi? Your User Name at the right above/Account Settings/Signature Bassman

I have an old Digitech Digiverb reverb stomp box that actually sounds really good, and I like the oldskoolverb, and BlueVerb works for some guitar stuff. but mostly I use the Sonitus Reverb. it seems to be the least intrusive.

I think we all have, one of the best for me was thinking a dialog box had popped up that hadn't and I typed "SONAR"... this was back when offset was still linked to the O. Luckily, it changed visually so that I could back out of it immediately.

I always use pitch correction on bass. Bass strings violate the laws of physics; they simply can't be under enough tension to produce notes that low, yet still be part of a playable instrument that doesn't have a 7-foot-long fretboard. So the pitch varies wildly as the note sustains. I use Melodyne to flatten the notes past the initial pluck.

Each monitor/speaker set has 8 effect inserts and the whole mix has 8 effect inserts. So you can have effects on just one headphone (say the vocalist) that only gets some of the tracks from the session and different effects on your headphones and speakers. Pretty much any kind of routing you can imagine with multiple outputs is possible. The documentation is pretty weak though. I'm pretty sure I may be doing it wrong, half the time when setting up the control room you'll end up with no output because of all the connections. Since my headphones share output channels with the room monitors I have two separate control room presets, not sure that's the best way to do this or not. In theory if you had your headphones on separate outputs you could have two separate monitor setups with sets of effects for each. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm doing it wrong since I've got the Sonarworks and Wave NX plugins on the Mix inserts and not on the monitor inserts. Something I may need to look into.

There are tens of thousands of first-rate freebies available for graphic design--fonts, photos, videos, backgrounds, web layouts, mockups, vectors, Photoshop brushes and actions, etc. One of the best examples is Creative Market. If you register there, they send you six great products every Monday. Expensive stuff. In some cases you will need products like Photoshop and Illustrator to use them, but not all. If people are interested in this I can dig around and look for some of my old links. I don't do much graphic design these days.

Lots of info at Steinberg's YT & at their forum. here's one example- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH1tWdTddE4 I use Sonarworks Ref. 4 in Control Room so I never need to turn it off when rendering.

Very glad to hear that Mark!! I did see that ODeus ASIO link and before installing this, I wanted to double check and see if there's an available solution within Cakewalk. Not being able to use the DAW due to minor latency/continuous audio dropouts puts a definite stop on everything. Truly appreciate all the tips. links, help....my wife should be happy if I won't need to buy a new interface (although I'm ok with it).

To both above: One thing that is always being forgotten is that a diversified good singer (Blues, Rock, Poprock, ...) does often draw the pitch of a note, e.g. the note starts on one pitch and is being slurred into the pitch of the song's "real" note. Mick Jagger is an extreme example to this and I have found out that I apply it myself very frequently. What has this to do with pitch correction? Many times when I was working with Melodyne it showed me some notes completely out of tune although it sounded correct to my ears. Investigating more time in those cases I found out that it was a pitch slur described above. When I separated the notes correctly (not like the automatic detection) the resulting 2 legato notes were almost 100% correct in pitch!!! And not to forget about microtones! I found out that I use very often 50 cent microtones on such pitch slurs (legatos, especially on phrase end notes). I also observed that if I move the note start (separation) some milliseconds in Melodyne the pitch values change sometimes drastically! What's the clue of all that? It means that the detections of start and end of each note are of tremendous importance before it is possible to do pitch correction!!!! There is NEVER a good automatic pitch correction!!! You have to invest a lot of manual work in note detection IMHO, just to find out that the pitches are almost correct, but not the timing! ?

Glad you find it useful @RBH. We spent a lot of time finding and tracking each case where slip editing was inaccurate. There are a ton of permutations we had to consider when you throw combinations of editing edges, stretching, tempo maps and also throw ARA into the mix. We want editing to be as solid as possible since it's a primary function. Let us know if you find any problem cases we may have missed.

There are forms to do it like you are saying, but the “ctrl - D” shortcut option, chosing a clip with a grid lenght ( pro tools duplicate too the spaces between clips if you select a bunch of them In a grid) is really fast and inmediate. Hope that it is not a difficult implementation in our Cakewalk.

This is the kind of free update that Cubase would charge you for 2 updates...

Thank you

The excellent Cakewalk by BandLab Reference Guide is a 2,184 page, 41.9 MB pdf file. While excellent, the manual has too many pages to print out and carry. PDF files became a de-facto standard because of the parent program's capability to operate on multiple computer platforms and the program's ability to efficiently store pages formatted for printing on standard page sizes. Little attention has been paid to formatting the content for display on multiple screens with a variety of sizes and resolutions. Last but not least. although PDF is a de-facto standard, it's not an open-source standard. Adobe may choose to charge for use of its proprietary standard at any time. Adobe recently sent a (printed) letter to people using older copies of one of their products stating (paraphrasing) update or risk a lawsuit if you continue to use the outdated product. My suggestion is for BandLab Technologies to adopt the e-book file format, EPUB. EPUB is supported by many e-readers and compatible software is available for most smartphones, tablets, and computers. EPUB is a open-source, technical standard published by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Here is a link to a Wikipedia article and a second link to the IDPF website where the standard is available for download. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB https://www.w3.org/publishing/groups/epub3-cg/

Wikipedia's ARA page has now been updated to reflect the facts that Cakewalk by BandLab has always had support for ARA ? and that it supports ARA2 as of release 2019.05. (Cakewalk and SONAR's representation in Wikipedia seems to have always been rather dire. I've spent hours sorting out some of the most garbled grammar, confused timelines, incorrect punctuation, outright misinformation and unintentional vandalism I've ever seen in relation to a topic on that platform, and there are still no entries for either CbB or BandLab)

Its a 2010 model and that's how it came. 2 Burstbuckers and a ceramic single coil in the middle. 5 way switch with coil splitting on both buckers. Buckers are never on at the same time. A chord track would great to have in CbB

You can't say I'm guilty of that. While I'm up loading pictures... My wife calls them the grand kids. I call them the rhythm section and the vocalist.

Improving CbB means many things to all of us, whether it’s improving stability, adding new features or improving existing ones (audio editing is a big one by all accounts!). For others, improvement means increasing software reliability. It’s all critical, so we’re pleased to announce that the 2019.05 release brings a healthy dose of both new and improved - our top stories being support for ARA 2 and multi-clip slip stretching! On top of bringing lots of new functionality to life, the team put massive focus on bug fixing and improving the state of slip editing in general, addressing a multitude of long standing issues. We’re super excited about this one, folks! Features & Enhancements ARA 2 (Audio Random Access) plug-in support. ARA 2 provides tighter, more efficient app integration of next generation ARA plug-ins such as Melodyne 4, including sharing tracks, regions, selection, as well as other project settings Improved editing of ARA 2 regions with a shared view across all plug-in instances Multi-clip slip stretching (hold down CTRL+SHIFT, then drag any selected clip edge to stretch all selected clips, or use the Stretch tool) The global Timing tool has been renamed to Stretch tool The Gain knob in the Inspector controls either audio Input Gain or MIDI Velocity Offset for Instrument tracks, depending on whether the Audio tab or MIDI tab is selected Updated zplane élastique v3.3.0.23501 audio stretching and pitch shifting with bug fixes and performance enhancements The Stretch tool (available by right-clicking the Edit tool in the Control Bar) now works on multiple selected clips, and also supports lasso selection and time selection Bug Fixes Clip Properties Inspector shows incorrect M:B:T clip length (actual length + 1 measure) Step Record continues to record to the original track after you switch focus to another armed track Arpeggiator Rate control fails to update when the parameter is automated MIDI only projects are immediately marked as dirty on file open Accessing menu commands can unnecessarily mark a project as dirty Bounce to Clip(s) results in mono data if a clip envelope is selected; Bounce to Clip(s) is now unavailable if the selection does not contain MIDI or audio data Intermittent crash when opening projects Closing a project immediately after opening can cause a crash Staff view fails to persist on project load Opening lyrics view when transport is playing causes crash Slip editing allows clips to be made zero length Clip waveform sometimes disappears while slip stretching Waveform display in split audio clip appears to adjust crop when slip stretching Slip Stretching MIDI clip causes clip data to disappear Slip Stretching cropped MIDI clip causes clip data to change unexpectedly Undoing slip stretching of audio clips could sometimes not restore the clip to its original state Slip Stretching clip to max, then dragging in opposite direction causes clamp to fail After stretching a clip to the max 400%, releasing the mouse, then attempting to stretch the left edge further causes all stretching to get lost unexpectedly Drag copying an ARA Region FX clip to create a new clip can result in a crash Tracks still visible in Melodyne after deleting or freezing tracks with Region FX clips Melodyne UI doesn't show slip stretching preview while editing until mouse up Canceling from a slip edit or slip stretch doesn't restore ARA regions in Melodyne When slip stretching a Melodyne Region FX clip from the left side, Undo does not restore the Melodyne data to its original location Undoing a copied Melodyne clip leaves blobs visible in Melodyne Cropping a stretched Melodyne clip causes blobs to shift unexpectedly Melodyne does not update when changing clip start time or duration from Clip Inspector Melodyne doesn't show preview while dragging Melodyne Region FX clips Clip loses focus in Melodyne after dragging to a new track Latest release notes are here. See prior release notes. Check out all new features released to date.

So it looks like there is a way to get ASIOLink to combine more than one ASIO interface into one: Open one instance of ASIOLink, and set the ASIO driver to be your second ASIO interface, setting the output to Network (just use the local network IP) & enable network. Open a second instance of ASIOLink, set the ASIO driver to be your primary ASIO interface, set the output to ASIOLink's ASIO driver and enable network input using your local network IP. Observations: You'll still need to ensure that both interfaces are word-clock sync'd, either via ADAT / SPDIF, or a standard BNC wordclock cable. There is a slight increase in latency in the interface going over the internal network, hence the reason why I say make second ASIO interface you have over the network. To get your latency back to normal, just disable the network input on the ASIOLink instance when you're not using your second interface. You're limited to 16 audio tracks over the network, so bear this in mind when choosing your primary/secondary interfaces. For me, this means sacrificing 16 of my mLAN inputs. You might find that using the WDM drivers on the 2nd interface gives better latency than using the network (and the setup is much simpler, because you're only using one ASIOLink instance).

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Just a thought...have you tried freezing your midi tracks one at a time to see at least if its a particular track is doing this. i had a similar problem and freezing sorted it. My laptop isnt a great spec so I have to freeze midi tracks if Im adding in a lot of them such as synths etc.

I am not sure if the stars are only personally viewable or aggregated... but regardless of this, there is no way to sort this forum by any topic rating, which is what is required to be useful to end users. Even using the "custom view" there is no entry for "topic rating" or similar. I just went back to check the old forum's Feature Request subforum, and the ability to sort by rating has also been removed. Many people have contributed a lot of very thought-out requests over the past several years, but even with prompting users for input, many of these have been purposefully buried over time. Although it is great to prompt users for input; if there is no follow through, it simply wastes people's time and effort.

I've given this a quick test... The great news is that it is indeed latency free. The CPU usage is increased only very slightly, but my projects play exactly as before and are still happily working with a buffer of 64 (1.5ms). I didn't try recording, but playing a piano VSTi through it showed absolutely no change in latency. The bad news is that you can only select one "real" ASIO interface, so additional interfaces have to be selected as WDM and routed to the ASIOLink ASIO driver like ASIO4ALL does. I've not worked out how to select WASAPI instead yet, but it does claim to support it. It's not really a big deal though for recording whole bands, and it does mean you don't need to swap drivers/modes all the time. And unlike ASIO4ALL, you can save & recall your routing configurations. What I've not tried yet is using other interfaces with ASIO on another PC and using the network interface. I'm only set up for WiFi in my studio at the moment, so I don't think that would be a fair test. If/when I get the chance to try it out, I'll post my findings...

Great-looking theme! The ProChannel elements especially look fantastic.

Nice Theme..finally one I can live with ! I wish Bandlab would bring back the fake 3d 'depth' of the old Pre X series Sonar..they make everything too flat looking, took me a while to figure out why I preferred the older GUI