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Probably mentioned before but Blue Lab audio has this excellent noise reduction plugin that cleaned up one of my tracks perfectly. https://plugins4free.com/plugin/3618/

@Sidney Earl Goodroe I understand your concerns, at the moment we just can't give specifics because things aren't totally finalized. I can tell you that as Noel has said elsewhere, the planned pricing model for Sonar will be very reasonable. We have a set target for it that I think most people will be happy with. We simply cannot speak on full details on stuff that requires all the i's dotted and t's crossed. But as its been said, this particular thread is related to the 2023.09 update, so let's try and keep focus there. Thanks!

Me in this ocassion... Anyway, thank you so much @Solidos

OK... I admit it. This is not a first for me and I will probably get no more than 2 votes for each of my 3 entries (1 each is my own vote of course), but my album from 2022, Hear Me Calling is in the mix! Best Rock Album: Hear Me Calling by In Exile Best Rock Song: Just Can't Stop The Joke Is On Me by In Exile If any voters are out there and curious? I'd love to hear from you! Thanks for the airtime! Almost Forgot! Here's a link to a webpage with links to samples from the album as well as links to assorted streaming sties where it can be found... https://inexile.hearnow.com Thanks again!

Nice reminder Clint! Blue Labs had some interesting plugs. 2+ years ago they announced that they had discontinued the development of their products and that the plugins were now available for free. Although their website now appears to have been taken over by parties unknown, possibly by malware according to BitDefender, you can get the whole suite by way of the WayBack archive web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20211120133206/https://bluelab-plugs.com/

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Ya it to bad they did this It certainly chased me away. Lord help us if they do this with Sonar. That would be end for me.

With all respect, the forum has turned into a gossip magazine that is full of speculation ! The fact remains that the two main questions in my mind are still unanswered after festering for over 2 months now. Price is one! I do not upgrade every single time one comes out because the features don't really fulfill my needs or I simply can't afford to. Mainly, the reason I don't is because I had to go out on Social Security early because of my wifes disability and taking care of my father and mother and in-laws, of which 2 had Alzheimer's and one had terminal cancer!!! I do not for one moment regret doing that. I ask for no sympathy from anyone. I ask no favors. All I am saying is affordable for one person is not for another! I have to make careful decisions about what we can afford and what we can't. Not everyone makes 50k a year! The software choices I made were because they operate if I choose not to upgrade for a long period of time. I have gone as long as a couple years without upgrading one of my DAWs and it still purred along. Heck, Platinum still works as well as when I used it last and I haven't touched it since downloading CbB. I know that you cannot continue to make a product completely free forever! I am willing to pay what I can for Sonar to continue. But, I must be judicious about my expenses. Price and termination window has been sadly kept from all of us for too long. I mean no disrespect to anyone here. I am simply saying that treating those two issues as if they were nuclear secrets is really starting to make some of us very uncomfortable! I have said before and repeated that I am so grateful to this company for saving Cake and will always be a vocal supporter of this company! If someone in management could give us cold hard facts possibly on the website, maybe it would calm things. We don't need thousands of people including myself on this forum throwing out speculation, rumors, guessing, etc. For 2 months now! We need management explaining prices and how much longer CbB will be running until they choose to shut it off! I wish us all many more years of happiness using the DAW we all love so much! And I sincerely hope this long post has not been misconstrued as attacking this product or any individual here.

Hi As a promotion for our new album, Kiss of Storms, we re-recorded (new main vocals from Grant, tidied up instruments and a new mix and master) and have released one of our older tracks, Steal The Light From The Trees - oh and new video as well. I mastered this with the new Ozone 11 - trying to get to grips with all those new modules !! by the way, Kiss of Storms is released very soon! Hope you enjoy it Nigel

Given that there are known issues with EastWest and CbB, one thing you could try out is BlueCat's PatchWork, which is a VSTi that can host other VSTi's:: https://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Product_PatchWork/ Basically, you insert PatchWork Synth as your synth, then load EastWest inside PatchWork. This means that EastWest is no longer talking to Cakewalk directly, but instead talking to PatchWork. There may be sufficient differences in the way that PatchWork leverages the VST3 API to keep EastWest happy. It's not a cheap plugin, but it does allow you to do a host of parallel processing that you couldn't otherwise do in Cakewalk natively. They provide a demo download, so please try that out and check that it works before committing to buying it.

Maybe I should put noise reduction in the title?

satya redeemed it. Niky Serrano was too slow (sloth picture). I vote for you to give that code to the sloth 😉

All 250 of them are Jeff Beck! Not a tough decision. Beck was playing the blues with the Tridents while Clapton was dreaming of being a “Bluesman”. Jeff was laying down the Psychedelic Rock when Chas Chandler brought Hendrix to London. Jeff owned prog rock Head and shoulders above any who came before or after that is all… t

There are a lot of rankings that I can't understand: Jeff Beck in fifth or Chuck Berry in second are completely out of place in my opinion, or Sister Rosetta in sixth. Is it true that such a ranking will always be subjective?

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@MusicMan The demo I did for Orange Tree Samples for their Evolution Vintage VIolin Bass library, which is the sampled Hofner bass model that will forever be associated with Mccartney -- and I'd been begging Greg to sample it for more than a decade by the time he released it, so he asked me if I wanted to do a demo. I used Abbey Road 60s Drums along with a bunch of Orange Tree Samples guitar libraries. I had written 4 songs for consideration for a demo and submitted one and Greg liked it. Then, an hour later I told Greg, "I wrote this song when I was like 14 that my music teacher mother loved, that sounded very McCartney-esque that I never played to anyone because I thought it sounded way too influenced, but I still think it's pretty good and would fit perfectly for this demo. It will be old Peter covering young Peter. Do you have time to let me try it really quickly?" So, I threw this together really fast, all improvised. I was having MIDI issues at the time and it was like the mod wheel was going on and off and my sustain pedal wasn't working (in another thread I've talked about my problems with NEKTAR pedals). So Greg redid my guitar and, I'm not sure, but he may have redone the bass parts, pretty much note for note with some nice little added touches like guitar harmonies and arpeggios that when I heard I was like - wait, how come I didn't think of that? So yeah, my performance won't impress you, and I'm not a great or even competent mixer -- Greg tried to fix that but was stuck with what I handed him. You can hear Abbey Road 60s' Drums in a mix. It opens with the chord progression from McCartney's song "Dear Boy," which I did as a tribute to McCartney. A tip to you non-drummers or beginning drummers out there that want to go for a 60s vibe, one of the major hallmarks of the way guys like Ringo and Charlie Watts -- two icons of those days -- played was that their playing had a little swing in it (triplet feel) and that was definitely part of the vibe I went for in this demo.

That's what I paid for it on another sale. Then it was buggy as hell - I could regularly make it lock up. Fortunately, the devs fixed it after I reported the issue.

Witch by the way was ridiculous , thinking that people that buyz a 300 euros beringer are the same that would have bougth a 5000 euros re issue is just pure ignorance of the market ... The bad faith is pushed to the point they ignored Roland version as well .... maybe because it's written SE on there's ...

I have never even come close to calling anyone a liar here. I simply feel that to announce so far ahead of release without complete transparency and giving us cut and dried details from management themselves has left room for what is happening now. As far as I am concerned, it is 2 months later and we have questions and speculations building tension that is unnecessary. Myself, I would prefer here is the estimated cost and we shall be shutting down CbB by __________. I can't make it any plainer than that. I would like to remind you it was stated at first that CbB would not be going away, that it would continue to operate til Windows broke it. This was an acceptable scenario for me. Now we have on the forum it is stated that we will give you a reasonable amount of time to decide to move to Sonar but CbB will be discontinued with no idea of what a reasonable amount of time is!!!! Management simply needs to clarify this mess so we don't waste our time having to post like this. I don't do music for funsies! I have made a somewhat comfortable living in the business and am fortunate to have done so. All I say is, there are those of us who rely on whatever our tools are to make a life for ourselves. When someone makes a decision to alter a tool I use on a daily basis, I question it. In this case, we still have no answers. This will be my last post about this as I am tired of explaining myself. I felt someone needed to say something as I have seen so many posts expressing concerns just as I have! Now lay it to rest and get back to waiting!!!

But to get back to something that may be significant...the difference may not be as much about the medium, but the workflow. Tape required a certain way of working that's different from working with a DAW. One person said he liked tape because rewinding gave him a chance to gather his thoughts before doing another take. I said "why don't you just wait a few seconds after hitting stop before hitting record?" He said it wasn't the same thing. As silly as that sounds on the surface, I understand there's a difference between a partnership with the tape where you're dependent on it doing something, versus just sitting around. There were many other workflow differences...with limited track counts, you couldn't do premixing...punching was more common than comping...you could tweak the EQ and bias for a particular sound...that sort of thing. However, also consider that in big studios with 24-track 2", there was often a degree of camaraderie with the engineers, musicians working in other parts of the studio, etc. The social aspect may have had more influence on the music than the tape's distortion.

Yes, things seem to have been in gestation for an awfully long time now.

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Yep. I don't envy young musicians these days. Twenty years ago it was much easier to make it whether or not you were on a major label. These days people aren't buying CDs, you need huge volume of streams to make decent money. If your music doesn't appeal to a wide audience you're going to have a very hard time making a living from music. While my mother was a musician who encouraged me to be a professional musician, even though I am madly in love with music, I'm glad that my kids aren't pursuing music for a living, the odds are incredibly tough for anyone who isn't a child star the labels want to back. Whereas the reality a lot of indie developers face is to have to do a deal with the devil AKA influencers to shill their products to get noticed. Advertising alone doesn't cut it, so you are really forced into having to deal with the industry of professional and semi-professional shills in order to get your product the attention it takes to be successful. Folks here who haven't seen all of my posts might be surprised that even with my disappointment with influencer marketing, I just recommended to a developer to use influencers last week. Why? They reach an audience and have a level of influence over their followers that you just can't attain as inexpensively or as quickly through traditional online advertising and promotions. Throwing free products and cash at someone with millions, or at least thousands (which is the way this industry works), of followers who see them as authoritative aspirational figures is unquestionably the cheapest, quickest way to sales growth in this industry -- and most other industries. And back to your comparison with musicians and record labels, in that business, it's all about list curators and synchronization these days (like getting your songs in ads, placed in tv, movies and games). There's not a lot of opportunity in radio and the audience is largely boomers, and even they're not paying for music these days. In fact the last study I found, only, less than 15% of Boomers even pay for a music streaming service. So if you don't have big backing behind you and your music doesn't have wide appeal, there's little chance to become a successful new music artist these days short of playing live shows -- and even those opportunities are limited.

Man, I hate seeing talented devs go under. It actually compelled me to advise a bunch of small devs at no cost in return for them giving free NFRs to low income musicians (something I didn’t publicly share back then because I was already too busy with paid work and didn’t want everyone calling me). It's tough for indie devs to make it, even if they're really talented, they need to know how to successfully run a business and its rare for one person to be great at both things.

ZZ Tops first "remastered" version of Tres Hombre was terrible. Way too much reverb. Drums sounded like they were in a empty stadium. Same with the first Kansas "remaster" of Leftoverture. Way too much reverb. What I can't understand is why radio stations keep playing these versions despite there being better versions out there. ZZ Top's box set was "remastered" correctly. Got to give Jimmy Page props for doing an excellent job on Zeps remasters.

Kenny, I'm assuming you were #251 😁

I like watching Rick Beato's videos - he certainly knows his stuff. Mind you, he's definitely not a modest or humble man 😁

That was fast. Maybe I should do this through the Message system next time I have something to give away, to ensure that it is someone who's part of the community.

Interesting. So I’m a resident of planet Gearspace. They wish. I’m a resident of Cakewalk. Sometimes visiting other planets but always coming back home to Larry.

Hi Andres... Sorry to hear that you've found no recourse either.... but never give up! I believe that with a bit more time it will be resolved. Nothing to do but wait. I've made numerous postings in Discord (hmmm is that saying something?) and even installed that more recent update but nothing has changed... So, hurry up and wait for me! Not a problem as I happily continue working in CbB while awaiting the return of Sonar for my future. My interest in Next pales next to my desire for Sonar! 😉

Windows assigns an incrementing device ID for each MIDI device as it discovers it on start up, so the best advice I can give is to always use the same USB ports for all your equipment, and ensure they're all plugged in before you power up your PC. This will help to ensure that Windows picks them up in the same order every time. Unfortunately despite requests over at least two decades, Windows provides no unique identifier for a MIDI device. The only thing Cakewalk can go on is the device ID and the device name. What I can tell you is that the new Sonar does a better job of checking that the ports are the same as they were previously. If the port isn't available at all, it'll disable the control surface and notify you (rather than steal a random port instead!). As for fixing your existing issue: renaming or deleting ctrlsurface.dat within %APPDATA%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\ will essentially reset everything and you can configure it again from scratch.

it COULD be SENSATIONAL if the original mix TAPE = mastered all analog (and printed to TAPE for vinyl production) and DIGITAL. maybe nowadays some vinyl is made from a digital old/new master, and possibly even remixed in digital too. modern converters are perfect and some superfast too, but still add at least say 4 ms latency for just mastering (depending on the DAW settings) if the analog tape is also remixed on digital...it get's worse. but hey....it's LOUDER and most importantly it makes MONEY.

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Same here. I found awful the Discord page, cluttered and very confusing. Next was unusable in my system for the same reasons Keni explained. I decided to quit.

😅 I decided to start this thread because I got PO'ed myself after I found a few of my favorite guitar players not even listed . Yep the BS runs deep in this article ....relevant ? yeah maybe a truer context. Yet some how the greatest guitar players of all time may be the ticket for getting magazine sales ... # 70 Django Reinhardt Yes I'm having a hard time understanding the rankings myself ...there seems to be no objectivity in this article whatsoever .... I'm still looking to find George Benson in there ... all the best, Kenny

nice one @Keni 🥳

So true.

Whenever an entry starts with a justification like "he or she may no actually be a very good guitarist, but he or she creates interesting stuff", you know you're dealing with BS. But again, it's Rolling Stone. 250 relevant guitarists would already be better. Any list that has The Edge (whom I sincerely like and appreciate) but no Danny Gatton or Django (I only browsed through the top 50) is a joke.

Yes, that’s the setting I use. When I start playback after a note start but before its end, the chase function searches back to play that note. For me, this works for VSTis as well as outboard gear. Maybe some VSTis need time to initialise before playing a note Are you using lot's of controllers? Are there some where many controllers are happening at the same time?

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Dare I? Yes, yes. I do. The Beatles - Revolution 9

Thanks Treesha! I'm open to the possibility of surprise. Only too happy to be a part of this let alone a finalist. In some ways, I feel I won just getting another album finished! (The album in this, the 66th Grammys was my 13th solo album. My 14th is being released 11/23/23 and I'm deep into my 15th already! ;-))

That kit does sound great. If there was a sample library that had that sound, I'd absolutely want it. It would easily get lost in many loud rock mixes, but I love the sound of the kit. As you probably realize, I love talking drums, whether or not we love the same sample libraries, it's stil fun to nerd out on the topic! Do you play drums and what are some of the drum libraries you think get it right?

+100 I'm in the same boat. I came down with the big C and looks like I shall make it but even with health insurance the cost for treatment is $$$. I know I shall have a DAW in my future and heck for what I do I could even settle with Mixcraft Pro Audio 10 I might go with Presonus Studio One or the new Sonar. But I will not have be spending on every upgrade going forward. Money is tight and looks like it shall be going for the for see able future. Peace

I'd be happy if we could just reorder the tabs in the multidock. Having multiple multidock presets that could be saved and loaded would be cool, too. If it could be tied in with Workspaces so different Workspaces could have different sets of multiple multidocks now that would be amazing!

Gave Next a try ( I have Discord here on my studio PC btw for a few years as we use it to talk about collabs and hadn't noticed any issues ) Next seems very slick and polished, it's too simplistic for me to use in any real way but I am guessing I am not arget audience and I can see the appeal to those stepping up from something like the Bandlab App or creators seeking a first DAW. I like the visual style, and the one thing it has that I wish CbB or Sonar had is the Xsampler - I like the way if you just drag a loop into the track pane it offers to make it into a sampler instrument. I hope they carry this over to the new Sonar.