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Yeah, and it will only get worse with another product names Sonar. Marketing people are a mystery to me. But for me, at least I can find something. The manual if fine if I'm trying to figure out had to do something that I'm already familiar with. Trying to find out the difference between "Save as" and "Save copy as" (which I was going over again yesterday) is somewhat pointless. I'm much more likely to find something useful here, which brings me back to Google to try to find it.

Thanks, it's what I was looking for as a solution. I use Chrome, and it's slightly easier, using the "View site information" next to the URL, but had forgotten about that as an option to fix it. I would of course prefer that they just move the content to a secure server and fix the problem for everyone.

Thanks for the detailed response. I had found all of that before I posted. I get frustrated with the pdf search, but it works. I was really surprised that the local help was such an old Windows Help format. I didn't know it was even possible to make those any more. After putting setting to Local Help, I found the file and then added a link to it so I can use it when CWBL isn't open. Then switched back to online help.

It seems the online documentation for Cakewalk is now in the "https://legacy.cakewalk.com/Documentation" area. Perhaps because of that, the formatting is screwed up. Images are missing, which makes parts of the manual useless. As an example, the page on Mix Recall, https://legacy.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Mixing.48.html The problem may be that the images are coming from an http server, but the document is coming from https. At least that's what the Chrome Browser's Inspector implies. I noticed this a while ago, but didn't look into it, hoping someone would fix it. No such luck. Is all the Cakewalk stuff going to just get abandoned and left to slowly rot, or was it just that nobody noticed how broken the help is? There's also the chance I'm doing something wrong. I've always had trouble finding things in the Cakewalk docs because I don't know exactly what to search for, so I rely on Google to find answers. The downside of that is that 75% of the answers it finds are from old Sonar and Cakewalk version.

I know this is the wrong thread, but it's not worth starting a new one... I really wish they weren't using the name Sonar. When I Google for Cakewalk help, 90% of what shows up is for the old product. Sometimes the info still helps, but usually it ends up suggesting that there's a New Product! Since I rarely find anything useful in the new site, it's back to Google for a repeat search. Calling it anything other than Sonar would help to avoid that in the future, assuming I'm willing to pay again for what, in some cases, I could never activate because I couldn't get access to my old account. I know it's too late for a name change -- once Marketing makes a logo nothing gets changed. I really like CW/Sonar, especially for the value it used to offer. I have far too many old versions of it that won't install making me hesitant to invest more. On the bright side, having CWBL did let me resurrect some of my old Sonar projects since I could install it on a new computer when the old one died. I guess my todo list now has a lot of files to export and projects to finish before, at some point, CWBL no longer loads. It could be something as simple as a Windows update killing it if they don't plan to do any updates it in the future. Why the end rant? CWBL has crashed 3 times today, and looking for help I found out about the new product. Learned how to submit a bug report, which requires a dump. But the dump file won't load because it's too big (yes, I compressed it) and it takes too long (on a very fast connection), so they drop the connection.

I have a (somewhat) related issue. I'm trying to fix the timing on a single beat in the Step Sequencer. I just tried using the step sequencer instead of piano roll. Everything was working well until I... Well, not exactly sure what I did, but in the end a flam beat showed up as a single beat in the piano roll. It was the later of the two notes. I've been able to edit it again in the Sequencer and turn flam on and off for the note, but it is always based on the late note. I've deleted the note, made a new one, but it always remembers the old location, which is delayed. I'd like to move only that one note forward. I'm fairly sure I could unlink and do it in piano roll, but then I would lose all the the probability settings for the other notes. I think I'm stuck but then I remembered this forum, so thought I'd give it a try.

I signed up for an account just to comment on this. I didn't know the forum still existed. I'm about to resurrect an old Sonar setup. The old computer died due to age related illness. It was still running Windows 2000 (long story...). Essentially I'm starting over because current computers don't support the ISA interface on my old sound card. And that's why I've been asking the same USB 2 vs 3 question. I was really surprised by @msmcleod's answer; dubious actually. I quickly found an article that supports it. https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/usb-firewire-thunderbolt-which-best-audio#:~:text=The%20USB%202%20specification%20states,a%20throughput%20closer%20to%20280Mbps. The bottom line being: "At the theoretical maximum USB 2 bandwidth, you’d be able to record just over 40 tracks of 24-bit, 96kHz audio, while halving the sample rate to 48kHz would give you 80 tracks. Staying at 24-bit/48kHz, consider a more realistic real-world USB 2 bandwidth of 240Mbps (a slightly conservative figure, giving us plenty of overhead to allow for the connection limitations discussed earlier): you’d still have the ability to work with up to 40 channels of broadcast-quality audio simultaneously! Yet there are some companies who squeeze far higher channel counts from their USB 2 audio interfaces by building their own USB controllers. These tend to be among the more costly options, due to the extra work and design choices that go into developing and optimising this sort of solution. By way of example, RME’s MADIFace USB is a USB 2 bus-powered 128-channel digital audio interface. This is made possible by the use of the MADI protocol for handling the data transmission, which is far more efficient than the native audio-over-USB standard." Maybe I won't wait for USB 3 interfaces after all!