John Vere

I still have the full installation files that I iso copied to my hard drive. There’s I think 3 updates involved but I just run the first one to get Lexicon and True Pianos. Theres 2 items I’d love to see updated and brought back.

@Milton Sica Just a heads up about the new Windows driver ARM. In another thread on this topic Noel informed me that you need a brand new computer that supports this. To me that will place it out of reach for a lot of people for a long time yet. I just built a new computer and it has to last me 10 years. Music computers are very expensive even if you build them yourself. Good to see that you’re still around.

Plus one to trying a good quality dynamic Mike. I can’t use Condensers. It brings out the worst in me. Snorting and grunting! My go to is my live Mike too, Shure Beta 58. It’s what I sound like! It also totally eliminates background noise.

I’ve played it live but singing like that is not something one should commit to tape. Only Neil can get away with it. I too was just learning Harvest Moon and took it down to C which made my son complain because he couldn’t play the harmonics. I pointed out that it was a lap steel so go buy one. He also pointed out that it’s a drop D tuning. I showed up next week with a guitar I put 13-56 gauge strings on and tuned a whole step down. The perfect solution to old age and a lower range! The D guitar. I did a Strat too. 11-50 set. Wasn’t Cinnamon girl in a drop tuning?

Ha! Where is old Ed these days? All the old timers seem to have wandered off in a daze.

Pondering the future and what a new Bandlab membership will cost me next Summer. Now Sonar is no longer an American company which bodes well for Canadians as we enter into a trade war. Im not breaking my patriotic duty purchasing products from Singapore. But then why do I have to purchase it in US dollars? At today’s exchange rates the $99 becomes $143 Canadian as we are at an all time worst rate ever. It would be only $107 SGD ( Singapore) money. Most of the Daw web sites offer me pricing in Canadian dollars. Not Bandlab which is odd for an international marketing company. What do you UK, Europe, Africa, Asia. South American and Australia etc think. Let’s ditch the US pricing and go with SGD’s

Hmm. That will most certainly rule out a lot of Musicians! Many are still on W10. I just built a new PC and I expected to use it for 10 years like the last one.

Thank I just finished reading the blog you posted a link to. This is definitely an important step in the right direction. Well if one of my interfaces puts out an Arm driver you can definitely sign me up for testing.

Everyone should take the time to read this blog posted by Neil. It’s going to ***** the die hard Mac Fans! Amazing, Windows becomes Studio friendly! What great concept!

@Noel Borthwick Are you saying that interface manufacturers are releasing this as an alternative driver or is / will it be included in the ASIO driver package? Example I have 3 fairly modern interfaces, Motu, Zoom and SSL. Im not expecting to need a new interface for a long time. Should I be watching for a driver update that adds ARM 64?

Thanks for the update. I don’t see the bug I reported back in February listed but it seems that you can now manipulate nodes on the tempo track and they behave as expected now. That was a serious roadblock for me. I find myself opening Next as my first choice out of 5 other Daw’s whenever I need to do something fast. Open1-2-3 Recording. Later on I easily transfer over to Sonar using the Transfer file system that seems to work well. Too bad Sonar doesn’t share the Instruments yet.

You have the Coyote which is a nice sounding GM Player. That is one of the better alternatives. Even though I have the TTS-1 still, I have the Coyote set as my default. To me it has a smoother mellow sound.

Yes I reported a bunch of them a while ago. I even submitted videos of the crashing. I look at the dump files and it usually says Sonar. I was told to do a fresh re install so I totally obliterated CbBband Sonar from my system and re installed just Sonar. Later after more crashes I re installed CbB by I actually never used it. After the crash Sonar hangs in Task manager for a long time. So does Next which I was also experiencing crashing. One instance was when using the Cakewalk Exchange format. It doesn’t like audio from frozen instruments. They confirmed this and are working on it. They also fix one of the issues I had with Next. Busy people. I haven’t submitted a whole bunch of new crashes as I didn’t have time to deal with it. My concern is that it’s my system and not actually Sonar. But I’ve never had staff get back to me about most of the reports so for now I just move carefully and save ever 3 minutes. Vegas crashes as well and those people are mystified as well. Im really tempted to purchase a new SSD M2 drive and start fresh. I’m also tempted to go back to W10 but that’s stupid.

What is the mixer? If you don’t have ASIO drivers then overdubs will be out of sync. Only ASIO can calculate your RTL and your DAW will use that to adjust the offset. If you don’t overdub audio then it doesn’t matter but still a USB interface should support at least WASAPI mode. If it doesn’t get rid of it. Lots of mixers come with good ASIO drivers. Zoom, Yamaha, Soundcraft etc. But good pre amps should always be top of the list. Many budget mixers use lower quality pre Amps.

I can make Sonar crash, it’s easy. Leave Ripple edit on and try and drag a audio bass track to Dim Pro! Feature request: Giant Flashing Ripple Edit is on icon!

Seems the solution is to transfer the project to a dependable brand new state of the art drive. And it is best if that is a drive that is installed in your computer. If this is a laptop you will then need external but one that has top specs and uses USB 3

Here's my Video about the TTS-1 hack if needed.

A lot has changed and I’ll try and PM you a link so you can get the TTS-1 back later today. This is my tutorial playlist that would be worth your time to watch and get up to speed on Cakewalks layout

The old ones by @Morten Saether are still well worth your time.

This is one of your best piece’s I have listened to !! you have that amazing full vocal sound that sounds very professionally recorded. Rich and warm. Here is a few artifacts that I hear you might have missed. 2:00. Something sounds weird in either the bass or the left harmony. Like a not quite right note of the scale. 2:26 a lip smack? Some upper frequency artifacts 2:48 missing bass note? Also 3:14 and 3:40 3:07 time seems to jump, at least the bass does. It does it again at 3:33 or is this a push? Anyhow it sounds odd. 3:44 another lip smack or digital artifact? Otherwise super enjoyable listen ?

I haven’t tried this but a possible work around might be to loop back midi to the synth track. Now add an Aux track Send the synth to the Aux track , put the Aux track in Recording mode and record it. This is the trick I use to record the metronome.

I do believe the step sequencer is just a very basic tool and was designed so you could create simple midi patterns to be used in a track. I use it mostly to make drum patterns. But I’ve also used it to create synth patterns sort of like arpeggios. What I do is create patterns and then bounce to clips. I then use the patterns as normal midi data which I can edit as well as add different effects and things like panning. If it’s drums the panning is done in the instrument GUI. If I want to say, add a sweeping panning to just the hi hat I will automate it.

Not sure what format you are using for the video file. Sonar is very limited in what format it will use. What is a multi track MP4? Didn’t think that’s possible? Normally we use OBS for capture to a MP4 which I thought was only stereo. I’m on my phone camping so can’t check. You then add additional audio tracks in a Video Editing software. My editor Vegas, can have multiple audio tracks and can use all my VST and DX plug ins. So I can use it like a DAW and produce a video with high quality audio. Drag and drop the audio and zoom in to sync it up to the video. I always make sure to use a count in that the camera mike picks up.

Best not to save projects to C drive. Hard drives are very reasonable priced. You open the project and use Save as and put it in the data drive. Make sure you check Copy Audio with project. You should have these projects backed up to a couple of data drives by now. The last place on earth is the global audio folder. That is a sure fire way to get in trouble and loose stuff.

This has been a long time issue for me and none of the fixes I tried will stay fixed. They will need updating to add Sonar stuff so possibly they can fix this once and for all. @Jesse Jost I believe is our Web Page guru