John Vere

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

Scook wrote a utility for this I think it’s a thread somewhere in the sub forum for ? I’m on my phone so to lazy to find it. But try a Google search with those words. It’s super simple with his utility

Yes the Beta 58 is the most common mike on stage. You can eat it and it won’t feedback. And it most certainly takes very loud vocals no problem. A plain SM 58 is fine but if you plug both in and switch back and forth there’s a very noticeable difference in sound. If you are having trouble with plosives roll off below 150 hz. Even the cheap mixers have a hi pass filter.

Definitely submit the crash dumps files to both Cakewalk and Auto tune.

What you are experiencing is called a Loopback. Audio is going out to your interface so you can monitor it and play in time. You are correct that it should not Loopback to the new track. Make sure that what you are hearing is actually recorded to the track. Make sure Metronome during playback is not selected. Solo the track and listen. You can test if the Loopback is happening by arming a track for recording and start recording with out playing your guitar and see if the meters move. Does the audio interface use a software mixer? You might need to check there for a setting that causes the Loopback. Other than that your settings all look good in the screen shot. If this is a brand new interface it is possible that this is a defective

Good call and that was my next question too. We now are told there is no activity of meters. This implies just that. But usually the audio engine gets reset when you re open a project. Which is another good call by @pwal³ Then all that it could be is the global mute. Or a hidden track or buss is soloed. That’s why I suggested toggling those to reset. The transport module is the first place you look when this happens.

The transport module has both global mute and global solo buttons. Toggling those will eliminate that as being the issue. Open console view and observe if all track meters are showing playback. Observe if all buses are showing playback. Observe master bus. Then observe if the hardware buses are showing action.

Back when we got the big kick in the face from Gibson the forum was pretty focused on solutions to what we could do to sustain Sonar for as long as possible. Of course we were certain that the server for CCC would be shut down and (like perpetual licensing ) we had no clue when. My action plan was I installed and activated a copy of Splat on every computer in the house. In my case that was I think 7. I figured this lessened the odds of computer failures killing Splat. So that 2006 computer I mentioned above still has that last version of Splat working perfectly fine and I was sort of correct about that solution. It was a top of the line PC from that era and I guess as long as you don’t fry the MoBo everything else was replaceable. Because it was mothballed 8 years ago it’s still in perfect working condition. Not sure if it would survive daily usage. Therefore one can maintain time machine DAWs for possible 10- 20 year no problem. I have a 2004 Dell laptop running XP I keep to run my CD printer software. Still boots every time I need it. It has Sonar 6 and Wave Lab 4 on it.

Sonar X3 was the last version to just use serial numbers. Splat requires Command Centre. Command Centre requires the server. The server is now maintained by Bandlab. As said Splat once installed using CCC is activated until that computer dies. I have a 4 core Pentium computer with Splat on it running W7 that was my main DAW from 2006- 2012 It still boots and runs because it had lots of upgrades over time and the parts are all good stuff. It has a PCI Sound Card made by Card Deluxe, they still support the ASIO driver. It has SPDIF that teams up with my Yamaha 01v. I still have that too. It was a bulletproof system that always worked. I wouldn’t want to return to that system but it is living proof that you can keep stuff running forever if you want to! It has X3 and Splat and my copies of Cubase and Wave lab 7. If I move the ilok dongle those still work too. A time Machine I call it.