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I'm not sure about your reference to Android, but in Cakewalk, you can use the 'ripple edit' feature to slide everything over and insert the missing part.

Actually, the Microsoft tech area (servers, networking, etc) forum was fairly responsive. I don't know about desktop stuff--but I get it. I also love when someone can't take the 30 seconds to open a new post to ask their question, and hijacks your's! I mean, if a thread has run its course and the issue has been sufficiently comment on, I may ask a related question starting with an "OT" but some people's kids! 😕

I find this so funny, I don't know why. You post a question or need for help on some forum, and then hopefully with the input from the group, your question is answered, issue resolved. Then....months and sometimes years later, you get an email that someone has replied to your thread. Looking at the OP topic, you think, "whoa! what?" Then you go to the post you made 5 years ago! Wait what? Yeah, I posted a question to a Microsoft technical forum 5 years earlier, only to have someone suggest a solution to my issue. I was polite, and didn't reply. I now know I should update my OP topics with {SOLVED/ANSWERED} to try to close the thread. This Cakewalk forum is the most actively engaged forum I have ever been on--and being in tech and music, hobbies, etc. I've been on a lot of forums--that's saying a lot! But on other forums, the moral to the story is, take a look at the date of the OP. If it's reeeeaal old, chances are your reply isn't needed any longer. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! Cheers

I'm not, but thanks.

Also - ideally, you don't want your DAW to have an Internet connection due to unwanted exposure to malicious attacks or destructive updates. Personally, I've never been able to hold to this practice because I rely too much on my computer to access stuff on the Internet and I can't afford to have a dedicated DAW that isn't a multi-purpose machine. Also, with so many music creator tools and services being in the cloud these days, I don't know if this best practice is still practical. Thoughts?

This worked exactly as I needed it to. Thanks again. It's good for to know anyway as I prefer to use kb shortcuts whenever I can. On a side, even after zooming out with the Ctrl+Arrow keys, it still didn't expose the magnification slider for horizontal zooming. I find that really strange--but again, I prefer shortcuts anyway, so I'm just pointing that out.

Awesome!

I don't have an NVME drive, but I heard you have to configure your BIOS to use one as your boot drive. I found that articles on Tom's Hardware are accurate. Look here. "The NVMe M.2 drive should be the only storage drive connected. NVMe SSDs do not appear within the BIOS until Windows creates the system partition with the EFI Boot Sector. Your M.2 SSD contains UEFI driver information within the firmware. By disabling the CSM module Windows will read and utilize the M.2-specific UEFI driver Go into the bios, under the boot tab there is an option for CSM, make sure it is disabled. Click on secure boot option below and make sure it is set to other OS, not windows UEFI. Click on key management and clear secure boot keys. Insert a USB memory stick with a bootable UEFI USB drive with Windows 10 Setup* on it, USB3 is quicker but USB2 works also. A Windows DVD won’t work unless you’ve created your own UEFI Bootable DVD. Press F10 to save, exit and reboot. Windows 10 will now start installing to your NVME drive as it has its own NVME driver built in. When the PC reboots hit F2 to go back into the BIOS, you will see under boot priority that windows boot manager now lists your NVME drive. Click on secure boot again but now set it to WIndows UEFI mode. Click on key management and install default secure boot keys Press F10 to save and exit and windows will finish the install. Once you have Windows up and running, shutdown the PC and reconnect your other SATA drives. *How to create a bootable UEFI USB drive with Windows 10 Setup https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-create-a-bootable-uefi-... The Windows 10 ISO link is broken in the above. You can obtain the ISO file here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 "

Let me try that. Thanks! I'm not sure what the little magnification sliders on the bottom right are called, so I just called them mag levers.

Hey Group-- I'm going back into some older tracks I created to remix them, and man, what was I thinking with how I setup my workspace? I've run into a little snag that I'm sure someone here knows how to solve. Don't ask me how (or why) but I have my track view window sized as such that I can't access the little mag lever to reduce the horizontal view. If I go full screen, or the middle from minimized, it's just below my monitors viewable area and I can't get to it. Is there a KB combination/shortcut where I can reduce the horizontal track view? Thanks!

Hey @Frank DeFede Check out this article by Craig. I've tried the example he mentions and it sounded great.

You have to set the end of the project or CW won't know when it's over. It's handy when you don't want the play head to keep going after the track is done.

Hello-- I also want to add that vocal technique needs to be applied as well. For softer parts, sing closer to the mic (not too close or you'll boost the bass from proximity effect). For louder parts, sing farther from the mic. It's a technique that takes practice to do well so the recording doesn't sound like the level is going up and down--just the singing dynamics. If the singer doesn't have the technique/skill already, I recommend just recording the different levels during different takes. Set up the mic placement for the louder dynamic parts and record those--and the softer dynamic parts after the mic placement is set. If you watch a pro singer sing live, you will see them move the mic away when they belt it, and touch the mic to their lips for the softer parts. Knowing how to do that well is part of being a singer IMO.

I thought there was a setting where you could have the playback stop at the end of a project. I like that feature, but have been too lazy to go look up how to enable it. Is it still a feature?

Here's my track "You Scarred Up My Heart" produced in Cakewalk (Sonar) on Spotify! Check it out!

I like NI. I read their public release on the subject and I believe they were sincerely sorry to have to let so many of their staff go. I stopped thinking big companies are just out to make a profit and they don't care about anyone and they don't listen to their customers, etc. since I've worked for several. It's all about survival. Either they offer goods or services that people are willing to pay for, or they don't and they close up shop and guess what? All their employees are out of work. You have to stay relevant.

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Back when I was a gamer, I bought a Logitech 5:1 surround system for $40. The quality wouldn't 't be there, but you could check your speaker panning placements before having to leave the studio. I would just go into Windows playback settings and choose the integrated sound card where the 5:1 was attached. Then I could flip back to my pro-audio setup for using Cakewalk. Just an idea. Quick search returned this for $55 US. FYI

I'm guessing you have a sound card/audio interface that supports surround? I don't know how you could mix in surround if your audio device doesn't support all those channels--maybe I'm wrong.

Gratefully I've never seen this issue, but yeah, that would be a royal pain. Thanks for fixing/mitigating it!

I'm transitioning everything to SSD, except external backup..

Hey Folks-- Here's my latest track, 'Start Again'. I make new tracks available for listen via x for about a week or so. Enjoy! Start Again © 2019 Stephen Davis Smoke carries away your memories. Choking as you rub your eyes. The flame that lured you to its light again. The same that burned you up last time. You’re dying to scream out something. If only the world would listen. Each mistake that breaks your hope inside. Follows every step behind. You carried the pain long enough. It’s time to be brave and reach up. You're no stranger, Mr. Tragedy. I'll be back to Start Again. You're no stranger, Mr. Tragedy. And I'll be back to Start Again. Get behind me, Mr. Agony. So help me, I’ll Start Again.

Seems to me that whether you name the track before or after the bounce, you're still naming the track. Double-click the given name, then type a new one. Pretty quick--unless I missed something.

Do you mean the target track after the bounce? Sort of like a save as and then name the new bounced track?