John Vere, I wont break down all of your breakdowns.
let me address a couple comments however:
*You said you are a long time user but this statement implies a very basic starting level with Cakewalk*
lol. And your statement implies what, exactly?
Even assuming you were not way off base with your assessment, what exactly would the utility of that comment be, pray tell?
*And just to enlighten, its a Bus not a channel*
I see. Well, color me stupid.
Why did you cherry pick around two references I made regarding the *metronome bus*?
*I can still see the meters on metronome bus are rising and falling in time with the metronome, even when I can not hear it. I would assume the bus is just not routed to the mixer in some way*
Bus, Channel, whatever. Were you trying to be helpful...or pedantic?
Band name idea: John Vere and the Semantics. : )
Just for clarification, I have used four iterations of Cakewalk, probably more than a couple thousand hours using the software, from the purely midi sequencer version up through Sonar, and I have never encountered this problem, and I dont recall ever needing to know that the metronome existed on its own *bus* in order to record midi in to the software along to a click. If I saw it, I probably blocked it out because I have no desire to pan the click or add reverb etc.
In fact, today | loaded two different templates in Bandlab, *basic*, and *4-track*, and I got the metronome to function correctly, and was able to record normally in both, and the *metronome bus* was no where in the arrangement view, or the two visible channel strips. I was able to record multiple tracks in to the sequencer, hearing the metronome as I always have, and I did not need to interact with the metronome bus at all.