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Having been abandoned by Gibson Cakewalk after purchasing Platinum, I have been trying Reaper. But still considering my options, and I like SPlat. So, I thought, go back and study the issue again. And after reading some of the shills here, decided to at least checkout the latest from Bandlab, having downloaded THEIR Cakewalk some time back. So, Bandlab Assistant update install warns me that the latest update doesnt support Win 7. Do I want to continue, it asks? No. I trust Bandlab or any other DAW maker/plugin publisher about as much as I trust Microsoft to get it right and not screw up their user's setup and waste hours and hours while incessantly promising to solve all the worlds problems with better, faster, and quicker loading software. MS Window's Nine Biggest Lies: This new version will load faster. Which is Not.At.All.

Project grew in size with many tracks plus three VST instruments and I began having latency issues - the typical sound artifacts - popping, scratching etc. Of course, increasing buffer size ( to 512) eliminated the artifacts, but the delay was intolerable. And I know my system should work well with 128 buffers. I figured my solution might be to just trim the project down. Set buffers back down to 128, where they should be, and copied the project folder to a new one, and tried the copy in Sonar - NO ARTIFACTS !!!! I go back to the original - major artifacts at 128 buffers. Back to the copy - none. Would love to hear an explanation... Using Win 7 Pro 64 bit - Fireface 800 firewire ASIO interface - Hi-performance i7 rig

May have answered my own question. Seems like you have to make sure to use the Select tool to highlight the snippet and copy. Then it looks like I can paste this to a new track. But copying to a new Take Lane (is that what they are still called?) is problematic.

Looking for a simple technique/functionality/methodology to select and harvest snippets of audio clips - from individual tracks and/or take lanes - and then save/assemble them on another track, NOT altering the original. You know, so I can have some simple fun scrambling stuff up, or whatever. Seems like it ought to be simple, or maybe I am just missing the obvious...? What seems to happen now is whatever I select and copy gets chunked out when I paste. Whut....

Am wondering what the design logic is regarding the gain and output settings of plugins. Have noticed this on a few plugins, dont know if it applies to all, but... With the output turned all the way down, why is signal still coming thru, until I also turn the input gain down. I would expect that the output is output, and when turned down all the way, nothing would come thru. I must be missing something. (Not the first time.)