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  1. Maybe try to wiggle the Transpose Up button on your keyboard upwards in case it’s semi-stuck in a downward position?
  2. If you select Insert Audio FX > Plug-in Layouts, a third menu pops up where you should be able to see a couple of options, including all your own plug-in menu layouts. Just select the one you recently saved. By the looks of it, you have the default option Sort by Category currently selected.
  3. I think that side bar has a positive side effect (no pun intended); it makes each post become less wide which in turn makes it easier to read. The rows are otherwise on the verge of being uncomfortably wide on my WQHD monitor. However, for anyone who desperately wants to get rid of it, and also got AdBlock Plus installed in their web browser, you can always add a custom filter to remove it completely. I did exactly that, but in the end decided to return to the way it was for the reason mentioned above.
  4. I had exactly the same question, so I downloaded and installed the demo of The Hoser XT 2 to see if a Cakewalk ProChannel version was included. However, it didn't turn up after a plugin refresh when I selected Insert Module in the Console View. Not that I need another EQ (in addition to Cakewalk's included QuadCurve EQ I've already got three EQs from Softube that supports ProChannel), but if it does I would buy it anyway for the $10 I was offered. Of course. But for all I know the demo could be crippled, so if anyone knows for sure I would be interested to know as well.
  5. When I looked it up I saw that I bought Frontier four years ago in a bundle from Stack Social, together with ten other AAS sound packs. The whole bundle of eleven cost me a whopping $11.
  6. As an update to my post above, Groove3 actually added a two hour long 26 video Cakewalk by BandLab tutorial in May 2023. I just noticed that it’s currently available to purchase and download for just $10. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. I guess the price soon will go back to ordinary price ($25), so anyone interested probably shouldn't wait too long.
  7. Also, the title of this thread is “What’s the best way to ask a question?”. As a general rule, I would say “Nicely”. Grumpy posts are often totally ignored by those who might otherwise give the best answers.
  8. Back in 2012 I decided to once again pick up my dormant interest in music creation. Here’s a bar chart showing the number of purchases I’ve made for the last ten years. It includes DAWs, plugins, Kontakt libraries and synth expansions. I seem to slowly be on the mend, but that's probably more caused by plugin saturation and diminishing interest than by economics. I’ll keep the related bar chart showing the purchase amounts to myself and my bad conscience.
  9. I hope that Invision (the forum software) has some built-in configurable tools to protect from attacks such as these, or that a plugin with such functionality can be added. If all these posts are made by bots, it’s impossible to beat them if they only can be removed manually after the fact. Bots won’t get tired, but janitors, Australian or otherwise, sooner or later will.
  10. I think my first modem topped out at 2.4 Kbit/s. Files larger than a couple of MB I had to download at the office where I worked and then save onto a ridiculous amount of floppies to bring home. Though my internet speed now is slightly better. Here's from five minutes ago:
  11. Last year I got a delivery stolen by the delivery guy. I knew he would be coming between 7 pm and 10 pm one evening, so I kept a close eye on the street. Suddenly in the darkness I noticed a small unmarked white van turning up, stopping at the street corner, maybe twenty-five meters from where I was standing. I went out onto the sidewalk, not sure if that was my delivery, when the van after maybe 30 seconds pulled away and drove passed me. It was pretty dark and the street lamp across the street was broken so he probably didn’t see me waving my arms. I went back inside to my computer and noticed that according to the tracking site the package had been delivered one minute earlier. Yeah, right. Of course, he had only been standing in the street corner registering the fake delivery using the close-enough GPS coordinates. The package contained some short, cheap XLR cables worth maybe €20, but it was ordered from a well-known electronics store. I guess this delivery guy thought that the small parcel might be something pretty valuable, maybe an iPhone or the like by the size and weight of it, and so decided to keep it. I guess he wasn’t very happy when he got home and opened the package. Later that evening I got an email from the delivery company asking how my experience had been. And believe me, I did not hold back. They came back to me the next day and said an investigation were to be performed. Long story short, I got a new pair of XLR cables about a week later. As for the gig worker, the delivery company implied he wouldn’t get any more assignments. That's how it is living in a gig economy.
  12. Please give us the context. Where does it occur, what exactly does the error message say, and, if possible, post a (readable) image. As for images, this forum has a pretty low upper limit for how much data you're allowed to upload, so it's better to use some third-party image storage provider. Personally I always upload any such images to https://imgur.com and then paste the image link into my post.
  13. Actually, the link in the forum menu targets an old version of CbB, and has been for some time. Clicking on the menu link will redirect you to a page with a Cakewalk Installer button which targets the link https://downloads.bandlab.com/cakewalk/setup/CakewalkSetup.exe?d=20220627. Not a good idea, as that seems to be the old June release and not the latest November release. Instead, use the link I mentioned in my previous post. @Morten Saether Maybe the Cakewalk Installer link on the page https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk#download should be updated?
  14. So you’ve got SONAR X3 Studio installed? That’s a great start. As for me, I upgraded to X3 Professional back in 2014 and went on to SONAR Platinum a year later. In 2018 I started using the free Cakewalk by BandLab (CbB). And, of course, that’s what you should do as well. Why? Because a lot has happened in the last ten years. CbB is essentially an enhanced version of the latest Cakewalk SONAR Platinum (which succeeded SONAR X3), but without some of its plugins. However, as you’ve already got SONAR X3 Studio installed, all plugins that came with it will be detected and fully functioning in CbB. So please don’t uninstall X3 as that would uninstall those plugins as well. Simply install CbB alongside X3. But still, why? Because a large number of bug fixes have been made since BandLab took control of the software. Also, a lot of new functions have been added. The posts in this forum deals mainly with CbB. The posts asking questions about SONAR Platinum, X3, X2, X1, or even 8.x and earlier, don’t get much attention. The fact is that hardly anyone have those old versions installed anymore, if they ever had. You’ll find a link to the CbB downloader in the post below. It’s the link at the top that says “full Cakewalk 2022.11 installer.” Oh, and welcome to the forum!
  15. I updated my K10U to K14U, mainly because of the Session Guitarist series, but also Guitar Rig 6, Noire, and Kontakt 7. The Summer of Sound price for this update is €199.50 which (of course) is slightly below this €20 voucher €200 minimum spend, so to be able to use the voucher I also bought the cheapest Massive X preset bank I could find (€14.50). That gave me a bottom line of €194. They say that less is more, but sometimes more is certainly less.
  16. I'm running Firefox under Windows and it works perfectly for me. Your issue might be a thing with Brave: https://community.brave.com/t/dns-probe-possible-cant-access-any-sites/400496
  17. Okay, you’ve made your point. Feel free to create a new thread if you want to preach the Linux gospel, but please don’t derail this one. It’s not about Linux.
  18. I would say the Calkwalk user forum actually consists of four different parts with almost waterproof bulkheads in between when it comes to users. The Deals forum has its dedicated followers, the Coffee House has its own, the Songs forum has a third group of followers – and then there’s the rest, active in the Cakewalk specific sub-forums. Not that many are active in multiple parts so this kind of duplicated posts are becoming increasingly common. And in the near future maybe we should expect yet another division; those that have bought Sonar and those that have stayed with the last version of CbB.
  19. You’re getting there! However, I would suggest that the Arm and Arm All Tracks buttons are also turned simply black and white. To me, that dark red on black doesn’t give much contrast. Also, the disabled Freeze and Archive buttons are using shades of gray. I guess all disabled buttons follow the same colour scheme. But to quote the OP: “And the fancy track coloring and shades of gray are lost on me. They only make it difficult to see.” To get away from different shades of gray, maybe all disabled buttons can be made with say a 45° slash or some other visual cue that they’re disabled? Just to play around with the idea, I made a go with the Arm button, displaying the states Not Armed, Armed and Disabled. I think it might work, but as the OP isn't around, it's anyone's guess.
  20. Great initiative! The OP hasn’t been logged on here since he created this thread, but as he is the only one who can say for sure, let’s hope he notices your post. Otherwise I would recommend you to send him a PM which most likely will result in him getting an email. One thing I noticed is that the OP specifically said that he needed a theme that was “black on white”. I don’t know if it matters, but to me your theme looks to be white on black. But of course, only the OP can say for sure. I also agree with Colin; for Mute and Solo the letters M and S are probably much more distinctive than a recurrent circle with different colours. I don’t know about the OP, but other users who suffer from colour blindness and also would prefer a high contrast theme might have a hard time to distinguish between red, green and yellow if the icons otherwise are identical. Because of that I would also stay away from having multi-coloured icons like the Erase tool in your screenshot. I think that contrast is king. But once again, great initiative!
  21. I think you’re both right; it simply depends on which browser you’re using. In Chrome the logo looks good enough, but in Firefox it looks quite pixelated. <nerdy-details>It's because BandLab in the css selector #logo used the declaration “image-rendering: crisp-edges”. Chrome says that's an invalid property value and simply ignores it, while Firefox accepts it but turns the logo into an 8-bit experience. </nerdy-details> Oh, well. There are bigger problems in this world right now.
  22. I assume these vector images are stored as svg files. May I ask, are these images stored as SVG in a resource DLL (which of course is what an *.sth/theme file basically is)?
  23. I guess the GUI options will be: Light, Dark, and … well, that’s about it!
  24. I had a hunch in March that SONAR was in the works. And no, I'm not part of the Beta team. Just observant.
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