Johnbee58

"Aim Assist" or whatever you call the function that is toggled by the X key is very important and useful to my workflow. It helps me line up clips exactly where I want them and more important, it helps me set up "punch in/punch out" points. The Auto Punch function was new to me up until about a year or two ago. It was not new to Sonar, but I just needed to take the time to learn how to use it. Then, it became useful to me. I'm sure this "S" and II have their usefulness too. Actually, I don't use markers much. I guess I should learn how because I can imagine how useful they are, but at this particular moment I don't feel like learning them, but they don't get in my way if I choose not to use them, unlike the "S" and the II things. 😀JB

And what problem do you have with just asking for the option to DISABLE it?! Nobody here is saying that it's not useful, but it's getting in the way for some of us and we don't want to have to endure another vague "learning curve" to learn to use it or cope with it. I'm in the middle of working on a project and I'm used to working a certain way and I want to finish it, but now, all of a sudden, I have to deal with this "new feature" that gets in my way of doing something the way I've been used to doing it. When I finish the project I'll look into how this new feature works, but for now, I'd rather just do without it until get my current project done. If they give us this new feature, they should also give us the option to choose if we want to use it OR NOT! 🤨JB

Thanks for all the info. The creative sauce guy seems pretty adamant about the order. Guess I'll experiment to see how much of a difference it makes in my world. ❤️JB

Amen to that! Please work on an option to disable it. In fact, I don't remember it being a problem before the last one or two updates. 🙂John B

I've been watching the Creative Sauce tutorials for CbB and he's done a great job on them. He's teaching me some things not only about CbB but audio engineering in general I never knew before. The new fact that stands out so far is how an audio signal makes its way down the channel, through the various effect modules till it gets to the fader then out to the Master buss (if that's where you send it). What I found interesting is the order you have your effect plug ins stacked effects the overall sound and I've been thinking that this may be the problem with some of my mixes. Currently, I've been just randomly throwing them anywhere because I never knew until now which order was the best. So, help me here. Going down through the channel, is it best to EQ first before compression, or vice versa? And then where it is best to place the effects? I use them (reverb, delay) mostly on Aux/Send busses. Give me some of your thoughts. Thanks 🙂John B.

That happened to me this past spring when I tried to DL it to my Windows 10 machine as a second to my main Win 8 in my music room. I just let it go for a while. Just because it seems to be stuck on" Downloading ...0/1% doesn't mean it's not doing anything or it's stuck. I just left it alone and in about 10 to 15 minutes or so it went from 0/1 to 100%. I'd say just be patient with it and give it time. Worked for me. Good luck. 🙂John B

Chuck; Your first example with the "S" to the far right is what I'm talking about. This gets in my way when I'm trying to use what you point to in your second example as B. I'd like to disable the "S" because at least initially, this S comes up on the timeline and temporarily makes it so I cannot place the cursor for the Aim assist (B) where I want it. 😀JB

Thanks for all of this info, HIBI! 🙂JB

Sorry if I'm late on this. I have my Melodyne Essentials configured to not alert me of new updates and I checked it manually this morning and found that there was an update back in June. Has anybody experienced any issues with it? I'm wondering if it's safe to go ahead and run the update or wait for some bug fixes. Thanks 🙂John B

Since the last update (2019.7) sometimes when I go to use the Aim Assist, it changes to an "S" with two vertical lines and will not let me use the Aim Assist there till I can somehow click my way past it. It's like some kind of marker I'm not asking for. I just want the Aim Assist to mark my measure/beat. How do I disable this "S" so I just get the Aim Assist? Thanks 🙂John B

Thanks. Would getting another RAM chip for it help? I'm not going to put another HDD in it because at present I have all of my projects on it which takes up a considerable amount of that space, but as I have all of them backed up on a removable HDD, I'm going to, at some point move them off of the main HDD. I still have 1/3 or a terabyte at this point left. 😀JB

Never did photo upload here. Don't know how to make them full size, but you can see the meters pretty good regardless. Top is empty project w/ Start Screen. Both horizontal meters at about 60%. Bottom is loaded project with 5 instrument plugins running. Top horizontal meter remains @ 60%. Bottom horizontal meter is reading 77%.

I have Windows Update on that computer disabled. Hasn't run an update in 4 years. I don't allow it. It's dedicated to music and I will not allow an update to break something. 😀JB

In answering your question, it was monitoring Audio Performance when I opened it this morning. But I switched it back and forth between the 3 selections (Audio, System, Overall App) and they all said the same reading (59-60%). Again, this was from the Start Screen with no project running. I updated video drivers a few weeks back because I was getting a blue screen error. Could that be the cause? 🙂JB

I'll have to check on that and get back to you. 🙂JB

Thanks to all. The problem is I don't really know if this is a problem or just typical of my system performance. But I do remember at some point in the past seeing the Performance Meter (in CbB) at no more than maybe 1/3 of the way up on both the disc (top) and memory (bottom) numbers at start up, ie, nothing running and at the Start Screen. The Audio processing ladders to the left don't seem to move much, no matter what's going on. I see a smidgon of movement there, but not much, even with EZ Keys, EZ Drummer2, Trilian Bass and Kontact Player loaded. My projects are all MIDI except vocal tracks, but since my system is a Core i5 I could never run a project with all of these instruments running plus the plugin effects, so how I work is each part of the project is done in smaller projects, then processed to audio and mixed. I'll do the keyboard and drums first in one project, then I'll render them as an audio "guide"track for the other parts (including bass, vocals and whatever embellishments I use) then I process them all to audio tracks and create a "master mix" that way. It's a "work around" that works for me in that I'm not limited by lack of memory for what I want to do. Maybe others do similarly and maybe not, but that's my favorite workflow. I did a defrag yesterday (took 2 hours). As Bitflipper indicated, it did nothing as far as the CPU usage, but some of the apps load a bit faster. My main reason for being concerned isn't so much what I'm running in the music making process, but I'm worried about something (virus maybe) stealing memory (I think they used to call them memory "holes'). I don't do much online stuff on that PC as it is dedicated to music making, so the only time I go online is to download updates for my music apps. 😀JB

I've taken notice that lately the CPU Performance meter on CbB is at 60% on both Disc and CPU levels when I start CbB, before anything is even loaded (Start Screen). I don't keep an eye on it regularly but I don't remember in the past it being that high when nothing is going on. Yesterday I was running a project that has 5 synths loaded into it. The CPU performance went up to 79% but it didn't burp. I'm just wondering if this is something I should be worried about. I have added more plugins recently to my cache. Could that have something to do with it? My system is a Core i5 processor with Windows 8.1. I can't think off hand what the RAM is, but I think it's in my sig below. Just wondering if this is a problem with my PCs memory. I ran all the utilities that came with the system and a virus check and everything there is fine. Should I defrag the HDD? I haven't done that since I got it 4 years ago. Thanks; 😀John B

Thank you, Old Joad.🙂

Never mind. I figured it out. It comes down to labeling. In Cakewalk, C-2 is the equivalent to C0, which I can get to easy. Thanks very much anyway, Colin and marled. 🙂JB

Is it possible to view the piano view editor below C0? I need to get down to C-2 for keyswitches in Session Strings Pro 2. Thanks 🙂John B

Does anybody here subscribe to the Groove 3 video tutorial site? Is it worth it? I'm considering buying a tutorial set on Session Strings Pro 2 but I'd like some opinions here first. Thanks 🙂John B.

Mark is a good guy. Very helpful and always there to answer the toughest issues. Congrats! ❤️😀John B.

I really like the singer's voice. Good tune. Catchy. 🙂John B

Yeah, this is NEAT!! Are these all samples (like the harmonica and the horns)? If these are samples you have your MIDI programming DOWN and I'd love to take lessons from you. That guitar work is TOPS! ❤️🙂

Mark and Francois-Very valuable info. Thanks!! 🙂❤️JB