Glenn Stanton

OH NO! not RTFM! LOL. one note - the diagram could use a refresh as the lines and arrows and text are starting to feel a bit like the police report in Alice's Restaurant... LOL.

also for basic stuff, the drum replacer could also be an option - detect the instruments (at least the snare and bass)

each groove clip has a specific length (typically in # of beats or measures), you concatenate the clips, and you should be able to drag that entire length. otherwise you need to set your grid snap to the right value to enable moving them on the grid (or turn it off). you set the clip you drag to groove loop and drag that. personally, i always just use the standalone app, layout the song with all the goods, then export as audio and as MIDI. drag those files into the Sonar project (most times just the MIDI). that said - it seems to be working for me. i create the timeline in EZD plugin (open in synth rack) and then select the clips and drag into the MIDI track alternatively if you want to keep the clips only in EZD, then set the follow host on.

according to the Cakewalk folks here - "free" Sonar is identical to "paid" Sonar EXCEPT some features are disabled ion the "free" version. so if the "paid" version has a bug, then yes, it's likely the "free" version does also. and presumably, when a bug is fixed in the "paid" version, it will be an update for the "free" version as well. so far as i know, the MS runtimes are mostly updated due to additional API "features" and the occasional bug fix for security or some backwards compatibility which got tanked so people (i.e. governments mostly) running programs from 1995 complained and they had to fix it... LOL

i ran the install on the PC several times before it "stuck", for some reason the installer is relying on something which seemed to be reset and allowed the install to run successfully the 3rd time (for me at least).

so when you tried to re-install the software (possibly as administrator) and rebooted the machine, what happened?

reading up - looks like some folks have discussed a hack for use KK to use auto-chord key changes - but it seems likes it's harder than simply using normal MIDI to get the chords you want 🙂 me - i'm using MIDI and articulation for the chords and strums, i don't really ever use the auto-chord feature as it has limited scale options.

except Cakewalk Next also works on Mac OS... https://www.cakewalk.com/next

i really only use the Komplete Kontrol when i'm playing live or composing, i just use Kontakt in the DAW. for the Session Guitarist instruments, you can use key switches (selective MIDI notes usually lower or higher than the instrument range) to change parameters --or-- use articulations (which are typically the same MIDI notes but with some options) as there is an articulation track and it also makes things easier. you can create your own articulations or in some case purchase them (or maybe some folks have freebies). there is a huge package "Babylon" which has articulations for hundreds of products and instruments, i had bought an earlier version several years ago as it had a lot of the instruments i use already built.

note - i selected "enabled" all the Waves FX in the excluded bucket and re-ran the scan for all failed and all existing plugins. no errors and no excluded. so must have been a one time thing... weirdly the VSTScan.log file didn't show the v16 Waves DLL being scanned... one additional note - i removed the plugin catalog XML and asset XML files for Next and re-ran the scan because i was getting something like 10 copies of plugins and failures to load. the Next plugin catalog reset did not do anything useful hence removing them. once the new scan was complete - all neat plugins list again and all working.

updated to v16 and when scanning, i've had a couple of errors asking to disable or enable (the Wave v13 seems to be a frequent one) and the v16 scanning seemed to be ok, then i got a "VST Loop Error". i ignored that, when i look into the VST FX, many were missing, checking them with excluded button marked - many of the v16 are there. i'm guessing this might be a Waves issue, but then my NI Komplete Kontrol scanned them without issue (maybe NI isn't doing a robust a check?)

one thing - make sure the preference "always open all devices" is NOT checked as this created a temp file for each possible input - 12 ch? = 12 temp files, 32 ch? = 32 temp files... this can slow down the open and closing times significantly... earlier version (like SPLAT and earlier days) i have 40 ch via my IO and ADAT devices . and thus 40 temp files in my project folder each time, and took me a week to figure out the "always open all devices" was the key...

hmmmm maybe somehow, someone is finally listening? probably peeking at the forums...

not sure if this is helpful. for Serum2 - https://splice.com/blog/optimizing-serum-cpu-efficiency/ and it may be similar for other - not so much multi-core as they should be.

yeah! stop using words like "helpful tutorial videos to make your experience of Cakewalk the best it can be" and other harsh things...