Glenn Stanton

don't be ridiculous - free products have the adverts running continously which then expand (top, bottom sides) over whatever you're trying to work with for 10 seconds plus include playing audio and video snippets. preferably with adverts targeting your specifics - so old males - ED formulas, cremation services, cruises, and the latest Microsoft / Apple news.

so, using the smart tool you're seeing this icon on the edge of the clip you're trying to extend? in this example, it was a single measure using Step Sequencer to create the MIDI and then groove loop it then stretch using smart tool. so far, i have not be able to reproduce this issue - in existing or new projects.

i just leave the spyware in place. what happens to their mental state while listening to my sh*t is not my fault. 🤪

so, just pick up your acoustic guitar or sit at the acoustic piano and use your phone recorder. last i heard, there are several artists with platinum selling songs who did just that. boom! simple create music. Cakewalk provides creative tools but it's set into an engineering framework to handle electronic creation, recording, and manipulation. this thus shifts from merely performing live on an acoustic instrument(s), to orchestrating many things into a recording (or live performance for those daring enough). far from trivial or even simple. but the 7 P's still apply to all things.

this is the MIDI groove clip edit in the inspector that David is mentioning

yes MIDI doesn't need it - you just need to make sure your notes are within the boundary and trim the clip to the number of bars. in my MIDI clip, the notes are random, but the clip was 4 measures (via trimming) and so the groove clipping worked just fine.

that's the challenge for vector graphics - how many little lines make up a circle? and the more lines the more CPU/GPU intensive its gets. same for scalable fonts etc. so with bit images you have options to offload the display and a defined size and processing needs -- but on a 4K display, what worked in 1920x1080 is now hard to read, and scaling, well, oops - not so great. not a fan of the flat look but ok, my next monitor will likely be either 4K or 8K so it will help, and many apps and plugins are going that as reginaldStjohn noted, so i'll learn to use the flat views, and likely have to convince my spouse to let me get an 16ch SSL controller so i don't hurt my eyes due to blurry vectors or high contrast or ... 🙂 LOL

the groove looping requires it to know the number of beats for the duration of the clip - and sometimes it guesses incorrectly. so you edit the clip and set the specific number of beats. this also implies your clip is generally set to line up properly with the snap setting to make it more repeatable. e.g. if i have a clip 4 measures long in 4/4, my clip needs to have 16 beats. regardless of the # of instrument events. this generally works for MIDI as well. however there is no "loop construction" like an audio track has.

ok, gotcha, sounds you need a theme updated with some graphics potentially to get the sharp note edges in CbB. my impression was you only has a 32-bit machine and somehow were worried going to 64-bit CbB (or Sonar) was not possible. i think SteveC and billp have the right ideas. you might just edit the note images yourself to get the sharper edges. there is a theme editor for CbB.

so, why not keep using the SONAR 4? perhaps you could use the money you would spend on "reprogramming" to buy a 64-bit computer?

i usually select the MIDI track, not the output track. example: if i have 4 or 5 instruments in Kontakt, i solo whichever MIDI track is driving that instrument, and while all the outputs now show up as "soloed", only the one instrument is active because the MIDI track is the only one soloed. then again, there is a function for "exclusive solo" which may behave differently in your scenario. https://legacy.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Playback.16.html or "solo override" https://legacy.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Playback.17.html

good call. for some reason i didn't search the Korg.ins, just looked at the top bunch of rows and figured it was generic...

John was looking for the Korg 05R/W INS file which i believe is different than the overall Korg INS file.

actually, if you have the Sonar X1 installers - someone mentioned it is in the instrument list there.

sadly i only found some forum discussions recommending using the X5 as the source and editing it. or getting a copy of the Korg 05R instrument listing and copy/pasting to create a new one... there's a PDF out there with the full listing.

this ^^^ finding good quality SF can be tricky but a good one can often be as nice as another multiple sample sound source and convenient to boot. early versions of Sonar included some Sonic Impact SF which are really nice - drums, bass, horns.

it does seem odd then, as the exmaple from presonus - their interface was listed as L-R, L, R, Mono (as may be expected in Windows for example) but the matrix allowed each to be separately assigned (as if the LR stereo out/in was 2 sets of mono, and the remainder of the 8 I/O where selectable in the matrix (as i would think is expected). so it seems the presonus matrix configuration is able to use the stereo I/O as two sets of mono.

dang it! 😡 now i have to decide which one to cancel - Slate? Max? Hulu? Netflix? arrrgggh impossible choices! 😱

yeah, i think the matrix is a good way to hide the stereo vs mono OS designations by treating each as a selectable / independent channel.

just please don't ever implement MFA (multi-factor authentication) 🙂

you only have the PG effects if you have Band In A Box or anothe rproduct from PG Music. https://www.pgmusic.com/

flat vector graphics will be much less demanding on video cards and/or CPU/GPU. plus sets the stage for other platforms including tablets, macs, and so on. if nothing else, porting new portions of products across platforms becomes easier with a single UI approach. so we could spend the monies to get high performing graphical machines (ala gaming consoles) or stick with the flatter look and use the power for audio and video processing. as i do a lot of cad design work, i can say that going beyond flat vectors, 3D vector graphics (quality ones, not crappy ones) come with a heavy impact which loads the system screen display cards and likely requires better monitors as well. contemplate a nice looking knob (ahem, get your mind out of the gutter) with tapers and knurls, there can be a hundred vectored triangles and quads to form a single knob in a way that might look as nice as the image based ones we use today. now if you add hundreds of those kinds of objects + materials + animate them...

in the presonus space, it looks like they're using the PipelineXT plugin to create the "mono" paths on the stereo pair, and (in the examples shown) mono assignment on each of the non-stereo pairs of the presonus IO unit. (seems similar to the Kontakt output matrixing where you are virtualizing the outputs). https://support.presonus.com/hc/en-us/articles/4443978272397-Studio-1810c-Using-Pipeline-XT-in-Studio-One so are folks asking for something like a matrix option in the external insert rather than the simplistic L-R-Mono on the outputs (send)? i only have a pair of outputs on my in-use unit whereas my rack unit has 8 so presumably i can select those L-R-Mono pairs as presented by the Windows OS.

same - works are described - nice catch. i wonder if this was by design or a happy accident?

why so judgemental? eh? LOL