John

Lets keep it civil please!

One thing we may forget is they were smart enough in acquiring a great DAW that had a built in user base with one of the best forums on the net. One can not overestimate the quality and traffic that this forum gives them.  An intangible that probably played a roll in the acquisition.   

Most often if it is not listed as using  an IR it is most likely an algorithmic one. However, some Convolution Reverbs use IRs but don't allow adding others. They look and act like algorithmic ones but use IRs that are built in. The only real advantage to convolutions is the verity of reverbs types you can use with a change of IR. 

I am not that picky about my reverbs. I use the one that sounds right for what I want to get from it. I do like the Brainworx one I also like the Pantheon too.  Breverb is OK I don't use it much. 

I still have the Lexicon that came with Sonar. I also have this Brainworx .  If you have the Sonar 8 you also have the the Pantheon reverb. 

Cakewalk has had aux buses from way back and in all the years I have used Sonar and now Cakewalk I have never ever tried to freeze an aux bus. Never. One big reason is that its really an empty bus. Really, audio passes through it but a freeze would try to create an audio file incorporating all the tracks going through it.  To me that seems troublesome.  

I just don't think its a good idea to do that. 

For your setup using an amp sim, I would use a simple bus and not an aux bus. I would have the GTs out to the new GT bus. You can adjust the amount of the amp sim as an insert plugin. 

Another way may be to route a send to an aux bus and the tracks out to a GT bus and freeze the GT bus. Or export it as a single stem that you can bring back in to the project.

Clearly. Its all good. 

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Bandlab owns the software known as Cakewalk formally known as Sonar. They have every right to offer it in anyway they want. For those that have had Sonar from its very beginning Bandlab came to our rescue when Cakewalk the company  was shut down. We are grateful to Bandlab for keeping it alive and thriving.  For anyone to demand Bandlab  give the code to the world with out buying it as Bandlab did seems to me too presumptuous to be believed. I can't see any benefit to Bandlab or to the user base. Nor can I see any reason this would in anyway benefit  Bandlab. 

If the OP wants Cakewalk to open source  the code than the OP should buy the code from Bandlab and then give it away. At the very lease the OP should reimburse Bandlab for what Sonar cost Bandlab before proposing this absurd notion.    

Also as a practical matter at present we users have a robust development team that is able to know every line of code. That would not be the case if it were not controlled by a single organization.   

As to transparency that notion is not of any use to anyone.  I don't need to know how Cakewalk is written to use it.  

The OP may not know that this thread has some of the top members answering. It is a thread  with a huge amount of the whos who of Cakewalk's forum. Even the chief programmer is here. I don't see how it can get any better than this.

As far as I can tell this is the best version to date including Sonar. Really good work. 

Cakewalk just keeps getting better and better. All of the programmers have done a splendid job and keep on doing so. The feedback from Cakewalk is also a very  greatly appreciated added feature.   Thank you all. 

I'm glad you have access. 

I am stumped. I can't figure out why this issue is present.  Sorry Robert.

Hi Robert.

I took a look at my setup and in the PC header unless I run my mouse over the preset menu those two icons are not shown.  Mouse over and they appear. 

Also be sure you have PC presets in (Local Disk C:\ Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\ProChannel Presets).

There are also various pan laws one can apply in Cakewalk that change how pan works.  

Ozone 5 and all Ozone versions are very CPU intensive. In many years past I used it on a mixed down stereo track in a mastering template due to my computer would have trouble otherwise. I still, more or less, do that even though I have a system that is very capable. 

One  trick to try is up your latency enough so you no longer have problems. You can put it back for recording. 

Edit to add. A rundown of your system would be useful. 

You shouldn't feel silly at all. Heck, I forget somethings and need to look it up even though I do know it.  It is part of being human. 

Its called the Inspector and can be seen by pressing I.

A limiter is also a compressor. It is most often found on the master bus. 

I totally agree with James.

I think all Cakewalk users here want everyone to have a great time using it. I believe it to be a huge bargain that keeps on getting better with each new version.  This also means that it is more complicated thus needing  a group effort to get users  working with it efficiently. 

These forums are known for being very helpful. 

I know we are all thinking about this and it is an important subject but I don't think these forums are a place to post about it. If you wish to do so try to be as politically neutral as possible. 

Keep in mind that information on Covid 19 is readily available all over the net.  Lets keep these forums virus free. 😀 

Please stay safe and well.  

Also it is very important to note that Cakewalk or Sonar before it can not control the volume of the input while recording. This has to be done at the source.  Leave the faders in Cakewalk at unity as well as the gain.  

Somewhere in the signal chain you should be able to control the volume. This has to be done before it gets to the audio interface. You my be using an output from the amp that has no volume control. This is often the case for a preamp head. It will use the volume from the pickups for its level.  At any rate it is vital to have the level under control before you send it to the audio inputs of you audio interface. 

I've been wanting the Arranger Track for years! Now its here. I didn't think it was ever going to happen. See how wrong one can be.  BTW This is big!!!!! 

Thank you.