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And there we have it. Thank you Noel!

Starship, Thanks! And thank you for the tip on other tools. I wish there was a way to flip Ctrl function for the "two way" crop/extend on the Smart Tool, but easy enough as it is. Thanks again!

Hi Folks. When I have several take lanes on track and clips overlap (on two different lanes) I get this tool, see attached. Which, works with both clips simultaneously. Reducing one clip > extending the other and vice versa. I don't want that. My workaround is to switch to Edit tool to reduce or extend clips individually. I guess this feature is too smart for me, as I can't find the way to bypass or turn it off. Is it possible or that's baked in? Thank you!

John, Nice run through! I looked into Mixcraft myself long time ago and rediscovered it last year. It was probably the closest to the workflow that I like, but Cubase of course is feature packed. Bitwig is interesting too, but has a lot of shortcomings. However, Sonar will definitely be my choice #1, if proper license(s) are offered. It has several items that no DAW that I know of has, that are important to me. Plus a great knowledgeable & helpful community. I learned about half of the things I know about DAWs here

C'mon, what teeth are for?

Got the email today from Steinberg: "Save 30% on Cubase" Are they hearing the drumbeat we don't? I remember at the time of Gibson saga they were the first ones to "reach out" with friendly offers Bandlab, don't fall asleep, we are counting on you and the right decisions you will make on licensing and pricing.

"Demo is what you have when you can try software but you haven’t bought it yet." I downloaded Sonar without registering with "backstage pass". It runs, but saving is disabled. To me that's sort of a demo

Yesterday, as some of you did, I received Native Instruments 2024 newsletter. Cutting all the blah, it specifically mentioned this: "We also understand subscriptions aren’t for everyone, so don't worry – our perpetual bundles won't be going anywhere." I agree, it's not healthy not disclosing if perpetual licenses will be available for Sonar.... Especially now, when working demo is available. While I do have faith that Sonar will not be a subscription only gig, very recently I was looking at a few competitors and made a probable choice if things will go sour. That was after reviewing Sonar demo. The reason - because non subscription options were not mentioned. This is not a "threat" of any kind, just want to show, if it matters, how some of millions of users think. I do like new look/feel of Sonar and will be among first in line if non sub. options will be offered. P.S. I also think it will be noble for Bandlab to permanently unlock the software that was purchased before Bandlab's takeover and if they want to be extra nice, unlock Cakewalk by Bandlab permanently...

I like Mike's videos. Nicely paced, thorough. Subscribed to his new Sonar channel. Would definitely vote for him to become "official" Sonar guy for tutorials.

Ben, Thank you for acknowledgement!

David, Thanks! I fiddled with main display scaling per your suggestion. You are partially right. Anything over 175% (where 200% is recommended value) tools get fuzzy. 175% is a bit hard on my eyes. I prefer 200 % scale. It's definitely not a deal breaker, just annoyance, but something likely Bakers should look into. I doubt I will be the only one with this issue. --------------------------------------------- I found the cause! Mouse pointer size. The size goes up to 15. My comfort level is 2. As you go up.... Mouse pointer stays sharp at any size, tools get more blurry with increase. I reported the issue. Hopefully they will address it.

John V, That was awesome! Especially liked the idea of selling last version of Cake As Is (perhaps with minimal compatibility fixes). Having ~200 projects in Cake I am getting a bit anxious to see how this will unfold.

3070x1440 native - that's the resolution. Everything but tools seem to be sharp. Tools are fuzzy(blurry). My guess, they were not vectorized as most of other elements. P.S. I don't have issues with tools being fuzzy in any other software....

Will you wash my dishes and do laundry for a month if you are wrong?

I think it is safe to assume that many will flee if the deal will be "membership" only. It would be strange to assume Bakers didn't learn a very valuable lesson from Waves, when they tried to pull off a fast one and had to back peddle it within a VERY short period of time. Even after they came to their senses, it stopped me from having any interest of what that company had/has to offer. From what Noel had mentioned in the past, there will be different OPTIONS and I hope (and have faith) perpetual licenses will be available and fairly priced. If not, there are many choices of DAWs out there.

I like clean + sharp looks of new UI, great job! Couple of items that I've noticed (perhaps user error) 1) Strips for arranger, video tracks... I know you can minimize them, but I don't see a way to get rid of them completely. Personally, I have no use for them and I wish you could simply make these go away. 2)My display scaling recommended value is 200% (3070x1440 native). Tools are blurry at that scale, while everything else is sharp. If I switch scale to 100%, they are sharp, but Sonar is so tiny that I can't make out text. 3) Under View>Display there is an option to disable "Display Muted takes in Parent Track".... I wish there would be an option to NOT display muted take lanes all together. Simple scenario: You have 30 take lanes, 5 of which you will use, others just keep for backup or future re-mix. Simply hiding muted take tracks would make UI so much cleaner.

Ok... I downloaded Sonar... VSTs DPI scaling works well! (and also Kontakt 7 doesn't flicker) That is a good sign going forward. Now all I need is to know the release date and price for perpetual license

gustabo. Yes I tried all variations in the compatibility settings starting Cakewalk and all view/scaling settings in the plugin itself. Reaper displays it correctly (without any tweaking) / Cakewalk displays it blurry no matter what I try.

Hi Folks. Recently I had issues with Kontakt 7 blur flickering. Now, after doing a bit in Reaper, I realized that everything in Cake is slightly blurred. My eyes likely got used to this blurriness over the course of time. With Cakewalk itself being slightly blurred, I am sort of OK, but Plugins that many times have lots of detail are hard on my eyes when slightly blurred. I tried all settings in "compatibility" related to High DPI. Nothing seem to help it. Only when a main 100% (with recommended 200%) system scaling is set, plugins look sharp... but in this scenario everything in Cakewalk is super tiny. Native resolution of the monitor is 3072x1440. I do understand the the new Sonar will be vector based and likely will solve this issue. However I am still planning to use Cakewalk for some time, and it seems it's internal scaling of Cakewalk that does this to plugins, as there are no issues with blurriness of same plugins on the same system in Reaper and Studio One (with global scaling set to 175% - my preferred setting) I don't know what else to try. Any suggestions? P.S. See attached photo Cake vs Reaper displaying same plugin. I've tried various UI settings of the plugins too. Thank you.

Don't know if it was requested before or not. I started using more MIDI edits in the past couple of years and I think current method would benefit from slight improvement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjhApm9etUc

It's not so much of MY system, as in Reaper it (K7) works fine, so as a standalone. There must be something how it works in Cakewalk environment. Or a combination of things. Sonar MIGHT be different, because it will be vector based, so no funny business with up scaling or such (which I think might be the culprit) But it's only a guess...

A prominent audio recording community member EvilDragon replied on another forum, that flickering is a known issue, not yet fixed (over a year!) I guess, it's system specific stuff. What is strange to me that it works fine in Reaper, but flickers in Cakewalk. My computer is 2 years old, I don't think EOL applies I am highly disappointed in NI. They have wonderful musicians & engineers working for them, but when it comes to issues, it seems you are on your own. A few short years ago they even had a customer phone service... One of the last email conversations took 9(!) days for rep to answer. Unfortunately I already bought some instruments that don't work on Kontakt 6, so only thing is left is to nag and bother their highness customer service. P.S. It seems, main feature of upcoming Sonar will be vector graphics. I wonder if Kontakt 7 will behave in new Sonar on my setup?

OutrageProductions, thanks, I believe openGL is one of pre-requisites of Kontakt 7. Strange that this only happening in Cakewalk. I tried various High DPI options, reducing frequency from 120>60hz... nothing seems to help. Super annoying, like starring at those monitors from mid 90s. Also, I found it strange that screen capture looks fine... So I took a short clip with my phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncbT7c-IWHY

Overall Kontakt 7 so far was not a happy ride for me. While I figured out most issues, this one I can't. Kontakt 7 flickering, becoming blurry, like Jello in Cakewalk. Only in Cakewalk. 1)Kontakt 7 doesn't have this UI issues in Reaper 2) I don't experience any such plugin UI distortions with other VST makers in Cakewalk. 3) A Standalone Kontakt doesn't have flickering issues. I've read that people experiencing this flicker with MacOS or if they have Nvidea GPU. ( talking about disabling g-sync, whatever that means) I am on Windows 11 and use Intel iRISx for graphics, not nvidea. P.S. Another clue is... When I tried to capture screen to show this blur/flickering, recording didn't reflect that, while I could witness it on my screen while recording. Was this mentioned before? Is there a cure for this annoyance? Thank you in advance!

If my memory serves me well, tiers were mentioned, just not the details.