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17 minutes ago, tecknot said:
Is it possible you muted the clips?
I checked to see if any tracks were archived or muted, and if any clips were muted or linked. I didn't see any. Is there a hot key that mutes all the clips at the same time? If there is, I may have accidentally pressed it, but I don't think that is even possible..
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14 hours ago, Matthew White said:
Another option you could try is changing the MIDI icon, either export some from other themes then import one to your own theme, or open the icon in an image editing program and re paint it, change brightness, contrast, hue, saturation etc, what ever it needs to show better in your chosen theme.
Thanks Matthew! That did the trick. I was editing the wrong icon. I imported the midi panic icon from another theme and it solved it...
Jerry
www.jerrygerber.com
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13 hours ago, Matthew White said:
@jsg Is it by any chance one of my M-Themes this issue is in? If it is, can you let me know the name of the theme please so I can sort it?
No, this theme was created by scook.
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I have a .cwp file that has about 14 midi tracks and a few audio tracks. After rendering the MIDI track to audio I decided to go back and do some more editing. But when I tried playing the file with the audio tracks muted, none of the MIDI tracks would sound. If I used the scrub tool in the notation editor I could see and hear the music, same with playing a track on the keyboard in real time, the right instrument would be triggered. But when I pressed space bar the file would start but no sound. Nothing was muted, no tracks were archived. So I opened two other files and they played back fine, which told me no issue with hardware or even Cakewalk.
So I then created a new file and copied and pasted the tracks from the file that would not sound and lo and behold everything is working normally.
I wonder what could have caused this, it appears to be a corrupted file but I have no idea how it got corrupted. Any ideas?
Best,
Jerry
www.jerrygerber.com
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Hi,
I want to change the background color of the transport module in the control bar from deep black to a lighter grey because the little MIDI icon for turning all notes off doesn't display properly in one of the themes I use. When I open the theme editor and choose that background and lighten it, I save the change and then save the theme. But when I open it in Cakewalk the same pre-edited theme keeps appearing! I'm not sure I'm even editing the right background (I'm choosing Viewport Background) but even if I am not, none of the backgrounds change after saving and opening in Cakewalk.
Does anyone know why this is?
Thank you!
Jerry
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Thank you for taking the time to listen!
Best,
Jerry
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3 hours ago, Tezza said:
Saying things like many wealthy people came from poor beginnings. You don't know this is true, you just hope it is. My view is that it is extremely rare. I've not said that people cannot, do not and will not act of their own volition. People can act of their own volition or at least what they think is their own volition but very often they are doing things for reasons that are hidden from their consciousness or they are simply reacting to outside stimuli or propaganda, societal or otherwise brainwashing. It depends on the level of insight people have, not all are the same.
All of this is subjective, drug addict might think that taking drugs enhances their well being and stop taking drugs causes suffering.
Animals are much more than instinct. They can have a complex social hierarchy, just like you. They can have their own languages, a mix of body language and vocalizations, just like you. They can feel emotions like love, hate, fear etc just like you. They also make decisions, just like you. They can work together for a pre-defined outcome, organize and plan, just like you. You are an animal, maybe more complex in your language and ability to physically create but an animal nevertheless. You evolved from an ape, you are a member of their species, the primates, you share about 99% of your DNA with chimpanzees.
Certain sectors of our society desperately want to separate us out from animals so we can treat them badly, eat them and use them for our own purposes without feeling guilt.
Choice does not distinguish us from animals, they have to make choices as well about all sorts of things. What you have quoted here can be correct under certain circumstances but the relationship between thoughts, emotions and behavior isn't just a one way train. A lot of what you are saying just sounds like some sort of biblical or pop psychological preaching to me. So that I don't waste any further time with this discussion, could you answer just one question for me? Do you believe you evolved from apes? yes or no.
Yes, I definitely believe that I evolved from primates over the past million years or so. I'm not sure about you though. Denying the reality of your own volition sounds unevolved to my mind. Sort of like a rebel without a cause...
Animals do not have art, science, philosophy or religion. animals do not care for their grandchildren. And by the way, I don't eat them and I don't hunt them, I am vegan. Animals cannot know sin, or good and evil. A hungry tiger in the jungle might eat you, but there's no moral or ethical component to the behavior because that's what animals are born to do. But if a man follows you home one evening and stabs you to death for your wallet--that's why humans evolved laws because there's a moral sense in humans that animals either don't have, or have only to a very small degree, i.e. mammalian affection and love they can learn from humans who love them.
There's no real conflict between science and spiritual faith, at least for me there isn't. Read a book by the biologist Stephen Jay Gould about the different domains that science and religion operate in. And you've made another wrong assumption: I do know people born in humble homes who became rich (and no, I won't give you their names or email addresses so you can hit them up for money). So don't tell me I just "hope" it's true.
I've answered your question. Now please, go debate someone else, I've said all I need to say...
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39 minutes ago, Tezza said:
Again, you are completely forgetting health, both mental and physical and you don't seem to acknowledge that people have different levels of functioning and education.
I'm going to wind up my contribution to this discussion now, but if you read my first post I stressed the importance of diet and health. Also, in the 5 factors I stated are important I guess it wasn't clear that education is a part of one's social development. In any event, your argument seems to give scant recognition and little importance to human volition, which says to me you do believe in (if grudgingly) limited free will, even though you assert you don't believe in it...
Nice chatting with you!
Best,
Jerry
www.jerrygerber.com
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5 hours ago, Tezza said:
Yes, I agree that tragedy can happen to anyone regardless of rich or poor, the rich have a buffer to protect them to some extent but that doesn't take into account time. If somebody is injured or disabled in some way, mental or physical and it doesn't go away then 10 - 20 years later, their money runs out. I've worked with people who used to be lawyers, police, judges and bank managers as well as some high flying corporate business owners. Their money protected them for a while but then it ran out and so did their friends and family in many cases. They lost both their finances and their social resources and ended up on a pension, struggling to get by on their own and then referred to me to see what I could do to make their lives better. Everyone who came to see me had a story.
It's rarer to see rich people end up in this situation but it happens with long term problems. All of these people made good and even exceptional choices when they were healthy so it's not like the had to learn anything in this regard, it's just that through no fault of their own (usually) they ended up in a situation that was never going to change, even with good choices and "free will". The choices are no longer available and their free will has been curtailed.
In today's society a certain amount of money is necessary to be able to do things and having social resources (friends/family) is also important.
I don't agree with your concept of poverty, in my experience, usually there are reasons for poverty that go beyond blaming the individual for making bad choices. Mental illness, physical disablement, social isolation, geographic isolation, terrible parental upbringing, lack of education and of course having limited or no money. These are generally the reasons why they have poor planning, bad management etc They can't "learn" their way out of this nor can they exercise their free will to change any of it because they either don't know how to change it, don't know they even need to change it or they are mentally incapable of changing it or they just don't have the resources to change it, or all four.
We take a lot of things about our brain for granted but imagine for a moment that you suddenly lost the ability to concentrate or to make decisions or to organize your thoughts or your memory became faulty or your ability to recognize events, faces or situations disappeared or your comprehension ability disappeared. Mental illness can do this and you only need to lose one of these functions and you are in a lot of trouble. You can't learn your way out of it because it is a cognitive dysfunction, the ability just isn't there anymore. It might be temporary or it might be long term. How can people be blamed for making bad choices if their actual ability to make choices is impaired. Free will isn't going to help either, relying on intuition can be dangerous because your thought processes are so impaired. You can't get a job like this or even plot a course out of it.
Addiction is not so easy to dismiss as a choice, especially if the addiction started when they were children. I once dragged an 11 year old boy out of a toilet with a needle sticking in his arm and had to give him CPR until the Ambulance arrived. He was given drugs by his parents, should we blame him for his addiction? A lot of hardened drug addicts started in their early teens or younger in bad families, when they are not even regarded legally as being able to make responsible choices by themselves. Once the addiction grabs hold from this age it can be very difficult to get rid of.
Do some people find their way out by themselves, yes they do but some don't and it's not necessarily their fault.
Here are the factors that can determine the trajectory of a person's life:
1. Genetics (nature)
2. Parenting skills or the lack thereof (nurture)
3. Social/economic/political conditions under which that person was born
4. Luck, both good and bad
5. Decisions and choices made by the individual
Out of these, the only one a person has some degree of control over is #5. There's long been the debate regarding the influence of nature vs. nurture. I think this debate leaves out a crucial third component, and perhaps the most mysterious of all: Personality. By "personality" I am not referring to the outer garments, the mannerisms, our likes and dislikes, the face we portray to the world. Instead I mean personality in the most profound sense, the fact that each of us is a unique individual, unduplicatable throughout the cosmos. Personality includes values, relationships, aspirations and goals that a person aspires to, it is influenced by nature/nurture, very much so, yet at the same time the uniqueness of personality cannot be dismissed or ignored. The subjective experience of personhood is as real as is gravity, water and stars. And since everyone of us is interconnected, we all have the same ultimate origin, whatever that may be, the sense of "I" cannot be complete without a sense of "us" and "we". Society breeds into us a sense of "they", and some classes add to that a sense of unearned and delusional superiority, for which there is no evidence to back it up. Everything in this world is a means to an end, excepting relationships. True relationship is an end in itself. When the majority of the people in this world get that, and live by that, the world will evolve in ways we cannot even imagine. Or, conversely, we either blow ourselves up or heat ourselves up to oblivion. Nature doesn't care. Caring is a human attribute. If we stop caring, and our institutions continue to reflect that lack of caring, we're doomed. but if we awaken to our true condition and potential, there's definitely reason for hope...
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19 hours ago, Tezza said:
The notion of free will is mainly pushed by those who are in a position to have more choices in the first place. It is a stable of middle class capitalists for example. It goes something like this: People have the freedom to make choices in their lives, those who make good choices will have a successful and happy life and should be respected for their good choices and seen as beacons for the rest of us. Those who make bad choices will have an unsuccessful and unhappy life but it's their fault due to their incompetence in decision making and we should condemn them. They brought it upon themselves.
This is also pushed by various religious authorities who will site their written dogma as being "good choices" and if you deviate from their dogma, you are engaging in "bad choices". This notion of free will and decision making is lapped up by many as it gives us the feeling that we have total control over our lives, it makes us feel safe and secure. All we have to do is make good choices and we will be ok, those who make bad choices, well, they got what they deserve. It follows then that anyone who succeeds has done so because of their great character and decision making but anyone who doesn't make it in our society or struggles, it's their fault for their poor character, bad choices and decision making.
The problem is, people can and do end up "successful" and happy through little input of their own. They are simply born healthy into a family, society and/or business that is already healthy and prosperous. They lead a sheltered life with little empathy for those less successful because they personally have never experienced hardship. It is essential to their self esteem that they believe they ended up where they did because of their own efforts and that those who are less fortunate ended up where they did due to their incompetence.
Conversely, people can also be born unhealthy into a family and/or society that is poverty ridden with high crime and drugs. From childhood, they learn to navigate their world according to it's rules and what they are physically and mentally capable of doing. Very often, they are just trying to survive within that world. They also very often cannot escape that world because there are no opportunities around them and because they are rejected by the more successful. They also don't have the mental framework or education to allow them to step up and all of their social resources exist in that world. they may also have physical limitations in what they can do.
It is essential to their self esteem that they believe they are doing the best they can given their circumstances and those who are better off than them were either given a silver spoon or are probably rich, distrustful criminals.
Did both these groups of people arrive at their destinations due to exercising their "free will"? We all fall somewhere in between these groups, if not align exactly with them, all of us, no exceptions. Life is more about serendipity, ladders and statistics than it is "free will". We may luckily be born into a favorable environment, we may have the ability to recognize or be given ladders by others so we can step up. These can be simple advice or practical help etc and then we may recognize or not that we can adjust our lives according to statistics. You can control a bit what happens to you by recognizing how to place yourself statistically in life. Don't want cancer? don't smoke, have a good diet and exercise. Don't want a car accident? drive sensibly, own a safe car and don't drive a black car
Maslow's hierarchy of values shows that in order for anyone to reach a place of "self actualization" where they have control and power over their own direction, a number of other factors have to be taken care of first.
Well, I guess you slid right back into your ideology, I actually believed, and wanted to believe, that you were capable and willing to recognize the small, delicate, important and critical part of a human being: volition. What you're saying about political and economic injustice, racism, institutional failures, class bigotry and bad environments are all true. But you then go a step further, which in my opinion is where your extremism is, and declare that people have no free will, no volition, no capacity to overcome their misfortune. I'd go back and read Maslow again, he spoke of the hierarchy of needs, and that the need to self-actualize is as real as the need to eat and sleep. Many people who've achieved something of value in their lives had crappy childhoods, many wealthy people came from poor beginnings. The eradication of poverty is a social problem and our institutions are failing us in nearly every way on that score. But to then leap to the conclusion that people cannot, do not and will not act from their own volition is absurd.
Let's do an experiment today: Notice how many decisions you make; whether they are little, medium or big decisions. Observe which decisions further your sense of well-being, and which decisions do not. Observe when temptations to speak or act in a way that will increase suffering arise and how you handle them. Observe how tensions in your body affect your thinking. Try to be aware of your emotions without over-identifying with or exaggerating them.
If you are willing to do these little exercises, you may begin to notice there's a power in you to shape your existence. You can't control most of what happens in life, nobody can. But the tiny bit that is under your control is the most vital and important part of your life. This is why we are not merely animals, reacting to life as instincts demand. We have choice. It is the very thing that distinguishes us from other animals. I've long believed that cynicism about how bad human beings are, or pollyana positivity about how good we are, are not helpful at all. There 's a quote, I paraphrase it here: Your thoughts create decisions, your decisions create actions, your actions create habits, your habits create character, your character creates destiny. It's not about reward and punishment, it's about cause and effect. Cause and effect are as true in the inner world of the psyche, the emotions, the intentions, as they are in the physical world.
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On 3/15/2020 at 12:51 PM, Byron Dickens said:
Back to Hume's point: the fact that 99.99% of people choose not to excersise it does not mean that free will does not exist. Neither does the fact that things happen which are beyond one's control.
The existentialist position is summed up as "man's existence preceeds his esscence." My cat here is a predetermined being. He is a hunter and a carnivore. He can not choose otherwise. In fact, it would be harmful to him if he could. Despite the fact that he has a ready source of food available for the taking that he need do no work for, he still exhibits predatory behavior and will still hunt down and kill things.
I, on the other hand, can be a hunter or a vegan. I can even be one thing one day and another the next. If a debilitating health condition forces me to abandon a long held career, I can allow it to devastate me emotionally and psychologically or I can view it as an opportunity to grow.
If the cat (assuming his natural state without the human intervening to do the deed for him) can no longer hunt, he dies. That simple.
Back to Neal Peart's point: even if you do not choose to exercise your free will, that in and of itself is a choice. We really have no choice but to choose. One way or another.
As Sarte put it: "man is condemned to be free."
Yep!
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I'm pretty sure that if I close the file first and wait a few seconds and then close Sonar, the problem seems to not be happening...
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On 3/14/2020 at 3:49 PM, Tezza said:
You may have your view of the world as a utopian garden of eden adorned by selfless humans because that has been your experience, I would think it would be a sheltered one. Or it may be that it is just a delusion you have created for yourself so you can feel good about the world and your place in it. You see what you want to see. You might not even be aware you have created this delusion.
Can you actually show (copy and paste) in my writing where I said that the world is a "utopian garden of eden"? I never said or implied that, those are YOUR words. Look, if you want to debate something, at least debate fairly and don't make up quotes that the other person didn't say. At least make an attempt to understand what the other person is saying before reacting. If you don't understand what someone is actually saying, how is it possible to agree or disagree?
I said very clearly there is some free will in some people. Maybe you've had experience (when you speak of your own experience you sound a lot more down to earth and reasonable) of people who have been very self-destructive, I certainly know people like that as well. I know many people who also strive to live up to their potential--creative, ethical, emotional, moral, artistic, spiritual. The world is neither all good nor all bad because within every single person is light and dark, we can CHOOSE to evolve and grow and mature and integrate, or we can CHOOSE to self-destruct in self-pity, negative emotions, scapegoating, bad habits, etc. I'm not saying that anything is easy, just saying it's possible. And if you've spent time helping people in Rehab, I'd think you of all people would believe that if a person sincerely wants to help himself (herself) then others might be able to offer help as well. Is not that free will? Sometimes it's difficult to ascertain the difference within one's own psyche between "I can't" and "I won't"). Human psychology is complex, an amalgamation of so many things--biology, genetics, evolution, culture, family life, parenting, education, personal insight, trauma, people in one's life who've demonstrated courage, love and empathy,--and one's own hunger for discovering what is true, beautiful and good. I try to see the world in two distinct ways, neither one any more real than the other: How the world factually is, and how it ought to be. If we only see the world as it factually is we can sink easily into despair. If we only see the world as it ought to be we can become inaccurately judgemental and cynical. Best to do both in my opinion.
Does not some kind of human volition, or will, enter into all this? Does not some degree of decision and choice have a mighty (but not absolute!) impact on the quality of one's life? Yes, of course there is good luck and bad luck that we have no control over. But good luck and bad luck cannot explain why one person achieves a certain amount of happiness and success and another person shuts down and gives up? It's a bit more complicated than that, yes?
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5 hours ago, Tezza said:
That all falls apart if you get mental illness or have brain damage, what happens to the inner laws of consciousness then, or a massive mortgage/unplanned debts due to financial collapse not your fault or foreseen or kids etc. Your utopian view of the world as packed full of perfectly healthy, fully functioning human beings bathing in freedom without strings isn't realistic, i would say naive. Sounds like some religious or psychology course. "Some free will" isn't free will. It sounds to me like you don't really know what true free will is, just free will within boundaries which is typical of school/religious and psychological teachings. Follow the rules of the society in which you live and exercise your "free will" within those rules. That's not true free will and for many people who may not fit into the social rules in which they are forced to live it can be hell on earth. What about people who are gay or whose skin or culture is different to those around them or whom have a disability etc You seem to cast off quite extreme life defining conditions and situations as though they are meaningless, apparently, the real physical world doesn't matter to you.
The source of all real science, art, philosophy, and religion is the part of us that is governed by higher functions such as creativity, the capacity to love and be loved, to care for others, to sacrifice one's ego and selfishness for something bigger than the self.
Humans cannot surpass their ego anymore than they can pull their brains out of their head and continue to walk around. What about narcissists, psychopaths, sociopaths etc they are not capable at all of what you describe here. Science comes from statistical analysis and serendipity, neither of which comes from the higher self. Art comes from ego and insanity mixed together in the paint pot. Philosophy comes from extreme internalization of neurological thought processes. Religion is just "old government" run pretty much the same as new secular government, a bunch of narcissists, psychopaths and sociopaths who just want power over others and claim they represent an even higher power. Even when humans supposedly sacrifice their ego to a higher spiritual power, all they are really doing is removing from themselves the burden of decision making and siding with an all powerful being that unsurprisingly, makes them feel even more powerful.
There are levels of egotistical behavior but it's just levels.
"Some free will" isn't free will.
Ah, so you're an absolutist, one either has free will or one does not. Can you give examples to back up your assertion? So far you've mentioned narcissists, psychopaths and mentally ill people, but perhaps you haven't noticed, or cared to notice, all of the countless high-functioning, creative, healthy people that are actually contributing something of value to humanity. You twisted my words into something I didn't say and didn't imply. Your cynicism may serve you when it comes to protecting your sense of vulnerability but as contribution to a discussion it is a complete dead-end. Your opinion of humanity is so low probably because your opinion of yourself is also low. There are many outstanding people in this world, people who achieve some level of happiness, success and service to others, contributions to our world that are desperately needed. It's amazing that you interpret my understanding of free will exactly as the opposite of what i am saying.
"Religion is just "old government" run pretty much the same as new secular government, a bunch of narcissists, psychopaths and sociopaths who just want power over others and claim they represent an even higher power."
Such sweeping over-generalizations are meaningless. Sounds like your parroting the same stale ideas without differentiating the subtleties and variances that exist not only between religions, but within religions.
Humans cannot surpass their ego anymore than they can pull their brains out of their head and continue to walk around.
Actually people can, but they first must have an ego to surpass in the first place. I see selflessness in others and I see people transcending the tendency towards self-centeredness all the time.
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2 hours ago, Tezza said:
Until a car slams into you or your head explodes from brain stroke or you are raped or stabbed or some other life changing event occurs to you that you had no choice or control over whatsoever.
There is no free will, and you wouldn't want it even if it was possible for humans to achieve it, which it is not.
Humans are the most indoctrinated species that has ever breathed life on this planet. From the moment you are spat out of mummy's tummy, the brainwashing begins and doesn't stop until you die and I'm pretty sure you don't get any say in that either.
You're confusing the laws of the physical world with the inner laws of consciousness that govern human evolution on a mental, spiritual and emotional level. You're right in your example that as so long as we are on earth we are subject to accidents and the actions of others that we have no control over. But that is not the level that I am discussing. I am talking about inner development--the psychological, moral, intellectual and spiritual levels of life that not only do we have some control over, but it's what allows humans to transcend, at least partly, the physical and material aspects of life. For example, take attitude. Have you ever noticed that what happens to us is of less consequence than what we learn from it, and how that experience shapes future decisions and future attitudes? If a man or woman lives totally, in their mind, in the physical world, then they of course have no free will at all--everything they do or say is governed by genes, hormones, impulses, social regulations and mores, other people's approval or disapproval. The source of all real science, art, philosophy, and religion is the part of us that is governed by higher functions such as creativity, the capacity to love and be loved, to care for others, to sacrifice one's ego and selfishness for something bigger than the self.
I don't think you actually believe that you personally have no free will, when in fact you do have some free will (whether you take responsibility for it is another matter). Perhaps you're stuck in attitudes that you know don't work very well for you but you won't let them go because you are afraid. I've never met you so I really cannot say. I hope one day you actually do realize you have some say in life and that you exercise your free will. Otherwise you might as well have been born a bear or a leopard or a salamander. You're human, so get used to the fact that there are unresolvable contradictions and paradoxes in every human being. Light and darkness, to varying degrees exists in everyone. Maturity is about integrating and coming to conscious terms with what and who you are. Good luck!
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Yes, of course we have free will. But more accurately, we actually have limited free will. Within certain laws and constraints I can make decisions and choices and carry out those decisions and choices in action. There is no predetermined destiny, your destiny is in your own hands, you make or destroy your life through your choices, decisions and values.
But many think they are using their "free will", when actually they are not. In many people free will is more potential than actualized. For example, a person addicted to cigarettes might believe he or she is "choosing" to reach for a cigarette. But this so-called choice is so strongly influenced by habit, the addictive properties of nicotine, anxiety and other emotions, often unconscious, so that what we might think is free will is actually compulsion, a kind of inner psychological slavery. In order to really exercise free will one also needs "free won't"--in other words discipline, self-restraint and self-control.
To develop real will takes a lot of work on the the self. It take takes emotional clarity, ever-increasing sincerity with one's self, good habits, including diet, exercise and mental habits. It also takes integrity, choosing not to violate your deepest values and working to overcome the all-too-human propensities toward secrecy, hypocrisy and insincerity. Then the possibility of real will becomes available. There is no teacher like your own life experience. If you really humble yourself and devote yourself to learning truth through your own experience, you will discover more of what is called free-will, and it may produce subtle, positive changes in your personality. In other words you become a better version of who you are as a unique person.
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On 3/11/2020 at 6:02 PM, scook said:
Another thing to try is always close all open projects before shutting down SONAR.
Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking too. There's a very specific condition that causes the program to get stuck in memory, and about 85% of the time it doesn't get stuck. If I can find what that condition is, I can find the workaround..
Thanks,
Jerry
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15 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:
Oh dang. I looked at your other thread and now I realize that this must be what Jerry is talking about.
You can get the context menu, but unless you open it with Ctrl, all of those commands are greyed out. From what he says, I guess it didn't work that way in Sonar.
Won't know until he reports back.
That's correct. Calling up the right-click context menu for editing in the notation editor in Sonar is a one-step affair. In Cakewalk Bandlab, one has to either click CTRL and right-click first, or, even slower, change tools. This might sound like a small thing, but over time these extra clicks really add up, particularly when writing symphonic music with 40 MIDI tracks, dense counterpoint and huge amounts of midi programming.
I am still wondering why and how Bandlab is giving Cakewalk away for free. To my mind, after using Digital Performer for a year and a half, and experimenting with Cubase, Reaper and Pro Tools, Sonar Platinum, and now Cakewalk by Bandlab is the best DAW ever produced. It's the most beautiful ergonomically, it makes so many operations simplified so I can focus on music composition and, after using DPs notation editor, I realize that Sonar's notation is actually better in several ways (even DP's editor doesn't display either dotted or tied triplets correctly, I forgot which). But I am still wondering how a $500 DAW is being given away for free. Bandlab must have a business model that I don't know about!
Thanks,
Jerry
www.jerrygerber.com
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13 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:
You've really been hammering away at this one.
Fortunately, there is a solution that is 100% effective which is to not put Sonar into memory in the first place.
Cakewalk (by BandLab), from which this forum takes its name, is a revival of the Sonar codebase, with the addition of a couple of years of bug fixes, performance and stability improvements and features (I personally witnessed issues such as the one you are experiencing becoming less and less frequent as the BandLab ownership continued).
It's licensed via a freeware subscription, which must be renewed via an internet connection at least once every 6 months. Installing it works much like Sonar did, you first install a download/licensing manager that handles the downloading and installation of the main program and add-ons. Once this is accomplished, you may uninstall the download manager until you wish to renew the subscription. No network communication is necessary until that time, and Cakewalk will warn you days in advance of the need to renew your subscription. All that is required to get the subscription is a valid email address, such as the one you used to gain access to this forum.
It installs and runs nicely alongside existing installations of Sonar, including being able to use any bundled plug-ins or other content, so there is as little risk involved in trying it as there was with any Sonar update. And it's free besides.
You could continue to search for solutions to the program's misbehavior with "everything up to date" except for the program itself, but that seems....inefficient.
Sure, when Bandlab repairs the notation editor so that right-clicking calls up the context menu, without having to press CTRL, I'll download it and use it. Until then, the little time I lose when Sonar OCCASIONALLY requires a reboot is substantially less than the time having to relearn and use an extra keystroke to do what now takes just a right-click of the mouse.
The Peace of Wild Things
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Poetry by Wendell Berry
Soprano: Janet Campbell
Composed and produced by Jerry Gerber
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