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This is called hardware.

There are midi filters, but not mappers. You can already drag and drop plugins from the browser to channels. Ctrl drag between channels to duplicate with settings.

Added transient?

Shift g takes me to the start of selected clip. Ctrl shift g takes me to the selected clip end. I think i set this up in preferences. Then just look at now time. I often use this to check clip fades and to add markers around a clip.

Clicking the ruler while playing does the same. It continues playing.

This is me looking at cpu in cakewalk.

I use Melda MAutoAlign for this purpose. You can calculate an array of different off-sets to see which you like the best. This is the plugin I use most (maybe).

I prefer expanders to gates. That way, if the threshold is a tiny bit less than perfect the sound isn't cut, only reduced a little depending on how high the volume got. This is more important with bands probably that are performing with the effect on. Still, it allows for a more forgiving mix... Easier to not include audible mistakes. Basically, you set a zero attack with compression applied when you are below a threshold rather than above. Might be worth exploring. It can also be applied live so the speakers hear it in their headphones... No look ahead required.

Idk if that makes any sense to me, but maybe i don't get it yet. On lots of radio shows, the host's Mic triggers hard side chain compressors on the guests'. This guarantees the host will win a shouting match. It also trains the host to not accidentally talk over guests. You mention gating though. Gating and expansion are useful for suppressing noise when mics aren't actively engaged. To me, i would not side chain expanders. The gate should be 100% out of the way for the quietest syllable the user of the Mic speaks. I wouldn't want the gate off because someone else was speaking.

It's a VST Plugin called Channel Tools

Fleer, I'm a bit of a simpleton. 🙂 Years ago I picked up the Melda mastering bundle and I found many things to like. Several of the plugins became my most frequently used. MAutoAlign (I record acoustic instruments playing at the same time often and this is a huge help). MSpectralDynamics (There have been many discussions on this, especially Bit Flipper's article. It's kinda like a multi-band compressor that has a very deep threshold, low ration and is always on... mixed back with the original track to taste. MLimiter-MultiBand. These things were my favorites. I would sometimes use the convolution verb as well. From there, I grew to slowly expand my interests and decided to take advantage of the discounted complete. When you buy the smaller bundles, Melda will give your credit towards the complete based on what you have purchased so far. * MWobbler was also another early purchase I find amusing.

I also bought the Melda complete bundle. Have you checked out MDrummer? Pretty cool. Takes a sec to get everything downloaded and working, but worth investigating if you haven't. https://www.meldaproduction.com/download/mdrummer-packs

I have both and prefer melda.

I've had mixed results. I got one that didn't work on arrival. Others that failed after a few months light use. Running drive and memory scans might help identify a dud faster. I agree they have usually replaced a part before shipping. Part of the question is what caused the part to go bad... If it was a manufacturing defect, it may be that they fixed the only bad part. If it was baked in the Nevada sun in the back of a truck for a week, there may be more than one thing wrong.

What azslow is saying is go into preferences and set up your controller with the midi input of your choice.

I use the auto save of versions. If i leave sonar on and idle, all my rollback versions become the same. Doesn't really matter unless it does. 😁 For this reason, i usually close it. That said, i have walked away overnight with it still recording... So I'm not perfect.

Like the song Fred, you only have to have something in common with the prior post.

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Windows button and plus - zoom Windows button escape -unzoom

On my interface, there is a total reset choice that resets all the ins and outs to standard settings. I use this reset often and anytime I'm troubleshooting.

Under power options... Advanced... Disable usb selective suspend. On network adapters, disable power options... This is in device manager. If you have Wi-Fi, disable it.

I always aspired to be an average student. Never rose to that level. My kid revels in crushing me in everything. One way to build the kid's confidence is do so badly yourself they are sure to shine in comparison.

My daughter hangs out for hours with her phone and my gear. Last night, I recorded for a few hours with a friend. This morning I noticed the compressor knobs had been arranged in pretty patterns that have nothing to do music. I don't think she knows the Attack > Release > Ratio > Threshold method of setting a compressor. There's always new things to teach your kid. 🙂 Fortunately, I record the tracks pre-compressor also.

Yes they have separate accounts.

I've read in a book for my daughter. The behavior is a little different than audio recording. It's like having 1 and only 1 instrument. You are reading and may discover annunciations or inflections that work best as you read. So you double back and read the same part again better. I hit M to mark every case where I want to remove a false-start. When I remove the false starts, it moves the audio to the right. So when I clean it, I work from the end to the beginning, fixing each case and deleting the marker. To do it efficiently, you don't want to have to re-wind and restart every time you want to re-do a section. Hitting M at each case ensures you will revisit them all. The same thing basically works for pod-casts where you are free talking... you want to talk casually and not in a rehearsed way, but this creates a lot of content you don't want to post. You have to have efficient methods for pruning the cr*p.