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There are 2 additional points to make regarding the Auto Zoom (Shift + Z) that I did not write about. If you select any track (thus highlighted), when you adjust that focused track's height all the other tracks will not be affected. They will remain at the height they are while you adjust the focused track's height. But conversely, if you adjust the height of any of the other tracks while one track remains selected they will all auto zoom in and out, but your focused track will remain at the height you had made it - thus it will not be adjusted while adjusting all the others.

I edited my post just before you posted. Their new device has both USB-C and the normal USB, too.

And to the OP, Chris, I have not read all the posts in your thread, but when you spoke about perhaps getting a new audio interface, and you are using one now with 6 inputs, I thought I would just mention to you that Arturia just introduced a new desktop audio interface at NAMM a couple weeks ago with USB-C and normal USB that they claim all types of great things about, i.e. low latency, incredible signal to noise ratio, high db value. Called the AudioFuse Studio, due out in 2 or 3 more months. It's loaded with features. MSRP: $999 https://www.arturia.com/products/audio/audiofuse-studio/overview

Question: When I increase the Sampling Rate, the latency for both Input & Output decrease! I must not understand the concept, but I would have thought that increasing the sample rate would have caused more latency. I experimented from 44,100 all the way up to 384,000 which brought the roundtrip latency down to a ridiculously low 1.3 msec! What am I not understanding?

I know in X3 Producer there's a feature that is not on by default, called Auto Track Zoom, which is quite cool. Turn it on under View > Auto Track Zoom within the Track view. Shortcut is <Shift + Z>. Now, when you select any track and adjust its height all the other tracks will adjust to the same height at the same time. It's not the same thing as a key binding for minimize and maximize, but it might actually be better that what you were looking for.

Can uploaded material be made private after is was made public? If not, can it be deleted so that it's gone for good, and then upload again privately without using the export feature of CbB? I do not know (yet) the logistics of BandLab collaboration - it's ins and outs.

Regarding the request for "Deals", if people want to sell their Mixing/Mastering services and others are seeking semi-pro help in mixing of their own DAW recordings, what type of forum would those get posted in? Do we need a special forum for services?

Only thing is drivers -- about the most important thing of all.

FYI, since their instructions on their website are contradictory, allow me to give you the straight answer (I wrote their support and got the answer). You cannot just double-click the upgrade file you download. You need to uninstall Melodyne from your PC, and then run the Setup.exe file that you downloaded (and unzipped). I suggest running it as "administrator", like they told me to do a few upgrades back. Also, you may want to deactivate the use of your Melodyne on your Celemony account before installing so that when you go to "activate" it after installing and going into your DAW, you don't encounter any problems with how many instances you have remaining.

I agree that it's redundant and confusing. We all look at the top 2 threads (starting from the Home page) and scratch our heads.

Perhaps. In this case not only is the similar sound used, but also the chord progressions.

I use mine for the custom metronome. I have a wave file of a yodel that I like to help me keep time when I play my kazoo. Bought my Sonar DAW 4 years ago for $400? Best money I ever spent.

Complete ripoff. The original was by Andy Williams, "Can't Get Used To Losing You." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZgW8T2IIqU

Perhaps my solution applies to your problem. I have a fantastic desktop PC and cannot imagine it needing more power or RAM for my needs for many years. i7 4790K, 32GB RAM, SSD drives, PCIe semi-pro sound card (ESI Juli-Xte), etc. The only thing I never got around to getting was a discrete GPU card (too expensive at the time and now 3x more expensive! haha - bit miners). Anyway, last month I purchased Arturia Collection V v.6 (21 software synths) that I could not pass up for $249. When I installed them, each and everyone of them had graphic problems when loaded for themselves, but not affecting anything else running on my system (i.e. DAW, other VSTi's, desktop images and program) Only the Arturia programs alone. You can follow the unfolding of the story and see images I had uploaded to the Gearslutz forums here, if you are so inclined, starting with my post #458: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-and-electronic-music-production/1191378-arturia-v-collection-6-a-16.html#post13655738 The solution ended up being to simply update my Intel 4600 graphics driver from the Device Manager. Not intuitive at all. But Arturia had me do an uninstall and re-install all to no avail. A suggestion from the Sonar Cakewalk forums put me on the right track and his suggestion had me going looking, and I stumbled upon the solution. The updated driver for the internal graphics of the Intel cpu fixed my issue. Your image is a resemblance to what mine were.

I like this light color far more than the dark theme. This mercury (looking like light greys and silvers) is easier on the eyes than the dark charcoal used in the other(s).

I tried the free Bitwig version that came with a MIDI controller I bought, and cannot imagine anybody thinking it is good. Horrible software, totally unintuitive, failed to recognize settings after being set, registration problems that could not get corrected. And UGLY. And that was their way of enticing me to upgrade to their "pro" version for my hard-earned money? <shaking head>

And regarding CbB, what new users probably have no idea about (and they are in for a joyful surprise) is how many Cakewalk Sonar veterans there are who are absolutely the best guys you might ever come across who will help you and support you in whatever problem you have with the CbB DAW, Plugins, VST pathway issues, Fx, you name it. They don't belittle you for your ignorance and having to ask the question several times when you don't understand, and they go outside the normal scope of the issue and don't have a problem helping you with related things (what type of Computer should I try to get?). And these guys have been around a LONG time. They know things that stymie many of us. Great, great resource of guys come along with CbB.

What you write is funny. What's not funny is how many people defend those notation programs to the death, regardless of what you just acknowledged. I cannot tell you how juvenile and hardheaded they get when you point out the obvious flaw. I just gave up on those characters. You can't fix stupid.

Musescore is another one of those notation programs that force everything to add up to 1. 'Could not care less that it's free since it's a nightmare to work with editing existing MIDI songs.

1) You should seriously consider playing your song on your MIDI controller and record it. Then you will have your song available as a MIDI file from which you can then EDIT it with Cakewalk's Notation Staff View. Actually, regardless of what DAW you like, playing and recording your song on a MIDI controller is the fastest way to get your music into your DAW and be ready to edit it. 2) I own Sibelius and it's generally horrible. And it's because all the notation software programs out there, save one (Finale'), are a bitch to work with. I have written about this several times over the years on various forums, but I'll try to make this short: Sibelius and others (not Finale'), force all the notes in a measure to add up to one (1). Therefore, when you import the song you played as a MIDI file into these programs, it will force all your notes to be strange values because the measure must add up to one. Nobody plays perfectly and your notes will be on either side of the measure when you record. We are not robots when we play. So then the notation software will assign strange values to your notes, because if you played a little fast and have a few extra notes in the measure (or even just one extra note) from which you set the tempo while recording, the notation software will force smaller values on your music in order to make the measure add up to 1. You don't understand how horrible and infuriating this is until you read the next paragraph. Now, you go into edit that score with all the notes assigned strange values, and as you attempt to push the notes into next measure to make it "right", the notes left behind will again be re-assigned new values. Or, you attempt to change the 1/16 note into an 1/8 note, and it either will not allow you to or it will change all the other notes remaining in the measure so they all add up to 1. It's a nightmare. Finale' (which I do not own, but have verified), allows you to edit the music like a Word processor. You can insert notes into the existing MIDI score, and Finale' gives you the option of pushing the notes to the right further to the right WITHOUT modifying the notes to the left. And you can edit the value of a note without the program forcing changes on the other notes. It gives you options on how you wish to handle the remaining notes. That's the way notation software should work. When I wrote Sibelius about this issue a few years ago, they wrote me back and said they were not able to accommodate the need I wrote about because their core software is designed to be that way (adding up to 1). So all their latest versions continue this inherent "flaw". It's not a problem if you write music from scratch with a digital pencil, so to speak, but if you import a MIDI file that you played, forget all about trying to correct and edit it with Sibelius and the others. Cakewalk does not have this problem due to its simplistic way of editing and not really being a notation software program.

Thanks for that, Kurre. I passed it along over on Gearslutz.

Over on Gearslutz, a teacher is asking about the best free DAW for her students. CbB was mentioned, but the fact that each download requires a user account was issued as a problem for using CbB. I don't know if you have an answer for this or not, but I wrote that the teacher should at least inquire since CbB is the best DAW out there, and it's free. Do you have a solution for the school teacher environment that I could pass along?