Mark Morgon-Shaw

Oversampling is one of those things where the benefit really depends on what the plugin is doing. If it’s a saturator, distortion, limiter, or analog-modelled EQ, then oversampling can absolutely make a noticeable difference — especially up in the high end where aliasing can creep in. Without it, those kinds of plugins can throw out nasty artifacts that sound fizzy or harsh. With it, they tend to sound a bit smoother, more open, and more "expensive" if that makes sense. If you’re just running a reverb, delay, or basic EQ, oversampling probably won’t do anything other than chew CPU for no reason. That said, sometimes the difference is subtle — it’s not like switching plugins entirely — but in a full mix it can add up, especially on anything doing aggressive processing. I usually just enable it on render rather than in realtime unless I really need to hear the difference as I’m working. Saves the CPU hit and still gets the benefit on the final bounce. Quick test: stick a saturation plugin on a drum bus, turn up the drive, A/B with oversampling on and off. That’s where it’s most obvious. Hope that helps. – Mark

Cakewalk Sonar Free Tier will open them

I agree it looks like it's been through the washing machine too many times and faded

I've been banging this drum ever since I first the new GUI , it seems to fall on deaf ears unfortunately

When I was younger I never would have believed my music would end up on MTV Sadly it's in the background on crappy reality TV shows 😆 ...who knew.

Brand doesn't matter that much as long as it does what you want. Have you checked out Framework? They do laptops that are modular and upgradable which is fairly unique.

Melodyne is a much better tool for the job.

Right click it on the taskbar and then select it

Seems fine here , I've not come across any patches that cause it to glitch. CPU use is on the higher side for sure . Some of the complex patches consume 20- 30% Engine load at 128 sample buffer playing 3 -5 notes ( Ryzen 5950x - 16core + RME Babyface )

Cakewalk Sonar is still pretty poor as far as legibility goes. I wish they'd just hire someone to fix it -I don't see this with other DAWs

No Cakewalk Column

Yeah should be a huge improvement but there were loads of reports of stability issues with that chip so maybe do some research to see if things have improved or look at something like a Ryzen 7950x

With a gaming PC you'll likely be spending over the odds because of the powerful GPU that you don't really need fow DAW use but can be the most expensive part of a gaming system. Better to buy from a music PC specialist or build your own ( it's not that hard and there are some great build guides out there like on Linus Tech Tips Youtube )

Humanise would be more useful, it's a giant omission in Cakewalk/Sonar's midi editing feature set in 2024 ( apart from using CAL )