Bristol_Jonesey

To my mind it would be an extremely small number of cases where different busses would require the same threshold & other parameters set on a compressor.

They key word is require. You adjust the controls on a compressor in order to get the effect that the track, or in your case, group of tracks actually need.

These will all be different. I fail to see how  - for example - a drum bus would have the same settings as a vocal bus

But you can't record at 32 bit as to my knowledge, there are no 32 bit DACs on the prosumer market (yet)

Did you de-select the Steinberg before trying to select the Presonus?

7 hours ago, John Vere said:

Im not sure if 8 had anything that 8.5 didn’t have. The serial numbers came on the DVD and I ripped the DVD into a disk image and I have a document with all my serial numbers stored in a dozen places. 
 

I can answer that. 8 didn't ship with anything that was not included with 8.5

6 hours ago, Anders Madsen said:

the PC came with a usb-c to jack cable

Did the interface come with a connecting cable? These are usually USB both ends

At some point the Theme Editor was removed from the Utilities menu and became a separate program with its own dekstop icon

You also have the option to store takes in separate tracks which might help

2 hours ago, Xoo said:

Or make sure your VST paths don't include folders that don't contain VSTs, like \Windows.

Yep, first thing to check

I hope he's not scanning the entire C:\ drive

There's lots to address here.

I would consider doing the entire mix from scratch. Set all busses to 0dB, drag all faders down to -INF and start building the mix

You don't say if any compression has been used

Yes, roll off the lows of any instrument that doesn't have any LF content

Always keep your master bus at 0dB

Did you try using my suggestion?

You should be able to constrain horizontal movement by holding shift when dragging fron one track to another, or ctrl + shift for copy/drag

<shrug> generally, people on here don't like resurrecting ancient posts whose content may not be applicable any more

And I'm not prepared to wade through pages of dated information to see if any of it is still valid or not.

Nobody here is going to laugh. 

The only dumb questions are those that aren't asked.

Please start a new thread. This zombie one is in its fifth year

17 hours ago, John T said:

If it happens again, we should call in the rockers too.

A plan with no obvious drawbacks.

Get rid of this bugger

19 minutes ago, tdehan said:

That's rediculous!  It's fine when I am home working on projects and am online however, when my band is performing live my Surface tablet is NOT online not to mention many of the outside venues we play there is no internet...

What a stupid suggestion or requirement...

Don't shoot the messenger 😁

29 minutes ago, pwal³ said:

"go online first"?

That would do it 😁

If you'd read the other 2 threads you'd have your answer

Totally agree

This "splash screen" will ONLY pop up if you open CbB whilst being offline. If you go online first you'll never see it.

1 hour ago, John Vere said:

I opened Cakewalk on 2 different computers today and never got that.  

Nor me

19 hours ago, Terry Kelley said:

Or just let it load and delete it. You're going to have to point the tracks to other VSTs anyway so it a simple additional step.

Or simply right click the synth icon and choose Replace Synth

14 minutes ago, David Baay said:

Those are all good points/suggestions, but if the OP started with Select All and the meter is contant, that should have worked as expected, at least with regard to clip start times. Would probably need to see the specific project first hand to understand if the result was due to user error, faulty expectations for the circumstances, or an actual bug.

 

Mark explained above why this might not work