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Does anyone else ever keep track of how much time (including coffee breaks) that they spend creating, fleshing out, and mixing a project from the note browser. I used to spend up to 24 to 30 hours to compose a movie cue of 4-6 minutes, and in the last 5 years have that whittled down to under 10 hours. Sometimes I get lucky with a theme and can recycle it into an accompanying cue in less than 5. These days it takes me about 3+ weeks to do an entire movie score, with rewriting & modifications to fit edits. Just curious. Does it make you happy... or dismayed?

What does the Inspector tell you when you highlight the clip in question? Is there a checkmark in the <Looping> tick?

You have to be a bit more specific than "standard set", as no such thing adhering to that nomenclature really exists. Are you referring to the TTS-1 or the SI Drums, or a General MIDI set of some sort? Please be aware that the TTS-1 is a DXi instrument, not VSTi, and is multitimbral, so you can get up to 16 instrument voices from one instantiation. SI-Drums are VSTi and can have multiple instances hosted in the DAW simultaneously.

The MIDI will automatically adjust to tempo changes. For audio, you must convert the clip(s) to "Groove Clips" as detailed in the help system. In your duplicate post @msmcleod has detailed a couple of methods.

Not to say that he didn't get stuck on a lesser mic at some point, but from 'Thriller' onwards, it was pretty much the Sony. IIRC, the C800-G was very nearly the MOST expensive mic on the market when it first came out, even more than U47's and early C12's. Before they became collectors items, anyway.

@Byron Dickens; MJ used a Sony C800-G almost exclusively, carrying one with him to every session. Bruce Swedien turned him on to it. I always had to rent one in as a spare when he came in.

Ditto with @mettelus on Comping. In the real studio... we get the vocalist warmed up, in the pocket, in the groove, and then run them down at least 6 track lanes so that we can comp the best. That way there are very few timbre variations in the performance.

This entire series is an excellent starting place for anyone that doesn't want to read the operations manual. https://youtu.be/YZqXiL2L36g?si=nnZlAzYPaFCZyCK1 Manual is available here:

You might try opening the inspector <I><Clip Properties> and enter bar 1 beat 1 in the start field.

Did you use the uninstall.exe that came with it, or just deleted it? If the latter, the drivers are probably still hooked into the registry.

My contract attorney and I were perusing the stated FAQ's on the Cake home page under the SONAR label and found this arguably legally ambiguous terminology. We both laughed a little bit. Rumors abound. (Emphasis ADDED)

Click on the <Input Monitor> button just to the right of the Record Arm (red) button so that it turns orange.

There was a time not so long ago (2-3 years) when you could click on the number and it would allow you to directly type in a semitone value, but that got lost in some version since 2019 or so. I kinda miss it. However, if you use the square brackets on the keyboard [ & ], it will go +/- 12 semitones per keystroke. If you have a mouse wheel (I use the ring around my trackball), click in the box to highlight it and you could try to hold <Shift> and roll the wheel up & down. That's the way that I get semitones increments. Of course; a double click will reset it to 0.

In all my decades of working on large format consoles, we had to move the chair all the way from channel 1 on the end of the console to channel 72 on the other. Thankfully, someone invented rolling casters. Now I just use a trackball.

The funny thing about copyright law (in the tall grass) is that 'rhythms' or 'beats' as they are now referred to are generally not subject to litigation or infringement (when used in small segments). Just have a gander at the first major case wrought in 1956 regarding the "Bo Diddly" rhythm and you'll get a clue.

TLM 102 hands down for clarity & presence if used with a spit screen. I'd take a large diaphragm condenser any day for sung vocals, either gender. Proximity effect on a SM7b is great for broadcast male & spoken word (which is why it is the standard at so many radio & podcast) applications.

Beta won't be available until January.

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Not a bug. That portion of the online help system dates from 2018 and versions of SONAR X1c and earlier. It is no longer applicable. Steve Cook was quoting from the online (old) help system at that time. The QCEQ is the ONLY section of the ProChannel that cannot be removed or changed out. This has been hard coded since (IIRC) SONAR X2 until today. I'd have to go back and check the version change list for sure, but CbB has been this way for quite a while. You can, however, NOT enable the QCEQ section in the PC and insert the Sonitus EQ into a Plugin Chain or in the FX bin of the relative channel instead. The latest and most up to date Help system is available from the <Help><Documentation> menu. Search: EQ and choose QuadCurve Equalizer Module.

Freeze the original track, drag & drop the audio clip to an adjacent (empty) audio track, unfreeze the original & mute it or continue. I do that all the time when creating foley or sound effects pieces. Allows me to change parameters or patches in the VSTi & proceed.

The nomenclature for this process should be "ripping stems from a mixed track" so as not to be confused with actual 'stems' in the industry as detailed by @Glenn Stanton. Personally, I'm anticipating tons of copy and mechanical rights issues in the future from this nonsense.

If the pedals are basically guitar modifiers and your Audio I/O has a ¼ Hi-z input, you'll be fine.

Both of these items have been known and reported for several years. Nothing new here.

You're funny. You do you. I've never had a project EVER that wasn't recoverable in some manner. Trust me.

John made it sound as though this was a multiple track project where he was editing one-of-many tracks for consolidation. Of course, if there is only one track in the project, then DUH! It won't play and there will be no audio engine enabled.