OPunWide Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 It seems the online documentation for Cakewalk is now in the "https://legacy.cakewalk.com/Documentation" area. Perhaps because of that, the formatting is screwed up. Images are missing, which makes parts of the manual useless. As an example, the page on Mix Recall, https://legacy.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Mixing.48.html The problem may be that the images are coming from an http server, but the document is coming from https. At least that's what the Chrome Browser's Inspector implies. I noticed this a while ago, but didn't look into it, hoping someone would fix it. No such luck. Is all the Cakewalk stuff going to just get abandoned and left to slowly rot, or was it just that nobody noticed how broken the help is? There's also the chance I'm doing something wrong. I've always had trouble finding things in the Cakewalk docs because I don't know exactly what to search for, so I rely on Google to find answers. The downside of that is that 75% of the answers it finds are from old Sonar and Cakewalk version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutrageProductions Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 (edited) Since the release of 2022.06 there has been an option to use local help in conjunction/addition to the standard <Help><Documentation> menu item in the program. Local help is a preference function here: The only reason to really go to the legacy help system is if you need to compare/contrast some ancient function with what is current in the latest/last version of the program. The online help accessed from inside CbB <Help><Documentation> is actually as up to date as possible. There is also the PDF manual available (which is about 99% up to date) here: Personally I prefer to use CTRL-F to search the PDF, seems it's faster to get to the items that I want. YMMV Edited December 22, 2023 by OutrageProductions 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Wichrowski Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 2 hours ago, OPunWide said: Images are missing, which makes parts of the manual useless. As an example, the page on Mix Recall, https://legacy.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Mixing.48.html The problem may be that the images are coming from an http server, but the document is coming from https. At least that's what the Chrome Browser's Inspector implies. brave://settings/content/insecureContent settings/privacy > content > (botom page) > insecureContent add cakewalk sites to unblock images. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPunWide Posted December 22, 2023 Author Share Posted December 22, 2023 12 hours ago, OutrageProductions said: Since the release of 2022.06 there has been an option to use local help in conjunction/addition to the standard <Help><Documentation> menu item in the program. Local help is a preference function here: ... The only reason to really go to the legacy help system is if you need to compare/contrast some ancient function with what is current in the latest/last version of the program. There is also the PDF manual available (which is about 99% up to date) here: ... Personally I prefer to use CTRL-F to search the PDF, seems it's faster to get to the items that I want. YMMV Thanks for the detailed response. I had found all of that before I posted. I get frustrated with the pdf search, but it works. I was really surprised that the local help was such an old Windows Help format. I didn't know it was even possible to make those any more. After putting setting to Local Help, I found the file and then added a link to it so I can use it when CWBL isn't open. Then switched back to online help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPunWide Posted December 22, 2023 Author Share Posted December 22, 2023 10 hours ago, Patrick Wichrowski said: brave://settings/content/insecureContent settings/privacy > content > (botom page) > insecureContent add cakewalk sites to unblock images. Thanks, it's what I was looking for as a solution. I use Chrome, and it's slightly easier, using the "View site information" next to the URL, but had forgotten about that as an option to fix it. I would of course prefer that they just move the content to a secure server and fix the problem for everyone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Dickens Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 25 minutes ago, OPunWide said: I had found all of that before I posted. I get frustrated with the pdf search, but it works. Use the table of contents and the index. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 8 hours ago, OPunWide said: After putting setting to Local Help, I found the file and then added a link to it so I can use it when CWBL isn't open. Then switched back to online help. It's in the main Cakewalk folder as Cakewalk.chm. .... was recently updated and every page footer has links to the PDF, online help, online Support, and this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Arwood Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 I have pretty good luck with this too-> google.com In cakewalk how do I ….. This searches the online documentation the forum and a bunch of other sources. You just have to be careful which Cakewalk/Sonar version google search pulls up and how old the data is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Dickens Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 That's the problem with internet searches like that. You're liable to get a lot of outdated and even just plain wrong information. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Arwood Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 The current dosc are always the best place to start . For more information discuss.cakewalk.com is the second best place. If you like fishing, well google lol. google is oatmeal good for you google is oatmeal bad for you 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPunWide Posted December 23, 2023 Author Share Posted December 23, 2023 10 hours ago, Byron Dickens said: That's the problem with internet searches like that. You're liable to get a lot of outdated and even just plain wrong information. Yeah, and it will only get worse with another product names Sonar. Marketing people are a mystery to me. But for me, at least I can find something. The manual if fine if I'm trying to figure out had to do something that I'm already familiar with. Trying to find out the difference between "Save as" and "Save copy as" (which I was going over again yesterday) is somewhat pointless. I'm much more likely to find something useful here, which brings me back to Google to try to find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Arwood Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 You can search the forum multiple ways. You should check it out too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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