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@Alan Baird how are you trying to reactivate? Under Help? Have tried logging out and then in again?

I have to disagree, you believe what you will, I will believe what I have been told by plugin developers. Do not know how long you have been using Cakewalk but it has always been the underdog of DAW's mainly because it was and still is PC only.

@WPP do you have Windows text magnification set on the 43"? I found on my Samsung UHD 4K 43" setting it to 100% was best. On the 27", which was also UHD 4K, it needed to be 150%. Don't know if that is useful information or not.

Protective measures are always deployed when it is apparent what one is dealing with.

It is not unusual to ask for systems specs when trying to resolve technical problems, if you don't understand that not a lot I can do to help. Regarding Graphics drivers I wonder if you actually read what I said. I learnt that a recent Nvidia graphics driver bricked systems. Do you understand that?

@Astraios, Could you provide more details on your complete system, CPU, RAM, Disks, GPU, Audio card etc. It may help us help you. I have had Arturia's Spark since its release, not used it much but not had any crashes with it either. No experience with Sublab, I assume you have the 64 bit version installed? That appears to be a Nvidia reference, do you have the latest Game driver installed, I am aware that a recent Nvidia driver was a disaster.

Are the crashes creating dump files, if so have you looked at those? When you get a crash do you get a crash message. Have you looked in the Windows Event Viewer? You also have to remember it may well be the VST, as we were told here, many VST builders don't do extensive testing on the Windows/PC platforms, and if they do, they are frequently only tested in the DAW's perceived to be the most popular ones. What VST's are you having issues with?

Pointless discussion, been literally done to death, since the subscription was introduced. Just search back through the forum if you want the companies perspective.

@David Pollock not adviseable to have such a discussion, if you asked the same question in the PreSonus forum you would find yourself banned from their forums immediately. You could try asking in the Coffee house.

@Donald Manson have you tried a reset and rescan.

Funky little groove on here Mr @mark skinner sounds nice here.

@chamlin punching in is an old method used with tape machines, it was used to literally punching in over the top of pre recorded takes overwriting , destroying, what was there. With a modern DAW, there is no need to punch in. Just set your loop points as wide as you need. Then use comp recording mode to record as many takes as you need. Then using the comp function described on page 454 of the Sonar reference guide, you can not only pick the best take but pick the best bits of all the takes.

You said set the punch in, that is not required if you are using the loop/comp recording that @57Gregy suggested. 1. You set a loop points. 2. You enabled/arm the track for recording with the comp method selected, which is the default method. 3. Press the R to start recording each loop is recorded in its own take lane. No punch in needs to set.

@Loïc Choquette Sauvageau Z3ta+ Version 1 gets installed as part of the badic install of the old, pre Bandlab, SONAR products. It has never been part of CbB or the new Cakewalk products. If you previously owned one of the Gibson/Roland versions of SONAR, you can download the core code installer which will install Z3ta+ version 1.

@Tom Bednarz I suggest you report it to support@cakewalk.com, does it reset if you close and reopen Sonar?

@Astraios as noted @Kurre these sorts of things are controlled by how a Workspace is configured. Just set all the views and open tabs the way you want it, save the workspace. One other way if you don't use Workspaces is to configure a template.

Oh try writing code, in machine code.

@User 905133 I was totally aware of what they are, I didn't want scare the OP, as it was apparent she/it/he didn't.

@Joël JAGODZINSKI they look like Sysex commands. Do you know what each line does, each line is a single Sysex command. To use them you put them in the Sysex tab, normally only one line for any one song.

@ZincT is that what you wanted?

Primarily they have cleaned up the UI and made some controls that were on the second layer, on the front layer.

Basically you get the JUP8000, full version of Augmented Maletts, whole Augmented series GUI overhaul, the SEM rewritten from the ground up. Plus any of the new synths they have released this year, Minibrute I think, Augmented Yangtze, Acid V(? That is a guess)

Cynic!

Not sure how they can call it "Authentic" the JP8000 & JP8080 had upper and lower voices. And keyboard splits.

@norfolkmastering I just changed my monitors for two 32" 4k UHD Viewsonic monitors. Are you sitting down, cost me £409.00 next day delivery for the pair. If you are interested I do have a Samsung 43" 4K, G70C UHD, Mini- LED, only 6 months old hardly used, going for a sensible price if your interested, and you are not a million miles from me PM is interested.