John Vere

Since day one I think most of us long time fans have had a lot of things that we totally dislike about the new graphics. A whole year has gone by and Im am still forever being tripped up but graphic “ gotcha’s” I totally hate that Im forever having to resize the views of the console so I can see pro channel or EFX bin or Sends!! They become hidden and if I make them bigger then I can’t see the bottom or the top of the strip. if I was using a real mixer I don’t think it would hide stuff! I carefully adjust this and save the workspace but it doesn’t stick if you open older projects. I’ve lost track! I’ve got work to do and now I have to learn how to use Sonar all over again!! Possibly this is not an issue for users with new monitors? Is that the only solution!

The Zoom pedal does have an ASIO driver ( outdated?) but it’s simply the wrong tool. Lots of interfaces have podcast features now. The Zoom L8 is perfect for podcasting. It was designed specifically for that. Then my Motu M4 also works great. My new SSL2 also has loopback. Bottom line is you either have to hobble together a complicated haywire audio system that will leave you using WASAPI shared mode or get an interface that supports Loopback. Trust me, I tried! The only way I could run my Daw’s in ASIO was with the loopback feature. Doing what you want to do became huge during Covid therefore the new interfaces mostly now feature loopback.

I still have the full installation files that I iso copied to my hard drive. There’s I think 3 updates involved but I just run the first one to get Lexicon and True Pianos. Theres 2 items I’d love to see updated and brought back.

@Milton Sica Just a heads up about the new Windows driver ARM. In another thread on this topic Noel informed me that you need a brand new computer that supports this. To me that will place it out of reach for a lot of people for a long time yet. I just built a new computer and it has to last me 10 years. Music computers are very expensive even if you build them yourself. Good to see that you’re still around.

In all fairness the icon is just way too small considering the damage it can do. Just this morning I tried to split and copy a midi clip and my whole project went crazy! I knew from experience exactly what it was and the reason I posted my reply above. But it is easy to forget you tuned it on. Would it be possible to have it shut off as part of screen sets or Workspaces? That way if you forget to turn it off it will be automatically turned off when you open the project again.

Plus one to trying a good quality dynamic Mike. I can’t use Condensers. It brings out the worst in me. Snorting and grunting! My go to is my live Mike too, Shure Beta 58. It’s what I sound like! It also totally eliminates background noise.

Ripple edit?

I’ve played it live but singing like that is not something one should commit to tape. Only Neil can get away with it. I too was just learning Harvest Moon and took it down to C which made my son complain because he couldn’t play the harmonics. I pointed out that it was a lap steel so go buy one. He also pointed out that it’s a drop D tuning. I showed up next week with a guitar I put 13-56 gauge strings on and tuned a whole step down. The perfect solution to old age and a lower range! The D guitar. I did a Strat too. 11-50 set. Wasn’t Cinnamon girl in a drop tuning?

Ha! Where is old Ed these days? All the old timers seem to have wandered off in a daze.

Pondering the future and what a new Bandlab membership will cost me next Summer. Now Sonar is no longer an American company which bodes well for Canadians as we enter into a trade war. Im not breaking my patriotic duty purchasing products from Singapore. But then why do I have to purchase it in US dollars? At today’s exchange rates the $99 becomes $143 Canadian as we are at an all time worst rate ever. It would be only $107 SGD ( Singapore) money. Most of the Daw web sites offer me pricing in Canadian dollars. Not Bandlab which is odd for an international marketing company. What do you UK, Europe, Africa, Asia. South American and Australia etc think. Let’s ditch the US pricing and go with SGD’s

Hmm. That will most certainly rule out a lot of Musicians! Many are still on W10. I just built a new PC and I expected to use it for 10 years like the last one.

Thank I just finished reading the blog you posted a link to. This is definitely an important step in the right direction. Well if one of my interfaces puts out an Arm driver you can definitely sign me up for testing.

Everyone should take the time to read this blog posted by Neil. It’s going to ***** the die hard Mac Fans! Amazing, Windows becomes Studio friendly! What great concept!

@Noel Borthwick Are you saying that interface manufacturers are releasing this as an alternative driver or is / will it be included in the ASIO driver package? Example I have 3 fairly modern interfaces, Motu, Zoom and SSL. Im not expecting to need a new interface for a long time. Should I be watching for a driver update that adds ARM 64?

Thanks for the update. I don’t see the bug I reported back in February listed but it seems that you can now manipulate nodes on the tempo track and they behave as expected now. That was a serious roadblock for me. I find myself opening Next as my first choice out of 5 other Daw’s whenever I need to do something fast. Open1-2-3 Recording. Later on I easily transfer over to Sonar using the Transfer file system that seems to work well. Too bad Sonar doesn’t share the Instruments yet.