John Vere

To continue using the TTS-1 you will need a game plan. Watch the videos I made on the topic. It has been removed from the forthcoming Sonar as well as the last version of CbB. But, if you install any older versions of CbB or Sonar you will still be able to use it. Instructions are in the videos. Yes Sonar has the playlist. It is more or less the same as Sonar Plat and CbB. No TTS_1 , No Problem - https://youtu.be/kF3tEttGdIQ How I saved the TTS-1 from death by Sonar- https://youtu.be/gDm9AhrTbfk Goodbye TTS-1- https://youtu.be/Zw-UqrMmF0A But you should seriously look at replacing the TTS_1 as it is DX format and has not been supported for a long time. It can defiantly crash Sonar. If you wish to continue using it you are better off keeping a time machine going like a laptop with W7 and running a Pre Bandlab version of Sonar.

I downloaded and messed around with Drum pro, Seems like a usable freebie. I had no issues with timing. But! There is a Attack control that will defiantly delay the sounds if turned up to max.

Above is a easy way that I have used for a long time . The meter will hold the highest reading until you re start playback. But this involves playing in real time. What I now do is with the paid version of You Lean Loudness Meter you can drag and drop any audio ( or video) to the GUI and in seconds you not only have the max true peak level you have the much more important LUFS. This tool pays for itself shortly as it can save a lot of time. It is indispensable for Mastering. A track could be very quiet but have a couple of loud peaks so peak level is only useful for steady sustained material. It’s useless on things like drums , guitar and piano. Well worth the $50

All your midi should be on the grid unless you desire things to be otherwise. So start by quantize the midi to the correct timing. If you freeze the synth and zoom in on the waveform is it still on the grid? If you are using you computer audio and don’t have an audio interface WASAPI is the correct driver to use. It’s only drawback is you can’t record audio properly but midi should be rock solid.

You need to be aware that CbB will soon be de-activated as Sonar is replacing it. None of the CbB versions from the last 7 years can be activated anymore. Only the last sunset version from this year can be activated. Sonar will not run on W7. So as said above you would need to use Sonar from pre Bandlab ownership to use it on W7. I also have a 2008 Sony laptop that I have used for recording live bands using W7 and CbB. That’s the end of that. But I also have Sonar Home Studio on it.

Good question and I'm pretty confident I won't need it, But I have a massive Plan B! I already have purchased Mixcraft 10 Pro Studio. I liked it enough to get it on sale dirt cheap. I also am using Pro Tools First because I have other people I sometimes work with who are Pro Fools. Bummer is the inability to use some of my favourite Plug ins. I don't think I would ever pay for the full version. Out of my league. I can also upgrade my Cubase Elements 7 for around $250. I prefer Cubase over Studio one for midi editing. I tested all of them and those were my short list. I can never get my head around Reaper so off my list. I like Harrison Mixbus but like many, it's weak at Midi editing. I tried the newest versions demo and I own Version 4. I have various older version of Sonar that I could use if I needed to open older projects. I would never return to actually recording with them. Seems stupid to step back 10 years. I am in the process of backing everything up to Midi and Wave stem files so all my important stuff is future proof. I've finished and published all my originals up to date. I don't have anything that is unfinished other than a few song ideas that were obviously bad song ideas! Then I have hundreds of backing track projects that are 100% midi so they already open and play in all other DAW's. I'm not dependant on things like the Pro Channel. I generally don't use many plug ins so swapping over is not as complicated for me as it would be for those crazy guys with 700 plug ins on a project. I also own 2 digital multi track recorders one which can do Midi sync as well as a bunch of Hardware. I could almost stay out of the box. I have a neighbour who owned a small studio back in the 80's and has a bunch of old semi pro studio Reel To Reel 2 tracks and I think even a 16 track 1/2" he offered I could borrow. But I can't afford the Tape and I lost my razor blades and white lead in tape. So I'm not overly concerned about what Bandlab does. I would like to carry on with Sonar and feel that is all that will happen and it will be business as usual COMING SOON I HOPE! June 6th is fast approaching! Geez.

It actually seems like a very small group that are complaining still. I think the majority are following along with Choices 1&2 from my list above. I really like Sonar and totally got used to the new GUI. I uninstalled CbB. I have no nag screens. It’s not very expensive for now, but still will only purchase, not continue to rent. The bonus has been getting Cakewalk Next as well. It a great little DAW for quick song ideas. Super fast to load and get going.

It's not clear but are you saying that it is only Audacity? There's lots of things involved in sharing the audio system on a PC. First go to windows sound settings, this is W10. Set your sample rate here. And uncheck the exclusive control box. This is important. This is W11 - It's a terribly configured system I do not like. -Focusrite Control panel set your rate here as well. Open a Cakewalk project. What shows in the transport? Open Preferences and make sure this is unchecked Export the project as a Wave file at your default sample rate. and play in Media Player. In the lower right is 3 dots and you'll find "properties" This will confirm that your file is indeed the correct sample rate, 2304 = 48/24 wave file. ( my default) - open the file in Audacity . Check does it show that the file you are playing is the correct sample rate? Take note Audacity doesn’t use ASIO drivers. This is why I don't use it. I use Wave Lab or Gold Wave.

Look at my above post. It’s simple. You have choices so no point complaining about stuff nobody here can fix. Note- Reaper is not actually free unless you choose to not participate in the concept .

Next does not have ARA you cannot convert Audio to Midi. It is a very basic DAW. But it is well executed and very good DAW for beginners looking to start out with something that is not overwhelming to learn. Compare 270 page users guide to Cakewalks 1942 pages. All clips dragged to project will attempt top match the projects tempo. But they need to be groove clips or what ever loops are. And best to see what the original tempo was as listed below each loop in the loop browser. You want to stay close as you can to avoid artifacts.

Doubt if they have a budget for that. It’s been a long time wait for Midi 2.0 to become the standard. It mostly only benefits Hardware users which is important to at least one style of modern music. It seems it will almost eliminate midi latency of gear but the rest was over my head.

This is what console view is for. The D shortcut toggles it. But your suggestion is viable. It would be a matter of changing the FX bin to a horizontal stacking instead of vertical.

It’s a huge waste of time. I posted a few bugs in November that never were acknowledged. Re posted a few times. Last answer to questions were months old. All there was is hundreds of posts people asking how to do stuff and nobody really answered. My bug was still not fixed in April So just a few weeks ago I used the same report a problem form we use for Cakewalk and Sonar. It has a Next option as well. They got right back to me and by now they have probably fixed the bug. A few people have made beginners tutorials if you’re looking for help. But good luck using Discord. There might be a Facebook page for it but that’s almost as terrible as Discord for asking questions and getting the correct answers.

This is why I switched to setting everything at 48 a few years ago. No issues since.

Try different USB ports.

As I say I’ve actually never seen a saved untitled project? While testing things I have opened hundreds of blank or Basic templates, messed around for even an hour and then I just close off and when it asks me to save I just say no and it’s gone forever. I’ve had a few of these crash on me as well when testing funky free plug ins. So it seems to me you would have to actually save it with out naming it to create a project that has that title?

The Magician tells you which Slot is assigned to each drive. My C drive shows as 3. There’s other apps like aspect that also list off everything about your computer.

I’ve never cloned an NVM drive as I just got my start with them last November with my new machine I built. I’m not sure if there’s adapters for USB to NVM? Never thought of that but ! I have 2 slots so I would think I would temporarily pull the Data drive from its slot, install the new drive and the the Magician would choose that as the target drive. The C drive would be cloned to the new drive. I would shut down , pull the old C drive and swap the new drive over to that slot, put the data drive back in its slot and boot up. I think windows will look for C drive in the same dive slot and it should be just fine. By right’s Windows will sort of be unaware anything happened. Just a few registry changes to acknowledge the new serial numbers and capacity.

Another thing I use the Magician for is you run the disk analyzer and save ( Export) the performance benchmark and then in 6 months or so you can review this and compare to see if your drive is slowing down.

It will only exists if you saved it with that name. Otherwise if you close with out saving it’s gone. I have never seen a project with that title. All new projects will be saved to your default location set in preferences. The only other thing I can think of is if you have Auto save turned on I’m not sure where and if that would get saved under that name?

Lots of software can do this but not Sonar. I noticed that if I create a midi sequence in Band in a Box ( or Jjazz or Chord Pulse) and open it in Sonar and the chords show as markers. Therefore as a pretty efficient work flow I can map out my song in one of those programs , try different styles , arrangements and drum grooves and then transfer the midi file to Sonar. I then rebuild the song playing my own parts the way I want it. If it’s just a cover song I don’t need to do too much. So basically I’m using AI generated midi which also gives me the chord symbol as a bonus. You can use BiaB as aVST plug in in Sonar but I haven’t messed around with that option yet. I don’t think it would create the markers. Chord track has been a much requested feature for a long time and I would guess it’s high on the teams list of future upgrades. First the bugs then the goodies.

I don’t think it’s done on purpose. I think all hands are on deck and working on Sonar and some on Next. Cakewalk has been sort of left to it’s own demise.

Did you not read what a few people were talking about? If you are using a Behringer UMC 2 or UMC22 it won't work with Cakewalk. Starting with the UMC 202HD they do come with proper ASIO drivers. Plug ins have nothing to do with your DAW unless they are used in a project. The Sonitus Effects are DX and still work fine for most of us. They are no longer supported but I still use them without issues if they are on older projects. All of these 2x2 interfaces use proper ASIO drivers.

As reported by many and the dozens of threads with this topic. It is the state that CbB is now in prior to it's final closing. Your choices are: Move to using Sonar via by paying a monthly Bandlab Membership fee of around $15 USD. Move to using another DAW = $$$?? or free if you don't mind basic. Move to using a version of Sonar pre Bandlab = Sucks for many because of the old bugs and missing features. Put up with the inconvenience of using CbB for the short term until Sonar is released and can be purchased. CbB is still free.

Yes I did this a year ago. My data drive was getting real slow and as a result Cakewalk was taking forever to open or save. I discovered the issue after looking into possibilities and I found out about the Magician. It quickly showed the issue was with my Data G drive. I bought two 500 GB SSD Evo 860’s and used the Samsung Magician to clone the C and G drives. Took all of 30 minutes. the computer was obviously way faster afterwards. I put the 2 old drives on the shelf for a few weeks just to be sure all was good. Then I did a slow re format of the old drives to use them elsewhere and they both perked back up. They are only 2 years old. I now run the Magician ever once in a while to check on my drives. You can even save the test results to compare. What I learned was SSD drives even if only 1/2 full can slow down due to read and write cycles. Apparently Video editing is a heavy cycle user. I’m sure audio editing is too.