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This. To add to what David was saying, this is another reason I go into settings whenever I set up cakewalk on a new rig, and change stretch settings pretty much all to elastique pro.

Do you use wave plugins? A quick and dirty way of doing the same thing I described before is to do the control L thing, and then instead of melodyne use waves pitchshifter. It's not as "clean" as melodyne is for most things, but it works surprisingly well on a lot of material. It also has different algorithms too, so if one sounds a bit wonky, you can try another. I use that sometimes when I need to fit a part and don't want to fuss too much with it. Try it.

I haven't used cakewalks/sonars x's loop construction view in ages. I'll say this. What I do now a days is get the bpm of the loop working in my project, create the loop manually by hitting control L, then I make a region effect with melodyne and experiment with the different algorithms to see which one pitches the loop the best, least destructively. Loop construction was useful back in the day when acid loops where being used a lot in music creation, but frankly we have so many tools that do that now, and with less artifacts, that I haven't even looked at it anymore. Also, if my way of doing it doesn't work for you, you could also load up a vst for this like Serato sample or something similar. Serato sample pitches things and stretches them with so little artifacts that sometimes people don't believe me when I let them listen to the original source clip. Hope this helps.

Are you talking about cakewalk, cakewalk product center or literally actually the bandlab app that is an online daw?

Sounds like a corrupt file somewhere in your installation. I've had that happen in the past. It's a pain, but a clean install might be worth it to you.

I'm honestly not sure. But for whatever it's worth, I tried just that a while back, and what ended up happening was that when recording in loop mode (which I tend to do when comping vox's) New take lanes were created and the old ones were left blank save for the 1st one. There might be a way for that behavior to be different, but I personally don't know how to tweak that. I don't know, it's not the biggest issue, but I have issues with depth perception, so any visual aids come in handy for me.

Hey Promidi, what do your tips do. They sound interesting, but what are they for exactly? Thanks!

Hey John, How's mixcraft on cpu? Any idea on studio one? I'm just looking to keep my options open.

Did you have your internet on while updating? Just wondering if maybe it tried to reach bandlabs servers and couldn't for some reason.

Hey Scook, quick question, has this function been taken away or deprecated in some form? I have a source project that I saved a recall of. I was doing an alternate mix of the exact same project in another saved session. It got a bit away from me, so I decided to use your technique to go back to the originals levels and such, but it doesn't do anything at all. EDIT: Never mind, I realized why it wasn't working. I had floated a group of tracks to a different position in track view. As soon as I remembered and floated them back, I was able to place the mix recall in place no problem. Anyhow, my fault, user error.

More info will help people help you. What are you listening on, what do you use to connect audio devices to your computer? Listing what your setup is like might help someone point you to a solution.

This right here. I have a hard time differentiating between the background, the waveform and the gui. It feels like all one thing, with very little to discern what's what on my screen.

Personally, I don't care that it looks "flat" but I myself have never enjoyed the inverse clip colors where the "meat" of the sound is bright and the background is dark/black. It hurts my eyes like nobodies business. Each version of sonar that has had it since 6 or X I can't remember, I've gone through the trouble of changing it or getting a theme on here that has it inverse. My 2 cents, but it's not all about style for some of us.

I don't have an issue with the general flat look of it all, but that color scheme is hard on the eyes yeesh! I know that there are other color schemes under the hood, but they didn't do much for that department either, imho. I hope they allow themers to start modding again, cause I can't see myself using it long term the way it looks right now.

I'd like a modified version of your idea and the original way. So the clip name, with an underscore and the project details at the end. Like that we get the best of both worlds, knowing what the file actually is, but also where it might've come from.

I've had this issue for ages. What I tend to do is set up my markers, however many I need, and zoom in to the sample level and make sure they are on grid one by one. Since I don't like doing this every single damn time, I've just got 3 basic templates set up to build projects from that I go to now, and I haven't done this in a while. Sorry you're having trouble with this.

You've got to give a little more info in order to help. What are your specs, what's your system like, interface, computer, hardware etc.? That said, a few spikes won't matter as long as everything is playing along fine. What setting do you have the interface set to? (Bit depth, sample rate, buffer)?

I get what you're trying to say, but Ben Jordan is a very successful and respected musician, producer etc etc in the industry. As someone who loves Sonar and has wanted this DAW to not only survive but get the recognition it's due, I think it's pretty cool someone who actually works in the biz is giving cakewalk it's props to his followers.

Yeah, I guess since I setup my menu the way I like forever ago, I don't find myself needing to change its layout. I can see how that'd be annoying.

Agreed on all fronts Glenn. I'd also add that if you do decide to use the preset mixes on each software drummer, Addictive just sounds that much more "professional" out the box than ez does to me. Just my 2 cents, but I've heard Addictive on actual top 40 tracks several times with nothing on the preset changed but the pattern played. To date, I haven't recognized any ez drum "sound" out in the wild.

Question, can you not use the built in search in the plugin section? It's much faster than scrolling through deep plugin menus imho.

Nice tip Canopus. I personally love ez drummers interface and "ease" for putting quick drum arrangements together, but addictive drums sounds better to me, regardless if it hasn't been updated in a few years.

Very nice Martin ??

I see what you mean, I respect that. Yeah, as far as I've heard, the new sonar won't permit it at all at 1st. I saw a screenshot of the one that was leaked a few months ago somewhere, and lets just say I'm not a big fan of the new look. Hopefully that was just some prank and the real thing doesn't resemble what I saw ?

Respectfully, there are many of us, me included, who use mixing surfaces to control our daws. These look and feel just like a console, and in some cases integrate function/function directly with a daws layout. Maybe this would ring true for bedroom/home studio producers, but many people work on large format mixing surfaces just like in the old console days.