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I simply gave my opinion just like you did. Shouldn't we all be entitled to our own opinions ? Or is it only you who should only be entitled to an opinion ? Oh now I see, we aren't entitled to our opinions.

This review was a bit bizarre for me. He first reported there were no Track templates or project templates. That was soon edited from his review once someone called him out on it in the comments. He also suggested that Traktion is a better choice for a free DAW. That is almost laughable. Sure im partial because I use Cakewalk but I sure as hell wouldn't do a review on Pro Tools if I knew nothing about it.

I can understand ones curiosity, but does it really matter ? What are we planning for ? I hope this doesn't sound a slight or me being ignorant, I just don't see how it matters ? Bandlab has delivered on its promise (for over a year now) to make Cakewalk free. That's good enough for me.

I believe the numbers are based on REC Takes. Each time you hit the record button to record an audio track, Cakewalk adds a number to the name. This helps identify the Audio clips location within the sequence of a track. For example you may have one track with 10 audio clips in it. Thus- Kick drum.1 / Kick drum.2 / Kick drum.3

Great answers above. Personally I would make a copy (just to retain the original). 1- Open the project 2- Select all audio clips (CNTRL+A) 3- Right click on any Audio track and choose "Bounce to clips" (Essentially like Apply trimming). 4- Use the "Save as" or use the Clean Audio folder. This will reduce edits, slip edits, unused punch ins, exc to consolidate the projects size. This is what most of us call "House keeping".

Rippin a page right out of Roy Thomas Baker's book

They're not bad. I own a set of those and a set of KRK's I use during mixing. The TRUTH B2031 aren't that bad, the M Audio ones though are prone to problems and just sound like garbage. My friend had a pair of the TRUTH B2031 hanging around and leant them to me while I was in transition. They weren't bad. They were almost on par with the LSR308's

hmm man I got nothing. I tried it out but couldn't reproduce. Totally here what your saying though about the splits causing havoc. Have you tried Drag and click using the smart tool to make selections ?

For hand limiting I use volume automation. After a million times, you know what to look for (tight little zippers). I haven't had the zooming issues you speak of though. Is it possible a screen resolution zoom you have in your GPU settings ?

I would also suggest trying out Bandlab. However if your running Sonar 8.5 there's a good chance your using an older OS. Sonar 8.5 was released for Windows XP. Bandlab wont run on that.

Do you have external speakers ? or are you trying to use Windows PC speakers ?

have you tried expanding the track area ? This can sometimes lead to problems with modules, track widgets, exc from being seen properly when the track area is too small. Hover your mouse over the area that splits the track area from the clips area, your mouse pointer should turn into a double sided arrow. Click and drag left.

Yup, just what Craig said. I have several sub folders in one main folder in C/Cakewalk Content. You can also drag these loops to windows explorer which is what I sometimes do if I need to rename, edit the files.

do you use any custom Lenses or Screensets ? That would be my first guess anyway.

I use the "Tap Tempo" button and tap out the beat. it displays the in the tempo box (as can be seen below). I've tried it several different ways like drawing it in, drag to timeline, exc. I just use what works for me. It can be difficult to find the flow of a tempo for a song that was recorded without a tempo. Verses can be one BPM, the Chorus can get faster. I go through each part planning the changes, mapping them out and if needed, writing it down for use in a whole new project.

That would be latency. Bandlab by Cakewalk uses the Soundcards buffer size for offline rendering (fast bounce, freezing) Make sure your Audio interface buffer size is not too low. On a side note ( Not the same thing as your Midi buffer size). Are you running in ASIO ? Im almost positive your Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 uses an ASIO Driver. Try increasing this. You should be able to open your Focusrite Saffire MixControl screen and change it there.

This sounds like a classic case of midi buffers needing to be boosted. I would change it to 500 and see if that helps.

I tend to stay away from giving songwriting advice. I will help/assist with the engineering process and I'll even go as far as giving my opinion (which doesn't always go over that well) But Its hard to tell someone, "you shouldn't do this or do that". The artists who have gone on to become very successful are the ones who dared to be different. I learned a lot about songwriting from listening to the Beatles. Their earlier albums were classic pop blueprints. But when you look at what they did on Sgt. Peppers, They threw out the classic pop song mold and created bizarre arrangements. Some would consider this an instant fail. It turned out to be genius.

Do most people use Staff view for drums ? I use PRV. Very simple to change velocity. Have you tried changing velocity's in PRV to see if the same hang happens ?

You can Quick group your I/O assignments.

I personally would love to see some enhancements on Lyric view. I tried it a few times but it was difficult to understand. A font enlarger with ease would be nice and a way to add a line with a midi note (to accompany a lyric line) with ease would also be helpful.

I didn't see the words "playing live" in your first post, which makes it difficult to assess what is going on. I almost didn't even reply to this post yesterday because it lacked "detail". Those are the hardest kind of Problems to solve. Im guessing that's why others haven't replied either. It might help to know... - What Midi controller your using, - What kind of cable your using to transmit your midi (USB to USB ? .. MIDI to MIDI ? .. USB to MIDI ?) - What VST Instrument you are using.

I will assume this is the Bandlab version. I will also assume this is with Midi only. Are there any FX on the tracks being worked on ? this could lead to latency. Might want to try bypassing FX to check. It could also be your midi buffers need to be bumped up a notch. I don't know of any bugs where freezing/unfreezing midi would cause a total loss of production. If there was im sure we would all be in some trouble.

Waves vocal rider, Melodyne's ARA interrogation. VST 3 wasn't just promotional hype. https://www.cakewalk.com/Support/Knowledge-Base/2007013317/SONAR-X3-VST3-version-of-Melodyne-is-required-for-ARA-integration

I thought it was like Disturbed meets Pantera. Both bands I absolutely love. It doesn't sound like one of their songs, it just has that flavor to it. sorry I didn't hear that. It might be because its heavily compressed. Im not a fan of Ozone to be honest. I do think they make great products and a lot of people love them, for me though, I just prefer other plug ins. When I master something, I use about 6 different plug ins on 1 bus. I believe Ozone does it all in one plug in. I'll say it again though, awesome song man.