CJ Jacobson

All your troubles will go away if you get a audio sound card that is made for audio production. What you are using (Realteck) is made for just normal pc audio playback. It lacks drivers and circuitry that a dedicated audio interface has. Try opening it up in Safe Mode. But this may be due to you not having a audio interface with drivers written for audio production.

I guess its time to learn the tools you want to use. I do not know how in-depth you want to go, but when i create a loop, i do not use the Loop Construction View. I just edit the audio in the track view and i adjust the zoom to my liking and i edit the audio clip and when i'm done, i 'right click' the clip select 'Apply Trimming' and then I right click it the audio clip again and enable it as a 'Groove Clip' -https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR X3&language=3&help=Looping.07.html CJ

I would not recommend either of those. What is your maximum budget? Look for JBL's in that price range. You will get a better bang for your buck with JBL's

The different ways to do it is more intrusive than just moving the Track Fader or gain knob with your mouse. FYI: Gain and Track Fader Volume or 2 different things. Gain raises the volume pre effects and pre-sends, unlike the Track Fader that can be post for effects and sends

I got a solution for you, download the FREE Cakewalk by Bandlab. Its better than SONAR 8.5 and you'll get the support you need for your plugins ?

No folders, but there is a feature to collapse them and make them smaller

The first thing i would do is look at your 'Prepare Using ____ Millisecond buffers' int he preference menu Click the 'Preference' menu, the, click 'MIDI' and then click 'Playback and Recording' and try raising your buffer or even lowering it. I'm assuming you are using an dedicated audio interface with your DAW, drivers are very important for your DAW's performance as well..

Can the MIDI file be played with any of your soft synths? (ruling out a bad MIDI data)

Maybe auto-punch record is enabled? If it with every project or just one project?

More control and each project is different and can use different resources as well. so maybe raising your ASIO buffers can help as well. Also maybe try disabling any FX plugins, if you are using any to start troubleshooting it. As this is how you will solve the issue, if its not driver related or signal chain/gain stage related. Its one of those 3 things. you just have to start troubleshooting each of them to rule them out now

Set the master to go to the main outs 1/2 and set up a headphone out in your sound card's cue mix

As i said, check your entire signal chain to make sure its correct. you saying "no visible clipping" is so vague and it doesn't mean your routing is set up correctly. You have not answered this, and this is the first thing i would look at if i had your problem. This is what you need to look at when seeing if your signal chain is set up correctly: Do all tracks go to the master bus? Do all sends go to a designated bus? Does all bus's go to the master bus? Does the master bus go to the main outs 1/2?

Well then its the 2nd thing I said "2nd thing 2nd - is it can also be due to you are clipping your signal chain" So check your entire signal chain and gain stage and make sure all routing are set up correctly Also, it still can be the first thing, as no 2 project are the same. Some take more resources than the other, depending on hats in them, So it still can be a DRIVER issue..

Solo each track until you isolate where its coming from.

When using MIDI (Recording, playback) i always start on measure 2. For some reason when starting on beat 1, measure 1, the MIDI doesn't have enough time to trigger the sounds. I found this to be true going back all the way to SONAR 2

First, lets start with some baseline questions: What guitar are you using? What pick-ups? What amps are you using and What mics are you using? To get a sound like “Breaking Benjamin”, you need to first start at the source. Ben Burnley uses 2 guitars mostly. Custom PRS Breaking Ben Hollow body Baritone (stock pickups with piezo) and ESP LTD EC-401B guitar. The amps Ben uses is the Randall RM-50 with Tread plate for dirty distortion sounds and the Blackface Module for most of his clean sounds. The pedals he uses are Boss OC-3 Super Octave pedal, DigiTech TimeBender Delay, DigiTech X Series Multi-Chorus, Boss DD-20, Dunlap Crybaby and he uses a boss tuner (I know the tuner doesn't matter), but its what i saw on his pedal board. Ben uses Ernie Ball guitar strings (yes it makes a difference). so try and get the sound you want right from he start, because if you do not, then you cannot come close to it in the mixing stage, as what sound you start with is the most important sound.

First thing first - The reason you can hear YouTube and other PC sounds just fine, but you cannot in Sonar is because you are using an integrated sound card. Those are only meant for PC sounds, not meant for using with a music production program (DAW) like Sonar. 2nd thing 2nd - is it can also be due to you are clipping your signal chain and/or driver issues. Using the on board sound chips that come with PC's are pieces of crap and not meant for the use with a DAW like Sonar

I think all songs are arranged differently, depending on who is writing it. Everyone has different styles, even if you are writing for the same genre. Also, everyone has a different understanding on music theory. That plays a lot in arrangement. Think of it like this. You can have 50 painting of a sun setting into the ocean. painted by 50 different artist. All 50 artist will go about painting it a different way, but still ending up with a sunset into the ocean.

Reliability doesn't have to do with the DAW (Sonar/Bandlab). It has to do with these 4 things, for the most part: Your sound card drivers (you need a good audio interface that has good drivers written for it The way you set up your sound card driver settings (you need to experiment with driver settings to get the lowest latency and still have good performance.) Your PC specs, your MOBO, processor speed and some others The type of effects you may use. some have hidden buffers in them that make it impossible to use live

For the electric hum, I would check to make sure you have balanced cables going form your audio interface to your studio monitors. Although, I have no clue why it only does it when you enable multi-processing engine. Your CPU is multi-cored im assuming. But check your: Cables, make sure they are balanced going form your sound card to the monitors Make sure you have no audio cables crossing any electric cables Try another wall wart on a different electrical grid

You can always change the colors in the preference menu. All colors can be custom made

Try using a Mutli-Band compressor and only enhance and add gain to the high end. Maybe use some Side EQ (no mids) for the hi hats, room mics and overhead mics and boost the upper high end As others said. some saturation in the upper range. I have and would use Saturn by FabFilter that would do great things to what you are describing and want

Yes and does it a lot better

Its most likely a plugin that is not releasing and not able to close

There are a few ways to go about doing this. One way is to use an external hard drive and copy and paste it to the external hard drive. Then hook up the external hard drive to your new PC and copy and paste is to you new project folder location. Another way is to take the internal hard drive out of the old PC and hook it up to your new pc and copy and paste it the folder to its new location