Bass Guitar

Yes they removed the access to MSWavetable and it would seem the Virtual Midi Synth as well. I can understand the MS Wavetable as it is no longer supported but the Virtual Midi Synth is supported by the developers. It’s still available in a number of different Daw’s. The work around is the VST SynthFont which even has a VST3 version. It’s only $14 euros. it uses almost all the same sound fonts.

May I ask why you need to lock the song to the grid? Are you going to add midi tracks? Make sure you use a backup copy. It’s worth a shot to try the dragging the kick drum to the timeline trick first. It takes no effort or time and if it works great, if it doesn’t just undo and try the slow method. I’ve had very good success using it.

All VST plug ins need the location of the folder where they are located added to the scanner pathways. Otherwise Sonar doesn’t see it. Edit. Sorry it’s not a Plugin but a plug.

You mistake might have been uninstalling Cakewalk before you installed the new version.

It to me is sort of unexpected behaviour but when it happens it tells me I have that track open in the PRV.

A concern is that you mentioned that you were using digital drums and SSD 5 VST. There might be enough latency to throw you off. You must be using WASAPI shared mode I would assume.

This thread is a year old. The OP Howard only ever made the one post and never returned. But you did dig up the fact that a lot changed in the last year. I have X3 and in my personal opinion it is a terrible example of Sonar. And W11 for me has been the fastest version yet.

Don’t you just hate it when all of a sudden it works and then you don’t even know why?

Right. I think the other day someone said that it was still working. My version on my laptop died right on schedule. As an experiment I tried exporting midi, nope, drag a midi clip, nope so all you can do is open projects and take screenshots of it to preserve your settings and stuff. I uninstalled it- Good bye old friend I’ll miss you. I don’t care what anyone else thinks but it was definitely the best Daw of all.

This is what I was getting at. I never changed the one in preferences because I’m not exactly sure what it is for. As said I overwrite all the presets in the export dialogue because I mostly export at 48/. 32. So I want dithering off. As far as I can tell this is now global to all projects because you have to always choose a preset for what you are exporting.

Probably because they bookmarked it.

Well you can feed the phone amp with a TRS to 2x TR. Y cable plugged into the headphone jack. I have a few different sets of phones and I run the headphone volume at 12 o’clock . Sometimes as high as 2 o’clock. Where are you setting the mix control? I have that at 12 o’clock as well. It’s really loud.

If this is in the new Sonar it might be one of those graphics related glitches. You might want to report this directly to staff by submitting a report to them.

Because it became a PITA I put it on consignment at the local music store. I bought a SSL 2. After 6 months of using the SSL2 I was missing the M4. It never sold so I took it back. I just returned to rebooting before I would start recording anything. But other things would randomly go wrong especially if stupid Studio 1 was used. It switches to 44.1 if you open a midi file. I’d force 48 and carry on but now other apps won’t play. So back it went on the shelf and I was then using the Zoom L8. I love the L8 but I kept staring at the M4 and just a week ago I plugged it back in. It has been working perfectly fine since. It was on all day and I recorded something 12 hours later just to test. But for sure my original problem was that I needed USB C ports on my PC. Motu is a very Mac oriented device.

Interesting enough I’ve done absolutely nothing and there is still no new driver but I thought I would try the Motu again and it seems to now work fine?? Possibly a Windows update fixed what it originally broke?? Anyway it’s great to have it working again. Cross my fingers