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Often, in a thread like this, we find out 20 responses later that someone installed a new plugin or changed something about the system that changed the way Cakewalk performs. So let's start there. What did you change?

Hasn't that always been the case? Starting with the Pentium Pro 200 machine I had in 1995, every machine I've ever built as an "upgrade" has been because of plugins and not Cakewalk. Luckily, for the last 15 years or so, I've been able to build machines that go years without having to freeze anything for the most part. When the plugins start choking the processor I upgrade.

Ohh...yep. I'm all in on this one. Excellent work.

I don't listen to a lot of this style, but it brings to mind an old Bob James/ David Sanborn album that I used to love in front of a fireplace - Double Vison. Very nice.

That's pretty damn fantastic!

It's free to walk away. And you don't have to wait 6 months. You can do it today!

That's one sure way to get help. ?

Yeah...that's not new.

Is that you, Puddy Tang?

Does the sound persist when you mute the master bus?

Plagiarized from the 7th paragraph of this article: https://www.wired.com/story/32-bit-float-audio-explained/ Oops. wtf?

You'll have to dither from 44.1/24 anyway - because you're dithering the bit depth down to 16 for a CD. Don't worry about it. Pick a dither option and go with it. You'll likely never, ever hear the difference.

Just LAST WEEK I was in Sound Arts Recording in Houston to help a friend with some background vocals. I've worked there with my friend before so I know the engineer to a degree. Nice guy. Great mixer and engineer. He knows that I used to be his competition with local band projects, but we actually get along very well. Later, after the work was done, we were just chatting about this and that...and he played my latest track through his system. When it was done, he asked me to play it again. After that he asked me what DAW I was using. I told him. And he said..."You can do all that in Cakewalk?". I was like...I've always been able to do all that in Cakewalk...lol.

Is this where I bloviate about what sampling rate folks should use without suggesting they listen to the different sampling rates on their actual device, so they can decide for themselves if one sounds better than the other?

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If you're talking about the grid lines, those can be changed under preferences, colors, beat rules and/or grid lines.

Doesn't it change along with the color of your track in the track view?

I've got Focal Twin 6's. I'm not looking to change but I was looking those Kali's a couple days ago just out of curiosity and I thought the same thing. Good luck with your search.

The last person I want bragging about a product is the marketing manager...lol. I'm pretty surprised he didn't push harder.

Near 20 years ago, when I was searching for my perfect set of near-field monitors, I started on the lowest end of my budget with that I though might get the job done and got a demo pair from Vintage King. Sending back a couple sets of demo monitors is a lot less hassle than ending up with monitors that you don't love. And honestly, even if you can hear them in a local store, it's not the same as spending a couple weeks with them in your own space.

Byron's not wrong. Question though. Do you have any headphone bleed from background music or other sounds that you're doing the VO on? If so, that bleed will do funny stuff when you start messing with any pitch correction software. Especially when it mixes back in with the original background source material.

You heard it here first. Sonar will cost $200.

That's absolutely not what the engineer is doing. He's not shifting for latency....he's quickly building a loop so Paul can lay down the next part. If you're playing on time and you have to shift every single take because of latency, something is very wrong. That's not normal.

Cool. Step sequencing isn't my thing but I'm sure there are plenty of folks here who can help you with that. It may be helpful for me to add that you can chop, drag and paste the midi file in sections from within the tracks pane. I color code each section and move them around a lot. Gives me a visual representation of which part is where in time. Now...someone else here may be very familiar with the Arranger functions in Cakewalk. It's cool. Doesn't work for how I do things, but it sort of sounds like it might be useful for what you do. Good luck.