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But dude.....SUEDE BOOTS!

Man...sorry for your losses. ? I can relate. I want to say it was 1986 that my Dad took me to the store to buy my first guitar and amp. And I remember him asking the guy there what we should get. He took us to the Marshall amps and we picked out a Studio 15 1x12 tube combo. No idea at the time that I was getting a really cool amp. And I certainly didn't really appreciate it at the time. Then he took us to the Gibsons. I pretty much fell in love with a white SG that was there. Felt and played great. But then I saw the HOT PINK Guild solid body hanging on the wall for half the price. And I knew my parents weren't rich...so I chose the Guild because I felt guilty that they were spending the money in the first place. I've always considered that SG to be the one that got away. And the Marshall? I honestly think I traded it at a music store for a solid state 2x10 Ampeg amp. Because I'm a genius. ? The guild as it originally looked: Many years later I decided to repaint it, get rid of the two single coil pickups, drop in a second humbucker and lose the floyd rose. We found that the top was made of plywood...lol. So I had a friend fill the single coil holes and rout out the top so he could lay a chunk of rosewood across the whole thing to get some stability. Then we pushed that second humbucker all the way up against the neck. Looks like this now. Originally a Guild Burnside Blade. They didn't make a lot of those, and I believe it was built in Korea. We paid $300 in 1986. Last I checked it wasn't even worth that now. But I'll never sell it. It's still a fantastic guitar...and priceless to me.

Two part question, I suppose. And at this point only the Cakewalk staff can answer this without speculation. But it would be nice to know. 1: Can my project and track templates be imported into the new Sonar? 2: If not, and I have to rebuild them, will setup be 1:1? As in...say I have the PC76 module in ProChannel...will the results be identical if I manually reset it all in Sonar to match what I have going on in CbB? I don't recall seeing this asked or answered. If it has been, I apologize and would appreciate a pointer to the answer. Thanks.

That's still fewer than 5 mph. In Texas they don't even look at us until we're a good 20 mph over. ?

4km....wow

I'd guess that, more often than not, it doesn't conduct electricity. Which is why pulling the RAM, blowing off the dust, and reseating the RAM fixed your problem. But I'd just be guessing.

I'm allergic to Calamine lotion. You learn that when you put it on a rash that won't go away until you stop using the Calamine lotion.

Nope. $1,500 gets it done for anyone - Ultimate. $600 for Studio. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PTUlt--avid-pro-tools-ultimate-perpetual-license

Luckily for you...they brough back the perpetual license a couple days ago. https://www.production-expert.com/production-expert-1/pro-tools-perpetual-licences-return

? This is a perfect example of not being able to "do what I want when I want". The "I" being ME in this scenario. Reaper also has this problem.

Can you make busses live on top and visible at all times - like Cakewalk/Sonar does?

or ALT+Left Click

I've been a Cakewalk user for 30+ years, exclusively. And with the announcement of paid Sonar again, I downloaded demos for Cubase and Reaper so I could learn them and set up templates. Wrote and tracked a song in both. But there are a few things in both programs that I'm sure I'd never get over. They both ruin my workflow in one way or another - in big ways. It's hard to break 30 year habits. I still have both templates at the ready, just in case. But Sonar it is...unless they broke it.

How's he gonna do that when it's a .bun file and he's only got a mac?

I don't see that you mentioned having the newest drivers and firmware for the MOTU. There are 2023 drivers here. I'd do this before spending more money. https://motu.com/en-us/download/#category=1&product=410

I hate updates with a passion, but this went perfectly for me. I haven't tracked anything yet. I did pull up several recent projects and all seems well here.

I believe that your basic problem is probably that your kit comes from the factory with midi note 8 (no idea why) on both open and closed HH. Change one of those to 9 in the drum module. And then make sure your drum map correlates.

Have you read this and tried it yet? Hope it helps. From Alesis support: Preparing your Drum module Notice in the Default Assignments sections above, that the Hi-Hat Open and Hi-Hat Closed triggers both send a MIDI Message of #8 or G#-2. Because of this any software will be unable to distinguish between the hi-hat open and hi-hat closed triggers. Before we can map the functionality of the trigger, we must assign a different MIDI message to one of these functions. Press the Menu button on your module, then toggle down to Trigger and press Enter to enter the Trigger Settings menu. Use the knob to change the selected trigger to Hi-Hat. Press the Down button and select MIDI Note. Use the Data Dial (big knob) to change the assigned MIDI note. In most cases, and for this example, MIDI note 009 (or A-2) will work. From here, you have manually adjusted the MIDI assignment for the open Hi-hat within your module! Your Open & closed positions will be sending separate MIDI messages.

Right about page 500 of the manual should cover what you need. https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Reference Guide.pdf

You guys got me freaked out. I'm frantically searching my attic for this in case everything goes to sh*t. I know it's here somewhere....

The REALLY easy solution to this is for everyone to download the free version of slate and send the project file with the midi in it. You know what you're doing now. You could help them set it up. Then, let them other fools figure out how they want to swap audio files to get it done. I'd get a new band. ?

I use a version of this trick. Turn off snap when cutting the clip so you can cut directly at the transient. Once it's cut you can turn snap on again and use the stretch tool (F8 - or long hold on "edit" on the tool module) and then you can snap both ends of the cut clip to the grid. It's all manual...but it's perfect.

Paid for gigs? You must live in a simulation.

United is HUGE man. Great job.

I find that USUALLY rejoining that stuff won't fix it because the transitions become unnatural at the cuts. Sometimes I get one I can use like that. But mostly not. I'm pretty much at the point where, if I see that octave jump and the very first auto try doesn't make me happy I just re-sing it. I'll usually comp the first line and work it with Melodyne till I like it 100%. Then I'll sing all the other doubles and harmony layers to that. Generally I don't have to tune any of the layers, but will go back sometimes to see if I like it better with some, or all of those dialed in.