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In the Plugin Browser, plugins (both synths and effects), can live in more than one category. You could add a category of _Favourites (note the underscore at the start so it's always at the top), and add all your favourite synths in there. Then simply drag the synths from there into your project.

I saw a similar article last week. It's worth pointing out that oldest CPU supporting the SSE4.2 instruction set is the Sandy Bridge Intel i7's, which were 2nd gen i7's ( released in 2011, discontinued in 2013). My DAW PC is running Ivy Bridge (i7 3770), which is 3rd gen i7 (released 2012, discontinued 2015). I tried an upgrade to Win 11 on Friday using a Windows 11 iso downloaded direct from Microsoft, and Rufus to transfer it to a bootable USB stick while also removing the TPM / minimum processor requirements. I also checked the options for Rufus to remove the need for a Microsoft account to log in. The upgrade worked fine, and most of my software worked without issue - the ones that didn't were due to them needing re-authed for the new OS.

Sounds like you've got some lookahead plugins. Mastering/Linear Phase plugins will cause this. They're designed to be used at mixing/mastering time and should be avoided at tracking time.

Just a FYI - when you start randomly getting dropouts you didn't get before, check the date... it could be Windows downloading updates in the background. Small updates don't really make much of a difference, but the feature updates can definitely slow the machine down significantly. I've been caught out by this more times than I'm prepared to admit, wasting hours troubleshooting only to find it automatically "fixes itself" later.

FYI - regarding latency with automation... for VST2 plugins, the automation resolution is restricted by the current buffer size. So for a buffer size of 1024, you may experience up to a 1 second lag in picking up automation (unless your automation happens to land exactly on the buffer boundary). Reducing your buffer size will help to mitigate this. VST3 doesn't have this limitation.

PerfectSpace is 32 bit, which is probably the issue. Sonar's BitBridge was originally included to ease the migration to 64 bit while the majority of plugins were still 32 bit. It's very naïve in its implementation, being (a) based on Windows XP technology and (b) only doing a simple pass-through of the VST commands. I use the JBridge wrapper for pretty much all of my 32 bit plugins to avoid these sorts of issue. If you've got JBridge installed, just check "Load using jBridge wrapper" in the plugin properties. For plugins that are already using BitBridge, the properties can be accessed via "Cakewalk Plugin Manager" in the Utilities menu.

<spelling nag> Actually French Kiss is exactly what "Buss" means... quite different from the "Bus" you send audio to.... </spelling nag>

You could take a look at ReaStream - it's a VST plugin that comes with Reaper. IIRC, you put ReaStream on a bus, then send your audio to it. ReaStream then sends the audio stream out to a configured IP address/port. On the other machine, you have ReaStream on another bus that is receiving the input audio via the network. I think it's original design was for use over a LAN, so I've no idea how well it'll work over a WAN - it should work, but expect some significant latency.

I'm not seeing any change in behaviour with the notes edit box. When clicking to edit notes, the cursor appears at the top left, which is the same as it is in CbB. If you want to add notes to the bottom, either click again in a blank space, or press CTRL + END, and the cursor will move to the bottom.

MIDI latency was an issue that gave me grief for years, until I worked out what was going on. In Preferences->Project->Clock, you can choose your clock source. It defaults to Audio, which is by far the most accurate and reliable. The only issue is, you need the audio engine to be running for this to work. If you've a MIDI only project (like I used when I used racks of MIDI synth modules), then this isn't going to work unless you have audio or a soft-synth in your project. If you don't, then the timer essentially isn't running, and MIDI timing is all over the place. If you're recording only MIDI, you could set the clock to "Internal" - this will work for MIDI only projects, but its accuracy can then depend on whether the high-resolution timer is enabled both on your motherboard and in Windows, and how well they play together. Sometimes enabling the high-resolution timer can make things better, sometimes worse, and in many cases can cause a whole bunch of other system instabilities/blue screens if its set wrong.... best not to play with it. Really. Feel free to try the "Internal" clock setting - if it works right away, great - but don't mess around with high-res-timer stuff unless you really know what you're doing and know how to revert it. By far the easiest solution is to leave it set to Audio, then insert a soft synth or an audio track with a silent clip, and do this before you start recording any MIDI.

AFAIK it never went away, at least not in it's current form. I think there was a time many years ago where it worked slightly differently, but certainly selecting then holding CTRL while you do your operation should invoke Quick Grouping on whatever you're doing. It is done on a case-by-case basis though, so there may be areas that it's not supported. This is likely just an error of omission, although there could also be valid reasons - but please report any outliers in any case. This is quick group working on track gain:

- fixed that for you

Sounds like you've got "Auto Track Zoom" checked (TV View menu).

To give you an example, these are the frequency response graphs of my studio (top) and my office (bottom). As you can see, my studio has a huge dip at around 250Hz-300Hz (possibly a standing wave), and another at around 3KHz. My office on the other hand, has a huge bump at 200Hz, and a dip at around 800Hz. The ARC plugin has done a pretty good job of sorting these issues out (the AFTER curve). It's worth mentioning that it's the combination of both the speakers AND the room that give these responses. You could have the best speakers in the world, and have a really uneven response if your room isn't correctly treated. If I did a mix in my office without ARC2, I'd be turning down 200Hz like crazy, only to find it's totally missing when I played it on another system - the opposite would be true if I did my mix in my studio without ARC2.

My recommendations: Make sure Windows is completely up to date with updates. Run sfc /scannow within PowerShell and ensure there are no system inconsistencies. If it tells you there are and they can't be repaired, use DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth, then run sfc /scannow again. At the very least, make a backup of your existing system drive, but if possible clone the drive to a new one (here's your chance to get a bigger SSD!), and swap the drives you you're now using the new one. Make sure it's a deep-clone as you want the partition id's to be identical. Clonezilla (which is free) can do this. Download/install Belarc Advisor, and print out a report. This will tell you what software you have installed, and in at least half of them, what your licence key is. Do an inventory of your applications and VST's, and make sure you've got the license keys handy. This is where iLok is awesome, because there's nothing to do for them - it'll just work. For applications/plugins that will only authorize on a certain number of computers, unauthorize them now - especially ones that don't let you "manage" your authorizations online (e.g. Band in a Box, Magix products). Those that do (e.g. XLN Audio), should be fine - you can just replace the old authorization with the new one. IK Multimedia products should be unauthorized via the product manager, otherwise you run the risk of running out of authorizations. If you've got space on a portable drive, do another backup. Perform the upgrade If you get crashes/errors during the upgrade, check your drivers. I find DriverView from www.nirsoft.net useful for this. It'll list all of your drivers so you can check them. You can then go into Computer Management within Windows to uninstall any old ones you don't use any more. For problem drivers that won't go away, use DriverView to identify the .sys file, and rename it to .old. One such driver was Native Instrument's file system driver, which was used in Windows 7 for making their install .iso files look like a fake cd... this wasn't needed for Windows 10 and above, but caused issues upgrading. Finally, if you do need to try the upgrade again, restore your backup before you upgrade again. This will ensure you're starting from a pre-upgrade system image before anything went wrong. Once everything has upgraded, go through the process of authorizing all your software/plugins again.

I'm definitely running the very latest version (4.2.3), having updated within the past week or so.

Try quitting Cakewalk, and running the standalone version first to make sure the database is fully scanned and up to date. FWIW - it's working fine for me both in Cakewalk and the new Sonar.

Sometimes AI is used to identify the percentage of skin-tones in an image to see if there is naked content. There's a couple of shots there that don't show clothing (0:51 and 1:10)- obviously nothing nothing explicit, but maybe enough to confuse the algorithm?

Hmm - I wonder if the problem was at save time. AUD.INI get's updated when you close Sonar, but if you've changed your audio settings without restarting, maybe AUD.INI isn't in a complete state. Can you try something? Manually set your config to use the Midas, then close Sonar. Re-open Sonar - double check it's still using the Midas, then save your Midas config. Does switching between configs work then?

Removing it from the .ini file won't help - Cakewalk will still evaluate it if it's still installed. Here's what I suspect the issue is - the Generic Low Latency ASIO driver is wrapping up the Midas device, making it unavailable to the real ASIO driver. Cakewalk can't open the real ASIO driver, so it picks the first ASIO driver it can - which is the GT1000.

Just re-tested the backup/restore here with my two audio devices and it seems to be working fine for me using it to switch devices. The only thing that could possibly causing the issue for you is the presence of the Generic Low Latency ASIO Driver?

Your audio driver preferences are stored in %APPDATA%\Cakewalk\Sonar\AUD.INI - the configuration settings save the contents of this file in the settings file and restore them to this file when you load or restore the configuration settings. The easiest way to test if the configurations are being loaded, is: 1. When using the old configuration, save the configuration 2. Copy AUD.INI and rename it to AUD.test1 3. Change your configuration to the new settings, and save it (under a different filename to the first one) 4. Restore the old configuration 5. Restore the new configuration, then copy AUD.INI and rename it to AUD.test2 6. Compare AUD.test1 and AUD.test2 - they should be different

If I want a "recorded through an analog console sound", I put Kazrog TrueIron on the channel. It emulates different transformers by adding harmonic distortion at different harmonics/levels depending on the transformer you pick. The difference is clearly audible right away. I'm not that fussed about the analog mixing sound, but if/when I need it, the PC Console Emulator does a good a job as any.

Total shot in the dark here... but does disabling the audio engine before saving solve it?

Mild squeaks/squawks usually come in when you overblow the clarinet, so you may find playing at maximum velocity gives you at least some of those characteristics. If it's a classical player however, you'll normally find it's a different type of squawk - more of a lower register swell than a higher pitched one. A full on squawk though, is unlikely to be in any orchestral library. The only sample library I know can do Klezmer style clarinet is Broadway Big Band https://fablesounds.com/broadway-big-band/ - but at the price they're asking, you're as well using the TTS-1 clarinet for writing, printing the part out from the Staff View, and hiring a session player to re-record it! Other options might be taking existing samples of phrases and doing a cut/paste job. Splice has a section here that might be good for that: https://splice.com/sounds/packs/gio-israel/jewish-essentials-hasidic-woodwind/samples Also this one: https://www.loopmasters.com/genres/145-Orchestral/products/795-World-Woodwind-Series-Clarinet