msmcleod

Firstly DO NOT UNINSTALL SONAR!! You'll lose all of the free stuff that came with it that doesn't come with CbB. You just need to replicate the VST directories within CbB so that they match what you've got in SONAR Platinum:

I'm sure it would be pretty easy to store alternative names in AUD.INI - all the inputs/outputs are stored in there, so having an extra section with user definable names would be great. I'd find this especially useful now that I've got my Alice 828 & JoeMeek / GA73 pre's going through an ADAT converter. I would be able to have the actual analog device listed rather than just the number of the ADAT input.

Wow - that reminds me of my internship whilst at Uni. I got landed with doing the mainframe backup, which took around an hour each day for the differential backup, and the whole day on Friday to do the full backup. I spent around 6 hours on a Friday feeding tapes into five machines the size of wardrobes and walking back and forth to the tape room. I'm sure the loudness of the air-cooled mainframes are responsible for my tinnitus. Apparently, once I'd left they replaced the whole lot with two DAT machines.

I've got a formula for my passwords that include elements of the site name as well as a bunch of special / random characters. That way, if my password gets posted to me with the threat of sending webcam footage of myself (from my non-existent webcam) to all my contacts, I know exactly which site they've got it from.

Up until about three years ago, all my music was done using hardware MIDI modules (lots of them!) and audio was limited to guitars & vocals. Nowadays, all my hardware has been replaced by VST's (I even sampled all my favourite sounds from my old synths). I still use audio for guitars, vocals and occasionally bass. Type of music ranges from pop/rock, progressive rock & a bit of jazz fusion. I found X1 a bit of a learning curve as I was so used to 8.5, and I also felt it was a bit buggy. I upgraded to X2 so close to when X3 came out, it hardly got a look in. I really liked X3 though, but Sonar Platinum has been excellent. To me, Cakewalk is just a more stable version of Sonar Platinum, and the new enhancements have been welcome.

I guess strictly speaking, you're correct as far as the privacy part of GDPR. But for data breaches though, any EU based company needs to report it (or a non-EU based company if it involves EU citizens). Even in the unlikely event that the breach at an EU based company only affected non-EU citizens, I think they'd be on dubious grounds legally should it come to light.

Steinberg is a EU based company so it definitely does apply, regardless of where the user is based. Also any company that does business with the EU or EU citizens has to comply with GDPR. I work for an American company, and it was clearly explained to us. I've seen quite a few American websites that refuse to work if your IP address is based in the EU, to avoid having to comply with the regulations.

That's true, but it does depend on the type of security breach. If it's just one person's account, and there was no actual breach on their server (in other words, the breach was on the user's machine), then they're in the clear. If it is a breach on their server though, they have to report it... else the fine will cost them big time.

If it was me, I'd use Xamarin for the GUI, and JUCE for the low level stuff. You might be able to use JUCE for the GUI as well I guess, but I suspect it would be more effort. For the Cakewalk team though, that would be a huge undertaking.

I use Crucial SSD's almost exclusively, after some bad experiences with SanDisk (although to be fair, although more than one died, they did replace the disk that went wrong during the warranty period). I do have a Kingston SSD, but I've been burned by the reliability of their SD cards & memory so I tend to shy away from them.

Whilst I love the Waves plugins (I've got a fair few!) It's only recently that I've realised that I totally underappreciated just how much came with SONAR Platinum. The ProChannel alone gives you SSL Style EQ (E & G), Neve, SSL & Trident console emulation, SSL Bus Compression, a 1176 clone and tube & tape emulation. On top of that you get Pultec style EQ, Fairchild compression & Neve style EQ and much more, courtesy of the BlueTubes collection from Nomad Factory. Then there's Rapture, Dimension Pro, Z3TA, AD2 and all the other stuff bundled. It would make sense for BandLab to sell a "Platinum Pack" with some or all of these things included. It really was a fantastic set of plugins.

I got an email within 10 minutes with a link to choose mine.

Sounds like a lot of hot wind to me...

This should work, but there are common components between the two that might be upset. In saying that I've installed X3 after the fact, and not had any issues. If it's a new install, I would uninstall CbB and install SONAR. Then re-install CbB on top.

I think for me, the biggest improvements of 8.5 are the Pro Channel, the ability to swipe the mouse with the left button down to mute/solo etc several tracks at once, and of course ripple edit. The whole skylight interface might take a bit of getting used to, but the vast majority of the keyboard shortcuts are the same. The only thing that might be a bit of a learning curve is the change to track layers / take lanes. They behave slightly differently, but with the right settings you can get close to 8.5 behaviour.

Yes, and much more. Just don't uninstall 8.5 - CbB doesn't come with DP Pro or any of the free 3rd party plugins/instruments, but it will pickup all the stuff you got with 8.5.

nope - no catch.

I don't know of any SF3 players. It's a proprietary format made by musescore. I think the Polyphone editor supports it, but I'm unaware of anything else. SF2 is more widely supported, but even then, it's getting more and more rare. There's definitely nothing in CbB that will play them.

I'm guessing it must be PC architecture, because apart from that they're very different. And now of course, Linux will run on almost anything.

Have you got "Fast Bounce" checked in the export audio dialog? If this is unchecked, it'll export in real time.

One more thing to try.... The MackieControl DLL was built over 5 years ago with a much older version of Visual Studio, whereas pretty early on in CbB's development they moved over to Visual Studio 2017. I wonder if it needs the earlier VC++ runtime installed... The 2015 runtime is here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53587 The 2013 runtime is here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784 It might be worth giving it a go. [Edit] - Just to give some background to this... almost everyone I know on this forum who uses the Mackie Control has come from SONAR, which was built with VS 2015. This would have come with the VC 2015 runtime as part of its installation. So moving to CbB wouldn't have caused any issues. It's just a theory, but it won't do any harm to install these. I'd try the 2015 first, and if this doesn't help try the 2013. FWIW my version of the MackieControl.dll is compiled with VS 2015.

The Mackie control dll is called MackieControl.dll and lives in c:\program files\cakewalk\shared surfaces This DLL holds Mackie Control, Mackie Control XT and Mackie Control C4. If this isn't registered, they wouldn't appear in the list.

You'd be better off with a 02R. They go for around £300 ($400). They were closer to $10K when they came out. The technology is much the same throughout the range of those products. More or less the same IC's are used in the DS2416, 01V, 01V96, 03D, 02R, 01V, ProMix 01 and 01X. The 02R was "the" pro digital mixer at the time. It's easy to expand too, with MADI, ADAT cards etc. From what I hear though, practically no-one uses the EQ on these. It's neutral, but pretty uninspiring. On the upside, each of the 4 EQ's have the full range of frequencies. They're still perfectly usable though.

From what I remember, it wasn't a failure as such. They did get something working, but the cost of making it work properly was too high. Then of course they'd have the cost of ongoing maintenance of DAWs on two OS's. Cakewalk have already dropped 32 bit support so they can concentrate on only one OS. So yeah, don't expect one.

That's certainly true for some products - and especially computer products - but others seem to keep on going. The 01v96 came out in 2003. The 01v96i is essentially the same, but with some firmware upgrades and USB audio support, and it's still on the market. And you can't knock them for parts... you can still buy parts for the original DX7. To be honest though, I had a great run with my DS2416 cards. I bought my first one when it came out (1997 I think), and I only retired it 2 years ago. So 20 years of use, which isn't bad in anyone's books.