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Personally, I'd avoid laptops if you're worried about noise. Most decently powered laptops sound like jet-engines when the fan starts. The new ARM64 based laptops maybe an exception to this - but even now Sonar now runs on ARM64, your choice of audio interface may be limited until manufacturers catch up with ARM64 drivers. I've got a few mobile setups I've used over the years: 1. Dell Vostro 1700 (Intel Core 2 duo, Windows + Windows 7 32 bit + 4GB RAM), running SONAR Platinum 32 bit. Yamaha 01X / i88X / Behringer ADA8000 interfaces. No problems at all recording 24 tracks simultaneously. 2. MeLE quieter PC 2 (Intel J4125 4 core @ 2Ghz [turbo 2.7Ghz], 8GB RAM totally fan-less) - this is only slightly larger than a cassette tape, and has 2 x 4K HDMI + 4 x USB 3 ports. Running Windows 11 64 bit and CbB / Sonar. It's attached to the back of a 23" Samsung monitor. I've used this in two setups, recording 16 simultaneous tracks whilst playing back 32 tracks: (a) Scarlett 18i20 + Behringer ADA8200 (b) Scarlett 18i8 + Fostex VC8 with 6 x JoeMeek MQ3 / TFPro P3, and 1 x TFPro P4 preamps. My latest setup, which I'm yet to fully test is: MeLE Quieter PC 4C (Intel N100 4 core, max turbo 3.4Ghz, 16GB RAM - fanless, same form-factor as Quiter PC2) + Windows 11 64 bit, Sonar + RME DigiFace USB, 4 x Fostex VC8 connected to an Allen & Heath GL2400 32 track mixer. The 4C had zero problems with 16 tracks recording/playback - I'm yet to try it with 32 tracks recording. Running basic plugins on all tracks wasn't an issue with the 4C. FWIW, a 16GB Ram MeLE Quieter PC 4C is currently £199 on Amazon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/MeLE-J4125-Computer-Portable-Ethernet/dp/B09TKM8VGT/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?th=1

They're that way: 1. To ensure the folder hiding rules are respected (i.e. you can't have visible tracks inside a hidden folder, so all of them have to be hidden) 2. To allow you to easily unhide the folder without unhiding the tracks - bearing in mind you may not want to unhide all of the tracks in all nested folders. 3. To provide a quick way of unhiding all hidden tracks within a folder, when the folder itself is not hidden and may have a mixture of hidden / unhidden tracks. As to why you'd unhide a folder and not unhide the tracks inside... that's very much tied to a specific workflow. You may choose to group audio tracks/midi tracks/aux tracks associated with a single instrument together, but choose to hide some of them (e.g. the audio track, or the aux track) to make the track view less busy. I'd argue as to why hide the folder and all its tracks when you can just collapse the folder?

On the subject of tinitus... I had it for 2 or 3 years. During the day it didn't bother me too much, but getting to sleep was a nightmare. I was getting only 3-4 hours sleep during that time. I started using one of these twice a day, and it completely cleared it up: My theory was that as we get older, you get more hair in your ears and they're liable to pick up more sweat/oil/wax. These pretty much remove that. Obviously YMMV, but if the cause was the same as mine, this may well help tremendously - and it'll cost you less than $10 a year.

I'm not seeing a problem with dragging either the velocity hotspot on the upper edge of the note in the notes pane or the velocity 'tail' in the controllers pane or Shift+dragging notes around to constrain pitch or time. I have to think something is going on with your mouse/driver. If you're using a wireless mouse maybe change/charge the battery. Do you still have CbB installed and it's working normally? That would be my conclusion too. Certainly some custom mouse drivers can cause issues in Sonar - reverting to the standard Microsoft driver usually fixes things.

Here were my findings: - Double clicking on the project in windows explorer, launches Sonar and causes the crash - Opening Sonar first, then opening the project didn't cause a crash. However, it looks like the bug that caused the original crash has been fixed, so the next update of Sonar should fix this for you. In the meantime just open Sonar first, then load the project. @audinf [EDIT] - Just realised, my initial test where it crashed was on a slightly earlier development build. I'm not able to reproduce the hang you're seeing on build 14, although it did take some time to load due to Kontakt taking forever in attempting to load libraries. Can you capture a dump file when it's in its hung state, and send it to @Jonathan Sasor ?

The other thing to check is the USB port you have your audio interface plugged into, and also the cable. If the USB port is sharing resources with other devices (e.g. HDD controller, WiFi adapter etc), those other resources could be stealing CPU time when they become busy. Try switching USB ports and see if it makes a difference - also, never use a USB hub for your audio interface. Poor quality or damaged USB cables can also cause interruptions. If possible, try another cable.

Please PM @Jonathan Sasor a copy of your project (just the .cwp file should suffice) - we'll take a look.

FYI - when using the track manager: Clicking the hide button on a visible folder will hide all tracks within the folder Clicking the hide button on a hidden folder a folder will ONLY unhide the folder itself, not the tracks within them ALT + Clicking the hide button on a folder will unhide the folder AND all the child tracks. It sounds like you may be did 1 & 2, rather than 1 & 3.

@norfolkmastering - I always found the JL Cooper PPS-100 rock solid. That's what I used in the 90's. I've still got one, and it still works. They've been out of production for a long time though (I think they were only in production between 1989 and 1995), but you can usually pick one up on eBay for anything between £75 to £150. For something more modern, HHB do one (based in Norfolk too!) : https://www.hhb.co.uk/prod/cb-electronics/tc-5b-midi/

Finding a used nVidia card that is supported both by an old motherboard and Windows 11 may prove challenging... I know, I've tried !

Some plugins report parameter changes as a single change for each parameter, rather than a single change for a bulk change of many parameters (which most plugins do). If you've got automation on your tracks, then the parameter changes will be sent to the plugin every time you move the now time around. Better to set changes to 0, and stick to the minutes if you're seeing this behaviour.

Is there any reason you're using External Insert's with no return rather than buses? IIRC, the PDC pretty much relies on the return to calculate the overall roundtrip latency (although it may be that in "send" mode for external inserts, the input and output are essentially are a passthrough... so PDC = 0).

@Frank DeFede - do a full backup of your system before trying the upgrade. I've had compatibility issues with the Intel Graphics 4000 driver (the on-board graphics), and although the limitations don't affect me too much, that might not be the case for your processor.

The most common reason for this is due to having an aggregate ASIO driver installed (such as ASIO4ALL) alongside the manufacturer's ASIO driver. When Sonar enumerates the available ASIO drivers, it opens each one to determine what bit-sizes / sample-rates are supported. If you have an aggregate driver such as ASIO4ALL installed, this driver will open your real audio device and quite often won't "let go" of it when the driver is closed. This causes the real ASIO driver to be unavailable because the device appears as being still in use. Another reason is simply because the ASIO driver it's being used by another application.

Just to clear up what Rufus is... Rufus is primarily an application to create bootable USB sticks. You give it an ISO image (which would traditionally be transferred to a blank DVD), and it makes it work on a USB stick. What the developers of Rufus have done is add options to disable certain portions of the installation script within a Windows 11 install ISO image. These include the checks for TPM 2.0, the CPU check, the requirement for a Windows user account, as well as some other options. So what you end up running is the setup of a standard Windows 11 DVD (downloaded from Microsoft), but with parts of the installation being skipped. The Windows 11 setup can perform an upgrade of your existing operating system (either keeping your programs & files, or removing them), or perform a complete clean install - it's up to you what route you take. I chose a standard upgrade keeping my programs and files, and only a handful of plugins needed re-authorizing after the upgrade. I have had issues with my Intel Graphics 4000 driver as this isn't 100% Windows 11 compliant. It basically works, but I can't change resolution (although I can change display scale), and any attempt to change my monitor configuration left me with my 2nd monitor being ignored after that - I ended up having to restore a backup to get my 2nd monitor back.

Go into Keyboard Shortcuts in Preferences, and check what is defined for "MIDI Shift Options" - I suspect you've got yours set to Controller 0. There are two ways of solving this: 1. If you never use MIDI to trigger keyboard shortcuts, just uncheck "Enabled" next to the MIDI radio button; OR 2. Set the controller to something different, say 120.

I was in the same boat for four of my PC's, however I've successfully upgraded them to Windows 11. The jump from Windows 10 to Windows 11 is a far smaller jump than say Windows 7 to Windows 10, so it was pretty seamless. Please note - I'm not suggesting or recommending that you do this, only that it worked for me. What I would say though, is before doing the upgrade, make sure your Windows 10 machine is completely up to date with Windows updates, and that it gets a clean bill of health with sfc /scannow.

This has been fixed for the next update.

Maybe some dirt in your ctrl key? I only say this because I had exactly the same issue at one point, and that was the cause.

The best track arrangement I find for drum tracks is a single MIDI track routed to a single drum synth, and separate audio tracks for the outputs, then all of those tracks routed to a single drum bus. This way I can edit all of my drum notes in one place, have separate FX on the outputs, and a single volume control (the drum bus) for overall volume.

Make sure both the tracks are selected in the PRV's track selector.

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I too prefer Maxell. I recently found some old tapes in the attic from > 30 years ago that had old 4-track (Yamaha MT1X) / 8-track (Yamaha MT8X) recordings on them. The Maxell ones (XL-II and XL-IIS) sounded like they were recorded yesterday. The TDK ones (SA and SA-X) were unusable - warbled and muffled. In fact, I remember having this issue with TDK just a few months after recording on them, which is the main reason I stopped using them. I suspect the bias is slightly different between the two as well, and the multi-trackers were more suited to the Maxells' bias.

Normally it would be, but in this case its me near the Bavarian alps drinking some Bavarian dark ale.