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Full screen is working fine for me. The only thing I can suggest as a workaround is to make a separate screenset with the multidock taking up the whole of the track area, and the track inspector minimised. You want to set the video stretch options to "Stretch to Window". You can then press "C" to hide the control bar (press "C" again to show it). This will show the video on most of the screen, e.g.: The advantage of this approach is, that if for example, you set this to be screenset 2, with your normal tracking in screenset 1, you just press "2" to view it "almost full screen" and press "1" to go back to normal tracking view.

Behringer used to provide their own official ASIO drivers for this, before they decided to force you to use ASIO4ALL. They still work on Windows 10, and perform much better than ASIO4ALL. Behringer have since removed them from their website, but you can download them here: http://www.123dj.com/audio/mp3s/uca222.html

Having been badly burned using my Amiga live in the 80's, I've steered away from using computers live. At first I used an Alesis DataDisk when things were all MIDI (it was also great for sending custom patches via sysex and setting up my patch list for the next song). Then I moved on to the SMPro V-Machine (a poor man's, very under-powered version of a Muse Receptor), mainly using it to play sf2 versions of my plugins/hardware sounds, although it can cope with some CPU friendly VSTi's: Of course nowadays, laptops are built to be portable and should be fine on the road... not sure I'll get over the scars though!

Ah, the "Ask This Every Time" checkbox must have been unchecked. Open up the synth rack, and click on the "Insert Synth Options" button:

It should pop up any time you insert a soft synth:

It sounds like you've changed your insert synth options at some point. Cakewalk always remembers the last settings you used. From what you've described, I think you're expecting it to be set to Simple Instrument Track. Make sure Simple Instrument Track is checked on the dialog when you drag/drop:

What are the specs of your PC ? It may be you've not got enough memory to cope with the extra instruments / samples.

The easiest way is to drag the effect from the FX browser to the FX bin on your audio track: Note: for things like reverb, using the effects bin directly on the track may not be the preferred way. There are other ways such as using buses or aux tracks, however if you're starting off, just go with the method above for now until you get comfortable with it. For things like AutoTune or Melodyne, you may want to apply the effect directly to the audio (destructive audio editing) so that it applies the effect permanently rather than use the effects bin like a traditional fx rack in real-time. But it depends if you're using it as an "effect" or for correction. There's more in the Cakewalk documentation: https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=4&help=EditingAudio.24.html For AutoTune type effects specifically, MAutoPitch from Melda Productions is pretty good, and its free with their "free bundle": https://www.meldaproduction.com/MFreeFXBundle

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Cobalt is one of my favourite synths. It's my go to for lead sounds. It's very similar to the Korg DW8000. It was discontinued for a long long time, but the old 32bit demo worked in the meantime. I'm so glad Les Sanford has recompiled it for 64 bit.

To their credit, they have vastly improved the stability of NI Access. When I first bought Komplete 11, I was absolutely raging at it (and I rarely lose my temper). Any slight delay in the download process (such as my cron job on another machine downloading a backup of my website's database), would mean it timing out and starting again from the beginning. This was totally unacceptable given that some of the installs are approaching 10GB or more. I mean, of course there's a likelihood of your download speed going up and down over a few hours - in fact, I suspect my ISP started throttling it at some point. At least now it recovers nicely, and will quite happily continue from where it left off.

My NI hard disk was corrupt, and I spent AGES trying to work out how to replace the installers on it after repairing it and some of the files ending up too damaged to repair. Thankfully it works now, but as you say - everything is so out of date, it ends up downloading it all again anyway.

Looking at your system specs, it looks like your system should be performing much better than this. Also, I see that your sound-blaster does actually have a dedicated ASIO driver. Apart from your audio device, your PC is a slightly better spec than mine, and mine runs pretty quickly. I'm wondering if there's a hardware fault somewhere - possibly with your soundblaster card. It might be worth removing the soundblaster and see if it improves things at all. If you've some way of running a diagnostics on your motherboard, that might be worth doing too.

A good quality mix. Vocals are slightly loud for my liking, but well EQ'd and a good sound. The mix seems to be pumping a bit with over compression. This may be what you wanted, but personally I found it a bit distracting. Apart from that, a great cover.

Things to try: First, disable autosave, and see if the problem goes away. If it does, then it may be something accessing the files whilst Cakewalk is saving them. Make sure any cloudsync programs (DropBox, Microsoft OneSync, Mega etc) aren't syncing your project, or global audio directories. Make sure your project/global audio directories are excluded from any virus scanners. [Edit] - Even if autosave is off, you could still have hangs/crashes if any cloudsync or virus checkers try to access your audio files whilst Cakewalk is running. Make sure nothing but Cakewalk can touch them.

If you've been using ASIO, it's likely that your on-board device won't be recognised as it's unlikely it's got an ASIO driver. Try switching over to WASAPI or install ASIO4ALL.

I agree, given that purchasing a new audio interface is off the cards, using the on-board sound device might be the best bet. The drivers are likely to be more compatible with Windows 10. Personally however, I'd recommend WASAPI over ASIO4all for on-board devices, but it's worth trying them both,

Yes, Addictive Drums came with previous versions of Sonar Platinum / Producer. A comparison of the versions, and what came with them is here: http://forum.cakewalk.com/Cakewalk-By-BandLab-vs-SONAR-Versions-Comparison-Chart-4282018-m3750958.aspx

I'm assuming this is an instrument track? This should fix it: 1. Create a new instrument track with AD2 2. Select your original AD2 track, select Edit->Copy Special making sure "Copy Events In Track" is checked 3. Select your new track, select Edit->Paste Special 4. Drag any additional effects from the old track's FX bin to the new track's FX bin 5. Delete you original AD2 track. If it's not an instrument track (i.e. you've got separate MIDI / Audio tracks), then what probably has happened is that the output of the MIDI track has been changed after you froze the track, and possibly the original audio track deleted. Breaking the link between a frozen MIDI / Audio track is what causes the freeze icon to be greyed out. To fix it in this situation: 1. Create a new Audio & MIDI track 2. Insert AD2 into the synth rack 3. Set your new Audio track's input to the new AD2 4. Set the MIDI track's output to AD2 5. Select your old AD2 MIDI track, and drag the clips over to the new MIDI track 6. Delete the original MIDI track.

There's no way to get it, unless BandLab re-release it. Meng did say that Rapture Pro was likely to be re-released at some point. Hopefully the other instruments/effects/ProChannel modules will eventually become available too.

Sonar X3e Producer works fine for me on my Win 10 Laptop (Windows 10 Home 64 bit). I thought at first I may be running as Admin or with some compatibility options, but I'm not. However, even using WASAPI the buffer size has to be at maximum. CbB is is practically at the minimum buffer size. There's no contest really - by all means install X3e to get the extra plugins / softsynths, but use CbB.

Looks like you need to run chkdsk on the drive. It may be just a glitch, or it may be that your drive is damaged. Either way, run chkdsk. If the drive is damaged, backup what you can and transfer it to another drive.

It's worth noting that a video file contains two codecs: one for the video, and one for the audio. An MP4 is a container for the video & audio, where both the video & audio have their own codecs. It's quite common for MP4 files to use MP3 as the codec for the audio.

Track templates combined with drag & drop seems to work. Extra audio tracks are created, but they can be deleted afterwards. Still, it feels like a workaround... I'd still like a real track copy between projects ?

This is what happens when you try to drag/drop with instrument tracks: However "Duplicate track" within the same project works fine with instrument tracks. Adding a project selector to the "Duplicate Track" dialog, showing all open projects would be an ideal solution.