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You can - I use drag/drop with FX chains all the time. They're listed at the bottom of the PlugIns page:

There's a missing step here to make this work... after switching on looping, change the splice resolution from 1/8 to "no slice", otherwise moving the threshold down to zero will leave the markers in place.

There is one... if the background is orange, it's on. If it's grey, it's off.

For those interested, the Snake Oil guy does a pretty brutal comparison of it to his real tape machine here... ...TLDR: he thinks Chow is better.

I doubt if the AI will actually be doing any processing on your machine. It's more likely that your usage habits will be sent to Microsoft, and profiled alongside everyone else on one of their servers - a simple query to that server at a later date will tailor your experience to best match your usage. We've all seen browsers do this kind of thing, but maybe Microsoft has something else in mind such as fine-tuning background processes to get the best performance out of the apps you use. AI doesn't always need to take up a lot of resources at the point of consuming it. Take the XBox Kinect for example - Microsoft took video shots of tens of thousands of users doing various poses and built up a neural net on a server. Only the resulting neural net was embedded in the device, the result of which can easily process your movements in real time with minimal internal processing / power consumption. I've even seen Arduino projects using the Kinect (which run at 16Mhz)- so it's definitely the Kinect itself doing the processing, and just outputting the recognised gesture.

Once the MIDI file has loaded, right click on the synth track then use "Replace Synth" to change it to the Roland Sound Canvas VA.

The fader on Bus B controls the level of everything that is coming out Bus B, so yes. The only exception to this is any pre-fader sends from Bus B to anywhere else.

I had exactly the same experience. Having to basically re-do the setup every time I booted up my DAW machine was too much hassle for me. For vocal takes, I use a nanoKONTROL 2 velcro'd to the wall near to my mic. It's set up as a Mackie Control and connected to the PC via a 5m USB cable.

If they're project-wide notes, you can enter them in the Notes section, under the notes tab of the browser: There are also areas for track notes: and also for clips ( automation lanes also have a similar area for notes):

This sounds more like a plugin that has reverted to demo mode. Quite a few plugins emit white noise every so often when they're not registered.

Check the output of all of your buses/tracks - one of them may be routed directly to the audio interface. This depends on your routing. If Bus B has the vocal reverb on it, then that makes total sense - you're turning the whole reverb bus down. If however, you have a send from Bus B to a separate reverb bus, it'll be because you've got the send set to post-fader rather than pre-fader.

They're the same dialog, but act on either the Track View or the Console View depending on where it was launched from. If the Console View has focus (as in Windows focus), the "H" key will bring up the Track Manager dialog and will apply to the console - otherwise it'll apply to the Track View. If "Keep track/console visibility states in sync" is checked, then any changes will apply to both the console and the track view. To avoid confusion, you can launch it from the Console View "Strips" menu for the console view, or from the "Tracks" menu in the Track View. You can also save per-project presets in that dialog here so you can switch between different sets of hidden tracks as required. Note that the presets only contain the tracks that are specifically hidden, so if you add any new tracks they'll be visible by default (until you update your presets of course).

Yes, just save the arranger track as a template then insert it from the template the mastering project.

The SW1000XG should run fine in Windows 7 32 bit, assuming your motherboard is compatible. The drivers are similar (and some of them the same) to the DS2416 - I've got two of these in my Asus P8B75-V and they run fine in Windows 7 32 bit. You are of course limited to a 3rd gen Intel processor, but I have no issues with my i7-3770 running at 3.4Ghz. I've got a quad-boot: 2 x Windows 10, Windows 7 64 bit and Windows 7 32 bit. Windows 11 isn't an option though - the CPU is too old, and the Asus P8B75-V doesn't have TPM (though weirdly the P8B75-M does have a socket for one). For Windows XP though - if you've had an old MSDN subscription in the past, that key will work forever.

By default, clicking a section toggles the event selection on/off. If you just want to move sections around without the events, you can switch event selection off by unchecking "Select Events with Sections" here: ... or within the select module: When this is active however, the toggle behaviour returns. You can however, exclude tracks from the arranger here, so they won't be included in arranger operations:

What filename tags are you using? If you're using the default preset, consider creating your own preset with a different set of filename tags.

No it won't. Certainly with pianos, MIDI should be sent out regardless of the polyphony of any in-built sounds of the keyboard you're playing it on.

The mic should be fine for recording vocals. If it's sounding muffled, there could be a few reasons: The obvious ones first... (ignore these if you've already used it on that PC successfully): 1. Make sure you're singing into the front of the mic, and not the back (not wanting to insult your intelligence here, but we all mistakes). A cardioid mic blocks sound from the sides well, but sounds coming from the back will sound almost as loud as the front, but muffled - which is why I mention it. 2. As it's USB powered, ensure you've got enough power going to it. Using a USB 3 socket, or a powered hub can help here. I had a Behringer C1 USB which sounded muffled due to insufficient USB power. Now the not so obvious: 3. Make sure the sample rate / bit depth match what the mic is. If it's locked to 16bit /48Khz, then make sure Cakewalk is set to that too. 4. Make sure any auto-gain or sound-enhancing effects in the Windows sound settings are turned off. This will interfere with the sound quality, if Windows sees your mic as it's default mic. Generally, USB mics are a bad idea in Windows for music for a number of reasons: 1. You can only use one ASIO driver at once in Windows, so you're basically forced to use WASAPI Shared if you're using another interface for audio output. 2. You're tied to the pre-amp built into the mic, which may be quite good, but you won't be able to plug it into a nice Neve 1073 clone if you had one. 3. XLR mics will last you decades. They work with, and will continue to work with just about everything with an XLR input. There's no guarantee that the USB drivers will work with Windows 1x in the future. Quality though, isn't really an issue - unless the mic's preamp is particularly bad. Just a note about the fact that it's 16 bit / 48Khz. The norm is to record at 24 bit nowadays, but you shouldn't really see a huge difference in quality with 16 bit. Your dynamic range will be less, but if you're singing well (i.e. with steady levels, and not all over the place), this should be fine. After all, 16 bit is fine for CD. If Cakewalk was mixing in 16 bit, then that really would reduce quality - and quite drastically... but it's not. Once the audio track is in Cakewalk, all mixing is done in 32 bit floating point (or 64 bit floating point if you have the 64 bit engine engaged). It stays as floating point right up until the point it reaches your audio interface, where only then will reduce the whole mix back to 16 bit stereo.

I searched by DAW and picked SONAR.

I'm still Seeing "SONAR Explained" (Artist, Professional, Platinum) and "SONAR Platinum Advanced" on Groove3 - both very good tutorials, and they're still 99% relevant. I watched these when I joined the beta test team (i.e. before I joined the dev team), and I can't recommend them enough. Up until this point my workflow was not much different from what I was using with Cakewalk Pro Audio 9!

Some changes were made a few releases back to extend the last take to the loop points/punch out points, to avoid splitting all of the lanes at the stop time. IIRC it only does this if the loop went around more than once though, otherwise it'd extend just a single take which isn't what you'd expect.

I wouldn't call this a feature request - it's more of a bug, or at least a bug of omission. It didn't take long to fix in any case - probably around a day at most. The delay in the next update is mostly out of the Cakewalk team's control. There are other things at play delaying the release.

Just a word of warning about Melodyne versions... Melodyne 5 does NOT work in Windows 7. Melodyne 4 does NOT work in Windows 11. Both Melodyne 4 & 5 work in Windows 10.

Hmm - those are VERY old .wrk files. Can you remember which version of CWPA you were using?

You should be able to copy the clips into new audio tracks though. Once you've dragged the .wrk file in, you should be able to open the .wrk file as a second project then copy/paste the tempos over.