SuperFreq

Yup, that's my situation. Would love to try the new Sonar, but I'm rooted to Windows 7 due to legacy hardware, so CbB is/was my only option. Would love to see them work out the activation issue so I can at least get projects squared away.

Ugh I was afraid of that. I no longer have 8.5 on my computer, and from the sound of it, it won’t make a difference so I’ll just roll back to an earlier backup and start from there. Thanks for checking!

I saw the pinned thread saying the activation deadline has been extended to Sep 30, but as of today (Aug 21) I'm still "Activation required" / "Unable to refresh activation"

I'm attempting to open an old Sonar file from v8.5 and get: "An unknown error occurred while accessing" [filename] On load, after a successful VST scan, after successfully "Loading audio regions", when it gets to "Loading tracks and clips..." it bombs. Does anyone know how to fix this? Here is a link to the file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yG5hHmJy2DL824H_bHOGkl_K83gH0q67/view?usp=sharing

First replacement, Billy Shears of course 😉 Yup, I guess that's the problem. They couldn't induct them all so they focused on 1 and happened to pick Carol. Total assumption here: I think they singled out Carol because she's a woman, and recently the RnRHoF has been (rightly) called out for its lopsided male selections. So in the last 10 years they've been scrambling to retcon their image by going back and inducting women who should've been inducted decades ago like Nina Simone in 2018, Stevie Nicks in 2019, Pat Benatar (they waited til 2022??), etc. On paper, Carol was a good pick, but alas they chose.... poorly 😅

Bingo. That's what she's saying. But nobody gets it. "The wrecking crew" was essentially a band. Carol's best work was as part of the band. If my baseball analogy above was too tricky, then let's cut to the chase. This is like inducting Paul while ignoring the Beatles. And if Carol herself, the award winner, doesn't like it then who are we, or anyone, to shove it on her?

Carol's right on the money. To those who are confused about her reasons, don't worry it was never properly explained and there are a lot of incorrect assumptions, but I'll try to sum it up. Imagine you're the left fielder on a baseball team that wins the world series. Then MLB picks you, and you alone, to accept the ring, give a speech and get your name, and your name alone, engraved on the wall. Meanwhile your teammates aren't even allowed inside the building. Get it now? Carol is rightly trying to draw attention to the fact that there were hundreds of studio musicians working as a team, so it's an insult to the entire team if 1 person is singled out to get their name, and their name alone, chosen as the 1 inductee. As for her gripe about being called "the wrecking crew", that has nothing to do with her gripe with the RnRHoF. She just happened to vent about it in her facebook post, and that's what everyone descended on as her reason for snubbing the award. But no, that's just a long standing sore wound that's been poked by the sudden media attention. But make no mistake, she turned down the award because it would've been an insult to all her teammates if she alone took the trophy home.

I think you misunderstood my post. I'm not trying to copy Gabriel. It's just that he is 1 artist who successfully did what I want to do. There's a particular song I'm doing that requires a visceral, tribal feel. In technical terms we might say bottom heavy. But it just feels naked to me, and I think the objective listener would find it muddy or lacking in energy. That's why I asked this question, to see if anyone had successfully done a song or album with that "woody" organic vibe like we get in Gabriel's "Jan Jacinto" or "The Rhythm of the Heat".

This is something that has intrigued me, but I've never been brave enough to do, ever since I first heard of it. I first heard of this regarding Peter Gabriel's Security album. Supposedly he insisted on "nothing metal", meaning no cymbals, no hi hats, nothing that fills in the shimmery top end the way we're accustomed to hearing in rock music. I think his results were the proof in the pudding. It's an amazing album with an organic, tribal vibe, and he even tricked us by using metal-like sounds that actually aren't. Prime example, listen to the track San Jacinto where the background loop sounds 'metallic' but not quite. Maybe it's some sort of koshi bamboo chime, who knows. But I think the effect is a lot more pleasing to the ear than any metal ringing instrument. Also on that same track, when it kicks in at the end you might expect big symphonic crashes to go with the orchestral swells--and probably 9 out of 10 orchestral arrangers would call for that--but Gabriel's track doesn't go there. Instead all percussion keeps to the low end with the only 'crash' coming from the electric guitar. My question is: has anyone else tried this approach, deliberately avoiding metal objects which to me equates to avoiding the super high frequency range? I've sometimes started a project this way, but I always reach a point where it feels naked without filling that empty real estate up there. How did Gabriel pull it off with such a commercial success?

Edit: just noticed a big mistake. Song offline while making revisions…

Sorry for the late reply... There's no chance unfortunately. In the thread I linked up top, Magic Russ said: "due to issues with the developer, this is not something you should expect to see upgraded to 64 bit any time soon." It's a shame because I use the heck outta VC64. Particularly on vocals, there's a setting called Breathing Vox which is like the Andrew Scheps trick of using 2 filters and an LA-2A compressor to make the track pop out. Except VC64 does it all by itself. I don't think I'll ever quit using it.

I'm going to try that next. Although I survived the real heart stopper (all my old projects being frozen), I'm still encountering problems. After loading in safe mode & skipping all VC64 plugs, I started adding them back one at a time. Apparently it can only handle 5 instances of VC64 on playback before it goes silent and freezes up. This is in Windows 11... I actually did a total reinstall of Win11 & Sonar 8.5 just to be sure it wasn't an installation hitch. So next I'm going to try the X2 installation of VC64. If that doesn't work I'll roll back to Windows 10, or maybe Win7 because I always preferred that over 10. Might seem drastic but I used the heck outta VC64! It's probably my most used plugin ever. Fingers crossed that the X2 version of VC64 clears it up because that'll make my life a lot simpler...

[SOLVED] I didn't install X2 but instead I used scook's safe mode trick to skip all VC64 plugs. Reloaded VC64 on the same tracks and voila, everything works! ?

Brilliant, will do! I did create a new Sonar 8.5 project, and VC64 loaded & worked fine. The problem seems to be with old project files that have VC64. Trying to reinstall VC64 with the X2 installer now... will post update...

Huge thanks for checking on that! Now I can narrow it down. Ok so it's not a VC64 compatibility issue with Win11, at least not via CbB. I tried reinstalling Sonar 8.5 but the problem persists. Maybe it's the project file itself but it's happening on 3 I've tested. Next I'll try starting a new project and putting it on a brand new track...