Colin Nicholls

Perhaps it is just me and my system, but I had an experience last night I thought I'd share: I opened one of my older, completed projects to do some testing and I noticed a horrible delay between pressing a key on my MIDI controller and hearing the note from the currently selected instrument track. This is MIDI latency, even when playback was halted. Just auditioning the instrument tracks after opening the project, I could hear the problem. The project was fairly dense with tracks and FX VSTs but I finally isolated the problem to an audio track in a different folder, a guitar lead that I'd experimented with Izotope's Vocal Doubler to make the lead "stand out". This is a pretty common trick, works well. Not sure why I settled on Vocal Doubler but it did the job well. I knew the latency was FX related because activating "Bypass FX" on the mix module cleared the problem up instantly. After methodically working through tracks and busses, disableing FX bins, I finally isolated the problem to Izotope Vocal Doubler. It took a little extra time to verify because the latency would hang around for a while until I toggled the Audio Engine button in the transport. It seems odd that an FX on a completely separate audio track would be the source of MIDI latency, even when playback is halted. Solution: Replace Izotope Vocal Doubler with an instance of Sonitus Delay (~30 ms slapback panned 75% right at 40% volume) and frankly, it sounds just as good. No MIDI controller latency. Job done. Posting here in case it helps someone else. EDIT: I just realized this forum is for Cakewalk Instruments and FX... um... perhaps this post should be moved to, um, well I suppose the Sonar or Cakewalk general forums would work.

I love love love V-Vocal but never gelled with Melodyne. I do recommend SyncroArt's RePitch, it works very similarly to V-Vocal and I find it comfortable.

...AND HERE'S WHY: It helps to turn on power to the Arturia Keylab before opening Cakewalk By Bandlab. Cakewalk sees it just fine. I, however, am an idiot. PREVIOUSLY ON PEBKAC: Is there a setting in Cakewalk By Bandlab I need to enable in order for the Preferences/MIDI Devices to see the Keylab MkII as a MIDI source? Sonar seems to just "see" it automatically. Perhaps this is a new feature in Sonar that Cakewalk doesn't have? Any advice gratefully received.

My opinion is that 1 and 2 are none of our business, and 3, honestly, if the appearance of a new Mac compatible DAW from the folks who brought you SONAR doesn't excite you, then I can't help you.

3 golden internet points to anyone who can find how much "BandLab Membership" costs on the Bandlab web site

My Midisport 2x2 still works fine with Windows 10 and Cakewalk

Recreating our themes using the forthcoming theming tools for New Sonar is a gonna be so fun... (engaging the power of positive thinking here). Oh, and Welcome, @Neon Laser 84

Are you mistaking "Next" for the new "Sonar" ? They are two different products. Next looks quite different from Sonar, which is much more of a gentle evolution from Cakewalk By Bandlab.

He pretty much explained why. Anyone trying to earn a living from Youtube needs to game the algorithm. It isn't about what makes sense to YOU, it's about what delivers browsers to his channels. Full stop. It's a sick, sick industry and it is not just Youtube. It is absolutely ANY business that relies on online ad revenue instead of, oh, actual people buying something. Look up 'enshitification' if you're curious, it contributes to that. Then you get folks here complaining about "subscriptions" when it is about the only thing that cuts the adware companies out of the equation of customer->creator. EDIT: Sorry @whoisp, this rant is not really directed at you

Did you say this when X1, X2, and X3 were announced, as well?

I like Mike, but, really, clickbait aside this could have been a completely positive announcement of a new Youtube channel. I understand, and despise, the pretzels that content creators have to contort themselves into, in order to stay relevant to the algorithm. Subscribed.

Here is the good stuff: I used to say that it didn't really matter what DAW you chose; just learn it well. Support for vision-impaired folk is where I have to contradict myself and say, that is definitely a deciding factor for DAW choice.

Time will tell, but you may be interested to know that the VX-64 vocal strip is available in Cakewalk now. See this video from Creative Sauce has he explains how to enable it. I'm sure it will also be available in the coming Sonar. RegionFX is also a feature of Cakewalk (CbB) now, and I would be astounded if it were omitted from the new Sonar.

Neither is Reaper; never has been.

So? Is the information above out of date? Or would you prefer that everyone write out their replies again in the new thread?

Four black note cluster? Game over man

I just bought it, thanks for the tip. I feel like V-Vocal is back. Yay

I tried to get out. But they dragged me back in... In all seriousness, very nice!

and I bought it

You're in luck. https://www.howtogeek.com/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

If you're talking about the note names on the left as shown on page 90 , then, no, those colors can't be changed.

Nope

How about waiting until Next is actually released and available to purchase? The discord thing I suspect is just for beta testers, and there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification

I have written about the Drum Map in Cakwalk/Sonar before: https://prodigalsounds.com/blog/2021/05/04/drum-maps-in-cakewalk/