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Everyone, thanks so much for your responses and suggestions. Will, I especially appreciated your visual aid and suggestion about setting Follow Snap Settings in PRV. I think we are all in agreement that there is some kind of glitch in Piano Roll Snap and it could go back a ways--I can't remember the last time I used this feature. Hopefully, the Bakers will get it straightened out in a future update .

When adjusting the positions of notes in PRV using only the global Snap To settings in the Control Bar (PRV Snap To off) everything works fine and notes snap to their proper position according to the resolution set on the Control Bar. However, if I then turn on PRV Snap To and set a different resolution some of the notes jump when you try to move them with either the Move tool or the Smart tool and as you try to slide them with the mouse, they avoid the vertical line of the resolution level set and settle at a point several milliseconds either before or behind the line. I tried testing PRV Snap To with several simple MIDI projects where I would play and record a simple melody of about six or eight quarter notes a little off beat. Next turn on Global Snap To, set the note resolution to a quarter note. All of the off-beat notes were easily moved to their correct position--Snap To worked. Next, turn on PRV Snap To and set resolution to Measure. Some notes now jump when you try to move them and won't settle exactly on the measure line. For example, when I tried to move a note to 3:01:000 it settled at 2:04:953 and couldn't be moved any closer, unless Snap To was turned off. I'm currently using CbB v. 2022.02. I don't think I've encountered this problem in any of the previous versions. Please advise.

Batsbrew, Thanks very much for the recommendation. I'll put them on my list of studios to contact.

I'm looking for a good mastering studio to help us master our first CD album. Most of the music will be ambient electronic music. Needs to be in the Northeastern US. Aleo

I forgot to mention earlier that, during the interview, Bob Katz mentions an album that he mastered a few years back that he highly regards, 3 Cities by the Bombay Dub Orchestra. I got a copy of the CD and not only is it a great example of Bob's mastering, I found the music by Garry Hughes and Andrew Mackay to be a fascinating blend of genres, very cinematic, and sensuous. Highly recommended; play this on the best stereo system you can get your hands on.

Great interview! I'm a beginner at learning the art of mastering, but Bob's discussions in this interview were both enlightening and very entertaining. Highly recommended.

Mike's video tutorials are very helpful and informative for beginners and even experienced users.

Amazing! It worked and now I feel really stupid--but I've learned something. Next time I'll do a better job of searching previously answered questions. many thanks Steve.

I've encountered a problem with setting and maintaining my default Audio Driver Bit Depth in both the Preferences page and with new and old Cakewalk projects. A few days ago, I called up an old cwp file and noticed the bit depth had been changed by the program from 24 to 16. I clicked on Preferences>Audio page and discovered that the field for Audio Drive Bit Depth was grayed out with 24 in the field, but I could not change the bit depth to any other value. I then checked several old projects and found that the bit depth had been changed to 16 in all of them. I tried launching a new project and in the New Project File dialog box the bit depth was also set to 16; however, in the dialog box I was able to set it back to 24. The interesting thing is that once I set the bit depth to 24 in the New Project File box, the bit depth was changed back to 24 bits in all of my older projects! My default sample rate set in Preferences is 48 KHz. and the program has not altered this. The only time I use 16 bits and 44.1 KHz is when I'm preparing a file for burning to CD. My questions are: what has caused Cakewalk to change my default bit depth to 16, which I rarely use? How do I get the Audio Drive Bit Depth Field to not be grayed out and allow me to change the bit depth to something other than 24 if I need to? Am I correct in understanding that if the bit depth of a project is set to say 24 and the sample rate set to 48000 that these parameters will be saved with the project and not be altered by changes made in either Preferences or the New Project File dialog box? I am working with CbB v. 2021.11, build 18 on Creation Station PC 450 v6, i7-8700 @ 3.2GHz, 64 bit, running Win. 10 21H1.

Art, About a month ago I installed Windows 10 21H1 on my Creation Station computer and this version is working fine with CbB v. 2021.11 build 18 (and all of my software synths). Have not tried Win. 21H2 yet.

I recently downloaded and installed CbB v. 2021.11, Build 018 and have experienced no problems with this version and Windows 10 21H1. Everything seems to be working fine.

I am planning to upgrade Windows 10 to ver. 21H1. Are there any known issues with Win. 10 21H1 and Cakewalk ver. 2021.09 or the upcoming v. 2021.11?

Good discussion guys. Thanks again MS!

Thanks for responding guys!

I am running CbB v. 2021.01 on a Creation Station Computer V.6, 64 bit interfaced with a MOTU 828x. The O.S. is Windows 10 Home v. 1803 and I'm thinking of upgrading to v. 1909 (this is what Sweetwater is currently installing). What version of Windows does Cakewalk recommend? Are there settings in this version that you would recommend changing from the default settings for Windows?

Many thanks MS, Scook, and John! I'm learning a lot about these settings. In all of my current projects I'm working with 48kHz. and 24 bits . In Preferences, 64 bit Double Precision Engine is always checked; Record Bit Depth is 24, Render Bit depth is 32.

Thanks for responding Jimbo. I may want to use some plug-ins during the mixdown. The tracks will be mixed and exported as wave files then the final track will be burned on a CD.

I recently opened an old cwp file that I created back when I was using Sonar. it contains eight audio tracks that I was in the final stages of mixing. The tracks' volume and pan envelopes still need some work and I would like to finish this project, but I noticed that everything was recorded 44.1kHz and 16 bit. From the standpoint of preserving the fidelity of the recorded sound, would there be any advantage in exporting these tracks as 48kHz, 24 bit wave files (using pow r 3 dithering) and them importing them to a new CbB project set to work at 48KHz and 24 bit and finish my final mix in the new CbB file? if I do this should I remove the old volume and pan envelopes prior to exporting the tracks?

I just wish the Bakers would get around to fixing the Colors section of Preferences so that every part could be changeable and work like it used to in the old Sonar versions. Please work on this.

Thanks everyone. I appreciate all the responses and info. I am a complete amateur/noob at mastering. Katz' method or system seemed to have a lot of merit and I knew it had been used with success in the film industry. I'm currently mixing down my tracks for an album, CD and other venues, but plan to have a professional studio do the mastering. I also want to look into LUFS.

Is anyone familiar with engineer Bob Katz' proposed "K-system" of integrated metering and monitoring? Has there been any interest in this system among audio engineers who are doing mastering?

Guys, Thanks so much for responding. I'll check out Steve's utilities.

Would it be possible to connect the Help function to the Cakewalk Reference Guide so that it would work in a way similar to the way offline Help worked in the old Sonar program? With Sonar, you could click on Help and get a feature that would allow you to search the user's manual by either table of contents, the index, or by key word(s). Many users prefer to keep their DAW computer offline as much as possible and though I always keep an updated copy of the Reference Guide on my DAW computer, I have to go outside Cakewalk to access it and cannot search for help on a topic as easily as one could have with the old Sonar program. This would be a great time saver and a very valuable improvement.

Erik, Good to hear from you. I enjoyed reading your reference to JGS. I upgraded to v. 2020.05 about two weeks ago and everything is running nicely on my system, so far. Hoping to get the stems recorded for the last two pieces on our up coming album. Best of luck with your creative projects!

Wookiee, Good to hear from you. I don't expect perfection in software, but in the spirit of W. Edwards Deming, it's a good target to aim for. Best of luck with your creative projects!