Amberwolf

And doing this can affect how the drums sound, or even which drum sound is actually used, with some synths. I have not used TTS-1 in a very long time so don't recall if it uses different samples for different velocities, but if it does, stuff can sound very different using the midi gain or vel+ offsets to mix with.

Generally, if all your drums (or other sounds) come from the same instance of the same synth, then your volume control *is* the synth's volume control, or the track that it is on. If your drums (or other sounds) come from separate instances of the same synth, then you can do what we suggested. For synths like TTS-1, DR-008, etc., with multiple audio outs, then you can set up multiple audio tracks that have the synth's separate audio outputs on them. Then set the outputs of those tracks to a single bus. But TTS-1 (IIRC) only lets you output the drum sounds on one single audio output, so you *already* have them all on a single volume control, for a single instance. If you have TTS-1, you probably also have Session Drummer of one version or another. This one supports an audio output for every separate drum (at least 8, IIRC), so you can effect / mix each separately in separate tracks, then bus those all down to one as suggested. The track the TTS-1 is in has an output selection. That is where you choose where it's output goes (not in the TTS-1).

As long as you don't mind installing yet another "control center" app on your computer just to install a simple plugin...and who knows what other invasive background stuff to go along with it, or autoupdates, or online-always-licensing, etc. (their site won't answer those questions, just that there is no standalone installer for anything and you have to use their control center). Pass.

I sometimes use ChannelTools' widening/narrowing controls for effect within a song, moving things within the mix via automation, for certain things. Sometimes I use the stereo to mono for basslines or subbass, then use it to widen the result out to a full "outside the speakers" pan, so it isn't "stereo" but it's not in the center, but rather separately in each speaker, if that makes sense, to get it out of the way of something else I want to sound in the center. (sometimes for a full song, sometimes just for parts of it). I have also used GPan, which was a free dx plugin from gsonic, for similar things, but it doesn't do all the things channeltools does (I think the full gsonic main plugin did but that's not registerable anymore as it was a paid thing and they haven't been around in nearly two decades). But you can still get Gpan full for free here (the installer was archived): https://web.archive.org/web/20061101230854/http://www.gsonic.com/gse/gse.html

What specifically is a "Beer Driver"? If that is an app that comes with the device (or is from the manufacturer of the device, made for that device), and it doesn't see the hardware, it means the hardware doesn't have the drivers for it installed, or there is a problem with the drivers being unable to detect the device (usually because of a hardware problem, but sometimes because of drivers for a different device that may not even be connected to the system anymore, but are still installed).

I'll vote for this; it's one of the various functions that are so basic that I don't understand why they weren't already included in Cakewalk way back in the DOS days.

Not sure what you mean by that. If you mean only have the bus volume control anything, you'd simply leave all the individual track volumes at the default, and not automate them either. If you mean just have a volume control by itself, no--the bus has the controls it has; you just don't use any of the ones you don't want to, and just use it's volume. If you mean something else you'll have to be specific.

The "best" way to do this is to create a bus just for all of those to output to. That bus then goes to your master bus, that then goes to your hardware output. That allows you to not only have a single final volume, trim, etc for them, but also to have any global effects you may want on the whole thing (like a final multiband compressor, limiter, room-shaping-reverb, etc). (I usually end up using the controls in the multiband itself as the overall contrrol for that group of percussion, but I also usualy have more than one percussion bus, one for each kind--like a regular kit, a bunch of hand percussion, effects percussion, and then a bus to merge all those together, and then a further bus that merges bass and percussion and sends it all onto the master bus. You can hear how that all sounds in my projects at http://amberwolf.bandcamp.com; I started using that full process somewhere around The Tomorrow Option, IIRC, before that it was just the one drum buss and the bass buss feeding the perc-bass feeding the master). If you really don't want that, then you can group all the volume controls so they all move at the same time, either as a quick group or a named permanent one. But if you have automated them, that may not work as expected. In that case you can switch to Offset Mode which gives you access to the static non-automated volume controls, and group those and move them together.

ditto.

Looks nice, but at nearly a month's pay, that will never ever happen.

Iv'e had similar issues with various things over the years (though I don't use IDs / DMs), including wiht external hardware....

I'd be happy if I could play two or three notes of that... ...all on the same day, much less the same performance.

Where exactly are you trying to sign in? Which exact version of Sonar are you using, and how was it downloaded and installed?

Not sure if either one of those is from this feature, but there is "Aim Assist" that might be the one following hte mouse cursor.

What I would like is a *hardware* version of the CS80's input section (the keyboard, modulation controls, etc), as an 88 key control unit. (these days I probably couldn't actually use it's capabilities, though when I was much younger I would have tried). There are probably already units out there that do what it did, but I don't know which ones they might be (haven't done much digging on it, since they're all out of my budget range anyway).

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The only thing I use the function for is if I have a bunch of little snips of something (usually percussive, or sounds I recorded to use as effects, like my dogs' breathing, panting or other wierd sounds they make that I can reprocess into something musically useful). I slice up the recorded or imported wave into separate clips (either manually or with the audiosnap feature that does a fair job at it), then select them and press my shortcut key for Process-Audio-Normalize and just hit Enter which does it to 100%. Then I can use the sounds wherever, and use track volume or clip gain envelopes (or the destructive Process-audio-gain function) or compressors, etc., to manage the individual volumes of the sounds wherever they're being used. There's a few examples of this usage in a recent project here, with some panting and other sounds in certain sections as percussive timing effects, https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/ookami-no-kari-no-yume-wolfs-dream-of-the-hunt and in this one replacing some shakers with pantings. https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/a-peek-over-the-wall

Maybe it ended already?

One page about the feature: https://legacy.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR+X3&language=3&help=Arranging.22.html There's also at least one thread discussing it in the last few weeks that may have helpful info., but I don't have a link.

You'll also need to answer the questions that the OP of this thread never did, for us to help you.

Thanks! I also saw those on the page itself; they are good cautions to observe.

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Not for me; I use it every day, so that all the things I have "running" on the Win10 system are saved, system powered off while I'm not home (gone to work, etc), then I just turn it back on to restore the machine state when I get back home. The only issue I've run into with the old Sonar I use, and the old Avid Fasttrack USB audio device, is that occasionally when I go back into Sonar, it'll stutter and dropout. If I simply restart playback a few times, the problem goes away. I'm sure that for others it's much more of a problem, but in my case, it isn't. (On even more ancient computers with WinXP, I used it with no problems with an even yet more ancient GadgetLabs Wave8*24, didn't get the stutter/dropout with that.) So, there's no absolutes....

It'd be nice if that would happen, but I am guessing that most of the bundles put out there are to entice *new* customers into the fold. Most discounts and sales (in any kind of company) are not created to keep existing customers--they already have some of their money...to get more of it, they may offer special upgrade pricing, etc., specifically to those customers, or in some cases they may not even care and actually prevent existing customers from using a discount code or purchasing an item on a sale.

I did see that in the OP of this thread, but guessed you probably already have them out there somewhere if you didn't post / link them here. Are these the SW panels? https://www.promidi.com.au/studioware/studioware.html (thought I'd try a google search on your username first, just in case the CALs were already out there; if they are here on the forum itself I missed finding them....)