Amberwolf

You could record the metronome sound in a track, trim it, and export the clip, put it in Sonar's metronome folder...

Names are probably the only thing I'm pretty good at. (the songs hardly even get listened to, and almost never more than partway thru, so I imagine they can't be as good as the names). Ditto.

The specific error would be more helpful in resolving your problem, as the description you give is similar to another error that means something is not installed, but not the same and so probably doesn't mean that. It also doesn't say what specifically is missing, making it even more difficult to help you find/fix it.

I've never had the full version of SD, just the Lite that came with some version of SONAR. What is it that doesn't happen as expected when you set it up in the current version of Sonar?

Seems pretty useless to have something you can alter settings in but not save presets for, so I'd guess there must be a way. If not, you might want to ask them why such a basic function would be left out. But they might be like BabyAudio, where they don't think users should be allowed to have fine control over their plugins, and don't let you change most parameters, it's all buried "under the hood" so that some potentially really useful plugins are just left as useless garbage for anyone that wants that control and isn't just a "preset pusher".

I would guess (without having tested this) that you'd probably have to have the CC data (or whatever it is you want to overwrite) on a separate track from the MIDI notes and other data, so that overwrite mode won't destroy any other data in that section.

FWIW, speaking voices generally use a fairly narrow range, around 2khz to 4khz, for their primary information content. Most of the time you can automate a simple EQ with a single band and adjustable Q factor on hte soundtrack track or bus to "duck" the soundtrack in that frequency band during the sections the narrator is speaking, and gradually go back to normal when they're not. There are other frequencies down around 80–200hz and/or 160–260hz depending on the speaker that can conflict, too, but they don't usually cause problems understanding the speech. (the actual frequency range varies based on the speaker, but quite often the "telephone" setting in an EQ will have a useful range already in it, you just have to flip the gains on the bands so that it is ducking that range and leaving the rest alone, instead of ducking the rest and leaving just that). Or even less complex, you can use a simple compressor like the Core compressor in Duck mode on the soundtrack track or bus, with it's sidechain input fed from the vocal bus, to automatically reduce the gain of the sountrack whenever the narrator is speaking. With this, the only parts you usually have to adjust are the attack / decay and the gain. This is much simpler than analysing the tracks to find their conflicts, and generally works perfectly well.

I keep forgetting that exists, since it's design is nothing useful to me....so I didn't even think of it when I replied. My apologies to the OP if Bandlab (vs Cakewalk by Bandlab) is what you are referring to, in which case my instructions would be useless.

I might be misrembering, but I think Next has it's own format, or can open the new shared format that Sonar saves in. To open .CWP files from CbB, I believe you must use Sonar. If this is the case, then once open in Sonar, you could then resave as a new file using the new shared format with Next.

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Something I discovered a long time ago is that, "impossibly", wires just "go bad" all the time, even just sitting there, never moving, no vibration, etc. When I'm troubleshooting something, in any technology, one of the first things I do if I have spare cables, wires, etc., is to swap them out. If it's intermittent, and the wiring is not just a pluggable cable, I'll move it around especially near where it exits or enters a device...and usually I'll find the problem there. There are reasons these failures happen, but...still....

AFAICR there is an option in settings for this? If it is a periodic silence, it's probably a plugin that has lost it's authorization or isn't working right; many "demo" versions use periodic silences (usually of random duration and event time) to encourage purchase. Regarding TTS1, if you had it installed on the system, it should still work in Sonar. (unless you uninstalled whichever program had installed it and uninstalled TTS1 with it). There is also at least one thread around here for TTS1 explaining how to get it back, though I don't know if the procedure still works or if it's universal. I don't have a link so you'll need to poke around for it.

Does it send CCs for the controls on it you want to use for this? Which volume envelope do you want to record? If it's the CC7 envelope in a midi track, then if it sends CC7 that's easy. If it's something else, like the track volume automation envelope itself on a synth or audio track, then you may have to set it up as a control surface. Azslow probably has something to do this with, but I haven't experimented with his stuff yet (I should, he's brilliant). A few years ago I used some generic thing I found cheap on ebay used, "Worlde Panda Mini 25-Key Portable USB Keyboard Drum Pad MIDI Electric Controller" the older model of this https://www.amazon.com/Worlde-Portable-Keyboard-Controller-Colorful/dp/B079FGP3BH?th=1 and between using it's software to define notes / ccs for the controls and the control surface "learn" stuff in SONAR, I managed to get it to control a few things. Took a few hours to figure out, but was easy enough once I got the idea. I'd still be using it for that cuz it was really handy, but it's electronics are pretty shitty, and all the pots (slider or knob) are really jittery and "gappy', tending to jump around in values or skip whole groups of values. It's worse the faster you move them, and the jumps aren't in the same place everytime, so it's not the pots it's the stuff that reads and processes them. (I could've replaced the pots easy enough, so of course it couldn't be that).

FWIW, instead of exporting, if you just want a MIDI clip "as-is" you can ctrl-drag it out to a Windows Explorer window with the folder of your choice. This copies just that clip. If you have a bunch of clips to do this for, select them all and drag them out, and you'll get one file per clip. Doing this creates filenames with "the project name , track name (clip number).mid". If you need an entire track's worth of clips as a single file, just bounce it to a clip, and then ctrl-drag taht clip out. (you can then undo the BtC if you like). If the clips don't start where you want them to, you can drag the clip out to that point...but...whatever you do, it will still require a midi event of some kind at the start of where you want the clips (and the same for the end of the clips).

That's a PEBKAC issue. That's a hardware problem.