Michael Elliott

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....)

It should be registered by it's installer. If you just have the bare .dll file for it, then if you are comfortable with using he command prompt, you can use the regsvr32 command to attempt to register the dll file. Further details can be given on that once we know what the complete path to the plugin .dll file is on your system. This does not always work to make the plugin or synth function, as it may require the installer to do other things to the system or add additional files or registry entries (all specific to the particular plugin).

Does the keyboard have a setting for Multi(timbral) on the midi input? That's what you need to have for most hardware synths in order to use multiple instruments at the same time. (this receives each instrument's data on a separate MIDI channel, but usually reduces the number of voices (polyphony) available for each instrument, at least while others are also playing) Otherwise they usually just use whatever the last patch command was sent as the instrument selection. (this plays all incoming MIDI channels on hte same instrument, but usually gives more voices for that instrument). You also have to use different channels for each MIDI track sending to each instrument.

I like this one, it's better than my Skaergaard song that it makes me want to go back and rework.

I dunno, I've check their site a fair few times over the years whenever sounds I wanted came on super sales I could almost afford / justify but were only useful with the full version, and none of their crossgrade/upgrade options have had anything I own to qualify for. But even the $56 is more than I can afford--if I spent that, I couldn't buy the stuff to use with it. The loops / wave files are what I have used so far, but they are very tedious to cut and splice bits of pre-performed vocals into something resembling what I want, and retuning just specific bits of them for the performance I want doesn't leave them sounding the same (often quite artificial, even bad, because some have to be retuned a long way from where they started...same thing for stretching or squishing them in time). Some of it can be hidden in the mix, most of it can't, especially for parts where I want the voice to stand out almost completely on it's own and want it to sound as natural as possible. I have a *few* useful playable voices (a couple in Decentsampler, a couple in the LABS program), but there aren't enough things in them to express most of what I want to do. (you can hear some of what I did with those in https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/the-moon-it-read-to-me-and-it-was-bright ) That's why I wanted to get some of the playable voices, so I can come a lot closer to the sound I am after in each different project. If I could afford it I'd get all four of the Forgotten Voices in Soundpaint format. I really wish Studio Vocals Laurie came in SP, but it's only in K so far--between these five I would be able to do at least half of the kind of vocal bits I would like in my music. If I was making money off the music (or was rich) I'd just buy all the vocal things and whatever was needed to use them...but neither of those is ever going to happen.

Can I put in a vote for all of the above, too? I don't know any automatic ways of doing them, so I just do stuff like that the tedious manual way (which is often faster to completely redraw it manually ).

Thanks! I usually consider my stuff "#motion picture scenes" (a hashtag I put on them sometimes); it's not really music you might just listen to for the sake of doing so, but it would often fit as background to something else. But sometimes I'm successful and manage to evoke a vision or a feeling with one, now and then. Some of them I have an intent, or an idea, behind them (like this one), most of them I'm just feeling my way around the sounds and letting it take me along for the ride while I grab the edges and fold them and trim them.... I only have maybe a couple dozen hours of editing into this one so far; I haven't even broken 100 versions saved yet. Usually takes at least that many to get close to where I want to go. Some songs I get stuck, usualy on a technical issue, sometimes a musical muse one, and don't get it really "finished" (I put them up anyway, so that the few that want to listen can). This one still has some ohter pieces to add; I have to find the right strings sound (or make it) to blend and contrast (in different places) with the vocals. Something else also has to be added, but I dont know what it is yet--my brain is still working on that, and hasn't told me about it yet. I've been trying for years to find good ways to get voices in there, especially for performances like these, but even if I could sing (can't carry a tune in a locked steel box), I have the completely wrong kind of voice--I want to sound like what you hear in this one and the other recent ones, but it's not possible. You can hear my actual voice (with lots of technical work on the clips after recording them) in these two and a few other worse ones https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/back-to-the-world https://www.soundclick.com/amberwolf/?more=13530596 So having found these really cheap libraries I can snip up and use (or in the case of Less Like A Whisper, use several entire phrases, started out just as a toy to play wiht the sounds I'd gotten, but turned into a song. ) Some of them I pitch correct***, some are already in the key, and sometimes I build that bit of the song around whatever they are because I like the way they sound as-is. I also tend to trim off just the bits I need for that section, or evne just that note, snipping a phrase apart and sometimes reassembling it differently than it was recorded. And I often stretch or scrunch clips timewise to fit the rest of whats' going on. Some of that is done to a whole clip, and some of it I'll split it after some part of the phrase and then stretch the rest out to make it to a beat or some other sound that's going on, so it doens't mess up the timing of the whole phrase. ***some of the pitch correction is done to the whole clip, and some of it is done to just a syllable or section. I almost always just use the built in clip function for that. So I'll either enable loop or fit to tempo modes (the only way you can enable pitch changes in the clip dialog), then pitch it up or down as needed. Almost always that is only needed in whole notes, but sometimes I'll use a few cents here and there to detune for multiple voices together, or to correct a mistuning, or just for effect. There's a guitar "dive" in this song https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/when-the-dark-closed-in-and-night-eclipsed-day where I couldn't play the actual guitar the right way to do it, so I just sliced up the sustained note I *could* play into a bunch of small segments and pitched each one down a semi. You don't hear the slices because I did that to the clean guitar tone that I actually recorded, before it goes into the effects chain. It's harder to do that to something "clean" and have it come out natural, but it works pretty well for distortion guitars and synths. Is it steady? I'll have to go back thru to see why...I actually tried to break it in at least a few places, both with the percussion and the bassline, so that it doesn't just plod on, even without tempo changes (whcih are a PITA in my ancient sonar; the tempo view in it could stand a lot of improvement, but that's probably been done in the intervening years).

AFAICT, you put your soundfonts onto it, so whatever sf2 you have or make.

Funnily enough, I hadn't used a CS-80 type sound in many years, until this past week or so I started using a Rapture patch that emulates the CS-80 as used for some Bladerunner sounds, in this project https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/gareki .

I don't know who owns the code so I don't know who you should contact. You can try the shotgun approach and hope something sticks somewhere, but I wouldn't expect any results.

Looks oddly familiar...I think I might've seen that on an amazon listing for other Doremidi stuff and not realized what it was, last year or so when I was looking for a replacement for my finally-died 1990s MIDIMan USB-MIDI box....

I guess if you never change the layout of the screen you could put a bit of highlighting tape over that part of it... to remind you where it is, even if it doesnt' tell you if it's active or not. If someone that knows how (not me) really got bored they could design a little RPi camera to keep an eye on that part of the monitor and detect whether that control was in it's active state or not, and have it turn a little laser pointer on that is fixed to shine on that spot on the screen. 😆

Put them in a Midi clip, turn the clip into a loop, and roll it out? If you are using envelopes (shapes) to do it, you can copy/paste one measure's worth repeatedly.