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Well I see two possible questions regarding different tasks here. #1 is extracting the audio file from the video. If Vegas can export the audio directly from a video file, well then that part is done. If not, then using something like the free Audacity will let you record audio from any Windows application. Just play the video in Vegas and capture an audio track in Audacity. Done! #2 mapping slices of the audio to a keyboard. Well since Cakewalk doesn't really include a sampler suited for this task, you will probably need a 3rd party sampler plugin for this part. Since you already have Komplete, there is probably something in there you can use for that.

Now where did I put my hoverboard???

I have a 3+ year old Samsung SSD 850 EVO that still shows 100%, and with no perceptible performance degradation, as my system drive. I take daily FULL images with Macrium Reflect free. I think most of the hype and FUD about SSD life was generated in the early days of SSD. By today's standards, an SSD will probably outlive your computer, and maybe even you!

Absolutely!!!

If only ...

I hear you! Sitting down at a keypunch machine was the most tedious task I have ever undertaken. Moving to online terminals and virtual data entry was like the cyber equivalent invention of the wheel, or fire, or something like that! I took a class in Python programming a few years ago. Just wow!!! Look ma, no compiler!!! It is so very cool to be able to code, execute, and debug at brain speed (real -time) on your personal computer, without having to wait for a compile step. Interpreted languages are the bees knees!!!

LOL! Me either, fortunately I started my career in the transistor age, and vacuum tubes were well behind me by that point. For reference, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are a about a year older than me. And I'm not a Brit, by the way, but thanks for the compliment (I think). I'm an American. From 'merica.

You gain an up to date and supported version of Sonar. You lose the state of being stuck with a potentially outdated DAW, with no hope of ever getting any more bug fixes. As far as looking at other DAWs, what @synkrotronsays... ^^^

I have the 64-bit version of "Pentagon I" DXi installed here, and it works in CbB: "C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared DXi\Pentagon I\P1DXi.dll" I believe that I had retrieved it from my Sonar X3 install media using the advanced install, as scook recommends. It's probably been a couple of years for me so I don't recall the details. But I don't think that DXi will work with the same bit bridge that allows you to use 32-bit VST plugins with a 64-bit Sonar or CbB, so you must use the 64-bit DXi with the 64-bit host.

I'm not sure why anybody would go out of their way to use sound fonts today for new projects, when much better options exist. Unless it's just for nostalgia or retro purposes to load an old project or something.

The very first program I wrote was in BASIC for a high school physics class, punched on paper tape, then sent from a TTY keyboard/printer terminal over a dial up to a time sharing computer system 20 miles away. The first mainframe I worked with was a Univac. It was octal based, rather than hexadecimal. And it had real magnetic core memory, (the kind with tiny ferric rings for each bit, pre-dating semiconductor memory). So when we did "core dumps", we were really dumping the "core"! The console operation was strictly TTY. Punched cards were the normal input media used. Also with large numbers of vacuum capstan reel to reel mag tape drives, for sorts, backups, and general I/O. Plus lots of little blinky lights and buttons on the main panel for system access. My first college level programming class was in COBOL, where programs were first written on paper, then we punched them into 80 column cards and submitted them for compile and run tests. Later on I worked with IBM System/370 series mainframes running MVS. This was just about the time personal computers were beginning to hit the mainstream, but way before the LAN/WAN and client/server technology took off with TCP/IP based networks. Data center computing was mostly still connected with proprietary point to point links, and packet networks were still limited in large commercial applications. Ahh, the good old days! Like the kind of days where you could actually walk down the sidewalk without accidentally bumping into somebody staring down at a smartphone, LOL!!!

You can see here what comes with CbB, and why you will definitely benefit by keeping any existing Sonar with its plugins installed on your PC. You can just point CbB to your existing VST scan paths and use any existing plugins with it. Cakewalk by BandLab included plugins

Yup! You have to download the BandLab assistant first. But it's free too! https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk

Uh-oh, cover blown!

That's kind of a stretch going from UNIX, to CP/M, then DOS. More a case of borrowed and shared ideas, than a direct documented lineage. But as with many tech advances like the mouse, or the graphic UI, it is sometimes difficult to credit the original inventor (Xerox?). I do remember CP/M. We had one machine with that running network diagnostics. We also played some cool text based games on it when we were working late nights.

LOL! I started working with mainframes in the mid 70's, so I know a thing or two about OS evolution. 35+ years in the IT field. Your move. And I put that wiki sh*t up there for general reference purposes, so I wouldn't come across as just making that stuff up. As soon as you said Windows evolved from UNIX, I realized that you were delusional!

Android is not actually a Linux "distro". It is a Google customized version of the Linux "kernel", plus additional Google software that allowed them to create the Android OS, which is capable of running Android Apps. But creating a Linux distro implies that all of the necessary open source GNU/Linux software (and often a desktop environment and other Linux applications) are distributed along with the Linux kernel, which together makes up a complete Linux operating system. I agree with feeling "trapped" by Windows as far as audio goes. I don't particularly care for Microsoft anymore, but Windows just works (mostly). Desktop Linux is good for programming and web development, or for ordinary tasks like web surfing, email, media players, and general office productivity. But for music production, you might be able to make Linux work if you are hard headed and have the patience and time to do the research, testing, and configuration for a setup to work for your needs. If you despise MS badly enough, you might be able to work up the motivation for the task. But your options will still be fairly limited compared with Windows as far as available hardware and software support. A while back I spent a couple of weekends exploring Linux audio on a dedicated Linux desktop, mostly out of curiosity about whether it could be done. Then I stopped short and slapped myself in the face, and went back to Windows, LOL! Because Windows always just works for me (mostly)!

Linux and Mac evolved from UNIX. Windows 3.x through the 9x versions evolved from an IBM mainframe operating system called DOS, later developed by IBM and Microsoft into MS-DOS and PC-DOS for x86 systems. Microsoft had used a UNIX based system called Xenix, but that was licensed from AT&T, and later acquired by SCO UNIX. It was never actually part of the DOS evolution for MS though. Windows NT, 2000. XP, and so on were developed from the NT rewrites of the OS/2 operating system that Microsoft had co-developed with IBM. So Windows today is an "NT" based OS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.1 UNIX History Diagram

What you want can be easily bought from a 3rd party. What we are talking about here is sampler WORKFLOW being integrated into the DAW, not just the best sampler for general use. Please stay on topic.

The XLN home page has a banner with that promo graphic that says "EXTRAORDINARY INSTRUMENTS IN YOUR MUSIC". So whoever called the particle synthy thing might be onto something ... https://www.xlnaudio.com/

Shhh! Don't tell anyone, but ... The most popular operating system on Microsoft's Azure cloud today is -- drumroll please -- Linux.

I'm not saying that is my opinion of how things should be. IMHO, it just is what it is, as far as the commercial market is concerned with at the moment. I grew up in a musical family where everybody played a real instrument, my father was a professional musician, and I studied music in school for years and learned how to read music. I like and respect all styles of music, especially the traditional ones. I am just troubled whenever I hear comments from traditional musicians who protest the inclusion of "XYZ" features for so-called "beat makers" into their DAW of choice, rather than some "ABC" feature that they would prefer. I'm not calling you out here, I've just heard this frequently in other threads and forums. So please don't take my comment out of context. I was only making an observation about the music making world of today, not passing any value judgement. The tools should be agnostic to style or genre, but offer accessibility for all. Computers are making creative musical efforts more productive than the pencil and staff paper I began with. I have been a Cakewalk user for over 20 years, so I would like to see it become relevant to an even larger group of up and coming music creators. That will ensue that it will remain available for me to use, now and into the future! I'm just afraid that if it holds onto the past, it will become irrelevant at some point. Musically, I started out with the trumpet, and Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass were my "pop" heroes of the day (six Grammy awards, 15 gold albums and 14 platinum) . In 1966, they even outsold the Beatles. But by the end of the 60's Herb disbanded the original Tijuana Brass. And we have seen continuous changes in what musical styles the crowd seeks in the five decades since.

From your pic it appears that you are still running the old Dim Pro DXi 1.2, or earlier. The Dim Pro v1.5 (final release) is VST2 only and has a different plugin window header, like the one shown in scook's example. Dimension Pro 1.5 Update

Linus iz better than Windoze! Linus rulez!