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Having a packet sniffer running on my computer, created by some random guy on the internet, would really make me feel safe and secure.

Lord Tim, who's been the early morning janitor, hasn’t been logged on for almost two weeks. I hope he’s okay.

I don’t have anything from IKM, but I do have a lot of things from UVI. They have the same bad habit of not signing their Windows installers. I get a feeling Windows is almost an afterthought for many plugin manufacturers. "Yeah, right. What’s it called? Windows? I guess we have to make an installer for that as well. Oh, putain! I have to catch the bus in ten minutes, but I’ll try to squeeze it in! Isn’t there a Windows computer somewhere down in the basement?"

Unfortunately, same problem. As you can see from the linked article, Windows 8 and 8.1 are also affected.

Are you still running Windows 7? If so, <UTTER_SPECULATION>CCC 1.1.8.1 might be using Microsoft WebView2 to communicate over the internet with the back-end server. Edge version 109 and WebView2 Runtime version 109 were the last versions to support Windows 7. If the latest version of CCC is created using WebView2 SDK 1.0.1519.0 or higher, it will, according to Microsoft, not work with Windows 7. But, of course, I'm only guessing here.</UTTER_SPECULATION>

It varies. Some deals are less than 50% and some are more than 50%. For instance, I bought Tines with a 60% discount for $9.99.

I think that Sweetwater has jumped the gun; the link and image in the OP are definitely targeting Klevgränd. But the prices at Sweetwater do give an indication of the deals to be at Klevgränd as well.

C’mon Klevgränd! Where are the deals? It’s been Tuesday for more than eleven hours here in Europe! And in Tokyo it’s 18:20 (that’s 6:20 pm for those of you that only can count to twelve).

Have a look at Synthesia. You can feed it with MIDI or you can play it yourself. Test it for free, unlock it for $29. All future upgrades are free once purchased, as far as I know. Here’s an example from YouTube by the composer Johannes Bornlöf: Twinkle of the Lights And another one by the same composer: Wolfpack

If Tines comes at a big discount, I just might make an exception to my never-buy-another-plugin-ever-again---and-that's-final policy.

In short: I don’t think Cakewalk is the root of your problems.

Thanks, I didn’t know there was an updated Command Center, but now I’ve updated my Command Center 1.1.7.1 from 2016 to version 1.1.8.1 from June 2023. After that, the SONAR Platinum activation worked perfectly. And for anyone who needs to know, here’s a download link to the updated Command Center: https://taylor.cakewalk.com/Command-Center PS. I don’t know who Taylor is, but he must be a pretty, pretty important guy over at BandLab, having his own subdomain and all.

I suddenly realized that although I installed SONAR Platinum on my most recent laptop some two years ago, I have never opened it – I’ve only used CbB. So, I started SONAR Platinum and was (not surprisingly) met by a message saying that I needed to activate it. When trying to do just that, Command Center told me that it can’t get in contact with the Cakewalk server. And, of course, I understand that’s due to the changes being made to the activation back-end server earlier this month. So, is it even possible to activate SONAR Platinum on this laptop? Perhaps by sending an offline activation request file to Cakewalk support and get a response file in return? Or, is activation of legacy products simply impossible from now on any computer?

I’m not using Camtasia for video editing, but for screen capture with the possibility to add things like annotations, transitions and mouse effects. Or at times to simply extract the sound from say a YouTube clip to be used as a reference track in Cakewalk. For things like that it’s absolutely perfect.

Even with a 25% discount, Camtasia is pretty expensive. When Camtasia 9 turned up on Humble Bundle back in 2018, I actually bought two licenses for $20 each. Sure, it was the next to latest version, but still. Guess we’ll never see such prices from TechSmith again. But a $121 upgrade, including a free upgrade to the next version, seems almost reasonable.

If you have created a user defined workspace on your old computer and would like to have it on your new computer as well, simply copy the corresponding workspace (.LNS) file stored in %APPDATA%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\Lenses\User and paste it to the same destination on your new PC. If you have updated a factory workspace, you'll find the .LNS file it %APPDATA%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\Lenses\Factory.

They are indeed late to the game, but that tutorial was released in May, well ahead of the announcement of Sonar and Next. As was this thread. Vaporware is when something is presented at an early stage of the development cycle, but never appears as a finished product. That's not the case here. Hard to say unless you’ve seen the Groove3 tutorial and can make a comparison.

You seem to be stuck in an endless loop. Try to deactivate the Loop On/Off button.

Not all cruises are created equal. Some fifteen years ago I made a cruise from Cyprus to Egypt to see the pyramids. That was actually pretty scary. When we arrived to Egypt and made the bus transfer from Port Saïd to Cairo, we travelled in a convoy consisting of maybe ten buses. But not only were there armed soldiers travelling in jeeps in the front and in the back of the convoy, there was also an armed guard sitting next to the driver in each bus. Also, every ramp onto the highway all the way to Cairo was temporarily blocked by armed police in order to prevent possible terrorist attacks. Yowza. They had forgotten to mentioned that in the cruise brochure. Still, the pyramids and the Egyptian Museum were great. A tick mark on my bucket list.

Exactly. I’m using the word professional here to separate the use of word processors in commercial businesses from the millions upon millions of privately owned licenses. I don’t put any additional value into that word. And, of course, any company that wants to stay alive needs to be professional. I hope I’ve made myself clear by now. För övrigt – ha en fortsatt trevlig lördag, Mark! ?

I think you’re missing my point. In all the companies I’ve ever worked for, there has been a set of file format standards so that daily work can be performed as efficiently as possible. Nobody has time or motivation to convert between multiple document formats, if that’s even possible (in my example above with Review/Track Changes, it’s not). So, I’m not saying that any of these document formats is better than the other, I’m saying that corporations have to decide upon a standard document format to avoid waste of time and loss of information. And that would more often be Microsoft Word, or should I say Microsoft Office, than anything else. Just Google for number of tutorials available Personal preferences has nothing to do with it.

Me too. In a professional working environment, I would say it's impossible to use anything but Microsoft Word. As long as there are incompatibilities between Word, LibreOffice and OpenOffice, most importantly to me in the Review/Track Changes area, nobody is going to accept anything but pure docx. But sure, if you only have to open, edit and save documents that you’ve created yourself, or maybe exchange documents with friends and family, you’re probably good to go with any freeware alternative.

Why all this pointless speculation? Wait until Sonar is released and make your decision whether to buy or not based on the information given at that time. Until then, so many posts here are just uninformed guessing and spreading of FUD.

Or, optionally, right-click on a folder and select "Insert Track Sub-Folder".

Maybe the Cakewalk bashing should be turned down a bit? I wouldn’t be surprised if the introduction of Sonar and Next in due time would also result in a reorganized forum. The Coffe House sub-forum is in no way Cakewalk related. If the core products are constantly being bashed, here and in the Deals forum, the future existence of those sub-forums might be questioned by the owners. Just my two cents.