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Responding to this old comment because it is at the crux of all the agitation. It turns out that the Google 2FA app and the Microsoft 2FA app use the same protocol, so they are essentially usable interchangeably. However, the connections are not interchangeable. You need to use the app that you first synchronized with, because of the way they are seeded to a cryptographically-random generator, typically via a brief QR-code exercise. The use of the apps has become easier over time. These have nothing to do with tracking and all that. The 2FA apps are not tied to the connection being authenticated. In their essential form, they just spit numbers. There is some additional magic involving choosing the correct number among those given to choose among that I've encountered with Microsoft at times, but have not found a description for. As far as I can tell, it's basically to confirm that I have the correct phone in hand. The whole point of these 2FA apps is that there is no tracking of when one of the generated numbers is used, and for authenticating what, although the generators are initialized in synchronization with a specific named account somewhere. No two synchronizations produce the same sequence at the same points in time, although there might be unexploitable duplicates at rare moments in time.

On my Windows 10 Pro system, it's under Device Manager | Software Devices. Note the date on the file. It's a driver, and not something that can be accessed directly via some sort of MIDI serial stream. There are articles about it that can be accessed by Internet Search. I didn't look hard. The articles are a bit confusing. The driver is also installed on my Windows 11 Pro laptop, where I have no DAW installed and the Windows 11 is pristine. It is the same 2006 version too.

I recall that some years ago, there was a new SxS (Side by Side) installation provision where dependencies on specific redistributables were preserved and updates for other (SxS?) apps did not interfere. Has this gone away with Windows 10/11?

I suspect WMP is a legacy product and not currently maintained. To confirm that there are newer codecs required, try playing a troublesome MP3 in an alternative product such as Winamp and VLC media players. If they all stumble, the error messages might be more informative. The issue might have nothing to do with codecs.

I verified this on my Windows 10 configuration. However, it is the free-standing version that identifies as 1.5.0. The Command Center entry for D-Pro says "Current version: 1.5.5.16" as also latest and "This product cannot be launched directly." However, I could not find Dimension Pro as an instrument in SONAR Platinum until I added `C:/Program Files/Cakewalk/Vstplugins` to my `Preferences | Files | VST Settings`. I also see that the reinstall of the 1.5.5.16 stashes resources in `C:/ProgramData/Cakewalk/Dimension Pro` along with a mixture at `C:/Program Files/Cakewalk/Dimension Pro`. I suspect Windows 11 will be no different, although you might have less residue of older installs than my now-ancient Windows 10 system has.

I find that to be incredible. It is plausible that they don't use CrowdStrike and I enjoyed your account until this point. Where can I find confirmation of that statement?

Native Access 3.12.1 installing as we speak.

Everyone will make their own decisions about DAWs and whatever their needs are for their own legacy productions (and skills). I think the value of the current SONAR offer is the clarity of the FAQ. We may not like the answers, but our questions seem to all be answered for now. And legacy accounts remain active. Before subscriptions and the dominance of the Web as a distribution vehicle, I recall there being regular upgrades to original Cakewalk; there would be periodic offers to loyal users, etc. This persisted into the introduction of SONAR and until the SONAR Platinum perpetual license. Of course, none of that made existing installs unusable. I assumed earlier versions were obsoleted with respect to support though. Adjusted for inflation, the BandLab subscription is perhaps not as expensive as the continual updates of original Cakewalk and SONAR. I agree that the requirement for an active subscription is an unsatisfying situation if Cakewalk SONAR cannot operate without it. That's a bit of hold-up, like being unable to open Word documents if my Microsoft 365 subscription lapses -- except in that case there are alternatives of varying degrees of dependability.

That is a tidy likely story, except it seems that Bandlab also acquired the customer base, and that is a stretch on "intellectual property." I have no insight into that. However, I notice these things. The Cakewalk Command Center correctly operates (though now tied to legacy.cakewalk.com) and ties to my original Cakewalk registration. The web page that I reach by clicking on my Cakewalk User ID takes me to a page of information about my Cakewalk (Not Bandlad) account. All of my Cakewalk registrations and license information are preserved there. "About" of my latest install of SONAR Platinum tells me about my perpetual license. The "legal" button tells me about 3rd party licenses that apply to that product. (I notice there is no mention of Roland components though.) I am not disputing whether or not Bandlab has any obligations to me. I just suggest that the situation does seem a bit murkier around the idea of obtaining only intellectual property in a sell-off by Gibson.

They are available, along with local documentation, via the Command Center. You can see them listed in the local Help (Windows-style) display, and then a glimpse of one I did to play a sample loop. Side Comment: There are discrepancies in the tutorial text versus what is on the display, but I managed to adjust. The MIDI samples definitely play best with Cakewalk TTS-1 on my PC. Roland Sound Canvas is different. Now I have to figure all that out :(.

It is impressive to see how many sources of video materials there are. I don't find video tutorials very helpful in terms of taking baby steps and confirming/following step-by-step instructions. For this, I find built-in or other files valuable, especially PDFs, but Help Format files aren't too bad. Where can I find good print-format/-style tutorial materials for Cakewalk, whether on paper or for my off-line computer usage? (If there is a topic for that here, I apologize for not finding it.) Bonus Points: I notice CbB does not have tutorials in its off-line help and the PDF. My SONAR Platinum does have a large off-line Help document, including a set of tutorials. And I do have the tutorial files. However, the tutorials don't seem to agree very closely with the SONAR Platinum I have. I have managed to to figure them out anyhow, so far. I just wonder if there is an explanation for the differences. I had assumed that the legacy SONAR Platinum was untouched by BandLab. Am I mistaken?

Well, captchas tend to make things inaccessible for us oldsters. How about trivia questions, chosen randomly, about things that only boomers and their predecessors might remember the answers for? Things like "What does Duz do?" or "What does The Shadow know?"

It's the Norwegian University version. Doesn't everyone know that? (Or just try saying it out loud.)

If you are seeing this image after start-up of the latest Cakewalk by Bandlab version, you are activated. You can double-check that by bringing up the "About Cakewalk ..." and it will indicate that you are activated along with the version and other information.

Windows predated OS/2 by a bunch. I was around early enough to see it happen. Microsoft was an OS/2 development partner if not the lead until there was a parting of the ways with IBM. Early Windows ran MS-DOS/PC-DOS command line programs (with command.com shell). It is unsurprising that OS/2 command line operation was comparable-to/compatible-with that of Windows. I was at an event in NYC in the late 80s where there was an IBM-Microsoft Kumbaya event around Windows 2.03, celebrating that Windows would continue along with OS/2 (which was yet to ship). But Windows NT was the definitive visible break and then there was alignment of consumer Windows at Windows XP as I recall, with full x64 at Windows 7 (or maybe Vista) and the NT designation vanished. There's a pretty reliable account at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows Underlying the break was the connection between OS/2 and IBM's effort to close the hardware with the introduction of the PS/2 and MCA architecture. Of course they would have a way to run Windows programs. Thanks to the efforts of Compaq, Microsoft, Intel, and others, the open PC/AT architecture was extended to meet that challenge. This Wintel arrangement also assured a platform for Linux, something even IBM now supports on some of their systems. There were some significant miss-steps when some software providers were incentivized to develop for one of OS/2 or Windows first. Lotus 1-2-3 got burned going for OS/2 and they never recovered against Excel (and for a time, Quadro Pro). It's unclear where WordPerfect dropped a stitch although it might have had to do with an Apple-IBM attack on Microsoft Office. Borland got caught somewhere in the middle around getting quickly into Windows although I saw no evidence they were distracted by OS/2. There was a Borland-Microsoft Kumbaya at the 1992 Windows NT and Win32-APIs announcement event in San Francisco. Looking back, all of those moves seem rather medieval. A technological age of empires :).