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This is fantastic, especially the fact that it can be routed through the Step Sequencer! Request: Yes, the video tutorials are adequate, thanks, but I do believe that Session Drummer 3 should get more visibility in the manual as a significant component of the DAW, as I've scanned through most of it over the past months but didn't even know that it was available (like some of the other folks in this thread). Lastly, if SD 3 could be updated to include the ability to view and do some limited tweaking to the waveform of any loaded sample, i.e., trimming/cropping, as is the case with Sitala, this will be an invaluable feature. Thanks for the good work.

Thank you, guys, for all your input! Yes, I have come across very nice tutorials on YouTube. Nothing else needed.

This is good news, thanks. I looked in my Sonar manual, found only 2-3 references to Session Drummer, but nothing on how to use it.

Which version of Cakewalk or Sonar are we talking about? I'm surprised that such a feature was taken away and not replaced with something similar or better.

Hi all. As I've mentioned before, I use the SS a lot for my drum tracks. Several virtual "instruments" have pretty decent drum kits, and I've set up SS templates for their use with MIDI (see screenshot) However, I have built up quite a large library of percussion sounds in WAV format, and want to know if there's any way to map WAV clips to keys of the MIDI keyboard to enable me to use them in my SS as well? If not, I think it would be a cool feature to add to Sonar. Lastly, what platform is recommended to post my music made in Sonar, for feedback? Thank you.

I see what you mean. The fact that both clips have the same instance ID [2] led Sonar to believe that both are the same. So, I checked "Unlink Step Sequencer Clips" before copying it, and that solved this issue, thanks! In this new template, the clip velocities behave normally again. But, it still doesn't explain why the kick still plays back even while being muted in the original project.

Hi, I use the SS a lot for my drum tracks, but every now and then it behaves weirdly and unpredictably. In my current project, I have a simple SS clip with only a kick and tambourine, but no matter what velocity changes I made to the Kick, it remained the same loudness. I even muted it (screenshot 1), and miraculously, it still plays audibly! (I made 100% sure there was no other hidden track with a kick in it). For further testing, I copied this clip to one of my templates (Screenshot 2, track 17), which already has two drum tracks (tracks 15, 16) that contain SS clips. NOW it is getting even weirder: when I double-click the newly pasted SS clip (tr 17) for editing, it displays the content of the Main Percussion track (tr 16). And when I close the SS editor, then suddenly the new test clip (17) has the same properties as the clip in track 16 (screenshot 3)! Can anyone guess why this would be happening? The drums used are from one of the old Cakewalk TTS-1's drum tracks.

If you click once on an Arranger section header, it should select everything across its width, and then you can duplicate, copy or drag it to a new location.

Yup -- this worked! It just happened to me again, and I followed your advice. Thank you!

Hi all. Occasionally, Sonar refuses to restore itself from a minimized state to a full window. For some reason, when I switch to another program and try to switch back, Sonar refuses to be restored. I tried various methods; even Alt + Tab does nothing when Sonar is selected. And it is still running. It even displays a pop-up mini screen if I hover the mouse over the thumbnail in the taskbar. (see screenshot). The best thing I can do is Ctr +Alt+Del to force quit and restart. The only thing is, I have lost some work as a result. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm on Windows 10.

Good news: I installed the vsti 3 version, and no more crashes. Thanks for the advice.

No, I have the vst 2 version. That's good news -- I'll see if I can install the vst 3 if it makes a difference. Regarding your 2nd question: not sure what you mean by "rewired."?

The buffer size was 192, but I brought it down to 64. My understanding is that a smaller size works better for realtime playback.

Well -- what do you know! I'm using Sytrus, but The Riser is the only other plugin in this product. Thank you very much. So I should send the mini dump file to AirMusic then? I should mention that I've used the Riser with many other synth plugins in other projects without issues.

Unfortunately it looks like there's only a VST 2 version. I checked it with an FL Studio staff member. Pity, this is such a great synth.