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We need a bit more info to truly understand what is happening. Is the latency midi ? as in you play a note on your controller and the audio is delayed? Are you using an ASIo audio interface?

I’ve recorded hour of a live band into Cakewalk using a 2008 Sony laptop with 4 GB Ram and a duo Core 1.8 Celeron processor. W7. Same vintage Tascam us1641 interface. 14 tracks audio. 250 GB SSD drive was only modern component. It’s on my You Tube channel. https://youtu.be/NHA7fvMtIEU?si=AlVipbJ7QB2LQKoh Just look closely on the left and you’ll sort of see me sitting at my workstation. But the point Im making is even outdated computers and audio interfaces are totally capable of recording 14 tracks of audio none stop no problem at all. Did it dozens of times. An audio interface is the heart of the modern day Digital Audio recording studio.

Bottom line is Cakewalk/Sonar/ Cubase/ Studio one / Pro Tools and so on are Daw’s designed to be used professionally using proper audio equipment. Use Garage band or the Bandlab app if you’re not that serious about recording using the proper gear which is an audio interface and studio quality mikes and speakers. Those apps are designed to work with consumer devices. Cakewalk isn’t. It rarely will go smoothly otherwise.

In the case of Addictive drums I had not learned my way around the new GUI. The dialogue box in the middle at the top takes you to the presets. I’ve had no problem now using AD in any Daw. It’s definitely a Daw with potential for people who desire simplicity but even simple projects have all come to dead end most times for me. I’ve reported a few new bugs I found and never even got an auto reply. My post was here in plain sight for 3 weeks and it got zero response. So I removed it. Why bother.

I wondering? Did you get an annual membership? I bought mine last July and since then I’ve never been asked to log in other than some updates might have asked afterwards.

Did you end up testing on another Daw as I mentioned in the other post?

That’s sort of funny because I think the OP might be using a translator. Screenshot became Screenset and it seems to have worked!!

Sorry buddy. You really need an Audio interface to record audio into any Daw. That’s why nothing is working. Computer audio is very low quality and all Daw’s need a proper ASIO interface to function with recording audio. This video shows you how to shop for one They start at $50.

Just to add you can use save as to make a backup copy of the file and this is a good idea anyway because nobody should have one copy of any project that is important to you. You don’t need to re name it , just change the file location to a backup up drive. Always check the copy audio box. This will kill two birds with one stone.

That’s interesting. I wonder what happens if you mismatch the bit depth for live recording ? Unlike Clock rate bit depth doesn’t necessarily matter much and Sonar can have multiple bit depth files. As in you can import a 16 , 24 or a 32 all in the same project. The clock rate will be converted if you say drag a 44.1 into a 48 project. But the bit rate stays the same. 24 is pretty much what all interfaces use and it’s a setting that can’t be changed in the Driver settings tab. Normally it is greyed out and shows as 24. But interestingly enough you can set it up in the audio Data tab to as high as 64. It seems to me this would still work but obviously creates unnecessary huge files that are not of better quality because it is still a 24 bit input. My Zoom interface does record at 32. But the experts say that it’s a pointless feature.

Never occurred to me but it seems like the only activation process is simply logging into your account. It would seem it is not keeping track of computer ID information. I could go to a friends house install Sonar and log in. Why not. Cakewalk has a history of always allowing as many installs as you need. I used to have it on at least 5 machines. The agreement is Im the only person who can legally use the software. They most certainly would seem to be willing to waive that requirement for Education purposes. Why not? New users that might go home and create their own accounts.

Like volume automation. I remember when you had to have 3 people sitting at the mixer as the 16 track rolled to feed the 2Track. We each had a list of fader moves. using the tape counter but mostly our ears and remembering what we had to do. Teamwork. I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I got my Yamaha 01v with motorized faders!

Haven’t any of you used Cakewalk Next? Couldn’t be easier. Open Next, this takes 4 seconds. you simply drag a midi file into it. Bingo, full GM playback. And depending on the song it sounds pretty good. The guitars are real bad but so are all GM guitars. So the question I’ve been asking is why Sonar isn’t using the same instruments as Next? I have a feeling this is in its future. And as far as a missing auto player like TTS-1 Sonar still works almost exactly the same way still but with one small extra bit of work. You just need a GM instrument which is no big deal. Synth Font 64 is I think $15 or $20. As before, make sure no midi outputs are assigned. Open a GM file. Now the only extra step is Add SynthFont 64 or Coyote or? Your done. Sonar will automatically assign all tracks to that player. Because of it causing crashes for me I have it excluded in plug in manager and I just do as above. Takes an extra 20 seconds. Pre viewing midi files is way easier using Windows Media Player anyway. We did a shoot out I think last year when we found out the TTS-1 was discontinued. Sound quality wise when playing a GM file. TTS-1 , Coyote, SynthFont64 and MS Wavetable all sounded pretty close to the same. Not the greatest, but they all play the files correctly. Cubase sounded the worst. Studio one was also way off. They seem to not interpret the file correctly. Especially the volume balance. Next and Mixcraft were not tested back then but I think they might have come out on top. I actually like that Sonar opens with nothing because I immediately replace all the instruments anyway. Waveform and Studio one do this faster because they open with Instrument tracks. So you can quickly drag new instruments into place. Sonar and Cubase force you to create new instrument tracks and drag the midi data to them. Extra work. This is why I wish they would get Cakewalk Next functioning properly. It would be a good Daw for messing with midi files. But it’s still very buggy.

That’s not so much a dry sound . That is when you tune a snare really tight. It works best with shorter snares. As well as I would say steel or fiber not plywood. Like my Ludwig Vista lite can do that sound. I have about 6 snares in Addictive Drums and they can’t do that. They are all deep and pretty low tuned. There’s no option to actually tighten the skin. That’s definitely a different sound than raising the pitch. That sound your after has that ring you get from a very tight tuning. You would be better off looking at samples. And yes Session Drums can play any sample. I lost them with a hard drive failure a few years ago but I had sampled my kit and it was spooky to hear my kit played by my Daw. Cool I need to do that again now Session drums are back in Sonar.

You can use the demo for free to test it. You just can’t save the project or export a mix. But everything else works normally. It won’t mess with your Cakewalk setup so totally safe to try it.