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It's a strange omission indeed!

What are the practical uses for this? Can you use it to modulate anything within Cakewalk, does Cakewalk allow for it, what routing? Or it's just for creating new midi controller lines? Sorry I'm trying to wrap my head around this .

+1 for highlighting the keys on playback/midi input, that can make it a bit more easy to find yourself quickly when working in prv +1 no reason to see any drawbacks of this feature, could be quite helpful sometimes indeed

I have similar style. I usually set new win os every 10 years or so and do not poke too much with it over this time. Today, if I would need to do a re-installing, say due to some hardware failure, I could easily rebuild my winXP or 7 and my Sonar X1 or Home studio. I could do it even in 10 years from now if I ever happen to need it, I got my CD/DVDs and codes backed up. That's called 'certain'. Whether I'm in a situation where the company/developer can decide whether I will continue to use the software or no more, or is forcing unwanted updates like win10, that's different story. I never said uncertain is the free status of cakewalk in future, or is cakewalk in bad hands. Based on what i see is being developed under bandlab I can only tell cakewalk is in great hands and Im grateful for that. I only can gripe that I cant be sure if I will be able to re-install my splat or cakelab in 10 years - this future is not in my hands (although I'm not implying bad intensions). To give you a bit wider perspective, i'm still on a 32-bit system and planned to upgrade to 64-bit but I can't tell when. I have 2 small reasons for no hurry, one is 2-years old and the other 1-year old I assume it may take couple months maybe even years before I decide to go back fully on music. I would like then to put a freshly new win8.1 on a new machine and start with installing splat in front of cakelab. Can I say for sure that the servers will be still going on for splat? Uncertainly. And what if I'd like to keep this system for the next 10 years untouched and offline according to my style? I'll still be forced to connect it online periodically just to keep the cakelab working. Sonar/Cakewalk is my preferred daw as I'm very efficient when it comes to work with MIDI and just recently started to breaking into audio. Love the tools and workflow overall and would like to keep it going, but building a pro enviroment is demanding for reliability. I can certainly say that I will be able to reinstall my lovely little Harrison Mixbus daw anytime in the future and it shall work seemlessly even after building next machine 10 years later. With Cakewalk I'm affraid at times it may go a bit bitter. I don't have to own the software as long as I can make sure that I can make it work anytime, then only focus on music. Doing some updates once a year of two is fine. That was just to give you some picture as to why there are some people still holding off from upgrading to CakeLab or asking for offline auth. despite it's a better daw now and worth it altogether.

my guess is you are trying to draw in the notes pane, you should be doing it in the controllers pane that is under the notes pane perhaps you need to open it first in case it's closed (collapsed)

That's very interesting, would you mind to give some examples? 24/44.1 here as well, if you encounter aliasing, go up or use upsampling

yes, I got it right from the beginning, it was the other folks that got confused with my early post I already said sorry it's the way authorization's online dependant, that was our whole gripe of the discussion, you cannot set and forget, no more with win10, no more with cakewalk today etc... a mark of time (and very counter-productive sometimes)

I guess, me and possibly few others, are the ones that don't like to stand on an uncertain ground, that's how I would describe the situation now, that's all

basically this

agreed... and that was our sad conclusion to the discussion sad because it makes more and more difficult to organize your workplace the way you like it today than it was years before

right, still it doesn't make us own what we've paid for Sonar back then, nor own what we are offered for free now and that was the original context of our discussion, irrespective of my 'misquotes' do I stand correct or corrected?

yeah I didn't mean to escalate any conspiracy theories, if you guys check my response to Mandolin Picker's post you'll hopefully get the right context

"The program has a lease that we set to about 6 months..." "leasing" not "renting"... wrong wording. Sorry!

If you're London based then I can help without you having to pay me. I can even offer a coffe.

If you own pre-bandlab Sonar version with bundled Addictive Drums then just leave that one installed and then install CakeLab, it will install alongside without affecting anything and your Addictive Drums will pop out in like that. Edit: I'm still waiting for cakelab (free) with superior drummer bundled (no pun intended)

For years I was typing into Sonar/VSTi's with realtek & asio4all = ~40msec audible latency. Now if I'm playing live my every note/chord is split second ahed the music which sounds very funny

Yeah only that Cakewalk is working on a rental basis too now.

if the names could get rid of the brackets that would make renaming significantly easier

I cant reproduce any problem other than when you keep now time at the same place you basically copied the clip on top of the original. Move the Now Time to different measure or try ctrl+drag clip to copy. Now that sounds like pasting in a different track.

set snap to grid to 'move to' and something like one beat or one measure, now drag clip's right edge to where you need leaving snap settings at smart grid should also work

no, it should play the same... (and I edited my post to correct the last bit) how do you copy the clip, ctrl+drag?

Cakelab is grouping entered notes into clips in a somehow arbitrary way i.e. if you enter new note in prv that is away from the nearest clips it will create a new clip. If you move the note in pvr closer to other notes afterwards, in track view the clip is moved closer to other clip. It takes a bit time to break it down and then working with clips will get easy. You can right-click and drag a lasso over the two clips and click 'bounce clips', it's non-destructive. the clips in your graphics are midi clips - if you drag it onto another midi track make sure that track is configured properly (connected to the synth), if you drag it onto an audio track it won't play - you would need to render midi to audio first.

I was lucky to get it free while it was being introduced ?

another vote for offline option, though I understand it needs a bunch of work, but it's like essential for some really

You do have to use that online bandlab thing if you want to run the latest cakewalk because that's how you download and authorize it. That being said I think we are safe to assume that you're good to run your 8.5 for decades on if it suits your needs well. It's major advantage is that you will be able to install and authorize it offline each and every time you would need or want, unlike the new online bandlab thing that needs to be re-authorized online every 6 months or so. Mind you that there's another bandlab's online thingy, an online daw that is something different from cakewalk, and I suppose abacab was trying to point it out, but I had to re-read his post couple times myself to get his point