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I suppose you're talking about services? I would like to know as well. I was searching for some guidances and haven't found any that would go into details. I was experimenting with XP services years ago trying to disable them by trial and error and have encountered too many surprising issues so I dropped it. There's too much dependencies and some services I couldn't breakdown what are they for and no description.

for me more like a pirate's shield ?

I would add better integration with hardware controllers to the list.

Hehehe yes I agree, I prefer Windows too, generally. But I have to admit, when my friends are pulling out their Macbooks, they just plug them in and everything is working straight away, always! Without lagging, without hiccups. I have to fight the drivers everytime I try to move my laptop on stage. Better not to touch windows machine once it's working fine. I had to finish reading on my smartphone. My firefox didn't make it as well.

"The smart tool’s hot regions are small, so changing what the tool does requires hovering over tiny portions of notes." I don't know, I kind of appreciate how deep is he going into details. Such things, most people aren't even aware of, when first time working with new software. Those things you typically rather sense somehow but not notice consciously stright away. I can imagine, if you're new to Cakewalk, and have been trying some other DAWs in meantime, then you may get the feel of it as 'clumsy' or 'unresponsive', I've heard that about Sonar in the past. Of course I'm used to work with Cakewalk since more than 20 years so yeah, I may be "20 years behind" too, but he seems really experienced with handful other DAWs... "I have spent 100+ hours in each one of these products creating detailed lists and coming up with objective evaluative tests to compare them. I’ve also worked for a handful of companies making these products, written various extensions, themes and a number of VST plug-ins. Oh yeah, and I am a recording engineer with OCD..." I actually would love to see some bits like the 'smart tool's hot regions' adjusted. I believe I can work fast in Cakewalk but as I'm watching some videos where people are working in prv in, say, Fruity loops I can't stop wondering how faster are they. I'm not a programmer and have no clue how much work would that need. However the most important thing would be some proper decisions as for how much to adjust them. And as I read the article I see honest approach and no hard feelings: "Cakewalk - WINDOWS ONLY I have included this because it is a great product despite being Windows only." So yeah, I probably would set goals according to this guy.

I find most of his points resonable.

Is your MacOS direct link pointing on windows version? EDIT: sorry, after I've refreshed the page your links are fine now! ?

+100 there's lots of space on console's menu bar or the left vertical bar for placing few buttons, no need for diving into menus for some most used functions like show hide sends or large/narrow strips etc

or vertically on the left side where inspector is

Maybe now, to step things up from 'golden', they'll come up with something new 'platinum'...

I'm keeping my eye on platform m+ & platform b combo for quite some time and was wondering how would that work with cakewalk. Thanks so much for sharing your findings, you put much hope into my heart by posting the above!

Thanks! I was thinking that there was something built in but couldn't remember what it was. +1 and it allows to import own IRs if needed

Alright, sounds like still worth of trying out then. Cheers!

Thanks! You think the new versions updated for CakeLab, with new toolbars like the export one, can be still backwards compatible with Sonar Platinum?

Thanks for your efforts gents!

Yes, lovely.

I understand that general is more for a discussion and q&a for quick answers that can be later searched and found easily (when marked 'answered').

Speaking about small controllers, there's the relatively new icon platform m+. Do we have anybody, trying to connect that one with Cakewalk, on the forum?

Thanks Matthew, that would be delicious!

There used to be a key combo in previous Sonar versions just for deleting the last take without even stopping the whole loop-recording process, not shure if it was Ctrl+Spacebar maybe? Does it still apply in CakeLab (and the most recent Sonar version)?

Ach sorry, I mean pictures showing how the skins look (like in the other "Gran Vista" topic). If that's too much work then nevermind. Cheers! EDIT: Alright I've just read the description, I think best will be to load the skins in Cakewalk to see them.

Would be great to see some more and closer previews of them. Hopefully that's not too much effort asked for.

I'm too a B3 player doubt I look like a geek though

Brainworx has a tuner that goes sometimes on sale for as low as $5.

Thanks! That sounds like my next amazon buy when's time to change the mice. And the price looks good too.