Eglarion

Sure, did that already. But after looking at all the presets the abovementioned FxEq had I realized how radically different they were from what I grew up to use with the years - and sometimes they were right on spot for the recording "approach" I used back then. Like, would you consciously put a +9 dB on 5k+ on a clean electric guitar these days? Probably not, but that's exactly what a "Fender D-box" preset in FxEq does with some other pretty radical tweaks. The catch is that back then I had no proper recording gear plugging the guitar cable in a mic input of some Behringer mixer, and that was it - so applying these radical Eq settings was actually needed, and I don't think that 20-year-old me without any experience in recording technology would have figured what should be done with this muffled guitar sound I get from my flawed recording technique unless I could just scroll through these presets quickly (reminder - circa 2003 outside, internets are expensive, slow and not always available, so learning the things about recording and mixing I learned later on in 2008-2010 would have probably been or impossible, or would take an unproportional amount of time). Of course, I still can write down all the settings of all the presets, but it's a bit annoying in 2024, you know - plus it takes all the nostalgia thing out of it, too. That said, thank you so much for your reply, it's a great piece of advice anyway. Best regards, Eglarion.

Yyyeahh, that's exactly the kind of thing I'd prefer to avoid doing (and even discussing on the grounds of this forum). Thank you for your reply, though!

Good time of day to everyone, I'm new to the forum but've been a faithful Cakewalk/Sonar user for more that 20 years now. Hope my question/proposal here is not off topic, I suppose it's the right subforum for this. Trying to revive some of my oldest projects from 2003 I've discovered that I've used FxEq quite extensively back then, so I tried to find a workaround using the BitBridge functionality and it worked - for a measure; after some tweaking I manage to see it in the Sonar plugin list, but when I try to actually open it it returns an error message saying "This plugin is only licensed to be used in Cakewalk Sonar. An unrestricted version can be purchased from www.dspfx.com" (see the screenshot attached) - which is, of course, out of business and even their domain name is for sale now. My question is - since DSP-FX are out of business and (formally) we are all working in Cakewalk Sonar at the moment - could it be possible to implement its unrestricted version in some of the future updates? While trying to make it work in a 64-bit Sonar I actually managed to open it in one of the older versions of Sonar I accidentaly happened to have on one of the old HDD's - and it's not only good for archeological purposes if you ask me, it's a pretty handy tool that was occuping its rightful place in my arsenal back then, along with many great plugins from the same bundle (see below), and I believe I could use them from time to time even in 2024, with all the great things like FabFilter Q3 and so on being around. Besides, there's another bunch of FX* effects like FxDelay and others I've used in these projects, and the question, actually, relates to the whole bundle of these old 32-bit effects. Or, maybe, there is some way to tweak the BitBridge so that it won't check the version of the DAW or something? Any help will be greatly appreciated; if this post violates some of the forum rules or must be moved to another subforum - my apologies, and have a good week. Best regards, Eglarion.