Base 57

I would put these disparate parts on separate tracks routed to a Group Bus. Then do lots of ear candy things. Pan, EQ, FX, DISTORTION and Volume are among many things that could be treated differently for each section without using a lot of automation.

Simple. There are several manufacturers with digital mixers that exceed your requirements within your budget (the Presonus StudioLive 32SC is another you should look at). The preamps in these digital mixers are at least as good or better than those in analog mixers in this price range. The other aspects of a mixer such as signal routing, EQ, Dynamics, FX and DAW control are not even remotely comparable. However, if your desire is to stay analog to replace your 8 Bus. Then maybe you can consider another Mackie. With the exception of Flying Faders, they have several analog options well within your budget that are at least the equal of their competitors.

Melodyne has a volume leveling macro that works pretty well. Clip Gain envelopes are the most precise way and shouldn't take all that long with a little practice.

I love analog. I have a 30+ year old Soundtracs recording mixer as my front end. It still works great. That being said, in my opinion you should look for a digital mixer. Consider the A&H QU5 or similar products from companies like Presonus, Midas or Behringer. To get what you have described in an analog product really would require you to add a zero to your budget (at least). That Tascam mixer is okay but does not have moving faders and it's DAW control is rudimentary at best. I can say from experience, the Allen and Heath QU series is far superior. I have also used the X32, M32 and Studiolive mixers. They are also great. There are of course other manufacturers with competitive products that you should consider. No manufacturer has an analog mixer in your price range that compares favorably to their digital competitors. Again, just my opinion.

The "HP" in in Radials Reamp HP stands for Headphones. That unit was specifically designed for use with headphone outputs.

That's possible. I do have a projects back-up drive. But why are only some projects affected, not all? They all have duplicates on the E: drive. FWIW This is not a big deal for me. If there is a simple solution, then great. If not, I'm sure you already have enough on your to-do list.

That's a good question. I had not noticed it before, but I think the black rings are probably the reason I chose to use Tungsten Classic.

I have had this problem since forever. I do not use the Quick Start Screen. To open a file that is not in the Recently Used list I use Cntrl-O. edit I should say I almost always use Cntrl-O to open files.

I use the Tungsten Classic color scheme. It has a black ring around the knobs that look exactly like the mock-ups above.

I never use the virtual keyboard. But this thread made me curious enough to check. I get the same 3 octave keyboard in Sonar, CbB, and SPlat.

This happened to me yesterday.

Wow, that is very cool. I completely missed that being added.

Exactly what I thought of.

There is a notes pane in the Inspector for each Track. In the Track View there is a notes pane in the header for each individual Take Lane. And there is a notes pane in the header for all Track Folders.

I really like track 4, "King of Love". Thanks Bit.

Imagine that I posted a link to the Monty Python Crunchy Frog skit here. "It should have a Big Red Label, WARNING..."

I remember using the old module as you describe and would love to have it back. Note that the term used then was Auto-Shuttle. A work around would be to move the end marker to your desired stop point and use "On stop rewind to now."

Yep ^ that

Also, I am not arguing against an integrated sampler. I think that would be great.

You can also drag them from a track into a Matrix View cell. However, you can't drag them directly to the Matrix View. You must drag them to a track first so that Sonar can reformat them. Then after you move them to a cell you can delete them from the track. I should add that the Matrix View has some limitations. I don't think it has ever been a fully baked feature. But it is another way to play the samples.

@Bobby Doyle, If you have File Versioning turned on you can Revert back the project to the point where you started today. However, you have lost Hours of work. If you had been saving periodically you could have used file versioning to find the last save point that played properly. Any wave files you created will still be in the project audio folder. Any other edits are lost in the ether. Cakewalk products from the DOS days until now have always been prone to crashes the longer you go without saving. And Auto-Save doesn't really help. It does not clear a dirty project. Although it could potentially rescue you from this problem, the project would still have crashed.

You worked for hours without saving then opened a VST and.... You were surprised. Well, everyone makes that mistake once. Cntrl-S is your friend.

Forced update I'm surprised more people have not complained about this. I updated to build 48 just 3 days ago. The "About" screen showed my activation was valid until December. So just imagine my reaction when I opened Sonar this morning (with a short time window in which to work) and the activation is no longer valid. I am given no choice but to spend valuable time updating again. I am begging, please don't do that to us again.

The mastering features are part of the Bandlab app.

Only the most recent version of Cakewalk can be activated. So make sure you are updated first.