David Baay

You need to be clicking with the Comping/Isolation tool. By default this tool's icon will appear when hovering over the bottom half of a clip in a take lane with the Smart tool. All clips that overlap the 'promoted' clip will be muted by clip-muting (as opposed to lane- or track-muting) and grayed out: https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Arranging.57.html#1832832

Dang. I just bit on MPS 5 a couple weeks ago at $215 through a 3rd-party, thinking it wasn't going to get any better since I skipped 4 and 4.1. This is the first time I've ever seen a 'Loyalty Offer' from iZotope that was better than a re-seller's discount.

Absolutely recommended. The UI is largely unchanged so you will be right at home immediately. See release notes for all the new features that have been added; the list is impressive. You'll love it.

If you don't want to keep the other takes, you can just click the individual 'X' buttons in each lane to delete them (you might have to slightly expand the lanes to see those buttons if they're minimized). If you want to keep them, you can just solo the lane you want to hear, and the others will be automatically muted. Note that CW will still be reading the files for muted lanes from disk on playback which adds a tiny bit of overhead you would not have if they were deleted.

Nah, just 'experienced'. ;^)

Below where you've cropped the screenshot there are tabs in the Track Inspector to switch between controls for the MIDI and Audio sides of a Simple Instrument track.

Note that Landmarks apply across all tracks so it will also snap to boundaries of other clips in the project if there are any between the current position and the target. Also to get the end of a clip to snap the to the start of another, you need to be grabbing the clip somewhere to the right of center. And you might want to temporarily disable the musical snap button when enabling Landmarks.

Ah, missed that you wanted to include bus FX.

Arm the audio side of the simple instrument track using the arm button on the Audio tab of the Track Inspector.

Those options apply only if the Controller pane is hidden so velocity tails are overlaid on the notes pane/drum grid. You're aware that Cakewalk by Bandlab is a continuation of SONAR with the latest features and fixes, and is free, right? https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk

You can if they share the same driver. It is usually possible to run two instances of the same device together but I would check with the manufacturer to be sure.

Another factor may be that when you use a shortcut, the program has to both process that keystroke through the keybinding logic with reference to the current context (i.e. which element of which view has focus) and also check which of the 1000 tracks is selected and should be affected by the action. When you click the button in the track directly, you're eliminating all of that work.

Yes, you can also hard-pan instruments and use each side of the 4 stereo ouputs as a mono output. But it's easier to use multiple instances as you suggest.

TTS-1 has 16 MIDI/Instrument channels internally but only 4 stereo audio outputs. I don't know why they didn't provide one output per MIDI channel other than that it was (and still is) common for hardware instruments to have a limited number of audio ouputs. The assumption was that you would do most of your mixing in MIDI.

There is an option to "Allow MIDI Recording without an Armed Track" in Preferences > MIDI > Playback and Recording. The currently focused track is effectively 'auto-armed'.

TTS-1 has only 4 indpendent audio outputs.

Notwithstanding that such a project would seem likely to be unmanageable in other respects, I went ahead and tested with 1200 empty tracks (400 MIDI and 800 Audio) and saw very slight delay (less than 1 second) between arming a track with Alt+R and having the transport start rolling when R is hit immediately after arming. This delay seemed to correspond to a delay in the Arm button in the Track Inspector changing state to match the track. Such a small delay seems quite tolerable to me. If you're seeing a much longer delay than that, it may be related to your interface driver or something else system-specific.

You're going to have to come up with a repeatable sequence of steps that demonstrates the issue in order for the Bakers to have any chance of fixing it.

Ctrl+R arms *all* tracks, Alt+R arms only the focused or selected tracks. Does that not cover it?

Yeah. but $3.49...? I'm getting it just so I can have the groovy institutional green UI up on my second monitor.

Welcome to the forum, and thanks for sharing the tip, Hap. For the record, Print and Print Preview are working okay as-is for me in CbB on Win11.

This is referring to the Input (labeled 'I') in a MIDI in Instrument track. Usually you want to set this to the specific port and channel that your keyboard/controller is on. Then it doesn't matter if MIDI messages are coming from other sources; they'll be ignored. If you don't explcitly set it, it will default to All Inputs - Omni (all channels), and the track will echo everything to the synth.

View > Display > Display Clip Contents is enabled by default; you must have inadvertently disabled it at some point.

I can't repro #1; might be related to something in your default template. I don't normally have CbB set to open the default template on launch but it didn't cause a problem. And I often open an existing project over an unsaved project started manually from my default a template and have never had a crash in that case either. I agree with Byron that #2 and #4 are likely Workspace-related. I don't use Workspaces, and don't have those issues. Regarding #3, I have keybindings for Goto From and Goto Thru (don't recall the defaults if there are any). Hitting either one of these in the situation you describe will take the PRV to the Now time