Glenn Stanton

yeah, my PX3000 is one of the best patch units i've used. i love not having to cut wires or solder wires, simply flip a switch, done. having TRS means converting from my XLR patch to a normal TRS patch cable is easy... 🙂 (maintaining a watchful eye on phantom power... ) the other two are PX2000 which are perfect as well. even with mainly ITB, i find the patch bays a great means of configuring things outside the box - audio inputs (my mixer has inserts on the channels so i can easily tap off into the box), audio out to various gear (multiple monitoring systems), control voltage signals for some older equipment, and a couple of outboard effects (mainly used for monitoring purposes).

did you try using Waves Central to re-authorize the plugins? are the shell DLL in a directory which is being scanned by the Plugin Manager?

you can buy "zero fret" nuts. i have one installed on my strat. once installed and set intonation and action, unbelievable. nearly perfect intonation (as much as straight frets and equal temperament tuning get you) and easy playing even when i switched to 12's on the high E. https://www.stewmac.com/luthier-tools-and-supplies/materials/nuts-and-saddles/zero-glide-nuts/

thanks Mark! moi? i don't use the hardware output nor the entire mix settings, i have my custom exports which work just fine - but this is a handy thing to know for sure...

DiVinci Resolve - free, kick *ss video editor. fairly easy to get started but has many pro features as well. it's free. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/studio typically i extract the audio from the video file, manipulate in Sonar (add music, mix, master etc) (although probably first, something like Acon Acoustica or RX to clean up the raw audio), then export that as a WAV. then take my video and audio into Resolve - remove the old audio from the video track, import the new audio into my media pool and drag that onto an audio track. presuming you didn't mess with the timing of the audio you originally extracted, syncing will be a piece of cake, and you can then export into as many formats as you would like (like hundreds of them if so inclined).

i did that as an example. my export works as it should, but i wanted to see under what conditions an underscore would be added - the only time it did it was, ta-da, when i added an underscore to the name! 🙂 and perhaps the OP with the issue would look more closely at his settings...

i tried to reproduce - nada. no underscore. maybe submit it as a bug for the free tier?

and in the export naming, you haven't inadvertantly left an underscore? perhaps where you meant to have a dash?

in theory yes. personally i would uninstall CbB first, then install Sonar to be sure - less about the program, those are a separate folder - more about the plugins etc that are shared, esp if any registry bits are left in limbo.

or restricted characters will also result in replacement with an underscore. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file

i use the stem separation in Next (it basically uploads the file to the processing cloud which does the work, then downloads it) selecting "add stem tracks" adds the separated parts (drums, bass, vocals, other = guitars, keys, etc) to the Next project. Next seem stable, easy to use, minimal footprint etc. i don't really use it except to do the separations and since i can output stems as WAV files when i'm done, makes it easy to bring into Melodyne for corrections and MIDI conversion or into Sonar as audio tracks. since i do a lot of workflow stuff outside of the DAW (composition, initial project structure (Hookpad -> MIDI), generate audio (standalone apps mostly), and so on, the DAW (for me) is the raw recording of audio tracks (which i then export as WAV and using RX and Acoustica for prep work), and mixing and mastering only. Next is just another tool to get things done. maybe they'll add the stem separation to Sonar as it seems like a fairly separated piece of code and processing as it stands.

i'd also spend the $ to get the "premium" Sonar (i.e. include it in my album budget) if i had 4 albums to mix and master, just to be sure.

hopefully not. @Noel Borthwick ?

same - pretty much everything goes through sub-mix busses or aux tracks, then stem busses + effects busses before going to the master and various output busses for printing, monitoring, alternate mixes etc. DAW template - 02 - mix.svg