Glenn Stanton

you need to put them into your DRIVE:\Cakewalk Content\Sonar\Project Templates folder. on my system that is the D: drive.

fyi -- the Acon verberate is $199 ($79 for existing customers) and the "free" version is demo...

if you set the pan to -3db center when centering, you should see the levels match.

i think the IO unit only supports 24-bit - https://g1.ikmultimedia.com/html/Manuals/AXEIO/AXE-IO-User-Manual.pdf you know you can use 16-bit tracks in a 24-bit recording (the LSB is just padded until you use effects etc).

use it as region FX. Sonar has great ARA and the region FX works. as a note however, i rarely use it this way. i tend to do all my work in the standalone app using a 2-track export of the instruments as a guide, then import the audio. if you do use the ARA keep in mind several things - render when done, and save external your work (to be safe).

all that sounds good, but what if?

and a more 21st century approach, replace their vocals with a combination of Synth V and an AI voice-over rendering engine 🙂 use Melodyne to force best pitch correction w/o too much weirdness export as WAV and load into Synth V and do convert to audio pick approximate voice and tweak as needed export Synth V to WAV, then import that into the AI voice-over render engine and pick a decent voice similar to theirs or whatever they want Render new vocal into the AI voice. export, and import that into the DAW project. ok, so now their lead vocal sounds like Bob Seger, Celine, that Grande person, or someone else in perfect pitch etc. but hey, at least they get to go home with a pro sounding track. 🙂

i don't have K7 installed anymore but K8 seems to properly size etc in Sonar. so maybe it is something not getting communicated to K7 or used by it...

nope. all my config and libraries are intact. as a note - all my content is on my 😧 drive and all program bits on the 😄 drive

ok, updated. it went pretty fast (download and install - 10 minutes?) so it doesn't feel like a large update. so far, testing (~15 min) MIDI with all my devices, everything seems normal. one of my main concerns was Kontakt 8 and KompleteKontrol to my S49 - works fine. all other MIDI functions (for me) are good.

i have to say, Kontakt 8 is a good upgrade. i was reluctant at first, but then a couple of libraries i wanted only ran on K8, so i installed the trial version, and voila, everything in K7 was there (and faster). a few updates later and it's stable so i bought the upgrade (cry once...) and then removed K7. as a couple of folks noted - check your display settings. Kontakt never had a very large UI (possibly the #1 thing i don't like) but on my screen with the display enlarged to counter the pixel density, it's all good.

it seems easy enough to setup: select the tracks, select the destination, go... if you need to, set the time range (if defaults to the length of the tracks selected, or loop or punch range) press OK... if you want the tracks "mixed" in a bounce, then you need to assign/send them to a single source - a buss or aux track then bounce that. pretty sure this is different than "export" (even though the UI seems similar if not the underlying code bits) as it's intended for bounce operations inside the project... whereas export would be something i use for stems and track exports (as well as mixes and sub-mixes).

not sure how many people do this, calibrating (or at least understanding) your system performance helps to avoid a lot of issues, or at the very least help you make decisions based on your system. a free tool Room EQ Wizard (REW) has a loopback calibration setup which allows you to test the round trip of your recording and monitoring IO - time, frequency response, phase, etc. so while most folks know of REW for measuring their room acoustics, setting up parametric EQ for corrections, but it also let's you determine how much audio system latency you have. basically, you run a cable between 1 ch output and route it into a 2nd ch input. in my system, i have a patchbay so it's pretty easy to do periodically in case there is some change in the drivers or whathaveyou. i use it on my c1 into ch2, then ch 2 into ch1 (so two tests). when i'm doing my room acoustics measures, i also leverage it for setting levels on my speakers and sub. but that's a whole other topic...

some instruments include, "ahem", realism, and sometimes you can turn it off (like the Ample series let's you get rid of most), and some (like the EZ series which seems plagued by it) limit how much you can turn off. so bass strings hitting the fingerboard or frets (DB or precision for e.g.) esp at higher velocities and of course output volume and gain controls can all contribute to noises.

looks like it created a wav file using a guid in the audio folder - but never updates it after the first run...

what's weird for me - no matter how i start a project - from my custom templates, from the supplied templates, or simply no template at, doing something simple like dragging some audio into a track and then "exporting audio", the preview box is never checked and is in fact, greyed out. and i've realizied now that i haven't had any previews created since i turned off the option, what? two years?... maybe it's dependent on the type of export. since i only use busses and check the tracks to include, maybe it does something different if you are doing "entire mix"?

i don't think they need to re-write it, i think they could simply use the window API to set it to match the parent 🙂 the code examples found on a search seem non-destructive enough... my guess, not many people even notice or care about the child window border and scrollbars etc looks. personally, i can't remember ever minimizing a window to see multiples... i typically use the window menu to flip back and forth on the few times i am copying across projects... lol.

some plugins have more than a single category, some have none. i think the plugin manager does a decent job of figuring out what goes were, but there are plenty of plugins i need to reorganize to get settled where i want them. so i have fx/instrument labels bass, drums, guitar, piano, organ, synth, vocals, etc. and i'll move the fx and instruments to those categories instead of simply leaving them in the EQ, Delay, Dynamics, etc. so finding my preferred fx/instruments is fast without needing custom plugin menus. but some plugins, they just cannot define by their name. e.g. "DynEQPanner" 🙂 really guys? i find the Sonar plugin manager works just fine, and if you do your regular maintenance on your plugins when you install new ones (like excluding the VST2 versions (which i leave installed, just in case), and categorizing them right away. it's no bother. i probably spend 8-10 minutes per month organizing in the plugin manager and the fx/instrument browser - check that updated VST are showing up, didn't change the exclusions or categories, and usually a quite test in a blank project.

it would be nice though if the arranger took the tempo of its section of tracks and included that in the move... presumably the arranger takes things like the articulations, automations, etc along which each section? so maybe including the tempo track into those bits would be nice so (for example) i wouldn't have to do a manual step to set tempos, then decide to change things, and now i need to clear thse tempo track (if say i'm using the end of the song for its placement) and then re-do the tempo track... repeat...

it's more about the style of the child windows - borders and scroll bars - looking line Windows 7 vs matching the parent window.

nope. i have the latest version and once you cascade the windows to see the child windows, there are the old style borders 🙂

yeah, although a number of recent posts for S1. a number of people were complaining the license check was causing their system to register as "demo" vs the "perpetual" they had. so my guess is that even with a "perpetual" license, if the access control is still internet based vs say a dongle approach e.g. an iLok (i love my iLok) you're still susceptible to internet outages, caching resets, and product services outages for pretty much any license requiring a "call home" check. quick note - always check / refresh your activation status BEFORE leaving home for the gig. most use some limited duration caching between the calls - typ 7-10 days but you don't want to be on the last day when you fire it up at the gig. worse is the type that binds to your system so completely that upgrades invoke a new license purchase if you forgot to deactivate your device properly. i saw a post yesterday somehow Presonus lost a bunch of folks licenses during the Fender cutover, so even customer service had no record... one good reason to print your license and activation codes to paper and/or PDF (stored on multiple cloud storage as well as local). i see a lot of people in the PT forum run into the problem of lost codes and customer support struggling to match things up esp when people re-sell their PT license... anyways, for me, if doing live gigs - it's appliance-like devices not a DAW. might be old school but burnt twice-now-not-shy (not mentioning Cubase Live or FL culprits) - and keep a CD backup of recorded tracks to perform with. worst case you cannot do long improvisational soloing w/o hitting the rewind button LOL.

no, my machines also start working correctly once i've interrupted whatever i'm in the middle of working on, and then don't reappear for some random time later... 😈

probably not in real life. 😜 but i did find a reference to the newst API bits which seem to provide the option to use the parent window settings for the child windows. most likely, it's not something that was critical back when, and possibly few people even noticed. still it would be nice for consistency to leverage parent window UI configuration when possible...

sadly, twice a month or so when MS updates Edge with their latest spyware/adware AI enchancements, many of my logins get reset and i have to re-authenticate. apps using webview and other dependent on the other DLL connectors are sometimes problematic (like Sketchup will crash, and i have to reopen it to find the "please login" screen... ergh) but most seem to handle it ok. most times Sonar spins for a second or two and then says i'm authenticated. probably not the same for all users, and if you're using another browser as your primary, likely they handle things different with their updates to their spyware/adware AI enhancements.