Glenn Stanton

the studio rack plugin is free and works with non-Waves plugins and has nice builtin features like HP, LP filters.

as an aside - since installing Sonar and Next, the only time i've experienced crashes or bad audio - two crashes and bad audio due to the Pro-Q3 - which is only after i recently updated the plugin. otherwise very stable.

probably best to share the crash dump information with the product development team, and also post in the Sonar forum vs the Cakewalk by Bandlab as more of the dev team is likely to see it there. they will want to know your system specifications as well.

it is interesting. there are 9 beats but the thick marker lines do show every 2 beats instead of 3...

understood, i've never seen a "shuffle" type of function. so on the few times i need to chop up a bunch of audio and re-group it, i just spend some quality time with the mouse and "S" to split it up, select them, and then ripple edit... it would be nice to have something to compact the remaining audio though. and hopefully someone will come along shortly and point out something that will be more automated... ?

what works is if you split out and select all the silence sections, then turn on ripple edit for selection, then delete the silences. then quickly turn off the ripple edit before doing anything else.

thanks. fixed it. looking forward to the new version. i have the Slate version of TH-U

on the transition - the installation took all [most?] of my CW settings - VST plugin paths, INI settings for audio, etc. it also created a number of new folders in the C:\Program Files\Cakewalk directory, C:\Users\<YOUR NAME>\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\Sonar, and C:\Cakewalk Content Sonar and sub folders i copied over my Pro Channel presets in the content folder and i copied over my project templates and remmed out the stock ones and moved them into an "old" folder. -- also articulation maps, CAL scripts need to be copied. there are likely some others i should copy over but i haven't been impacted yet. note that updates will "restore" project templates so plan on cleaning those up again (if you have your own custom ones). very painless (for me) one cool thing - the plugin scan in Sonar also updates the CW list (not sure if they're sharing the same plugin registry or not)

if you had the previous version: Cakewalk by Bandlab TH3 -- that does work in both CW and Sonar. it may have been licensed during the older SPLAT days.

the only ones you likely need are the ones i shared previously. the others are typically application program folders and not the plugins necessarily. so maybe start simply - remove the list and start with the shorter one.

what paths are you using for your plugins? most commonly used: C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\VSTPlugins C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST2 C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3 C:\Program Files\Steinberg\VSTPlugins and then there are the "builtin" ones for DX and MIDI FX. these are not VST plugins. Sonar is working fine on Windows 11. CW is working on Windows 11. Next is working on Windows 11. my guess is something in your Windows 11 configuration is not correct or you do not have your plugin paths set correctly. CW and Sonar will not look at the NI directory unless you add the path to your plugins, although the NI installation typically will put the VST and VST3 plugins into the commonly used one listed above.

that's strange as i use Ctrl-V a lot and it's always worked in Sonar as well as CW. V by itself would be something very different...

is there any associated hardware device you need connected? re-registered with the OS / PC? i'm presuming you're using native UA vs the HW UA plugins?

coolio idea. what would be nice if perhaps as part of the plugin scan, it can generate a cached thumbnail (like 512x512 pixels so it's readable even on high res screens) and store it in a subdirectory of the plugin folder it was found in: C:\Program Files\<my plugin location folder>\thumbnails then hovering over the plugin name in the plugin browser, or plugin selection list, would (after a second or so) popup.

did you check to see if somehow they got added to the "excluded" plugins list?

don't uninstall it, disable in your device manager. otherwise it will reinstall itself. RealTek drivers can be like a, erm, certain kind of painful itch that doesn't go away just because the redness disappears. just sayin' for a friend... ahem,

still working for me. even with the .vst3 extension... ? maybe try a re-install and make sure you have proper permissions on the plugin folder as well as perhaps using run as admin in the install? sometimes user level installs into program file folders don't always behave as expected - MS at it's best trying to secure your desktop from you... ?

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completely safe as well...

just offering ideas. i mainly use automation after the fact and mostly draw the things i want. so if i've got solos, etc, then i'm performing them and then as part of the mix or sound design, using FX and automation. if i have a live FX track, i can re-amp from the clean raw track. i think you have to stop recording to add the snapshot? so turn on the write auomation and then adjusting as you play? dunno.

one option if your interface allows it, use direct monitoring and turn the echo off on the guitar track so you can listen to the other parts and hear your guitar in real time (presuming the 5.5ms round trip is still too much). if you're using FX on your guitar track while recording this can also cause the timing to be off depending on the FX and if you're using the PDC or not (which is the delay compensation to ensure all FX etc play at the same time - you can try to turn it off (press the PDC button).

run the standalone as admin and then enter your serial number and activation codes. it should then run as a normal afterwards.

my personal mic - an AT 3035 (discontinued https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/at3035) - just works for my voice as does an SM58. for many people, i found my Behringer B-2 Pro (https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=0504-AAC) is a miracle for vocals. no idea why a $200 mic made by the evil B corp does it, but i've used it live as well and people singing (meaning people who can sing and thus should be heard in the best possible way) just comes across as natural. i have seen negative reviews by some people and likely they got the lemon model, but most reviews list it as really good.

i think one of the advantages of using the envelope vs snapshots - when you have write automation on, it will capture all the changes for that track (and creates a bunch of envelopes to do it) whereas the snapshot, if not mistaken, you need to select the controls you want to snapshot and it only creates the point on an otherwise open envelope. you can always smooth and edit the envelopes laters if you need distinct shifts in settings. and remove any extraneous ones as well.

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