Glenn Stanton

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.

another quick search - it may be our devs didn't use the latest win API calls to set the borders on the child windows to match the parent window 🙂

ok, got it... yes, it would seem like Windows is responsible for floating project windows inside the main app. maybe @Noel Borthwick you could provide some insight? note the borders - and also they both seem to have "active" borders of olde...

closest i can come without messing with my windows settings is the "light" theme. for me, clicking the minimize/maximize button has made no difference to the borders.

what version of windows are you running and are you sure your windows isn't using a "i like the look of the old windows" theme? or some variant of that. this is windows 11 with a minimal borders theme... the gray is my desktop background

same thing happens when i'm near someone's computer they claim is not working properly... 😉

<<crunch crunch>> just eating the popcorn... weird when a bunch of people say "Sonar doesn't do this or that" but 10 other pieces of software work... and yet people endlessly trying to make it do something they say they cannot make it do, instead of simply using the other software to do it... LOL golly pa. the screws keep bending when i use the hammer. i thought you said when you was blind, you picked up the hammer and saw. anyways, i used the saw to act as a fulcrum to lever the screwdriver by hammering on the handle. and look, it's still bending the screws... peace.

for me? i do a lot of guitar repair / customization and maintenance, so for me, it's really easy. if you have not ever replaced a guitar nut, it should still be fairly easy - some key things - CAREFULLY remove the existing nut and GENTLY clean up any glue on the neck. you might need to use an fingernail shaper board to CAREFULLY make sure the surface is even, and then placing the new zero fret nut (the string spacer and fret wire) is easy. you might need to try a few different wires to find which in the set make sense for your instrument and playing style. once you have the right combination, you might need to CAREFULLY file the edges of the fret wire and possible the spacer to get them to sit flush with the edge of the neck. for me - i take them off, file and polish, check fit. if not yet ok, repeat. a final check with the strings under tension and you can either go and CAREFULLY glue it or not. I did not glue mine. the string tension is holding it in place, and because it's fit properly, even changing all the strings at once, it's no effort to readjust, the fret wire once in place does the work.

have you had a luthier examine your guitar? making sure there isn't some issue with the neck? a friends instrument i looked at, someone had tightened the truss rod too much and stripped the threads and it was actually shifting slightly when bending strings. another one (different person), they over tightened the truss rod on their bass and it cracked inside the neck. and when i checked, pieces of wood came out after removing the nut on the rod. swapping out the neck with one of mine quickly proved the neck was the issue and further checking it could not be readily repaired...

i only use the "luthier knot" on my acoustic guitars. mainly because the instructions that came with a set of Martin strings that i had bought about 25+ years ago. otherwise, it's simply over once and then under as Tom noted. as long as the tuners are secure to the neck, and the tightening screws are set correctly, i've never seen a working set of tuners be a problem, even if they're cheap tuners. i find it's mainly string stretching, string wear, whammy bridge sticking when using lots of whammy, or the neck isn't rigid enough under tension.

my guess - they're using an identifier behind the GUI rather than the folder name. i can enter several folders with the same name 🙂 maybe one rationale is to avoid potential collisions and/or duplications? so, if my synth folder i have the same named tracks - do those also end up duplicated? (assuming it functions as older version).

i'm aware. i open them in Melodyne directly so i can review the suggested, well, everything including tempo... sometimes the automatic stuff doesn't quite get everything correct...

one option to capture the timing is to open the audio in Melodyne and export the MIDI which will have the tempo information.