Glenn Stanton

there is. just go to the support web page and fill in the form requesting help. or read the FAQ. as far as offline activation - recently Noel walked someone through the process successfully. it does involve using a USB key or equiv.

i filled out the form with request for perpetual licenses and got a nice response which included the words like "we're looking into the options". so there is hope. but meanwhile i'm using Sonar to get work done.

Acon Acoustica is a really overall nice program for editing and also batch audio conversion. i have DaVinci for video and use that to create different formats on video files.

yeah weird. and all the Kontakt libraries do the same thing? the CW meters don't show an issue but your Kontakt meters are hitting 100%. in a similar test on my system using the session guitar library, the Kontakt meters - i'm never over 10-11% and then stopping it drops downs very quickly to 8% then 3% and 0% (~100ms) - possibly due to library unloading etc type of optimizations to preserve resources?

ditto. very seldom do i ever crash lately with Sonar. the Karzog folks had a few weeks of issues but updated and ok. something was going on with the Pro-Q for a few weeks and the update seemed to correct it. otherwise Kontakt, Izotope, Graillion, and most other plugins are running fine. even the Waves Abbey Road Chambers (a seriously major pig) works nicely.

where are the files stored across these systems? NAS?

i use Musescore to create chord and lyrics notation, or simply use Notepad++ for lyrics and general song info. archive the Musescore into musicxml file (just in case) as well as print to PDF. it can also play and depending on the level of detail, provide the melody etc. import / export MIDI.

if you send an MP3 128K bitrate, you could just text it or email it.

ah. the joys of supporting 20 year old software 🙂

what are your friends then doing their recording, mix, etc on then? just phone apps? and what do you mean by sharing? listening or performing/editing? sharing is easy - many many many sites for sharing music. performing and editing reliably across phone OSes etc - not really...

ok, so then just remove the realtek ASIO from the registry. you'll use the realtek with WASAPI on the road. then the steinberg ASIO should be fine (i originally used a steinberg with their ASIO just fine on my older system).

if you only have the realtek, then that is what you have. disable the ASIO version and/or remove it from the list of ASIO options in the registry - never use the realtek ASIO. ever. then use WASAPI for the realtek. i use it on my laptop when i'm traveling without issues.

do you have an audio interface besides the realtek?

win-X -> Device Manager -> one each of the realtek items - right-click -> disable. DO NOT DELETE. this way they'll still be available to you on the road AND they won't reinstall when you don't want them active (which deleting them will do...). simply enable or disable the NON-ASIO realtek as needed. disable and do not enable realtek ASIO - ever.

so the ASIO device(s) are missing or the ASIO option in Driver Mode is missing?

soundclick must have changed. i've had a free account there for ~18 years? and you were limited to MP3 and under 8mb each. i'll have to revisit it.

bandlab let's me upload WAV files (50-75mb) no problem. other sites like reverbnation, soundcloud, soundclick, broadjam (and most others) etc require a paid subscription to upload WAV files.

are you editing the MIDI in the CW PRV or the drum plugin (e.g. Toontrack EZ drummer)?

are you not getting sound in? or getting sound out? step 1 - just using your media player - are you getting output via your IO unit? if not, get that working first. step 2 - once you have audio out, then plug in your mic or instrument into the IO unit and check to see that the audio is coming into the IO unit and is heard on your monitoring. getting it working with CW: if the IO unit can use the WASAPI, that should be ok to get things working, but if it only works using ASIO, then you need to set the drive mode setting to ASIO. then select the Solo unit input/outputs. the next step is to set your audio track to the Solo input and turn on echo and arm the recording. at that point with some gain and volume control adjustments, whatever your audio source is, you should be able to hear it. this may require setting your monitoring level as well so you can hear it looping back. at that point you should be able to record and play back.

also - the split tool is great for cutting out noise - esp bleeds, mouth noises, misc breathing, etc, and also separating sibilances & breaths etc so you can adjust those levels when the sibiliance detection isn't getting them all. and if you're editing instruments like horns and guitars - getting the honks and any slippery lip-farts, finger squeaks, errant picks, etc drums you can get the bass pedal squeak, inter-drum bleeds etc. as Craig noted this is a digital audio editor... plus you can get the MIDI (except the percussion mode - it's all one note for untuned percussion) for your instruments in case you want to re-instrument etc.

for me, i found Melodyne to be reasonably intuitive - but the earlier version (v3 in particular) the ability to move the blobs left or right was pretty awkward. v5 is really nicely down - bbuuuttt - you should watch a bunch of the videos to really appreciate the how-to aspects and esp the more advanced ones:

ASIO works best when paired with the interface it was designed for. a "generic" ASIO is probably a crap-shoot in many cases. why would you choose a proper ASIO driver paired with the interface it was designed with? because ASIO will provide the most direct path from the IO to the computer processing. however, if the IO unit itself has hardware latency which exceeds the possible latency settings, then it's not going to work out as expected. and if (in your example of mixing previously recorded material), you don't need low latency, you want high latency - one to reduce resource consumption on the PC, and two enable better PDC behaviour as the shortest delay will be based on the longest plugin delay - so more buffer time will seem smoother. in recording overdubs or because you're monitoring via the DAW and plugins - there will be limits in how low things can get, and the tolerance of the performers to perform with those delays. some people - 10ms doesn't phase them, some people cannot handle 2ms... (fwiw - sound is about 1.1ms / ft so if you're 10' from your amp, you have about a 9ms delay, hence tighter live performance often works best if the band members are close together. of course if you're only monitoring via headphones, then it matters much less since the mic or DI to the amp / instrument is typically sub-millisecond)

in the past, if i had left my keyboard off, launched CbB, and then realized it was off, i would switch it on, wait a minute, then check preferences to see if it was checked or not. most times it would be checked unless i inadvertantly closed the warning about no midi device etc... Sonar seems to handle it for me - if the device is in preferences and it's off, it will be unchecked, when i turn it on, wait a minute, then see the device is checked, and i'm good. so even without opening the preferences, if i forget, and turn it on, then wait a minute for the things to be recognized etc, it just works. glad you have yours working now.

true, but if they only get around to offering the perpetual license in late 2025, when you could switch to it, why wait? and as a subscriber you'll also have the actual weight, as a paid user, to promote the conversation about perpetual licensing to keep the sales and marketing team up at night... 🙂

no need to wait, you can join up at bandlab and start using Sonar today.