John

I think you hit on a very important point. I believe that CW brought Skylight out to make it possible to add all the features we have seen plus I think they had developed the old UI and its underlying code and core as far as they could. That is why Skylight came along. They sort of hinted at it at the time.

Get the Moog Modular from Arturia.

You are welcome and in a way it was fun because it was a mystery that was begging to be solved.

One thing that should be mentioned is I know without a manual its hard to have the nomenclature (name) of all the things in Cakewalk. However, there is Help and it will layout the terms used in Cakewalk. Also download the manual for Sonar Platinum. It is out of date but is still very useful. Knowing the names of things makes it so much easier to find answers.

That is the Insert on button per track. For me it is set to on as the default. There is also a Global FX Insert button on your Control Bar in the Mix Module. It is labeled FX. If you turn it on all your inserts will be off.

I guess you noticed I have no idea what he is talking about. Thus the pictures. ?

To Garyed; Sonar X1 came out early in 2012. It is a very old version with very limited features. Its major reason for being introduced was to implement the Skylight UI. All the versions since then have been refinements of that UI and adding new and very useful features. The new Cakewalk by Bandlab is an improved Sonar Platinum. It is very much in your favor to upgrade to Cakewalk. (It is free by the way.) You can still use X1 but I believe once you try Cakewalk you wont want to. I wish I could list all the improvements in Cakewalk but there are simply too many from X1 to attempt it.

Please tell me what red button are you talking about? The first picture is the default for an audio track header. The second is with automation write engaged. The third is with the track being record enabled. To my understanding those are the only red buttons on the track header. They are off be default.

That is odd. Mixing must be a hit and miss affair with PT. LOL

Nice to hear that. I have to agree. ?

Cakewalk is the name of what we use to call Sonar. CW as a company no longer exists. Bandlab is the new owner. They are giving Cakewalk away free. It is Sonar but much improved.

Cakewalk is an upgraded Sonar Platinum. You should be able to install Sonar X1. However, I would get Cakewalk. It is a much improved Sonar. You can use your old login and password but you can also start fresh and create a new account with Bandlab. There will be things that you wont be able to take advantage of because you did not upgrade to Sonar Platinum. There are more ProChannel modules that were released after X1. Still it is worth it to get Cakewalk anyway.

There is a lot of false information about Windows. Some is from people that want to justify using a different OS. Some is just hate of MS. Often this false information is reposted innocently by people that think they are doing a favor for others. One should be careful about any information one can not verify.

This is the CPU cooler I have. It has two fans that push pull. Very quiet. Cooler master Hyper Cooler D92

DPC latency may be a real problem with Xenos. There is nothing unreliable about any Intel processor.

I think its more about cost. However, an i9 is the new cool kid on the block and is highly desirable. I have heard they can be a little high in DPC latency. i7 are known to provide good performance. I just built an i7 8700 with 16 GB of RAM. I'm happy with it. Panu went for a i9 and seems to be very happy with it. Jim is the best person to ask about what you should get.

I forgot to add mastering is also important for tailoring the output for various media.

Very nice computer indeed. Nice to see you Panu.

Not showing up here? I did an update to BL Assistant too.

Good point Cactus.

Thanks Chuck, I knew about that there is a key to do that but I didn't recall it. Yes I did like it.

Thanks Noel. I thought it was very cool thing to have. More useful in the pre Skylight versions.

I tend to do everything in the project now. That is because I have updated my computer and am able to run a lot more plugins. However one does it / export/import or all in one, the mixing stage is the most important stage where if that is done right the mastering stage is easy. Look upon mastering as polishing the song not doing deep adjustments.

I don't know it this still is in effect but in version 8 we were able to move the widgets around so they would show those we used most on top. I think it was dropped in X1. But I have not tested this or looked around to figured it. The main reason is the Inspector pane. It can show all controls for a track. Sonar 8 did not have the wide Inspector that X1 had and all the version after it.

I did a test shortly after Mix Scenes was available. I wanted to see if I could change the outs in BDF3 and test how the sound was impacted. What I found is it worked very well and I was able to decide the best output configuration using Mix Scenes. The main reason it was useful was that it did not take a long time to switch. I think it is very useful. Because it can deal with just about anything one wishes to A/B. I like Save AS for creating a new project without overwriting the old. This lets me increment my projects over time. I can always go back and start over. Keep in mind a project can have any number of Mix Scenes. They can be for different things. Its a compliment to Save As not a replacement.