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Yup. Edge is entrenched. I will stop trying to delete it. Thanks for all the insights.

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From your description it seems to me that the ACT apparatus prevented the note data from going to the PRV keyboard animation apparatus. If we had a midi data flow chart we might know (1) if there is something else causing the behavior (and if so, what), (2) if the behavior is by design, or (3) if it is a bug (along with other odd behaviors which no one seems to know if they are intentional or bugs).

I only get those "great photos" when Windows 10 refuses to shut down when I click "Shut Down" (or Update and Shut Down) but instead goes to Standby / Sleep mode. Seriously, now that I think about it, the appearance of those photos are probably an alarm that Windows has changed my preferences and I need to go through my checklists yet again. I totally get that Microsoft wants to do things like rearrange my desktop icons, change display settings, undo my HDD extended partition configuration, reset my power settings, etc. However, I do not have to like it. Maybe I will check out the Collections sometime.

One of the issues I have had with Edge over the years is that MS will change my preferred default Browser to Edge without any regard to my personal preferences. (Surprise!) I found that by uninstalling Edge, this stopped. @msmcleod Are you saying that if I want to avoid problems with Cakewalk I should stop uninstalling Edge? If so, is it OK to keep changing my default browser (or will that mess with Cakewalk, too)? Thanks.

JMO: (1) the semantic content of the various scenes within the trailer and the affective content of the score segments support each other to a high degree and (2a) you hit inflection points very well and (2b) the use of musical changes (including pauses) are used very effectively to underscore the drama of the spliced scenes. Not sure what kind of feedback you are looking for, but maybe these casual impressions will help. There is much in academic and popular literature related to music as a medium of communication from a multitude of perspectives.

Anyone know if there is a way to use midi learn to control the settings in Objeq Delay? Thanks. Nope.

Similar experience yesterday: I tested the issue by logging out and using the sign in button. Hovering turned the button a darker shade of green. Clicking opened my web browser where I could have logged in or signed up. Had to look up and type in my ID and Pwd. Once entered, I was taken to my account. I tried several times but the app itself did not log me in--only called up the website login.

Are you saying this happens when you unplug the headphones? If so, perhaps the laptop's headphone jack has autodetect and when you pull the plug Windows tells software that the headphone output is no longer available which triggers the message that the output is no longer available to Cakewalk? If so, and your tracks are routed to the headphone ouput, do you get the sound back if you switch to a valid output?

I do not use Bandlab (the web app), but I did test a few things last year for possible use with things I do using Cakewalk. I did look through the education section which Jim referenced (with a link). Not sure it has the information you want, but I would recommend exploring all of the various sections. Also, there is a Community access point (as well as others) on the Bandlab Blog page. In the '80s I did some Arts-in-Education residencies and I think the Bandlab model has a lot of possibilities for music education.

Can you guys take this OT "debate" outside?

There are some posts related to red flags and Surge 1.7.x in this thread. Based on my experience with that version, I downloaded the current installer and ran a couple of local scanners on my PC. Both came up clean. Windows Defender wouldn't let me run it until I said "Unblock" in the properties page for the download because it came from another computer. Maybe if you wait for 1.8.1, there will be no heuristic red flags at VirusTotal. That's what happened with me after I saw a red flag with 1.7.0, but when 1.7.1 came out a few days or so later, there were no heuristic red flags. So, I took a chance with 1.8.0 and I like the changes.

Thanks for calling this to our attention!! The new features look very impressive. I am very pleased to see the FX can now be re-ordered ?, all of the new filters ? , along with many of the other changes.

Conversely, some Win10 users have Cakewalk Analytics turned off (and have always had them turned off). Not sure if there's data on the % of users (XP, Win7, Win10) who have analytics on v. off.

Thanks. Your reply came in as I was typing the last line in the UPDATE to my post. I can live with the malformed installer box now that I know the process isn't hanging.

Thanks for this tidbit. I believe it helps explain a CbB installation I had yesterday which I have never had before. The installation seemed to hang for several minutes (far more than the usual installation time) while the installation/extraction box was malformed (so I couldn't tell if there was any progress happening): Eventually I looked at my go-to diagnostic tool of first resort (Task Manager) and saw these: My internet connection is not slow, so I suspect maybe what you describe (re: Webview component) prompted my approx.-24-hours-old Win10 update to need MS Edge to be installed/updated. Maybe a component was needed so the installation/extraction box will display properly next time. Not sure if this was coincidental, but your behind-the-scenes tidbit seems to help explain my atypical experience with the CbB installer yesterday. The CbB notification/toaster popup asking me if I wanted to install the EA update caused no issues for me. That part of it (including asking me to shut down CbB and retry) was flawless. UPDATE: I rolled back to 2020-11 and went through the update procedures twice. Each time I had the malformed installer/progress box: However, this time (presumably because I had already updated Edge), the installation only took 3-4 minutes (from the time I shut down CbB and said Retry to the time CbB started launching). There were typical processes running (cryptograhic services, COM surrogate, MS shadow services, Volume services, etc.) that seemed to be reflected in the Windows Task Bar progress meter. I made one more attempt to get the normal installation box after downloading the WebView2 *.cab for my PC and then running the Edge Update Link Jesse posted. Again, I got the malformed box but the update happened in 3-4 minutes.

I use customized Workspaces, but haven't tested mine yet in this release. What do you mean by "save the workspace in perspective?" Thanks. UPDATE: I just changed one of my personal Workspaces ["Console on Monitor 2"] by changing the widths of the 3 panes/sections (tracks, buses, and hardware). After saving it, I switched to some other Workspaces. When I reloaded the newly changed Workspace, it had the width changes. Of course, each personal/customized Workspace depends on the the options to be saved/restored. You probably have different options selected. Below are the ones I used. You probably have different options selected. There are too many possibilities to test them all, but I am interested in figuring out if I have the same problem you had.

Odd that it didn't work. I used *.chm and got over 11,000 hits, including some from MS (9-2020) and Magix (10-2020) as well as Win98SE (4-1999). I spot checked about 50 and approx. 3-4% cannot be opened. In my case it looks like a few HDD recovery disk backups from years ago were not successfully copied.

Glad you mentioned this (re: Korg's USB driver). I will be getting back to setting up a new-to-me PC with Win10 20H2 as a replacement as my main audio productivity PC. I have not yet moved either of my nanoKontrol[1]s or the Korg driver/setup utility to the new PC. For that reason, I have some related questions: After you upgraded to 20H2, did you reinstall/setup the Korg driver/utility without any issues and if so does your Korg nanoK work properly? If so, did you have to do anything special to get it to work? What kind of a removal of the drivers did you do (total/complete removal, device properties uninstall, simple disable, etc.)? I ask because sometimes just disabling a device driver has worked for me to solve other compatibility issues until I have done some more fine tuning. Thanks.

Could you create a second Workspace based on the one that you normally use that has all screens on only your main monitor?

Just a guess, but you wanted the request-new-features/improvements section. From what I have seen this thread is for reporting successes and problems specifically with the current Early Access release.

There are at least three ways to insert a software synth [aka Instrument] that I have used. (1) from the menu [Insert > Soft Synth], (2) from the Browser, (3) by right clicking in the track header area, (4) using the + button in the Synth Rack. Some of the methods have been updated quite a bit fairly recently, including new options in the Insert wizard accessible via insertion method three. The old insertions dialog [the one with the check boxes - synth properties] has been updated, too. I know there are discussions in the forum. Maybe look at some of the New/Updated Features from the past 6-8 months, too. But if you try the three methods above, I think you'll find it to be rather "intuitive" from past versions of SONAR/Cakewalk. There may be other ways, but I like these: (1) (2) (3) (4) For this, I usually use the Split Instrument Track option once the combined track has been made. (See below.) IIRC there are also ways to get separate tracks using the Insert Soft Synth Track wizard [Advanced Options button] and the old check-box dialog method. Those are some of the newer features I had in mind, but I am a slow learner and gravitate towards methods I've used for ages. Splitting tracks using the Advanced button options in the Insert Instrument / Add Track Wizard (method 3 above)--see below. For me, I tend not to do it this way (1) because it is a fairly recent method that (2) has changed a few times over the past year, (3) because different soft synths have differences which produce different track results that boggle my old school mind, and (4) I am so used to just splitting the track it is "intuitive." Not knocking the new methods at all--if I had the mind I had a couple of decades ago, I'd struggle with the newer methods until they became second nature. Hope this helps. BTW, the Enable MIDI Output (if available) checkbox option in the synth properties/ insert soft synth options dialog is relatively new (or had been missing)--from UI change list to a late 2020 update: "Enable MIDI Output check box was missing from Insert Synth Options dialog when opened from the Synth Rack."

I have tried reading a couple of *.ARP files with a Hex Editor--without success. There was nothing obvious to my eye (except the file/arp name) and my file structure mining days are over. For me, I have hardware and software that meets my needs if I can't use the Inspector-based Arpeggiator. It does what it does rather well and seems to me to be consistent in what it does. Sometimes I have found the MFX Arpeggiator useful for some tasks. A thread in a previous forum: FYI.