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Let's open this up a crack: Do some Types of Food for Thought help or hinder Life Goals, or is it more dependent on the ingredients used, whether or not you are a slave to a recipe or a DIYer based on what others have done with similar ingredients, "proper" combinations and presentations, and preferences, sensitivities, and allergies? For me it's not how big a person's refrigerator, stove/oven, pots and pans, cooking tools, etc. are, it's how they use the ingredients, methods, etc. For me theory unlocks potential, options, choices; theory is not a set of rules to be adhered to as if created by a devine super power. Not knocking people who prefer to follow; just saying it's a matter of personal preferences. Sometimes following a recipe can be very quick and rewarding--esp. if you have all the ingredients on hand.

I find it very handy. I can read the lists, read the threads I am interested in, and then just mark everything read so the next time, I just get new stuff in my list. Works well if there are some people on my ignore list posting a lot of stuff I don't want to read to see who they are picking fights with.

I dealt with this a few years ago when I added audio to midi projects. I found Tempo seemed to control midi / soft synths but audio used its own tempo. Someone pointed out I needed to use audio clips that did sync to Tempo. Not sure if that's the problem you are describing. Is the original audio file a Groove Clip? If so, it sounds like you have a different issue than I faced.

Since the correct answer never works on the first or second time (it's an AI trick to get us to move the mouse and click inside a frame as some sadistic but probably money making exercise in futility)I have a personal method for dealing with those fraudulent captchas: I randomly click all around and sooner or later click on the "Verify" button. Most of the times I get another unsolvable puzzle. Every so often it seems like the AI catches on to my random moving and clicking and either just lets me escape further punishment or it gives me a puzzle that only requires one or two clicks in blatantly obvious places. I give in and so does the AI. It's sort of like a stalemate. Maybe it's not speed or accuracy but something random. Update: I wrote the above but decided not to post it. A while later, I got a super simple puzzle--a fire hydrant that occupied 4 and only 4 squares with no part of the hydrant in any adjacent cells and nothing out of focus that might remotely have been a hydrant. I did my random clicking and unclicking but then left just the 4 cells clicked before choosing Verify. The AI must have been annoyed at me (maybe it had read my unposted reply?) because it gave me a different puzzle to try just to annoy me. Disgusted, I clicked Skip which I assumed meant it would give me another puzzle. But instead the AI tossed in the towel and let me through!!!!!

I think it's good to pick the brains of others who use the nanoKontrol to identify possible options and how to implement them. I benefited from AZ's software (AZ Controller) to help me out with some tasks with my nanoKontrol. For other tasks, I use the nanoKontrol differently. So I agree that you need to decide what works best for you and under what circumstances. You might have a newer edition of the nanoKontrol than the one I have. If so, my comments might not apply. With that in mind here goes: When I used to use it more frequently, I generally used the KORG software (1) to set up / edit assignments for the buttons, knobs and sliders, (2) to backup the settings on my PC, and (3) to load different sets of settings for different purposes. For controlling parameters in soft synths I would generally map the nanoKontrol's CCs I had previously setup to the parameters in the plug-ins. In essence, the nanoKontrol just adds more sliders, knobs, and buttons to what I have done for years with keyboard controllers. For some purposes I might have a scene setup to use some CCs that duplicate the control of parameters on both the nanoKontrol and on my USB keyboard while the nanoKontrol will will also control different parameters. Personal preference: I generally use CCs I have used for decades; next I will use CCs assigned by manufacturers (software synth defaults) if they don't conflict with ones I have used for years; next I will get out either paper and pencil (or a spreadsheet) to add mappings in new / untested ways as needed. Different software synths and FX have different ways of setting up CC / parameter mapping. For some I really like how the system is setup in the software. When I create sounds in software synths I generally use a standalone version. Again, personal preference. So I map any new CCs I need using the synth's midi learn / remote control system. So, I really don't want a DAW to learn the CCs for its own purposes. But depending on your needs / preferences, you (or anyone else) might have equally valid reasons for mapping CCs primarily or exclusively in a DAW. I hope this adds some insights in addition to AZ's explanation of possible ways to use CCs.

Are you interested in organ sounds or do you need the full slate of either GM/GS sounds? If your goal is simply to be able to hear organ sounds at home, I would think there might be other plug-ins which have organ sounds that might meet your needs.

I assume by this you mean you used a utility to search your system for all *.cwp files?

Glad you found it worked for you. I would agree: changes / improvements to features such as the Tempo Track really ought to be listed in the Release Notes if they aren't!

@Sock Monkey Perhaps you need to update Next to the current version?

Interesting--I ran MPluginManager yesterday just to see if I was up-to-date, but I looked quickly. Nothing jumped out to say, "Here's a new instrument you can download and install." For all I know maybe it was there yesterday. I know I didn't scroll down past Dream Machines. In fact, I didn't even notice that the scroll bar location was not at the bottom. In either case, I found it today now that I knew to look for it. Thanks for the heads up!

Also, "Bah bah black sheep . . . "

Glad to hear you pinpointed the cause!

I almost never use Media, but I gave this a try and the folders opened up with my normal double-click speed. If I slow the double click down, it goes to folder name edit mode like your video shows. Maybe your double-click speed setting in Windows changed?

I learned this lesson once when I had worked on a conference paper in a word processing program called SpeedScript. I hadn't saved in several hours. As I said, I learned this lesson once. No need to relearn it; once was enough! In fact, even though that was around 4 decades ago, just thinking about it, in my mind's eye I can see the room I was working in, where I was sitting, typing, the paper I was working on, how I had index cards and printouts of the ideas I wanted to pull together into the paper, etc. I don't remember my exact stream of words, but I remember the feeling of having lost several hours of ongoing writing and editing and the futility of trying to reconstruct the version I had just before it crashed. JMO: It's a very valuable lesson to learn early. BTW, nowadays I have an automatic reminder in my brain thanks to that incident. "You haven't saved in a while; better save it right now!!!" I didn't know it at the time, but I have come to think of the incident as a blessing.

In addition to the older Cakewalk by Bandlab Reference Guide, see also the newer online help system. There's an article on Using the Plug-in Manager on the Cakewalk Sonar page. PS: These are part of the How Can We Help? support help system. Oh--if you prefer the online legacy documentation, there's an index there.

This is a good question. From what I have seen as a consumer, once IK come out with products, the contents of those specific versions are fixed--new products that come out after are not added. I have seen in recent years, some V. 2 products that have been expanded to include new products. I don't use Tonex, so I defer to those who do to clarify if the Tonex line follows the pattern I've seen. I tend to use the Versions tab and the compare button to tell me what a product includes or not. Also, since I am more interested in synths, I made a spreadsheet (updated often) for IK's synths and libraries. So, when they came out with Sampletank 4 Max V.2 I added those in a column so I could track what I had based on earlier Total Studio bundles and other IK synth purchases. "Consumers of the World, Unite!"

Not sure if you are talking about are set, optional user expansions. If so, see if someone has created instrument definition files for them. If not or if you are talking about user presets you have created, you can edit the the instrument definition in a simple editor like Notepad. (I know there's a built-in tool, but I found editing hundreds of presets easier to enter by editing the file.) Also, maybe someone has written a patch librarian that creates instrument files from the presets currently in the gear. I am not sure about Yamahas, I mostly created my own for E-Mus (Proteus/Command Stations and Ultra Samplers).

To clarify my point, I wasn't saying scrolling is a bad idea. I don't think personal choices like this need to be an either/or thing. For example, in one Workspace I might want the largest FX Bin size possible; for another Workspace I might want small FX Bins. For the latter, scrolling would be not only helpful, but essential.

It looks to me like the strips in Cakewalk Sonar are limited to a maximum of 12 visible slots in the FX Bin. I would be in favor of that being increased if it's possible.

I get it: "Cakewalk Sonar for DAWs" 😉

What issue?

It's a little better than it was a few hours ago. Now I get failed logins from running ASC (instead of it not doing anything) and the website has a "down for maintenance" page instead of the servers being down.

Interesting. I have the studioverb2 dll and chm in a backup folder with files from an old hard drive. The chm file is dated from 2005. Not sure which edition of Sonar mine came from, but I do have X1 (among others). Congrats on solving the mystery. BTW, at the bottom of the chm help page, there's this: