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For sure, it's on my "if I won the lottery" list. Which also means that if it were a tool that I used for making money, I'd have it straightaway. Seems like they know what they have, so they're smart to price it like that. The only danger is in someone coming along and eating their lunch, but the way to fend that off is to not get complacent. Keep it far enough ahead of the competition that the competition doesn't bother.

I checked out the demo video, and it looks like the existing UI is fine. Could do with some color theming, if it doesn't already. The blue is nice, but are there other colors? Are there gripes with the existing UI?

This time there are several items I don't already have. All those MODO instruments, Pianoverse, half a dozen T RackS FX. I already have most of the included T Racks modules, but not all of them are version 6. What's the word on these modeled/sampled instruments like the MODO stuff and Pianoverse?

Other way 'round, actually, but maybe you get that and I'm reading what you wrote wrong. The network liked the basic idea of the Cowsills, a rock band made up of siblings plus mom on backing vox. The idea was floated to have the Cowsills play fictionalized versions of themselves Ozzie and Harriet style, but they were deemed unsuitable. The Cowsills did have their own TV special, but the network decided to just "borrow" the concept behind the band and cast it with all professional actors. Mom Barbara became Shirley Partridge and youngest kid (backing vocalist and percussionist) Susan became Tracy. Youngest boy (drummer) John Cowsill mapped into Chris Partridge. John later became the drummer for the Beach Boys touring band.

Curious: I thought that the only actors on The Partridge Family who could sing were David Cassidy and Shirley Jones. Excellent singers both. IIRC, Cassidy could also play guitar IRL, but I didn't think any of the rest could actually play an instrument. Of course not even David played on their songs.

What kind of buffer settings/latency are you able to get with yours? Always nice to know for comparison.

I use dialog samples from streaming TV, where the sound is very good. Older TV shows have had their soundtracks iZotoped into hi-fi glory. Which is great for watching, not so great if you record it and want to drop it into your 90's ambient piece. There's a certain sound that is commonly used for dialog samples, I think it's supposed to mimic what you'd get back in the day if you held a cheap mic up to your portable TV's 3" speaker and recorded it on cassette. Using a cheap portable mono cassette deck onto a cheap drugstore cassette. Sounds like hell but it cuts right through a mix. Not surprising given that when a 3" mono TV speaker was a very common way to listen to television, audio had to be very intelligible.

Must as always put in a good word for RC-20 at this price. If you want to do the sort of thing that it does (which is to make clean sounds into more lo-fi sounds), it's the shortest path to getting there. I know that we all have plugins that do exactly what the individual elements of RC-20 do. But somehow, they got it just right. Yes, I can put together a chain of 4 FX and dial them in and get what I want. Or I can use RC-20 and get what I want with 1/4 the time and effort. How much is your time and effort worth? It's a joy to use.

Their producer/creator had a history of putting together similar acts (Boney M.) where he cut the records and then hired other people to perform "live." It was in Europe, no secrets about it, nobody cared, they sold millions of records. I suspect that in Europe there were fewer expectations/illusions about "authenticity" of pop music. I think what may have caused (or greatly contributed to) the trouble is that Milli Vanilli (that is, the "artist") won a Grammy. This embarrassed NARAS. Therefore they had to be made examples of. If the album or one of the singles had won the Grammy rather than the act itself (Best New Artist), things might have been different. They would have been acknowledging the work, not celebrating the arrival of a new talent and anticipating future achievements. It's one thing for a restaurant's dish to get an award, it's another thing for their chef to get an award for something they neither designed nor prepared. Although to quote The Beatles, I'm certain that it happens all the time.

That leaves only Justin Hayward, I think? Overused term, but I think it's safe to say that John Lodge was a very underrated bassist. Although a Moodies fan, I'm not sure about which of their songs he wrote, due to Justin being the one who sang them (I think). "Ride My See-Saw" is a great track, as is "I'm Just a Singer." I think those were his.

You're correct. My bad. I haven't recorded drums in years, so I'd forgotten about the change they made, and I wouldn't be surprised if my kvetching had something to do with their taking it up. My memory ain't what it used to be....

That's what their email and website said. I registered and redeemed, but the only files I could find to download were installation instruction PDF's. No actual plug-in installers.

Ah, yes. I was confused because you said "the free version." Does Premium have a different authorization frequency or something? I was under the possibly false impression that the authorization was similar, but with SoFT, it turns off the aforementioned features. With CbB, once authorized/validated it would run for 6 months without needing a re-up. I imagine that with Sonar the interval between last phone home and demo mode is shorter, but is it different for the two tiers?

I know the workarounds from your past helpful suggestions. I said "no simple way."😄 My workflow when recording drums is to loop the whole song and do multiple full-song takes. Sometimes I have to stop in the middle of a take due to major foul-up. When I do that, I get one of those what I call "spurious splits." I finally understand why they are there, the program assumes that you're going to split at that point while comping. I just want to be able to toggle it off. IIRC, your methods wouldn't work for my continuous looping workflow. It's especially a PITA when recording drums, because each take is spread across at least 4 tracks, and that's if you're a minimalist drum mic'er like me. Healing all of the splits across multiple takes across multiple tracks. Sheesh.

Just as well, I have tried grabbing it twice, including registering an account, and the only downloads I can see are installation instructions. I should have listened to you!

Cranking up the UI scaling a little helped me with the text that was shrunk between CbB and Sonar.

I'm curious as to which feature(s) SoFT lacks vs. SoPre that you think render it not suitable for live use or "semi professional" work. Plug-in oversampling, one more choice of dithering algorithms, one more choice of stretch algorithms, Workspaces, Overloud TH-U, and the BandLab loop collection? The only one of those that I'd noticeably miss would be Workspaces, but I'd probably work something out with Screensets to replace what I do with Workspaces. If I were worried about being able to apply DAW-based oversampling, running at 88 or 96 takes care of that during mixing, and exporting at 88 or 96 takes care of it at render time. The tests I ran on POW-R dithering and Elastique Pro stretching suggest that at least to the extent that I take advantage of them, they make no difference compared to the other algorithms that SoFT comes with. I've yet to use more than one Arranger track in a project, so that wouldn't feel limiting. The loop library is nice, but I already have access to all the loops I want via other means. TH-U is a good amp simulation plug-in, but there are numerous free alternatives. I wouldn't wish to see the membership ads. Everything else has simple workarounds. There's one big feature missing from Sonar that was in CbB, and that's user control of UI element colors. I reeeeeeeeeaaaaaaalllly hope that the promised remediation of that isn't going to be paywalled.

He is a heck of a guy like that, I must say. Still using the iLok 2 that he gave me years ago. Sorry to hear that you couldn't get the Saffire to work on your newer computer. My Pro 40 is still going strong, knock wood. I don't expect it to do so forever. When the time comes that it and Windows refuse to speak to each other, I'll probably get whatever Focusrite USB model will allow my to continue to use the Pro 40 as an 8 input mic pre via ADAT. I think the current one with ADAT in is the 81i something. I want it to stick around long enough for Microsoft's promised streaming-optimized USB stack to come out. At that point I'll feel better about using a serial port that was originally designed for mice, keyboards, and printers to stream asynchronous audio. The fact that Pete Brown thought that MS should redo the stack with audio streaming in mind tells me that I wasn't just being curmudgeonly about my USB skepticism.

The most baffling thing about Cakewalk (and Sonar) is that there's no simple way to suppress this.

Tried have you? From the description it sounded like it should definitely do something to audio. "Unleash unparalleled creativity with Warper, the ultimate detune and warping effect. With a single intuitive knob, you can effortlessly stretch, twist, and distort your audio, crafting rich, textured soundscapes and otherworldly effects."

Why not? What, then is the purpose of the forum, and why do you bother to participate? I see the forum as like those old "Leave a Penny/Take a Penny" trays. I've contributed pennies over the years, and I've taken them as well. There is a value for me in helping people solve their issues. It keeps me sharp, and I don't always have an answer ready to go. Sometimes I have to do research myself in order to help, and that extends my knowledge. There is no value for me in withholding troubleshooting suggestions to a fellow user. I don't feel the need to try to "teach Cakewalk a lesson" or whatever. I prefer Jake being able to install the software over him not being able to install it. @JakeJordan is a fellow Sonar user who's having trouble. If I have any ideas to contribute, I will. No in-house support system will be able to solve all problems. Did someone at Cakewalk suggest that Jake ask on the forum? I don't know, but I doubt they did. It sounds like they took the matter to the limit of their capacity to help. Should the company invest in increasing that capacity? Dunno. Not my call. I think you're on to something there. According to Google, the error code you're seeing in the first dialog, code 0x80070002, is often due to missing or corrupted system files. They suggest running the DISM and sfc commands to check system file integrity. To do that: open a command prompt as an administrator. type DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth and hit Enter type run sfc /scannow and hit Enter Here are some questions, and forgive me if any or all of them have already been asked: Are you running the Sonar installer as an Administrator? Is the user that you usually use to log on to Windows in the Administrators group? If you open Explorer, do you see an icon at the left for "OneDrive - Personal?" What do you get if you run OneDrive.exe and check OneDrive Settings? If you browse to C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Overloud\REmatrix Solo\IRLibraries\, what do you see? On my system, I see the FACTORY.rir file, and the groups that have permissions are SYSTEM, BATCH, Administrators, INTERACTIVE, and SERVICE. My user is in the Administrators group, so I'm covered there. What happens if you choose to Skip writing FACTORY.rir?

I'm using the Syba mentioned by @mettelus and others. PCIe.

Here's another. How you tie the string to the post makes a big difference in tuning stability. I've been using the "luthier's knot" for 40 years, and have never felt the need for locking tuners. I have multiple guitars with Strat-style vibratos, and don't have tuning issues. I do install graphite impregnated nuts on most of my guitars. I'd assume that a high end axe like a PRS would already have a pretty good nut.

I'm in the US and just enrolled in the free updates program. MS says that Windows 10 systems will get updates to Defender at least until 2028, so it seems that there's less urgency to leave Windows 10 behind.

Wow, I didn't know that there was a free option. I'm already using OneDrive, so I suppose I qualify. One thing that the article mentions is that ESU or no, Windows 10 systems will still get Defender updates through 2028. Since the FUD I've seen centers on security, that would seem to address those issues. FUD runs deep, though.