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So there's free, which means that you're legally entitled to use it without paying a license fee, and then there's "almost free" which means that you're not legally entitled to use it without paying a license fee but you can use it without paying if you're willing to ignore a prominent notice reminding you that you're not legally entitled to use it without paying. For instance, Cakewalk by BandLab and Audacity and Ubuntu are free, REAPER and GoldWave and Windows 10 are almost free.

Here it comes, here it comes, here comes your 7th Berzerk Distortion.... If only they'd do a freebie of TrueVerb or H-Comp Hybrid Compressor.

I don't know what the FL Studio channel rack looks like, but if you want to program beats using the step sequencer and use your own sound files for the drum sounds, Speedrum Lite will do the job. It's freeware. TX16Wx is more complex and will also do the job. Also freeware.

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I really should analyze what's up with the unintended consequences thing, because it wasn't that way with Mixcraft. I didn't wear a shiny spot on my Control and Z keys as quickly. Also not that way with Vegas or Audacity or Paint.NET. My first thought is that it's down to differences in how Cakewalk clears selections. Some convention in other Windows apps that I'm used to but is different in Cakewalk. Maybe something to do with right clicking and context menus....what happens over and over is that I delete something and it takes something else with it that I didn't expect it to. Stuff often seems to be selected when I was not expecting it to be. One of my earliest WTF's with CbB was right clicking on a track header, selecting Delete Track and then being asked if I wanted to delete multiple tracks. This happened over and over again. Hmm.

Nor do I. If you mean you don't understand my "Not nearly excited enough" comment, I'm referring to their first reply saying that they were excited for me to snag the limiter. I'd love to share their excitement. Hyperbits gotta realize that it's not exactly an endorsement of how well they have it together.

`-Select None is my favorite, the one I use most often. Whatever its charms, I find that Cakewalk is the worst about creating unintended consequences due to not releasing selections in the way I expect. Solution: when in doubt, hit the tilde key and clear 'em all. I also have the thumb buttons on my mouse set to Ctrl and Alt which is great for drag copying and splitting, respectively. Holding both down and wheeling gets me zoom, and that's a much-used thing for me.

Not nearly excited enough, I'd say.

I did try that at one point and got the "Get updates" reply. Did they send your code via Instagram or email or what? Eh, mastering limiters I got plenty of, just wanted to see their take on it.

I've not seen that, so maybe there's a license somewhere in limbo.

Did you actually get the license? Where does it show up? What happened in my case is that I posted "Limiter," then got a DM from them with a link saying that they were excited for me to get the limiter and to click on the link if I was ready to get it now. Clicked on the link and got a simple reply saying "Get updates." Same thing from both laptop and phone.

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That's what it did for me, using my iPhone. And the message does nothing when I tap on it. I swear, if a college fraternity made pledges go through what I did to get a non-functioning message that reads "Get Updates," they'd get their charter revoked. Since I avoid Instagram about like most people avoid panhandlers, of course I needed to re-download their app on my phone, then log in all over again. Once I did that I kept getting the limiter message flash before me for about a second before a screen labeled "Reels" replaced it that was pretty much as I imagine Instagram to be, an endless parade of videos of imbeciles imploring me to "like" or "follow" them. Which if asked to do at gunpoint, I would have chosen the relative peace of the alternative. Is this why they stopped making new episodes of Black Mirror? Fad pastimes have gotten so asinine and representative of humanity's worst tendencies that their satires couldn't keep up? The characters in that episode where the entire society runs on how many "likes" or "dislikes" they get seemed dignified compared to this. But I like Mastering the Mix' software and having begun, I had to see it through. Managed to tap on the original post before the lost souls started their march. I felt like I was in that scene in The Magic Christian where the millionaire fills a vat with raw sewage and throws a bunch of money in so that he can watch the businessmen jump in after it. Except that it's a freaking plug-in, which I already have hundreds of, and at the end of it all, I didn't even get the promised license. Like one of those "learned helplessness" ordeals that they put lab animals through so that they can test antidepressants on them.

Don't you mean "13?"

The way I did it, after freezing and deleting the synth, the track automatically turned into split MIDI/Audio. So maybe you can skip that first step.

Yeah, that's why it's 55 in the big list of dead horses. I think it was inevitable after Jesse Screed's screed. Cool live performance, eh?

You didn't know? Image Line already owns a controlling interest in MeldaProduction. They're both on the toboggan toward insolvency I suppose. Give Mixcraft a trial run. They do some pretty good discounts. Not so long ago there was a Mixcraft license in a Humble Bundle. The UI and workflow are obviously heavily influenced by Cakewalk. The company has one of the strongest dedications to QA I've seen. Same people as Cherry Audio, so Mixcraft tosses in a couple of Cherry Audio synths, rather nice ones.

56.

55. "This reminds me of King Crimson's 'Elephant Talk.'" ?

I hope next time Image Line buys it.

52. "Just because you can get Sonar today with a BandLab membership, that doesn't mean that there will never be a perpetual option."

Why bother. We're just going to keep having the same round-and-round threads until BandLab says once and for all "these are the licensing terms." Until then, I have a proposal. To save time and bandwidth, the next time someone has the urge to either start or participate in a topic about licensing for the upcoming Sonar, refer to the list and just post the number of the endlessly-repeated statement. First, there are only really 2 topics. A. Someone at BandLab said something about the new Sonar but wasn't specific about final pricing B. Nobody at BandLab has said anything about the new Sonar in a long time "This is weird, never seen anything like this before." "I think all this delay is just to soften us up for the inevitable move to subscription-only." "Subscriptions are where the industry is headed." "Is that Backstage Pass thing still a thing?" "I don't care what they charge for it or how, I started with Cakewalk a long time ago and it will always be the DAW for me." "If they keep us in doubt any longer I'm going to look into viable alternatives." "If they make it subscription-only I'm going to look into viable alternatives." "If they ask too much for it I'm going to look into viable alternatives." "I predicted this would happen back when BandLab started the free thing. Jokes on you, losers!" "Audition is the only subscription-only DAW" "LUNA is a viable alternative." "REAPER is a viable alternative." "Studio One is a viable alternative." "Samplitude is a viable alternative." (just kidding) "Can I import Cakewalk projects into other DAW's?" "The great Gibson debacle taught us that you can never be sure of anything." "I stopped using Cakewalk years ago, this just proves my move was the right one." "That new nag screen is heinous." "The new Sonar UI is good." "The new Sonar UI is bad." "Is Next going to be included when you pay for Sonar?" "Whatever they decide to charge, they should honor the lifetime license I paid for." "The company that sold you the lifetime license no longer exists." "You should never have fallen for that sketchy lifetime license in the first place. Sux 2 B U." "It's best to have more than one DAW anyway." "Cakewalk has been on life support for years, now they're finally being taken off it." "I'm going to go back to using SONAR, it does everything I want." "I don't need all that BandLab crap so don't make me subscribe to it." "Are they going to release the old Cakewalk plug-ins with the new Sonar?" "They need to fix the bug-ridden unusable nightmare that CbB is before they start charging for it." "Pro Tools is still the industry standard." "FL Studio is the most popular." "Can't we just shut up and be happy that CbB still works?" "MeldaProduction are clever." "I am clever." "The DAW will soon be a thing of the past anyway." "Waves took a lot of heat when they tried to go subscription-only." "New DAW users just want to string loops together." "If the product is free, you are the product." "I tried another DAW and never looked back." "They should fulfill my favorite feature request before they start selling it." "They should go freemium." "This is a whole lot of jibber-jabber." "What does REAPER have to do with this?" "What does MeldaProduction have to do with this?" "Heath and Starship should just get a room already." "Will this pointless discussion never end?" "This topic is going to get locked." "Why haven't the bakers chimed in yet?" "You, sir, are a knave, a scoundrel of the lowest order!" "I'm locking this topic because things got too ugly." So for example, instead of the following tedious topic/discussion: Still no word about Sonar's pricing "Dang, this is weird." "They should give us a discount if we bought the lifetime license." "The company who sold you that license no longer exists." It would look like this: B 1 2 22 23 Or, more accurately: B 1 2 3 10 22 23 22 23 23 22 23 24 42 47 Easy, eh? Instead of trying to beat an idea into (or out of) your forum buddy's thick head by finding different ways to state (or refute) the same concept, just use the number. Repeat it as many times as you feel it needs to be said. You may notice that many of them are questions with no accompanying answer. Can you guess why that is? In the unlikely event that someone has never seen one of these topics and would like to read one, we can refer them to one of the 37 previous identical 5-page Amish rakefights on the subject. In other words, 47 35 43

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Audition.