Starship Krupa

He's not "unsung" to me. Not only for his work on Steely Dan's records, but also on Christopher Cross.

Yes. Base octave for pitches is Preferences/Customization/Display.

I'm going to wee-wee into the windstorm here and remind that the OP said that re-recording is NOT an option. Maybe the vocalist is no longer available, maybe the OP doesn't have a TARDIS, whatever. I don't know of any freeware plug-ins that are designed to do "de-clipping," but there are commercial ones, the first that comes to mind is iZotope RX. They're all pretty pricey. So the thing is to weigh the cost. Is it worth it to buy an expensive plug-in to fix this one track (presumably you won't make the same mistake in the future)? Another option is a free demo. iZotope's products do have free demo periods, so you could get RX on that basis and test it out on this problematic track.

I went through the same thing when I went looking for it. I would have expected it to be in with the MIDI settings.

Don't get me wrong, I don't intend to be an apologist; in my perfect world, Sonar will get comprehensive theme editing so that we can have skeuomorphic images or flat as our hearts desire. As I said, "whether we like it or not." My preference is for at least a slight bit of shading, it gives the eye something to "grab." I was just musing out loud about why the trend may have happened. I use iOS devices, and I remember when Apple dumped iOS' skeuomorphic look in favor of a flat look. It's been a long time for that, and a whole new generation of people who don't even remember what iOS looked like back then. It remains to be seen whether the current flat and dark trend in UI's will stick, or whether at some point skeuomorphic and shaded will be a cool retro look. In the meantime, Mixbus ain't so expensive. ? Also, I meant to caution the OP about putting too much time and effort into learning Theme Editor. The feature will not be included in Cakewalk Sonar. Considering how many themes I created, how much time and effort went into them, you can imagine how I feel about that. Theme Editor became a pastime all its own, and a valuable one, as it really made me up my pixel editing game.

No.

Unfortunately no. And doubly unfortunate for you, the Sonar UI is specifically being changed to be more flat. Whether we like it or not, that's the trend in UI design, and Cakewalk was falling behind. The trend doesn't surprise me, we're collectively getting more used to using computers to do things that we used to use physical objects to do. For instance, with the Step Sequencer, there's no reason for the pixels we click on to make a cell active to try to resemble buttons we would press in the physical world. Most people using a computer step sequencer will by this time never have touched or even seen a hardware sequencer. If we're not already, we'll soon be at that point with mixing boards. There's no practical reason for a Console View "slider" to look like we'd be able to grab it and move it. The original reason for it to look "real" was to give us a feeling of familiarity and comfort when transitioning from a hardware mixer to a software one, and that reason is (no pun) fading away. Maybe that's why simulated woodgrain has fallen so far out of fashion: having lived with higher quality plastics for so many decades, we no longer need to see "wood" as a point of familiarity and quality.

There is not, however you can drag individual tabs outside the Multidock and arrange them as you wish. So you could have one window with Console, another with Piano Roll, or one with Event Viewer and Piano Roll in the Multidock and another with Console. And so on. The thing you can't do is have two windows with multiple tabs.

I suspect that it's CPU power, not memory, that is limiting you here. As already suggested, use Task Manager to make sure that there are no unnecessary other programs running while you're working (browsers love to eat up resources). Also, check Preferences/Audio/Playback and Recording/Plug-In Load Balancing. That can affect system performance under the load of multiple plug-ins. Usually enabled is better, but in some situations, performance will be better with it off. A valuable resource for getting as much performance from your system as possible is Pete Brown's Windows Audio Workstation build and tweak guide.

I think it's actually a great name, already sounds like it should be a household word.

Swatches fans, remember to download the latest version, which includes 10 or so patches from this pack, free.

I have to wonder about the name of Rebelle (say it out loud). Phonically, it sounds as if someone was being cheeky in regard to "Rebelle" vs. "Corel."

In order to do it (that is, make graphical changes to the theme rather than just color changes), you must use Theme Editor along with a graphics editor like Paint.NET, Photoshop, or Paint Shop Pro. The best resource for learning how to use Theme Editor is The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer to Theming Cakewalk. Once you have Theme Editor set up, when you find the image(s) you wish to alter, you can launch your graphics editor directly from Theme Editor, make the change(s) and then save it back to Theme Editor. Theme Editor stores the color settings and images in proprietary files with the .STH extension. Near as I can tell, the step sequencer buttons in SONAR 7 don't look a heck of a lot different from the standard ones in the current Cakewalk. If you read the bit in The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer you'll see the result of some serious spelunking I did in regard to figuring out which of the 12 cells of the Step Button image go with what button states in Step Sequencer. You can weigh for yourself whether it's worth it to try to approximate the old ones. If you get stuck figuring out Theme Editor, we will try to help get you unstuck.

To be fair, if you're doing video editing, a nice graphics card is a good investment, same for painting programs like Painter and Rebelle. I have Painter, and its complex brushes and Wacom support get smoother the better a GPU your system has.

Prepare to have yer mind blown. In the TTS-1 UI, click on the rectangular button at the top of a channel strip: That will bring up a dialog that will allow you to choose from hundreds of sounds, including multiple drum kits, which come complete with all of the percussion instruments you see on that GM note list. That said, if you like TTS-1, wait until AIR's XPand!2 shows up on sale for $10 or less and get it. Over 2000 sounds, including the aforementioned drum kits, and they're better sounds. It was the first virtual instrument I ever bought and I still use it. Whoa, yer in luck, Xpand!2 is currently available in a bundle for $9.99. I'll vouch for DB-33 as a decent tonewheel clone: https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/81-Bundles/58-Instrument-Bundles/7743-AIR-Legends-Pack

Definitely the comfiest cans in my collection. A VO actor friend of mine describes them as "they feel like kittens on your ears."

It looks like Rebelle has come up in Humble Bundles in the past....I'll snag it if it does again.

Dang, that does look like a nice program.

I got this bundle when it rolled around, what was it, a month or two ago? I've had some fun doodling with Painter and the Wacom tablet and messing about with Paint Shop Pro, but a caveat: Painter is, at least on my system a "save early and often" affair as regards stability. It crashes, and when it does it just vanishes, straight to the desktop. As for Paint Shop Pro....I got really good at Paint.NET while I was doing Cakewalk themes, could really make it do what I wanted as a pixel editor. It of course has its drawbacks, like a much smaller collection of fancy filters and textures and so on than Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. Since PSP is the more full-featured one, I'm currently in the learning stage of forcing myself to use it instead of my former go-to so that I become familiar enough with it to decide whether it will replace or augment Paint.NET. It's those odd little things that somehow end up being different in every pixel editor, like anti-aliasing, settings for the paint bucket tool, selections and how they transfer between layers, etc. It's still too unfamiliar to make the call. Nice to have around for those cool special effects at least. One drawback so far is that it's one of those programs that really, really wants you to use it to organize your photos, which I may want it to do someday, and in the meantime don't pester me or act like it's the golden gateway to my digital images. I want my photo editor to open up in ready to rock mode, no froofy opening screens. But the program seems resistant to that, it wants to go back to its "simple" startup screen that asks me what I want to do today, that kind of hand-holdy crap. Fine, if you like that sort of thing, but I don't right now. Whatever else, there's no way under the sun if you do graphic s on your computer that the two of them together aren't worth $30.

I am solidly in the grey=off, lit up=on camp. After all, in the FX rack, lit up button means "effect active." Why invert it in other areas? The argument against it says that the buttons should be lit up to alert the operator that something is not "as usual." This is how we think of the Mute button, after all. And yes, I finally just set it right using Theme Editor. Unfortunately, this won't be possible with the new Sonar coming out, not on its initial release and possibly never. This is my mnemonic: "In the racks FX are off when the button is grey In Mix Module when its orange the FX have gone away" It's a tribute to the famous segment of The Court Jester:

Speaking as someone who is just dipping his toes in the water of orchestral scoring, this seems to me like an essential feature to have. It seems like a good one to add to Sonar to distinguish it as a tool for pros.

Does this sound like it might apply to your situation? Caused by Dell's extra system monitoring software service:

How did I know it was a Dell? ? Well, 'cause I am a (no pun) fan of their products, specifically the second-hand office workhorses that get retired by large companies 3 or 4 years after purchase because, y'know, the new employee can't have a better computer than her manager, or they get bogged down with crapware and accused of being "too slow," etc. I'm typing this on my Dell Latitude 7480, which replaced my trusty Latitude 6410 a year ago. The 6410 had been a freebie from an IT manager friend who got a stack of them for his kids at a corporate yard sale and had one left over. It was a great Cakewalk slab right up to retirement, and I'm planning on sending it up to my mom, who wants a Windows laptop for when her documents can't print from her iPad. 8G of RAM and I souped it up by replacing its i5 with an i7. I also ran an Optiplex 7010 as my main DAW up until a year and a half ago. i7-3770. This Latitude cost me all of $50 on Craig's List, from another corporate yard sale, and was lacking a main drive and memory. Total outlay for the computer, a major system update: about $125. They're rugged as hockey pucks and run forever. At one point I dropped the 6410 about a metre to a concrete floor, was sure I had killed it, but it booted up and ran as if nothing at all had happened. No screen damage, not even any case damage except for a scuff on the corner that hit first. As I said, with anything Dell, make SURE you download and install their latest driver packages. They are the most picky about this of any manufacturer I can think of apart from Apple. The generic or component manufacturer specific ones that Microsoft installs are not enough and will likely lead to just the kind of behavior you're seeing. You might later get better graphics results from installing nVidia's updated drivers, but always start with Dell's. If the nVidia driver borks something, you can roll it back. Also, along with this, make sure your BIOS is updated to the latest. For your computer, the most recent one came out in 2021, so if you've never updated it you're at least 5 years overdue. Dell's support pages show only the major reasons for BIOS updates, of course the engineers sneak other improvements in there as well. With Dell, no worries about a driver or BIOS update causing trouble because of the position and reputation they must maintain for corporate users: you can't roll out an update and have it brick 1000 or 10,000 critical path systems. Glad to see that you snagged HWINFO. Great tool, I use it often to see what my system is up to under the hood. It helped me figure out that my Latitude 6410 was having overheating problems after the CPU swap, which I went in and solved. The system will put your system into a throttled state if it sees your CPU getting too hot. And that's one of the reasons you need to get with Dell's latest drivers and BIOS: that's how your system monitors all this stuff. If it's suddenly getting the (true or false) idea that your system is overheating, it will turn the fans on full blast and throttle the CPU speed down to protect it from damage. HWINFO includes a history feature to show you what the peak and minimum stats are, so let your system go into that error condition and then check what the temps and clock speeds jumped or dropped to. Yes, dust blast it. Check HWINFO's temp stats before and after and see if it makes a difference. Also observe whether a huge dust cloud comes out. You shouldn't need to run any special fan control software. That's treating the symptom, not the cause. The Dell BIOS and drivers and so forth should take care of it.

This. And this is definitely a case where we need to know make and model of your computer. Especially with laptops, and especially with Dell laptops, having the latest system drivers from the laptop manufacturer is essential. Sometimes you can update individual components like the NIC driver, but the chipset drivers, which include the ACPI driver that handles things like fans, are specific to the model of laptop. Also, have you given the ventilation ports a good blast of compressed air lately? Laptops act like stationary Roombas when it comes to sucking up dust, and of course dust impedes performance of the cooling system. Go into your BIOS settings and check to see if anything has been reset that shouldn't be, like C States or anything else you wish to enable/disable.

Damn, that's some tight playing. Your drummer is solid! What is your instrument in this lineup?