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You posted that you don't even use take lanes so the simplest solution seems to be to stop expanding the take lanes. Then the button will never change color. Expanding take lanes without using at least two take lanes serves no practical purpose. You aren't turning on the take lanes, you are expanding them and, ironically, causing the problem that is vexing you. There is nothing you can do about the lanes you have already expanded and have changed color but in the future you can avoid this problem by not clicking the take lane button unless you have a need for multiple take lanes.

On page 441 of the Cakewalk Sonar Reference file it says: And: Basically, the first take lane you create is the same data as the original track. If you don't need more than one take lane I don't see a reason to open the take lanes at all because the first take lane just duplicates the original data. It seems to me that once a take lane is created it is permanent and the take lane button will always have that highlighted box. At least I can't find a way to restore it to its original condition. If someone knows how I'd love to see how it's done.

Are you using a VPN? If yes, turn it off. If no, then reboot your computer and try again. Can't hurt to try.

I haven't browsed it for quite some time but there's heaps of free old music software at the Internet archive. https://archive.org/details/software

Those audio examples were pretty impressive. Can't wait to try this one out.

Sure, but maybe watch the movie first. Not everyone liked it as much as I did.

It turned out better than I expected, for sure.

Good job. If they ever make a sequel to Ghosts of Mars this should be the main theme.

I'm using a variation of that method in a current project. I recorded a chord of just guitar harmonics on one track, reversed it, attenuated the tail with volume automation (the attack) and used a send in pre mode to a long reverb (Valhalla Supermassive TriangulamHall) so the reverb increases at the very end of the chord. The reverb tail blends in with the rest of the tracks when they start. Here is what the chord sounds like. Dancing with Debbie 1.mp3

You can select the Audio Preview Bus in the top menu Project>Set Audio Preview Bus. Check your Bus Pane to see if the Preview Bus is showing and if it is receiving audio.

UA Connect? You can disable its startup in the Task Manager. You can also stop the Universal Audio Helper Service from starting with Windows.

Look in your Preferences for MIDI record options.

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I have three UnDocked floating views open right now. Console, Piano Roll, and Markers. You can UnDock the MultiDock itself and in that view only one view can be visible at one time. But you can UnDock the views themselves by Right-Clicking the name of the view and select UnDock. This will open the view independent of the MultiDock. You can do this whether the MultiDock is UnDocked or not. To disable this floating function Left-Click the icon at the top left corner of the view.

Those are module presets. On page 1031 of the latest Cakewalk Sonar Reference Guide it says: Note: ProChannel module presets are stored in the Windows Registry under \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\ActiveMovie\Presets. You can export this registry branch in order to backup your presets. You can also rename and delete presets directly if you are comfortable with editing registry entries. Always back up the registry before making any changes manually. So there won't be any .pcp files for those. You can delete, edit and save them, but all the info is stored in the registry.

Well, the volume column for the note is unlabeled and part of the Data field for the notes. I am unaware of any method to see only the note volumes and not the notes. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't really see how useful it would be to see the volumes of the notes but not the notes they are associated with. Anyway, it is what it is.

Volume Automation will show up in the Event Inspector as (Kind) Shape, and volume drawn in the piano roll controller view will show as (Kind) Control 7 (CC #7 is Volume). The volumes you see in your image are individual volumes for each note event.

I looked at some videos of Melda Production's MRhythmizer and MTransformer and they look like they can do that.

Okay. Good luck.

I'm pretty sure it isn't. One problem you will have in seeking help here is your unfamiliarity with the specific terms used to describe Cakewalk elements, tools, and processes. I strongly urge you to use the Cakewalk Product Manager to download and install the local Cakewalk Sonar Local Help so you can access the Help files from within Sonar. Or, to download the Cakewalk Sonar Reference Guide as PDF from the top menu under Cakewalk https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Sonar Reference Guide.pdf . It is an invaluable aid for all users. I keep it on my desktop for easy reference. The outputs of all audio tracks can be directed to a Bus, acting as a master volume control, before reaching the output device. You can output the audio track to a master bus, or another bus that is output to the master bus. You may or may not have a Master Bus depending on how you created your project. If you have a master bus it will be shown as an option in the output section at the bottom of an audio track. See first image below to see an example of this. If you do not have a master bus you can create one by right clicking in the bus pane to create a New Stereo Bus. It is common practice to create other buses, like one for guitar or one for bass, and output those to the master bus. To show/hide the bus pane click the two little arrows pointing at each other at the bottom of the track view. See second image. I strongly urge you to look for videos on YouTube on how to use Cakewalk software. All the versions in the last few years are fundamentally the same when it comes to setting up and recording. We can just keep throwing terms at you that you are unfamiliar which may not be very useful to you so it might be helpful to watch videos that go through different processes, like setting up the program and recording audio.

Are your audio tracks being output to the Master bus or straight to the Hardware Outputs?

I still have my old Boss DS-330 Dr. Synth module, though I only keep it handy in case I ever start using my MIDI controller to record with Sonar. Same way I use my Digitech RP350 to monitor sounds live while I record my guitar's signal through a direct box. This is why latency is never an issue with me.

Update: I just successfully signed in to BandLab from Sonar free and also at the BandLab website.

Yeah, that's what I would do if I had a BandLab subscription.

That might be hard to do if the BandLab site can't be accessed.