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To see anything like that in the PRV for a MIDI drum track you will need to use a drum map. You have to set the output of the MIDI track to the drum map you want to use, and make sure the drum map is visible in the PRV. I've been fooling around with the free SSD 5.5 plugin and looked around for a drum map for it but couldn't find one. I don't have much experience with making drum maps so I thought it I'd give it a shot. I made an SSD 5.5 drum map for Cakewalk, including the notes where no sample was loaded, using the note map in the SSD 5.5 synth with the Deluxe 2 Free Hugo preset. It seems to work okay in CbBL and Sonar if you want to check it out. Any corrections, suggestions, or complaints are always welcome. Put the attached file with the rest of Cakewalk's drum maps and it should show up in the list. As far as making the notes show as diamonds with no duration, I wish I knew how to do that. I usually use the Event Inspector to change all the durations to 84 and seems to work pretty good for me. SSD5.map

I remember seeing the Beach Boys on TV back in the late 60s/early 70's and they did Good Vibrations with a woman playing a musical saw instead of an Electro-Theremin. It sounded great. I wish I knew the story behind that.

I've tried the Free Sonar a couple of times now. The first time it I uninstalled it because the menu language switched to French after a couple of uses. It also changed the menu language in CbBL to French. Yesterday I tried it again and installed it with Cakewalk Product Center and it changed to menu language to German, also changing the menu language in CbBL. Very perplexing. Maybe it reacted poorly to my VPN (which are using USA servers). It's simple enough to change it back to English but is still annoying. Not sure I'll keep it because I really don't like the way it looks. I'm going to really miss CbBL when it's gone.

Here is a screenshot with the Gain knob outlined in red. You can use it to change the overall volume of an audio track (or bus). If you turn it too far the volume slider will show red. If you can't raise it enough without going into the red, turn everything else down. At least that's what I would do.

Just to be clear, are you trying to adjust the volume of MIDI tracks or audio tracks? Are you using MIDI tracks to play your VST synths? If you are using MIDI tracks it's pretty simple to change the velocities of MIDI notes in a MIDI track to get the balance of volume you want, though this can change the sound of the audio because different velocities may use different samples.. If you are just trying to change the overall volume of an audio track, the Gain knob in the Track Inspector is one way of changing an audio track's volume independent of a volume envelope in the track. You can also change the gain/volume of an audio track with Process>Apply Effect>Gain or Normalize. Those changes are permanent (destructive) and should be used judiciously because increasing the gain/volume of an audio track too much can cause distortion.

I'm really out of touch with pop music because I've never heard of any of those songs. The only 'Manchild' song I know is 'Two-Bit Manchild' by Neil Diamond, which I played the heck out of on my guitar back in high school. Good times...

I don't have that program but I have used the noise reduction feature in Adobe Audition 1.5. Those audio artifacts are created when the noise reduction is extreme. Using a lower setting might give you results that, while not perfect, are acceptable. Adobe Audition will also, like you mentioned, allow you to select what is 'noise' in the audio. A very important feature, for sure.

She is an amazing musician, for sure. I've been following her on Instagram for a few months. You should check out the stuff she's done with Sierra Dawn Hull, who is another incredible musician.

I was convinced a long time ago but it was great seeing those songs' harmonic and rhythm textures broken down in such detail. Brian Wilson took Phil Spector's 'wall of sound' and turned it up to 11.

I installed the Band Edition. I haven't explored it much but the Scarbee Rickenbacker Bass sounds pretty good to me.

Are you using a VPN?

The Animals - The Best of the Animals (1966). Still one of my favorite albums. Eric Burden was the real deal and Chas Chandler's ostinato bass in 'We Gotta Get out of This Place' was the kind of foundation upon which rock was built. Playlist below.

I've never seen that before either but I Googled it and turns out many laptops don't have a Scroll Lock key (a space-saving feature). Its function can be performed by pressing a combination of the Fn key and another key, depending on what make and model of the laptop.

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I would use the Cakewalk Product Center to reinstall them.

If you have your 8.5 installation files you can reinstall it. Select Advanced Mode when installing and you have a Custom Installation and can pick which elements to install. You can select everything or just Channel Tools. If you don't have the files handy you can download them by logging into the Legacy Cakewalk Site and going into the Support/Download Products section. Hopefully, that will solve your problem. https://legacy.cakewalk.com/

Roger that. These days many computer cases have AIO (All In One) Liquid coolers already built into the case. Might be good for someone who wants to avoid the hassle of installing one.

I've never experienced that behavior before. Perhaps there are other meter/key changes that need to be addressed. Try this; In the main menu select View>Meter/Key. That will open the view that Alt+Shift+6 should open. It is in the Multidock and will show any changes to the key or meter you have made. Select and delete any changes you don't want, if any.

Are you using Cakewalk by Bandlab? The vertical line that moves with your mouse sounds like Aim Assist Line, which can be toggled on and off with the x key. The only other vertical line I am aware of is the Now Time Marker. Try pressing the x key to see how that affects your project.

Different brands may use different components; motherboards, RAM, drives, etc. Not all components are equal and cheaper computers will (generally) have cheaper components. Some may be more expandable/upgradeable than others, have different ports and things of that nature. Another important factor is the amount of software the seller puts on that they want you to need but you really don't. Also known as 'bloatware'. My own preference with desktop computers is to build my own and install Windows from scratch. Researching the brand is good, but don't forget to research what is in the case because what is not important to you now may be important to you later.

That's what I do. I disable everything I'm not using in the Device Manager>Sound, video and game controller tab.

Try running it without running as an administrator. I have it always running as an administrator because I had problems using Adobe Audition as a tool in Cakewalk and I couldn't get it to work unless both were run at administrator level. You can change the default by selecting Run this program as an administrator in the Compatibility Properties.

Do you run Cakewalk as an administrator? When you open Cakewalk and you get that message, in that window (Windows 11) should be 'Show more details', click that and on the next window click 'Change when these notifications appear' and that will take you to your User Account Control Settings. That will show you the global security setting for that warning. Here is mine with the default setting. Is yours set differently?

That message is a function of the Windows User Account Control Settings. Do you get that message for all programs you run or just Cakewalk? You can enable/disable the message and select the 'sensitivity' of the warning in your Windows User Account Control Settings. It's a normal security function of Windows to keep unwanted apps from running on your computer. I just leave it on the default setting for security reasons.