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This is what the OP is referring to. I used to have the same problem but it hasn't reverted to Last Touched for awhile. I think it's because I was fiddling around with Screensets and saved the one I'm using now as the default, or whatever the term is. That and I changed my Workspace to None.

What scook posted is spot-on. Here is a visual aid. This is a blank audio track split into 10 separate clips. Before any changes to the gain envelope it appears as a (mostly) solid line across all the clips. The nodes are more visible because I have increased the vertical size of the track. Here is the same track but I used the Move Tool to move some clip envelopes between the nodes and the Smart Tool to add nodes. I didn't edit the Gain Envelope in the first clip so the gain in that clip would be unaffected by the envelope.

You can change which controls (widgets) you see in tracks and busus in the Track Control Manager. There are different presets that will show different controls. There is also a Custom preset where you can show/hide the controls you want. All the presets can be modified and changed back to the default. Here is the Track Control List and the presets in it. Click the Track Control Manager to make any changes to a preset. The Track Control Manager has a separate strip for Audio, MIDI, and Instrument tracks as well as for Bus and Surround. Your Volume and Pan sliders are showing because they are checked in the Track Control Manager being used in that project. You can select a different preset, or use the Track Control Manager to uncheck and hide them in the preset being used.

Think of the Simple Instrument Track as an Audio Track that lets you work with MIDI in it, but it's not a MIDI track. The Instrument Track has the same Automation Lane options as an Audio Track. Using a Simple Instrument Track can limit your options if you want to use MIDI controllers. You can do a bit more using the PRV to enter controllers in a Simple Instrument Track, but it's still limited compared to a dedicated MIDI track. My advice, when you insert a synth use the MIDI Source and First Synth Audio Output options unless you have a reason to need additional audio outputs, like with a drum synth.

You can either turn Snap off, or use a smaller note subdivision in Snap, either globally or in the PRV. Enabling Snap in the PRV will override the global Snap setting. Turning Snap off in the Control Bar also disables it in the PRV. You can enable/disable Snap and pick the notes you want notes to snap to in the Control Bar. You can enable/disable Snap in the PRV.

If you want to mute every instance of a specific MIDI note, that's pretty easy to do with either the PRV or the Event Inspector. If you want to mute some instances of a note but not others, you can do this in the PRV pretty easily. This would be done after the notes are recorded. Using the PRV and the Smart Tool, double click individual notes and change the velocity to 0. If you want to mute more than one note at a time, use the PRV and the Smart Tool to select Multiple notes and enter a Velocity of 0 in the Event Inspector. You can also use the Select Tool instead of the Smart Tool to do the same thing. If you want to mute some notes while playing your MIDI guitar, if your guitar can transmit each string on its own MIDI channel you could use a MIDI pedal to mute notes as long as you could attach the pedal to a single MIDI channel.

Move the Undocked Track Inspector up until the blue hi-lite disappears and leave it there. Now when you use the 'i' key to show the Inspector it will open to the same spot with no blue hi-lite.

In the track Edit Filter click the down arrow to select Clip Automation and Gain. Clarify

Is the Beats headphone a USB device? Are you using another device as an audio interface?

'Shift+f' is the shortcut for Fit Content. Pressing 'f' resizes tracks vertically but not horizontally.

Does NUDGE have any effect on the notes? This looks like a good use for it if it does.

It is detecting the SPLAT settings on the computer you are installing it on.

Would it work if he created a .wav file with the name of the missing audio and put it where Cakewalk is looking for it? That might stop that annoying missing audio message if nothing else.

I can reproduce that view by right-clicking and dragging the mouse cursor up or down in the area shown below. Where you right click in that area makes a big difference in how the notes display. You may have to Right-Click that area and select Fit Content for that to work.

What David Baay posted is good advice. There are only so many things that can go wrong when using the metronome so you just have to start at the beginning and go down the chain to make sure every setting is correct. That you can hear neither the audio metronome or the Midi metronome in some projects suggests that one of your settings is wrong. Maybe not, but you have to check every step to make sure. It would help if you posted screencaps of your metronome and bus settings from a project you can't hear the metronome in. This is what my default metronome settings looks like. What does yours look like? Rather than explain it, please post a screencap. It makes things a lot easier for everyone concerned. This is what my default metronome bus setting looks like. What does yours look like? To help identify the problem those settings are the first thing to check.

Sometimes it is the simplest things that vex us the most.

Right-Click the folder to get a menu and see if Lock Height is enabled. That will cause the problem you are having.

Go to this page and login to your Cakewalk account. https://www.cakewalk.com/My-Account/Products

I have never used this but Audacity has a tool called Clip Fix. "Clip Fix... attempts to reconstruct clipped regions by interpolating the lost signal. It is only likely to be effective for repairing lightly clipped audio" There are several YouTube videos showing how to do this, Here is one of them. How To Fix Audio Clipping In Audacity - Tutorial #37 Download Audacity

Yeah, I was thinking of people that don't have software that can generate noise, or tones. I got into that stuff decades ago when I was making stereo audio files to listen to while doing relaxation exercises. Years ago I read in Omni magazine that if you used headphones to listen to tones 4 Hz apart it would cause 'beats' inside the brain that facilitated relaxation, so I went through a period where I did that a lot. The concept is known as 'Binaural Beats' now. The number of cycles that the two tones are apart is supposed to have different effects on the brain. I can't vouch for any of that but it sure helped me fall asleep. Now that is something a person could do with Cakewalk.

There are plenty of audio clips of white noise on the Internet so if you can't generate your own it would be easy enough to find and download one at the desired sample rate. Here is a 40 second long, 16 bit, 48 kHz mono audio clip of white noise I made with Adobe Audition. white noise 40 seconds.wav

Measure long percussion notes? Or a measure full of shorter percussion notes? If the former, the Event Inspector can make all the selected percussion notes as short as you want. I generally use a Duration of 84 for percussion notes when I don't, or can't, use a drum map.

That clears that up. It's an interesting process. Too bad Cakewalk can't generate white noise like Adobe Audition can (which can also generate pink and brown noise). That would make it much easier.

I'm not sure I understand that. Wouldn't it be the other way around? Run white noise through a cabinet? What am I missing?

The MIDI designation of middle c is different from the middle c designated in scientific pitch notation. While the 'normal' middle c is C4, the MIDI designation is C5, or note number 60, but both are the same pitch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(musical_note)#Octave_nomenclature