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Right. The old web site was shut down years ago. There's nobody there to answer your emails. The new Bandlab/Cakewalk/Sonar team are pretty good about helping folks get reconnected to their old software.

The Sound Canvas VA is a soft synth, but is no longer available since late 2024, according to Roland's web site.

I have seen other posts about looking for a replacement for TTS-1, including the Sound Canvas. I'll check it out. I think John Vere has moved on to another program but he may still check in here.

That has to be deliberate.

USB cable?

Same boat here, but I'm a lightweight. I can probably afford a reconditioned W11 PC when the time comes. This one I got from a large retail chain whose name begins with wal for less than $100 last year. It's a W10 box and runs my simple projects effortlessly.

"Confusing Coffee". Great name for a band. 😁

I think you could open the project in, say, Cakewalk Home Studio, set up your views as you want them using the older Track Manager, then see if the changes persist when opening the project in Cakewalk Sonar.

At one point, John Vere removed most of his videos in order to re-do them. Or maybe he lost interest?

You can Ctrl Drag the first melody clip to the required number of MIDI tracks then manually adjust the notes to harmonize with the first or use the Transpose MIDI plug-in to change the harmony tracks.

If your synths have the keyboard icon on them, click that and see if it's what you want.

Bounce to Track.

Sometimes I'm glad my hearing is so bad. I couldn't tell a bad-sounding DAW from a good one if you offered me a million bucks.

BS is always contentious. Probably written by AI.

How did you "put the two parts" into Cakewalk? If by using a cord from the Zoom to your computer sound card or audio interface and recording that into audio tracks in Cakewalk, then you need to select a mono input instead of a stereo input in Cakewalk before recording.

It boggles the mind how folks think that because they have some whizz-bang computer with 83 billion bigabytes of memory and all the latest geegaws and whoosits that things can't go wrong. And that wrong thing could have been avoided with a little safekeeping and housecleaning. Once recording is done. save an uneffected copy of the project. Add soft synths, effects to the original, edit, adjust, bounce and archive, delete the synths and effects, then save. Or freeze, if that's your preference. I just like to get unneeded stuff out of the way. Hide archived tracks, use folders for similar tracks. An all-audio track will always be able to be used in any audio editing app or DAW if the VSTs have been baked into the track already and you won't need to worry if that VST reverb you bought in 2009 will still open in your (different) DAW 17 years later. But I can commiserate with the OP about not being able to finish this epic work and am glad that he and Noel have probably found the culprit and work can continue.

Get the free Sonar and don't worry, be happy.

Get the free version of Sonar and stop worrying.

If the recording part is finished, bounce it all to an audio track and open in in another project and experiment with 'Process>Length' to get an idea how fast you/they want it. If there are no glaring artifacts, you can use that length-adjusted track as the single. Easy as pie.

Have you tried activating from the Help menu at the top of the CbB screen? For what it's worth, today (July 31, 2025) is the absolute last day for Cakewalk by Bandlab. It can never be activated after that date. You can try saving in an earlier Cakewalk program you may already own (SONAR Platinum, SONAR Home Studio, Cakewalk Music Creator, SONAR X1, X2, X3, etc.) or purchase the new Cakewalk Sonar, or the limited Cakewalk Sonar Free Tier, which, as the name implies, is free.

"I don't need no steenkeeng ground wire". Took a trip back to the 20th century this week, installing an exterior TV antenna since I disconnected myself from that non-Direct satellite service. The instructions stressed grounding the aerial for safety, and I may get to it later. For now, I'm at risk of getting fried by lightning, I can hear the thunder approaching. I decided that if the guys upstairs have a problem with me, there's nothing I can do about it. If lightning can snake its way past the thousands of 75'-100' trees around here to hit my antenna, then I'm dead and/or all my electrical devices are dead. Wish me luck!

This is not new information.

I think you upload the file to a sharing service like Dropbox and PM the link to the interested party.

Whenever I encounter a track I can't record on (rarely*), I move to another track which does work. At some point, the other one starts working correctly.** *I say rarely because it's been several years since it has occurred here. **In previous Cakewalk programs, NOT Cakewalk Sonar.

I'm curious to know what would happen if you grabbed the right edge of the track pane and dragged it all the way to the left and back again?