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I used them for a lot of equipment 20 years ago. Great operation back then. This was before they even got into guitars and such and upsized their buildings and operation. I was able to stop at the campus a year or so ago. It's something else to see the place on sight. It's like a weird mix of a college campus, recording studio , theater , a Mall and enormous warehousing.

I would say that it might depend on what scope of editing / writing etc you needed to do offline . If it was straight up editing - I would bounce out stems of tracks that are already complete and just edit a few offline - then transfer those couple of tracks back. I think going for a full project transfer would be a headache - and maybe expensive to duplicate usable VSTi's. Having some basic midi instruments - maybe just to fill out monitoring might be a good idea. I don't know if the TSS synth covers enough ground - I've only used it for a few filler tracks. Drums would probably be the most important thing to be able to keep compatible between both DAWS.

I upgraded from Sonar Pro to CbB, as said previous - leave Sonar installed and install CbB - you will need to venture into the Cakewalk core directory and possibly copy over instrument definitions and a few other things like sysex files if you have them and be sure to set the VST scan directories the same and let it scan. There's a small ton of minor program updates and stability fixes. It's pretty seamless. One test I did was to open and save a test file in CbB and then re-open the file in Sonar Pro and I found that going from a "Splat compatible file " back to Sonar Pro worked - it was backward compatible ( minus a few NEW prochannel modules). It's been smooth sailing for nearly a year. No question that's it's worth the update. The CbB deletes it's install file after the final install step - so try and capture it to save off the download. There are a few posts that describes this in the forum.

That's really cool - I never knew there was a do nothing command - and if I ever saw it, I wouldn't have had a clue could be done with it - LOL nice one.

I don't typically use heavy metal style guitars - but I do a lot track aligning. I still find that discreetly splitting tracks and manually aligning clips is the best method. The new algorithm used in elastic audio is really very good especially in the context of small clips. With that- you can stretch small segments and clips to create the often needed sustained sections. The bigger issue with heavy metal guitars is that they are typically compressed like crazy and distinguishing between stops and starts gets more difficult. Once it's done with precision though - it's pretty amazing how good a semi good track can sound. Also - there's no such thing as a real sounding guitar VST - just saying.

There is also a track view - console view sync switch.

I'm still confused as to why when first opening a project - I get a flash of the last saved window arraignment then it reverts back to whatever screen set was last saved. My preference would be to open the project as left the last time it was saved and closed. Is this a difficult task to have an option of last saved state when the project was last saved or closed? Seems as though it is saved in some fashion if it opens at that state then loads a screen set.

Craig - I never knew there was a function like that - thanks for pointing this out, probably been there for 20 years too.

I'm partial to victoria secrets adds - you know - just in case I have a say so...... but no adds here either, desktop with win 7 and firefox.

I have songs in archives that are 25 years old. I still like to bring them up and find new techniques or replace instrumentation. I'll be danged if I get through 3 passes on it and I have to close it out. They're good songs and hold up over the years - but my brain is just way to saturated on them, even after a year or two hiatus since the last listen.

Noel - thanks for that info - I've never tried to stretch multiple tracks or clips across multiple tracks simultaneously.

I haven't tried this myself - so I'm hypothesizing, I think the way to address this is to alter the tempo map. It should act as a master offset of sorts for all tracks and hopefully not alter the phase relationships.

That's really helpful - thanks, I didn't know that level of description existed.

I've encountered midi drum playback failures when the note durations were extremely short. This was using Battery on an older system though But, maybe worth looking into. I set duration's to at least 40 - 50 tics - makes them easier to see in PRV as well.

Wow - this is the first time I've heard of this type of surgery. Amazing that you were able to pull this off. I'm in a situation where I inherited a DAW from a family member that passed away. We both had pretty similar DAW set-ups and had a number of software packages duplicated. Our main DAWS of choice were different - but we both had a couple of common DAW packages. I was able to contact a couple of the software companies and able to change licensing on a few, but I don't have the capability to port over all licensing and I'm feeling stuck with an older WIN7 install - even though it operates pretty efficiently and is robust. I have never held hope that I could possibly update hardware and OS software and come out unscathed. - Your post gives me some hope - thanks.

Do all tracks have envelopes?

If - for example you needed to re-build your PC and re-install Kontakt again - would the saved patches /sample paths stay current to a project ? Does Kontact know where to look for the samples? As an aside : * Rant Warning * I'm not a big fan of Kontakt myself : though I use it often enough to keep some older libraries alive - I haven't updated in a number of years. I would rather they kept the individual libraries alive and not rolled everything into Kontakt. Sorry - I think it's very clumsy interface for many very basic things - and digging in deep is a cluster ( my opinion only.) I love Battery - it's my staple drum program ( still on battery 3 ) - and Elektric Piano - B4II - etc. I have the older Acoustic Piano selections as well which I thought was decent. I have very little use for the other 70,000 instruments in Kontakt though - and feel it's a big waste of space and an expensive cluster to keep current. Obviously I use it mainly for real instrument emulation - not much for the synthy bleeps and blorps kind of thing. The latest snag was the new requirement for me to update my video card to use Native Access. They're not making more money from me because of simple basic backward compatibility issues.

I think when you see the * : that means the project has changed in some way. Saving a scene does alter the project.

Well absolutely - never question that.

https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3 This works 95% of the time for me, The occasional video helps to direct me to my general questions - but often does not cover the specific thing I'm looking for. The answer is D : All of the above.

You probably re-set the sample rate by re-initializing the interface.

Thanks for the lesson / tip. Most appreciated.

Excellent - thank you . Do you know if there are any headaches to switch wrappers? I'm pretty sure I'm running bitbridge and may have uninstalled J-bridge by accident some months back. I'll see if I can find the J-bridge installer - ( hope it's named something recognizable )

Anyone know how I can check which wrapper is being used? I have a DAW that was inherited - and I don't have all the details and minutia for what was installed and being used regarding plug wrappers. Is J-bridge integrated with the CbB install ? and used by default?

twas one of my old time favorites when it first came out.