Sidney Earl Goodroe

There are some great ideas here!! Let's hope Noel and the gang have started the wheels turning in their heads.

Hi, John! I think you may have misunderstood me! I was not talking about adding a forum here. I was thinking that if CbB becomes deadware after 6 months or so, they could archive the CbB forum and replace it with a Sonar Free forum instead! It doesn't make sense to me to keep a forum for a product that is no longer downloadable or in fact no longer is operational! Just a thought!

Just seems to make sense that if we had a CbB forum, there would be a place for the newbies and users of SF! I would think it would keep the clutter down in the paid SF forum. Also, I think it would be easier to find your response or question without having to dig thru everyone else's in the paid users! Just a suggestion! Would be a nice gesture to potential subscribers as well.

I do not mean to give the impression that the older versions designed for antique OSs would be useable in Windows 10 or 11. I was simply referring to the really old versions could be activated without allowing the hookup for registration. You could simply cancel the connection and Sonar would activate from the key code. Sorry, if I missed anyone!

I have Platinum and X3 still on my drive simply for the available plugins to use in CbB and now Sonar Free. I also kept all the add-on plugins! I also have every version of Cake products from Pro Audio 9 up until Gibson buried it! Along with the registration keys! It is possible to reinstall those older versions with just the key codes, no hooking to the dead server to register. I have all the add-on plugins as well! When Gibson put us out to pasture, I immediately went to my account and backed up everything there! What was not there is maintained on the original disc! I feel like a museum director!!

I uninstalled CbB and all the projects on a usb external HD, would not automatically open from the HD shortcut because I had forgotten to set those projects to be opened be Sonar Free! I had to reinstall CbB and set those projects to be opened by Free before they would open again!! As of now, I have left CbB installed, wondering is it safe to uninstall it now. CbB is not a large program spacewise, but I don't see any reason to keep "Deadware" on my system! BE CAREFUL!!

I would suggest checking your task manager and what processes are running!! I woke up last week to CbB maxing out the cpu meters at 100% across the board!! It turned out that after checking the task manager, I found that somehow , Windows had installed an update for a Hewlett-Packard printer that was eating my cpu alive. I had not used the printer in several years, but somehow the HP update was installed and was creating all kinds of chaos!! I deleted the printer software and everything returned to normal!!! Never saw anything like it and can't understand how that update got in there!

Thanks! Checked my folder and already have it! Sorry!! But thanks for your help.

Instructions aren't clear to me! Do I enter FREE in the discount code box? Or do they automatically take off the $139 price after you complete the purchase? My card can't take that big of a mistake!!!

I have a fellow musician who is blind. He has used JAWS for many years! He recently had someone suggest a reader program called NVDA! It's FREE!! https://www.nvaccess.org/download/ He seems to be very enthusiastic about it! Might be worth a try!

Seems like a revamped version of MasterDesk!

I have done commercialy released cds, radio commercial projects, video soundtracks, and on and on with those Rolands and no one has ever said anything about not having pro quality results! I have mastered tracks for a music hall of fame producer and he liked the results so much, he wouldn't use anyone but me to do all his mastering for the past 12 years! Yes, there are more advanced interfaces out there but these things have held their own.

I bought 2 Studio-Captures in 2013 and they worked even synced together with absolutely no problems for about 6 years until they both developed a problem with the power supply boards internally!!! Still have them with the intention of having them repaired but it was cheaper to buy replacement on ebay! It's still purring along with no hiccups!!

Try reducing velocity in certain points, such as, velocity reduced on verses and slightly increased for chorus and middle sections or during solos! This technique can bring a bit more character to the entire song! Try this with all instruments, not just the drums! Dynamics are the very soul of music!

IMO, good call on Surge! I don't actually do a lot of projects using synths in the box, but I have played around with Zeta quite a bit over the years. Surge XT is a beast! BEWARE! There will be quite a learning curve involved but it would be well worth it!