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Mercury Classic Bright seems to work best for me.

Will - I can see where you got that idea in the beginning of the article, but then the article gets more specific. Here is some quotes from the article, including when to dither: https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/what-is-dithering-in-audio.html#:~:text=Dithering should always be off,bit to 16-bit). When to dither audio Dithering should always be off unless you're bouncing audio to lower bit depths. Ideally, you should only dither audio once during the final stage of audio mastering when exporting a file to a lower bit depth (e.g. from 32-bit to 24-bit, or 24-bit to 16-bit). However, almost all modern digital audio workstations operate at 32-bit floating point or higher internally, so if you’re exporting a 24-bit WAV file for mastering, you should also dither. Generally, you should only dither audio when bouncing down to 24-bits or less. You don’t have to worry about dithering if you’re exporting a 32-bit floating-point file or higher because it’s a high enough resolution that produces no audible quantization distortion. . . . Start using dithering in your digital audio Hopefully this helps you understand why dither is so crucial to digital audio, how and why it works, and when it should be applied. Now, you’ll never have to dither about dithering again. If you’re reducing bit depth, whether from 64 or 32-bit floating-point to 24-bit fixed point, or from 24-bit down to any lower fixed-point value, add dither! It will always do more good than harm. (Emphasis added.)

I am not finding what you are writing, in the article. Maybe I missed it. Here it states that one should dither when changing bit depth and almost no other time. https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/what-is-dithering-in-audio.html#:~:text=Dithering should always be off,bit to 16-bit). I do not see how recording is changing the bit depth. Maybe I am missing something here.

Did you try opening your Cwb projects in Sonar in safe mode? You might want to try that. Then add the plugins you want. I am just curious if that works.

I assume you checked your spam folder?

Thank you. Does Sonar then have the current capability of taking advantage of the the possible values of the Vidal example?

Here is an example of a piano controller that uses high resolution midi: https://playvidal.com/products/vidal Here is quote from it: "Our electronics capture hi-res MIDI, with over 16,000 velocity values where most keyboards only support 127." And my underrstanding is that Cubase allows for high resolution midi. This is from AI about Cubase: High-Resolution MIDI Velocity (MIDI 2.0): While standard MIDI 1.0 uses a 7-bit velocity value (0-127), MIDI 2.0 introduces a 16-bit velocity value, offering much finer control over dynamic expression. This means you can have 16,384 possible velocity values instead of 128, providing a much wider range for dynamic expression. Cubase 13 supports MIDI 2.0, allowing you to take advantage of this higher resolution velocity. NOTE: This seems like it would be a pain in the editing process. But maybe it is better in the capturing process.

Does Sonar do high resolution midi? (Such as velocity) If not yet, are there plans for it? Thank you!

Thank you IgoRr. The Shift did not work. But the deleting the aud.ini worked!!! Problem solved thanks to you!

Thank you. I am using a Lynx Aurora audio driver that is thunderbolt. I have been using it for several years and no problem with cakewalk/bandlab or with Sonar. I turned on the computer today, and the problem arose today, with no other changes! If I try to open a project directly, it will not work. It hangs before the opening screen where one can select drum replacer, etc.. If I try to open a new project with 4 empty tracks for example, it will not work. So, I was lucky to find out that if I open it with "no tracks or busses" the rest of the opening process occurs and everything works fine. I am wondering if there is a windows 11 audio driver that is somehow interfering with it. I will check that out next. (I.e., do I have windows selecting some other audio device?) Is there more information I can provide? Thank you so much!

Hi great people. So for some reason Sonar would not open today. I tried many different things. Finally, I was able to select "no tracks or busses" and it started working with no problem. But everytime I open Sonar now I have to do that. Otherwise it just remains stuck without fully opening. I also removed Sonar as a program and resinstalled it, but the same thing happend. Any thoughts? This is sort of a nuisance. Thank you!

I think you meant 8.5.3. By the way, I loved the look and performance of 8.5.3.

Do you have the latest version that was issued yesterday. 2025.02 Update 1 (build 31.02.0.074) The reason I am asking is that it is still 2025.02, but it is an update to it.

That is great news! And they did it so fast!

Personally, I want them to focus on stability over toys.