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Exactly. Thank you.

If I edit the gain of a clip by using the edit function and changing the gain, or if do it by changing the volume envelope, is the result the same or different in terms of audio quality? Thank you.

Is Cakewalk the Rodney Dangerfield of DAW's? ? Seriously, as long as Cakewalk has enough people and revenue to be sustainable, I am happy.

How do you do your Manual Offset?

See my post below with the quote. Thank you.

I remember that Mike Oldfield, sometimes called the master of overdub or something like that, did so many overdubs on one reel of tape that he had to toss the whole thing out. Would not have with Cakewalk!

I understand that the text in markers cannot be made larger. I am wondering if this is something that can be look at in the Sonar version coming out? Does anyone else really care? Should I just get a better magnifying glass? ? To be clear, I LOVE CAKEWALK, and this is a minor issue and in no ways impacts my desire for the product. But it still would be nice to be able to enlarge the text.

Can one make the writing in markers bigger? It is often difficult for me to see.

Yes to payment choices!

I do not know how anything can last forever in its currect state when operating systems will obviously be changed from time to time. Eventually, the Cwb version will be problematic as it will no longer be updated. Therefore, it makes sense to have a version of Cakewalk that will be updated as needed. For me, that is Cakewalk Sonar. I suspect this will all be for the good.

Can anyone indicate whether Cakewalk Sonar will have an easier way of developing themes (color assignments), perhaps even more preset choices of themes? And hopefully a preset theme on the "lighter" side like one I found in 8.5.3. Thank you!

I do not think the price should be so high as to weed out people. It needs to be a high enough price that makes it sustainable for the Owner but also a low enough price so there is a critical mass of users.

As long as it is a reasonable fee, does not lose current features, and as long as it helps the sustainable of Cakewalk for a long, long time, I am very happy.

Yes. We are still at the baby stage of digital communication, and it tends to sound harsher than in person conversations (or even telephone). Fortunately, on this cakewalk forum, people are almost always very respectful to each other and it is not an issue. And people like the OP who seek an apology are high on my list as great people here.

If Cakewalk by Bandlab needs more money to continue, and it results in some fees for updates, or something, I am happy to pay a reasonable amount. I do not want to go through that awful period again when Cakewalk had no sponsor until Bandlab saved it. So, Bandlab, please do what is reasonable to make this a sustainable product.

Nice to know I am not in the boat alone. I have twenty years plus worth of files that I still need to access. So, I am grateful for all these bakers do. I have tried other DAWS, but nothing beats Cakewalk for me.

I check everyday as well and sometimes more than once a day. This forum is saved as a favorite on my bookmarks bar. No pressure though on the bakers, as I am glad they are taking the time needed. I an grateful for what I have.

The important thing is to get to know your speakers. Check out your mixes in cars, headphones, whatever your audience is likely to listen to music on. And get to know how your speakers translate. Example: Are your speakers bass starved for instance, and then you find out that there is a lot more bass on the headphones or elsewhere? Or the opposite? This is one of many examples. Once you really get to know your speakers, they can be great. There are a lot of great speaker choices out there from relatively inexpensive to expensive. Yamaha HS8 on the more inexpensive side. I like the Zen Pro Audio mod on those speakers. I mostly use Adam S3H and am very happy with those. Enjoy!

In the old days I liked the idea of mixing midi instruments without putting them on tape first. So I had a tape deck with vocals, drums, and the like synced to the computer, with the midi instruments triggered by Master Tracks Pro. The mixdown deck was originally tape, but then changed to DAT, and now a computer. Anyway, when I wanted a DAW, I still had this idea in mind (i.e. not recording the midi instruments into tracks), and Cakewalk seems like the most obvious choice because it was so great with Midi. Anyway, I can still open up Cakewalk files from a couple of decades ago, with the latest revision (and earler revisions as well.) Now that DAWs can handle so many tracks, perhaps it is wise to record all those midi instruments into tracks. And I have tried other DAWs throughout the years, and Cakewalk is the winner by a longshot for me. And this forum helps as well!

Thank you. I wonder which one I used by default! Guess I will have to check because it did sound good. Here is the nice listing of choices in the documentation link you provided above: Offline. This drop-down menu lets you choose the algorithm that is used when you export or freeze stretched audio. The choices in the drop-down menu are as follows: Radius Mix. Better for clips containing polyphonic, stereo data. Radius Mix Advanced. Similar to Radius Mix, but exposes Radius Pitch Coherence and Radius Phase Coherence sliders in Edit > Preferences > Audio - Playback and Recording. Radius Solo. Better for clips containing monophonic, solo instruments. Radius Solo (Bass). Better for clips containing solo bass instruments. Radius Solo (Vocal). Better for clips containing solo vocals. Elastique Pro. Elastique Pro is a general purpose high quality time-stretching engine that fulfills the demands of professional productions and broadcast applications. It minimizes stretching artifacts, offers stable timing, inter-channel phase coherence and sample accurate stretching which allows for sharp transients and crystal clear vocals. Elastique Efficient. Elastique Efficient gives you similar time-stretching quality as Elastique Pro, but with a lower CPU hit. The algorithm is targeted at complex polyphonic signals like complete mixes and offers the same transient preservation as Elastique Pro. Same as Online. Uses the same choice as the Online field.

They are working on it. It will be significant. It is covered in another thread.

I wonder if I have not phrased the question well. Otherwise, if someone knows what Cakewalk uses to change the audio when the audio changes to follow a new tempo using the clips follow tempo setting, please let me know. Thank you!

Greetings: I arranged to have my clips follow the project. I changed the tempo of the project a little bit slower. The clips exhibited the tempo change within very little audio quality loss. But this worked a lot quicker than when I change duration by applying Elastique Pro, for instance, which ends up changing the tempo by stretching or reducing the clips with that. So, I am wondering, what does Cakewalk use when the methods of having clips follow the project, changing the tempo map, and the clips exhibit that change? Is it Elastique or something else? Thank you!

I received Emotional Cello through them and everything seems good.

rayray - Wishing you great success! As to the bass part that has a problem but not in another section. Is the tempo identical in both parts? Are both parts identical except for the bass flaw? Sometimes the great part can be copied and pasted into the bad part. There are other variables though that can affect this, including what is before and after the part so it does not stick out as some abrupt action, and there are ways around that too! Of course if the bass is on a totally separate track, cutting and pasting a good bass note in the song over the bad bass note, works as well.