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And Cubase does not. Because it is not mastering software like Wavelab, even though the same company.

Why not 64gb and play it safe. I use quite a few sample libraries and I am using 96gb with two sticks. Generally avoid 4 sticks.

I hear you. And yes it would be great if it was at least 88 keys. I was hoping that one of the piano VSTs might be useful to trigger other sounds perhaps on another inserted track. I have not tried it myself, at least not intentionally!

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Of course "apply trimming" can be found by right clicking on a clip (and I believe when selecting multiple clips or even the selecting all clips thought i have not tried it lately). I am so accustomed to doing that way, that I never thought about adding it to the custom module. It would be interesting to know what the most common custom module figurations are.

This topic has been discussed quite a bit. The Bakers are well aware of this issue. Some patience is required. I do not want them to rush it so much that it messes with the audio engine or anything like that. They are super people, so I am optimistic.

I am really sorry you are going through this and I pray that your health issues go away. You might try a private message to some of the Bakers here and see if something can be arranged fir assistance. They are good people.

You do not have to pay for 15gb of google drive. And perhaps even the free version of dropbox will work as long as the file is under 2gb. Good luck with all this. Please let us know if you need more help with this.

Of course, for location recording, one can also record to a field recorder, like a sonosax, nagra, sound devices, Tascam hs-p82 which I own, etc., then load the files into a Daw for further processing and mixing. Many field recorders are super quiet.

What is your budget? There are so many options. And the type of ports on the laptop will help as well. As to the noise of a laptop, it depends on what you are doing. For instance, if I am doing remote work, I use a laptop and let's say I am recording a choir - I could have 50 foot mic cables and plenty of distance to where the sound of the laptop does not reasonably show up in the recording (let alone the HVAC system being picked up.) But if this is a home studio, a desktop makes more sense and is likely to provide better performance all around for the money. (In my situation, I even have the desktop in another room, with monitor cables, mouse cable and keyboard cable going into the studio space. That way I could careless how loud the fans are, have a lot of them running and have a powerful CPU going without high temps. There are so many factors at play here.

They went to vector graphics on Sonar which includes such features as "scaleability.." That was quite an overhaul. The Bakers have indicated that they are working on more color flexibility. So we need some patience here. If you do a search on this forum, you will find quite a few posts about the vector graphics.

Are you using any plugins? I had a plugin that would do that to me.

I understand. But continually putting large files on your C drive that can easily be saved to a non-operating system drive is still recommended from sources I have read. You want to have optimal health for your system drive. And by the way, it is also a good idea to have the stored files that are important on more than one secondary drive. (Some people even have cloud storage as a backup as well.)

Isn't your "alternate" option preferable, so that the the C drive with the 0/S does not get large files on it on a regular basis? That was defintely true years ago, but I am not sure that is still the preferable situation.

BTW, I would not save to a C drive that has the operating system on it. I hope your problem gets solved.

Interesting. I thought one of the benefits of the paid version was access to the Bandlab samples. Maybe it is more extensive in the paid version?

I do not know if this is helpful, but here is a link regarding free instrument VSTS: https://blog.landr.com/free-vst-plugins/#bestfreeinstrumentplugins

If you want to process audio separately, a separate audio track can be added as well which points to a drum vst. For instance, you might want to add some reverb on the snare but not on the kick. You might want to eq the kick and snare differently, etc.

Probably so. I think many of us are grateful for Meng saving this sofware program when things looked really grim some years ago. And then he did not charge for CbB for quite a few years. And then he made a free Sonar available. So, I think we have to acknowledge all the great things Meng has done and hope he wants to devote resources into improving the visual/graphic issues. There have been posts from the Bakers about how this is a work in progress and others have chimed in about patience. Overall, I am optimistic. We are dealing with a lot of great people.

I might be the one who mentioned the marker size before! And by the way, I am a happy Sonar user and highly recommend it to anyone. I patiently await improvements on the color possibilities, though frankly waiting is not difficult for me as it is not an urgent need of mine. I do however empathize with others that write about it. As to the best marker solution, I bet the Bakers come up with something! And I can wait for that too!

Maybe this color and customization issue should be a sticky on this forum perhaps with a summary of what can currently be done and what is likely to be developed in the future. Obviously, the Bakers must be aware of this issue with so many posts about it. And obviously it was important at one time since there was a theme editor, etc. I do trust that improvements on this will happen in the future. As for me, my biggest issue is the little print on the markers, which I have brought up before on this forum. I am hoping they will develop a way to make that print larger or create something so if the mouse hovers over the marker, a popup with larger print occurs.

This is interesting. I have never used snap to scale. I need to check it out. I can see where people can differ about these heavy black lines. Personally, they seem sort of helpful in knowing what notes are not subject to the snapping.

I found this post that lists some of the differences. Maybe it is helpful. You need to click on it to see the full post with a chart.

There is at least one thread here with information about what you get with the subsciptions Sonar versus the free Sonar. Which to choose really depends on whether you want all the features in the paid Sonar. Maybe someone will provide a link with a list of the difference.

Yes!