Bill Phillips

Thanks @57Gregy. That explains why I'd never noticed them. The whole fracas is much ado about nothing. Also, looks like @Wookee et al do as well as can be expected in responding to, tagging and removing spam.

I'm not sure what you're talking about whether it's bandlab or the forum. I don't use bandlab except to access cakewalk, but I've been an on again off again cakewalk forum user since SONAR 4. I don't recall a spam problem ever. I've been inactive for the last couple of years but I still subscribe to and read the forum emails. That's how saw your rant. I also never thought of this forum as being anything other than a way for users to support each other. I dont think of the forum as being part of a "online company" or having "social media functionality." I think of it as a support tool provided, maintained and managed (with the help of volunteer modirators) by cakewalk for cakewalk users. Maybe I'm wrong, but I hope not. Bill

I'm unfamiliar with Copilot+ PCs, but just read an article proclaiming them (laptop versions) to be "best of breed ... outperforming anything else even Apple's MacBook" which got my attention. My first question is, really? Followed by, could these laptops be used for recording and mixing? Is anyone using one.

Would just turning PC Off solve your problem?

And @Starship Krupa infrequently.

Looks like just you and me .🤫

Does anyone else use the Production Expert website for recording and mixing advice? I do and received an email from them asking me to tell my friends about the site. I subscribe to there email list and receive more or less daily emails with each addressing a single topic. On Saturdays, they feature a free plugin that, unless they are repeats, I often haven't seen elsewhere. Some of the plugin offers may be exclusive to Production Expert. Became all the "experts" use Protools, DAW specific emails are almost always about Protools. But most address common recording and mixing techniques and issues, or specific plugins which I find useful to me.

I use OD without issues but not for active Cakewalk project files. I also disabled OD backup of the Documents folder to protect plugin configuration files. Disabling OD backup of the Documents folder is a little tricky because OD really really wants to backup the Documents folder. I don't use Documents folder at all and I don't use a My Documents folder either because earlier MS versions used My Documents instead of Documents as the default documents folder and, in my case, OD has decided to backup that folder. My documents folder name is bills_docs. As stated above, many plugins use the Documents folder to store configuration variables. I have a lot of plugins so I have a large Documents folder. Cakewalk may also store some configuration variables in the Documents folder. I'm not able to check now. If OD was accessing and backing up the plugin and DAW files that live in the Documents folder, it could (and probably would) cause pops, clicks, dropouts, audio engine stops, and crashes.

If you have any of lZotope's mixing plugins or bundles, audiolens will capture the frequency profile of sections of audio from almost anywhere. I think you'll need one of iZotope's "mothership" products (Neutron, Nectar, Ozone, etc) to use it. Each of the mothtrships is a pretty sophisticated mixer channel. On the downside, they aren't cheap and they consume a lot of processing power. Also having significant OpenGL capacity in your GPU will probably improve performance.

That seems like a circle. I was a big DEC alpha fan. Even after Intel et al drove DEC out of business, I recall Compaq selling alphas for high end processor intensive applications for years after the last version became available. Seem to recall there was a single-bit alpha version that was really quick. Maybe computing would be better off today if DEC had survived.?

I'm not at my daw. So I can't verify this. But add a milliseconds ruler to the time line if it's not already there. The place a marker at the desired location (end/middle/start/etc) of the first clip. Then move the now time marker to desired location of the second sound. The distance between the two sounds is the difference between the now time marker and the placed marker. Hope this helps. It's way easier to do than describe.

That was the case for me with my achent firewire 828 mkll. MAC drivers were updated more frequently and much longer than those for Windows.

I often record audio from YouTube and other internet sources. I use either the analog, wifi or spdif Realtek stereo audio outputs to my monitor controller aux input. I then patch that to an stereo input on my analog audio interface and record that. My audio interface doesn't support loopback. So I think routing thru the monitor controller is necessary to avoid feedback.

What's the "mix recall trick? "

Ok. Got it. Thanks @sjoens and @Brad Scholz.