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Wookiee, hope you are well ! . . . you fluctuate between jazz and rock in a very interesting way in this one, it's enjoyable to listen to, and well mixed . . . though, the opening description you offer is questionable: "Oddly Unimaginative Two Noise makers used A keys thing Another keys thing Yet Another Key thing Hit skins and metal whatsit . . ." Well, perhaps you may need to take a marketing course or something ?

Hi Mark . . . this is a great listen ! Lots of amazing playing on your different instruments . . . weaponized nicely (: Now, I don't know the song at all . . . but a great song you've chosen to cover here . . . only thing I wonder about mix wise is the Ibanez bass you mention, I don't really here it very much filling in the bottom, you've mixed that very subtle. Sounds like you may replace it with an upright bass anyways ?, but thought I would mention the lack of low end I was "expecting" to hear. Great stuff as always !

Hi Folks . . . something new, where I attempt to tell a story, this one inspired by a fellow at my workplace, who migrated here with his family from Ukraine, a few years ago . . .

Not familiar with Naked Head Clubs, more up on the Fuzzy Grey Club . . . but agreed, the install should create that directory . . . so, the question would be why it didn't after running the plugin install at least twice on my computer ? Maybe everyone else here has newer computers.

No, that directory did not exist for me . . . perhaps I'm guilty of having every version of Sonar installed since Sonar 8 living on my 14 year old computer.

@Noel Borthwick . . . Hi Noel . . . I am running Sonar with BandLab membership. Here's what I did: Opened Sonar, noticed the update, installed it . . . went to Cakewalk Product Center, it made me run an update . . . installed the new plugins . . . did a sandbox VST scan . . . the new plugs did not show up in Cakewalk Plugin-manager . . . the directory in your install instructions (C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\Cakewalk\Core\) does not exist on my computer, and is therefore not in my VST scan path . . . created that folder . . . added it to my VST scan path . . . went to my downloads folder and ran the latest Sonar update installer again, after that, noticed the new plugins needed to be installed again from Cakewalk Product Center, installed again, did another sandbox VST scan, still no plugins in Cakewalk Plugin-manager . . . noticed your instruction said you needed to login to your BandLab account from within Sonar . . . tried that, still no joy . . . . did a complete VST scan (this took the longest), restarted the computer, opened Sonar, and they finally appeared, and are installed to the directory C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\Cakewalk\Core\ If you can do this "addon takes seconds" in seconds . . . my hat is off to you:)

Great update to those old and still useful DX plugs ! Much appreciation bakers !! I found the install of these very unfriendly, tried to follow all the steps, and read the criterion . . . but should it take 45 minutes to get them working ? Once working (I haven't spent any time actually using them yet) . . . I immediately noticed only a few of these new VST3 plugins are resizable by dragging out from the bottom corners ? The compressor and gate ones do this, but not the rest of them . . . just wondering if there is a reason why not ?

Yikes . . . Sonar X3 was over 10 years ago, and I'm guessing you didn't have the Auto Save feature enabled . . . when you say all the hits are still there, are you saying the midi track (hits) are still there ? Is this inserted as an instrument track ? . . . maybe you could split the track back to audio + midi, and see if anything is there . . . but if you deleted the midi, it may well be gone.

One of my favourite synth plugins Omnisphere is a VST2 . . . Omnisphere 2 which is VST3 costs $500 . . . that's a big reason for me.

This is something that has disrupted my work flow in Cakewalk for many many years, to the point where I had to create a keyboard shortcut to escape this. (I think I recall other threads suggesting we need a way to turn this off, but they never got much traction) THE ISSUE: You click on the time ruler, perhaps you want to go to a certain point and playback from there . . . or, it's handy to go to the time ruler and drag the mouse to zoom the project out horizontally . . . maybe you want to drag a section and loop playback to work on a certain section. Afterall, the time ruler is less than 1/4" high on my screen . . . so, if you miss the mark by 1/8" and click near the top of the time ruler, it automatically selects a whole section (on all tracks . . . between the markers) . . . this is something I hardly ever want to do, and find it annoying to always have to escape or cancel all the time when editing. Good god, it's 2025, isn't there a way to turn off the top part of the time ruler selection ? If there is a way, please let me know . . . if there is no way to turn it off . . . just move me to "feature requests"

Bye the way, love what you've done with Track manager, quite the nice facelift . . . great work !

Sonar Free Tier ? . . . So, if I get what you're saying here correctly, is I could cancel my monthly subscription of BandLab Membership if I don't ever intend to use the Plugin Oversampling, Track Manager, Jump-to-Track, Elastique Pro stretch mode, POWR Dithering features, BandLab sounds, or more than one Arranger Track ? Seems too good to be true. In fact, I do use a few of these features, but perhaps only occasionally . . . can we opt back into subscription when we need to use them, then pop back out after mix is exported ? Just had to ask

@SUPAREELS . . . mission accomplished, much fun was had by me too ! Kind of Monty Python for me, "and now for something completely different" . . . yes, very different for you . . . did it feel good to step outside your normal for a bit ? Now I'll just find it hard to go back to that dramatic song I was working on . . . but thanks for the lighthearted break

Most legacy users moved onto the free version of "Cakewalk by BandLab", or use new "Sonar" with the subscription. Your best bet to re-activate your Sonar 2015 version would be to reach out to Cakewalk support. Also, I think you can still install Cakewalk by BandLab (free), which is miles ahead of 2015 anyways. 2015 is the Gibson era, and they are long gone as an owner.

Mark, seems you've already tried a lot of things. How old is your SSD drive ? If one of the tracks you've recorded is corrupted, it won't reach out and tell you . . . only way might be to run "chkdsk /f" from the command line to try a repair. Do you have any external devices plugged in to the laptop, like a USB back up drive, which may cause system interrupts ? Even possible one of your drivers might have a problem. Look in Device Manager for yellow caution signs, or Event Viewer system logs for driver related errors. Hope you get it sorted, want to hear this new tune soon !