Mark Morgon-Shaw

Very entertaining post !

Agree, haven't used 'em in 20 yrs when I had a hardware drum machine There are so many more options now for making beats, what I would also like is to be able to collapse the PRV and show only notes used in a kit

Good idea, you could possibly add it to the Browser or Inspector maybe ?

Haha yeah , makes ROFL at all the Intel fanboys on here warning against using AMD

OP - Try Floatplane instead

I used to run CBB as Administrator ( as recommended on some audio forums ) but it prevented a plugin called Captain Keys from performing the same drag & drop midi operation. Might be worth looking into.

If you read any of the articles in SOS from these big name pro producers , there's often compression on the way in when it's recording , then one or two at the track level , then also on the master buss and then it gets mastered.

Many highly regarded mixers use a compressor on the 2buss. I use two on mine and a limiter and sometimes a MB limiter so I guess you can call that 3 or for layers of compression on the Master Buss. I think where most amateur mixers go wrong is piling too much of it on, it's more like a coat of varnish to add little vibe & thickness not necessarily squash all the dynamics the mix. Some compressors add a nice tone even if they aren't compressing. So they are more like an effect / fairy dust than a means of level control.

The reason it sounds different on each set of earbuds / speakers is because you have mixed it on equipment that does not sound flat enough. This is why we spend not insubstantial amounts of money on quality monitoring and acoustic room treatment. So that when mixes leave our own speakers they still sound good on others. It can be a long and expensive road to get your equipment and mixing skills up to broadcast quality, thankfully it's cheaper now than ever. But you still gotta invest.

What ? I think the Multidock is great, I keep it full screen on my 2nd monitor with always open Console and PRV etc.

Use Ryzen master to run a stress test. According to mine the the temp limit on my AMD CPU is 95 degrees C Stress test took it to 76. Normal heavy Cakewalk project temp is hovering around the mid 50's ..that's with the stock air cooler and no o/c CBB doesn't cause the temps to ramp up especially

One for my Streamdeck then..cheers

I tell you what I'd find useful ( and I am half hoping someone will tell me it can already be done ) A quick way of duplicating midi notes either an octave above or below the current selection. I know you can select and CTRL-SHFT and move the mouse up or down 12 semitones to do it but just a single press of a key or two would be great. This is especially handy when you are working with orchestral parts as you quite often double them in the arrangement.

Oh and...what's a CD Grandad ?

I asked the same somewhere around these parts, apparently you can't because the ASIO buffer settings are outside of Cakewalk ( and other DAWs ) control..all it does is launch your ASIO software when you change the buffer size in Preferences. I don't even bother changing it within Cakewalk any more, I just go straight to my audio interface's asio settings in the systray and Cakewalk jseems to deal with it.

You never own software, you licence it

Yes it would be a pretty major overhaul but with the resolution of monitors now available and competing DAWs having this , I think it's a worthwhile investment of Dev time

I don't see a distinction , it's all just a means to an end

Download Latency Mon https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon Run the test for awhile and see if the crackling is caused by DPC spikes - If it is you can start eliminating things by seeing which drivers are misbehaving

Previous requests for a vector based GUI would allow this

https://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/amd_ryzen_5_3600_review/11

I skipped the entire X series and Platinum so for me I went up to Sonar 8.5 , used it for a decade and then direct to CBB ( not only do I think I was on a better version of the DAW for most of that time but I saved a lot of money too )

Lucky escape

I would like them destructively merged into one clip ( if I didn't I'd insert another midi track to trigger the same instrument ) but I think this is a good solution you have suggested.

I hate the way they end up in separate clips now. Why would you want fragmented clips all over the place for the same instrument part ? Maybe it's just my playing that sucks but I son't always get it in one pass and some things are easier done in two or three passes It's just another added step having to bounce them all to one afterwards - I'm sure this never used to happen, and that they would all just automatically merge into one clip. ? Or am I going nuts ?