Mark Morgon-Shaw

Per Track Undo sounds like a logistical nightmare, how would you remember the undo state of every track/buss and what happens when you need to globally undo something? For phase aligning multi miked drums it's easier to use a plugin such as Waves InPhase as you're adjusting things inside plugin and not editing the track which makes easier to bypass or change after the fact.

I had the same complaint when we moved from Sonar 8.5 to X1 - I don't recall the % change but less track and few mixer channels fitted on the screen.

Yes it's very useful when using Orchestral libraries. I don't see it in the new Sonar though ? Edit : Oh it's in the articulations rather than at track level. Interesting

Interesting. I have 2 identical 24" Dell screens so I've had it side by side and CbB is definitely easier on the eyes. Cripser, more contrast - better demarcation between items. Whether that's just design choices or other more technical reasons I don't know. I just call it as I see it.

From reading through all the posts the people with 4k monitors seem happier than those without. I am very happy to hear about the Classic Themes though.

Can you please do the same for Mercury too.

I think what many are complaining about is that it's harder to use. Less clear, not as sharp , more washed out, less contrast with strange icon / button choices. I understand that under the hood there are big benefits but we still have to use it and it still looks like a visual downgrade from the free product for many users.

A great mix on speakers will usually translate well to headphones A mix that sounds great on headphones can often sound unbalanced when heard on speakers ( but that's not to say you can't learn them ) There are lots of reasons why this is the case, some of them are to do with having a driver so close to our ear drums and the individual shape of our ear canals. This can skew the frequency response but is somewhat negated by using speakers as there is more air in between you and the source, some of it is to do with how frequencies combine from each side before they reach our ears which you don't get unless your headphones/controller has a crosstalk feature. Some of it is to do with how quickly ear fatigue sets in which is as much a psycho-acoustic phenomana as anything. There's no one size fits all solution, some people can't have speakers in the enviromnent they mix in and if a room is poorly treated it may actually be better to take the room of the equation and use cans. Personally I would rather mix on proper studio monitors, but my room is well treated and relatively flat so I know it will translate well but my 2nd reference are a set of Slate VSX headphones which can convincingly emulate a number of different listening environments including various headphone types, earbuds etc My best mixes will sound good across all of these emulations so no matter where it gets played you know it will sound as you intended. This quote from SOS mag sums it best for me. https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/mixing-on-headphones-pro-perspective

No, still a missing feature - It won't be added to CbB as that's it now. You will have to hope it gets added to Sonar ( or change DAW )

They will because kids now have grown up with Google and Youtube and social media, they can easily find free stuff . Trust me I have 3 kids aged 15 -22 . This stuff comes naturally to them. When I started out the only way you found out stuff was by reading Sound On Sound magazine as there was no internet. There is more funtionality in the Pro-Channel alone than I had in my first studio, plus there are hundreds of free plugins literally. I don't think we need to bloat the installer with even more. Nope. When I started out I had hardware synths and FX units and Cakewalk was just a sequencer which I slaved to my ADAT. Then I got Waves once I got a PC that was fast enough to handle audio plugins, so I never really used anything bundled as it was not very good compared to other stuff I had at the time. Z3ta was pretty good when it came out but other than that I've not really used any bundled stuff.

IDK , I mean if they are free then why not just let people that want want them go downlod them directly. I've got hundreds of plugins both free and paid , I don't really want a bunch of extras - I hardly ever use any of the bundled stuff.

No

Was filling in a survey and surprised to see Cakewalk not even mentioned in the survey list. Surely there must be a huge user base, I can't see a DAW like Bitwig having more users than Cakewalk. Part of me thinks because it's been free for 5yrs it's been marginalised to the extent we are considered also-rans. I hope this changes when the new Sonar is released. My controller keybaord for example has presets for most DAWs except Cakewalk which is annoying.

@RexRed

Crikey ! That is really wide, don't think I could cope with the curve personally ? - Glad you like it though. Are you using the 2 Octave keyboard to activate keyswitches ? I have one sat around that used to be my main keyboard back in teh day but I migrated to 61 keys As I've gradually gotten into Kontakt I was thinking if I could use it for that purpose

I'm all in - Do we get a bounty if we find any bugs ?

Hopefully the new console view will be more flexible with the move to a vector based GUI - In theory you should be able to have it re-size iteslf tto best fit the screen / window. I have 3 but I use them all in landscape. You have made me wonder if I should the two smaller ones on the outise it portait mode like you have them Obviously it's a more natural fit for documents, I'm wondering if there is any benefit with things like Kontakt that I use a lot

I have a template now with it set but sometimes I don't use that template and forget

When can we buy such a thing ! ? ( or at least Beta Test it )

I can agree that a more fully featured Track Manager that can be docked etc if you wish would be an improvement

That sounds like the Track Manager ? ( Press H )

I think it's just a case of applying so much heavy correction that it starts to sound screwy. Best to use any of these tools sparingly and finesse it manually, but If you use it on auto with a high degree of processing there will inevitably be unwanted side effects and weird artifacts.

Woohoo..got there in the end

Then Rexred's YT channel might have found a new audience member.

Yeah it doesn't dock the left which would be more flexible I looked into ultrawides last time I did a monitor upgrade and I decided against it precisely because I figured I might run into issues like these and I went with 2 x 24" individual monitors with small bezels so it would be easier to snap individual windows into place against the edges ( and I had to watch a video on the windows snap feature lol which actually works well once you know how to drive it ) - I don't use screensets BTW as I find just snapping things quicker and less cumbersome but I might re-look at this in new Sonar with it's new vector GUI. The reason I mention all of this is because when I was looking at ultrawides some of them mentioned having software so you could split them up into zones and have 2 or 3 virtual monitors on one screen. So I am wondering if this might be an option for you to set it up how you want by dividing up the screen up and then setting up your screensets and maybe in the new Sonar we will have more flexibilty due to the overhauled GUI.