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If the option is enabled the clips are physically copied during the save. If the option is disabled the clips are not copied but the new project/template refers to the original audio clips. This allows the user to have a pool of audio clips or keep the clips separate for each project.

Pretty sure the early access version of Cakewalk Web Installer should let you reinstall all the add-ons. Unlike BA, it does not keep track of what has been installed.

Make sure Allow Only One Open Project at a Time is deselected

Could open a second project and use it as a clipboard.

In this case there are still two clips in different lanes. Notice how the clip that was moved obscures the other clip. If the clips were actually merged both clips data would show in the parent track.

Bounce to Clip(s)

Having an old Cakewalk SSO account does not help with the search for SONAR 8.5 software unless one has SONAR 8 disks. SONAR 8.5 was the first downloadable upgrade, however; the download is not a complete version of the DAW. The download contains only the files needed to upgrade an existing SONAR 8 install. The installer will not run if SONAR 8 is not installed. The upgrade on disk like all previous upgrades was a complete version. The first complete downloadable upgrade was SONAR X1.

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Maybe this is what you are a thinking of Also both Quantize and Velocity MFX plug-ins have a randomizing function (click F1 when the plug-ins have focus to bring up their help pages) There is also at least one humanizing CAL script. And there is a commercial humanizing plug-in available in Frank's MIDI Plug-Ins. Another commercial plug-in NTONYX Style Enhancer Micro includes styles for drums. I have not messed around much with randomizing MIDI in this way.

Yes The reason ASIO4All and other generic ASIO drivers were written and still exist are to run software that only support ASIO with hardware that have no ASIO driver or a poorly written ASIO driver. All generic ASIO "drivers" including ASIO4All are wrappers for the native Windows drivers. They present the native Windows driver to the DAW as if they were ASIO drivers. In the case where a working manufacturer supplied driver is available, ASIO4All is unnecessary and may cause problems. When no ASIO driver is available (for example entry level Behringer interfaces that ship with ASIO4All) or the driver is not suitable for DAW use (for example the RealTek ASIO driver) CbB can use native WASAPI and WDM Windows drivers.

https://help.cakewalk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021666254-I-used-Cakewalk-a-long-time-ago-but-now-Cakewalk-com-says-account-creation-is-disabled-

This has a way of self correcting. For quite a while I had to deal with $75 vouchers and was glad when I got a $50 vouchers again. Expecting $25 vouchers sometime in the future.

If the projects have the same number of tracks have a look at Mix Recall. Saved scenes may be copied between project. Creating project templates from a populated project does not require Try this: Save the project Select all tracks and wipe Save Copy As new template Undo wipe (or reload project) Continue editing project OR forget about project templates entirely. Instead, to start a new project use an existing project and Save As new project without "Copy all audio with project" selected Select all tracks and wipe Import new audio into project

Just because "Copy all audio with project" is deselected (and possibly disabled) does not mean the references to track data are removed. It means the audio clips are not physically copied when creating the new project/template. To create a project template from a project without reference to track data, all the tracks must be wiped clean of data before saving as a template.

The FX Racks are hidden either by the Workspace setting or the Track Control drop down

There should be at most one ASIO driver installed for a device. Generic ASIO "drivers" such as ASIO4All should not be installed on a machine when an interface with a factory supplied ASIO driver is available. The DAW can only use one ASIO driver at a time. In order to change ASIO drivers both input and output settings must be deselected in preferences before making a new selection.

Yes, I downloaded them from the product pages. No login needed.

Not sure if Rewire supports the feature. I have nothing to test If the layout is set to "Sort by Category" when displaying audio FX and category maintenance does not work as documented it is a support issue (support@cakewalk.com).

To change per-project settings for all future projects, change the project templates. If using BandLab supplied project templates make sure to save them under different names or use a custom folder location for project templates. Existing projects must be changed one at a time.

The drum map should be set as the output of the MIDI track NOT in the step sequencer. When using an instrument track this may be accomplished by clicking on the MIDI tab in the track inspector to access the MIDI output drop down.

The mapping tool inside SD3 (Settings > MIDI In/E-Drums) is very powerful. If you do not like the default layout, check out the presets or roll your own.

Yes. MIDI note numbers do not change. There are a couple of standards for displaying note number as pitches. This is why Cakewalk provides a way to set this relation. The MIDI drum map is a relation between note numbers and instrument names not note numbers and pitches.

You could have just kept quiet. Rather than rehash the discussion, I choose to link a similar thread which already contained such information as

VST3 plug-in category labels are up to the plug-in manufacturer. As noted above, Cakewalk built a database for DX and VST2 plug-ins when they released SONAR X3 in 2013. It covered a lot of plug-ins available at that time. This database is included with CbB. Categories are maintained in the plug-in browser. In order to perform category maintenance the browser must be set to "Sort by Category." The details are in the link provided above. To copy the categories created on one machine to another, copy Library.db. The default path is noted above. The "Sort by Category" layout is the only one reliant on Library.db. Custom plug-in layouts may be copied between machines just like any user created files.