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Factory supplied ASIO drivers tend to be the best for performance. In Win10 WASAPI is usually the best when manufacturers do not make an ASIO driver or the ASIO driver is faulty. In older OSes WDM is usually the best when manufacturers do not make an ASIO driver or the ASIO driver is faulty. Generic ASIO drivers are never a replacement for real ASIO drivers supplied by the manufacturer unless something is severely wrong. They can be used in place of WASAPI or WDM.

Some manufacturers support multiple devices with the same ASIO driver but I am unaware of any manufacturer that allows multiple devices from different manufacturers. The one driver at a time limitation is part of the ASIO specification. Cakewalk supports other driver modes such as WASAPI shared and WDM which do not have this limitation. Generic "ASIO drivers" (such as ASIO4All) do not have this limitation because they work with WDM drivers and present them to the host as a single ASIO driver.

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Or save all your cash and only grab their free Kee Bass plug-in (email address req'd)

ASIO supports one I/O driver at a time. To change ASIO connected devices, clear the current input and output selections and all the devices will be available.

Is it several instances of BA or one instance with several threads? The later is normal for programs built with the Chrome Embedded Framework.

Assuming this is a new project with nothing but the soft synth (IOW no other plug-ins in the project) double check preferences and make sure the DAW is set to ASIO driver mode If there are ANY plug-ins (other than the synth) in the project, bypass them using the FX button in the Mix Module. If the latency goes away, it is caused by one more plug-ins in the project.

CbB installs as an upgrade to SONAR. IOW, the DAW, Cakewalk Content, ProgramData and User directories are version specific with Platinum and CbB having their own separate folders. The "Shared" folders are all updated to CbB which is backward compatible with Platinum. This includes the PC modules, DX plug-ins, utilities such as the plug-in manager and VST scanner.

There are two DAWs offered by BandLab Technologies BandLab - a web-based DAW Cakewalk by BandLab - a Windows only program This forum was created for Cakewalk by BandLab You may want to contact support@bandlab.com or the Facebook group There may be other avenues for BandLab support but I am not very familiar with the product.

The default numpad behavior was/is nudge. Numpad 0 used to toggle the Enhanced Keyboard Editing mode. This used to be a source of confusion as some trying to use nudge would accidently invoke this mode instead by hitting the numpad 0. As a result, the keyboard shortcut 0 was removed in CbB 2020.04 leaving it up to the user to assign the shortcut.

For now use the Notes Browser

The large icons may be easily modified to something more meaning. By default, they are a larger version of the image to the left of the track name. The small images to the left of track names for instrument, MIDI tracks and their associated audio double as buttons to open the soft-synth UI. Packing all the controls, buttons and dropdowns (all could be called widgets if you prefer) in the minimum amount of space possible makes it difficult to create and find hotspots for menus.

set Record Bit Depth for recorded audio set Render Bit Depth for clips created by DAW processing http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=0x22B09

Most of the space in the red brackets is reserved for track icons which are turned off in the image posted.

It depends. This is a pretty common problem when migrating projects to 64bit hosts. Pretty sure Cakewalk Home Studio 2002 was 32bit. If the plug-ins are VST format, they will load into CbB. If the plug-ins are DX format, they will not load into CbB. My guess is they are DX plug-ins. You could install Cakewalk Home Studio 2002 load the projects in it and swap out the plug-ins for 3rd party VST plug-ins, hopefully new ones that have both 32bit and 64bt versions. Keeping a 32bit host around while transitioning to 64bit is handy.

Turn on the scan log too.

Set the Record Bit Depth to 24

http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Automation.04.html

The company that made SONAR (Cakewalk) was shut down by Gibson in 2017. BandLab purchased the Cakewalk IP from Gibson a few months later. Cakewalk by BandLab (CbB) is a free 64bit DAW based on SONAR Platinum. CbB is actively supported and maintained by BandLab (some of the Cakewalk staff were hired by BandLab when they purchased the software). It installs as a free upgrade to SONAR Professional. Once installed both SONAR and CbB will be available and CbB can use all the plug-ins and content bundled with SONAR. Here are the instructions for installing CbB using BandLab Assistant

As far as the DAW is concerned...no. Some prefer the extra control Pro offers over Win10 features and policies. I have used Win10 Home since 2014 without any problems. My new machine has Win10 Pro. I expect it will be equally drama free.

That's for you to decide. Try it and see if it meets your needs. At least you know what the software currently offers.

Yet another company that does not advertise updates. Grab the full installer if you have any of their other plug-ins. They were all updated in Oct 2020.

It is a pretty good idea to use a master bus and have all audio and instrument tracks ultimately flow through it. All the project templates bundled with CbB have a master bus set up. The bus pane is at the bottom of the track view. SHIFT+B toggles bus display. There is also a button below to the right side of the bus headers to toggle the display too.

Folders are not supported for project templates. They are supported for track templated. Track templates may contain as many tracks, plug-ins and references to buses as necessary. If you prefer not to use track templates, instead of project templates create empty projects. Then create new projects by opening an empty project and immediately "Save As" a new project. Projects may be nested as deep as desired.

Converting 16bit files to 24bit files does not do a thing to the sound of the files.