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sidechaining CbB does not include the PC4K Expander/Gate or Track Compressor but does include the PC4K S-Type Bus Compressor, Sonitus Compressor and Sonitus Gate which all have an external sidechain input. There are quite a few free and paid plug-ins with external sidechain inputs too. The setup is the same whether using the ProChannel or the FX Rack. Add the plug-in to the track to affect, create a send on the controlling track to the plug-in. For more info see the link above.

https://www.cakewalk.com/Support/Knowledge-Base/2007013357/Session-Drummer-3-is-not-being-recognized-by-SONAR-X3

Playing a plug-in's UI is usually intended for audition purposes. Those that can generate MIDI data send the data out of the plug-in not to the current track. A different track must be setup to record the MIDI from these plug-in. It is possible to record audio from plug-ins using their UI taking advantage of synth audio recording. The virtual keyboard controller built into the DAW generates MIDI data like a physical keyboard controller streaming the data to the track input.

Maybe punch recording is enabled. "Enable MIDI Output" is disabled for plug-ins that do not support the feature. It has nothing to do with this issue.

Check out the Draw Tools in http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=ControlBar.04.html "E" in the image below

No version changed how the PC gets populated. There is a setting for both the track and bus PC to set a layout as default. It is in the context menu for the PC.

Make sure the scanner is not running in the Windows Task Manager. If it is, kill the process and click the middle button (retry).

Once you get the file sounding the way you want in Cakewalk using TTS-1 and any other soft synths, File > Export > Audio can create the mp3's for you.

Remove the driver from the registry entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ASIO and Cakewalk will not know the driver is installed.

"Everything" includes the successful method so it may help to provide a few more details, starting with which plug-ins have been tried, how and where the plug-ins were installed. Then what was done to get the plug-ins to show up in the DAW and how it was determined they are not available in the DAW.

So does the third image Not sure what the state of the screens in the OP are now though.

There are two conditions that must met for a track to receive MIDI data from a plug-in: The plug-in must have "Enable MIDI Output" turned on in the VST2/3 drop down above the plug-in UI. This is on by default for all plug-ins that have this feature. The track must be setup to receive the data either by setting the input drop down to Omni or the plug-in .

http://members.ziggo.nl/t.valkenburgh/Cakewalk Application Language Programming Guide.pdf A chm file for CAL is included with the CAL editor I never used the editor preferring to use the LISP mode in EMACS instead but any text editor will do. The language was deprecated 20 years ago so some parts are a little flakey.

If no sound is heard from the DAW using the plug-in audition keys AND the plug-in AND audio are setup correctly in the DAW it may be that Windows and the DAW are not setup to use the same sample rate.

I do not know how well the feature works but here is a knowledge base article on how to enable screen readers. The article describes the process for X2, the record used in CbB is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Core\AccessibilityMode I do not believe the key is there by default so it will need to be added.

Rewind and Fast Forward do not stop and landmarks There are functions to "go to" the start and end of measures to jump by measure but there is nothing comparable for beats.

Track templates (.cwx) and project templates (.cwt) are, by default, stored in different folders. The folder locations are defined in Preferences > File > Folder Locations. The image in the help shows the default paths.

Using the X3 uninstaller will remove plug-ins and possibly shared files needed by CbB. It is possible to manually remove the parts of X3 not used by CbB or other Cakewalk DAWs but as noted above it will not free up much disk space, IIRC, the full install of X3 excluding plug-ins, loop and shared files uses ~1.2 GB. Of that ~90% is "Cakewalk Content" and almost all of that is in the X3 tutorial folder. Deleting tutorials and sample projects from Cakewalk Content returns most of the disk space used by the DAW. Another place to clean up are the minidump folders. These are located in the user folders for CbB and all the Cakewalk DAWs. For example, the full path to the minidump folder for CbB is "%appdata%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\MiniDumps" Check each Cakewalk DAW folder in "%appdata%\Cakewalk" and delete the contents of the minidump folders.

Review the preference screens, an image of SI-Drums does not help. A silent bus warning means a track/bus send/output is set to None. This may be intentional or the result of a faulty setup.

StudioCat i9 Pro Studio X setup like the i7 I bought in 2014 except 32 GB RAM, 2x500 GB SSD, 2x2GB HDs and a GTX-1660. There is nothing wrong with the i7 other than age. Not real keen on keeping PCs longer than 5 years. I don't use a lot of sample based stuff so don't need superfast or large SSDs.

Thanks for the reminder. I don't use the CAL scripts myself and forgot why I did not bind them in CbB. This is the best solution. Binding these to ALT+Left/Right Arrows before I forget. Will be part of the new build next week.

Try adding the TTS-1 synth to the project

To use ASIO driver mode (the last image) requires a device with an ASIO driver. If you are running Win10 and are using the internal sound chip in the PC try WASAPI Shared or WASAPI Exclusive driver modes in the Playback and recording screen. Once the driver mode is set, the devices using that mode will appear in Devices preferences. Once the device is selected, the Driver Settings preferences will be populated and the warning in the first image should go away.

New version of Sitala is release. This one supports the VST2 opcode for instrument names so, the pad names show up in the PRV and step sequencer note names area. Something few synths support.