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The images and narrative are missing an important detail - is the track playing a clip or is the meter showing input activity? If it is the latter, enable input echo, the button to the right of the record button.

BTW, using the master bus instead of routing tracks directly to the mains is always a good idea.

Can't change presets like that but here are a couple of idea

1. Sends - create buses for each of the different effect chains needed and automate the sends to the buses.

2. Clip FX - each clip in a track has an FX rack just like the track FX rack. Effects stop and start and clip boundaries which may not be desirable.

3. Automation - just as you started out doing. It is possible to copy and paste the automation as needed. The arranger feature in 2020.04 may make this approach easier than it currently is. To avoid abrupt changes in delay time, you could use multiple instances of plug-in. Because the delay does not have a way to automate its bypass, the MixL and MixR will need to handle the task.

17 minutes ago, StudioNSFW said:

 Even upgrading to the new release adds a new major feature (arranger) which means that there is a greater risk in upgrading in that projects will no longer open in my safety net, my paid for and damned expensive X3 install.

There has never been a guarantee of forward compatibility.

That said, projects created in 2020.04 using the arranger feature open in X3. Like all versions of SONAR, opening projects created in CbB will generate a warning message about the project being created with a newer project and the chance of missing features.

So far, the only features that completely prevent projects from opening in SONAR are patch points and aux tracks. Opening a project containing patch points or aux tracks in a version of SONAR that does not support the feature, such as X3, will fail.

17 minutes ago, StudioNSFW said:

I would be happy as a clam with a perpetual and frozen version of the software.

That would be X3 in your case

17 minutes ago, StudioNSFW said:

Will I be forced to accept an upgrade eventually to re-activate? 

Tough to predict the future but my guess is at some point a feature will be added using an MS library that won't load in older OSes. Much like what happened between X2 and X2a with multitouch support. X2 was the last version of SONAR which could be installed on XP because the libraries needed for X2a were not available for the OS.

The aforementioned https://decomposer.de/sitala/ is a better fit for triggering drum samples. Especially for beginners. TX16Wx is overkill albeit probably the best free sampler available.

That said, working directly with loops in audio tracks is not that difficult.

No, it is a MIDI step sequencer.

You can add audio clips to audio tracks

launch them from the Matrix View

or load them into a sampler.

The step sequencer in CbB is for sequencing MIDI data NOT audio.

As mentioned above playing MIDI requires a synth of some kind.

SI-Drums is bundled with CbB.

similar thread

Feel free to use the themes I create as you wish

The same goes for everyone

When publishing a theme using borrowed elements it would be nice to add a credit in the theme's description but it is not necessary.

There are a couple of ways to convert audio to MIDI

Dragging an audio clip into an instrument or MIDI track is the most direct. Click OK when the message on the left in the OP is displayed.

This will create a regular MIDI clip. To open a MIDI clip in the step sequencer use the Convert MIDI Clip(s) to Step Sequencer... function in the Track View Clips menu.

That's it - instrument tracks have an audio and a MIDI tab (T in the image below)

Here is the CbB help for the Snap to Scale section (N in the image above) http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Inspectors.3.html#1239113

The CbB help pages are not indexed so searches on the old Cakewalk site only show SONAR results. Usually changing the product in the url to Cakewalk will open the current help page.

Themes in OP updated for 2020.04

Fortunately we have a list of all the changes for 2020.04

Actually the old image is wrong. It shows a hybrid of the pre 2020.04 and current tabs. There is no Square-A tab in the old theme.

Not old, an emulation or a plug-in but a good source for

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Announcement here

Arranger track

PC presets

and a rollback option (just in case)

There a two themes included with Cakewalk.

The theme is set in preferences

There are a few user created themes in this part of the forum

Make sure only the track being recorded has input echo enabled. I turn off Always Echo Current MIDI Track in order to have better control over which tracks have input echo enabled.

Also some plug-in have the ability to generate or pass through MIDI data. It is a good idea to turn this off when it is not needed. For those synths that have this option, it is enabled by default. To review and set "Enable MIDI Output", open the plug-in UI and click the VST2/3 drop down above the UI. This image shows a plug-in with the option enabled.

Please avoid creating multiple threads on the same subject.

11 minutes ago, Evael said:

I want when I say 'None input', no signal to come in the track, no matter how much a press the buttons.

This is not how the program works.

By design, turning on input echo requires an input other than None on instrument and MIDI tracks. To that end, tracks set to None change to Omni when input echo is enabled.

This is why I turn off Always Echo Current MIDI tracks and assume manual control of both the input drop down and input echo.

Feel free to file a feature request.

4 minutes ago, JoseC said:

You actually need to do it once if you use track templates. A track template in CbB includes all its routing. Just drag it from the browser and you are done. 

Or build it into the project templates

All my project templates have a bus after the default (aka master) bus.

10 minutes ago, Craig Anderton said:

I didn't realize Exports were always made from the Master bus when you selected Entire Mix

The default "Entire Mix" is essentially "What you hear" - IOW all tracks and buses that point to the mains.

As you know, the Export dialog also permits exports from the master bus or any track or bus.

34 minutes ago, Evael said:

I tried disabling 'Always Echo current MIDI Track' but the problem is when I manually click on the monitoring icon next to rec-arm icon on the track, it keeps reverting it to All imputs - Omni, whils it still says None.

Definitely a bug!

 

Not a bug, I explain why later in the the thread linked above (note: monitoring icon = input echo)

Actually @Craig Anderton in CbB I route the master bus to a "final bus" which routes to the hardware output.

Sonarworks would go in the final bus FX rack.

It does not affect exports because exports are made using the master bus. There is no need to change routings for export.

New tracks are always automatically added to the master bus because it is still the default bus.

Of course, this routing assumes the headphones use the same main ports as the master bus. If the headphones can monitor different hardware ports, instead of a "final bus" a send on the master can do the same job.

In addition to using the Quad Curve EQ in the Inspector ProChannel, the plug-in is available in the console view