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There is the older FP-30 (without USB audio) and the newer FP-30X (with USB audio). At this point, we may not be certain which model the OP has. The link that was posted is for the FP-30 and it is a firmware update, not a driver.

I have had an FP-30 since about the time they came first came out. I have successfully used it as a USB MIDI input with a number of DAWs, including SONAR/CbB/Sonar (beta) the entire time. The file in the link provided above is the latest firmware update for the FP-30, it is not a MIDI or audio driver because the FP-30 has neither of those. The FP-30 is a generic USB MIDI device. After connecting the proper USB cable between the FP-30 type B port labeled "USB COMPUTER" (not the type A port labeled "USB MEMORY") and a USB port on the computer, as long as the computer's operating system detects it, the FP-30 should simply work with any DAW or other MIDI software application. Maybe the OP is using a USB cable with type A on both ends and connecting to the wrong port on the FP-30, that could explain some of the symptoms. The FP-30 does not have a USB audio interface built in. To hear audio from the FP-30 you must connect an audio cable using one of the FP-30's headphone jacks. If this audio cable is connected to a microphone input, you would probably have to turn the sensitivity of that input way down because the level of a headphone output is much higher than microphone level, it is closer to line level, and thus a line level input would be preferred if available. (Note that the newer model FP-30X added the audio interface via USB, which would definitely add the option to hear the audio directly through USB.) As for the FP-30 manual, it has very little information about connecting it to a computer, this is all it says: If you use a commercially available USB cable to connect the FP-30's USB COMPUTER port to your computer's USB port, you'll be able to do the following things: SMF data played back by MIDI-compatible software can be sounded by the FP-30. MIDI data can be transferred between the FP-30 and your DAW software, opening up a wide range of possibilities for music production and editing. Since it is a generic USB MIDI device and nothing more, I guess further explanation is not really necessary. I know that everything works as described for me. Hope this information, along with what others have provided, helps you get things sorted out.

According to those who are members, you will still receive the Sonar advertising message when using CbB, so the only ways to stop receiving the message are to stop using it or stay offline when you do.

It is intentionally not possible to turn that off.

I think the type of support your comment refers to is a different type of support than what the OP was referring to: I submitted a query to Bandlab support last Friday evening. It is now been 3 weekdays (in Australia) since then, and I haven't heard from Bandlab yet.

As far as I know, the new Sonar has little or no enhancements in the areas of score editing and video compatibility as of yet.

Just in case, you may want to check this: When you installed Dorico (and Cubase), they probably also installed Steinberg's virtual ASIO driver. I eventually learned that this can cause severe problems for Cakewalk DAWs. It did for me when I installed Dorico, though my symptom was not exactly the same, CbB would be stuck in a never ending cycle of displaying a pop-up box for a split second and repeating. The pop-up box was not on the screen long enough for me to decipher what it was saying, so I used my camera to capture a video of it and stopped the video at a point where the pop-up box was visible. It vaguely referred to an ASIO driver of some sort, which jogged my memory about Steinberg products always installing such things. Sure enough, it had been installed. As soon as I uninstalled it via the Windows Control Panel Programs and Features, CbB returned to normal operation. The Steinberg products don't need the virtual driver if you already have an audio interface using ASIO, so it is not a problem to uninstall it.

In the other thread about FIRST, there is a recent post indicating that the original download (FIRST) has been replaced with a new one (FIRST Free) that addresses this issue. I haven't downloaded and tried it yet, but that is hopeful.

I'm having the same issue after importing FIRST into an existing authorized version of ReMatrix Player. With the presets from FIRST, all of the IRs say <Unlicensed IR> and do not actually load into the plugin, so it does nothing but pass the input audio to the output.

AZSlow, thank you so much for doing this!!! I gave it a try on a very simple .cwp file with audio and midi, and it worked as advertised. I may be using this quite a bit in the future!

It was posted yesterday, I saw it here. I looked for it here today and did not see it. Draw your own conclusions.

Sonar X3 was the last version that used a serial number / authorization code licensing scheme. If you have those for your copy of X3, that is all you need. There is no requirement to do anything on line. (Although you may have received your authorization code via email all those years ago.)

I'm probably going to purchase Dorico 5 Elements, also 50% off. Elements has a surprisingly high percentage of the pro features, missing only some of the things that people creating scores for publication might need. I don't need those things, so I think Elements is a great value at the sale price. You may also want to check out NotePerformer, which works with Dorico Pro/Elements, and uses AI to interpret the score and automatically translate the markings into all kinds of manipulations, resulting in very expressive performances when playing back well marked scores. This reduces the amount of smarts needed to achieve that 😉. Think of it as an alternative to spending hours and hours on midi editing, envelopes, articulation maps, etc, in a DAW.

To keep expectations realistic, this is what was in the most recent CbB maintenance update: Updated to 29.09.0.108 (July 3, 2024) Fixes in build 29.09.0.108 Regression: Per Output Instrument Track disabled in Add Track flyout menu. BandLab API updates. Changes (build 29.09.0.098) CbB has been updated to work with the new Cakewalk Product Center. Offline activation is now available via Product Center. Improvements to sign in process with new activation response and error pages. Signing in to BandLab no longer redirects you to the BandLab portal after sign in. Cakewalk no longer automatically launches the browser to sign in at app startup. The Sonar promotional window should not appear when running CbB offline (at this time). Updates for Sonar promotional window content. Fixed problems with unresponsive Sonar promotional window. Fixes for analytics and app startup. Fixes for in-app updates.

There is also this chart that does a pretty good job of comparing the different versions: https://www.sonuscore.com/guests/downloads/Articulation_Comparison_TOEL.pdf