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Unless you happen to have a legal copy of SONAR Platinum (from 2017) or an even earlier version of Sonar such as X3, X2, X1, 8.5, etc.

While this isn't a bad price, during the last UAD mixtape bundle deal (10 plugins for $99), the two individual SSL plugins (not the bundle) were included as options, so if you were willing to spend $99 you could get these two and 8 more for about $10 a piece. They'll probably do another mixtape deal towards the end of the year.

I'm guessing that the reason it seems those users can be counted on one hand is that most of the many like-minded people have either left completely, or realized that it is indeed futile to continue the fight. I realized this almost two years ago and started using another DAW. I see many former Cakewalk users on the other forum. I also tried out several other DAWs, and there is ample evidence of former Cakewalk users for each of them. I think Bandlab has lost way more than just a few. In spite of this, Bandlab may still be financially ahead using the subscription model, good for them if it is true. They certainly have the right to do things the way they want . But it doesn't change the fact that they have inadvertently alienated many longtime users in the process, and each user has a similar right to do things the way they want, which may mean choosing a different DAW.

LOL At least you're being honest and up front about it! 😉

I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but when you installed Sonar, did you use the custom install, and if so, when it asked you which file extensions to associate with Sonar, did you include ".mid"?

I have also recently reverted to Sonar Platinum for opening any existing .cwp files. I have not encountered any issues so far, other than the warning message mentioned by CSistine. For what it's worth, I started using a completely different DAW for any new projects starting in November of 2023. Another member, azslow3, has made a utility program that can for the most part convert .cwp files and assets into files that open in the other DAW. I have used it a few times already and will be using it to convert any .cwp files as required in the future. It takes a bit of preparation as far as copying the necessary files to an appropriate location, but I have made a .bat file to simplify that part a fair amount.

Bandlab seems to use terms rather freely, so it can be confusing. I'm pretty sure there is only one non-subscription version, in some places referred to as "evaluation" but more often "free". The irritating annoyances are intentional, to persuade you to pay for the prescription. Though some wording may make you think the evaluation period expires, it will indefinitely renew itself if you log in, per Bandlab staff. In the other thread, you ask for them to fix the display of tied and dotted triplets in the staff view. IMHO, that is no more likely to happen now than it was in the past 30 years. The person who wrote that code has no connection with Bandlab and is even mostly missing in action in regards to his "current" products. Bandlab staff have little knowledge of the code and have cited that factor a number of times when explaining why very little has been done with the staff view. Plus, notation is thought to be a waning DAW feature in general, so there is little motivation to invest effort into it. If you really want your DAW to do notation better than Sonar currently does, you probably need to look elsewhere. I know you have already done that previously.

I don't see any airport terminals listed. The closest to that might be a few arenas, stadiums and large hallways.

I'm very glad to hear that Reverberate 3 works for you! After all of my research on convolution reverbs, it is the one I decided to buy. I thought it might not work with JAWS because of the changes they made to the UI, including high DPI and scalability, but if it works, that's great! As far as the price is concerned, $99 is a good value for all that it can do. From what I've seen, the only sale Liquidsonics offers is $20 off around Black Friday, in case that matters. You may still want to download the impulse files available for free from Waves, if you haven't already. Most, if not all of them, are 96kHz/32bit files that were professionally recorded using full range audio signals instead of gunshots or balloon bursts, so they are very high quality. There is a wide selection of real spaces, including many typical music venues as well as some less conventional spaces such as cars, stairwells, outdoor, etc. It's hard to find impulses of real spaces for free, most of what is freely available are samples of other effects processors. The files have an extension of ".wir". As far as I know, the only plugins that can use them are Waves, of course, and the various versions of Reverberate. Please let me know if you have any questions about obtaining them.

Yes, it definitely does all that PerfectSpace did and quite a bit more. It will even import the Waves .wir files that you probably downloaded when attempting to get the Waves plugin working. (If you didn't download them, I recommend that you do. Waves makes them freely available, and there are a lot of high quality impulses included.) If you decide to look into Reverberate Core, you may even want to check out Reverberate 2. It has even more features than Core and comes with more IR files. It also is a discontinued/legacy product that can be downloaded and installed as a demo just like Core. The UI is very similar to Core. When Liquidsonics came out with the current Reverberate 3, they completely changed the UI, and it is unlikely to work with a screen reader.

There was a similar sale directly from Scuffham last October. I bought it from them for $79 back then. I haven't noticed any lower prices since then.

The only other idea I have at the moment for a PerfectSpace alternative is Liquidsonic's Reverberate Core. It should work fine on Windows 7, there is a 64bit version, and it may work with a screen reader. It probably has all the features you need. The catch is that it is no longer sold, it is a discontinued legacy product. However, they still make it available to download at this site: https://www.liquidsonics.com/legacy-software/ It is easy to download and install, you can select the demo option to see if it will work for you. If it does work, Liquidsonics may be willing to provide you with a license for it if you contact them directly and explain the situation. I have no idea if they would do this, but it may be worth a try.

I'm sorry to hear that. I don't have any knowledgeable explanation. Were you trying this with the demo version? If so, it is remotely possible that it would work with the purchased version, but I understand that you probably wouldn't want to risk paying for it only to discover that for whatever reason it doesn't meet your needs. You'd need to find someone with a PC running Windows 7 that is willing to test it for you. I don't have any PCs running Windows 7, but I think there are still a few people around here that do. If it is a purchased version that is not working, maybe a Waves support person can get it straightened out for you.

Are you saying it doesn't work after following all the steps listed in this link? https://www.waves.com/support/how-to-run-waves-plugins-on-windows-7-and-windows-8

It certainly is a good price. It was on sale for $249 last December. I bought it at that time because I thought that was a great deal. I did not bother to demo it by subscribing to their Composer Cloud for a month. I should have done that, and recommend that anyone considering EWQL products do that, since no returns or resales are allowed. I quickly realized that HOOPUS was not for me, so no matter what the price was or is, it's not a good deal if I will never use it, and I doubt I ever will.

Add to the list of pseudo ASIO drivers that cause problems for Cakewalk: Steinberg Virtual ASIO, which gets installed anytime a Steinberg product is installed on your system. If that is the case, it should be uninstalled, it won't hurt anything else, and will possibly make Cakewalk work the way it is supposed to when using ASIO drivers.

Unfortunately, there is no direct link to the plugin itself. Being a Waves product, it requires that you first set up a Waves account and install Waves Central,. Then you choose the individual plugin(s) you want to demo from there. You may need some assistance with navigating that. The instructions are here: https://www.waves.com/support/evaluate-and-demo-waves-products?_gl=1*bjp7g0*_up*MQ..*_ga*MzM5OTk1NzMyLjE3NDUyNjMyNTQ.*_ga_QGSDDSM0JK*MTc0NTY3MzgyMi41LjEuMTc0NTY3NDQ3NC4wLjAuMTg5MTQyNDgzMQ.. The only limitation imposed on the demo versions is the periodic muting of the audio.

Have you tried the demo of Waves IR-1 to determine whether it will work for you? If it does, it may be the only option that has the other features you need. I've been looking deeply into convolution reverbs for my own purposes, and I haven't come across any others that are likely to meet your needs.

The free Waves reverb (IR-L) has a somewhat newish GUI that appears to be more graphics based, but they also make IR-1 and IR-360. Those two share basically the same GUI and it looks like it hasn't been updated for 20 years, so it may be more text based and may be worth a try. There are demos available. IR-360 (surround) includes IR-1 (stereo). IR-360 is being sold for $35 currently, as is IR-1.

That's too bad! How can one tell if something is compatible with JAWS?

SIR1 is a possibility, but it is 32 bit only and has a fixed latency of 8960 samples. The current version is SIR3, it is 64 bit, zero latency and not too expensive. There are lots of convolution reverbs out there. Another one is Convology XT. The plugin is free and comes with some IRs, but they also hope you will buy some of the IR libraries they sell. If you already have the IRs that you need in wav format, Convology XT can load them and manipulate them in quite a few ways. It is 32 and 64bit, and has low latency and zero latency settings. It has a file browser providing access to any location on your computer. It may work for you.

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.

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.