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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

FWIW, Kontakt allows multpile instruments within a single instance and assigning separate midi channels to each instrument.

The Essentials version of Sonuscore's The Orchestra is on sale for $49.50 at the Sonuscore website at the moment. Not sure for how long.

Yes is my favorite band, I've seen them a number of times. The best was in April 1979: Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman and Alan White all in their prime playing from a round and slowly rotating stage, with a great light show. But as usual with Yes, the highlight was the music itself. They played songs from their earliest albums all the way through their latest at the time, Tormato, including a 25 minute medley comprised of Time and a Word, Long Distance Runaround, Survival, The Fish, Perpetual Change and Soon. They also gave a beautiful performance of my all-time favorite song, Awaken. Sadly, their are no videos of the "in the round" performances containing good quality sound. However, Hed Gilboa has done a remarkable job of piecing together a lot of different"in the round" videos and syncing them to the excellent quality soundboard recording of the October 1978 Wembley Stadium concert, which was not "in the round" but had a set list very similar to the show I saw. Check it out if you haven't already!

We all have our perspective. I'd like to think that on a public forum, we're all entitled to share ours. Probably the main reason the subscription threads were numerous was because no "sticky" threads with clear answers to questions were created. Many of the threads were started by different people who are not regulars on the forum, each coming onto the forum at a different time, and when they could not easily find the answers to their subscription questions, started their own thread, having no idea that they were rekindling the embers of a controversial topic. From my perspective of the back and forth responses in those threads, the people who don't like subscriptions were no less respectful and no more repetitive than the people who are okay with subscriptions. Yet many of those threads were locked by someone saying that the people who don't like subscriptions were too repetitive and disrespectful. Again, from my perspective, if there was any sense of hostility, it was towards the people who don't like subscriptions.

Forgot to mention, Starship Krupa's thread is in the new Cakewalk Sonar sub-forum.

Please see my response in Starship Krupa's thread "Whom to contact about licensing options?" On the question of what happens when you stop the subscription: In another thread, probably also in the private Beta sub-forum, Noel confirmed that when your subscription ends, Sonar is deactivated until you renew the subscription.

This was brought up in the private Beta sub-forum. The info provided (thanks, Noel!) is that the decision makers are already well aware, but as of now, it seems they are content with the status quo. Anyone who wants to make their thoughts about that known should email them via this link: https://bandlabtechnologies.com/contact/

You should check whether the specific EZKeys instrument you are using is programmed to respond to CC64 as a sustain pedal. Some are intentionally not programmed to respond to it. For example, a Hammond organ emulation may intentionally not respond to CC64 because a real Hammond organ does not have a sustain pedal input, so a faithful emulation might not either. If the instrument allows the CC64 input and has it mapped to sustain functionality, what you are trying to do should work. I have successfully done something like this. I had two separate keyboard controllers, each with just one pedal jack. So I assigned one of the controllers to send CC64 and the other to send CC07, or CC11, for volume. As long as the input setting in Cakewalk for the instrument's track is set to omni (not a specific midi device), it listens to all midi data being generated, and can respond to the data from both controllers at the same time.

You can't fool me. Look at the serial numbers. That's just two pictures of the same bill. ?

You'll want to check out whatever Presonus products 3rd party sellers have to offer. A month or two ago, the PreSonus store removed pretty much everything except the subscription packages for Studio One Pro. They say it is temporary, and that a new store will eventually be available, but there's been no update since. We'll see. I have a feeling, they, like just about every competitor, are testing the subscription waters to determine how many people can be swayed to purchase a subscription to S1 Pro and all the add-ons before making further decisions about other forms of purchase.