Alan Tubbs

Good point, Cakewalk did this to P5. Like P5 and CbB, I think I'll get over it, even tho I really loved P5.

Off topic, but who says cakewalk by BandLab is disappearing. Please cite.

I will add that Bandlab’s rollout hasn’t been smooth and has lots of confusion, unless you give them your credit card number. but I would pay $1500 not to have use samplitude as my main DAW, esp. since Magix seems damned determined to cluster up all their software. Their old Sony software has been rendered almost impossible to use.

You have a contract that needs to be honored. If Bandlab wants to can give you a discount they can. Ask about that. A reasonalble request. as far as capitalists go, I don’t care how they feel. Deliver the goods and all is well. And I care less how do-gooders feel.

Add “solved” to the title of the thread so others can see the solution.

I haven’t had a problem with original warm. Or the tone beast. Perhaps you can check against your standard interface pre? If the Warm is the problem I would complain to them. The are (were) very responsive and used to go out of their way to be helpful.

You can’t repackage the sounds themselves but you can publish the music produced. The answer is yes.

Get at least a 2 inputs. A 2 x 4 config is really the minimum that allows the use of outboard, which is great and allows stereo work. I've liked a lot of tascam units they are solid. Roland worked reliably too in my experience. FYI, these days I use motu with a Neumann m48. Great clean capture and replication.

I don’t know anything about the daw bandlab s sounds. The forum deals with CbB and the new Sonar. And I don’t know where this question should be asked. Does Bandlab the DAW have a help section? I would ask there.

You doing used mics? AKG 414s start about $1000 at Sweetwater.

The microtech gefell m930 is hopefully cheaper and a great mic. the original Neumann factory was moved across the Elbe river to what would become east Germany because of the allied bombing. Microtech still makes the m7 capsule,for example and their m930 is a best in class for about @$1000 for instruments and solid vox. It sounds great on about everything. The Austrian audio oc818 are akg guys who started a new company. A good replacement unit and a little cheaper.

All bets are off with os changes and CbB. I’ve lost plenty of software when they had updated versions MS. Of course that has been a while so I would think CbB will work for years.

It looks like things are getting clearer. @ $150 a year or @15 per month for the nu sonar and all of Bandlab stuff. Or continue to use CbB for free until ms changes something vital and fails to work. Now all bandlab has to do is add a perpetual license to the options and leave nu sonar operable once the lease period ends. there are plenty of users willing to shell out $150 to $180 to keep Bandlab rolling for another year.

You have a delay between pressing a note and the sounding of your guitar against the rest of the recorded music? That is latency caused by your soft synth’s processing. The delay can be shortened but usually not eliminated . Read up on latency and work arounds.

I guess I need to dig out my Plasma cd if Bandlab doesn’t give me more free DAWs and puppies! I look as the situation like NI’s methodology. You don’t have to necessarily upgrade every damn year but some new stuff is nice to get. I don’t like subscriptions and I like to own my software. But I just can’t fathom the mindset of some that think they shouldn’t have to pay anything to keep sonar running. You get what you pay for and we’ve now enjoyed what… 7 years of free use and updates. That is a lot of entertainment or work for naught i hope Sonar sells a version that is cheap enough to buy for any user or afford a monthly lease or whatever. I don’t even mind paying the extra freight if I get a more inclusive product if that helps other users. But I find it irrational to think Bandlab will fund your new personal DAW for free.

Some manufacturers allow the use of separate units to aggrate the Windows drivers but this is special case. Don’t depend on it working, however. Look up your hardware interface to see if this is possible.

I believe one needs bandlab to use sonar by Bandlab but I never used it. What is the problem?

Yea, I got mine years ago for 4 or 5/hundred dollars. Great deal. You get transformer coupling which adds a different patina than your standard interface pre. and a neat package for guitarist or singer songwriter.

Massive X is a good and different bass makers.

Are they all on the same midi channel? I’ve done that more than once.

Thanks. I knew it was somewhere under organs.

I wonder when I’ll get an update to plasma by cakewalk, the early looper program. From the beginning of the century. Got it free in one of those English music rags with a cd and then upgraded it so I could do more than 4 or 8 tracks. It would do acidified files before Sonar did, or at least home studio (my next upgrade!). if cakewalk isn’t going to update P5 maybe they could make my old copy of Plasma work today. What did I do with that CD?

Dim pro and rapture Pro are still relavent and have some great presets I still use. I forget if it is rapture or dim that has the “jimmy…” preset which is a go to for organs. There are also plenty of “effects” and evolving drones and legiti-esque orchestra sounds. Good stuff. My minimoog is older yet still makes sounds I use.

Freezing soft synths solves many of these problems. Then you are dealing with all audio.

So we have our official answer to how long cbc? As long as it takes, I guess. Users need to take cakewalk at its word that it ain’t coming for your DAW - yet. And you’ll get warning so you can find another free DAW.