aidan o driscoll

Any way I think TONEX is a great innovation. Do not have the pedal yet BUT will wait for black friday and see if any deals on that

Fair point @IK Multimedia .. in my case above I just was highlighting a better price Europe vs USA. Plus it has this GROUP coupon that reduces the price further. As to how JRRshop manage there taxes that is surely there responsibility?

To BUY tonex is now €49.99 vs €149 at: https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/tonex/index.php?p=info#top VAT is added if outside US HOWEVER am i right in saying this is the same software at JRRSHOP? https://www.jrrshop.com/ik-multimedia-tonex.html If so its $49.99 but when GROUP is used its down to $41.99

Bump .. @Noel Borthwick .. any way to customise the UI colors in NEXT? Is BLACK / Dark the only theme?

Saying - SOLD OUT now

I tried this, didnt buy yet, just wondering how it works at JRRSHOP? It doesnt allow you to choose your 5 plugins, just goes straight to cart/checkout. I assume you get codes to then use over at UJAM?

As with most software these days its SUBSCRIPTION or ONE TIME PURCHASE here - this is the 2025 edition pricing: https://www.coreldraw.com/en/product/coreldraw €30.75pm OR €779 ONE TIME So i know this deal is for 2024 edition BUT at €60 ONE TIME its a no brainer really if it floats your boat. I used to use it ages ago but stopped upgrading once I found AFFINITY. The Affinity suite when NOT ON SALE is €179 ONE OFF inc tax. On sale it has been as low as €99 I think .. https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/

As @pedwal wally wally wha said - check the AUDIO folder insire the cakewalk project folder. In there should be the WAVs of the audio takes? If so, at least you can rebuild the project from them. Also for project files ( .CWP ) isnt there an auto save on? If so I think the autosaves go into the "\Cakewalk Projects\Audio Data" folder?

So as the title says - Any way to change the "theme" colours in NEXT? Had a look in preferences, nothing there. Is the black theme it, no way to change?

Am I noticing changes in CW Sonat since this latest update - Cakewalk_Sonar_Release_Setup_31.07.0.084? 1. The 15 sec timer seems to have dropped to about 5 or 6 seconds? 2. When you close sonar after that initial timer screen and reopen, the timer DOES NOT happen again. The release notes say "The Free-Tier of Sonar does not display the membership promo page when successively restarting the application."

I had an old version of NEXT installed that did not work anymore, uninstalled it a while back. Through the Product Centre I installed NEXT again and surprisingly saw this up top right: In previous versions this was not there, it was 30 day trial type stuff. So have they now gone and done the same thing with NEXT? Made it "Free" for core tools usage but you pay for MORE? LOOKS LIKE IT:

YES @ilunga But if you install the Product Center and load, it gives you options to install Cakewalk Sonar etc .. as per image below: I have an old version of NEXT installed which i am about to uninstall, same goes for CbB ..

Mike at CREATIVE SAUCE has answered some Questions re the new FREE tier Sonar: Might be worth reading the comments under the video also. I am sure more observations there

And @Brian Walton .. Sadly so many people use Macs AND PROTOOLS still. This goes for many studios also. Jeez I HATE protools. Our drummer is one of them, .. luckily our keyboard player who is also a sound engineer has protools, so he has to make a protools project out of the reaper project - essentially using stems

Yes .. every so often we still have to do a login to bandlab/renew license type thing with CbB. One could argue this is not too far off whats being asked with the new Free Sonar, that is, wait 15 seconds and off you go. It has to be mentioned too i suppose, that the new Free Sonar will be regulary updated now while CbB will no longer be. To wait for 15 seconds, I dont see that as a big issue TBH, but then that me. I have quiet a few DAWs i collected over the years - Ableton, FL Studio, Reason, Waveform 13 Pro, Reaper, latest free Studio One, Luna - all installed but mainly use Cakewalk and Reaper. In a band with 4 others, three have Macs, two have PCs - Reaper is a good solution as a reasonable DAW for CROSS PLATFORM Work. I then use Azslow's ReaCWP installed in Reaper which allows you to open Cakewalk/Sonar project files directly in Reaper and from there Save as .rpp reaper project file. https://www.azslow.com/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=57 Outside that, of all the other DAWS, I would use ableton the most. I never paid full price for a DAW. Over the years I would avail of black friday and other offers to climb on the ladder, then upgrade from there. Actually I did pay full price for Reaper - princely sum of $60 I am happy with the Cakewalk / Reaper usage along with Azslows tool to open CW projects in Reaper. Best of all worlds .. especially when working with Mac band members as Sonar is not available on MAC. As a band and as we are scattered all over - US and Ireland. We use the cloud exclusively with Reaper Project files. Shared Google Drive folder. All project folders uploaded there. We all open them from the cloud in Reaper, do our edits and additions and then SAVE DIRECTLY to the Google drive folder .. not using the local computers drives at all. The google drive folder is added to windows/mac file managers via google drive for desktop: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/10838124?hl=en