Ben Chase

Hi, pwalpwal. I get that your take is that it's not going to happen and you may well be right. Time will tell.

Please consider moving along, though.

I created the "As soon as you go perpetual, I'm in." topic yesterday and Misha kindly directed me to a post in another thread, in which Ashwin Rao of Bandlab shared a link that could be used to provide feedback/make requests about such things:

https://help.cakewalk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

I was very encouraged by the response I got. Here is the exchange...

Me:

Hi,

I have been a Cakewalk/SONAR/Cakewalk by BandLab user for more than 20 years. I am grateful that BandLab kept it alive and would be more than happy to pay for it again. I'm unwilling, however, to adopt the subscription model and believe there are a lot of users with similar feelings. Please bring back perpetual licenses as an option, so that we can benefit from updates and you can benefit from our business.

Thank you,
Ben

Lois (Cakewalk):

Hi there,
 
Thank you for your long-term support of Cakewalk/SONAR/Cakewalk by BandLab. We appreciate your feedback and understand your concerns about the subscription model.
 
Currently, we are still finalizing the pricing model for the new Cakewalk Sonar. We value input from our users and will consider all feedback as we move forward. Please stay tuned for updates, and feel free to reach out if you have any more questions or suggestions.
 
Best regards,
Lois

If anyone else is interested in there being a perpetual-license option, please use the link above to make your feelings known. Thanks!

Please and thank you.

I've experienced this a few times, but never figured figured out the cause. I've always just dragged the clip to another track, like you did. 

Thanks, Steve. I appreciate the thoughtful response.

Are perpetual licenses for Sonar in the works? I'd be happy to pay for it again, I'm just allergic to to subscriptions.

Frank's Midi Plugins contains a Humanize plugin that has a "Fix Note Overlaps" feature.

https://midi-plugins.de/#Plugins/Humanize

Thanks, David. I appreciate the info.

8 minutes ago, David Baay said:

If everything is going to be recorded via that preamp, you can add that 21 samples to the Manual Offset for record latency. But if you'll also be recording from your interface's direct inputs (hopefully not simultaneously), you'll have to manually compensate or change your Manual Offset for each case. Having one of your nudge values set to 21 samples will simplify doing it manually.

Hi, David. Thanks for the response. I'd only ever be using those external preamps in conjunction with the internal ones. I like the idea of setting one of my nudge values to 21 samples. Are you saying, however, that the manual offset is global; i.e., can't be set independently for the internal and external inputs?

I'm bringing in external preamps via ADAT and there's a 21 sample delay on those vs. the internal preamps of my audio interface. I can slide the clips over after the fact to get them to line up, but am wondering if there's a way to compensate for this on the way in. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Please change the functionality of the Absolute Time Base so that it applies to events within midi clips, not just the start times of the clips. This would be incredibly helpful when creating tempo maps for recordings that weren't played to a click. Thanks!

Thanks, azslow3! I appreciate the info. I'll check it out.

Figured out how to do it using the ACT MIDI Controller property page.

Anyone know how to get the Akai MPK249 transport controls to work? So far I'm not having any luck with either the Sonar preset on the MPK249 or the Akai MPK49 preset in the Cakewalk Generic Surface.

Thanks for the suggestion, Promidi. I posed the question to Jim Roseberry of Studio Cat, whom I just bought the PC from, and he said that this is expected behavior for 12th Gen Intel processors:

I've got "Use Multiprocessing Engine" and "Plug-in Load Balancing" selected in Preferences, but the Performance Module is only showing a few cores being used. Is that because only a few cores are needed for my project or because something's wrong and they're not balancing correctly? Thanks for any insight you can provide.
 

Thank you, scook! Much appreciated.

Anyone know where user plugin presets are stored? I'm setting up a new PC and would love to be able to copy these over from my old one.

Hey, Folks. Anyone else experiencing this? I'm on version 1.1.1 of EZBass, which opens just fine in Cubase and Studio One, but crashes every time I try to insert in in Cakewalk. Presently, I'm on 2021.09 Update 1 of Cakewalk, but have rolled back to 2021.06 and had the same experience. I've also tried using the Empty Project template, in case there was an issue with my custom template, but that didn't have any effect. It crashed then, too. I could try rolling back to an earlier version of EZBass, but would prefer not to, given the there's no issue with it in Cubase or Studio One. Any thoughts?

Edit: Never mind, a simple reboot resolved the issue.

I agree that the old look was better.

Thanks, Scook. I appreciate the clarification. Bummer. I much prefer the old look, as it took up a lot less space.

Did a search of the forum, but I wasn't able to find anything recent about this issue. My resolution is set to 1920 x 1080 and the text/app size is set to 100%, both of which are the recommended settings, but my plugin menu has been oversized since 2021.04 and I'm wondering if there's a fix in the works. Any update would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Thanks for the reply, Mark. Sorry, I didn't see it till just now. I use Strength all the time. My understanding of the Window feature, though, is that it's the exact opposite of what the Cubase setting does. Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but I believe the Cubase safe zone leaves everything in it alone, where as the Cakewalk Window leaves everything outside of it alone.

Per Cubase documentation:

"Creates a safe zone before and after the quantize positions. If you specify a distance in ticks (120 ticks = one 16th note), events that lie within this zone are not quantized. This way, slight variations are kept."

Please consider adding a "Smart Quantize" feature, similar to Logic Pro:

https://support.apple.com/guide/logicpro/midi-quantization-types-lgcpbc6a2df2/mac

https://ask.video/video/apple-logic-pro-103-recording-and-editing-midi/23-23-smart-quantize