Euthymia

SiberianKhatru59
Probably get to that this weekend in fact.

I was mostly responding to the "polite" request to use the search function, and why I chose to ask instead.

Aw, now I apologized about the search deal before you could even reply, and even followed up with a detailed answer in light of the forum's search being ganked. Install that thing, it's good stuff, and not all just bugfixes, either! It'll make you say Yes!
 
My own biggest frustration: a great new program to explore, but  the forum is locked, so we're populated with people who have been using the program forever and went through the ups and downs and WTF's with the "30th Anniversary/Death/Rumors of our death are exaggerated" announcements.
 
The forum apparently has a useless search function, so approximately 20% of the traffic seems to be either wary people wanting to know if installing BandLab's Cakewalk is going mess up their SONAR installation or dazed people wondering why their support emails for Home Studio are going unanswered.
 
Because everyone who stuck around has been a SONAR user for seemingly decades, the remaining 70% of the traffic is devoted to people trying to straighten out broken configuration issues, with only 10% of the messages posted by people discussing how to use the program, which is inevitably some function I haven't gotten to yet like VocalSync or Drum Replacer.
 
(These numbers are all my personal estimates and are completely made up and are as bull54i7 as the search function, so please, don't beat me up too bad)
 
I'd feel like a total doofus asking something like "how do you make the left-hand side of the piano roll into drum names instead of a piano keyboard?" or "what's this Edit Filter thing they're talking about?" (I know the answers to these questions) Because I think I may literally be the only person on here who had never used SONAR when CbB shipped. I have a Cakewalk ID because I got a free copy of CA/2A a couple of years ago. The Lone N00bie.

Euthymia
What is the potential downside? I get a new version of CbB on my computer every month and it takes about 10 minutes to download and install the thing.
 
If you do any work in the Piano Roll, there is a Note Duration picker that I would consider handy enough to make it "worth it," even if I didn't consider the increased stability to be enough.

It's all good, no worries here.  Thanks for the input :)

Euthymia
(These numbers are all my personal estimates and are completely made up)

 
Cool! I had no idea you were a professional pollster.  
 
 

One downer on every update: if you have a custom start template it will overwrite with generic basic.tpl. Work around: keep a copy of your template to replace it with. 

Use a custom template path. Updates write to the default path. Been like this for a very long time.
Or use a different name for your default template. Custom default template name has been around for a few years too.
 
I use a custom template path.

For what its worth I just went over from SPLAT to CbB after holding out since the announcement. So far everything is working great, better even in that it is snappier and it loads faster, both on startup but also the plugins. Only used it for a week or so, but I can do everything I did in SPLAT and it atleast feels more responsive, so I am happy. 
 
At the first sign of trouble I will of course be in here screaming and yelling about the injustice of it all :)  But for now its all good. 

After SONAR laid waste to Gibson (where "millions of [dollars] cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced"), it lumbered on, but was still not fully completed. Rebellious competitors in the form of odd-named squadrons and call signs, e.g., Pro Squadron (Pro T, L Pro, SO Pro), etal., became aware of a weakness to the core [audio] engine and in a daring strike blew SONAR asunder (code was everywhere, but the plan was still safe).
 
The new Emperor decided to rename SONAR to CbB to build it bigger and better (and got new clothes during his off hours), but no one really caught on to actually finish it so that the core [audio] engine wasn't exposed. Go figure...