mike_mccue


That empty big stripe at the top labeled "14"; 

Did Cakewalk just put that stripe there to waste a whole bunch of display real estate?

Or

Is the complete waste of display space a result of half baking Take Lanes with a bunch of characteristics that no one actually took the time to think about?






I'm guessing a bunch of both went into this botch job.



best regards,
mike

or perhaps it might be useful for some of us to work with automation and lanes in the same view, rather than use automation lanes and take lanes at the same time. Comping and automation editing at the same time has never been easier as far as I'm concerned.
 
I'd still like to see an option to "auto minimise while open take lane" function though for the times when I don't want automation there - amongst the other improvements I've mentioned elsewhere.
 

I used to dream about improvements and then I realized SONAR was devolving.

mike_mccue


I used to dream about improvements and then I realized SONAR was devolving.

I used to think the same thing about the AMIGA computer. Eventually I got fed up waiting and moved to the PC.
 
I know someone that still spends his life on an Amiga forum complaining about its shortcomings rather than move on to something that works for him.
 
I admire his tenacity, but pity him for the futility of it.

I do like the idea of lanes, my problem is real-estate, after about 10 takes or so which is easy to do when doing vocals I run out of room comping.

Tho I feel I will never see it...

I wish they would put back the buggie version of Layers as an option for those who choose... As they did for Envelope Lanes...

Real Estate... A big issue... Readability? Lanes continually get me confused with looking for controls with tracks... That too...

I could see far more info on screen in the 8.5.3 days than I can now and it seems to be aimed towards making touch control the chosen method now. which requires everything larger and more spaced out (space waste) and the exact opposite of my own desires....

OK... I'm not gonna rant.... ;-) But this added to the many bugs/flaws in the current implementation of Lanes has me "screaming" for some kind of fix....

Please!

Keni

Keni

chefmike8888


Sorry for the mis-info Strammy.
My Recording rig is so unstable at the moment that I'm afraid I'll throw it on the floor every time I try recording so I haven't turned it on in 2 weeks.

Apologies to you too Keni.
When I can get my issues sorted I'll still send you those grooves.

Mike

Not to worry Mike.... We'll get to it in due course i'm sure...

More important is what's going on with your rig? What is happening that is so unstable? I know I've got major issues with Lanes, and other than the PC, I've found very little in X that I prefer over 8.5.3 other than a few shortcuts and the likes which could have easily been added to 8.5.3....   But my system is relatively stable and I can work... I get occiassional crashes, but nothing that has caused any more difficulty than re-starting Sonar...

What's up?

Keni

Audio records fine....
MIDI, not so much. My Axiom 49 plays soft-synth's fine most of the time then every once and a while it loses connection to Sonar.
My Roland drums have a constant continual click sort of like it has some kind of internal clock. But I called Roland tech support and they have no Idea what's causing it.
My Simmons drums look like they recorded fine when I look at the track in PRV but when I play it back the very first note sets off every sound the drum brain has to offer.
I even tried just recording one snare hit and it went off like 10 kids beating it with sticks. Actually had to shut down Sonar via task manager the last time I tried figuring it out. It just wouldn't stop playing and there was no way to stop it.


I've tried connecting through my MIDISport, my 18i6 and USB. No luck.


I'm stumped.


Mike