The Watering Hole

I had all versions of Sonar on the computer and then I tried Bandlabs Cakewalk and it took over and corrupted all of my old sonar files and none of the file associations would work on all of the older versions.

Now I have to erase the C drive and all of the OS and Drivers on that newer computer, and reinstall everything because I uninstalled all of the Sonar apps and the Bandlab Cakewalk app, and reinstalled one Sonar app (Sonar 3) and the computer would not open that app at all so I put Sonar 8.5.3 on and it did open the file but it would not play the file without some kind of clicking noise. I did have everything working great on the newer computer before Bandlabs Cakewalk app went on. So I am assuming that is the culprit.

One more caution when I was installing Bandlabs Cakewalk on my Windows 8.1 Computer my anti virus popped up and told me that there was a tracking cookie just installed on the computer and it was downloading my personal info. Fortunately I do not put my real info on there. But it was the beginning of a scary moment.

Tomorrow the reinstall of the OS and drivers on my Win 8.1 computer.

BE VERY CAREFUL INSALLING BANDLABS CAKEWALK ON YOUR DAW.

Sounds like a royal pain. I saw somewhere that Cakewalk was free now but haven't even looked into it. Hope the rebuild goes well.

Tobe — Apr 14, 2019Sounds like a royal pain. I saw somewhere that Cakewalk was free now but haven't even looked into it. Hope the rebuild goes well.

Thanks amigo.

I did not know people still used Cakewalk. Learn something new every day...

charger — Apr 22, 2019I did not know people still used Cakewalk. Learn something new every day...

I am not that much into recording these days Charger, I am not going to spend a bunch of money on recording apps, because I do not record much. One of the reasons I want to restart the process is because I have about 35 or 40 or even as many as 60 finished songs that I need to export each track as a .wav file so I can open the tracks in any new Windows recording app I decide to buy if ever. That way I have each track of a multi track file exported ready for any window's recording app. That process with take many days of exporting and burning to DVD as backups, then if I pass on, my kiddo who wants the tracks can use any windows app to remix or add his bass lines, and delete my bass lines which were generated in composition programs to MIDI then rendered to audio with samples or synths.

I only used one other app back in the mid 80's MOTU's Performer 1 through 3 MIDI only sequencer into an Otari 16 track tape deck. Then in 1999 I bought my first Cakewalk product Pro Audio 9 and bought every version of Sonar up until 8.5.3. I still use 8.5.3 to render the mixes from cake's proprietary version into .wav files. After that I could use any windows recording app on those tracks.