Hi Richard,
As you may know, all of the assets of Cakewalk Music Software, the company,
were acquired a couple of years ago by a company called BandLab. Dancing
Dots can no longer supply licenses for SONAR 8.5 as we had under our special
arrangement with Cakewalk. Consequently, we no longer supply new units or
upgrades of CakeTalking and we no longer offer any kind of free tech
support. We are happy to offer general support through forums like this one
but we officially have discontinued sales and support for both SONAR and
CakeTalking for SONAR.
That being said, if any customer is unable to resolve technical issues, we
are available for a paid technical consultation. But first see what you can
do with help from all of the nice people on this list.
Here are some things to try that I would recommend to anyone running
CakeTalking 8.8.
.
CakeTalking 8.8 Utilities for SONAR 8.5
Reminder: CakeTalking 8.8 only works properly under Windows7 or earlier with
JAWS 16 or earlier. Although it may appear to install properly under more
recent versions of Windows and JAWS, it will not run reliably.
To reset SONAR's ToolBar settings to the proper values for CakeTalking 8.8
and to confirm that your Windows settings are correct, take the following
actions:
Close all programs.
From the CakeTalking entry on the Start Menu, run the following two
utilities from the CakeTalking 8.8
submenu
ResetSONARToolbars
CheckWindowsSettings
If necessary, refer to the CakeTalking settings document for your version of
Windows found in CakeTalking's Setup folder. It contains detailed
instructions on how to configure Windows to work optimally with CakeTalking.
You should find a shortcut to that folder on the submenu of the CakeTalking
8.8 entry on the Windows Start Menu. The name of these documents begins with
"1Settings".
Next, run SONAR 8.5 and see if performance of CakeTalking 8.8 has improved.
Note that if you have any earlier version of CakeTalking, your only option
to reset tool bars and other settings back to their default original values
is to reinstall CakeTalking.
Bill McCann
Dancing Dots
Tel: +1 610-783-6692
<http://www.dancingdots.com/> www.DancingDots.com
Dancing Dots
1754 Quarry LN
Ste DD
Phoenixville, PA 19460-4620
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Richard Moore
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2019 12:32 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: editing query
Will definitely check it tonight
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Phil Muir
Sent: 08 August 2019 16:52
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: editing query
Gosh if that system was configured a few years a go I would be amazed if all
of the settings are still intact. You could always check those as D J X
suggested.
On 8 August 2019 16:42:02 Richard Moore
<Richard.moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi DJX
Thanks so much for getting back to me and I am delighted you are asking
loads of questions. My answers are under each question below if that is ok.
Hello Richard,
1. Are you certain that CT is configured correctly, all toolbars,
screen resolution, windows color scheme etc? Read the setting up guides in
the CT folders in documents if you are not sure.
Answer: I purchased the full set-up from Dancing Dots a few years ago.
They installed all relevant software so I assume the settings are correct.
The system was working properly but I have just noticed this particular
issue recently.
2. Try using f9 and f10 to mark from and through, does that make a
difference? Go to bar 10, press f9 to mark from, then press number 2 on the
numbers row to jump 2 bars forward to bar 12 (the beginning of it) then
press f10 to mark the through point. Then press ctrl plus enter. Does it
still highlight the entire track?
Answer: I normally use shift and f9 to insert the bars. I will try what you
are suggesting tonight when I go home.
3. If you are working with MIDI data only, what happens if you just
press the delete key (the one next to the insert and end keys in the center
cluster of keys)?
Answer: I am using a laptop. There are two delete keys but they are not
beside the insert key. One delete key is on the top row of keys, third in
from the right and the other delete key is directly below on the second row
from the top. When I press the delete without selecting nothing happens.
4. Have you tried selecting things in another project? Does that work?
Answer: Yes I tried deleting a few bars in another project. It worked first
time but I could not get it to work a second time.
5. Are you sure that you are in the custom CakeTalking tab?
Answer: Yes definitely I am in the custom tab
6. Has your sighted friend messed with items on the screen in Sonar's
windows?
Answer: It is possible that he changed something without realizing it but he
is normally pretty clued into that sort of thing. Is there a way to reset
just in case?
7. Finally, and I should have probably asked this first, what version
of JAWS and Windows are you using?
Answer: I am using Jaws 16 and Windows 7. This hasn't changed from the
original set-up by Dancing Dots. I don't have the computer linked to the
internet to avoid possible updates.
I am going to go back at it tonight.
Thanks again for all your help.
Richard
HTH, DJX
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
Of Richard Moore
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2019 4:34 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] editing query
Hi all
Hopefully you can help with this:
I am trying to remove a few bars from the middle of a recording. I seem to
be having a few anomalies.
Here's what I am doing:
1 I am setting the from and through, for example, pressing shift and f9,
typing numbers 10 into in the from tab. Tab once to the through tab and
typing 12. So my from and through is bar 10 to bar 12.
2 pressing control enter to select the track. Jaws reads the track name and
says I have selected from bar 10 to bar 12. I have a sighted friend with me
and he said that although jaws states that the track has been selected from
bar 10 to bar 12 on the screen he can see that the entire track has been
selected.
3 I proceed with pressing control delete which gives a number of options and
allows me to tick the option to delete the whole clip and not just the
content.
4 I end up deleting the full track instead of the piece I have selected.
I am not sure what to do next. Any advice?
Richard
