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This highly anticipated product release follows BandLab Technologies’ announcement just last month that it had acquired all of Cakewalk’s IP and certain assets from Gibson Brands. SINGAPORE, 4 APRIL 2018 - Today, BandLab Technologies launched early access to ‘ Cakewalk by BandLab’ – replacing SONAR, the iconic DAW developed by Cakewalk Inc. Ensure that you tick the 'Show Friendly Names' tickbox to enable this.So let's take a look at what's new in BandLab Cakewalk according to the official press release: To avoid confusion, you can also rename inputs and outputs by double clicking on their name. You can enable Cakewalk to show mono outputs by ticking the 'Show Mono Outputs' option in the Edit > Preferences > Devices > Audio menu. For example, to use input 3 you would need to select the Left input 3 option in Cakewalk, and to record using input 4 you would need to select Right input 3. If you have a device with more than two inputs, the same logic applies. In this example, to select a mono input, you would need to select "Left Focusrite USB ASIO Input 1" to only use input 1 on the track, or select "Right Focusrite USB ASIO Input 1" to use input 2.

In the above example, the input currently selected on the audio track is "Stereo Focusrite USB ASIO Input 1" which is actually representative of inputs 1 and 2 on the Focusrite device. As such, you will not be able to see each individual input and output when configuring your setup in the Edit > Preferences > Devices > Audio menu.īy default, you will be able to select each individual mono input when selecting the I/O for a particular track, though only stereo outputs. Cakewalk / Sonar lists inputs and outputs in stereo pairs.
