How can I get around this limit

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hello-
how can I get beyond this limit of 16 real-time effects plugins on Cakewalk? I have Homestudio 2002 XL.

I know I can Apply effects to allow for more, but I was reading about some folks using =alot= more than that... would that have been in Sonar? Is Sonar the only way I can get beyond that? I have Windows XP with 1gb of RAM.

thanks
 
I am pretty sure that is a Home Studio limit. Sonar allows for unlimited effects (at least up to what your CPU setup can handle).

As you stated, you can always clone/archive the track and apply the effect to the clone. Also, you can use Aux Busses to lighten the load if you are using the same effect on several tracks.
 
doh !
I sorta knew it was a limit, based on my work but I've never seen it in print....

If I dare, an upgrade to Sonar would be easy? Just a matter of importing bundle files made by my Cakewalk?

I am sort of an effects purist, but we're getting upt to 35-40 tracks per song now, and I'm starting to get picky about =tones I cannot re-track=, that is, the rythym section we had done by a pro. Just an EQ here, compress there, a little on overheads, toms, etc. This leaves me no room for many fun effects for vocals and guitars.

I can't believe I'm talking myself into this. So is this my answer?
THe only thing that would stop me from going Sonar would be any incompatibility or hassles for transferring my Cakewalk stuff. Or maybe the latest Sonar has some big problems in it. ( I have yet to research).
Thanks
 
I'm pretty sure that HS2004 upped the plugin limitation to 24 real-time effects at once, and HS2 is the same.

Sonar's plugin count is only limited by your computer's horse power.

You should not even have to open everything from bundle files, if you get Sonar you can select "use per-project audio folders" in Sonar's options, then open each HS project one at a time with Sonar and do a "save as" to a new folder for each song, and Sonar should automatically create an "audio" folder inside of each song's main folder, and place a copies of all required wave files in it, once this is done, the bundle files become obsolete, because it's just as easy to burn a copy of each songs main folder to CD-R and keep that as your back up.

I went from Guitar Tracks Pro 2 to Sonar 2.2 XL this way with no problems at all.

If you do upgrade, Sonar 4 Producer Edition comes with the Sonitus plugin bundle, and while I don't use them myself, I'm sure that they would be a VAST improvement over the "stock" cakewalk plugins that come with Home Studio, this was the case with the Sonic Timeworks EQ and CompressorX that came bundled with Sonar 2.2XL compared to the "stock" Cakewalk plugins from Guitar Tracks Pro 2.

:)
 
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i've been using sonitus since v2 before hendershit bought the rights to the code and bundled it into sonar. its great stuff. the compressor has a built in look-ahead limiter.

not great enough for me to give up waves, but darn good.
 
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