

And if you have an 'un-delete' utility for your PC, you may even be able to recover deleted files. It displays relationships between Cakewalk Project files and associated WAV files, so that you can locate missing files, determine which WRK files use which audio files, and audition or delete files. Audio Finder, which deals with the problem of knowing you have an audio track on your hard drive but not knowing where.Plug-in Manager, which provides a way to rename and organise plug-ins.Discwelder Bronze: Trial version for burning DVD-Audio discs.Each of the utilities, as follows, needs to be installed separately: Click on 'Install', then on 'Install Utilities'. To install these, close any open programs, then insert the Sonar installation CD (you won't need the serial number for this aspect of installation). in which case you may have missed the options to install some MFX (MIDI FX) and utilities. When you clicked on the Install option of the Sonar 4 installation disk, there's a good chance you clicked 'Install Sonar 4 ' and left it at that. Over the couple of months that I've been using Double Desktop I've experienced no stability problems or other glitches. To return to normal, just exit the program. To make it easy to know which desktop you're on, you can choose different wallpaper for the second desktop and change icon label colours separately for both desktops. What's more, if you're already running a dual-monitor system, each desktop becomes a dual-monitor desktop, so essentially you have two pairs of two screens. Or you could drag all your soft-synth interfaces to one desktop and switch between working with Sonar itself and editing synth sounds. It stays there until you exit the program. You might set up the console view in the 'extended' desktop while the main desktop shows the track view, which you would do by 'pushing' the console into the other desktop, switching, then dragging it the rest of the way. Best of all, it's free for non-commercial use. This efficient system-tray utility doubles the width of your desktop, then lets you switch between the two halves using an arrow button in the system tray (or a hot key). If you've found yourself wanting a way to organise your desktop differently, visit and download Double Desktop. Although Sonar lets you save screen layouts and recall them, it's not as useful as a dual-monitor system. With any modern sequencing host, not just Sonar, it seems there's never enough screen space.

More screen space without having to buy a second monitor - just one of the Sonar nuggets we've got for you this month.
