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I would like to record directly into a Matrix Cell sometimes. Now I record something in a track first, drag it to the browser and then drag it to a Cell. I would like to setup my patterns in Matrix first and then afterwards make the recording in the trackview. Happy holidays Cheers ?

Oh cool. Didn't realize just how many of you guys were out there. I love metal, and always have. I listen to stuff that gets pretty heavy, but what I write and play is mostly a little more melodic metal... a bit 80s influenced, but with more modern metal tones.

I use mine to score chicks. I bet you wish you were me.

Hi guys, I hope all of you have had an incredible 2018 and are looking forward to winding down (if you haven't already) for the Christmas period. For everyone around the world on the BandLab Technologies, BandLab (and CbB) team, it's been a mad 12 months with a tremendous amount of milestones reached, but one of the crowning highlights was of course getting the opportunity to get to know this particularly community better and to bring Cakewalk into being part of our group journey. It feels like only yesterday we were releasing the news, and I hope you guys haven't felt that we have let you down in the months since. We have seen an amazing take-up of Cakewalk since we relaunched the product as Cakewalk by BandLab - far beyond even our own expectations. As I mentioned in a blog post yesterday about reaching 5 million users earlier this month on BandLab - we are humbled by the support, feedback and passion with which you, the community, engage with us, the product and each other. There are too many names to thank, but none of what we have today with Cakewalk would have been possible without Noel, Ben and their desire and vision to be part of the opportunity forward with us here at BandLab. So with that, an early Christmas present we have for all of you is the launch of the new forum! As promised, we wanted to make sure the old format lived on - topics, threads and an incredible resource for anyone getting to know the product. It's not been ideal that we had to turn off new sign ups to forum.cakewalk.com, especially for the massive community of new users who have flooded in around the world to start using Cakewalk - but we hope it was worth the wait. It's a little empty at the moment and is really a clean slate, so please make yourselves feel at home. Forums only exist to serve the community that lives within them so instead of seeding content we thought it would be best to leave it fresh for you to jump in and get comfortable. Instead of the previous situation where nothing can be hosted on the site - we've also decided to launch with everyone having 50MB of usable space per user and there's also a snazzy new BandLab integration (written by Jesse) that allows you to leverage our embeddable players to share your music with other members of the community. Notifications and emails are also all working, though you may experience a couple of emails going to spam, especially if you use Gmail, so make sure you check in that folder if you can't find any notifications from the forum. Jumping in is easy, just like this forum was accessed via a single sign-on Cakewalk account - this is now the case with your BandLab account and you can connect straight through and set up your profile. I hope you guys will like the new home and we look forward to sharing more about the things we've got in the roadmap for the year ahead. If any of you are planning to be at NAMM in Anaheim for the January show, please also don't hesitate to reach out and stop by to say hello! Much love, Meng & all on the BandLab Team p.s please also send your appreciation to @Jesse Jost and @laurent for their hard work in getting this place up and running amongst all the other things they are working on! ------ Why did we create this new site for the forum instead of continuing to use the old one? As I'm sure you'll notice, the new site allows us to develop on a much stronger infrastructure and architecture for the go forward - providing our users the opportunity to create new accounts (sorry!) but also to introduce more forum tools, user storage, Q&A discussions for better technical engagement, community voting and more. The new site also helps to provide a fresh start for the go-forward whilst not destroying the structure of the old site and potentially affecting the value of it as a resource to the community. Will the old forum go away? In a couple of weeks' time, the old forum will become read-only, at which point you will no longer be able to post. However, we feel (and have taken your recommendations) that it remains a vital resource for the long term and we intend to keep it hosted and to remain in its current place at https://forum.cakewalk.com.

Just testing a post really, but this a song of mine I'm kinda proud of ... with its very personal lyrics!

A Bandlab Collaboration, mixed in cakewalk by Benevolent Mutation Studios. Video created by myself as well. Please enjoy!

Here is a link to all the Vertical Alignment stuff we've released since early this century, all done in various Cakewalk's: https://verticalalignment.bandcamp.com/

Wow! So cool to see this rebirth! My hat is off to all who made this happen. I look forward to many decades of joy! Looking forward to our future!

Got it Want to stretch and drop pitch. That is a Loop Construction View thing. Open the clip in the LCV From the LCV Clip menu enable Stretch On/Off Set the Threshold to 0 To change the clip length modify the BPM Then adjust the Pitch/Fine Pitch as desired. For example, to create an effect like running tape at half speed: double the BPM and set Pitch to -12. Once it sounds right, bounce the clip for best fidelity,

Pro Tools is a bottomless money pit.. It never stops costing you something close to another 1000, then another 1000, and then when you finally think you've got it made to the top of the heap, Apple will reinvent Thunderbolt, give it a new connector design, and Avid will drop support for your audio interface, and all your FX plugins will stop working stably. But......... Pro Tools is the industry standard, and it'll never stop making you money if you take the time in mastering it so like it or not it's the only way to maintain a stable footing and living in the industry, save for the highly unlikely event of becoming the next big thing in the rock star world, is being the guy who knows how to use Pro Tools.. That being said, I like Pro Tools well enough, maybe not as much as I love Cakewalk, but I do like it very much.. Why you ask?? Because 9 out of 10 professional recordings I'm involved in are deeply involved in using Pro Tools, and 10 out of 10 mixing sessions I'm involved are done in Pro Tools. I gave up raving about how much better I feel Cakewalk is then Pro Tools years before Roland even thought of passing it on to Gibson Brands because nobody in the industry that will to pay me on a regular basis for services rendered could care less about anything other than making the quickest and smoothest profit return on their investments with and thru their finer "Financial Instruments". And the sound of any other "Instruments" falls squarely into deaf ears and will forever be ignored as the incessant whining of the gears of the talented and such who seek the ever elusive unicorn of perfection. And so looking at it in that respect, I could only assume that Pro Tools is in fact the best DAW anyone could learn how to use if you have any intentions of actually making money in the music industry. And while I have always much preferred working in Cakewalk as a simple affordable solution and way to take my music projects to a much higher level of creativity with all the professional quality tools included in the box that I could ever afford to do with building Pro Tools to a reasonably comparable powerful creative solution. As far as the folks in industry are concerned, being nothing is going to be released before running thru Pro Tools as an industry standard, and other DAW is merely an added expense for us creative types which is and I'm pretty sure will always be considered "None of their business." anymore then they care if you play a $300 Epiphone Les Paul or a $4500 Gibson Les Paul. Because in the end product, nobody will be able to tell the difference anyway. And so what would be the best DAW anyone could possibly hope for? Well you're never going to find out if you keep jumping from ship to ship before you actually know enough to make an informed decision about everything your DAW can do and build a working knowledge and understanding of how to use it. You can waste your entire lifetime sifting through learning curves and never actually learn a damn thing about recording properly or creating great sound music projects that way. Or understanding the importance of knowing the differences between choosing a VCA, FET, or Opto compressor? Cakewalk has them all, seek and you shall find. Ever wonder why Cakewalk ProChannel has 4 different types of EQ's built into one module? Why do high pass filters effect the bass and low pass filters effect the high freqs, and why you should even bother using them? What's so freak'in ultimately COOL about having 3 choices of Channel and Buss emulation built in? Ever wonder what ProChannel even IS, and why it's one of the things about Cakewalk that sets it heads above any other DAW out there for very useful, powerful, and important tools included in the box? What makes it different then just using an FX bin? Ever work with Cakewalk's "Take" and "Envelope" lanes? Drum Replacer? Matrix? Vocal Sync? Audio Snap? Session Drummer 2 or 3? Dimension Pro? Rapture? Rapture Session or Pro? Cakewalk Studio Instruments? TTS 1? Sonitus plugins? Do you know the difference between Channel plugins, Buss plugins, and Mastering plugins? Or why you can, but really shouldn't use place them in the wrong places. Of course the only rule to making rock music is "there are no rules", but knowing what the rules are before breaking them is a great way to realize that maybe it isn't the DAW being as stupid as you may think, LoL.. Keep making that mistake and you deserve to be forever broke buy new DAWs until you find one that can read your mind and automatically "know what you want it to do."? It's MUCH easier to adapt to a DAW that it is trying to find one that will adapt to you. If you could think about comparing DAW's as you would "Coloring Books" and all plugins and tools as the "Colors", you should clearly be able to see that Cakewalk comes stocked with the biggest box of "Crayons" and "Color Pencils" of any other DAW.

I've treated myself to a nice new 'Paul McCartney' hairdo fer Xmas ... .... Mullet of Kintyre

CAL still works: http://members.ziggo.nl/t.valkenburgh/Cakewalk Application Language Programming Guide.pdf There's also Alexey's AZ Lua MFX plugin: http://www.azslow.com/index.php?topic=286.msg1370

Ah that was a fun track. Thank you.

I followed every one! \m/ Thanks leadfoot. I have rock stuff to. “Seeing Clearer” is on there. Probably my most mellow recent song. Phil, surface of solar winds was a good jam man!

Anderton has already posted on the new forum? I never joined Facebook and I hope I never have to.

Thank you sir, it was inspired by my Australian friends, but I myself am from New Jersey ? it was a blast to create this... thing. Hahaha

That was pretty heavy stuff!

Yep! Solo Metal Artist here ?‍♂️ \m/. I also put some stuff from my new album on Bandlab. Not sure if links are allowed Tri Tones https://www.bandlab.com/revisions/3d377e12-2e20-e811-80c3-00155d60d108

Really excellent albums Pete.

My DAW is used to record my own music, simply for the love of music. No paychecks, unfortunately, but there's nothing like the feeling of creating something, and feeling like it's a good song and that it was well mixed.

Thanks for the follow man. I returned the favor.

I would prefer the post count to be ported over. It provides some degree of context for long-time contributors — long-term experience.

My experiences in the studio with Cakewalk have been largely good ones. It has been my main studio workhorse for years. I have a few others. Always went to Cakewalk for creation purposes. The other DAWs I have are Traction, Studio One 4 Pro, Ableton Live 10, Mixcraft Pro 8. I like them enough to probably keep at least bi yearly updates on all aside from CbB which updates free. The others all have some use depending on what you want to do. I don't think the average user has the time to jump between a bunch of daws and get anything done. DAWS I might buy. Acid Pro 8. I have Acid 7 and might upgrade it simply because I like working looped material in it better than anything else. DAWS I tried and never ended up using. Reaper, Cubase. Not bad programs. I simply don't have the time to invest in learning another DAW. I was never attracted to Mixbus. What appears to be a console emulation with DAW function. I downloaded it and played a bit with it. Decided it wasn't for me. Have tons of emulation plugins already. I am beginning to write notation for groups. I needed a program to use for that. As someone who prefers creating in a DAW in real time, the idea that I could export to Notion from Studio One appealed to me. I DON'T like writing notes in one at a time in any program be it midi or notation. CbB has some notation ability which maybe I should investigate more. I believe it is very rudimentary though. Would get the job done on a simple project. For those looking at notation option there's also a decent marriage between Sibleus and Pro Tools. Maybe better in some ways than Studio One/Notion. Never used that setup personally. You don't need rewire with Studio One though it has the option. You can use another built in protocol that makes transfer easier to do.

I listened to cuts from all four albums Pete. Just great. Absolutely killer stuff. It's a shame you guys weren't recording back in the 70's. You might have been big in that era. Will

I'm hoping with Jesse back he is given time to update the Matrix. For those that don't know Jesse was one of the Programmers for Project5.

We've only posted a few songs there but since we're a collaboration already we don't have much need for that aspect of Bandlab.

Man, can I relate to this! Speaks my 63 year old language. Just a thought-Better metformin than insulin. ?? ?John B.

Ha ha! Love it! An ingenious mix of found sounds and Lord knows what else... Very original to say the least! Loved it, and the barmy video! Maybe you have to be a Brit or Aussie to fully appreciate! (It's a brave soul that includes Rolf in something! ....) ??

If you want to explore an alternative to Winamp for this, Foobar2000 also lets you stop at the end of each song (in Preferences | Playback check "Stop playback after the current track" and uncheck "Reset the above when stopping"). AMB

Any of you here using Bandlab to share your music or collaboration? I've been using it a whole lot, making good friends and music on there, it's been really cool.

You can choose what to load, so if your instrument sound hasn't changed, don't reload it. I wrote an article about Mix Recall for Sound on Sound magazine that explores some of the creative possibilities. For example it's great for saving different versions of songs, including ones with vocals up 1 dB, down 1 dB, etc. One of the most outstanding aspects for me is being able to that you can recall certain mix elements from particular scenes - for example if the mix on the bass and drums was perfect in one scene, you can recall just that part into a later scene that got the other tracks right, but lost the recipe on the bass and drums. Just remember that Mix Recall is indeed that, not Arrangement Recall. If you've made changes to the arrangement itself, like added or deleted clips, Mix Recall will affect only the mix-related parameters that relate to the arrangement.

Welcome home Phil.

Welcome Bob. I think decades ago I bought one of your style packs for BIAB.

All Cakewalk technology assets were acquired, including the instruments. Can't provide specifics at this time, but we haven't forgotten about instruments and effects.

Noel, Daryl1968 and I will be by for sure. Bitflipper is supposed to be there too.

Hey, maybe you can have Brandon Ryan run a demo for you for old time' sakes

Thank you all for the warm welcome. I know I'm going to like it here. I'm gigging every day until (and including) Christmas, and if too much family doesn't get in the way after that, I plan to do a disk image of my hard drive and then install Cakewalk before the next gig on New Year's Eve. Then the Cakewalk fun begins. I probably should have waited until after the tourist season to get started with this, but I got a new computer, put my other music apps on it, and while I was at the Band-in-a-Box forum, I read some nice posts about Cakewalk and decided to go for it. My uses will be for two main things: Making backing tracks for my duo. I sequence them in MIDI, entering the parts mostly in real time from start to end. Drums first, then bass, and whatever comp parts I want to add. I always leave out the most fun parts for Leilani and I to play live on the gig (we don't want the machine to have all the fun). I could use Audio but I've been making MIDI tracks for the duo since 1985, before audio was practical, and I like the consistent sound with my earlier tracks. I have a half dozen sound modules and a couple of hardware samplers. I use a MOTU MIDI Express 128 to route the sounds to the best module for each part, combine the synths in an old Samson 12 channel mixer, route to another computer via AUDIO->USB interface, make a WAV file and rip to a 192k mp3. My work flow and use on stage can be accessed here http://www.nortonmusic.com/backing_tracks.html Making aftermarket styles for Band-in-a-Box. The recording is the same, except it's all done over one chord root (C). Depending on the style, I'll record a long sequence with variations that I plan to import into BiaB. The variations might be for situations like a V7 chord leading to the I for the next A section or the ii of a ii V7 I progression. BiaB takes car of the transposing, and there are handles in the BiaB StyleMaker that will let the specialty patterns appear in musically appropriate situations. Sometimes I use Band-in-a-Box while making my duo backing tracks as a starting point or for the 'mule work' (background comp parts) if there is an appropriate style. This is entirely song dependent. Some of PGs MIDI styles have quantized drums so I'll be very interested in Cakewalk's ability to turn them into something that has a groove. MTPro has a change filter that works well. I'm not opposed to learning a new way to do this. I don't do much song writing, everything I've tried I'm not happy with. Most is either too simple or too complicated and definitely not hit material. Oooh and the words, I can't believe how corny I can be ;) But on the gig, I love to improvise and am a bit of a solo hog. The duo fits me fine for that ;) I went duo because clubs and private parties were all downsizing and a duo can make more per person around here than a bigger band. I love to play music, but I have to pay my bills too. Leilani and I were in a 5 piece band at the time, and we lost a bass player, then a drummer and was out of work for a couple of months total while breaking in the new. So I bought a 4 track Teac reel to reel and started making backing tracks. Then came a keyboard with a sequencer followed by my first computer (Atari ST) and after trying a couple of sequencers I settled on Master Tracks Pro. I used it on my Mac Classic II and when it came out for Windows 3.1 I switched to Windows. The duo with the woman who is now my wife is great. We keep all the money, we can travel and go wherever we want, we both have strong work ethics, we collaborate well, and we really have a lot of fun on stage together. When I met her she was playing in another band and we became each others' groupies. My band broke up, hers was about to, and a pianist friend asked if we wanted to do a light jazz and some pop trio. We were in. Jazz doesn't pay around here though. We've been in a few groups up to 5 piece since then, but the duo provides the most stability. We haven't been out of work since our second year as a duo. We have close to 600 songs mostly for the adult audience (45 to those at the coda of life) and found it to be a good niche for business here in South Florida where there are a lot of yacht clubs, country clubs, and retirement developments. The list consists of mostly Baby-Boomer pop, with some newer songs that appeal to that audience, some country, reggae, soca, calypso, Latin American, and whatever they ask for if we can cover it. This is all probably TMI for most, but I'm going to make some new friends here, and I hope to learn more about you all as well. Notes

Seasonally appropriate video (previous project) whose audio was done with Sonar. Enjoy! ?

It's awesome that Cake is having a renewed presence at January NAMM. Still remember the big announcement of the fiirst SONAR coming from January NAMM (2001, I think).

Yeah, I get it. The whole drum map process needs a rewrite. I suspect it is a pretty big job. In the meantime. while not as convenient as directly editing the drum map to the left of drum grid, there is a tool which converts a text file (using the ins format described above) to a drum map. It may be easier than the existing drum map editor for some workflows. The tool is called Ins2map and is available from http://dis.sesseler.de/. To get the tool “Cakewalk SONAR” on the left side of the web page then click “Instrument to Drum Map” link to download the zip.

Thank you @Jesse Jost @laurent @Morten Saether @Meng and everyone involved in bringing this forum to life. It's great to see the regular faces here, but it will also be great to welcome in the new blood. I'm looking forward to more of the great discussions we've had over the years in the old forum.

No plug-ins related to Cakewalk but we will be showcasing all the great new features in CbB and the brand new BandLab integration. We're going to have the biggest presence we've had in years so it will be very exciting. The booth design is very slick. If you are in the area do stop by.

I agree. The Hardware and Software and Techniques are very helpful.

+1

I took a look around and I like it. Clean and tidy. LogIn was easy for me, I'm looking forward to a lively community. Good Job ? Got to test it on the mobile as well (as mentioned by Noel). So, time to make some music. . . .? Happy Holidays to all of you ?

Big thanks to the entire Bandlab & Cakewalk By Bandlab team for their hard work setting up this beautiful. new, modern forum, and also for resurrecting and improving the fantastic Cakewalk software platform and keeping this amazing community of musicians together! Great work, everyone!?? Bob

I like the look: fine I am good with the new editor: fine Here's what I don't understand: It has been a long-time coming for the replacement of the old forum, and as recently as about last week, it was stated on the old forum that it was "not as easy as one would think". I was expecting that the delay in all of this was the bringing over of all of the old profiles, signatures, preferences, forums, posts, etc., but instead I get here and it is a completely blank slate. This is also fine, as I'm sure many will be glad for the clean-up, but then, why did it take so long? As a web designer/developer and user of Many packaged systems, like forums, blogs, etc, isn't this just a brand new forum that should be able to be thrown up in a shorter period of time? That all said - thanks to all those involved in keeping Cakewalk alive and continuing to move it forward. I'm critical, sure, but still hanging on the sidelines to see what is happening, where Cakewalk is headed, and how the product and (importantly) the forums will move forward. Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, and a festive "whatever you celebrate" to all!

Yep, new car smell, nice wash and waxed look!! Very clean!

The 2018.11 release brings you file load performance enhancements, bug fixes, updated Overloud plugins, and a brand new export control bar module with seamless one click integration to export projects to the BandLab cloud and fast access to common file export operations. Features & Enhancements For details see New Features Export Control Bar module for fast access to common file export operations Publish to BandLab, with options for full mix, track stems, or bus stems, and full support for project revisions Updated BREVERB 2 Cakewalk full VST plug-in Updated version of Overloud TH3 that is fully compatible with Cakewalk by BandLab Project load optimizations, including faster load times of large multitrack projects and projects that contain many AudioSnap transient markers UI optimizations, including faster track scrolling and navigation in big projects Smaller update installer that will only copy the necessary files required for a given update (only able to install over the previous release version; full installer available when updating from older versions) Bug Fixes Slip stretching (CTRL+SHIFT+drag) is not possible with Edit tool Cannot preview M4A/MPEG-4 audio files in Media Browser Crash on project load using 2018.09 build 29 Closing toast notification for VST Scan should hide further toasts until scan completes Potential crash and incorrectly mapped parameters when opening Craig Anderton FX chain that uses Overloud TH3 Changelog for latest release is here. See prior release notes. Check out all new features released to date.