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Cakewalk needs to support AAF. The Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) is a multimedia file format that allows you to exchange digital media and metadata between different systems and applications across multiple platforms. Metadata include fades, automation, and processing information. Cubase supports it so does Studio One. Please support it.

Anybody remember Eva Cassidy? I was just watching this video by her. Hadn't thought of her in a long while. Released her first album at 29 and died of cancer at 33. She would have been one of the great ones in my opinion had she lived. Hard to believe she's been gone more than 30 years already.

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Best version of OTR I ever heard!! Listening to Songbird album now. I have heard "Fields of Gold" before. But not like that! Listening to "Walk In The Water" good stuff.

Tapsa's got the right idea if you want to build this out as a complete piece, start to finish. There is no shame in writing whatever moves you and deciding later whether it is a verse, chorus or needs to be broken down further. These sorts of happy accidents really are gifts and are a ton of fun to work with. Really great start here! Dan

i got rid of my sh-101 back in '92, wish i hadn't...

BUY. IT. NOW.

I’ll get it when it’s $29.

Have all topics the old forum had.

This freebie (until Feb 14) just updated with a vst3 version via Aquarius (also updated to v2.1.001) http://acustica-audio.com/pages/specials/acustica-audio-ceil

DX plug-ins are not scanned. They are registered when installed. You can see the physical location for any plug-in when clicking on the plug-in name in the plug-in manager. From the description provided, it appears you used the Cakewalk plug-in manager pointed to by arrow 1. Any custom presets saved in this system are stored in the registry. These presets rely on the Cakewalk Plug-in Presets buttons in the plug-in manager for export/import. Do the Sonitus presets show up under the Preset button pointed to by arrow 2? FYI, the forum resizes images. To embed images without resizing use an image server. The image in this post is on http://imgur.com

You can open the AudioSnap Palette for any given clip to see if it is enabled or not. As for the larger scope of your problem though, doing a save as and choosing "copy audio with project" is probably a better workflow option than saving it as a bundle. You can always zip the new project folder if you need it compressed.

I have been using CBB 2018.11 without a single crash after weeks working on a large orchestral project with tons of VST synths and FX plugged in. I could not have said the same with the Roland and Gibson releases. Please keep focusing on stability and fixes instead of shiny new features. Thank you devs! #Long live CBB!

Unless you purchased the 32bit Sonitus Suite, the plug-ins are not VST format. The bundled Sonitus suite DX plug-ins. The ones you see in CbB should be the ones installed with CbB in the "C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Plugins" folder. Clicking on the plug-ins in the Plug-in Manager will display its location at the bottom of the Plug-in Manager display. The factory presets are in ini files in "C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Plugins." Getting custom presets back depends on how the presets were saved. The Sonitus preset manager is accessed using the Presets button in the body of the plug-in. The Cakewalk preset manager is in the standard header above all plug-in UIs. If the presets were saved using the Sonitus preset manager then they should be in the old ini files. If they were saved in the Cakewalk preset manager then they are in the old PC registry. The plug-in manager provides a way to export/import presets stored in the registry.

The key to formants is small adjustments. It might seem logical that if you transpose up 2 semitones, you should raise the formant by 2 semitones. But singing higher already changes the formant, so if you lower the formant by, say, half a semitone, it will probably sound more realistic. As to "The Huge Book of Melodyne Tips," that's actually not a bad idea...

but does Kylie like Wibbles😀

For some reason she was, and still is, better known in the UK than in America, even though she was American. And yes, she was a real fine fingerpicker too. No one ever talks about her guitar playing, so I'm happy you brought that up.

Hi guys if you are posting BandLab links please use the BandLab embed button on the toolbar to embed the link rather than pasting the link directly. It makes it much easier to check.

It depends on the plug-in not the DAW. All the DAW needs is the path to the plug-ins added to the VST Scan Path. Some plug-ins rely on registry entries including path information or have activation routines requiring the plug-in be installed instead of copied or added by mounting a drive.

Yeah, I figured I had better grab them last night after Fleer's rather emphatic recommendation -- it does not pay, after all, to run afoul of the mighty Fleer. So I did, and you guys are right. Great little library! I can see lots of uses for it already. I like the interface, too.

https://www.karoryfer.com/karoryfer-samples/wydawnictwa/swirly-drums

I have Melodyne Studio, but haven't had much luck with adjusting the formants. It just makes things sound worse. I think we need "The Huge Book of Melodyne Tips". 😁

Very nice ideas! Jumping on the colonial aspect I would take things a bit further still. I would take out the bigger orchestral instruments out of the beginning and focus on the woodwinds and percussion. Bring in the piccolo flute, I was waiting for that. And make the beginning a bit more subdued so that when the orchestra comes in you get a real burst of energy. (Dynamics, again :D) Also the middle part could be a bit quieter with the flute in the foreground and the strings down to a shimmer. And let them rise slowly towards the end of the middle part.

One of the best Will! Such emotion conveyed in her voice it sends shivers down your spine. Also an exquisite acoustic guitarist. Songbird was my first album of hers closely followed by anything I could lay my hands on. I discovered her after she had died and I can remember reading her story and feeling depressed that there would be no new material to look forward to. That said there is plenty to enjoy and they even released a special remastered edition of Songbird last year with extra tracks.

i bought my 101 second hand for 90 quid in 1989, then sold it on to a mate for 90 quid in 1992 when i graduated uni and moved town... i ain't no business man! lol ... (it's the only hardware synth i ever owned...) one thing about early samplers, listening now to music made with them you can really hear the (lack of) bit depth...

I would practice alot. Also I would record in loop mode to choose good takes. Audiosnap is your friend to check transients and move some.

I thought it sounded great too.

Rob, I'm totally blown away with this piece. There's something to be said for acting on inspiration and doing it right now before it fades away. The only minor thing I didn't like as much (can't say I disliked it) were the drum exclamation points at the end of some phrases, eg 0:09 and 0:14. Maybe too many of them, not sure, and probably just a matter of taste. Really nice job on this.

Happy to have this one (or parts of) included: 25+ minutes long. and stuff ranging from AOR piano ballads to melodic rock, to orchestrated film score sections and up to extreme metal, mutitracked live drums on a big kit, actors, dozens of vocal and guitar tracks... it actually had to be split over 5 different projects and then comped together in a master project because it was so tough to manage! 🤨 Getting the CbB project(s) of this would be tricky at this stage, though - my machine has gone through a rebuild a couple of times and a lot of the plugins I used on this have long since been replaced or retired but I can probably get some screenshots of the project itself. The other one that might be interesting is this: This was a clip I shot for an extreme metal band that I work with, but we ended up filming all of the concept footage so it made sense in the edit. When it came time to cut it all down, it felt like a shame to drop 50% of the clip, so I decided to do a movie score version. Again, this had to be split over 8 different projects so I could score it to the video, and then brought together in a master comp project. From memory, Rapture Pro was what got the biggest workout on this, with a few other cinematic booms and fun things like that. All good if this can't be used without the original project files, but if this is workable, I'm happy to include them! 🙂

No, in fact if you're just doing an export, you can just do your edits and processing and just export - no need to freeze or bounce down to new tracks at all. 🙂

I got the 99 dollar voucher too. It looks like a great compressor but I can't afford it at the moment. I'll probably demo it to see if it will be on my "future purchase candidate" list.

MakeMusic not only removes support on older products, they have a history of stopping upgrade offers for older versions (which is why I remain with my ancient Kontakt-era GPO, their sales guys said I needed to buy a full priced GPO 5 and wouldn't extend any upgrade offers). So if you really want this upgrade discount I'd recommend doing it soon.

I'm like so "what does it do?" even though it's free and I installed it.

Few bindings are reserved. A project must be loaded before most binding are active and before the may be changed in preferences. Once changed they may be saved for future sessions. This appears to be by design. To modify keybindings before loading a project would be a feature request.

Screensets are stored with the project. Lenses are global and may be applied to any project.

Well that took me by surprise when the groove kicked in, I was lulled by the Floyd-ish intro. Really good work, super mix and good video to accompany it.

Is it possible to use a you tube video as a reference and if picked I can upload a project

Hi Ian, Nice tune + cool video, Thanks for sharing. Good Job! regards paul

Yes we got notification from Microsoft about this and will be testing this update. It should only affects cases where people were loading up hundreds of instances of plugins inside the DAW. You could hit the ceiling if the plugins were built with an old VC runtime or if they were statically linked with it (static linking is not ideal since every plugin instance has a duplicate copy of the runtime so takes more memory) No other functionality should be impacted. Its good that they fixed it however.

There is but it's a bit fiddly (but works great if you can bear with it). Audiosnap is what you're after: https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=AudioSnap.01.html I'd tend to spend the time dropping in your own manually inserted markers rather than letting Audiosnap try and detect things. It's more work in the beginning, but you'll get much better results in the end.

Back on topic? I use my DAW to store all the plugins I got on sale but rarely use!

Plugin Manager is not really being maintained these days and it hasn't been updated in a very long time. We plan to ultimately depreciate it from Cakewalk. Its only provided for legacy reasons. The only reason you need to ever use it today is for creating plugin layouts. Everything else and more can be done much more efficiently directly within the Cakewalk plugin browser tab, including scanning from preferences. What is the reason you still use plugin manager?

I think some of it may depend on the plug-in if the PIM has to check verification, like whether a dongle is connected. I've also noticed that suites with both stereo and mono plug-ins double the number of plug-ins PIM has to parse, even if you never use one of the flavors. It's worth taking the time to exclude plug-ins that aren't relevant, especially if during the plug-in scan, CbB takes a long time "finding" a particular plug-in.

The plug-in manager like the VST scanner is a separate program from the DAW. It is shared by all versions of SONAR and CbB installed. It may be instructive to know which OS is running. If a virus scanner running and if turning off the virus scanner makes a difference.

Glad that fixed it, but what a weird fix! But hey, as is the case with computers so often its best to just be thankful for it working I guess. For what its worth I thought it sounded kind of groovy with that triplet thing going on.

A song I recorded, produced and played on from a few weeks back. All done in CbB. Hope everyone likes and if you don't -MERRY CHRISTMAS to you anyway! All the very best to everyone in CbB land. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3vJFEgSEmg&ab_channel=AbsoluteMediaDesign

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.