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Spent some time with Mike Balzarini (great guy!) at the Cakewalk section of the BandLab booth (Noel was out walking around at the time). Walked away from this experience feeling really confident that Cakewalk is here to stay long-term. And while the Cakewalk section was moderate, it was given a key location, right out front at the BandLab booth. And it was staffed! The overall BandLab booth was first rate. Large. High profile location. And with quite an impressive array of components. Best Cakewalk presence since...well...pre-Roland Era!

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Meeting Noel in an hour along with Daryl.

Do they have a 'Bapu' setting or mode? If not what good is it?

Bandlab is doing something way ahead of its time. So for them to own their own DAW is an integral part of their process. They sell interfaces, Harmony guitars and more. I know what your thinking.."There must be more than that". Well maybe there is.. Maybe its the analytic data they want. If Bandlab wants access to how many times I hit the Undo button, by all means let them. I can understand where your curiosity might get the best of you but just let it play out. Use Cakewalk and be happy. I consider what Bandlab has given us (this past year) as a gift. A big one at that.

Hi guys , I just got one of my guitars back from a friend of mine . He held on to it for me for 25 years . What we have here is my 62 Fender double bound MIJ Esquire in Candy Apple Red . Pardon my fuzzy pics ..I'm not set up with the lighting over here I bought this guitar brand new in 1986 when I worked at Mannys Music on W 48 th . The first thing I did was to pull the neck off my Esquire and store it n a safe place . Since I wanted Jumbo frets , I walked over to Rudys Music and bought one of the necks he was using for the Pensa Suhr guitars of that era . BTW I waited 20 years to put the Esquie neck on one of my current Teles. I may show that one someday Last but not least , at the time I didn't have a Tele with a Humbucker in the neck position so I put one in a Gibby HB in back then ... This guitar is a keeper so I'm not at all worried about the rise and fall of guitar prices . all the best Kenny

No politics!

Haha no worries, I’m a newbie anyway and yeah forgot to mention there’s 40% off on other plugs *be aware though, I bought his other plugin Structure during Black Friday and though it’s a really useful plugin it causes Reaper and Ableton to crash if ever you try to remove it as a VST. Asked dev and he said he was aware of issue. Didn’t mention anything about a fix though so I have since uninstalled, wasn’t worth the hassle

I would not have expected Rayzoon to get there first. Ralph's one guy, and since adding Mac support, he just wouldn't have enough time. I also don't think he's the right guy for the job. Part of it is because he is a drummer and not a bass player, but another part is that he is very biased towards jazz and metal and seems unfamiliar with R&B and Pop. If he were to develop JamBass along similar lines as JamStix, the list of bass player models might look like Jaco Pastorius, Geddy Lee, Jason Newsted, Jeff Berlin, Les Claypool, Steve Harris, and Cliff Burton. Meanwhile users would be pleading for James Jamerson, Paul McCartney, Carol Kaye, Larry Graham, Bernard Edwards, John Paul Jones, Bootsie Collins, Mark King, etc.

Thks Larry for sharing , really surpised by the sonic quality alone , the workflow is great , could be even better !!! CPU hit is ruff !!! I didn't yet upgraded my mercury , i keep waiting to be worth of it , but with relase at 29 , 49 i'll have to wait for a couple of release , hard to resiste this one and the omnichannel for fast A/B to hear the sounds of it on drums go at 36 min for session set up go a 14 min ! Cheers

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Funny side note here. I got my teen age daughters hooked on Marvel Agents of Shield. My 16 year old is upset that it is not on yet for the season. We are watching from the beginning on Netflix. So I think to myself, I must be doing something right. My kids want to watch Sci-fi with me Wife is even watching with us😎

Yesterday I was looking at ways to calm the harshness of the pizeo pickup on my DI's acoustic guitar. I'd seen IR's for reverb and cabinets, but I was wondering if anyone had done them for the actual guitar body. Turns out 3Sigma Audio has: https://www.3sigmaaudio.com/acoustic-impulses/ So what these claim to do is take my harsh DI'd acoustic guitar and make them sound as if it came out of an expensive guitar body, mic'd with an expensive mic. Whilst it didn't make my guitar sound exactly like a Martin, it did give it that mic'd sound and took away the piezo harshness. Overloud TH3 (bundled with CbB) comes with an IR Cabinet effect, so this is what I did to get the sound I wanted: Note: These IR's are QUIET, so you'll have to crank the output considerably. Before: http://msmcleod.co.uk/cakewalk/piezo_guitar_DI_with_IR_before.wav After: http://msmcleod.co.uk/cakewalk/piezo_guitar_DI_with_IR_after.wav

Well done you utter bell end. What unusually named songs have you written?

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Mike told me they're working on (or have completed?) a conversion/migration tool to bridge BandLab project files to Cakewalk project files so that they can help people evolve to higher level creation. Got the sense that BandLab will continue to acquire/rescue/resuscitate worthy brands that fit with the vision of accessible available music creation for the masses. And, not sure if it's mine to share the specifics, or if they've already shared this elsewhere, but I now have zero concern that should Command Center ever go down (which is not their intent), that we will have no problem with authorization.

Hi abacab , Thank you for the warm welcome , now I feel all warm and fuzzy inside ... Street Cred ? I would be happy if I don't repeat all the mistakes I made at the other Forum , I'm looking forward to this new start , all the best , Kenny

yeah, can't stop laughing Thing, is, though, you are instructed by your insurance providers NOT to apologise at the scene of an accident. But Mr. Windsor did, according to the guy interviewed that pulled him out if his Chelsea Tractor, express concern for the other party. And if the guy who put me in hospital for six weeks, after knocking me off my motorbike in 2009, had turned up to say "sorry," my missus would probably have told him to feck off. You will also find that the police, in such a situation, strongly advise against contacting the third party. Anyway, Mr. Windsor wasn't driving:-

funny I was thinking who will be first ezbass or rayzoon bass software.

An interesting video, albeit for REAPER:- And one about Gain Staging, which, for me, was quite an eye opener:-

Will there be room for both of them on the t-shirt?

Very nice update, the arp to midi was something I had requested a while back, nice to see it implemented in this update.

Hey, James, WOW! Way to kick things off on the new forum with a really cool, monster instrumental rocker!😀 Spectacular guitar work, as always from you, I love the rich tones and the fiery playing. Lots of really cool melodies, the keyboards are the perfect pad for the tasty guitar work, and Preston's playing and drums sound amazing, much like with our good old DT buddies. The mix is clean, warm and fully textured with a perfect style for quality progressive rock like this. Fantastic stuff, James, it's always great to hear a new one from you, and I'm looking forward to enjoying many more! PS: (same note I left for our friend Yoyo), The night the old forum froze, I logged in one last time at 11:19pm to try to thank you, Yoyo, Daryl, Leadfoot and Bobby for the very kind shout outs and comments that you guys made earlier in the week, but LOL,😀 I guess I was 19 minutes late and a dollar short, because apparently it had already flipped to read-only at 11pm! Anyway, sincere thanks again for the kind words and bump, and I'm looking forward to hearing much more new music from you over here! I also just wanted to mention that you and Strummy were the very first two that were kind enough to welcome me to the old forum more than eleven years ago, and I truly still appreciate that, my friend!🙂 Have a great weekend, James! Bob

In case anyone else is experiencing a problem with the Cakewalk audio engine being stopped when pressing the RANDOM button in any of the Audifier Randomisers series (Abstrung, Aerkord, or Vesper), I might mention that I managed to solve this problem on my system by increasing the DropoutMsec setting from the default 250 to 1500 in Preferences > Audio > Configuration File.

Steve - thanks so much, I like me some Focus (no yodelling though..) Lynn - thank you! I will get around to a video soon, I enjoy doing that

Mr. Robinson also wrote a Star Trek novel about Garak called "A Stitch in Time." If you like the character of Garak you will really enjoy the book. He traces the history of "Plain and simple" Garak - his childhood, his work in the Obsidian Order, his loves and more. And he writes the book in the same "voice" as Garak in DS9. https://www.amazon.com/Stitch-Time-Star-Trek-Space-ebook/dp/B000FC0UXU

I loved her post. After the oohs and ahs comes the voice of reason, do I really need another plugin?

In Cakewalk and Cubase CLA Mix Hub (vst3 version) gets the track name from the DAW. In that video it looks like he had to type the track names by hand. Is that a Studio One problem? Handy Cakewalk/SONAR tip, if you mult-select tracks(select the track number in the mix/trackview) and hold ctrl while dropping a plugin it will add it to every selected track. Can be a big time saver with this.

Well they were lost in the Delta quadrant and nothing else to do

It was a real shame Enterprise didn't run for longer. I enjoyed most of Voyager, but I got a bit tired of "yet another holodeck based episode".

Brilliant, James! Neat chord progression and guitar tones all the way through. The drumming is very good, and this song is begging for a video. Upper tier through and through.

Ah... I miss the 80's sometimes... I wonder how many people really even know what they're missing now? They just play stuff through the speaker on their phone or PC and think it's good enough. *Bleh!* I had a wealthy friend in San Diego that had these super expensive old-style speakers (i.e., not the active grid kind). They must have been four feet tall and more than two feet across! Cost him tens of thousands of dollars even back then...

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OOOoooh just found this, I should have been the first to hear it ... a s h a m e d of myself 😒! Anyway for my bit I feel it reminds me a bit of FOCUS but with guitar .. danno how just does, up to your tricks with those fingers James ... and although I felt the snare a tad high to my ears, still great stuff 😊 SPAK ..... (My name is Steve though 🙃)

Left a comment on YT ...means more there 😉

I like it.

Here's a version for Sonar 3 thru Platinum: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qNsnKBASsnsALygDDQSQ4jFW6yhZIJZcIpfwH-6qgy0/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true

From what I can gather from the video it works like this: You put one instance on every track, this "registers" this track with the plugin You then go to the assign tab (from any instance of the plugin), which lists the registered tracks. You then assign the registered tracks to buckets So the display CLA has of 4 instances showing each tab, is 4 separate instances (from any 4 random tracks) with the appropriate tab and bucket selected. So in essence, you can control all tracks from any instance.

Since all these updates do is update the installer to better use system standard folders (like \Program Files\Common\VST3), I'm passing them up.

Isn't it what ProChannel is all about? I chose Sonar for this functionality. Obviously CLA plugins sounds somewhat different, but I prefer the workflow of the ProChannel. It's so genius! BTW, did anyone notice that Chris is talking to me?

I dont know if you have any Inspiration from Christopher Franke, but I can hear something there.

I already have, thanks. Great stuff. Wibbles loves a drone.

Beautiful production, as always. Nice song too.

@yeto could be a bug with that menu.

Have you seen these? There are 50 video tutorials produced by StreamworksAudio for Sonar X2. They are probably complete enough to give a newcomer a good start on the core workflow, although it would lack many of the newer features. Those are probably not necessary to learn the basics though, and many professionals got their work done on even older versions of Sonar. The GUI hasn't been changed drastically since the X series introduced the "Skylight" interface. SWA Complete Sonar X2 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKRYWdEpbc5PgUgvrNuSvVyfv5qkll0qj This should be the index to the video chapter titles:

For newcomers to CbB there is this article-series by Craig Anderton at the Sound on Sound magazine. If you start here; https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/software/daw/sonar-cakewalk?page=2 then you have a lot of tips considering it is one per month over several years. When you come to 2016 everything should work with CbB. They are free to read up to september 2018.

Here is a dropbox link to several help resources, including the very long manual and the *.chm help file. Not really sure how old this stuff is. I hope this is kosher and not violating any copyrights in a way that Bandlab objects to. If so I will delete them. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vao8c2k6xhi8zl9/AAA9Vn63GPBNZqv5aAlMv7Qfa?dl=0

Aside from using MIDI CC in the PRV, it is possible to access MIDI automation in the Track View but MIDI automation parameters are available only on MIDI tracks. This means the instrument track must be split in order to see the underlying MIDI track. The audio and MIDI track may be reformed as an instrument track but the MIDI automation will not show in the instrument track. Make or split instrument tracks using the track view track menu or the context menu in the track header. To add MFX plug-ins to an instrument track use the FX Rack in the MIDI tab of the track inspector.