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One thing that many fail to do when learning software, and I used to fall hugly under this category, is take some time to explore your GUI. We tend to race towards getting the feature we want working and carry on sometimes for years without having a clue about what all that other "stuff" does. Making my tutorials forced me to explore Cakewalks GUI in depth. Showing my friend how it all works made me stop for a moment and ask " Just how many ways are there to insert a soft synth?" ( I found 4 so far) . One of the overlooked features is the HELP MODULE. Open it up and start hovering you mouse over buttons and menu's. It will explain what most of these things do.. Here's a screenshot what it says when you hover the Track Control Preset Widget. And thanks John for giving it an official description.. See, I learned something from that. I didn't know what they were called... I guess Mr SLIP has been hanging out on other forums were comments like that are par for the course. But please folks, that style has never won friends on the Cakewalk forums.

Kilohearts the Works - £100 (or about $129) being resold by 2 private parties on VI Control forum: https://vi-control.net/community/threads/for-sale-kilohearts-the-works-£100.79030/#post-4354736 on KVR forum: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=501095&p=7314949&hilit=Kilohearts#p7314949 This is the lowest price for this that I recall seeing. Note: License transfers are quick and have no penalties - you get same benefits as original buyer: https://kilohearts.com/faq I upgraded to the works over BF and all my components appear to be transferable/resellable - see image below which is one of the components that came with my upgrade to the Works. Don't know if you can transfer items if you originally bought the whole set as 'the 'Works' but it is for components that came with 'the Toolbox' bundle.

She was only the Handyman's daughter, but there were always a tool in her box.

Here are some useful videos for getting started with CbB. These tutorials will help you learn your way around the interface, configure your audio device and get comfortable with common track operations. Note - while many of these videos refer to SONAR, they remain 100% applicable to CbB today. Enjoy! To get Cakewalk by BandLab for free: If you haven't already done so, create your free BandLab user account. Click here to download the Cakewalk by BandLab installer. Launch Cakewalk by BandLab and sign up or log in to your BandLab account. Note: After Cakewalk by BandLab is installed, all subsequent updates can be done directly from within the application via Help > Check for Updates. Other useful resources: Cakewalk by BandLab QuickGuide Support Center Online Documentation

New update now available.

When making an announcement like this please include the name of the software and the release. AFAIK, the current version are: BA - 5.0.4 from Jan 25 CbB - 2019.01 (25.01.0.27) from Jan 23

I know what this thread is about. It's about 6 pages.

The track control manager still exists. It can be access from the track view preset picker as shown in the pic. All settings from the track control manager are also saved with lenses so you can completely customize the track view controls and save a lens preset for it as well.

I believe you can Hold down the Alt key and click and drag the widget sections. Love that feature.

I don't know it this still is in effect but in version 8 we were able to move the widgets around so they would show those we used most on top. I think it was dropped in X1. But I have not tested this or looked around to figured it. The main reason is the Inspector pane. It can show all controls for a track. Sonar 8 did not have the wide Inspector that X1 had and all the version after it.

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From Feb. 14 - 18 save 40% off on HALionSonic 3 (including updates from earlier versions) and a select group of other titles. It is a great time to upgrade to HALionSonc 3 if you re using an earlier version. link to the sale: https://www.steinberg.net/en/promotion/valentines_sale Here is a runthrough demo of HALionSonic 3 I did a little while back. https://youtu.be/NrixEtUO64c

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S.L.I.P., what do you mean by that? Not sure what was redundant. I'm grateful for John's explanation as I had no idea what to call them.

This was probably been mentioned in the old forums, but it will be really cool to have Visual Clip Gain, where the waveforms of the clip increases/decreases based on the amount of gain applied to the clips. This will really help with editing stuff like ghost notes for drums and stuff.

Hi Guy's , I have run across a few movies and documentary's where where Bands, Music , and gifted players have been featured . In some cases these movies and DVD's have revealed many facts and details about the musicians and the bands history I had not been aware of . What I would like to do here in this thread is to create a space where forum members can place their Movie / DVD recommendations w links to their favored flicks featuring players, bands , or anything you feel can bring value to us here on the forum ... It doesn't matter how humble or great the production is . If you have it or know about it please share it ... This post is merely an opening post , I plan on coming back here to add a few recent flicks I have recently posted in other threads . Thank you for considering sharing your flicks in advance , Kenny

Back in the old forums there were statements made about the lack of videos made using Sonar suggesting its unpopularity. Well, there have been a plethora of quite recently uploaded video tutorials on YouTube using Cakewalk By BandLab. For any newbie coming into these forums asking questions, I think a sticky should be made of these videos which are very informative. Below are a few YouTube channels I've found. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwqZ0GPSfFgbc8gLCxaYngRGVvlaf57gI https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSfPaEe4wG_TxprjqVLxh9yAH-zGhA8bH https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDkWv3OTMpOHb2hMjuNWBQWyuhhIF6bHj https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeySI9gLWqezjlplGQqTJyhrbvCvKdzTk

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Wonderful addition I say!!! I don't remember it being here before but a needed addition

particularly interesting with phase plant coming soon - https://kilohearts.com/products/phase_plant

A long overdue section IMO. Good to see. I guess that "Instruments & Effects" could be the new Software section if people choose to use it that way. I suspect that Hardware and Techniques were dropped because of relatively low traffic, but Techniques was often interesting to read even if you had nothing to add to the discussion and was also generally far more civil and drama free than the main forum. Even though I rarely visited the hardware section I think it's important to have as not all problems are to do with software and where else is anyone supposed to ask those questions?

Whenever I see something like that I like to imagine the guy sitting there hurriedly trying to write down what's flowing in his head before he loses it.

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I'd love to contribute to this topic, but all I can think of are the "Behind The Music" series and Spinal Tap...

Why would she wait up for Shrimp from the man? How are Crabs going to help her? Wouldn't she want to wait for a true porpoise 😮

And then watch this-

One more, about Dr Feelgood, to this day, one of the best live bands I've ever seen;

Hi, Steve, I must have missed this one on the old forum, but this is an absolutely fantastic sounding ballad!🙂 Well written and arranged, with heartfelt lyrics and excellent emotional vocals. The instrumental performances are stellar and I love the range of dynamics spread throughout the crystal clear, wide sounding mix. Great work, Steve, this is outstanding!👍 Have a great weekend! Bob

..and another;

Oh, I see, those clip colors will only change to grey if I haven't set my own colors. I presume then that they will also take on whatever default clip colors other themes apply.

If installed following the instructions above, V-Vocal should appear as a Region FX in CbB. Pentagon I is the only plug-in bundled with SONAR X series requiring administrator access to the registry. This may be done by either running the DAW as administrator or modifying the registry as shown in this post. Allowing for the permissions issue should Pentagon fail to load the problem is system specific.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUJP71Y40tM&feature=youtu.be ^^^ Das VortexRyder! (soundtrack foir audio labs...)

As a subscriber to Linus' Tech Tips, I saw this several months ago and was dutifully impressed! As for whether he made comments about anything, well, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and everyone else is entitled to either agree or disagree with them. Censorship in any direction is simply wrong.

The Wrecking Crew Official Trailer I have seen the Movie ...I highly recommend watching it . Kenny

That's because your movies are encoded for stereo playback. How well will this work in a video trying to teach you how to pan surround sound on YouTube, when the creator renders it as stereo or YouTube downmixes it to stereo? The only way to get any value out of that, is to actually be given the media to follow along with the tutorial - using the actual software. (Assuming the user has the appropriate hardware.) People are reacting as if I said "Death to all YouTube Tutorials" and want them all replaced with PDF files. That is not what I stated. What I stated is that Cakewalk should provide the PDF Documentation and CHM Help Files because that stuff works, and almost all of it still applies to Cakewalk by BandLab. Removing it doesn't help anyone. It does the opposite, for no reason other than "this is what they've chosen to do." And all you have to do is perform any search on that documentation site to see how bad it is. It's not like I didn't try to use it 😛

This is still on sale. The individual instruments are also on sale if you are missing some. Looks like sale ends Feb 28th based on when sales of individual instruments end.

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ABOUT THE FILM Music lovers will be astonished at the influence The Wrecking Crew wielded over rock and pop music in the 1960s and early 1970s. These unsung instrumentalists were the de-facto backing band on hit records by The Beach Boys, Phil Spector, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Sonny & Cher, Elvis, The Monkees and many more. These dedicated musicians brought the flair and musicianship that made the American “West Coast Sound” a dominant cultural force around the world.

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I'm no expert, but if somebody is called JohnG, should it not be written as Johng or in the case that the Capital G is being used as a further identifier to the name John (ie not John A,B,C D,E, F etc or maybe being the first letter of a surname) should there not be a space between John and G?

Those are called widgets and the area is the track header.

Agreed, the whole kit was not to my liking. But when he was doing it I thought exactly like he did, I could put this on a snare during a big build up!! Sounded great on that Rhodes, or what was it? The piano part.

I'm not sure I want it for drums, but from the video it sounds pretty good for guitar and piano.

Look at the bottom left of Kontakt. see picture one. Click the little arrow to the right, and it will reveal where the library comes from. See picture two. (not sure why the picture came in so small, since it was three times bigger before upload)

Very convincing video. I might get it!

Great video Chandler. I bought it outright without trying it out or hearing it. Mostly because I like DT stuff and I knew Melda would do it right. Your video showed me exactly that.

There are lighter themes available such as this.... Polar Blue Theme and this... White1 Theme (which is probably more the sort of thing you're after) and the included theme 'Mercury', but I would really recommend trying to create your own, it's a great way to get exactly what you want on all areas.

I can't start a topic in the FAQ forum so here are some suggestions for FAQ items (these are the questions i currently see being asked repeatedly): demo mode offline documentation clean uninstall/reinstall tutorials/utilities what do you think? please add your own, maybe some mods might start utilising the FAQ forum

My first Melda purchase was from AudioDeluxe.com. It looks like the're a week behind currently, which isn't bad because MAtouVolume is a great buy if you don't own it! They are on PlugBoutique.com too. In case you're new to Melda, you can get an additional 20% off the price by using someone's referral code on the Melda site. ( Mine is "MELDA2490257" ...or use a friend's.) Slighty off topic fanboy rant: The Melda plugins are just getting better and better, or I'm starting to appreciate them more. I picked up MTurboReverb and MTurboCompressor on the Xmas sale at PluginDeals recently, and holy crap! I can't imagine needing another reverb! It is THAT good! And I have barely scratched the surface. MAutoVolume and MAutoAlign have been regular go-to's for awhile - and MAutoDynamicEQ. And just look at all of the qulaity plugins in the FREE bundle! He recently added a really decent Convo Reverb and the new MRatioMB. Here's a Chandler video MRatio. Then add the Melda multi-band module to that and wow. I can't say enough about these plugins. Granted, there is quite a learning curve - at least for me - but it's so worth it! ...And @Chandler 's videos have been a huge help in showing off some of the features and making these plugins even more accessible. His video on Thanks Chandler!