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Hi, I'm the author of Dragonfly Reverb. In case anybody here is interested, I've been working on an update that includes a new plugin. The old one has been renamed "Dragonfly Hall", and the new one is "Dragonfly Room". Download beta release 1.9.5 Please don't use Dragonfly Room for any "real work" yet, I'm still working on stabilizing it based on feedback from people testing it. Dragonfly Hall can be considered stable. It is mostly the same as the original Dragonfly Reverb plugin, and identifies itself as such to your DAW. If upgrading from an earlier version, please delete it and replace it with Dragonfly Hall Reverb, any existing sessions that were using the older one should automatically use Dragonfly Hall Reverb with the same saved settings.

Nice sounding free reverb comparable to some commercial products. Page link: https://github.com/michaelwillis/dragonfly-reverb Direct download links: 64 bit VST 32 bit VST MacOS Linux A small thread on VI Control regarding this... https://vi-control.net/community/threads/dragonfly-reverb-very-nice-free-reverb.77946/ Edit - Update!: Michael has released another nice reverb (also free) - "Dragonfly Room" ! More info in posts below. June 4th update: Dragonfly Room 2.0.0 release candidate is now available. If no major bugs are reported, this will be promoted to an official 2.0.0 release. Direct download links: 64 bit Windows 64 bit MacOS 64 bit Linux June 21st, 2019 update: Version 2.0.0 is now official, and finally there is a proper landing page: https://michaelwillis.github.io/dragonfly-reverb Direct download links: 64 bit VST 32 bit VST MacOS & Linux Feb 7, 2020 update: 2.91 beta is out - further information from Michael below Feb 19, 2020 update: v3 RC released DragonflyReverbRoom, DragonflyHallReverb, and new DragonflyEarlyReflections! Feb 29, 2020 update: Dragonfly Reverb Version 3.0.0 has been officially released! - further information from creator Michael Willis below

You are getting all emotional on us. Like a Norwegian would.

This whole popularity thing is also driven by genre and "what's happening now". At the moment Electronic music (in the box) production is driving the industry, the concept is, anyone can become a star overnight if you just buy Ableton Live suite and sit down at a computer. You don't need to know anything about music at all, just move your mouse, twiddle dials, press buttons and you will become a millionaire star DJ overnight. The majority of young people buy DAW's with these high hopes and then after having them for 2 weeks to 3 months, they find out how complex the whole process really is, they then move on to something else, just using their DAW as a hobby occasionally or not at all. We can call them "EM newbies". Some of these have some success at electronic music production where they may become semi or fully professional with their songs. We can call these "EM artists". The others might be engineers who want a DAW to record others in their home studio etc, they might be making money from a studio or have hopes to, we can call these "Engineers". The last group would be singer/musician songwriters who can play instruments and or sing and want to mainly record their own instruments and songs. We can call these "musician songwriters". The DAW market is driven mainly by EM newbies and EM artists. Musician/songwriters are probably next and then engineers in terms of popularity. DAW's try to cover all of these different needs in one DAW but it doesn't work really. The EM people are going to get Ableton, Bitwig or Fruity Loops etc, they may try Studio One or Mixcraft. The Musician/Songwriters are likely to get Cubase or Studio One or Protools/Logic. The Engineers will get Protools Studio one or Logic. The question is where does Cakewalk fit in here, my view is that it fits mainly in the musician/songwriter category and it does that category better than any other DAW. Everything is there to produce your songs easily and to support hardware instruments. However, there are only a certain amount of musician/songwriters. It can also fit in the engineer category. Studio One tries to get a bite of every cherry and probably has some success at that. I think that Cakewalk should go after the Musician/Songwriter category mainly, it may not be the most popular category but seems to be more relevant to Cakewalk than the other categories.

Great Solo! Love it. I know what I am tlking about, I'm a Bassplayer too: Just look at here: So I know she is good! Bassman.

I'm not sure if people are aware of this being available again... I've only just become aware of it myself. @cclarry mentioned the product on the old forum back in 2015: http://forum.cakewalk.com/O-Deus-Audio-releases-ASIO-Link-Pro-v24-m3283843.aspx, however when I tried to purchase it about a year ago, I found that I couldn't because the original developer had sadly passed away... and now the original website has gone. "This ASIO driver extends your audio interface ASIO driver and adds windows audio with no additional latency. It also allows you to use your ASIO driver from more than one application with the inbuilt multi-client support, and you can even send ASIO audio over the network. The driver is great value for money for people who need to monitor or record from windows audio or just want to jam with their favourite tunes. Features: Extremely high performance for Pro Audio apps. Zero added ASIO latency. 64 IN + 64 OUT virtual ASIO channels. 32 IN + 32 OUT WDM audio channels. 16 IN + 16 OUT network audio channels. Multi-client mode means ASIO for up to 25 apps. Works without internal WDM or ASIO audio resampling. Record lossless 8 channel audio to FLAC file. Supports Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10. Route audio to/from WDM/MME/DirectSound/WASAPI and LAN/NET." This effectively allows you to use more than one ASIO interface at the same time in CbB (even ones on an external networked PC), allowing up to 64 input/output channels. At the moment I've no idea how this affects latency, but I guess if it's lots of inputs you need then it's likely it's a whole band you're recording and this will be less of a concern. I can also see it being really useful for making tutorial videos. The good news is, it now looks like the developer's nephew has authorised it to be released for free with a patch to remove the registration/authorisation: https://give.academy/posts/2018/03/02/AsioLinkPro/ You can download it here: https://give.academy/downloads/2018/03/03/ODeusASIOLinkPro/

I would like to see a chord track similar to the one in Studio One 4 Pro, or Cubase. You insert the chord name and you can have individual tracks either follow chord track or not, this is very useful to those of us who are guitar players, and not proficient on piano keyboard. This is a big help also helps trigger ideas when writing. I use Studio one for this now, but I would love to see it implemented in CbB!

I got Instachord and Instascale in the 2-fer bundle deal that Pluginboutique were running a few months back and just now got around to trying out Instachord. I've run into two main issues with it. The first I think I've solved with the help of a YouTube video, and that was how to route it in Cakewalk. Kinda convoluted, but I have it to where I play my MIDI keyboard, the Instachord plug-in's onscreen keys light up, and sounds come out of TTS-1. The second is trickier, and that is I can't quite figure out WTF the thing is supposed to do, apart from making a few people on YouTube super excited that they own a copy. 😤 From what I can make out based on their gesticulations, it enables you to play arpeggios with only 2 fingers while you talk about music theory. I can't figure out how to switch it into the mode where it plays the arpeggios in the first place, and the manual is little help. If that's all there is to this thing I'm going to be a little bummed because I didn't really need a payware arpeggiator, especially one that you need to apply music theory to set up.

... end sentences with the titles of Beatles songs. Pfft. That's six weeks of my life I won't get back. .

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I think I spent maybe £7 ($9 US) on my studio PC keyboard. I wanted one that was narrow, but had all the keys, and I wanted more traditional (electric typewriter) shaped keys rather than the button style keys many laptops have nowadays. It just happened to be £7. I got two of them: one for my bedroom PC, and one for the studio. Don't get me wrong, I like/use a decent quality keyboard when I'm coding - but for the studio, the one I have is more than adequate. If you're using your PC for stuff other than just music, then I fully understand getting something more high-end. But if it's just for Cakewalk, and hitting the odd keys (which for 90% of the time for me are limited to R, W, Spacebar, CTRL +Z and CTRL+S), then I don't think it justifies paying more than $25 for one. FWIW I've never had a keyboard go wrong on me due to normal wear & tear (with the exception of the membrane keyboard on my old Sinclair ZX81). Coffee & Coca Cola have been the death of a couple though.

Wow! I never knew you could get a computer keyboard that was that expensive. Granted the keyboard is the most likely thing to fail (close second is the mouse), but I have only had to replace a half dozen over the last forty years or so due to failure at a total cost of less than $100. Typically I pick one up when NewEgg has it on sale for under $20 and just keep it until needed. My experience with sort of expensive "gamer" keyboards that cost more unless they are on sale has been the worst. I paid $24.99- $15 rebate = $9.99 for a Coolermaster Devastator II that was almost unusable due to too weak a backlight rendering it an exercise in touch typing training. Luckily a key went dead while it was still on warranty, and they sent me a new Devastator III (much better keyboard) for the cost of one way shipping. The trick with this kind of component is to not wait until it fails before you decide to buy a spare. The downside is that an expensive component may go off warranty while sitting on the shelf, so this is not recommended for anything worth much more than the cost of shipping.

Think of it this way...when you play a center-panned mono track through your speakers, they are playing the same exact waveform through both speakers. This happens whether you're playing back in "mono" or in stereo. The end result of what comes out the speakers is exactly the same. So if it's impractical to re-export, just tell the engineer to whom you're sending the file to convert it to mono on his end. No harm will be done. Even then, he might elect not to bother if it's a centered instrument such as a vocal, kick drum or bass.

Crashes in the VC runtimes doesn't mean the VC redist is at fault. Its normal for an operation from the C runtimes to be shown in the crash if the crash site is in that function. In this case its crashing in a memory copy function. That doesn't mean the bug is in that function specifically but that there is a faulty memory copy or that data is being overwritten.

On a related note, here are some timing tips from bass legend Carol Kaye. I especially liked the bit about making a metronome groove.

Rather than approaching this as a repair exercise, think of it as an opportunity to upgrade your system. A quality keyboard is a surprisingly satisfying investment. Good ones are quite a bit more expensive than your Office Depot special, but still not a huge outlay, maybe $150-200. And it'll last a whole lot longer.

You can always mount your old hard drive inside your new computer and save the digital transfer time. Also, If you have a project from 8.5 that you want to work on in Cakewalk by Bandlab, make a copy of the project file (right click the project file, copy, paste) and rename ‘project name - Cakewalk’ that way you still have the 8.5 version intact should the transfer not work perfectly or for a reference or older plugin settings etc.

If it's wireless, change the batteries. Secondly, try another, they're I dime a dozen at your office superstores. It's most assuredly not your pc that's at fault.

Are you sure you haven't poured any coffee over your keyboard? Just kidding. When a group of keys stop working, it's probably an electronic or electromechanical problem internal to the keyboard itself, as opposed to a cable or software issue. See if you can verify that by borrowing another keyboard to substitute. Your daughter's got one, right? Sneak it out of her room while she's at school.

It may sound a little different in a new mix , if it was bounced with "Stereo Effects" ... ms

There are a few ways to go about doing this. One way is to use an external hard drive and copy and paste it to the external hard drive. Then hook up the external hard drive to your new PC and copy and paste is to you new project folder location. Another way is to take the internal hard drive out of the old PC and hook it up to your new pc and copy and paste it the folder to its new location

Your good 👌. It can be bounced/rendered down to a mono track with no harm, as long as the bounce settings are set up correctly. Usually what happens when you do that is that you just get one side of a 2 sided stereo channel, so either the left or right channel is bland and the other side has the audio/vocal track. FYI: I got your new 'mono' file

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Thanks. That’s close to how I feel as well when I listen back. Here’s the picture in my mind’s eye: I picture a farm house up on a hill overlooking a field of hay. It’s just about dusk on a warm summer’s night and I’m sitting on the front porch with a friend. We’re both looking out over the field, sipping wine, talking, occasionally laughing and rehashing the day’s events. Of course, Interlude is playing in the background.

DFH is a real classic.

Looking forward to it!

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Hi Guys, Thanks for your responses they're greatly appreciated. I was comparing the sound level of CbB to Windows Media Player + when a/b ing it in CbB there is no difference in level. My previous efforts did not have so marked a difference in volume, but you live and learn. Thanks again + long live CbB. regards paul

Water is going down. Lake has crested. Hopefully can get back in soon. Another night in a motel. It’s not as bad as projected so far that is as long as it quits raining

Kenny, I'm blown away by your words. I've always looked to you as one of the true masters on this site, so it means a lot. Thank you!

I am new at this and I have tried Studio One, MuLab, Tracktion 6, LMMS, Audacity, BandLab and CakeWalk. I found BandLab to be the easiest (almost too easy) to use but had to move over to CakeWalk (2nd easiest) as I couldn't find a way to do triplets with BandLab and I couldn't get a good bass guitar sound with BandLab's built in instruments. I know there are work arounds for both problems but Cakewalk takes care of both issues without going outside of the program. Three updates I would like to see in BandLab would be: 1) SI-Bass Guitar instrument 2) ability to do triplets 3) when using piano roll view I would like for the notes to show on the keyboard and by the cursor. Until these changes are made I will stick with CakeWalk as I am now making music with the help of this great forum which I think is another plus for CakeWalk. I don't think BandLab has a forum.

I always control 'project volume' with my studio monitors, as the master bus and the main outs in my opinion should always be set to 0db (give or take a 0.5dB) The 'project volume' levels are controlled with my studio monitors or some sort of controller, like the Mackie big knob or Central Station.

Not that I ever noticed the stars before, I'm not sure how they work. Would anyone see the stars without viewing the thread? When I wrote the OP I was thinking more of the way the Q&A thread works where a vote sends the thread to the top section of the subject list. That way it is much more visible (to the Bakers in particular) and you can see its popularity by the number of votes. Kind regards, tecknot

They are SE Versions, which means that they are locked to Cubase, and can't be used outside of it.

Lets hope so Craig. I think Bandlab has a good idea and I hope Meng has the capital to see this through for us Cakewalk fans/users

To get back to the OP...something that's free, and good, will probably not become less popular over time

FWIW, You don't need to open Bandlab Assistant before opening CbB.

It's extremely difficult to dumb down any complex bit of software. Any feature rich application is going come with a learning curve. Lenses do go some way to mitigate this. I did at one point suggest that the installer ask you what level you're at so it could automatically apply the default lens accordingly... however you can bet that there would be a bunch of haters out there complaining that you can't do this, that, and the other just because the lens has hidden it and they didn't know that. To be honest, I don't see Cakewalk being any more complicated than ProTools, Cubase or Studio One. There's probably more ProTools videos out there than anything else, and I don't think Cakewalk is that much different to use. The last time I used ProTools, I pretty much hit the ground running (and that was before the YouTube explosion on tutorials). It was certainly closer to Cakewalk than Cubase... mind you I was still using SONAR 8.5 at the time. I find the CakeTV videos to be not much more than a taster, mainly for marketing, although the BandLab ones I think are enough to at least get you recording something. The ChernobylStudios tutorials are straight and to the point. They don't go into a huge amount of detail, but cover the important stuff. I would say they're the best to get your started. The StreamworksAudio ones are more comprehensive, but obviously a bit longer. The Groove3 "SONAR Explained" videos are by far the most comprehensive, but at five and half hours long it's a lot to take in. I managed it over two weeks of lunch hours in the office. I would add though, having used SONAR for over 20 years, I thought I knew it pretty well. I probably only knew 20% until I watched the Groove3 videos. It's well worth the time and investment.

Congrats! I used the Dell Precision laptops for ages for video editing, they also can have 4 hard drives, 2 inbuilt ssd, 1 M.2 SATA and then you can swap out the DVD drive for another SSD. Not the superfast ones as in your Alienware. I don't know if they still even make the precision's today. Being able to have multiple internal drives in a laptop cures one of the drawbacks of using them in the first place. Even just having 2 would be sufficient these days for a music editing laptop but 3 would be the standard and with 4? well now your just being spoiled!

Some other good FREE plugins in this list too. https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2018/12/28/free-vst-plugins-2018/