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Hi guyz , PA just released the Shadow Hills Compressor natively !!! It will be on sale the 15 th of july !!! "For the first time, the supreme tycoon of compression and all its power is available in all major native formats. NEW: Enhanced by Brainworx with added External Sidechain, adjustable Internal Sidechain Filters and onboard parallel Mix (Dry/Wet) capabilities. We are thrilled to welcome to the Alliance the godfather of dynamics control, the Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor. Meticulously modeled by Brainworx after the legendary hardware, no details have been spared when crafting the digital version of one of the most musical and versatile compressors out there. A well known staple in the industry, the Shadow Hills compressor easily tames even the most unruly and chaotic transients with flawless tone and control. It’s no wonder that it has been the go-to buss compressor on timeless records by Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Beck, Green Day, Coldplay and countless others. Dual compression sections for unprecedented dynamic control One of the key things you can do with the Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor is treat your signals with dual-stage compression, dialing in compression either through the Optical or the Discrete sections - use both for maximum musicality! In the Optical section you will find the traditional Threshold and Gain settings, with a two-stage release time that is similar to the one you find on an LA-2A. With this section you can easily shape your dynamic range and bring up the overall level. In the VCA Discrete section you have a more exacting control over the ratio, attack and release settings, which easily allows you to fine-tune the compression response to fit a large variety of material. Switchable output transformers for sonic variety Further tonal character can be built with the three unique Output Transformers. Here you can toggle between each one to easily shift the tonal balance of the compressor. Choosing between Steel, Nickel or Iron will help the compressor add distinct flavors commonly found on a few legendary consoles. Nickel offers smooth lows with a polished top end and sounds great on more subtle and sparse recordings. The Iron transformer has a more colored sound but still maintains a pristine high end with a small boost in the 100Hz range. It operates through a Class-A output stage that applies only even-ordered harmonic distortion, leaving you with a very musical sound. Finally, the Steel transformer has an extremely detailed and fast response with a subtle boost in the 40Hz range which contributes to a rocking low end. Brainworx Plugin Only Features To round out the huge features that came straight from the hardware, Brainworx went a step further by adding a Parallel Mix control, a Sidechain Filter and an External Sidechain option in the proprietary toolbar! The Sidechain filter can easily prevent frequencies below the setting from triggering the compression for ultra-tight sounding mixes. Try the Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor now to experience a whole new level of dynamics management. Official videos :

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Thanks for the report! We'll fix it for the next release.

Happy July 4th, folks. I'd been using a theme called "Polar Blue (SteveC)" originally created for SONAR Platinum and posted on the old forums by Steve Cocchi. I liked it very much, apart from one or two minor things that I have altered. It also needed one or two changes to bring it up to date for Cakewalk By Bandlab, mostly logos and performance meters. I reached out to Steve, and with his blessing I am making my updates to "Polar Blue" available to the forum. Please note that everything that is good about this theme was put there by Steve Cocchi. There are quite a few subtle things in the theme that you might not notice at first, but I think are an improvement. Enjoy! Updated 2021-12-18 Changes: No actual image changes, but re-saved to prevent the "Compatibility Warning" message for 2021.12 release. Updated 2021-04-16 Changes: No actual image changes, but re-saved to prevent the "Compatibility Warning" message for 2021.04 release. Updated 2021-01-15 Control Bar Select Module Updated 2020-09-20 Changes: Support for Markers view Lock indicator icon, missing since 2020.04 Updated 2020-04-11 Changes: Support for Inspector Tabs and Arrangement Play for 2020.04 release GET IT HERE: Polar_Blue.zip Earlier versions: Updated 2019-09-08 Changes: Improved contrast in Export control module; subtle color tweaks for clarity; consistent track header icons; tweaked Show Take Lanes icons; simplified "edit" icons in Piano Roll View track list; miscellaneous other minor fixes and adjustments. Updated 2019-07-22 Changes: Now with support for Export control module; New transport buttons; improved icons for zoom; new icons for audio engine and MIDI panic; ruler background color.

I meant Shadow beast in double mode (opto+vca) versus 2 compressors chain (best opto compressor + best vca compressor of yours), maybe even chain which is built of 3 plugins (opto+vca+transformer sim). :) BTW I am wonder if we create FX chain in Sonar built from opto+vca could we get also something useful Yup, I understand and appreciate your time spent to show us new interesting plugins Many thanks for that. I hope PA watched your video carefully and implement your suggestion. They are absolutely highly demanded Oh, my.... Even more compressors?

Note also that plugin load balancing in CbB only affects VST effects, not VSTi's.

The MeldaProduction free bundle has a good analyser, amongst a bunch of other great plugins: https://www.meldaproduction.com/MFreeFXBundle

My take on it , simply love it !!

Condolences on your loss, and the emotion of that is very present in your piece. I like how the bass is actually doing jazz moves - it sounds great in the mix, maybe you could add just a bit more low end bass back in on the bass guitar? The piano's bass is nicely controlled - overall your mix I think has a slight favoritism for the upper frequencies. Of course, flute leads do that! When you listen to it without the flute (mute the flute!) does the mix seem balanced between high and low? I suspect you might get away with popping in half a db on the bass guitar, around 150 or so hz, I wonder if that would help fill out the bottom a bit more? Or could you bring up the kick drum a tad, which I think usually has a fundamental slightly lower than the bass? Or that's just me. As for the flute, for me it's mixed just a bit loud, and just a bit dry. But this is 100% personal preference, it just depends how much of a feature or spotlight you want on it. It sounds totally valid as is, and I agree, for a freebie, that flute patch sounds pretty good, sort of in a pan flute direction. I'd probably add too much reverb and ruin everything - as you have it, it certainly has clarity. Piano? Well then. With sampled pianos, every single different person on earth will give you a different opinion as to tone, velocities, eq, patch quality . . . my point is, get the piano to where it sounds good to you, put a little reverb on it, and call it good. You can massage piano samples for days and days only to chase your tail. What you have (is it ez keys or some such?) does the job, pretty well actually, but you might look around for some of the kontakt pianos that might have a bit more 3D depth in the sound field. And if you get a better piano patch, it will still be tricky to mix. Fun, huh? Just my .02 cheers, -Tom

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It does not matter. The only difference between "Save As" and "Save Copy As" is "Saved As" closes the current project and opens the newly saved project "Save As Copy" makes the copy but leaves the current project open Both save functions may store the project file in any folder including the current project folder. Keeping multiple project files in the same folder is OK. What is done in one of the project files does not affect the audio referenced in the others, Deleting audio clips from a project does not delete the clips from the audio folder. Destructive edits create new audio clips.

I can get Cakewalk V2019.05 Build 31, 64 bit to crash by doing the following: In the track view, bus tracks, expand a track's envelopes Create a volume envelope with some nodes highlight the entire envelope by clicking box to the left of the envelope's label Copy Special (ctrl+alt+c), and only select the "track/bus automation" Without moving, immediately Paste Special (ctrl+alt+v), and select a different bus to paste the envelope (either with, or without an existing volume envelope) In my case, this will result in an Unhandled Exception error The DMP file is too large to upload

ok stupid idea ... Let's think of a group buy ...the dynamic is back ... we keep vauchers for transfer , one buy 10 (i can do that) and we 're good to go ? Larry could you do the maths ?

i got you covered guyz

Available here: https://cinesamples.com/category/keyboards Of note: Piano In Blue - $69 (reg $99) - https://cinesamples.com/product/piano-in-blue CinePiano - $139 (reg $199) - https://cinesamples.com/product/cinepiano

Forgive me for linking to a blog post, but I've written up a little case study on using an Aux track to handle automating FX level for multiple tracks using a single envelope. I hope someone out there finds it useful. The Prodigal Sounds Blog - Another Way to skin an FX Send

I adjusted it a bit. Brought the kick outside mic up some in the mix since it had more of the low end extension. We'll see what that does. I'll bounce it down a little later. I also made some adjustment to the chorus guitar that does the octave part. It didn't pop out like I felt it should.

A bundle is made from the project and the audio clips referenced in the project just like a new project folder created by "Save As" with "copy all audio with project" enabled. Audio not used by the project will not be added to the bundle or copied by the "Save As" function. If project has a lot of non-destructive clip edits, the project size may be reduced by using Apply Trimming to permanently remove the unused portion of the clips. If the project has a lot of silence in clips, removing the silence with split clips enabled will reduce the disk space used by the audio clips.

Sounds clean. Really clean.

Rippin a page right out of Roy Thomas Baker's book

I am definitely seeing that CPU max in both ST4 standalone and plug-in mode, and I have confirmed it with Ableton Live and Studio One, in addition to CbB. So IMHO it's apparently an IK thing. I am fairly certain that the high CPU usage is an issue with the new ST4 instrument engine, as I can load up the ST4 interface with ST3 instruments that use the legacy ST3 synth engine, without overloading the single thread. So I think that SampleTank has always been single threaded, just that it was not that noticeable in the past. Even if they could update ST4 to share cores, not sure that would benefit beyond the standalone product, unless the DAW could support a plugin that shared multiple cores from a single instrument track.

Since you're a developer, have a look at the MIDI file spec: https://www.midi.org/specifications/item/the-midi-1-0-specification If you can come up with a better way of preserving envelopes that conforms to the specification, I'm sure the devs will be open to considering it. Just out of interest, do any other DAWs do anything different here?

I think that's the way many are working (spreading sections of each part across tracks (for separate processing of each section, etc). This is why many productions are using more than 24 tracks. If you listen to any one point in the song, there's usually not that many different parts playing simultaneously. With BG Vocals, it's common practice to triple-track each harmony part (left, center, right). This helps a couple of voices sound more like a group of singers. If you've got three-part harmony... and put each section on separate tracks, the track count quickly adds up. In the case of mocking strings/winds/brass, it adds realism to have each part tracked individually. In my case, when doing "punch-ins" to fix a section, I don't like punching-in on the original track. All my punch-ins are recorded on separate tracks. I prefer DAWs that allow processing per-clip in addition to per-track. DAWs that don't allow processing per-clip force the user to spread those parts across multiple tracks. I do think there's also the, "Because we can!" factor. With the processing power available today, folks are going to use it... (for better or worse)

Got it this time and the Dope freebie. Cheers Larry.

To take this analogy a little further... A DAW is more like a word processing program than a text editor. When saving a word processing document as a text file, the data is converted and saved but the word processing features are not stored the text file. Re-open the file in the word processor and it displays the text as found in the file. In fact many word processors display a message warning that document formatting and features will be lost when saving as text only.

Thanks, I am aware of it I am not so experienced as Zo as compressor conqueror and not having all those great compressors and any of transformer emulation. Anyway when I see a price and start to think about buying I will download it for sure to compare against a self-made FX chain based on what I have to look if such alternative makes sense. If PA plan to crash market with low price at the start I will probably not able to resist to grab it anyway.

Not really possible. VST design doesn't really cover this (changing one plugin to a whole new one), so it would break projects/etc. The best they could have done is reuse the VST id for one of the two plugins and make the new one read the old data format. But even that's kind of iffy. It's a whole new plugin and the old ones stay.

"valves" is audiothing not audiority ?

I've been lobbying (for a good while) for a static "Clip Gain" parameter. ? This static clip-gain parameter would ideally scale the waveform up/down. This makes it quick/easy to level out the volume of tracks. Clip Gain Envelope works... but it's a slower process (and no waveform scaling).

The Trial is available now if you want to give it a whirl... https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/shadow_hills_mastering_compressor.html

It's in the Custom Shop, it won't be on the information Page. Go to T-Racks, then "other" and the 4 Tape Machines will be there, There will be a "Try" and "Buy" button on each

Hi Gary, Nice country toon - you have this genre nailed. Thanks for sharing. Good Job! regards paul

I got to see him play in Denver once. So cool. ? Saw robin Ford too. He is short. Told him to look for me out on the road. I had big dreams then. And once i randomly got invited in to see jorma kaukonen at the boulder theater. He played an amazing heartfelt show. After, someone from a local music shop who's name I've forgotten asked me if i'd like to linger and meet jorma. Of course. So, there was a line of people waiting to meet him with records for him to sign. Jorma looked so unhappy as i waited my turn with nothing in my hands. I'm not naturally funny, but i did my best. When i got to him, i said hey and looked at him totally seriously and asked if that performance was the best he could do. He laughed hard and i went home feeling like i made a nice old man a little less miserable.

Hi Myriad Rocker, Solid rocking metal tune here - almost rock operatic. Thanks for sharing. Good Job! regards paul

My voucher went down this month, but I almost have nothing left to buy! I bought a fair amount their stuff before the massive price cuts.

Did a quick comparison between Massive X , Phase Plant & Pigments - I liked Pigments the best. Note that I'm a synth hacker not a programmer. Don't have patience to program a patch from scratch but can fine tune something that's ballpark or that I find interesting. Real quick gloss-over, superficial summary: Massive X - not really ready for prime time. That you can't use your own wave files anywhere is a major disappointment. Like the sound quality. Hopefully will mature into a killer synth. Phase Plant - a beast, can probably make this thing take over a small country but more than I want to deal with when I want to use a synth. Wasn't overly impressed with patches but probably wasn't in right frame of mind at time that I was checking it out. Will give this a more serious look next time it goes on sale but for now passing on this. Pigments - favorite of the 3. Things I like: GUI, great feedback on what's going on Can use my own wave forms as oscillators, be nice if I could use them in other areas such as for LFO For me it feels very tweak friendly i.e. easy to find what I'm looking for when hacking a patch. Other I really like like some of the patches but IMHO a lot are mediocre / unimpressive. Like I said this is a superficial summary. YMMV. Peace out - have a great 4th of July!

What he said.

The basic premise here is that Cakewalk is not a MIDI file editor. You can import MIDI files, at which point it becomes a CWP project... and you can export your CWP project as a MIDI file, at which point all the MIDI data that would have been sent by Cakewalk out the MIDI port is now stored in the MIDI file. When you re-load your MIDI file, what you're doing is importing a MIDI file back into a CWP project again. There is no automation lanes in the MIDI file, just MIDI CC data, which is why it's in the PRV and not in an automation lane. If you want things to be consistent, then just work in the PRV (or the Event List view) and avoid the automation lanes altogether. I suggest however that you compromise on not saving it as a CWP. If your end result is a MIDI file, then that's fine, but while you're still editing things you're much better off with working with a CWP project file until such a time your ready to export your final MIDI file.

MIDI doesn't have any notion of automation envelopes. When you open a pure MIDI file as opposed to importing it, we import MIDI CC events as is and also allow you to save the project back as a MIDI file. However any edits you made to the project that are not native to MIDI will be lost or converted. In the case of automation there is no such thing as envelopes in MIDI so Cakewalk converts the envelope to MIDI CC's (decimates into points to be more accurate) to represent the envelope as closely as it can. This is a one way conversion process and not a design flaw. When you open the MIDI file it will import back as MIDI CC's again. If you want to work with non destructive data save your project as a CWP file not a MIDI file, as scook recommended.

Hey, Daryl, Wow, I've been only popping in and out of the forum for the past six weeks due to life and work suddenly getting extremely busy, so I almost missed this tasty Brit-Pop rocker!? You guys did a fantastic job on this. The lyrics are great, the vocals and harmonies are super, as always, Ed's bass was dynamite and really drove the song, the keyboards were outstanding, and Mesh's guitar tone and solos were the icing on the cake! The mix was crisp, clear, and right on the money. Another cool collab, boys, really well done!? Bob

That's also a very good point, because I've often said if I had to choose between only playing or only playing the studio, I'd choose live. I guess there's enough residual old school in me that I think live performance has a vitality that's hard to match in the studio, and following your ethos helps to give a more authentically "live" feel. (At a seminar during Q&A, someone said he couldn't get much more than 120 tracks or so, and what would I recommend he do. I said he didn't need more tracks - he needed to take a course on arranging .)

It has a merseybeat kind of quality to it, I have the laptop on the good speakers today. I really like the sound of the piano in the breaks. and the saturated snare snap sounds very cool. good lyrics, happy groove. good one.

When talking about music, how else do you describe it? "Yeah, cool, it kind of reminds me of people skateboarding next to a yacht harbor on a cloudy day. And then a fishing boat comes by and the captain waves to the skaters."

You can switch the edit filter back and forth from clips or automation by shift clicking the clip or the envelope.

You guys are really bad. But I likes it!

Just asking here. Since it is beginner coding where is the "Hello World"