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  1. Thanks guys! I'm really enjoying my new role as a Baker. It's a huge change after being in software development management elsewhere for the past 20 years, but I certainly won't miss the politics of my previous job. I've joined a fantastic team of incredibly nice and talented guys, all who are passionate and focused on continuing to improve and deliver the best experience we can for all of you. I'll try to keep as active as I can here on the forums, but I'm still getting to grips with 30 years worth of Cakewalk code, so I may not be quite as active as I once was in the short term. There's a bunch of exciting new things in the road map (as well as some bugs to fix), so I'm hoping my being here will make them a reality a bit sooner.
    6 points
  2. Heads up that Arc system 2.5 is available on Amazon US for $99 ***WITH THE MICROPHONE!!!*** https://www.amazon.com/IK-Multimedia-correction-measurement-microphone/dp/B0741D3PD4 This gives a value of €199.99 in the group buy [corrected]. With shippping and duties to the UK, the cost is about $125, so much, much cheaper than the €201.29 the IK shop charges with shipping or the £173.53 on Amazon UK. Even better if you live in the US. I couldn't resist.
    5 points
  3. Logged on the forum today and noticed Mark has the Staff insignia next to his name. Just wanted to congratulate Mark on his promotion! Well deserved if you ask me. Has certainly helped me in the past and his extensive knowledge, especially in areas of all things midi should be well known around here. Mark also always manages to keep a cool head on this forum, despite that pint in his hand all the time! Congratulations Mark!
    3 points
  4. Glad to hear everything is working solid! In AmpliTube select your MIDI input as the AXE I/O. This is under Settings -> Audio/MIDI Set up. Once selected, you can turn preset control on/off in the MIDI menu toward the top of the screen. The knob doesn't need any addition set up, but if you want you can adjust the messages sent by the knob in the Control section of your AXE I/O control panel. If you think you've changed your MIDI message for the Preset knob and that may be your issue, right click anywhere in the Control section to reset your setting to default.
    3 points
  5. The upgrades between versions were discounted by 50% and in some cases 60% last Black Friday. I got Essential->Assistant for $44. IIRC Assistant->Editor was less than $100. I'd say everyPlugin is likely to be your best bet.
    3 points
  6. I've been watching that one. My hope is that if I hesitate long enough, it'll go away and my GAS will be relieved...
    3 points
  7. Seeing as there have been mentions of the Brian May pack: According to Queen, yes... (Sorry for the bad joke...)
    2 points
  8. Music with guitars is inherently worse than music without guitars. Guitars are shit instruments, theres not a sound you can make with a guitar that you can't make on FL studio (3) is grammatically incorrect, and does not really support the assertion made in (2). There is some truth to (3): a wide variety of guitar sample packs are available. The combination of (2) and (3) do not really support (1). Assuming (3) is true, it invalidates (1); the music will sound the same with and without guitars.
    2 points
  9. Thanks Ryan, that sorted it! That's the only setting I didn't notice 🤦🏻‍♂️ All working fine now 👍🏻
    2 points
  10. I've got a similar problem. My neighbors bang on the wall when I practice the guitar, but they have the worst sense of rhythm. They never bang in time. I figure if I play louder, perhaps I can teach them how to keep the beat better.
    2 points
  11. I got the Sonarworks one years ago so no need for it. That's how I control GAS: buy something else instead.
    2 points
  12. My AXE I/O arrived this morning and the GB options appeared in my account as soon as I registered it. 👍🏻 Looking forward to installing and giving it a good audition later on. First impressions are that it's physically smaller than I thought it would be and feels very well built/made to last despite the plastic sides. The knobs are all smooth and don't have any play in them and the switches have a nice positive action. I like that the XLR inputs are on the back so I can hide my mic input there and focus on the guitar inputs at the front. I am really looking forward to being able to access the Amplitube presets from the front panel though...one of my pet hates about Amplitube are the cascading menus which can make it tricky to select presets. The GB also means that I will now own everything that's available in Amplitube so no more popups about missing effects etc.
    2 points
  13. Black Friday is just around the corner too, so it may pay to wait. I have a feeling it will be Black November this year...
    2 points
  14. 136 to go till we hit 9 Freebies! Edit: Odd, this morning the counter is showing 147... Something glitched somewhere, maybe my browser.
    2 points
  15. Hmmmm, you could take that two ways..............😏
    1 point
  16. Thanks for the tip. I used the re-size boxes (the ones you drag. not the ones you enter numbers in) and that seems to have worked 🙂 !!!!! BTW, the original was 445 pixels by something and the forum interface said to enter something smaller than 445. That's when I decided to try dragging the re-size boxes. UPDATE [2019-09-14]: See discussion below about the use of handles to resize images. In short, it appears the above was either a fluke or there has been a change; it cannot be done. If that changes, I will try update this message so its immediately below the test. Apologies if I got your hopes up. 😞
    1 point
  17. Noel, said it was ok to say so, He sent me a private message that contained a link to a new build version soon to be released! I guess I'm a real live beta tester now!!! LOL
    1 point
  18. I couldn't resist either. When they extended the GB I got ARC 2.5 on Amazon. I've tested it on my PA system. What a difference. I'm interested to see how that effects amp sims - I've obviously been fighting room acoustics when working with the PA.
    1 point
  19. You'll want to make sure not around when it does. Just sayin'
    1 point
  20. Have you tried the resize options ? Double click on the photo after it is inserted in the comment box.
    1 point
  21. Whilst I agree to some extent, I also think that they (NI) have been caught napping. They certainly were leaders. But to be completely honest, I feel that they are now just another company that makes sounds. If they really want to keep their spot in the scheme of all things, by all that is deal like, they need to innovate and push the envelope like it is the oxygen they need to continue breathing!
    1 point
  22. loving this Lasse - I think I need to get AAS Chromaphone
    1 point
  23. John is quite well known for the way he keeps things organised by having special folders for certain things.😊
    1 point
  24. Totally get that. I just think it is good practice to run all signal to a single bus before you hit the hardware outputs. If done correctly, there should be no difference between the hardware output and the final summing bus, whatever you call it. Dan
    1 point
  25. I will wait for the 29$ sale or for version 15 for 25$ in Humble bundle.
    1 point
  26. I presume mean track folders. Try right-clicking in the track pane. Then Insert Track Folder from the popup menu.
    1 point
  27. I mentioned two pages ago that they should set it up as a way to get in the group buy and not as a reward. They'd likely see a massive spike in sales of it. Guessing the people up stairs said no.
    1 point
  28. One of my favorite sounds is the Pinnacle distortion into the Princeton amp. Neither of these is in any of the bundles. I've also done a fair amount of patches with the Vox. And the Silvertone, Orange AD-30, Orange Rockerverb, Silver Anniversary Marshall, and various Fenders.
    1 point
  29. LOL Is it beer though, looks like Stout.
    1 point
  30. Ohhhh. Maybe I got that wrong. Well, maybe not. I did get into trouble a few times with having more than one project open and "mixing" the wrong one! I tried to figure out how Efrem might have possibly been seeing "multiple mixers" and that was all I could think of. I also agree that at first having those duplicate channel strips off to the left of the Track View was confusing, and it made things seem cluttered. All I really use it for now is advanced MIDI stuff like the arpeggiator. The rest of the time it stays collapsed. That is an unfortunate issue with the default layout of Cakewalk: when I first opened it, it looked "busy" and cluttered. Then I figured out what I could leave collapsed most of the time and I run with a much cleaner view now. But if you give new users a "clean" layout they will not know that all these features exist. The Inspector isn't a bad thing, as long as you know that you can keep it closed most of the time. It's handy when you have a 15" screen laptop and you want to use ProChannel.
    1 point
  31. I like this. Nice up and airy vibe.😊👍
    1 point
  32. I try to be sympathetic, and I am far, far from a "pro" user. I only started using Cakewalk by BandLab in April 2018. One scenario I dislike myself and try to avoid is being a Feature Request Apologist, where someone makes a good feature request and I respond with some convoluted workaround. I at least try to acknowledge that it's a reasonable feature request and that what I'm suggesting is a way to soldier through for now, not a way of saying that their request is unnecessary. 😄 It's often hard not to do that with Cakewalk because it's such a deep program and there are many ways to do things. I this case, however, I lost my cool, because the gentleman in question seemed to go out of his way to self-sabotage by trying to "fix" things, copying what he thought were installation files from various locations on one computer to other places and running them. Then when this resulted in a damaged installation, he responded to it with multiple suggestions that the current licensing and authentication model be "substituted" with pop-up ads at start time as some kind of trade-off. I ignored the first couple but he kept at it. Is the idea that we're somehow paying for the program in Annoyance, and rather than paying in one lump sum, it would be better to pay it off in small amounts over a long period of time? I don't know. I'm unclear on the concept. Unfortunately, BandLab support, which is where the issue should end, has been unable to undo this specific user's mess, but in the meantime, I maintain that the answer to the occasional authorization failure is not to "replace" authorization with pop-up notifications at start time. They do not serve the same or even a similar purpose. If users who experience authorization failures contact support, best case scenario is that the mechanism can be made more robust if it needs to be. If support knows there are issues and what they are, development will be informed. I'm one of the lucky vast majority who's never had a problem, but I can see where it would be really bad news if it happened at the wrong time. I have noticed from watching the forum that it seems to only happen at install time, not for Cakewalk installations that have already successfully authenticated, so there doesn't appear to be much danger of demo mode happening during a critical session.
    1 point
  33. The last big one that I remember was the v2 to v4 upgrade. I upgraded from v2 Editor to v4 Studio for $149. I've never seen v4 Studio cheaper.
    1 point
  34. Have them all. Chromaphone and Lounge Lizard get the most use. Wish I was better using Strum. Nice background tune while posting!
    1 point
  35. Very nice. I like the melodies throughout and I liked the arpeggiated piece....good job.😊👍
    1 point
  36. I really like British beer (is my favorite beer), so I must counter the sentence above: I would say "due to the pint in his hand"! But I agree to the rest of your comment, Tezza! 😃 Also congratulation to Mark, I am sure he will contribute a lot to CbB!
    1 point
  37. you could try posting the links I guess, the people in the song forum would be more familiar with your songs. under the circumstances perhaps the MOD wouldn't have a problem with it, you're not spamming you're asking for help. BTW thats a bummer about Bangin and Poppin, that one really moves...
    1 point
  38. Guitar Center has a headphone test station that includes some ear buds.
    1 point
  39. I can understand what your saying there. However having an open inspector allows for editing things you normally cant do in console view. like this... It also allows you to have a full size Pro Channel without having to expand every track in the Console View. Like this.... And as @John mentioned it can be collapsed/minimized (and even closed) if users prefer not to work in such a manner. We all work so differently, im just glad Cakewalk is deep in Multi-Docking functions so we can all work the way we enjoy to. I personally have Project templates set up with saved screensets to work the same way every time I open Cakewalk. It allows me to work with the layout I want and that's all that really matters to each of us.
    1 point
  40. That is interesting. I have to admit because I use dual monitors that was never a problem for me. By the way the Inspector can be minimized. It also is useful for the Pro Channel. If you do MIDI it is vital. The idea of the Skylight GUI was to make single monitor systems such as laptops better to use and get around in. It threw me because Cubase does have 3 mixers. To my knowledge no other DAW does.
    1 point
  41. Mark is a good guy. Very helpful and always there to answer the toughest issues. Congrats! ❤️😀John B.
    1 point
  42. Just made a quick rundown of prices as they appear in cart (if you don't get this price automatically just apply AD's coupon code SUMMER2019 before checkout): Accusonus Drum Mixing Bundle $168.99 Accusonus Drumatom2 $125.99 Acon Digital Equalize 2 $44.10 Celemony Melodyne 4 Essential $44.10 Eventide Blackhole $26.99 Eventide Instant Phaser Mk II $26.99 Eventide SP2016 Reverb $44.10 Eventide Tverb $44.10 FabFilter Pro-C 2 $125.10 FabFilter Pro-MB $134.10 FabFilter Saturn $89.10 FabFilter Timeless 2 $80.10 Image Line Gross Beat $35.10 Image Line Harmor $53.10 Image Line Poizone $35.10 Image Line Toxic Biohazard $35.10 iZotope Stutter Edit $26.99 MAGIX ACID Pro 9 $88.99 MAGIX ACID Pro Next $268.99 NUGEN Audio SigMod $25.99 PreSonus Notion 6 $90.42 PreSonus Notion 6 Upgrade $30.12 PreSonus Studio One 4 Artist $60.27 PreSonus Studio One 4 Artist and Notion 6 Bundle $120.57 PreSonus Studio One 4 Artist Upgrade from Artist $30.12 PreSonus Studio One 4 Professional Upgrade from Artist (for Quantum owners) $90.42 PreSonus Studio One 4.5 Professional $241.17 PreSonus Studio One 4.5 Professional and Notion 6 Bundle $271.32 PreSonus Studio One 4.5 Professional Upgrade from Artist $180.87 PreSonus Studio One 4.5 Professional Upgrade from Professional/Producer $90.42 Reveal Sound Spire $115.99 Sonarworks Reference 4 Headphone $69.99 Sonarworks Reference 4 Studio $178.99 Sonible smart:bundle $109.65 Sonnox Oxford Inflator Native $66.30 Sonnox Oxford Limiter Native $112.20 Sonnox Oxford Transient Modulator Native $66.30 u-he Ace $56.05 u-he Bazille $109.25 u-he Colour Copy $56.05 u-he Diva $151.05 u-he Hive 2 $122.55 u-he Presswerk $109.25 u-he Repro $122.55 u-he Satin $109.25 u-he Twangström $56.05 u-he Uhbik $122.55 u-he Zebra 2 $170.05 XILS-lab Vocoder 5000 $108.99 XILS-lab XILS 4 $125.99
    1 point
  43. To my knowledge, the cwp file structure has never been published (and probably never will be), but I assume that the class structure is consistent over time with the only "break point" being when Patch Points/Aux Tracks were introduced. CWPs with those included will not open in older versions of SONAR, but everything else will (with the warning that the cwp was created in a newer version of SONAR). I misspelled @azslow3's user ID so just corrected it in the post above. He had drilled into the cwp structure enough to make a conversion tool for projects to another DAW, so if I was going to bank on anyone who would know the class breakdown, it would be him.
    1 point
  44. It would also be spelled with a K.
    1 point
  45. NI has had update subscriptions before actually, long long ago. But they only did it for a year or so. You basically pre-paid for the a year of upgrades to Komplete. I don't think they are going subscriptions on software anytime soon. The Loop Loft stuff (sounds.com) maybe, the Machine expansions, maybe, but not the rest. In past things like this (NI has done this a few times actually) what usually happens is they kill off a bunch of amazing and great products in favor of some stuff you have no interest in. Most likely this means more hardware/mobile phone nonsense and less improve Kontakt so it doesn't suck.
    1 point
  46. It's like a company that makes 62 billion different instruments might have spread themselves thin or something? And of course the answer is to become thinner...😬 Also is it just me or does that article read like "subscription imminent!"
    1 point
  47. Stereo,stereo, I started out in glorious mono on a Grundig portable reel to reel😜
    1 point
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