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ERASE ALL PICTURES OF RON (I know I've used this before. Still makes me giggle.)

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@Variorum, Thank You! Thank You! That's two heartfelt words of thanks. Thank you number 1 is for sharing your talent and expertise with us. Any thing that can make MIDI more user friendly is welcome. Thank you number 2 is for your cheerful and upbeat attitude in all your messages. I can't express how uplifting and refreshing it is to read your posts. You inspire me . This forum is very lucky to have you as a member.

Thought you needed some company

i could live with 2 of them the 24 and the 440 here if you have other stuff on radar ...go

Thanks for the encouragement @Jim Fogle ? I'll see if I can modify the compander to work with controller data in addition to velocity... or maybe just modify it into a separate effect for now. I like the Transform tool for smaller changes, but an MFX might be useful for track-wide CC modifications.

Thanks @Klaus ? The velocity display component is actually 127 pixels tall and the bars are sized using literally the same function that modifies the Midi velocities, so it gives you a really accurate representation of the changes you'll get... and it was 90% of the coding work for the MFX. Well, actually, 90% of the work was tracking down an obscure bug that sporadically caused heap corruption... Gotta love C++ ?

I finished up a new MFX plugin. This is a Velocity Compander... or a Velocity Squisher/Stretcher? It lets you pull up lower velocities, push down higher velocities, and adjust the overall offset of the modified velocities. It also lets you set a hard minimum and maximum for the final velocities. It's particularly useful for remapping between instruments (like pianos) that have different velocity curves. Also good for smoothing out percussion tracks. If you've ever tapped in a hi-hat part on the little rubber pads on some keyboards, you know it's really difficult to get anything close to consistent velocity on those things. You can use this to even things out while retaining accents and the general live feel. It's up now at Viramor.com. Let me know if you Guinea Pigs find any bugs!

Hope it's Ok to post this here... if not, feel free to publicly flog me I decided to brush the brain dust off my C++/COM/UI programming and write some plugins for Cakewalk... The first (little) one is a MidiFX plugin called CSHumanize... because randomization is easy It's basically a replacement for the CAL script "Humanize" with a couple minor enhancements. It's free and available at my new, hastily set up site http://viramor.com if you'd like to test it out. It's 64-Bit only, but if any of you CAVEMEN still using 32-Bit OS's are interested, I'll compile a version for you. Yeah, I know you can add randomization with the Quantize plugin, but this one's a slightly different shade of blue

How is that dear old man James Griffiths? Just watched a documentary on the rise and fall of the clash. Rock the Hasbeen. Liked the song. The reverb is kind of weird on headphones, Is it a small room? Your style is quixotic.

Also we're already (sorry typo) 100+ entries into the 1500 for the last tier. Keep it up, looks like you can do it!

If you got them in a bundle or similar they may not be greyed out. IK Support can help you out if you have options available that you shouldn't or vice versa as they'll be able to open your account and look at exactly what's in the system.

Because the sun does shine for all, also for movies. See you, ED, have a good night.

Ye the microwave trick works well. I just use very low power when heating it. Like 2. Gets it just warm enough to relive that first time!! : ) LOL!! Never tried the Duncan Donuts. For me it's plain ole glaze or Apple Fritters! Or cinnamon twists. OR Honey Buns!! Or... I like me some donuts!!! I gotta stay away!!!

Lao Tzu approves.

This reminds me of when I was 17. How many levels are there? There is always at least one more level past where you decide to turn back.

It's working here. You sure your getting Shift? Alt+Smart Tool without Shift is the split tool. Also, you can move data within a clip without already having the borders slip edited. Cakewalk automatically adds a slip edit to the boundary when you do that.

More from my era

You see, I read those lyrics cold and I thought: hmm - good luck making this work. Then I listened and not only does it work, it does so brilliantly - with superb flair and craft. I particularly like the hard stop after the instrumentals. Oh and one more thing - the mix - as tight as a drum. Terrific stuff - never stop writing. Andy

Tuesday Afternoon - Moody Blues

Storm:

Ride. BTO Let It Ride:

We once had an amazing saxophonist sit in at a gig. As he was stepping off the stage, an audience member asked him if what he did was hard. His reply: "I guess it would be if I was a guitarist."

I don't mean to pour cold water on your enthusiasm, but in case it's helpful I would suggest that IMO this might not be an extraordinarily good deal. I have seen the Signature bundles drop as low as $59 (Waves price) more than once during sales. At everyPlugin with YNY23 this would presumably be more like $49, or even $39 (ref: http://forum.cakewalk.com/Waves-CLA-Signature-bundle-59-m3798174.aspx). So $6-8ish per plugin for a six plugin bundle. The Greg Wells bundle was $22.54 at everyPlugin during a half price sale in February of this year - less than $6 per plugin. Similar prices certainly but the drawback of the current offer is that you have to spend over $100 to get the per plugin cost down around the $6 mark. A good deal if you do really want three Signature bundles.

I've had my eye on the Chorus and the Convolution plugins. Chandler has a great video on using the chorus and how crazy powerful the MB (multiband) feature is n these plugins. I'll also shameless post my Melda Referral code ( MELDA2490257 ) here. If you're new to Melda, it gets you a 20% discount on your purchase and gives me a 10% credit. (Or use a friend's a give them the credit.) Hey Lars, I'll happily remove this if you want to put yours up instead... Lord knows you're due for some credit!

I've always wanted that synth . I could never seems to pull it together w the coin . I did enjoy your song and the way it sounded . Very nice Kenny

You can still access your old account for Cakewalk if you have one. I just checked this morning and the old account page is still functioning as well as the Cakewalk Command Center. Just download and put in your registration code and you are good to go.

I am super excited to share with you a sneak peak of Electric V, a deep-sampled 1984 Mark V electric piano library. Thursday is the big launch day, but I want to show you and the other Production Voices users first! Electric V has all the soulful sounds you expect from a tine electric piano that will spark the creative juices live, in the studio or on record. It works in the standalone free Plogue Sforzando Player and within any DAW that uses VST, AU or AAX plugin formats (that’s pretty much everything including FL Studio, Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Ableton etc.). It’s hard to say that I slaved over every note because the Mark V electric piano that I sampled was a real joy to play and record! I wanted to get the sound right, so I built a robot to record the notes precisely. Maybe building the robot was the laborious part! But between the machine and my own hand, I got up to 27 velocities per note! I also managed to capture all the note releases with 16 release velocities. Everything was recorded, edited and programmed at 24 bit 96k. The samples you play out of Electric Vare true high definition at 24 bit 96k. This means more detailed sound and more accuracy in preserving the original instrument. No need to worry if you record or playback at a different sample rate, sforzando handles all the conversion for you. FEATURES Deep sampled 1980’s mechanical tine electric piano 24 bit 96k high resolution samples Up to 27 trigger velocities per note 16 True release samples per note Selectable personalities: different sample layouts to suit playing styles Includes Vibrato, Tremolo, Chorus, AutoPan, and AutoWah Effects Section with Reverb, Chorus, Amp Modeling, Delay and more. SAVE OVER 75% PRICING: ONLY $19 with exclusive 19EV4PV coupon. Electric V is regularly priced at $79 and well worth the asking price. On Thursday, the launch price for September will be $39. But Production Voices Users can get Electric V for ONLY $19 until Friday, September 13th by using this exclusive coupon at checkout: 19EV4PV https://www.productionvoices.com/electric-v/

Then step 1 is avoid this forum. Step 2 is do not turn your computer on! Personally, I have lost every battle I have fought with GAS.

Larry, Sorry, but I'm practicing safe GAS.

It wouldn't hurt to leave it on the track for the entire project; it uses virtually no memory or processor power. I guess it really depends on the type of track you're using it on and your personal workflow. If you're happy with the track after wiggling the knobs, you can process the effect and remove the plugin. You can always add the plugin back later and re-adjust the velocities if you need to. But, remember that you don't want to bounce to clip to apply a Midi Effect... just select the clip(s) or the whole track and go to Process/Apply Effect/MIDI Effects on the Cakewalk menu to permanently apply the velocity changes. The pop-up box will ask if you want to remove the plugin from the track after the changes are applied.

Variorum, I missed this when it was first posted. Thanks for the midi plugins, especially the group transpose. I'm not sure how you do this, but it's a slick solution to a request that I had made.

Wow, this forum's corner turns slowly into some extremely creative ideas incubator .

Nope! Had to look it up ? Cool device... It would certainly be possible to implement the basic functionality (the variations on a rhythm, etc.), maybe use a little 2 bar GUI to click in the basic beat or use a Midi keyboard to tap it in. Strumming in the pattern on a guitar would actually be the (relatively) easy part, but that would require a VST... I think sticking to MFX for this one is a good idea. Not an easy project but not extremely difficult, either. Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add it to the list ?

Hey Elffin... I still plan on making a Midi Compressor, but in the meantime, check out this MFX component by azslow. I just noticed it on his site. It allows you to draw in a velocity response curve (with ur mouse!), which makes it useful as a velocity compander. You can even save curves as presets... Here's the page and here's the download link.

The Velocity MFX that comes with CbB almost does it, but not quite. A midi compressor would actually be pretty easy... I'll add it to the list (unless the bakers add one more slider to theirs) ?

Ha! Already started poking around on this one after I saw a post about a VST called Midi Shape Shifter It'll be pretty simple at first, maybe generate a sine, triangle, square, sawtooth wave... tempo synced with divisions, and I think allowing control of amplitude and frequency from assignable CC's would be cool. I'll keep you posted! Hahaha! Get it?... Posted?... It's a Forum?... <crickets> ?

I just signed up to thank you for this amazing plugin! I use mainly hardware synths with cakewalk and this is really useful. May I suggest an idea for a new plugin? some kind of LFO to control midi parameters (cutoff, volume, panning, etc.) is lacking in cakewalk, and a MFX is perfect for this, I've tried to do this with VSTs and is really cumbersome to make it work. thanks again!

Yeah... Let me finish up my Grand Unified Theory and get that Mid-East peace treaty signed and I'm on it ?

Alright, here's another MFX plugin that has a pretty limited user base ? This is a simple transposer... basically the same functionality as the Key+ control in the midi panel of a track, BUT it's syncable in groups! Sleetah2000 had a question about transposing multiple tracks at once (Multi-track Transposing) which is difficult because the Key+ control isn't groupable, so I came up with a way to synchronize several instances of an MFX plugin... seems to work. You can assign each plugin to one of four groups; all plugins in the same group will track together (i.e. changing any of them changes all of them) Drop a plugin in a track, assign it to Group 1, say, and Control/Drag it onto several other tracks and you can transpose all of them at once. It only has an 'Absolute' mode at the moment, but I'll add a 'Relative' mode soon. Granted, it's just a transposer and not terribly useful, especially if the Key+ control is made groupable in a future CbB release (hint, hint), but the syncing model I'm using will probably be handy for other more complex MFX plugins coming up. It's free. You can DL it at Viramor.com if you want to try it out.

That will definitely be in the next version... not too hard to implement. I use GPO5 a lot and need the controller events (modulation, expression, pitch) to follow the note movements. But I'm slow ?. I'm also trying not to step on any commercial developers' toes, like Frank's MIDI Plug-Ins (who has a great humanize plug-in for sale that adjusts controller values and a lot more). BTW - TenCrazy.com has some interesting free MFX plugins, and AZSlow has an MFX plugin that allows you to write scripted functionality in a language called LUA, He has a great site... I've learned a lot about MFX and Control Surface programming from reading the posts on his forum (somehow he types with a Russian accent ?). Not sure if either of them doing any current development related to CbB, though. Oh, my comment about "Might be tricky to implement as a real-time effect , blah blah blah" doesn't really apply. For some reason I was thinking that Groove processing would need to take into account large blocks of music to fit phrases to the selected, uh, groove. A couple measures in the buffer should be enough to adapt the data. Plus, I build a private cache of the supplied buffers for historical reference.

Oh, I had no idea. I thought dna grooves in cakewalk (.grv) are the same thing. Wow. Right, didn't take that into account. To make thing even more enjoyable, I came up with that idea to include option to process also CC messages. Here's the idea, say you have midi track with solo instrument melody full of continuous controllers (modulation, expression etc) and you want to make an ensemble. You can duplicate track and then slightly randomize controllers data, in addition to notes. I tried to do it with the quantize plugin that came with cakewalk but it won't allow me to process CC data, only notes, unless I'm missing something. I realize I'm crossing the lane already ?

Thanks scook! Let me know if you have any issues or suggestions... remember, I offer a 100% money back guarantee ? Hmmm... To integrate everything into one component, I'd probably have to be able to read and parse the GRV files directly. It looks like there are two types; one by DNA™ and another that is native to Cakewalk. Cakewalk also allows you to copy MIDI data from a track to use as the groove definition... that would actually be the easiest part to implement because I'd know the format of the data on the clipboard. If I can get (or decode) the file format, I may be able to load a groove pattern and allow you to humanize it before it's applied to the track. Might be tricky to implement as a real-time effect as opposed to processing an entire track/selection because the plug-in receives small chunks of buffered note data. I'll have to think about how it might work and do some research into the GRV file format.

This looks lovely! I have a feature suggestion. Would be great if I could open DNA groove banks (.grv) or extract groove from midi/audio transients beats to the memory and make some 'humanizing' around that groove with this tool. If there's no such possibility in Cakewalk already (maybe I'm missing it somehow) than that would be something for consideration, if it's not asking too much. I know one can do it in few steps but doing some slight randomization aroung grooves in one go and audition the results in realtime while adjusting could be golden.

Posting here is fine. Nice first effort.