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  1. Musical Entropy, the maker of Spaceship Delay and Guitar Gadgets, has just released a new freeware plug-in called The Great Escape, a dynamic tremolo modeling the analog pedal of the same name from the French company Thrilltone. This tremolo has standard controls such as speed, depth, LFO waveform options (type and symmetry), but it features also an envelope detector which changes the speed and the depth of the effect, with your playing, to make it more expressive, with customizable sensitivity and envelope release time. It is well suited for guitar players (that's April / Guitar month after all), but it can be used with any other instruments by setting up the threshold control accordingly. Musical Entropy focused also on educational resources. In the plug-in, the users have an access to a description for each control by moving the mouse over them, to a capture of the original pedal manual, to a "waveforms" tab displaying the shape of all the signals interacting with the audio input, and to an embedded tutorial (like in Spaceship Delay) explaining what a tremolo is, how to use the plug-in, and suggesting tremolo tricks to play with. In summary: 3 waveforms available (triangle, sinus and square). Speed up or slow down effect speed, with a simple pick's hit. Reinforce or reduce effect's intensity, with your playing dynamics. Finely set transition time with the dedicated "Release" knob. Optimized for all instruments, not just for electric guitars, thanks to the "Threshold" control knob. Extra educational features to help users understand what is happening in the plug-in. Presets made by Francois Maxime Boutault from Les Liens Du Son and Musical Entropy. 2 hidden Easter eggs (again it's April). The developer points out that this is a preview version of an upcoming commercial plug-in. The sound signature of the plug-in is not representative (yet) of the original pedal behaviour, with all the final features not available either, and the current features which might be subject to change. It has been released early to help people have fun when they stay at home during COVID-19 containment. After a given period of time, this preview plug-in won't be available anymore from the musical entropy website, until the release of the commercial plug-in, but will be still usable as a freeware forever. The Great Escape is available on musicalentropy.com, for Windows, mac OS and Linux (Ubuntu 16+) 64-bits in VST, VST3, Audio Unit and AAX formats http://musicalentropy.com/
    6 points
  2. Run the SAA to Update to 1.07
    5 points
  3. I started my pc music journey from hardware with soundfonts. Cakewalk Express and a SBLive card. Still use Soundfonts to this day. Here is a free SF2 editor https://www.polyphone-soundfonts.com/ Viena is another free editor. http://www.synthfont.com/index.html Here is one of the few 64bit SF2 player vst's. https://blog.rosseaux.net/page/e5ca75d98990e33b31dadc78a8df1333/Sobanth SFZ+ is great and still works (if you can find a copy) I recently found out that NI Battery can load SF2 files (does a good job too) Many Wusik synths and samplers also support SF2 (currently 80% off)
    5 points
  4. $28, 876 a MONTH!!! On the bright side...it's $50 less for the full year!!! https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products.html
    4 points
  5. Finally it's expensive enough for my exquisite taste.
    4 points
  6. This site: http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth Has a software synthesizer that uses sound fonts. It also has links to about 15 free sound fonts.
    4 points
  7. http://ftp.se.freebsd.org/pub/awe32/soundfonts/ I have a renewed interest in soundfonts because I am rebuilding very old tracks from 90s which used soundfonts predominantly. Outside of the SFZ plug in cakewalk that I cannot get to work, I have been using SFORZANDO and DSK SF2 and TX16WX plugs to load the soundfonts - .sf2 and .sfz Awave Studio DEMO for 30 days is also useful if you have any old .SBK / Emu Soundfont ver 1 files still hanging around. This program allows you to convert them to .sf2, .wav or .sfz https://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/index.html Not worth buying to be honest, to expensive for what it is. Anyone else with interesting soundfont goodies post here
    3 points
  8. https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/shakedown i've written 3 somewhat mellow melodic instrumentals, two somewhat rowdy rock grooves, now something unapologetically progressive. smoke em if you got em, and crank it up.
    3 points
  9. puts the $349 for a single plugin into perspective !
    3 points
  10. The Commit Arrangement button does this - press this button then Save Copy As to save the arranged project. You can then undo to get back to your original project. At the moment, you can exclude tracks but not individual clips. So the workaround would be to move your drum fill to a separate track. To exclude a track from the arranger, use the track properties in the inspector:
    3 points
  11. That's why it would be better if sections could hold entire clips that start/end outside section. Let's say clip starts close to the end of Verse1 and continues a bit through Chorus1. It should entirely belong to the section that covers greater part of the clip.
    3 points
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  13. Rautalanka (twang) , sixties style guitar instrumental. Rowanberry tree - Traditional folk song played by BullHill Moods
    2 points
  14. Tuesday Morning This started off as space music but evolved into more of an ambient/easy listening genre. Thanks for listening.
    2 points
  15. That is the only thing I do. I use Mixbus32C as a "console". Except I now mostly record in Studio One. Same principal though.
    2 points
  16. Thank you for listening! I am very glad that you enjoyed it. Yes the bonus track is very different from the rest of the EP - so hopefully you'll get your metal fix of 8 string guitars and double kick from the others - particularly Divergence and Warring Elements Any other feedback on the tracks and production is gratefully appreciated. At the moment i'm learning to mix and master myself and we're going a lot heavier on the VST's as opposed to performed keys parts. We've got track plans for an album but it might take awhile given current pandemic. Best wishes, Matthew
    2 points
  17. I hope you have fun playing with these. I noticed some nice SF can be had for orchestral sounds through Musescore. I sort of compare playing with SF to working on old car engines that still have capacitors and points when we have electronic ignition I mean, even some keyboards have built in hard drives now and the samples are so much better. JMO. I don't claim to know all about SF. I "guess" they can also call up huge sample libraries? Mostly they don't though and use lots of stretched samples. For synth work I think they still have a place. If going for realism though sample libraries are tough to beat. One place I can still see them really shining is in portable devices. Even though they are way more powerful now, they could still take advantage of less weight on their cpu. But what do I know? We all have opinions. I can't have one if I borrow someone else's.
    2 points
  18. Completed today using CbB. Comments welcome https://www.bandlab.com/wilbyforce/creaturecomforts20-27edefd9?revId=1d0af4f2-c57c-ea11-a94c-0003ffd19c0f
    2 points
  19. I feel victimised ! - I'm going to demand my money back....oh hang on
    2 points
  20. This is something we discussed in the early design phases, but decided to leave it out for the first release. The arranger is one of the biggest features we've developed in the past few years, and took a good few months of development. There were many other things we could have added, but we had to draw the line somewhere in order to release in a reasonable time frame. Expect new arranger features to appear in the future though...
    2 points
  21. Thanks BassDaddy... snowing here as well, but only chest fur at site. Gotta protect those lungs! Fleer I first thought you're up to a grungy, smelly Beats production... then Googled: Tooth moss = The green algae growth on an individual's teeth as a result of the lack of practicing good dental hygiene. Go figure...
    2 points
  22. 2 points
  23. Well tried the demo, it works . . . nothing really special or worth the price, the mixing and exporting of IR's can be had elsewhere, like mixIR2/3, I think Libra might do that as well?, I know I have tried another that does it, but there may be others. The install does a couple of annoying things, nothing showstopping, but annoying to me anyway. CPU, fairly high compared to others, 1 instance of mixIR2 or 3 or Recabinet5 show 0% in Studio One, falRmageddon shows 6%. Does what it says on the box, and a little more, not for the user who just wants a reasonably simple IR loader (it's not that complicated but . . ) Certainly not worth the full price, and probably not even worth the intro price. I came, I saw, and I uninstalled.
    2 points
  24. I've been doing this for 25 years plus, it has nothing to do with my signal chain, I know what I am doing, this new one, along with the other 2 Nembrini amps just don't do anything for me, quite the contrary. I'm well aware there are demo's available, it's only $29US, neither here nor there really. But as I said earlier, maybe one day I'll learn 😉 The first 2, BST100 and MRH810 I got rid of also for the price of License transfer ($25US), so not really that good a deal, as with this one only saves the buyer $4 on intro price, I don't think anyone in their right mind would pay anything close to full price for these amps. The Cali Reverb has been sold, I see Nembrini stuff for sale on regular occasions on KVR, so I'm not alone. Main thing is you like what you are using, you like the sound you get, doesn't mean squat what anyone else thinks, enjoy.
    2 points
  25. There are plenty of uses for conventional music and composing in general. Some are listed in the notes.
    2 points
  26. There is no way to speed up the load of a plugin from the host side. Its up to the plugin to get more efficient. Talk to the plugin vendor who are the ones who have the power to do that
    2 points
  27. A day late too. Lower 60's and sunny on Saturday in MN. 8 inches of snow on Easter. Had to wear my fur lined speedos. Due to popular demand there will be no photos. Welcome to our new Finnish friend from Minnesota, the land of Bobby Oro, the originator of the "Finn-glish" language.
    2 points
  28. We are working on a solution for overlapped notes across sections. @msmcleod already has something that improves this a lot.
    2 points
  29. 2 points
  30. Zillion CAL files from my archive (including editor and utilities). CALeditor.zip CAL Scrripts(1).zip
    2 points
  31. Buy Pro X4 and get a FREE upgrade to Pro X5 upon release https://www.magix.com/us/music/samplitude/pro-x/
    1 point
  32. This is my first post on the Bandlab forum. I’m still using the Sonar DAW and haven’t upgraded to Cakewalk yet. Here's my latest song I've been working on while socially isolating, "Falls of Thunder," my song about Victoria Falls. The footage used in the music video was filmed by mum and dad, in 1966, on one of our many border crossings at Victoria Falls. I would love to hear your thoughts on Falls of Thunder. https://youtu.be/oktYdN3pK7U
    1 point
  33. 2020.04 Early Access installer now available! [UPDATE 17-Apr-2020: Cakewalk 2020.04 Early Access 2 is now available] We're pleased to announce the Early Access for 2020.04, our biggest release to date which also celebrates two years of active Cakewalk by BandLab development! This release introduces an exciting non-linear Arranger Track feature that is very useful for song creation and creative experimentation. Also included are many other significant feature improvements such as ProChannel module presets, instrument track improvements and many bug fixes, all in keeping with our goal of making CbB as reliable and enjoyable as possible. We'd love for you to check it out before we drop the official public version, which should be in roughly a week. This time we're also providing an easy rollback installer should you need to quickly revert to the last public release for any reason. Please note that Early Access installers are update installers, which only update from a specific version. To install the 2020.04 Early Access build, you must be on the latest public release of 2020.01. Download Cakewalk 2020.04 EA installer Should you need to revert to the 2020.01 release, you can download the Cakewalk 2020.01 Rollback installer. If you haven't already done so, please read about the Early Access Program before participating. Thanks again for your participation! The Bakers 2020.04 Highlights Behavior changes Add Track menu behavior change: The behavior of the Track(s) counter has changed when inserting a multi-timbral soft synth via the Add Track menu. When Instrument Track Per Output or Split Instrument Track is selected, the Track(s) counter now specifies how many Instrument output tracks to create instead of how many unique instances of the synth to create. Changes to Delete Track: CTRL+DELETE deletes tracks. Delete Track only deletes the focused track if the focused track is not also selected. When a combination of tracks and track folders are selected, the context menu displays Delete Selected Tracks and Folders. Enable/Disable Enhanced Keyboard Editing Mode shortcut is unassigned by default. The default keyboard shortcut (0 on the numeric keypad) to enable/disable Enhanced Keyboard Editing Mode has been removed. To enable/disable Enhanced Keyboard Editing Mode, go to Edit > Preferences > Customization - Keyboard Shortcuts and assign Enhanced Keyboard Editing to an unused keyboard shortcut. Bypass All Audio Effects shortcut is unassigned by default. The default keyboard shortcut (E) to bypass all audio effects has been removed. To bypass all audio effect, do one of the following: Go to Edit > Preferences > Customization - Keyboard Shortcuts and assign Bypass All Audio Effects to an unused keyboard shortcut. Click the Bypass all Effects button in the Control Bar’s Mix module. Horizontal zooming no longer centers Now Time. When zooming with the mouse wheel or CTRL+LEFT/RIGHT ARROW shortcuts, if the Now Time is currently within view, its position will be retained while zooming. If the Now Time is not present in the view, the zoom behavior is unchanged. CTRL+ALT+SPACEBAR is assigned to Preview current arrangement from the Now Time, and no longer plays the next event in the Event List view. Arranger Track Overview The Arranger track is an arrangement tool that provides several workflow benefits: Easily rearrange sections of the entire project as one unit instead of moving individual clips. For example, instantly swap the positions of the first and second chorus for all tracks, or copy the first verse in order to double its duration. Experiment with different song structures in a non-destructive and non-linear manner. For example, does your song work best in AABA, ABAB, or ABAC song form? Define time range sections and sequence them in any order without destructively moving any clip data. You can even save multiple arrangements within each project. Create a color coded overview of the song structure, and use the Arranger Inspector to quickly navigate around the project and jump to song sections. Create arbitrary song sections anywhere on the project timeline, then later string them together for seamless playback. Sections provide an additional way to perform time based selections and edits of the project. Create an unlimited number of arrangements per project, which can all be exported simultaneously. Arranger functionality is distributed across two views: Arranger track. To show or hide the Arranger track, click the Track view View menu and choose Arranger Show/Hide, or press A. The Arranger track timeline shows all defined sections. You can drag to create and rearrange sections, then freely move them along the timeline. Any changes in the Arranger timeline are immediately reflected in the Arranger Inspector’s Sections list, and vice versa. Arranger Inspector. To show/hide the Arranger Inspector, click the Show/Hide Arranger button at the top of the Inspector pane, or press ALT+SHIFT+I. For details about using the Arranger Track, see the attached PDF : Arranger Track.pdf An arrangement is comprised of Sections, each spanning a unique time range. Other section properties include name and color, to clearly delineate regions of time and track content by musical function. Important: By default, clicking an Arranger section also selects underlying track events. Clicking again deselects track events, while retaining selection of the section. This behavior allows you to easily determine whether or not track events are included in section edit operations. Note that the selection highlight in the Clips pane indicates selected track events. To disable automatic selection of track events when selecting sections, right-click in the Arranger track timeline and disable Select Events with Sections. Arranger Inspector Sections are the building blocks that make up the song. Each section defines a time range in the project, such as Intro, Verse, Chorus, etc. An arrangement is an ordered set of sections. You can sort the sections in any order to define the playback order. To do so, drag the sections from the Sections area down to the Arrangements area in the Arranger Inspector. The Sections area lists all the arranger sections defined in the project’s timeline, from which a custom arrangement can be built. The order of the sections reflect the order in which they appear in the timeline. The Sections list provides an additional way to edit time based selections of the project. Any operation performed in the Sections list is immediately reflected in the project/timeline, and vice versa. To copy all sections to the current arrangement, click the Add All Sections to Arrangement button . If one or more sections are selected, only the selected sections will be copied. The Arrangements area allows you to sequence sections in a non-linear manner without destructively moving any clip data, regardless of which order they appear in the project’s timeline. Defining sections of your song To use the Arranger track, you must first define time range sections such as Intro, Verse, Chorus, etc. Sections can be of any duration, but it is common to start/end them at measure boundaries. New sections can be created by any of the following means: Draw a range within the Arranger track timeline (below the time ruler). Double-click a blank area in the Arranger track. The new section duration is inherited from the last clicked section. Right-click in the Arranger track timeline and select Insert Section Here, Insert Section at Now Time, Span Sections, or From Selection. Click the Add Section button in the Arranger Inspector or Arranger track. Editing sections Drag sections to move them around on the timeline. Drag a section edge to resize the section. Right-click a section to access edit option. Converting markers to sections To convert markers to sections, make a time selection in the time ruler that spans the text markers, then right-click in the time ruler and select Create Sections from Markers. Creating a custom arrangement Sections can be sequenced in any order to create arrangements, without affecting project data. The sections don’t have to live on the project timeline in any specific location or order, because the arrangement determines in which order they are played back. To define the section playback order, drag sections from the Sections list down to the Arrangements list. You can also drag sections directly from the Arranger track. Previewing an arrangement To play the current arrangement, click the Preview button or press ALT+SPACEBAR. During Arranger preview, the main transport Play button shows a small “A” icon to indicate it is playing back an arrangement instead of following the project’s linear timeline, and the active section shows a progress indicator. Committing an arrangement To (destructively) render the current arrangement to the project’s timeline, click the Commit Arrangement to Project button . Exporting arrangements You can export one or more arrangements without first having to render it to the timeline. To do so, click the Arrangements menu and select Export as Audio. ProChannel module presets In addition to saving presets of the entire ProChannel chain (all modules), you can also save and load presets of individual modules. The per module preset controls are located on the left side of each module header bar. To select a module preset Click the module’s category type icon to open the preset menu, then select the desired preset. The category type icon tooltip shows the name of the selected preset. To save a module preset Adjust the ProChannel module controls to the desired settings. Click the module’s category type icon to open the preset menu, then select Save Preset. Type a name in the Save Preset dialog box, then click OK. To select the next preset To select the next preset, do one of the following: Click the Next Preset button . Hold down the CTRL key and click the module’s category type icon. To select the previous preset To select the previous preset, do one of the following: Click the Previous Preset button . Hold down CTRL+SHIFT and click the module’s category type icon. To delete a module preset Click the module’s category type icon to open the preset menu, then select the preset you want to delete. Click the module’s category type icon to open the preset menu again, then select Delete Preset. Copy/paste settings between ProChannel modules You can copy settings from any ProChannel module and paste the settings to any other instance of the same module. on any track or bus. There are two ways to copy/paste settings between identical modules: Drag and drop In the Console view, show the ProChannel for both the track/bus you want to copy from, and the track/bus you want to paste into. Hold down the CTRL key, and drag from the source module’s header bar (i.e., the module title) to the target module. The source and target ProChannel modules must be identical. Note: If the target module has not been enabled/initialized yet, it will automatically become enabled after pasting. However, if the target modules has been manually disabled, then it will remain disabled after pasting. Copy/Paste menu commands Click the source module’s category type icon to open its preset menu, then select Copy Settings. Click the target module’s category type icon to open its preset menu, then select Paste Settings. Append per-output Instrument tracks When you insert a multi-timbral soft synth, you can specify how many Instrument output tracks to create, up to the maximum supported by the synth. If you do not initially create the maximum number of available output tracks, you can later add additional tracks on demand from the Synth Rack view. To do so, do one of the following: Right-click the instrument in the Synth Rack (Views > Synth Rack View) and select Append Instrument Track. Right-click the instrument track strip in the Track view and select Append Instrument Track. Note: If you originally created used per-output Instrument tracks for that synth, then Cakewalk will create another per-output instrument track. If originally created split instrument tracks, then Cakewalk will create another split instrument track. Misc. enhancements The Display Clip Fade Attenuation option in Edit > Preferences > Customization - Display is now available as a key binding. Audio Driver Mode now changes immediately instead of waiting for Apply click. Updated to latest VST3 SDK, which includes VST bug fixes. Bug fixes Cannot remove ARA plugin as region effect if the plugin is not installed Using mouse wheel in 'Locked & Centered' Control Bar results in left aligned CB User Reported Crash Cakewalk.exe!CFretControlBar::resetNow() Line 220 Clicking Freeze on archived track crashes CbB Seeking with lower Disk Buffers/Higher Audio card latency causes audio to cut out Inspector strip context menu appears on wrong monitor Shift + Right Click behavior not consistent with MIDI Tracks Aim Assist gets stuck at time zero after dragging a plugin from the browser Instrument tracks mute MIDI channel when using ALT+M Reverse touchpad scrolling direction in some views Marker View Lk column not listing locked status in Tungsten theme Dragging clips with Snap By can have unexpected results Missing project file patch causes CbB to crash Remove default key NUM-0 binding to Enhanced Keyboard Editing Mode Make "Display Clip Fade Attenuation" key bind-able Double-Click to open Clip Properties not working as expected Devices tab of Preferences should say "Double-click on a friendly name to edit it" Crash when freezing track after setting input to None Deleting Multiple tracks in folders removes folder from project iZotope Relay does not draw Advanced tab in VST3 iZotope Plugins Display Track Names incorrectly Project Looping turns off after recording Spacebar doesn't work with new Waves StudioRack plugin Background not repainted in Waves StudioRack plugin when opening module or resizing from UI Hang on project close Cancelling a real time freeze operation crashes and shuts down application Cancelling Freeze can cause Interleave and Phase buttons to change unexpectedly Archived Aux tracks pass signal Soloing aux tracks mutes metronome on playback Inspector displays wrong output strip after clicking inspector strip with track sending to aux Custom project load affirmations display unexpected characters in multibyte languages Custom project load affirmations truncate messages that are more than one line Having no playback master selected causes loss of audio with no reported errors Crash on undo of ripple edit delete Incorrect audio range when bouncing or exporting with no audio drivers present Known issues Showing the Arranger Inspector also automatically shows the Arranger track. However, this currently only works if the Arranger track was closed with the A keyboard shortcut or the Track view View > Arranger Show/Hide command, not by dragging the divider bar. When multiple Arranger sections are selected, when clicking to drag, the preview runs off screen. When resizing the Arranger track, drawing artifacts are left behind. Arranger track auto scrolling doesn't work when resizing a section. A few Arranger context menu commands have not been localized yet, and will appear in English for all languages. CTRL+mouse wheel scroll direction is flipped. The Insert Soft Synth Options dialog box is not formatted properly in non-English languages. Localization work in general is pending. Japanese localization is incomplete.
    1 point
  34. When the King quotes, he quotes not.
    1 point
  35. Lots of nice workflow optimizations here! I highly recommend. Great production value as well
    1 point
  36. @foldawayAh I see what you are saying. I'll look into the feasibility of this.
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  37. Once you've clicked on your clip, right click on the arranger track and select "From Selection" - right clicking on the Time Ruler and selecting "Create Section from Selection" does the same thing. Both of these were discussed in the design phases, and were decided they weren't for the first release. The main reason being that it seemed more appropriate to think in more generic terms of "Project versions" rather than something that is arranger specific... so maybe something that we'll do in the future.
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  38. Nope, it is a flat 30% off. The promo banner states "Discount not combinable with other campaigns" and I checked that it supersedes rather than stacking with the loyalty discount in the cart. For reference: black friday 2018 was 30% off, and last year was 30% and up (4-6 products 40%, all 7 products 50%). No guarantees for this year. Looks like there's still a few days left to demo while the sale's on.
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  39. You should be able yo fix that, just do a google search for vcruntime140.dll, you'll get heaps of results, look at the Microsoft site one (and others, but be ware), it's likely you just need to update some runtime file/files. Good Luck
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  40. Maybe control surfaces and ACT setups are stealing MIDI input before it makes it to the track? SONAR/Cakewalk has always had some strange things with Roland A800, see the mention on this page: https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=ExternalDevices.15.html I'd strip out as much of that stuff (ACT/Control surface setups) as I could and try and get everything as plain as you can. Then see what you are getting.
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  41. When I create a new section, is there any way to immediately type the name? I'm forever creating a section and then right-clicking and selecting "rename"
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  42. I'm curious how it's handling automation envelopes. Anyone?
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  43. i realised control + mouse wheel scroll now goes in the opposite direction?
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