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I’m happy to announce that Cakewalk is getting the attention it deserves from industry professionals! I encourage you to watch the video above I did with Warren Huart of Produce Like A Pro. This was a promotional venture to kick off the release of my new course in Warren’s Pro Mix Academy. (The Ultimate Cakewalk Course) If you ever have any questions feel free to email me. I also go live once a week for Live QA and Tutorials. Last but not least here is an entire playlist showing love to this DAW: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwqZ0GPSfFgbc8gLCxaYngRGVvlaf57gI If you’d like to learn more about the Cakewalk course you can find it on the Pro Mix Academy here: https://transactions.sendowl.com/stores/5349/205312

Would be great to somehow get it to his family. It was a good idea to reach out to local schools or hospitals - even hospices in the area if you know his full name... 😧

The man is becoming a legend on his own.

Let's be honest. They look soooo nice we can't help it...

@Max Arwood, not meaning to toot my own horn but see the bonus tip at the end of this blog post.

Already gone. Sorry guys and gals.

The heck with the plug-in deal, I want to know what brand of coffee this guy's drinking.

Hi and Hello, What about a Quad Curve EQ Shortcut inside Inspector to bring the flyout window in front and back again? This shoudn't be to complicated... Cheers

Yeah, they're great. I also use TH-U, and it sounds awesome. I only wish they had an IR based cab simulator - much like mixIR or the new Amplitube - instead of that horrible IR browser. I like their LA-2A. I'm a bit disappointed with Tapedesk - I mean I like the concept, the features, the overall sound is OK, but I don't quite like what it does to the highs - there's some room for improvement there. On the other hand, I haven't seen too many tape plugins that I like, so - I imagine that's harder to get right, and that tape is one of their first generations. The problem is, just like everybody says, Overloud is pretty expensive.

He added an index to the video on YouTube, so you can link jump directly to specific parts.

Thanks @cclarry for sharing this. I just had somewhat of a backlog of things to share so this was a great way to do it. I find I do better just going with the flow of things. I am possibly going to release “flashbacks” from the stream to highlight some of those moments. I really do enjoy sharing with everyone. Thanks for the kind support.

Cakewalk's staff view isn't meant to be a full score editor, it's a staff view. Given that most of the dedicated score editors out there support rewire, there's always the option to use them without having to switch DAW.

Yes good luck to Robert with this. He has contributed a lot of excellent tutorial and other material for free so I can't imagine anyone would begrudge him success with this course

Back on up... Still with hope...

Too bad you replied to clarify, I was just about to start a rumor he was giving away Ampitude 5 Max licenses hehhe

New video on #youtube ... 3 Free Orchestraltools Instruments come check it out link below... Dont forget to Subscribe, like and hit that bell notification

I'm sorry, I see this company with all these possibly useful utilities, but I just can't get past the name. "Ashampoo?"

Mike is the king for traditional rock band audio work, and I've learned a lot of EDM techniques for Cakewalk from Xel Ohh and E-Woof. Forum favorite ADK Studios is also good (BTW, he took my suggestion to post his issues on the forum and got Los Panaderos to address his biggest issue). Not that I'd discourage Robert McClellan or anyone else for putting together commercial courses. He must believe that he has put together something that people can't get from the other tutorials, so more power to him and his efforts. I'm psyched to see Cakewalk get this kind of attention from someone like Warren. BTW, have you ever watched one of the videos where Warren sings? Based on his speaking voice, I did not expect that singing voice coming out of him.

How is this not a deal...those presets cut through mix like no other synth..

Drum notation is displayed in treble clef. Changing clef to the correct and even specifying that this is a drum track doesn't help. If MIDI keyboard performance isn't quantized, notes that are slightly off the beat look funny and there is no setting to "quantize" the displayed notes. Haven't checked TABs, because the "score" , although it looks beautiful, is not really useful. I understand that. Score editor is supposed to make piano roll data humanly readable. Both Cakewalk's and SO's viewers leave a lot to be desired in that area and are more like toys than tools.

That's always been my story, and I'm stickin' to it! t Boy did I get lucky! Deals over, saved me $50...

Yes! As things worked out, the SONAR Platinum license holders are getting their updates, and those updates are now developer-driven rather than marketing, so, bonus. To help you feel better, here are some things that people who only started with CbB don't get: Dimension, Drop Zone, Session Drummer, Square 1, Cyclone, PSYN II, Rapture, Z3ta, Lounge Lizard Session, Ultra Analog Session, Strum Session, True Pianos, Addictive Drums, Melodyne, BiFilter, Blue Tubes, BlueVerb, LP EQualizer, LP Multiband compressor, TS transient shaper, Channel Tools, ProChannel modules I'd love to have like Panipulator, Concrete Limiter and PC-2A. Some of those are proprietary Cakewalk products that seem less and less likely to see the light of day as time goes on. They can't be had for any amount of money. Also whatever amount of time you got to use the program between when you bought your license and April 2018.😀 I don't think that anyone else got over on the SONAR license holders, I'm really grateful that we all bought in and kept the company going for 30 years. I say "we" because I was one myself, back in 2000 or so, around the time that it became "SONAR."

Very good idea and if this would be more flexible, adjustable.

Now, when we add more than one audio file into Cakewalk, lets say for mixing, Cakewalk adds "(i)" as a suffix indicating the number of track. Also, when we Export tracks or stems it is mandatory to enter a name which ends up as the prefix, preceding a "-". And the output will also have a suffix of "-i". It all started with the File names "File 1, File 2, File 3". It would be a good thing to not have these additional characters added while adding or exporting the project. Please make the addition of the name aka prefix optional (incase anyone wants it). Let me know if a change in setting would get what I requested.

If you live by a Microcenter they usually have great deals on refurbished systems too.

Like batteries, flash memory has a limit of cycles. It's estimated that a SSD lasts 25% less than a mechanical hard drive. A HDD lasts about 10 years, although there have been examples of drives lasting twice that. If you're writing large files to that drive constantly, that will greatly reduce its lifespan.

I love when the videos have that

$99 - Multiband Version - not the standard version https://www.pspaudioware.net/UserArea/store/view

Wow Simeon I was gong to watch and just realized how long this video is. Have to check it out tonight

Guys, it is not PSP oldTimer but PSP oldTimerMB. Pretty different beast

I always fancied the blonde one in Abba... .... I wasn't so keen on the beard though 😁

Thanks, Olaf! I'll check that little buster against the big boys. Overloud plugs, especially, GEM series, are top-notch. These guys know to code.

I was lamenting the ease with which the $49 had already left my pocket.

For Buttterworth.

DERH! Had I read what "I" posted I would have known that!

I like the OldTimer a lot. Still, this is too spensif.

Like Cubase does for its console strips?

Best Service is for the win. $169 Tax-Free crossgrades during the Holiday Season! I pretty much only buy software from there now, when possible. The prices are almost always lower than MSRP, and no Taxes. Many have moved to using another DAW as their primary but stick around for the Community, and because they use Cakewalk as a backup. It's also the place to be to keep track of developments surrounding the DAW. The devs aren't really that active on Social Media, FWIS. It's kind of hard to come back to SONAR/Cakewalk from another DAW if you've left and actually learned how to use it. A lot of Quality of Life has to be sacrificed in that case. You know the saying... People never know what they're missing until they experience it. That grabs a lot of people when they use competing products. Those people most solid in sticking to it tend to be those that never left, or those that got another DAW, but never really committed to it - because learning a new DAW [naturally] tanks your productivity for a time (and I doubt those are "still buying other DAWs"). Typically, web forums bias to a product's most reliable user base. The more fickle users typically aren't very active on them.

Hi Rex, such a pleasant change to hear someone singing with their own voice rather than trying to copy someone else , super vocals ,lovely song,excelent job thanks one of the best Ive heard for a very long time cheers

Didn't miss the point. They already bundle a cut down version with Cubase (with some Half-Decent Sounds). This is what HALion Sonic SE is? Full version upgrade path is not needed. Almost no one in the industry does this, so I am not sure why this is at issue. There was not an upgrade path off of Structure Free to Structure in Pro Tools. There is no upgrade path off of UVI Workstation to Falcon 2 or MOTO MachFive. There is no upgrade path off of Kontakt Player to full Kontakt (only a few ways to exploit free Kontakt Player Licensed 3rd party instruments for an upgrade - like Embertone Arcane). I clearly indicated that this was the case. It's there so that you can play HALion Libraries in Cubase or any 3rd party DAW. It runs Standalone and in any other DAW. The installer you get for HALion Sonic SE in Cubase 11 is literalyl no different that the one you'd use if you were using Pro Tools, Cakewalk, Studio One, or Ableton Live. It's it's own product, it's just bundled for convenience. Installing Cubase 11 does not install HALion Sonic SE. It has its own installer. HALion's popularity, like Falcon and MachFive is hindered not by Steinberg's (or UVI's) "Marketing Strategy" but rather the domination of alternative solutions like Kontakt, Omniscphere, and Serum. Even if they gave $100 Off of HALion Sonic/$50 off HALion 6 for buying Cubase, most people would still get the freebie and run to a Kontakt 6 Upgrade for $249 with the upgrade option to Komplete 13, or buy something like Serum, Pigments 2 (often on sale for 50% off), Zebra or Omnisphere for Synthesis instead; because they're buying the workstation platform based not on what it can do - but what ecosystem it has backing it. HALion doesn't have enough third-party support to increase its attractiveness, despite being a better Sampling and Synthesis platform than Kontakt (IMHO). Correct. A lot of the stock HALion Sonic SE patches in Cubase are the General MIDI stuff. Basically, the equivalent of what you get out of TTS-1 in Cakewalk, though it sounds better (because they seem to come from one of the better Yamaha machines), they are still not as good as a decent Sample Library and were not designed to be that good. They're usually notated with a [GM ###] marker, BTW. HALion Sonic 3 adds the better libraries namely: Studio Strings, Hot Brass, The Eagle/The Raven Pianos, World Instruments, and World Percusion. Basically, the rough equivalent of the Kontakt Factory Library plus some decent Synths and stuff. HALion 6 is for when you want to do Surround, need massive patches in one Instance of the Sampler (far more channel output), need/want the Wave Table Editor, or need/want the capability for creating your own Sample Libraries (which can be used in Sonic and Sonic SE). I also think Multi-Monitor Support is limited to HALion 6, and the UI is more flexible (the players I think have a locked UI layout - but they also have far less panels and UI areas). HALion has a pretty high learning curve through, since most people are only used to using something like Kontakt Player (or Kontakt as a player). Sonic and Sonic SE are pretty self-explanatory, but HALion 6 is likely to throw many users into a state of Shock and Awe the second they open the application/plugin. Personally Opinion: Absolute is a better deal than buying HALion 6, except during sales like this (the 30% off price is very attractive, IMO), and I'm not sure I'd ever buy HALion Sonic 3 considering HALion 6 includes Sonic 3 the price difference is not high enough considering the lack of editing capabilities in Sonic 3. If they have a 50% off sale for HALion, chances are the same sale is also running on Absolute 4, so it makes less sense to go just for HALion in that case. Picking up Groove Agent 5, Retrologue 2, Padshop 2, The Grand 3, HSO, OCM, and a few additional good synths plus some of their better libraries (Granular Guitars, Prime Cuts, etc.) for the price difference is high value. So, waiting is likely to throw many users into the same conundrum as now. "Should I settle for HALion 6 or pay the difference for Absolute."

Not everyone. I'm here because I was a SPlat user with a lifetime license, and I remember many of the members. When Bandlab picked it up (good on them!), I went back to Studio One. Been there ever since. Plus, Lar saves me a lot of time with his updates and sales postings. I said C, CC Larry Oh, see what you have done 😅

We need an "AA" for game hoarders...

I hear some people hang them on trees too

The best Bandlab videos are Why pay for them?

Man, this song really hangs together well. Great vocals, and I liked the video when you had light beams shining out of your face! And the overly colorized Dr appointments, how did you do that effect? Really cool, Lynn. Cheers, -Tom

And back up again.

I agree with that line of thinking. 😄

Nobody likes bugs interrupting their workflow but if you think that other programs dont have similar bugs you likely havent used them for very long periods of time or your workflow doesnt expose similar issues. Regarding fixing bugs, it has been an utmost priority for at least the last 3 years. Have you looked at the changelog? We’ve fixed over a thousand issues besides all the optimizations and new features. We are a small team and we do the best we can. Cakewalk is an enormously complex application and can be used in thousands of different ways so a bug that affects one user may never be seen by another. This is the main reason why one person may have flawless performance and another might not. If you take the effort to provide detailed steps most of the time we are able to resolve issues rapidly. CAL is an ancient legacy feature that we hardly ever look at so I’m not surprised that there may be a few issues there. Ultimately we plan on replacing it. We’ll look at the other issues.

That's a great tip David! Thanks