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https://sites.google.com/view/cactus-studios/home go to the Cakewalk CWP files tab or directly = https://sites.google.com/view/cactus-studios/cakewalk-cwp-files Please go to my web site for further info and updates. Feel free to ask questions here. Due to Covid I have more or less retired from playing at Dances and Parties. I have over 300 CWP backing tracks and 1,000's of midi files just sitting there going to waist and I thought.. Hey, I should share these with the Cakewalk community. So you guys can pick them over and put them to good use. These are a great starting point for new comers looking for simple stuff to learn on. I've put a lot of work into these and most are my own sequences. Some are downloads I worked over. These are "as is" right off my hard drive so most are not really optimized for public use just yet. You'll have to sort out the VST's etc. And a lot of my own midi files are not GM. If you have the older versions of Sonar then you should have everything. On my web page I put links on where to get all the free VST's I use. I have a lot more backing tracks but at this point they contain audio so over time I'll strip that out so the files are small. My retirement project will be to record the vocals and guitar parts to all 300 songs and overwhelm the song forum for a whole year.

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Saw this on Reddit about it: Editing note events in the Piano View is faster and easier than ever in Studio One 5.2. When editing Note events inside the Piano View, the Arrow Tool turns into a real “Smart Tool” at higher zoom levels—without ever having to switch tools! In addition to selecting, moving and resizing note events using the Arrow Tool, the following additional functions can now be changed all with the same useful tool: Note velocity Mute/unmute event Split note event Split note event and part Glue adjacent notes New in Studio One 5.2, the Arranger Track lets you try arrangements on the fly before committing to a new playback order. The updated Arranger Track Inspector lets you quickly jump to different sections of your song from a quick view list. Simply double-click an Arranger Section while another section is playing and Studio One will seamlessly transition from one section to another—without skipping a beat! Also new to 5.2: you get even more robust live arrangement functionality with Arranger Tracks in the Show Page, in both Setlist view and Performance view! Live arranging is available both from the Arranger Track timeline and the Arranger Track Inspector. When combined with loop playback mode and “Loop follows selection” enabled, you have the ultimate remix experimentation environment. Best of all, Arranger Sections can even be controlled from any hardware controller or Studio One Remote. Use the new Patches View in Studio One 5.2 to see all the Patches for a given Player on an easy-to-read grid to quickly recall Patches for your virtual or real instruments, effectively turning Studio One into a powerful master (keyboard) controller. Or open the new Arranger View to see a grid of all available Arranger sections. Set each section to loop and Studio One turns into a powerful loop launcher! Studio One 5.2 adds the Arranger Track to the Show Page, letting you experiment on the fly while you're on stage or live streaming from your studio. For each Arranger section in every Setlist song have a choice of five playback modes: Continue, Stop at End, Skip, Loop, or Loop and Continue; the last of which lets you repeat any section for a specific number of times before playback continues to the next Arranger Section. New in Studio One 5.2, each setlist item can now be equipped with its own Arranger Track, letting you assign different Patches to the same Player for different sections of your song or turn your song into a dynamic and interactive loop performance! New in Studio One 5.2, Chord Track information can now be transferred from your Song to your Show so you’ll never miss the next chord again! New in Studio One 5.2, you can now use Studio One Remote 1.6 on your favorite mobile devices as a master controller for your live performance! Take the Performance View with you on stage to take charge of your Show. Best of all, multiple devices can connect to the same computer running Studio One so each player can control their own patches right from their mobile device

Indeed while its not unique to us, its particularly bad in our industry because many folks have a herd mentality to follow by recommendation rather than by exploring needs. We have had our share of problems in the past so some flak is deserved, but I still see quotes of completely out of date information from decades ago that has long since been addressed. Products with a legacy as old as Cakewalk are bound to have baggage that a newer program won’t have (although the new program will also have bugs, just different) The “professional” tag is downright snobbery perpetrated by biases, whether it be Mac vs PC or other factors that equate cost vs value. We’ve even had people who said we weren’t professional because for the longest time there was no copy protection. The free aspect is also a factor since free can be associated mistakenly with unsupported freeware. The bottom line is user base demographics have been changing. Its not all about how many esoteric features you have anymore but how usable and inviting the product is and new users today have different expectations now than they did 10 years ago.

Run the UPP to Update

My first computer was an Etch A Sketch . My next computer was a real Game Changer . It even came with it's own Tech Support . Kenny

Video ready , just tell me when it s out and i make publique

It was with some sadness that last week I finally contributed my VS-700 T-shirt to the rag pile. At least it was put to one last musical purpose: cleaning up after my granddaughter, who'd just finished spray-painting her guitar as well as the patio table she'd used as a workspace.

We don't have a phone number...or anything else. We only know that he's in the hospital, and that his wife told "someone" that he would contact us when he's out...

I have a couple of these and they are quite useful (the colors make it easy to track which is which too). I scratch my head at times with these reliability reports. There is not a lot mechanically going on in an HDD (most use the same vendors on piece parts to boot), and about the only way to fail it is to park heads on the media (even on loss of power, the inductive kick would park the heads on power loss 20+ years ago) or to get a nice 100g head slap from dropping it while spinning. I have yet to have a drive fail (even an SSD, and I trust SSDs far less), so seeing stats of less than a year make me really wonder. By the time they are assembled into drives, all of the piece parts have been tested out, and the drive banks run them for a bit to write the sector markers before they ever get packaged (and not a lot of run time is needed on the board to make sure the components don't smoke). That said, the smaller drives were also the ones where we got challenged to make price points way back when. Extremes (either low or high) with capacity I would be wary of due to the "price point challenge" or if the areal density (and bit rate at the outer cylinders) is being pushed. I had to chuckle writing this... the cash cow I ran years ago was 1G per PLATTER (4 max)... boy we have gotten spoiled!

Studio One's great. I highly recommend it over anything else.

Wow what a surprise 😂

Where has Francis been lately? We used to be connected on Facebook and had some really nice chats but he got off Facebook a few years ago and I haven't heard from him since. I really like him and every time I see his company mentioned I wonder how he's doing. Our story is pretty hilarious. We used to have these epic debates on VI-Control regarding how developers could best address piracy. We have or had very different perspectives on how to combat piracy and my perspective has always been that developers shouldn't damage the user experience in their efforts to combat piracy. I also loathe piracy and totally empathize with developers about it, but as a paying user of software and sample libraries, I don't believe my user experience should suffer in order to reduce theivery. Anyhow, we eventually came to really like one another and I bet no one who witnessed those threads would have ever guessed that! So if anyone knows how Francis is doing or his wife sees this, I hope he's doing well and tell him that Peter AKA eDrummist says hi!

Mine are mounted one over the other, doubling the screen space without changing the desk space. You just have to get an extra-tall monitor stand. They exist for just that reason.

I lean that way also usually, but this drive has been very reliable, and I would certainly by another for this price

maybe this is a blessing in disguise and helps us contain our GAS and not buy so many plugins we don't even need ** RECORD SCRATCH **

You know i was really think of recording friends and make a kontakt library lol .... for me not to sell but who knows lol So who's down to trip in France ?

Not sure if this one has been posted or not Kenny

Not intentionally sorry Two hours isnt long enough to cover 30+ years. I missed a few steps haha. Here is a post about GMPI from 2004. It was an MMA working group and many high level industry professionals were part of the group. Its too bad that it never materialized since it we genuinely a forward thinking cross platform spec for plugins. with support from both DAW and plugin vendors. But we all know that merit doesn’t drive adoption necessarily.

Here is my new song, "Eternity". I hope you like it Cakewalk peeps.

Last we heard Pav...he was still with us. His wife told "someone" that he was very ill, but was still alive...and in the Hospital, but haven't heard anything since then...

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I may have solved the problem. I rendered all of the melodyne tracks, and deleted a bunch of old tracks in the project. I suspected that somehow melodyne information from deleted tracks somehow was being saved in the project and so I loaded in safe mode and towards the end it asked to load melodyne three times, when there were no melodyne tracks in the project. i said no. I also asked to load vocalsync which is odd because I don't use vocalsync. I said NO and saved it. Then I reloaded it and it did NOT ask to load melodyne, Loaded again in regular mode and Waves seems to load properly. My theory is that I cleaned out old information from the file, not sure if this is accurate. But hopefully it will work now

You'll only be disappointed. Best to keep the hope that the news is actually worth the fuss alive for as long a possible.

@Noel Borthwick Since you ran out of time with Vin how about doing another podcast with him and convince Meng to join in. Would love to hear both of your perspective on Bandlab/Cakewalk going forward. Pretty please with low calorie sugar on top

And watch those peaks!!!!!

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Peter, I believe his wife participates in the Deals forum once in a while.

It's really a superb eq but the lack of resize makes me use everything but it before !!

Pretty much the same for me. Although by that time I was already programming in Fortran, Cobol and Basic on the HP-3000 Series III "mini computer" at work. Yes, it was referred to as a mini computer and compared to some IBM 360 installations I had seen, it was even though those units were just under 6 feet tall filled with sooooooo much air inside.

Still loving those IK ape machines.

A pair of 23" 1920x1280 flat LCD's. Not a matched pair, just two of them. Track View/Browser/Inspector go on the left hand one and Console/Piano Roll/Misc. on the right hand one. Sometimes when I want to get an especially wide view of the Track Pane I'll drag it across the width of both monitors. If I'm switching back and forth between tasks with the computer, like right now when I'm taking time to check the forum and write, I'll park the paused task on the right monitor.

bump - there seems to be a few more preset updates this morning

Kenny

@Jim Fogle Thanks, Working on it. Stupid Google sites. You have to use Google drive which has no way of globally sharing.. can only share with people in your contact folder... so I'll try One drive. Update: I got it working with One Drive. I just found out I can log on as a Guest in Edge that way I can test it like a normal punter. One drive can be a working folder as I update the files. I'll put files in sub folders. There will be 2 main folders CWP files and MIDI files.

A most enlightening post Kenny! Definitely worthy of reflection. 😉👍

Love it, but for $1100?? 😲 I use a 29" flat widescreen ($200) beside a 17" laptop. The lack of height control on most widescreens is the only con I've seen.

Imagine if it had become the prevalent standard... "GMPI instrument/plugin" is a mouthful. 😂 ...on second thought, maybe it should've become the prevalent standard, hard to pronounce acronym notwithstanding!

Yes, thank you for the help, I am starting the course with more than 12 videos, the link goes to a list of videos I have on my YouTube Channel of the course.

Thanks, I fixed my post to include "MIDI."

Helpful comparison showing strengths/weaknesses and ties in PA’s BB HG2 which Larry posted about is getting refreshed soon:

And there’s a huge number of extra presents if you own both Omni and Keyscape.

I'm using a 50" LG 4K TV and have for a few years now. It's AWESOME, and allows me to work from further away when I want to, or be up close and get a LOT of info at the same time. R

All of this.

How do you know that the pictures are public domain? In the US any picture of a living person (technically any picture made by the photographer for his lifetime plus 70 years) should be assumed to be under copyright. For works for hire owned by a non-human legal entity like a corporation, created after 1978 the copyright lasts 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation. It is actually very difficult for the author to put anything into the public domain per se. Copyright automatically attaches as soon as a work is created in tangible form, with a few exceptions like certain works made by or for the federal government. That copyright survives the author, and can be licensed, sold, inherited or seized as part of a legal action--so even if the author wants to give it away, he may not have that right. That implies that the author may not even be able to immunize you from a infringement action if someone else has assumed control of the copyright. Unless you have a license from the copyright holder, or the work has some kind of universal license like the Creative Commons licenses, it is likely infringement to use it. Performance/recording of a copyrighted work requires a license from the owners of the composition (word and lyrics) rights which can be obtained without specific consent of the copyright holder under the compulsory licensing provisions for sound recordings, but setting the music to a video requires a specific synchronization rights license. YouTube has a system for dealing with infringing music that involves deals with the various copyright holders, that they will not insist on the removal of the video from YouTube in exchange for a portion of revenue from advertising associated with the video by YouTube. If the copyright owner is not participating in that deal, then YouTube can get a takedown notice and be required to remove it. The person who posts the infringing video is liable to infringement action by the copyright owner in that case as well. YouTube has robot song identification that will pick up musical infringement, but I doubt they have the same for images that you use, and I am not aware of any deal they have with the owners of pirated pictures or video. When you are dealing with the likeness of a person, especially one who is famous, you open a whole new can of worms. The use of the picture of a person, and even in some cases attributes that are easily recognized as being associated with that person you may be violating the person's exploitable right to his identity. That is not a copyright issue but a whole separate area of law that is defined differently in different states. If the subject of a photograph has limited the use of the photo in the photographic release, he may have an action against someone using the photograph outside the bounds of that release. So if the band member agreed to sit for the photograph for the sole specific purpose of it being used on an album cover, for example, he may have a case against someone using that photo on a box of cereal or in a YouTube video.

Fixed!

If you can see the usb-midi in Cakewalk it have to mean that there's no midi sent to Cakewalk. First check manual if there are settings for usb-midi in the Yamaha hardware. Second is using a midi-monitor to check the midiflow.

BTW, in this podcast, Noel says the BandLab user base is 29 million. Not all of those are Cakewalk users, but holy crap, that's a LOT of people. That's about equivalent to the entire population of Texas.

Samplitude Pro X Suite is basically what used to be called Samplitude Pro (and used to cost $1,000). Current Samplitude Pro is basically a cut down version of that. Basically, the better Restoration and Mastering features are what separate Pro X Suite from Pro X. The Suite portion is simply a really terrible renaming of a product line. The other stuff in the package actually post-date the name change 😉 Samplitude is a decent DAW, but the performance is terrible, and I had to ditch it. $199 is too high, considering I'd be buying bug fixes and MAGIX is not great with support, especially once a new version hits shelves (they release patches, but they're miniscule and do not address the bigger issues, as those issues drive locked-in users to upgrade). I'd only buy this if I wanted SpectraLayers ($100 cheaper than from Steinberg), but I don't need it since Cubase comes with the One version and it does the one thing I need from it - remove vocals from music 😛