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The minimum spend of $75 for the $25 voucher is what has killed every sale for me.

fixed it for you

Too much information. 😄

These BFD threads are getting predictable. They release a free update and 100 people pile on complaining this and that doesn’t work. Authorisation has been working perfectly fine for me and many others for some time. We get it, some people are having problems but do they need to complain and have a laugh on every single BFD thread? I for one am happy that someone has taken over what was a product with great potential but essentially abandonware, and are working hard to improve it for no extra money on my end.

[UPDATE 26-Jul-2022: Cakewalk 2022.06 Update 1 (build 28.06.0.034) now available] We're pleased to announce the 2022.06 release! This release introduces Mackie control surface improvements, loop and punch record enhancements, key binding to render Region FX, support for local help, in-app update improvements, plus various enhancements and bug fixes for user reported issues. Please note that in order to automatically keep your activation status up to date, Cakewalk will renew your activation status whenever a new version of the application is installed and run for the first time, and when you sign in to BandLab from within Cakewalk. If you have never signed in to BandLab from within Cakewalk, you will be prompted once to sign in. Thanks, The Bakers For new feature details, see New Features. Should you need to revert to the 2022.02 release, you can download the Cakewalk 2022.02 Rollback installer. Update Jul 26 2022: 2022.06 Update 1 (build 28.06.0.034) Bug fixes: Audio Export presets not changing file type Extend Takes to Punch Out Time always reverts to loop End time when not loop comping Extend Takes to Punch Out Time / Comping Loop extend clip behavior should also work for MIDI clip recording Note name changes in Piano Roll view revert after clicking note Tracks are added in reverse order when moving to folder Process Effect plugin window requires minimum size Some users experiencing Activation Error 20 Updated to latest Microsoft VC redistributables 2022.06 Highlights Automatically extend final take when loop recording in Comping mode When loop recording in Comping mode , the last take now automatically extends to the loop end time if more than one loop iteration was recorded. This prevents previous takes from being split at the transport stop time, and makes comping much easier because each take is a complete clip. Note: If you loop record in Comping mode and also have auto punch Extend Takes to Punch Out Time enabled, then the last take will be extended to whichever occurs first: loop end or punch out time. Old behavior (incomplete last take and split clips): New behavior (complete last take and no split clips): Option to automatically extend final take when punch recording When Auto Punch recording, Cakewalk automatically splits all takes at the position where you stop recording. This happens if the transport is stopped before the punch out time. This behavior may not be desirable in some cases, such as when speed comping, where you want each take to be a complete clip. To prevent this behavior, Cakewalk now provides an option to extend the final take to the Auto Punch end. Right-click the Record button to open the Preferences dialog box, then enable Extend Takes to Punch Out Time. Note: The Extend Takes to Punch Out Time option also requires that Auto Punch is enabled. Mackie control surface improvements The Mackie Control surface includes several new enhancements. New compatibility modes In addition to the recommended Cakewalk/SONAR mode, the Mackie Control surface now supports two extra emulation modes that can be used if your control surface does not provide a dedicated Cakewalk/SONAR mode: Mackie Control Universal (Universal Mode). Emulates Mackie’s default button layout. Mackie Control Universal (Cubase Mode). Emulates Mackie’s Cubase/Nuendo button layout. It is important that both Cakewalk and your control surface are configured to use the same mode in order to ensure that buttons on the control surface map to the correct functions in Cakewalk. Note: If your control surface provides a Cakewalk/SONAR mode, we recommend using this mode to provide maximum compatibility. Disable Handshake now checked by default Earlier versions of the Mackie Control protocol required a handshake during the initialization of the control surface. Mackie removed this requirement in later versions. To reflect this change, the Disable Handshake option is now checked by default to bypass the handshake process. Note: You may have to uncheck Disable Handshake on older devices when using the Cakewalk/SONAR mode. Performance enhancement Routing and track/bus ordering are now cached internally in order to avoid unnecessary repeated calculations during the control surface refresh process. This results in improved UI performance when using a very fast refresh rate. The cache is reset every time the routing or track ordering changes, and then rebuilt again on the next query from the control surface. Option to open parent track folder when changing track focus The Track view Options menu contains a new Expand Track Folder on Track Focus option, which automatically opens the focused track’s parent folder if it’s currently closed. This behavior may be desirable when using control surfaces or changing track focus via the Console view. Key binding to render Region FX A new key binding named Render Region FX allows you to render any Region FX for any active Region FX in the current clip selection. You can assign the key binding in Edit > Preferences > Customization - Keyboard Shortcuts (under Area: Global Bindings). Support for local help Cakewalk provides optional local help. To enable local help, go to Edit > Preferences > File - Advanced and select Always Use Local Help. When you enable local help for the first time, Cakewalk presents a toast notification to download and install the local help, and whenever updated local help is available. If your computer is not connected to the internet, Cakewalk will default to showing local help until an internet connection becomes available. Note: Offline help is only available in English. Tip: If you would like to use local help on a computer that is never connected to the internet, first download the local help from another computer that is connected to the internet, then copy the CakewalkHelp_Documentation_1.0.0.n.exe installer (found in \Downloads\Cakewalk) to removable media that you can transfer to your offline Cakewalk computer. Alternatively, copy the installed Cakewalk.chm file from the Cakewalk root folder (default is \Program Files\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core). In-app update improvements Cakewalk now supports in-app download of optional content that was previously only available from either BandLab Assistant or the Cakewalk Web installer (Studio Instruments Suite, Drum Replacer, Melodyne trial, Theme Editor, and demo projects). To see all available updates, select Help > Check for Updates. If any optional content has not been installed yet, or an update is available, Cakewalk presents a toast notification to download and install the content. Add file name to the download progress toast notification so users know what is being downloaded. Multiple updates can be queued for download. Support for ARM64 PCs running Windows 11 for ARM Cakewalk will now install to ARM64 PCs running Windows 11 for ARM. Bug fixes Hang when trying to sign in to BandLab Guard against crashes with toast notifications Crash if attempting to export to non-existing drive Prevent Cakewalk from attempting to export directly to a CD/DVD drive Export fails when path does not exist when format is not set to WAV Empty Export Folders not removed on app exit when exporting different file types or source categories Show prompt when export path is invalid Cakewalk External Controller API problem causing Cakewalk GUI to freeze External encoder presets not being picked up / stored properly Flushing during bounce occurs with plugins on buses that are not part of the signal chain Cakewalk should disable the options for Audio to MIDI conversion if Melodyne is not installed Muting Melodyne clip in take lanes causes clip to disappear Export Arranger sections not working properly when project has locked clips Resizing Arranger sections should be able to snap to other sections Committed arrangement off by 1 tick / losing first note Corrupt tempo map when CTRL+drag copy section with only one tempo present Tempo track wiped after drag copy section in user project Incorrect tempo at beginning of committed arrangement in user project WarnSilentBuses config setting should default to off Shelf tool does not work with multiple clips in the same lane Null pointer when trying to drag move range selection Unable to enter "+" character for markers when using non-US keyboard Move To Folder context menu command moves tracks in incorrect order Track Folder echo button status incorrect when active track is an audio track Process > Length crops MIDI stream when < 100% and ignores the duration of Hairpin and Articulation Map events Latest release notes are here. See prior release notes. Check out all new features released to date.

Scuffham S-Gear is on sale for 25% off at 96.75, coupon code SummerSale2022 is automatically applied in the cart. Includes free upgrade to version 3.0 due sometime this year. https://www.scuffhamamps.com/ I've been really digging the sound of this.

BTW...the FRET10 code works on anything also...even the Komplete Crossgrade for $199.99 making in $179.

$125...nope...

Wilko Johnson ... Dr Feelgood - Roxette

I sometimes wonder if the developers only know when a deal is on when they see it here. 😀

Good news and bad news: Good news: I have done some tests and, on my configuration, I can see a substantial reduction of the CPU usage! Yeah!!! Bad news: Changing the routing from the double and back to single still reduces the CPU as previously, so this bug is still there. Conclusion: If IK would fix this bug, Amplitube would be an even more killer product as far as CPU usage versus quality! But at least there is some gain with this release. Numbers: Running the standalone mode with the default preset yields these results in my task manager: v5.0.3: 3.3% v5.4.0: 5% v5.4.1: 3.5% But if you switch to double routing and back to single: v5.4.1: 2.2% !!!!! Now, that would make a difference for older PCs for sure.

I'm still wondering about this man's journey. Somewhat poignant, but uplifting at the same time. The late Taylor Hawkins even shares his recollections of Brian Wilson. The new documentary American Masters – Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road follows Wilson on a drive through Los Angeles with his longtime friend and Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine. With Fine behind the wheel and Wilson selecting the music, they reflect on the formative and creative periods in Wilson’s life as they revisit the places that helped to shape his career. The filmed road trip provides an intimate look into Wilson’s recollections and is bolstered by memorable concert and studio footage as well as interviews with Wilson’s admirers and those close to him, including Al Jardine (co-founder of The Beach Boys), Don Was (record executive), Bruce Springsteen (musician), Elton John (musician), Nick Jonas (musician and actor), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Jakob Dylan (Wallflowers), Gustavo Dudamel (conductor and music director) and the late Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), among others. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/stream-brian-wilson-documentary/21858/

RX 9 Advanced showed up as a trial for me also but after installing it I was able to authorize it to my PC

I never voted SDP.

$90.22 at JRR with "group"

If I understand correctly, is the problem only when opening a project before Cakewalk has opened? If the waves scan is hung for some reason, then that toast won't go away. As abacab mentioned that could be a waves install issue. But the project loading toast is completely independent of that. I expect that toast to always be dismissed. If you can boil it down to a project send me a link and I can try and reproduce it. I have all the waves plugins.

I am not surprised as they always seemed to have the flakiest license management system. They use parchment and an abacus apparently.

The Velvet Underground - Run Run Run

Just to be clear, what it actually states is: Upgrade from any previous version of Post Production Suite or iZotope Everything Bundle or RX 9 Advanced

AAS Bundle is $9.99 and includes several Packs and the "Sessions" Plugins https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/aas-synthesizer-and-sounds-2-bundle

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Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills

I like this. Using the generative approach with MULTIPHONICS CV-1 https://www.musicradar.com/reviews/applied-acoustics-systems-multiphonics-cv-1

%APPDATA%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core is where some of the settings are, the most important ones being: AUD.INI, Cakewalk.ini, TTSSEQ.INI, ctrlsurface.dat and master.ins If you use MIDI learn with control surfaces or your keyboards knobs/sliders, you'll also want to back up %APPDATA%\Cakewalk\ACT Data A lot of the options in Cakewalk itself however are in the registry, under Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Core Your plugin inventory is stored under Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Cakewalk VST X64 Control surface presets are stored under Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\ControlSurfaces\Presets You can export the relevant parts of the registry using regedit.

🙄 Come on peoples ... it's pronounced (and spelt): "becan" 😁 Definitive proof ... The Scene: Rye Railway Station Cafe (our three protagonists are waiting for the train to take them into London to meet The Bapu & his LL) The Players: JonBouy; The Mermaid; Straummy; Unnamed Station employee (female) Act 1; Scene 1 - JB orders his breakfast Jonbouy: Good morning, could I order a becan sandwich please Employee: I beg your pardon? Jonbouy: Yes, I 'd like a becan sandwich please Employee: A what? Do you mean a 'bacon' sandwich? Jonbouy: No, a becan sandwich Strummy: Hah!!

I haven't posted since the old forum days. I just wanted to say that I really appreciate the new updates and the continuing support of Cakewalk. I cut my teeth during the 12 tones days and I am just accustomed to the workflow.. I was disheartened with the all of the business decisions around ownership and did move to another platform.. I prefer this product and hope that it continues to grow and strive in its new environment. Ok.. About the update.. I have the SSL UF8 (2) and this update makes me very happy.. I have not seen any issues at this point and I am glad that I can now use the controller more thoroughly in my preferred DAW.. Thanks Cakewalk and the bakers for this personally relevant and important update... Be well...

The Blues Brothers - Stand by your man

This sounds promising. One company I keep my eye on is Scuffham as i keep hearing good things. So looking at all these deals, I am starting to see a pattern. Any way to flip it, all these companies are trying to get about $100 from you. They are presenting it all in different ways, but that's basically what they are after. So I am waiting to see what Steinberg will come forward with in July, just in case.

Wow adding the two free libraries did the trick! thanks much! 🙏 Edit: actually I just found an email where they reset my account to accept the code. At any rate all is good 👍

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From Dirk Ulrich of PA on Fakebook Weekend alert: If you are subscribed to ANY of our #Soundwide brands' email newsletters... you will get a nice PA surprise offer for the weekend. Stay tuned.

thanks for this, just got me Brainworx bx_console AMEK 9099

The code worked on Gig Performer 4. The Forever $29 voucher didn't work because (per support) it wasn't a plugin.

This isn't a bug - it happens when "Split MIDI Notes" is enabled. When enabled, any notes or active CC's are retriggered at the split point. The primary purpose of this is to support arranger operations, so that the status of any CC's at that split point are honoured regardless of where a section is moved. Turn off "Split MIDI Notes" and you won't see this behaviour.

Before you enter the code, you can select two free $25.99 classic libraries. Select two free ones and then enter the code when checking out.

I will keep my underwhelm ready and on standby, but happy to be surprised 🤣

The update process does not actually look at the software on the disk instead it looks at entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Installers\ If the Studio Instrument Suite was not added by a CbB era installer, there will not be an entry in the registry for the software and the update process will want to "update" the software.

Don't need those, Larry will post before the emails as usual

Thanks so much for looking into this Peter. I was very impressed with this last release. Very excited. It makes Amplitube an even better product with this lower CPU usage, along with the other fixes. If the devs nail the problem stated in ticket #3712804, it would be a great plus too.

It's probably fine for someone that just wants to check out modular in an easy to use package. Without the risk of entering a money pit! 🤣

AmpliTube has the button above the gear selection on the right side for this. Unless you are talking about ToneNET? What is your ticket number for this issue? Edit - also mentioned this to our Testing Manager and he seemed aware and that our devs are also aware and working on it. I agree it is very cool and honestly I get distracted too much by playing around with far too many presets every time I open it up inside AmpliTube 5. What is your profile there? I'll check out your presets some time too.

I edited my above post as you were replying. Again, I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm trying to make a point. This is NOT a general issue. It's directly tied to codecs and hardware. I'll answer my own questions above: One MP4 was a h.264 30fps, 720p AAC and played fine with no issues on any machine. One MP4 had unsupported codecs. Another MP4 was high bitrate 60fps 4K. Another one was 4K HEVC with 10 bit colour. On the surface, every single one of these files look exactly the same. They are all MP4. 30fps 720p is going to use far less system resources to play than a high bitrate 60fps 4K file. On my main hardware, they both played fine. On slightly older hardware the 4K file had big issues. Even on good hardware the HEVC one stuttered when it started but it played, but on lesser hardware that didn't have direct HEVC decoding, it was giving me barely 3fps and lagging the timeline. How this stuff interacts with your hardware, and knowing what is actually inside these MP4 files is important to narrowing down what is going on, so you can actually do as you said - leave it to the developers. Without that information, they're just guessing. The bottom line is there's no really good reason to withhold any information that people ask for, even if it doesn't seem relevant on the surface. This could mean the difference between living with a broken or incomplete feature or actually taking steps to getting it fixed. But agreed, let's leave it at that.

Grabbed VR Pro:)

You can buy both, adding the forever29, then cancel

Me Too !!

This was fixed for the final update so it only happens on the EA. You can click on multiple items and they are queued and downloaded sequentially now.

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This sale had me champing at bit, no blacklist as you say.. but in the end I suppressed my GAS. Just bought a new Roland TD50K2 kit, so trying to be good on surplus spending lol.

I think you're being a lot more optimistic than you should be here. Like I said, go look at the Vegas forums as a great example of an app that's specifically designed for video, and supports a wide range of formats and codecs still having massive trouble with outliers. As I mentioned earlier, the difference between one MP4 and the next, even ones using the same codec can make or break how a system responds to things. 30fps? Fine. 60fps? Maybe fine. Variable frame rate between 18 and 60? Good luck with that. Something other than AAC as the audio? Will it import? Dunno, maybe? Will this format play without hardware acceleration? Perhaps? Some most certainly play badly without it, if at all (HEVC being a great example of that). This is exactly why we usually transcode or create proxies to make editing go smoother. It's a complicated problem for a niche amount of users in a DAW, as much as I am one of those users and I do agree it should be improved. What Erik was saying is right though - without knowing exactly what you're trying to import in, just saying "but Cubase can do it" is not helpful. But we don't know what format your videos are, that's the point. That's why we say grab Mediainfo and show us the ones you're having issues with. It could be a codec issue. It could be that your hardware doesn't support acceleration of the codec and is decoding using the CPU that's causing glitches in CbB. The more info you can provide, the more the devs can work out what needs fixing in the first place, and the rest of us can help you troubleshoot and give an alternative in the interim.