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SynthMaster 2 Player is FREE for a limited time until November 1. https://www.kv331audio.com/synthmasterplayer.aspx

The Cure - Cold

"Safe Mode" in Cakewalk allows you to select which plugins are loaded when you're having issues opening a project and this is great. However, I would like to offer a suggestion... Currently, you would have to go through each plugin one by one via a 'yes' or 'no' pop-up dialog... instead, what if there's a full list of the plugins used in the project so you can quickly scroll through and select specific plugins to not load?! Hope the devs sees this and considers making some improvements.

Synthmaster Player was my gateway into the Synthmaster world. If anyone reading this doesn't have it, don't sleep on this freebie. Grab it while you can. It's a great synth worth far more than its regular price.

That's a worthwhile addition to have, especially for free! This is the full $29 Player edition with 2,000 factory presets, not the stripped down always free edition. It's great for anyone who prefers to only use presets, as it has limited editing capability. But it has 8 macro knobs to adjust the sound in each preset that can be linked to your controller in a similar way as with Analog Lab from Arturia. Plus you can purchase expansion bank add-ons as desired.

Queen - Stone Cold Crazy

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Stone Cold Bush:

Stone Temple Pilots - Plush

https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/blues-seven just getting started with this one, i'm curious to know how it translates. it looks like it's missing some mids, but sounds nice to me as is.

Hello! I have received my singer's final tracks. I'm happy with his performance. What do you think about the vocal mix of this song? https://soundcloud.com/user-147600739/brisons-les-frontieres-le-master-05-db/s-XQs7s6IvZjb?si=87f3b543b93745ff9177cbb0446170f1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Chorus and Reverb ( CC91 / CC93 ) are already on the MIDI Track. If you enable Assignable Controls, you can control up to another 4 of them - not your whole list obviously, but at least you'll get 6 of them. Saving the track as a track template will retain the assignable controls:

I love having stuff, thanks.

Overpowered By Funk - The Clash

I'm not aloud allowed to mention the ** otherwise the Brexit Police will come knocking.

Temple of the dog - Your savior:

i have a few generators i use like scaler, chordz, ripchord, and a few more more i can't remember but they let me create arpeggios / sequences etc which i feed to the plugin via MIDI... but i see - you have an arpeggiator on the plugin want that to be output as MIDI... so if you check the plugin settings in the plugin manager plug-in properties -> details -- it needs to support event output = yes in this example - chordz is a generator, that's its job... maybe there is a way to "drag" the sequence onto a MIDI track. Scaler and a few other generators work like that.

Someone once said... "Men go into a relationship not wanting the female to change, but they do. Women go into a relationship trying to change the man, but he doesn't!"

One-knob chiclets don't count.

The economy must be getting pretty bad.

I came across a program called Demucs that can process a song and save the instruments on it as separate files. Apparently it has been around for some time but this is the first time I've heard about it. At the moment it seems to be able to split the song into four tracks: vocals, bass, drums and other (which in my case has been guitars). So far I have tested it with only a couple of rock songs (with vocals, two guitars, bass and drums), but I'm telling you folks: this program has no business being as ridiculously good as it is. Yes, there is some smearing and every once in a while the instruments bleed over to other tracks, but overall the instrument separation is really, really good. I have only tried it with default settings and I am not exaggerating when I say that this has already revolutionized my transcribing process. It's like getting access to the separate stems of a song and it feels amazing to hear the bass of a song so clearly for the first time in your life. I have also tried Stagecraft Simple Stems but this is in a completely different league. Demucs is available as Python package on PyPi (installed with pip) but there is also a GUI for Windows and Mac. I haven't tried the GUI but if you're at all familiar with Python installing and using this is easy-peasy. Installation instructions and resources: https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs GUI: https://github.com/CarlGao4/Demucs-Gui If you need/want to transcribe songs I wholeheartedly recommend you give Demucs a try!

The Rapture - Sister Saviour

There is no problem when multiple ASIO drivers are installed as long as there is at most one ASIO driver per device. Having multiple drivers for the same device is a problem and this is one of the issues with "generic" ASIO drivers. Because "generic" ASIO drivers work with practically all audio interfaces, they often conflict with manufacturer ASIO drivers.

Audio Assault gets a 'fair play' mention from me, Reid.

This upgrade offer is available again until October 15. Use the code ECHOESAROUND. https://www.softube.com/tape-echoes

https://www.bandlab.com/studedude/sunday-afternoon-266124b7?revId=fe30fb15-274c-ed11-819a-000d3a3eefd0 Easy going original jazz instrumental featuring my tenor sax, Gibson guitar and Fishman tripleplay midi guitar for piano sounds, also Ezdrummer3 and my Glarry jazz fretless bass.

https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=14502398

Hi, Please make the record button understandable by saying in the "yellow hints" ... You know the yellow pop-up hints when you hover over a button for a moment or two. Just say "Left click and hold for more options" instead of the obvious "Record (Comping) [R]" for the record button. Or combine two hints together! I had to do some serious research to find out what I remembered that CakeWalk "used to have"..I really thought CakeWalk might have gotten rid of that feature. All the hints should get revised and not just state the obvious. Especially if there's a hidden menu. I thought the "Step Record" was removed until recently. So, please update the hints to clarify any special menus. Not everyone is smart enough to figure out what the developer(s) was thinking when CakeWalk was created. Bandlab now has a chance to correct what was wrong and make it right. Thank you Bandlab and the developers of Bandlab! See Post for visual images of before and after: Post 382991

The last 4 days of Yoko screaming was not worth it. What's that you say? It was only 4 minutes? Couldn't be.

I'm a SM fan, I admit. Have the SM "Everything" bundle, and patiently waiting for SM 3 ... and it's only going to be a $35 upgrade from SM 2 (free for "Everything" owners). SM is an often overlooked synth. SM 3 is going to be a beast!

Hi - have to agree with RikF - I've not heard the original but seems to be lacking something rhythmical - sure that would improve things a lot Cheers Nigel

The Stranglers - This Song (video featuring Stuart 'Pyscho' Pearce)

The Stranglers - Ice

Judas Priest - Out In The Cold

Leather soles and whipped cream. That's all I got.

Interesting groove going on, cool animation. It's pretty long without any real changes so my attention span has trouble.

Lipps Inc. - Funkytown

This happens to me from time to time. It's usually a frozen synth track that has "clipped" for want of a better term and the clue for me is which track has the meter pegged in the red. Zoom in on that waveform and there will be some glitch at exactly the place where the audio stops. I say "clipped" because the waveform shows some big spike, but it shouldn't have really as pretty much proven when unfreezing the track and then freezing again without touching anything else at all makes it go away. No idea why this happens, just something that I've learnt to live with over the years. To get audio to play again I have to close and re-open the project. Nothing else seems to work.

How are you planning to build tracks? Are you working in a DAW? Because of the FX you can add inside a DAW, I am not sure if the VSTi would be as critical. In stand alone mode, VSTis have different FX included. For chugging, you could use a free VSTi and put a better FX chain on it and it might suit your needs. When focused inside a DAW, you can make your own FX chain regardless of VSTi. As long as the output from the VSTi is clean, you will get the same tone. A couple ways to think about what you want... if VSTi focused, you can save presets and be DAW-independent; conversely, FX chains would make you more VSTi-independent, so could focus on work flow, MIDI routing, etc. That said, for metal (which often wants the meaty low end), Ample Sound's Hellraiser (9-string), and Three-Body Tech's Heavier7Strings would be my two choices for metal work. The Hellraiser only has the bridge pickup sampled, but if I were to choose only one VSTi, I would use that, since it can be fed clean into any FX chain you want and has the most notes available. Heavier7Strings is built for metal work, so the interface and sound engine actually have switches right on the UI to play 5th/octaves (i.e., one-fingered power chords). The FX chains internal to both are very usable even from the presets alone. Both of those go on sale during the holidays. Quick edit: Both have a lot of key switches available, but Heavier7Strings has some very specific to metal (pick attack, mutes, harmonics, etc.). They do their demos in Cubase, but when you are sitting at a DAW, you can drive Heavier7Strings to do a lot of cool stuff.

Just (re)discovered that trying some things. 😶 Process>Apply MIDI Effect works with the Cakewalk arpeggiator, the only one I have to try.

i went through and removed every ASIO driver that various software had installed: ASIO4ALL, Generic Low Latency ASIO, MAGIX 2016, etc... even my UMC driver. i think 8 total. then i reinstalled my UMC, and the ASIO4ALL (2015 release). oddly enough, most of the amp sims (TONEX, TH-U, Guitar Rig, and the older (32-bit) standalone keyboard apps all play very nicely with low latency on the ASIO4ALL and are worse on the UMC and the WASAPI. long buffer delays (even when trying to set them low), stuttering, crackling. but then, when i play them through CbB - ASIO4ALL - not bad but not great latency, WASAPI exclusive - nice, better latency, WASAPI shared - pretty much the same as exclusive, and UMC - best. low latency, no stuttering and crackling. generally speaking i've seldom used the ASIO4ALL but when using my standalone apps, i've made it the default for those.

Has you tested if the West Coast electric power infrastructure could handle a simultanious VST Scan ? And the global internet survived a simultanious backup/scan online ya ?

Just download the documentation like we all did. If you go to the help tab in the DAW and click check for update a popup toast will give you the option to download the offline documentation. You can also use the web installer to get it. It was there - the option was given to you, you should have just ticked it. Im not saying you did/have - neither of that, but . . . Getting Cakewalk from third-party websites, is still considered as piracy even if it is free. ALSO: There's the help module if you press Y on the keyboard and this one is not hidden. It is by default open when you install Cakewalk with the options to close/remove/hide/undock it.

I looked at S1 6 - can't justify it as I mainly use CbB these days, so decided to upgrade my ancient cans and audio interface instead. Don't neglect the hardware. 🙂 Andy

I will update or upgrade everything I own that is on offer (when the price is right, i.e. a sale or intro price). That means: CbB (done, free) Studio One 6 (done) Cubase (done) Digital Performer (done) Reaper (done, free) Mixbus/Mixbus 32C (done) ProTools (done) Reason (done) Logic (not until I have an M1 based Mac. My Mac is too old) What I've abandoned updating: Mixcraft Samplitude

I'll be upgrading Reaper from 5.67 to 5.68, and it's a free upgrade!

That's weird. Usually dead horses full of bricks sound great. Try to kick it harder. 🙃

My apologies, being a multi instrumentalist I do take some knowledge for granted. DW stands for Drum Workshop and they make higher end drums and hardware in the US.

We've been and gone.

This is a new rendition of this song I wrote a while back. I hope you enjoy this Cakewalk peeps! All the best to you! RexRed

I’ve been following this development for many years, hoping it would come to DAWs. It finally has arrived… GPU Audio introduces their technology with their own plugins and the option to work with developers to implement their GPU audio technology in DAWs and plugins and provide insane performance! They are looking to cooperate with DAW developers to significantly increase the power of DAWs. Reaper is implementing it already. Some key points: 1 ms buffer standardize for VST3 use - regardless of instance count 150 microseconds buffer for custom software Thousands of GPU cores render your audio in real-time Here is an interview from last week where the GPU audio guys give some very interesting info about the current status, development and possibilities for the (near) future. They offer their FIR Convolution Reverb Plugin beta version for free: https://earlyaccess.gpu.audio/ @Noel Borthwick any chance you could work with these guys to make CbB a real powerhouse?