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As many of you know, I lost my last YouTube Channel, after 100 videos and 14 years of work. My first video from my new channel is finally up! Please support me any way you can with my new channel. It has one subscriber (me) right now. Absolutely anything you do--subscribe, like, comment, share on other social media platforms, etc. will cause YouTube to show my video to more people. It’s going to be a long slog. Hopefully this will take less than 14 years. I don’t know what you know about The Metaverse, or if you care, but I have become convinced that it is something we should all know about. For one thing, McKinsey & Company says that The Metaverse may generate $5 trillion dollars by 2030, so pretty much all the world’s biggest companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to cash in on this thing. (You may have heard that the company behind Facebook is spending a measly ten billion a year in hopes of grabbing a share of this bonanza.) I believe it will be a tidal wave for anybody involved in music and the arts—but truly it will affect all commerce. I don’t think that The Metaverse will be here for ten years or a lot longer, but still it’s good to be informed. Forum rules will keep me from posting more videos here, even though I never made one cent after all my years on YouTube. So if you want to be notified about my videos, you’ll have to click the YouTuber bell in order to get notificatioins. But it is allowed for me to put my link below. I’ll be writing a lot of music cues for this Channel. I don’t know if I would call it music in this one—maybe more like textures. I used two recent sales purchases (Vocalise 2 and Audiofier’s Veevum Human) for the staccato female vocal sounds you hear during the titles. After I get going with this, I hope to expand some of these cues into actual music, and do a separate “Metaverse Music” channel for them. Thanks everybody! PS @cclarry has subscribed, so now I have two subscribers! Thank you, Larry!

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Well, I am subscriber 42 and totally expect answers to life, the universe and everything. 😬

All of you are helping me so much, and I am very grateful. My dream is that YouTube will pick up on this engagement and start to show the video to people who are interested in the topic. But I'm realistic. I'm going to have to make a dozen more videos before that is likely to happen. But I'm committed. I've already written drafts of 8 or 9 of the scripts. As I have to be traveling a lot this year, I got myself a laptop powerful enough to run Premiere.

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I guess I am lucky 13! 😂 Congratulations on launching this new endeavor, hopefully the momentum can pick up as you have a lot to offer.

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Subscribed instantly.

Ol' Man River - Frank Sinatra Years ago, when we were playing for old-timers, and they wanted to hear Sinatra, we learned a few. I'm a decent singer but not a great singer, and while studying Sinatra songs, I realized that although he wasn't flashy, he was quite an accomplished vocalist.

Opus 1.3.1 / Dec 29, 2022 Fixes an error with Opus and Studio One's sound variations feature

I soooo want this! Such a good deal. But I'm gonna be good and stick to my new year resolution... less gas, more making music 😬

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IMO if you’re looking for the best (most balanced) composer forum, that’ll be The Soundboard (https://thesoundboard.net/). Sure, VI Control has many more threads and posts, but you may get lost between Cinesamples lovers and Spitfire haters or vice versa (pretty much like the IK Multimedia and Plugin Alliance spam you refer too). And you’ll find many naysayers without any experience there as well. OTOH, some very decent posters too. I tend to follow three or four forums, as they all have their particular merit and allure. Meanwhile, not bookmarking much anymore. And definitely not visiting KVR or Gearslutz the way I used to. But our Cakies forum has this je-ne-sais-quoi that I’m not feeling anywhere else.

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I have hung up my music hat for good now and moved over to visual art completely. I will be deleting all my music work offline sooner than later so if you want to get a free (or donationware) Ableton, Native Instruments, Arturia or Kilohearts pack, preset or instrument from the Flintpope Music Shop please do so asap! https://bit.ly/FlintpopeMusicShop P.S. Someone will say why not leave them online? I will say why? They are slipping into the out-of-date, behind the times zone soon and I have lost interest in the complex process of producing these items, promoting them and then receiving very little in return. I can make a piece of art in a shorter time, enjoy its production infinitely more and make a reasonable profit from the process.

@Monomox @abacab I didn't really lose my channel. I didn't violate any policies and I wasn't thrown off. All the videos are still there. They just can't be monetized for technical reasons. I just don't think it's fair that I should work for thousands of hours and spend thousands of dollars without any hope of ever making five cents. It's the principle. So I'm moving forward with at least hope. I made a video on what happened, but it's my belief that Google doesn't offer any technical support, they just use AI. And they figure if somebody has a unique problem that can't be solved by AI, that is worth less to them than the huge cost of paying real people to work in customer support. Another thing that was interesting is that I read they have a policy that forbids people within Google to help anybody with a problem--as that wouldn't be fair! I do have a friend who once had a very high-level job at Google, and he told me he tried to help one of his best friends and he couldn't. This problem could be fixed in three minutes, but I don't think it ever will be. So I've moved on. It's okay. I've found a topic I'm really interested in learning about, so that's my path forward. I will have fun doing these videos and write a lot of music cues for them. The problem is solved because this channel is associated with my wife's YouTube Channel, and, more importantly, her social security number. So they'll pay her. That's fine with me. All in the family. 😀

Yep, thanks to you Simon I'm now downloading 2.72

42 is the answer

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I have thought of going visual, too, due to hearing issues.

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I'm definitely in.

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Just to add to @Lord Tim's solution... If you first save the tracks from the old project as a track template, insert the track template into the new project, then copy the tracks from the old project on to the tracks you created via the template, you'll preserve any automation/routing from the old project. The selection in the old project will be preserved during the process, so: In the old project: 1. Select the tracks you want to transfer over 2. Save as a track template In the new project: 3. Insert the track template you saved in step 2 In the old project: 4. Copy Special In the new project: 5. Click on the first track inserted by the track template to make it the active track, and make sure the Now Time is at time zero 6. Paste Special In some cases, you might get extra blank tracks created at the end of your tracks - you can just delete these.

The issue is now fixed and will be available in the next release.

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Hmm... Would be all over this if there was a discount for Tape owners.

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Disagree. Plenty of us also are members there. We bring information from there to here. We do have experience with these products. They are just as impressed with shiny and new.

That post deserves the award for Least Self-Aware Post of 2023. I'm going to have a sense of humor about this, and I hope you can too, Carl. When you brutally ripped on Americans in the past, I didn't take too much offense. I thought it was more of a reflection of your worldview, as Americans, like citizens of any nation, can't be pigeon-holed so easily; they span a wide range of views, ethnicities, etc. But, as a lover of irony, I can't help but appreciate the irony of your complaining about people posting grievances in this forum while posting your own grievances and your posting about people not making helpful posts providing their insights while you never shared a helpful insight of your own in your post. If you're so unhappy with this forum -- as you very clearly expressed -- and prefer another forum, the logical thing is to simply use the other forum. If your objective is to make this forum more like you feel it should be, lead the way. Set the example if you want this forum to change into your ideal forum. I don't see the point in your insulting, demeaning and arrogantly lecturing this community, it's melodrama and attention-seeking worthy of a bye Felicia response. I've personally posted a lot of mini-reviews of libraries on this forum to help others and others have done the same on libraries and effects that I've found very useful. Even more, some of those people have PMed me with advice on mixing, on sample libraries and various techniques after seeing my posts sharing my interests and my lack of solid mixing skills. So my experience is that this is a very helpful and kind community. I spend time at multiple forums, but more at this one than any other, and my own opinion as to why I like this forum so much is that people here are helpful and friendly. That's the main reason I like -- no, I love -- this forum. Where I find VI Control has advantages -- and FTR, I've been connected to its owner on Facebook for many years -- is when it comes to cinematic or gaming music. I do rock music and find this forum is more in tune (pun intended) with my interests. But you started by attacking the forum and insulting its members and arrogantly and condescendingly telling people how you believe is the right way forums operate. Somehow, you find that constructive? Has this strategy been effective for you in other parts of your life? Rhetorical question. It's not effective. If you had a question about this library, you should have asked it, but instead, you complained and attacked. I'm objective oriented and don't see a point to that approach. So here's my take on why I like this forum so much and my contrast of this forum with VI-CONTROL, as someone who also uses both and knows the owner of VI-CONTROL. VI-CONTROL is incredibly developer-centric. Cakewalk forum is user-centric. VI-CONTROL's primary mission is to bring in revenue from developers. That has no small impact on the ethos of the community. I've seen many posts in various forums that describe VI Control as like a cult or series of cults and I think there's credibility to that assessment. There are a small number of pro composers from the film and gaming world that post there and they've developed personality cults, hanger ons; it's not subtle. Developers also have their share of hanger ons there too. That doesn't happen at this forum and many other forums. Look at the posts in this forum. They're the polar opposite. While VI Control charges developers to post and Mike (the owner) even discourages people from sharing bad customer experiences on his forum, Bandlab has done everything possible to ensure that developers don't have too much influence or use shilling in this forum. I don't know of any other music production related forum that has gone to the extent BandLab has to keep their forum from being manipulated by developers. And I'm a marketing pro who has given advice to more than two dozen developers, but I am a believer in facts and not the stereotype many people have in mind of a marketer. I want consumers to have control and developers to be here to honestly share their products -- but I don't appreciate hype or less than honest promotional tactics. While Bandlab goes far out of their way to do a great deal to make this community not prone to manipulation by less than ethical developers. VI Control does nothing and even engages in practices that enable shilling to flourish while discouraging harsh criticism of developers. Why? Their revenue model is based on making money from developers, Bandlab's isn't. Developer shilling is not rare at VI Control. That's not the case here from everything I can discern. It's no secret among developers is that some developers incentivize people to talk up their products at VI Control (some forum users disclose getting NFRs in their sig file, most do not). You don't see that here and the regulars here -- including me -- would make terrible shills! I know Troels and I've posted some very critical things about his sample libraries. I still like him as a person, but if you read my critiques, they certainly aren't something a developer would be happy with because they're honest and that honesty means sharing the positive and the negative openly -- and not the way an influencer does it (only making the most mild forms of criticism to create the mere appearance of fairness). There has been nothing at this forum that I could discern as shilling. A big part of that, no doubt, is due to the community size being much smaller. VI-Control has no consistent policies regarding forum harassment or bullying and bullying regularly occurs there. Cakewalk Forum uses best practices to stop bad behavior. VI-Control has a couple of well known bullies, the most infamous is a semi-pro composer who goes by the name re-peat. I've called the guy out on bullying people and I've gotten PMs from numerous people at VI-Control and two here who go to both forums, that have shared stories about being harassed or witnessing the guy harass people. The past forum owner and I had several discussions about his bullying after he bullied a sample developer friend of mine and I tried to have him banned. Why did they keep him there knowing of his bad behavior? Because he draws amateur composers who want access to a pro composer. He has a very large ego and craves attention and that means that while he's hyper abrasive and bullying, he still gives many people what they want. Being really blunt, it's about the hanger ons, the wannabes. I have been coming to Cakewalk Forum since the very beginning and I rarely have seen any bullying or harassment of forum members -- and yes, when I see that stuff, I report it. I have zero tolerance for bullying or harassment and if we tolerate it, we create a community where that kind of behavior becomes normalized. I don't want anyone to have to face that. But I also don't see a personality cult here (okay, someone might say that Larry has one, but that's not a cult, we just appreciate the man).

Problems with 3rd party MIDI files and Studio Instruments (or any Cakewalk sfz engine synths) almost always comes down to unexpected data shutting down the sfz engine. IIRC, by default Guitar Pro adds some non-note data to its MIDI file exports that the Cakewalk sfz engine synths can't handle. There may be some configuration in Guitar Pro to skip this part of the export. Otherwise, the fix in CbB is either clean up the data using the Event List View and/or enable "Do Not Intercept NRPNs" in the SI Plug-in properties shown below. The data is most often at the beginning of the file before the first note.

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Yes; there was a version in the SONAR Edition of Session. If you registered it with AAS, it might be on their site; if not I'd encourage you to contact them. They might ask for proof of purchase of SONAR; not sure. Someone has posted a spreadsheet of what plug-ins came with SONAR if they say you need to send proof such as a screen shot from SONAR showing the serial number.

18 and climbing. Thanks, Reid!!

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If you enable "Snap Tempos To Whole Values", it'll always use integers regardless of the scale: