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Think I said this already, but just to reiterate - many thanks to Jesse, Noel, Mark and all the Staff for staying engaged and providing as much input/details as they can. Don't think you'll find that much direct / hands on involvement from many software companies.

I have a trunk full of full licenses ready. Only available on floppy disk ATM.

@Morten Saether is working on several video's for Next. We also may do new videos on Sonar.

Agreed that these should be native functions. At some point we also intend to replace CAL with a modern scripting language. We're a small team and as you might imaging juggling two full DAW's has been a challenge the last few years

I'm old so the CbB I do have is more DAW than I'll ever need. I hope the final CbB will have a complete installer we can download of the latest and last that we can squirrel away for offline reinstall on some future date.

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Something tells me that, despite we are all speculating about our beloved Sonar and its price, the real future of Cakewalk, the app intended to be one step ahead in the future DAW market, and the one that means the survival of Cakewalk for "next" 15 years, is Next. We should pay a bit more attention about what happens with Cakewalk Next::.

Vocals: Bapu, Daryl Greenway & Liz Greenway Guitars: Jamesg1213, SteveStrummerUK Other Stuff: Ed "Bapu" Kocol Special vocal appearance on the "Oh No" lines: Jan Eiken (Old55, RIP)

Some small fixes and a new tuner. 16.07a changes MGuitarArchitect Added a global tuner and polytuner to MGuitarArchitect. Fix MDrumStrip MDrumStrip was inducing latency in some devices. Fix AU GUI plugin size issues under macOS with multiple displays (Logic Pro, GarageBand). Fix Plugins could incorrectly store certain paths and text featuring some characters. Fix Mouse cursor behavior under macOS, when changing parameters (i.e dragging knobs). Fix MDrummer MDrummer could crash in Bitwig in some cases.

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You are right about biases in the industry. It's not just with software, bias permeates the entire music industry! I'm sure you have seen Mac bias where not having a Mac version is deemed inferior or less professional. Hopefully us having a MacOS DAW now (Cakewalk Next) will alleviate that. CbB being free also was an issue with some vendors who don't test with "free daws" ?

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I asked AI to draw me

Here's a workflow issue I would like resolved. I'll be working on one track and then select a clip in a different track and go to ProChannel only to realize I never actually went to the new track. If I select the track on the track number it always does what it is supposed to do. I would like the ability to activate whichever track I am working on, even if I don't select it on the number.

Audiotonix, a global market leader in the design, engineering and manufacture of professional audio mixing consoles and ancillary products, acquired sonible. sonible will join the growing Audiotonix brand portfolio of leading audio technology and solutions companies that includes Allen & Heath, Calrec, DiGiCo, DiGiGrid, Group One Limited, Harrison, KLANG:technologies, Slate Digital, Solid State Logic, and Sound Devices. https://www.sonible.com/blog/audiotonix/ Not sure if I feel lucky to have maxed out during their anniversary sale or if this means better days ahead. At least it wasn’t Francisco Partners or whatever they call themselves now.

With Arturia’s MINI V3, sounds like a square wave with a duty cycle of around 25 to 30% mixed with a sawtooth. Glide at 7.44. Mod Wheel mapped to the LFO AM and the LFO mapped the the VCO123FM - Amount 0.0002. LFO rate around 9 hz.

Despite CAL being deprecated long ago, we've no plans to change its existing behaviour for Sonar, so any CAL scripts that currently work in CbB will work without issue in Sonar.

Unless you need something with a bunch of I/O for simultaneous recording, Focusrite Solo or 2i2 seem pretty safe choices for a first interface.

I did. Still waiting for a serial

Use your ears. Considerably less gain than you might think. Considerably more midrange than you might think. WAY less effects than you might think.

Cool version, I like the way you changed it up.

Honestly, I did not expect that after years of silence, Bandlab seems to be returning with a beautiful bag in the form of two innovative products with their own interesting features. Very nice! ?

It’s a nice synth imho. I’d definitely prefer the activation method with activation codes as provided in this purchase outside PA

Fizzy Pickle are baaaaaaack! I like the sparse arrangement. Always excellent vocals from the Mrs. Fun bass line by Bapu. Really nice mix. Is there a cartoon-based YT video coming? ? On a side note: I run a Chrome plugin that disables HTML5 autoplay. It turns out that Soundcloud has one of the audio/video players that won't run if autoplay is not disabled for the site. Even clicking on the play arrow only gives you infinite buffering attempts. It never plays. Once autoplay is disabled, it works great. Just an FYI FWIW.

Strange to see it still being sold by DS, as it’s part of Plugin Alliance now.

At the moment it kinda 'skips' when it has play a section out of order - You can work around it by committing to the arrangement and auditioning it properly in the main track view which can then be undone if you don't like it. I think if you can make the playback of the alternative arrangements smoother it would be a noticable mprovement to an already good feature.

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This reminds of a discussion I was never part of and have no use for remembering, but here we are. In the Beatmaker community, Fruityloops (FL Studio) is basically king. And a lot of (well known, multi platinum etc.) producers use a particular older version which "sounds better", harder, snappier, etc. Turned out that version had a limiter on the master under the hood. One of the issues I have with Ableton (besides the current erratic CPU behaviour), is that sample previews are much louder and I believe compressed. Oh the continuous dissapointment when I drag a great sounding kick in my project to have it flop away somewhere in the distance of my lowend. When all I have to do is turn it up a bit. The 'same' goes for old MPC's, which have 'that mojo', but a lot of that magic was that they worked on 12 bit. You can watch hours of beatmaking tutorials but rarely do you see someone say "just use a bitreducer on the drumbus" as if it's some kind of secret. Clip your kick to mush, bitreduce the transient back to life and filter the high-end (or use a good tape emulation)...done. It sounds like doodoo on its own, but in a mix it's perceived as much louder and harder than a clean kick.

I have to agree; I have also been using Cubase Pro 12. If I need to record a VSTi drum kit, instead of routing the output of each drum piece directly to an audio track, I have to create a group for each piece and, after creating the group, create audio tracks to receive the output from these groups. In Cakewalk, on the other hand, I can simply insert an audio track and select one of the VSTi outputs as the input. Indeed, what you gain in one DAW, you lose in another, and so on. The key is to learn to deal with the limitations of each one and see which one suits the musical style we produce best.

finally?! the topic that should be -so- much more interesting than all the subscription/gibson/etc angst. imagine it's a bit too early to get into it but intrigued by the potential, wondering about the roadmap, perhaps a new thread makes sense?

I am vary wary of plugins that claim to be the all in one and only plugin you'll ever need scenario. You've heard it all before. I also enjoy using different plugins per song. Having a all in one kinda defeats the purpose of creation. So... My laundry list of vocal plugins... Off the top of my head.. I've got all these plugins at really great discounts (or before they became known starting prices very very low). I have to always search for the best deals as doing this as a hobby can get expensive! *Melodyne Studio 5 by Celemony Audio modern GateLab JMG Sound Expanse 3D *JMG Sound Transmutator (Mutation from one voice to the next is unbeatable!) JMG Sound Mirror *JMG Sound Hyperspace (reverb and delay) Waves Audio F6 Floating-Band Dynamic EQ Waves Audio Renaissance Maxx *Waves Audio Sibilance (Haven't found anything that can beat this yet and be affordable). Waves Audio Smack Attack (works wonders on vocals, but I use it only when needed) *Waves Audio StudioRack Waves Audio Vitamin Sonic Enhancer *Waves Audio Vocal Bender (I know I could use Melodyne, but this is so much quicker, virtually no wait, just turn a knob) Waves Audio Waves Harmony (Harmonies sound too robotic) Waves Audio Clarity Vx *Waves Audio Brauer Motion (manipulating vocal space with this... Especially if you've got multiple vocals moving at the same time!) Waves Audio Vocal Rider (got it, can't really find a use for it) Waves Audio Greg Wells Voice Centric *Waves MV2 (keeps vocals level by bringing up the low volume while lowering the high volume) Sonible Smart Reverb (crashes on me so much, I switched to Hyperspace instead) *Sonible Smart EQ *Sonible Smart Limiter HorNet Total EQ *HorNet The Normalizer (used in multiple tracks in every song) (gain staging) HorNet AutoGain Pro MK2 *Acon Acoustica Premium Edition *iZotope Vocal Doubler iZotope RX Standard (CPU Intensive, rarely use) I probably have many other plugins not listed, but these are the ones I can remember. * = My Favorites I try really hard to avoid iZotope plugins as they all tend to be CPU hogs. If I do use them, I'm end up having to freeze the track or render the track to reduce CPU load. I used to use "Waves Audio F6 Floating-Band Dynamic EQ" to have vocals poke thru the mix, but when Sonible Smart EQ came along, I stopped using it. Out of all the plugins, HorNet plugins use the least amount of CPU cycles. If I need to save CPU cycles, I usually replace a plugin with a HorNet plugin. I've got over 20 HorNet plugins, but can't recall them all as the naming scheme doesn't help make them rememberable. ...

I am knowing as Jesse has been working on it for the past 5 years.

ENCORE!!!!! ENCORE!!!!!!!

Warning: There are some scantily clad dancers towards the end of the audience participation section. Feel free to close your eyes, and just listen.

"Mac bias" is very apt. As much as you hear people moaning about CW being Windows only, you never hear people whining about Logic being Mac only.

Oh, yeh. That became a meme around here for years afterward. For historical accuracy, I maintain a file where I collect funny forum posts, and the entry I have in there reads "I find the audio engine to be 20-40% better in Nuendo". Ron Kuper then offered to test his test files, saying he'd done null tests against Cubase/Nuendo and found no differences. The poster sent him two MP3s. When others suggested that they needed to be lossless files, he came back with this retort: "i dont see the point in you coming back with a lot of useless scientific information about the difference in extraction of two wavefiles.Surely its what we hear that matters. Any wavefile will sound much the same even if played through windows media player,". IOW, a null test means nothing if *I* perceive a difference.

There will be another final CbB release with bug fixes. We're wrapping up the details on that...

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I just discovered something interesting about VOCAL COLORS and Komplete Ultimate 14 CE. As the $149 intro price ends tomorrow, I finally got around to buying it today. As I was preparing to check out, it said that because I have KU14 CE, I could get it for $99. I'll resell it for $99 after I get VOCAL COLORS in KU15 CE in the summer of 2025. Passing it on. I don't know if this works for earlier versions of CE.

its not even "complete" as some new libraries are not included and lofi bundle as well

I did not see that deal!! With Jesse saying this was a "don't pass up deal" even at this price, so I looked, thought, and jumped!!

Ditto, but pretty much use the PC-1176. When is a “deal” not a “deal”? Shame on Softube for not disclosing that the MKI would sunset in three years. t

I don’t use these too often, but own all of them. I did not expect this from a company like Softube. I’d be flipping tables if they announced this for Atlantis, the Chandler Germanium, or the CL1b. Should we thank them for the head’s up, or.... dust off the Waves Subscription pitchforks?

Put me in for couple hours

Maybe before he started traveling he would of but now he wants the extra $$$ for his adventures ?