yeto

3 minutes ago, David Baay said:

Yes it's available on Instrument tracks. Click the MIDI tab at the bottom of the Track Inspector (keyboard shortcut 'I') to see the MIDI controls  for an Instrument track. Time+ is the third field up from the bottom of the righthand pane of the Inspector.

 

Does the Time+ feature work the same as a Track Delay feature?

1 hour ago, David Baay said:

"All of this might no longer be applicable. Have you tried playing it in real time?"

I am creating the track in PRV. To get the sound to line up I am nudging the track -50ms and it sounds fine. The only downside is that after nudging when I go back into PRV to edit, the notes are not in align with the rest of the tracks.

"If still necessary, MIDI can be offset using the Time+ control in the Track Inspector (-100 ticks  = 50ms early at 125bpm). But it can't offset an event that's at 1:01:000 so you might have to start your whole project at 2:01:000."

It is an instrument track. Will this (Time+) still work with an instrument track. (Please explain as if I am a 3rd grader) 

 

Is there still no track delay?

Since it is an instrument track would I just use the Track Inspector setting "Time+", as shared in the thread, to do the same thing as track delay?

Also, I see shared in the thread that you can change the start time for a clip. How would I delay the start time by -50ms?

Or do I just use the nudge tool once I have completed the part in PRV which is how I create the clip? I have tried this but I have to keep nudging (for playback) and unnudging (to edit so everything aligns in PRV) as I am working in PRV to edit the clip which is somewhat frustrating. 

Lions, Tigers and Bears Oh My.

Thank you for any help,
yeto

Do you mix keyboards to the right and guitars to the left or vice versa or use whatever "floats your boat"?

Thank you,
yeto

18 hours ago, Jim Fogle said:

@yeto, here is a 10 minute video on creating realistic audio tracks using VST guitars: 

 

Thank you for taking time to post. Very helpful video.

23 hours ago, scook said:

It takes no specific tools to create a CAL script. The files are text files which may be opened in any text editor. There few guides available and the feature was deprecated over 20 years ago.

Best to always use a copy of the MIDI track when working with CAL.

It appears that http://www.midi-kit.nl/ has moved to http://members.ziggo.nl/odw/en/index.html. This site is a pretty good resource. There is a CAL guide pdf on http://members.ziggo.nl/odw/en/indexmidi.html which is useful.

Softpedia still has the CAL Editor available for download. I don't care for the editor but it includes a CAL reference in chm format which I used a lot when working with CAL.

All that said, putting a lot of effort in CAL at this time is not a wise use of time. It was abandoned in 2000 with the first release of SONAR.

 

The CAL guide PDF is an interesting read. Thank you for taking time to share.

10 hours ago, Promidi said:

If I was going to use a CAL script, I would use one that randomly adjusts the times of the notes slightly.  If you do end up writing a CAL to do this, do not use the Editslide command (or Editslide40 command) - this will categorically crash CbB.  Adjust the time parameter of the note event instead.

 

What software/language would one use to open and modify a CAL script?

19 hours ago, scook said:

There is a CAL script to simulate strumming but I have never messed with it.

When I need MIDI played like a guitar, I use a real guitar and play it through Jam Origin's MIDI Guitar.

 

I am trying the CAL script but it seems once you make a change you can't "undo" which could get frustrating. 

7 hours ago, mettelus said:

@yeto, did you get AmpleSound's strummer working? The answer to your OP is yes, but that is both manual and painful. A VSTi with a strummer is a better bet, and AmpleSound is a good one.

Yes, I got it to work and I agree it is good. 

Have any of you ever tried inputting in piano roll view a guitar chord and offsetting/delaying each note of the chord by a few milliseconds to get a more realistic strummed guitar chord sound? I am having a hard time putting into words what I am trying to ask but I hope the previous sentence made sense.

Thank you for any help,
yeto

14 minutes ago, Bill Phillips said:

Dumb question: How do you use imgur? When I need them, I create links to images, usually screenshots, on OneDrive. I signed up for imgur and looked around a bit. Looks like it's mainly a sight for publicly sharing memes, kinda like instagram. I didn't see anything about storing images that couldn't be viewed and shared by the public.

Thanks.

Bill

I use it to embed images in posts on forums.

2 hours ago, scook said:

I created an account at https://imgur.com/ where my imaged get uploaded.

Thank you. I will try again.

51 minutes ago, scook said:

I use imgur. The last time was a couple of days ago. It worked the same as it always has.

 

Can you share the Imgur link? Maybe I am going to the wrong Imgur page.

Thank you,
yeto

What service do you all use to host an image? I used to use "imgur" but it seems to have changed.

Thank you,
yeto

9 hours ago, David Baay said:

Snapping loop markers is working here - honors Global snap if PRV snap is off and PRV snap if it's on. 

Possibly you have PRV snap set to a low resolution and/or magnetism is not high enough  for you to clearly see the snap at the current zoom level...?

My PRV won't honor Global snap when PRV snap is off. 

Loop snaps for me in the time line but does not snap in PRV. Is there something I can check to make loop snap in PRV?

Thank you,
yeto

1 hour ago, 57Gregy said:

Have you tried entering notes on the fretboard of the staff view?
When writing for guitar, this is fastest for me.

I will give that a try. Thank you for the suggestion.

Always willing to learn something new,
yeto

18 minutes ago, Anubis aka Maito Makusu Senpai said:

... Or you could try using a free vst plugin like Chordz https://freevsts.com/chordz/

I am always looking for the fastest way to input chords into PRV. I have looked at Chordz before and as I far as I can tell it just helps someone play chords by just using a single key press. I play guitar so currently when entering chords into PRV I am clicking the individual chord notes one by one. Something like the picture I posted above would be very helpful. 

I am not complaining though. Once I have the chord in PRV I can copy and paste throughout the song so it is not too bad.

Thank you for all your help,

yeto 

On 1/7/2020 at 5:32 PM, Anubis aka Maito Makusu Senpai said:

No, but from the inspector you can lock to a midi scale, and it will highlight those notes in the PRV, making it easy to build chords from a scale.

Can this be done with an instrument track? I have googled but cannot find a page that instructs how to do this. This is something I would really like to learn how to do.

yeto

*** I just found this:

https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR X2&language=3&help=EditingMIDI.40.html

26 minutes ago, Kevin Perry said:

Hold down shift to open in "safe mode", and choose not to enable that plugin when prompted.

Thank you. That is helpful.

41 minutes ago, David Baay said:

No, but you can open a project in 'Safe Mode' by holding Shift when you open it, allowing you to choose which plugins, if any, get loaded.

Thank you. That will help for sure.

Is it possible to delete a project track without opening the project? Earlier when I tried to open a project I got the below error code. I had to finally end up uninstalling the Ample Sound plugin before I could open the project. I then deleted the Ample Sound track and the project now opens with no problem. In the future, if this happens again, I would like to be able to delete the track without having to uninstall the Ample Sound software.

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Error - Unhandled Exception
A fatal error has occcurred in plugin ' .'
Module: c:/program files\ample sound\AGLP.dll
Exception code c0000005
Address:
00007FFE6D36485A:00007FFE00000000:FFFFFFFF00000000
As a result of this error Cakewalk is about to exit abnormally, Should Cakewalk attempt to save a recovery copy of your work?

3 hours ago, marled said:

@yetoThe problem is that there is no proper way to define what is C3! There are different opinions about that, especially for guitar or male voices.

The default for CbB for displaying the octaves is that it starts from 0 (I guess they made it like that to avoid negative octave values). But you can configure in 'Preferences > Customization > Display' the value 'Base Octave for Pitches', and if you set it to -2 it matches most definitions for Vst instruments, also for Ample Sound! I think it would be better if the Bakers would use this as default value, because many people have/had trouble with the current default value! 😡

Thank you. This is good information that will be very helpful. Thank you for taking time out of your day to share.

yeto

I was finally able to get Ample Sounds Strummer to work. The matching key switches were off by a couple of octaves. Strummer said to put the strum notes starting at C1 but it only works for me if I start at C3. Also, I have the strum pattern at C6 and above.

47 minutes ago, Anubis aka Maito Makusu Senpai said:

No, but from the inspector you can lock to a midi scale, and it will highlight those notes in the PRV, making it easy to build chords from a scale.

The other alternative would be to use a CAL script. There is one for natural minor iirc in the CAL library. You enter the root note and then run the script. It will build the chords for you.

I Googled "midi daw cal library" but I didn't see any related results. What is a CAL library?