Jack Barton

@User 905133 Thanks for sharing!

So a few months back, I was trying to solve a very specific issue of bulk-changing MIDI channels & events in Cakewalk by Bandlab. I posted my woes in this thread and got several awesome responses.

I took what I learned from that thread and wrote this article/tutorial on my site: https://sonicatlas.co/change-midi-events-cakewalk/

Basically, I synthesized all the feedback I got into 5 different methods:

1. Change the MIDI Track’s Output
2. Copy or Move the MIDI Clip to an Instrument Track
3. Updating MIDI Events Using the Event List
4. Using the Event Inspector Module
5. Using Process > Find/Change

Hope others in the future will find this useful!

This is wishful thinking on my part, but will we some legacy instruments like Z3TA and Rapture make a comeback with the new Sonar?

Just now, wetdentist said:

just out of  curiosity, will the Cakewalk by Bandlab software continue working after the Sonar/Next release?

Reading between the lines, it sounds like they're sunsetting Cakewalk by Bandlab and replacing it with Next and Sonar. You should still be able to use it after they release, it just won't receive any updates.

Just signed up for the Next beta. I'm curious to see how things go! What sort of timeline are we looking at for both products?
 

49 minutes ago, Lord Tim said:

Wow. Not gonna lie, having the Sonar name back is giving me the warm and fuzzies

I first bought Sonar X3 nearly 10 years ago and been a happy Cakewalk user since then. Seeing that name gave me some warm fuzzies too!

7 hours ago, John Vere said:

I might be still a mile off base but if you change the midi tracks output to the instrument and choose the Channel in the channel box of the track header doesn't that globally change that tracks output to the instrument and the channel desired?  

Again, that works most of the time. But it wasn't working with specific instruments in my collection. The only way I could make the MIDI tracks work was by forcing the changes in the event list. Just weird quirks in programming, I suppose. 🤷‍♂️

8 hours ago, JnTuneTech said:

Interestingly enough, I have found that using "Convert MIDI to Envelopes" - from within the MIDI track controllers view in PRV, for instance, really helps

I'll have to give that a look. Thanks!

1 hour ago, John Vere said:

All modern VST don;t care what channel you use. 

Except when they do. In my case, it was a specific Kontakt instrument that won't accept anything unless it's coming from Channel 1. I also tested some other VSTs in my collection (non-Kontakt) and one had the same issue.

But you are right. In most cases, the Instrument track will take in MIDI data regardless of the channel. My issue was hyper-specific I suppose.

3 minutes ago, 57Gregy said:

I usually just change the track's output to the new synth. No need to change channels.

Normally that's what I'd do. But the imported MIDI tracks had the channel data encoded into them (for reference, these files were originally made back in the early 00's). For whatever reason, changing the MIDI track's output didn't do anything. And changing the synth's input channels didn't fix it either.

Maybe there's something I'm still overlooking. But the only solution I found that worked was to change the event data itself.

Aha! I was totally looking everywhere except for Process > Find/Change. Thank you very much!

Hi folks,

I've imported some MIDI files into Cakewalk. Each track is mapped to a different channel, and some have lots of extra data in them like pitch bends, etc.

I want to change what channels these tracks go to and apply them to different instruments. While I can mass-reassign the actual notes just fine using the Event Inspector Module, all the other events get left out. Here's an example:

For this track, I was able to change all the notes, but the Wheel events stayed on channel 5. The only way I can figure to change them is to update them one by one in the Event List. And with hundreds of events like this, it's super time consuming and totally not worth the trouble. Is there a way to bulk-update all the MIDI events together?

Thanks in advance!

11 hours ago, Ben Staton said:

@MrJackBarton

Thanks for the report. We've been doing some more work on plugin menus and will shortly be releasing another build which will hopefully resolve your issues. Stay tuned!

Thanks for looking into it.

I did some more messing around with settings. Some things to consider with my graphics issues:

I've been using a two monitor setup. One of the monitors had the display settings set up to 150%. I reverted it back to 100% and that seemed to solve the issue.

Ever since I downloaded the update certain menus have become transparent and impossible to see. I've noticed this in particular when trying to add FX onto a track, or when selecting an instrument when adding an instrument track.

In some cases like in the second screenshot, the menu is visible on the far right of the screen, but it's still selected through the transparent menu box.

All my computer's drivers are up to date. Cakewalk is the only program this is manifesting in.