jono grant

41 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

Please give some more context.

When you do this, have you recorded multiple audio takes, or multiple MIDI takes, or assembled an arrangement from loops, or what?

Do you have clips in groups?

My understanding of the way the Comping tool is supposed to work in this mode is that whatever you've selected with it becomes unmuted and everything else gets muted. So it should be a matter of deselecting whatever clip(s) you accidentally selected.

I just tried it a bit and the selections seem to respond to Ctrl+Z, so give that a try.

 

I record a few things onto one track, open the lanes which show the different tracks on their own lane. Click the lower half of one and the others mute. I've been able to revert back using "undo" as you mention, but sometimes I don't notice it until several moves later so I don't want to use undo. I have to go through and manually un-mute them by selecting each clip in a lane and pressing "Q" to un-mute.  I've tried re-clicking the lower half of one to get it back but it keeps muting different things and driving me crazy...I'm not doing anything in particular to group them, I don't think. Is there a simple way to just have all the lanes un-mute?Thanks

Hi, I'm still getting used to the comping features in the take lanes. Actually, I'm not really using that feature, I just keep accidentally clicking the lower half of the clips and muting all the other ones...

If I accidentally mute the other clips, how do I get them all back and un-muted?

Thanks

J

It's okay, I noticed the search window and found it. Thanks

Thanks. I can't seem to find the offset feature in the key bindings. Is it in there?

Thanks

J

It used to be "O"

What is the new key command for offset mode? Or is there one?

Thanks

Jono

Man, you know every trick in the book!

Thanks.

Ya, I didn't even know it was 32 bit. Gotta fix that!

Cheers

J

14 minutes ago, scook said:

Enable the plug-in's MIDI Input in the VST2/3 drop down above the plug-in UI

Add a MIDI track, set the input to your controller, output to the plug-in and enable input echo

I don't seem to have that on mine. It looks like it's 32 bit or something. I can't seem to find the enable midi setting. I looked in the vst properties of the plug but it doesn't show there either...is it a vst3 only, type thing?

Hi, I'm trying to do a midi learn setup on a knob in guitar rig 5, the guitar rig plugin is in the efx bin of an audio track though and when I press "learn" it won't recognize the midi input.

I can do it out on windows with the standalone version of guitar rig, and I can midi learn controls in cakewalk with soft synths like kontakt etc.

I can't seem to access any midi setting when it's used as an effect in Cakewalk. (Midi and audio settings show up in the stand alone version but not in CW)

How do I make a plugin like guitar rig  accept midi data input when it's inserted onto an audio track?

Thanks!

Jono

Sorry, it was a particular effect not playing tail. It works. Thanks again!

3 minutes ago, scook said:

Starting with X3 the option was replaced with Always Stream Through FX

I have that setting enabled, but if I hit stop, shouldn't I hear my delay or reverb tail? It just stops dead.

There used to be a setting for this in preferences under playback and recording. Does it exist anywhere in CWBL?

It is the smart tool! Never mind, and thank you!!

7 minutes ago, scook said:

position the mouse on the envelope between nodes and CTRL+drag

Is that with the smart tool though?

Thanks

On 2/26/2019 at 2:11 PM, scook said:

I did not make it clear that the initial click must be released to select the region before click-dragging the nodes. Failing to perform the initial click causes all nodes to move.

Sorry, one other question. When I make the initial click and drag between the two existing nodes, it creates two new nodes at the far edges of the area rather than just raising or lowering the existing nodes. Wondering if there's a way for it not to create the two, new, unwanted nodes and just lift the existing envelope? Video below of this being done in X1... It seems to only work with the "move" tool in CWBL... it would be great if the smart tool did this as well.

Thanks

Here is yet another DAW that doesn't have this problem. My friend uses Cubase and I asked him to do the same test.  Sample accurate sync. Screen shot below.

J

56 minutes ago, mettelus said:

I do not work with video, so that last picture caught me offguard. I was expecting to see "sample offset" but that appears to be "ms offset." It looks like it is off half a frame (~16.7 ms)... Am I interpretting that correctly? Is that offset exactly a frame interval (1/2, etc.)... meaning if the audio was shifted by a frame interval, would it be synced properly?

Cakewalk exported audio is late by a full frame.

9 hours ago, msmcleod said:

It's worth noting that a video file contains two codecs: one for the video, and one for the audio. An MP4 is a container for the video & audio, where both the video & audio have their own codecs. 

It's quite common for MP4 files to use MP3 as the codec for the audio.

 

Generally, MP4s used in post production are encoded with AAC audio codec.

If I create an MP4 using Vegas, it's the only option in the audio export preferences.

I'm quite sure none of the MP4s I get have mp3 audio.

J

Thanks guys. I'll see if my basic.cwt can retain that setting. Hopefully it works. Thanks!

J

On 2/28/2019 at 3:54 PM, Noel Borthwick said:

Who is "they"? 
This is a universal problem and MP4's from different sources may have different padding so there isnt a simple universal solution I'm aware of.

@Noel Borthwick

Hi Noel.

Sorry... "They" would be the fine folks at Cakewalk who create new updates.

This is a different issue than MP3s, they will export out-of-sync in any program, agreed. That doesn't really matter though as MP3s aren't really used in professional post production, whereas MP4s are widely used for scoring to picture. 

This is in relation to MP4s and compressed QuickTime files, which; when loaded into a DAW session, the DAW will export audio in sync with the original MP4 in other  workstations but NOT Sonar/Cakewalk.

Please see the screen shots I just made (below) - each one is a screen shot of the resulting audio after opening an mp4 with a different PC DAW or editor, the same audio from the MP4 exported out of each program and then brought back into an all together different program (in this case Vegas) along side the same mp4 with it's original married-audio.

I should mention that it also works in the reverse. So, if I get sent an audio track, after-the-fact, say a new dialogue track (broadcast wave) from the post facility, it will be out-of-sync with the master video file and it will be early on the time line rather than late (like it is when exporting). And this is NOT the case when they are brought into other DAWs or editors on the PC, only Cakewalk.

*The exported audio is on the lower track in the images. You can clearly see, the other programs exported proper audio files that were in sync with the video file (and time code) and you can see how Cakewalk is out of sync and not like the rest... This is an issue in Cakewalk/Sonar... not a universal problem, after years of dealing with it, I'm pretty positive. 

That's why I thought Cakewalk might be able to go back and look at this. If other DAWs on a PC have no issue, why does Sonar/Cakewalk? It could be a very simple thing - inside the world of really complex things

I'm happy to do tests with other programs. I have a friend with Cubase and another with Nuendo. I have a feeling they will export in sync though.

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SCREENSHOTS:

Audio Exported from MP4 within Protools and brought back into Vegas Pro (zoomed in pretty close)>

.Audio Exported from MP4 within Sound Forge and brought back into Vegas Pro (zoomed in pretty close)>

.Audio Exported from MP4 within Cubase and brought back into Vegas Pro (zoomed in pretty close)>

Audio Exported from MP4 within CAKEWALK and brought back into Vegas Pro (out-of-sync) I had to zoom out to be able to see the exported wave:

Hi there...

Every time I export some audio out of CBL, the "bounce settings" are set to "mix recall", I keep selecting "Entire Mix" which is what I want, but it always returns to "Mix Recall" and (mix 1 and mix 2 are selected) I'm not even using mix recall.

Anybody know why?

Cheers

Jono

Thanks Noel.

I wonder if they analyzed some of the other programs or DAWs on PC to see why they don't have the same issue if they might come across something. Or offer a work around somehow. It's been happening for so long and MP4s or QT files seem to be the standard when it comes to scoring for picture. Cakewalk is such an awesome program, it might be worth trying to solve. It's the only symptom I've ever come across that would deter a film/tv composer from using it.

Perhaps they could look into what mp4/QT codecs will work and publish a list, so we could request those formats when receiving video files?

Anyhow, thanks for getting back to me. I'll check back at some point to see if there has been any progress with the issue.

Cheers

Jono

3 minutes ago, razor7music said:

When you address a post to someone, just start it with the "at" symbol, and then start typing their name (with no space after the 'at' sign) You will see their name resolve, then just press enter and complete your post like normal. The purpose is that they are alerted that their name was used, and it (hopefully) brings them to the post sooner.

 

I 'at mentioned' you in my reply. You can see your name at the bottom like a tag. It's a social media feature.

@razor7music

Like that? Cool! Thanks very much!

14 minutes ago, msmcleod said:

There's two ways of doing this:

1. If you always want to open more than one, uncheck the "Recycle Plugin Windows" settings within Preferences->VST Settings

2. If you only want to temporarily keep one open, click the "pin" icon at the top right of the plugin window. This will keep this plugin window open, whilst recycling the rest.

Genius! Thank you!

Hi,

I need to open more than one plugin/synth window at a time to compare settings. CBL doesn't let me do it, just one at a time.

I was able to in Sonar... why is that?

Cheers

Jono

Thanks, not sure how to do that...