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Daryl L. Samuel

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  1. 8 hours ago, Bill Phillips said:

    Not so. You may be making assumptions based on your experience with another DAW. Like Will said, all DAWs have their own vocabulary. There are good tutorials showing you how to create a new project in Cakewalk and avoid the problems you're describing.

     

    4 hours ago, Byron Dickens said:

    With proper file management and hygiene this wouldn't even be an issue.

    Fair enough on both points... I guess I just want it a different way

    But when was the last time you guys moved audio files to a different location or renamed a folder (for reasons)? When that happens and you have to, in some cases, point Cakewalk to each audio track one by one (for however long that takes before you can get to work), that's worth fixing in my book.

    It's not like Cakewalk doesn't have (or had) competition... not to mention, the brand was dying not too long ago before BandLab showed up!

    Anyway... Thanks, guys but stuff like this are why my Cakewalk days are numbered.

  2. 15 hours ago, Will. said:

    There is one. You can even create/select your own folders, from where to import/export or to save in.  

    You can read the document where to find this, or how to create your own default audio folders within the preference window. You can also create one folder with subfolders outside of cakewalk and just select that one as your default imported audio folder. Experiment with this first in case you do not like it.

    Each DAW uses their own language and terms on certain features that are unique only to that specific DAW. You might say Bounce to Clip here - another DAW will say Commit/Render to Clip. So, everything you need to know, you will find in the offline document. 

    This sounds more like adjusting settings and not a feature.

    So I would have to cancel loading the project and then go into the Preferences and add the folder with the missing audio files?

  3. "Safe Mode" in Cakewalk allows you to select which plugins are loaded when you're having issues opening a project and this is great. However, I would like to offer a suggestion...

    Currently, you would have to go through each plugin one by one via a 'yes' or 'no' pop-up dialog... instead, what if there's a full list of the plugins used in the project so you can quickly scroll through and select specific plugins to not load?!

    Hope the devs sees this and considers making some improvements.

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  4. This is the scenario...

    I create a new project and drag the audio files (multi-tracks) into the project for mixing. When I save the project for the first time, this is where I get the 'save' dialog with the option to uncheck the "Copy all audio with project" box. Now the second time I save the project (i.e. save the changes I've made to the project since that first save), Cakewalk goes ahead and creates a copy of those audio files in the project folder anyway.

    This is annoying. The I don't like this.

  5. If you've ever had to load a project with multiple instances of a missing plugin you'll know how painful and embarrassing it can be because for each instance of the plugin that was used, you would get a pop-up notifying you of that missing plugin as your project loads up. So if you happen to mix a project with 50 or 80 or 100 tracks and you used said missing plugin generously (like an EQ or pitch-correction), brace yourself because you're in for it!

    Had to suffer through this many o' times and I know I'm not alone and this particular post might be one of many so I'm hoping the devs do us a big favour and nuke this sore clean out of the software.

    Cheers!

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  6. Really nice addition to this month's update!

    Re: New Export Dialog  - The only gripe I have is that the font and overall look isn't as sharp/consistent with the rest of Cakewalk... it looks like a draft. Also, the dialog box could've been more compact.

  7. 11 hours ago, msmcleod said:

    You can tell by the small corner on the bottom left of the clip.

    So I figured out why… Stretch to Tempo was turned on. That’s why it had those little cropped corners like you pointed out.

    That still doesn’t explain how ‘Stretch to Tempo’ would cause an issue like that… Stretch to Tempo shouldn’t change where a clip starts, right?! So I want to believe that it’s a bug.

  8. In the video above, you would notice that the audio clip is not lining up correctly with the grid.

     I can’t say this is new because I’ve been dealing with similar alignment issues since the days of SONAR X3.

    Even in the piano roll, I can sometimes see what appears to be notes / grid lines shifting slightly.

    For a long time I’ve always lacked that sense of confidence when moving things around because I always have to make sure that clips are actually on the grid. This issue is more common when creating groove clips.

    Have anyone else experienced this before?

  9. 12 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

    What did you do to try this? Did you edit one of the segmented meter images?

    Yeah, I did. First I made it so there were no segments and then I added the gradient

     

  10. Hi

    Yesterday, I tried adding a gradient to meters and got this…

    You should notice “breaks” in the green of the meter indicating that the meter is duplicating at the end of the green section.

    In other words, you can see that after the green “runs out”, it continues from the bottom (indicated by the darker green).514589486_MeterGradientIssues.thumb.jpg.ae358f395fcdfb4d31815bb5512d0107.jpg

    How can I fix that?

  11. 2 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

    Careful, hang around in the Themes forum too long and next thing you'll find yourself spending hours with Paint.NET updating hundreds of buttons that you yourself never use in Cakewalk.

    Yikes!!! 😆 the nerd in me wants to experience that…

    I’ll take another crack at creating a decent theme with Paint.NET soon enough

  12. 18 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

    This is pure speculation, but from my examination of the elements, and my experience in commercial software development, the art is often initially done by a consultant. Depending on the size of the company, they often don't have a need for a fulltime UI designer and pixel jockey. They'll call someone in to do it each time they need to update it or add features. Meldaproduction is doing this now, their next release is going to include skeuomorphic panels in some of the UI's.

    As for the tools, I have no theories.

    Ohh... cool stuff!

    Thanks 🍻

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  13. Hi,

    This request is a pretty simple one (and possibly a nitpick-y one) — I would like to see a change to the current format of the clip colors which is, colored waveform/foreground and dark grey background.

    I admit, at first it looked good but after a while of actually working with the clips, I've came across situations where certain colors made it difficult to see what the waveform was showing.

    I'm hoping we can have the simple and consistent black/dark waveform again with actual colored clips instead of just the waveform.

    Cakewalk Clip Color - Before.jpg

    Cakewalk Clip Color - After.jpg

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