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On 11/4/2021 at 8:32 PM, Starship Krupa said:

Okay, new information. After trying all of the suggestions in this thread, I still couldn't get it to work reliably. Believe me, I've tried, multiple times. I'm picky about visuals, as a look at the 6 custom Cakewalk themes I've authored will attest.

Thanks to the video I'll be linking to at the bottom, I found yet another method, and this one seems to work every time, at least so far. Here are the steps:

1. Choose a PNG image you wish to use for your template's icon
2. Rename it <template name>.cwt.png (for instance "Basic Audio.cwt.png")
3. Place a copy of it in the folder where Cakewalk stores your templates.
4. Save your project template (if it already exists, open it and save it again, it seems to be during the saving process that Cakewalk looks around for the image file).

Voila, next time you hit the Start Screen, your icon should show up. I'll use careful language and say that so far, this doesn't seem to require any keywords or typing over existing filenames or any of the old voodoo. This is new voodoo, and it lets you name your templates whatever you wish.

Please try it and let me know what you find. Who would have thought that it would take so long to crack this nut. I'm going to ask Neel (the guy in the video) how on Earth he figured this out. His videos are good in general, too, and feature interesting genres of music not often heard on YouTube tutorial vids.

 

So by doing that my picture or icon will look with that nice light and shade effects like cakewalk default template icons? 

5 hours ago, David Baay said:

Nah, just an old-timer.  ;^)  Glad to help. Tell all the kids on Facebook that the most experienced and knowledgeable  guys (and a few gals) are all over here on the CW forum. 😎

Sure, the best information it always comes from this forum. About the makn topic, It's a hidden feature by the way, I tried to find it but I'd never think that option is under the name "Event Filter MIDI FX* it you wouldn't tell me 😅

14 hours ago, Kurre said:

If you mean "C:\ProgramData\Cakewalk\Command Center\Cache\images" you will not be seeing this if you don't have installed the old Cakewalk that was before Bandlab took over.

That explains why I couldn't find that path. I have the latest update by bandlab, I hope they consider the icons pack location  in a near future for customization

Is there any new information about the icons route?  

57 minutes ago, David Baay said:

Insert the  Event Filter MIDI FX in the bin of each MIDI track with appropriate min and max 'key' settings. Keep in mind that the default octave numbering in Cakewalk designates Middle as C5:

https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=EditingMIDI.64.html

You are a genius!! thank you man it worked perfectly! that's what I wanted 

Hi i'm using a plugin/vst which it has a string quartet preset that fits perfect to the music and the project I'm working on. So basically what I've done until now is making 4 separated tracks with different midi channel inputs to have  different instruments  such as violin, viola, etc.  I can make them sound at the same time when I play (that's what I wanted), but now I want to set a specific range for each individual track 

i.e : Track 1 violin  starting from G4 to D6, track 2 viola  from C3 to G4, track 3... and so and so. This way I can play all the 4 instruments at once with several split points  and not like layers. Because at the moment they sound all together in the same range and I don't like that. Is there any solution? I could do this on FL studio but i don't know how this work in cakewalk.