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Question: Didn't Cakewalk and a lot of other software makers go with gray and less vibrant contrasting colors because over time the high contrast colors cause eye fatigue?

I'm pretty sure Cakewalk said that was the reason they went with the current gray and duller colors.

Sorry if I derailed the original topic.

4 hours ago, James Argo said:

Whenever you feel like you can not split clips, make sure you press "0" (ins) in the numeric keypad at the right hand side of your keyboard. Then try split again...

Just curious what this does or why is resets the split clip function?

Ta-da!

16 minutes ago, Amicus717 said:

I open my orchestral template, which is pretty comprehensive, and just start playing something on whichever track/instrument I happen to click on first, and see where it goes. The key thing for me, I find, is working fast. I've lately been setting a time limit, and then trying to create at a blistering pace without redos, overthinking and/or adjustments, and see what I come up with. And when I say time limit, I mean hardcore -- 20 minutes or less for a full orchestral mock-up that runs for a minute, and I stick to that limit like glue. I find that it turns off my self-critical faculties, and lets my creative side just kind of do its thing without worrying.

The end product  usually sounds like complete crap, but there are always (and I mean always) interesting ideas buried in there that I can build off of, including unexpected cord changes or melodic shifts that I never would have thought of had I been approaching this more deliberately. It's fun, and works pretty well, so far.  And its great for breaking out of creative ruts.

Kind of like free-form writing or drawing. I like it. Just jam on something and then comp those parts that sound good. I think I'll try that. Thanks Amiscus!

Off the rails after only three posters...this has got to be a record.

Did I mention the genre I like to write in is not comedy? :-p

1 hour ago, pwalpwal said:

bandlab giving posts a status implies some kind of commitment from the company, so it won't happen, so they'll just keep cherry-picking the posts they like

(remind me in 1 year, let's see if it's changed)

Yeah, I try to be positive, but in reality, I don't think this particular forum 'Feedback Loop' has any real value--at least I haven't seen any.

On 3/25/2019 at 6:15 PM, scook said:

The Transpose MFX does this when set to Key/Scale

Yup--I've used it.

Hey Group--

I've been doing back to back track production for years, and I feel like this time, I don't want to jump right in with the next track. I want to produce something different than what I've been producing. Not necessarily a different genre, because I like the genre I write in. What I mean is, I want to do a different kind of song. My bottom line is I have to like to song, because if nothing ever turns out from it, at least I'll have something to listen to later.

I'm thinking that if I start composing with different instruments, or different settings on those instruments, then that will start me off "differently" than usual. So far, I just grabbed my six string electric and started going through the Guitar Rig 5 presets one by one to see if anything inspires me. I think I'll pull out Massive, or some other soft synth and see if any patches or grooves start me going.

What do you do?

+1 - I just checked to make sure. All is well.

Thanks

All in-the-box these days. I transformed from outboard gear, to modules, to all in-the-box over the years. I've had no issues with Cakewalk (Sonar), but I have had to improve my PC specs--especially with my samples. I remember buying NI's Abby Road Modern Drummer and I just didn't have the RAM to handle it. Talk about ruining the creative juices. Now, with the current rig I have, I can really push things and I don't have issues.

Hmm. Honestly, I was a little underwhelmed. I can create folders, sub-folders, categorize plug-ins, soft-synths, etc. all within the plug-in manager in Cakewalk, and then save it for later use . I didn't see much in additional features to make it worth $20. Did I miss something?

Hey Percepto!

Welcome back to creating!

I'm a little confused from your post. You're saying you have footage from the EOS 5D which is a camera, and you want to make percussive sound effects from it? One is a graphic file (from camera) and one is an audio or related file (percussive sound effect). Not sure I get the correlation. Any clarification would be helpful.

Hey Feral--

I'd be interested in how you came  to this conclusion: "...It was not used by the majority of the music professionals..." If you mean it didn't have the same market penetration as say, Pro-Tools, then that could be said about the majority of software DAWs out there.  I'm not trying to be contrary--so I'll clarify, because sometimes things can get misunderstood in posts. I   have found  quite a lot of music professionals use(d) Sonar. I would meet  and hear from music professionals at conventions, watch online music industry  seminars, and speak to  people in the biz, and although there was a spattering of many different DAWs out there, I would hear of Sonar just as much as any of the others.

Now, I did hear of  a few music pros that left Sonar after Gibson bailed, but I have no idea whether they came back after Bandlab bought them. For some, they just didn't want to deal with the uncertainty. To be honest, I was about to switch just before Bandlab made the announcement.

It would be interesting to know if  Cakewalk is picking up more market share now that Bandlab  bought it, but whether Bandlab is willing to share that information outside their organization is a completely different question. I would think that making the software free had to have some positive effects on market penetration. Whether those additional downloads are music pros--I don't think anyone but Bandlab knows, and then they might not even have ways of telling whether someone with their software is a 12 year old who wants to be  a DJ someday, or a successful music pro.

Finally, if you look at who is posting in this forum and the FB group, you've got the diehard lifelong regulars, and the noobs that just got the software because it's free, and just about everyone in between. Being one of those diehards, I just hope Cakewalk stays around for a very long time to come, and does become a market standard!

Hmm, guess the OP figured it out, or it wasn't that important.

Me too. I tried auto-save but it distracted me. I use the Ctrl+S habitually now. Does the trick.

4 hours ago, Robert Bone said:

To be sure, a computer equipped with SATA III SSD's is QUITE capable of handling streaming samples - I was extremely fortunate to (for this one occasion) to be able to pour some money into building a desktop and a laptop loaded to the gills, with not only multiple Samsung SSD's, but also multiple NMVE drives.  I will likely never again have the resources to build computers at that level, and I am extremely grateful to have this one opportunity to go full-out on getting maximum performance.

I am pouring heart and soul into utilizing the two computers I now have with the extra performance of the NVME and SSD drives, because this might well be the last hurrah for me, as I am 59 years old, and fully disabled - with 10 herniated discs,  and am degenerating.  I just want this next 3-5 years (if I can play for that long) to be as productive as possible for me.  I am putting everything I have into getting as much done as possible.  I have my primary recording setup located next to my bed, as it is often quite painful to walk across the room.  SO - back to work - so much to try to get to...

You go get 'em Robert! Q: "What's the best song you've ever written?" A: "I don't know. I haven't written it yet!"

+1

So, in my scenario, just a bundle file back and forth and as long as I don't try anything like applying 3rd party plugins on one DAW where I don't have them installed on the other, I'm good?

1 hour ago, Grem said:

You may have the makings of a Strip Producer!!

Well, I was thinking more in the line of Blue Man Group, but thanks?

Hey, make that thing splash blue paint all over the place and it might get its own Las Vegas show!

Hello Group--

I have the option of deciding what to do with a laptop I inherited. I wasn't sure I needed another laptop since I already have one for work, but it crossed my mind that I might be able to install CW on it and use it as a portable DAW. The thing is, I love my full PC DAW and it's a ton more powerful than this laptop, so I would only use the laptop for things it can handle, and then transfer the project over to my PC DAW for all the heaving lifting.

--Subjective Question Alert--

Is this worth it? I would love to be able to work on projects while I travel for business, have some extra time at lunch, etc. But, the process of moving a project back and forth between DAWs has me thinking that it might not be worth the trouble. Que up this awesome forum! There has to be someone here who either does this or has done it in the past that has some insights they can share.

Thanks in advance!

So, instead of replying to the same basic questions of how to use CbBL to every new user that joins the forum over and over again, we just point them to your vids? I love it!

21 hours ago, Cactus Music said:

But I repeat as you seem to have missed my post. How is your Midi playback from the sound modules patched in to your system so that you can hear the output? This has not been made clear. You will not hear them if only the midi cable is connected to the 6i6. Below is what you said is your wiring. I don't see any audio cables. 

My wiring setup is:

MIDI keyboard out to MIDI in on the 6i6

MIDI out on the 6i6 to MIDI in on the Ketron SD-2 MIDI module

MIDI Thru from the SD-2 to MIDI in on the Roland JV-1010

Exactly what I was thinking. OP lists the MIDI signal path, but there isn't anything about the audio output path.

14 minutes ago, LeVonne E Johnson Jr said:

I am attempting to use Melodye on a vocal track where I removed all the silent parts before I ran Melodye. 

My issue is when I insert Melodyne with to one of the clips, a clip is made of silence with the actual vocal passage at the end of the clip. 

Has anyone experienced this issue? 

Hello--

I'm not sure I completely understand what you're doing. You should be selecting the audio clip, or part of it. Then creating a region to apply Melodyne to it. Once you've completed the Melodyne edits, then from the clip, bounce to clips to apply your edits and close out of Melodyne.

Are you saying that when you do that, you don't see anything in the Melodyne edit window?

4 minutes ago, Jim Hurley said:

I have 8 cores/16 threads i9-9900k

here are some benchmarks for the drives:

Phew! So, your CW projects load quickly. What other DAW related tasks do you see benefiting from the m.2's?