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Some good advice, thank you everyone.

Oh thanks chaps! I'll try these out.

Hi friends, I do realise that I won't be the first person to ask about this, but I couldn't find what I was looking for by searching... Would someone please point me to a tutorial video or similar that shows how to write pitch bend information in my MIDI tracks. I'm only looking to be able to do the basics. I've found the 'wheel' controller pane, but I can't seem to draw what I want (ie smooth bends). Thanks as ever, Dave

Thanks chaps! I had a look at the freeze options and saw what you meant about changing the default so that the FX rack was unaffected; that was my biggest issue. I'll give this some more thought. Cheers, Dave

Hi friends, I wonder if you can help me get to grips with something... I've been using CbB for well over a year now, and in many regards I feel I've learned a lot about it. However, there is one area that I don't really understand, which is freezing synths. I use a mixture of external synths and internal. As I don't want to have excessive CPU load, by the time I'm ready to mix I freeze the internal synths. I want to be able to work on these tracks just like audio tracks, but because they're frozen if I add plugins they wont work; so what I've been doing is copying the audio clips onto new tracks and muting the originals. I'm pretty sure that's not the best way to do it! I thought there was maybe a way to bounce (render) the synth tracks so that they behave exactly the same as the other audio tracks, but I can't seem to work out how. If there is (as I suspect) a more elegant solution than my workaround, please will you point me in the right direction? Thanks, Dave

Thankyou so much!

Hi friends, I have a stereo track that I would like to split into mono. What is the best way to do this? Dave

Thanks, I'll give that a go. Yes, don't know why I didn't think of using an Aux track! Problem solved, many thanks...

Hi Friends, I've hit a little snag in my current project. I have some lead vocal layer tracks routed to a bus, which I want to bring in and out as required. I wanted to automate this, so went to the bus automation options and...no automated mute. Oh! I can automate each track of course, but that's a lot of work. Am I missing something - surely muting buses within a mix is a common requirement? Please help if you know what I'm doing wrong, or can suggest a suitable alternative. Thanks, Dave

I didn't know that either, thanks! You guys must think I'm dumb as an ox...?

Thanks! (easy when you know how...)

Hi Friends, I don't have an external controller, so I usually use the computer keyboard for transport controls (i.e. stop and start with the spacebar) . My question is: is there a similar shortcut for PAUSE? I looked in the online manual but it didn't offer any alternative to the transport section within CbB (for the pause function). Anyone aware of an alternative? Thanks Dave

Hey Everyone, Thanks very much for your help. After buying a USB extension, I've decided to follow bdickens' advice and leave the external synths permanently connected! As you may imagine that solved the issue.? Can I just take this opportunity to thank you all for being so sharing with your knowledge - this really is an excellent Forum with some really great people. Dave

Ah thanks, I thought that must be what was happening. Glad to know it isn't just me being dumb (for a change!)

Obviously not, even CbB isn't that clever!? No, but I think that other new MIDI tracks should not have to be automatically treated by Cakewalk as drum MIDI tracks - and that's what I was getting at. I want to write the MIDI before connecting a synth, which seems a reasonable thing to do. Once it's done I can connect up, check it works, make any tweaks and then track. That's how I used to do it back in the day with an external sequencer. Anyway, if it can't be done no problem - I just wanted to ask in case it's a question of my ignorance. Thanks for trying to help my friend! Dave