Patrick Judson

I still have my same account used for Cakewalk/Sonar and have been using CWBBL without activation prompts.
This morning I launched CWBBL and was prompted to activate. However, my credentials no longer works even though it is the same credentials I am using to post this question.
Do I need to create a new account?

I also attempted to use Offline activation with BandLab assistant but selecting the activation request file does nothing.

I am using build 2022.11 Update 1.

Note: I got the below error message when I first attempted to update.
You can just ignore it as I am unable to remove it from this post.

Thank you!

On 2/1/2019 at 11:48 AM, Craig Anderton said:

It's a tractor beam

What tractor beam are you referring to?
Sorry, your description is so funny because it takes me back to a movie.

There is a scene in the movie Dumb and Dumber where Loyd was describing Freda Feltcher and a tractor beam.
It's hilarious!

I get your point though.
 

Okay everyone, thanks for the responses, I think the fog has lifted.

1 hour ago, Craig Anderton said:

Some mastering engineers receive stems that are more than one track - rhythm section, strings, lead vocal, all other vocals, etc.

Thanks Craig! It has been a while.
Love your new music. The tradition mixes are great!

1 hour ago, razor7music said:

Hello Audioicon--

 

Stems are just individual tracks of audio and are typically used by music editors/music supervisors for TV shows or commercials. They give the editor the control over raising or lowering certain parts of your music to fit the scene. The most common is lowering (or muting) a vocal track while there is dialog going on in the scene. The reason here is obvious.

If you are receiving stems, then you would just import them as audio files--preferably WAV.  I believe it is File --> Import Audio, but I'm not at my DAW.  You would do this for each stem and align them all at zero start time. If they were created correctly by the person sending them to you, then they should all start at the time of zero--even if the audio on that track/stem doesn't start until later in the track. If every stem starts at zero, then they all will line up.

I'm surprised you're being sent stems if you're not familiar with what they are. May I ask what kind of project it is?

I hope this helps.

 

Thank you!
While I have a long line of experience with audio files, I think it is the context that threw me off. Here is a more specific scenario.
Another producer who works in Logic asked to send me his files, I know this may seem trivial but he said, "I am going to send you the stems." WHAT!?
Honestly, while the term is not autonomous to logic, I was put off by it because I was under the impression those files carried additional configurations that may not be suitable for importing into Cakewalk as apposed to importing general audio files. 

I am assuming this is something that can be done right? Seems pretty straight forward, importing audio files as you have nicely explained.

 

So I have been asked about Stem files and I am not certain what these are.
I get the general idea but assuming I am sent stem files, how do I get these into CBB or versions of Sonar for that matter?

Thanks