Leighton Cooper

I too am having problems getting scaler 2 to work in CW BL I've gotten it to work in FL Studio using Patcher but I have tried putting it before Kontakt and it's supposed to list itself as scaler in the kontakt input, but it doesn't do that. I can use it with it's original sounds but I wanted to use the pianos in kontakt Alica Keys, but Scaler doesn't show up in the input list. Any ideas? Thanks in advance

I have set up my AcousticSounds B5 to work with the Korg NonoKontrol2 all the drawbars work, but when I toggle the stops back and forth it doesn't switch. How do I get the korg buttons to recognize that I want to use them as stops between 2 destinations. My synths work fine. I ended up not using any of the drivers that came with it and most (cherry Audio and Korg equipment behaves like it should. )

Thanks for explaining that. By the way, Around December Arturia, Native Instruments Komplete Cherry Audio and Band in a Box synthesizers go on sale for 1/2 price. What I do is wait until those and buy them then. All those companies make excellent products and I support them.

I am trying to understand plugIn manager and I have gotten the synths and FX organized, but For example Reaktor and Kontakt both have libraries associated with them. can I import the different Kontakt Instruments into PlugIn manager. Can I put Razor and other reaktor stuff in reaktor? How do I do this? Thanks in advance.

OK Thanks for telling me that. I am trying to hook up 2 korg NanoKontrol2 controls because I wanted to use one to control the mixer, and the other for midi cc for vst instruments. Are they able to assign keyboard shortcuts for various things. I looked over the mackie controller and it seems to have a lot of functionality but I don't know how to program it. I can only seem to use 1 at a time. I bought them not understanding anything about control surfaces. and I wanted to use it as a drawbar set for organs. To control synthesizer parameters. I didn't realize this stuff got so complicated.

OK I added 8 synthesizers for a total of 8 faders and knobs so It is letting me assign the faders, but they don't seem like they the faders are correctly reading . They kind of jump and when I save and try it the faders and knobs in the console are not moving. OK I got the mackie controller to work, but I would like it to work with simple Instruments type. When I load those, it acts as if the midi portion is non existant. No response. Do I have to use what I was using,, or can I do where the instrument tracks are a 2 track process?

OK I added 8 synthesizers for a total of 8 faders and knobs so It is letting me assign the faders, but they don't seem like they the faders are correctly reading . They kind of jump and when I save and try it the faders and knobs in the console are not moving.

Hi I have been trying to instal Korg Nano KOntrol2 and am unsure how to do it. The web is a contradiction. I have assigned it to inputs in preferences and than pulled down the utility control surface, but the default doesn't seem to let me choose all my 8 faders . Many videos tell you to uninstall Korg drivers and Koorg Nano editor. Some say you should use it. Others want you to hack your registry. It would be nice to in the content are be able to load control surfaces for the various devices. I have put a lot of hours into trying to get my 2 nano kontrolers to work and don't seem to be able to get them to respond. Thanks for any insights.

Does the mastering console in Cakewalk Bandlab bring over all of the channel strip pro features found in X1 X2 and X3, or should we create those as a seperate download and reload X3? Thanks.

I don't know if my install was incorrect or not, but I bought Geist 2 and am unable to get the drum pad to show up. Is there a key combinaiton I press to make it visible? Thanks in advance \

OK I solved this. Underneath the browser is a set of ....... if you click on that the drum pads show up. But I still can't find the factory content. Any idea what direcotry they would be in. Also I got Kit Maker to go along with this to help me build drum kits. Which works interesting.

IK Multimedia is a good product, however you have to wait until their sales and then you can pick up Total Max 2 for $250. Which is an outstanding value. That's why I only bought PG music Biab during their Christmas sale. Native-instruments also has bass guitar presets, and again you have to wait until they have sales to buy Komplete. Eventually you can save up and get their Komplete Collectors edition for $600 which is $3000 worth of musical gear. and Arturia has half priced sales and you can get all their emulations.

Now also there is a real retro way to go. The 16 bit computers had some great midi sequencers developed for them. That are in some ways with the exception of Band in a box. More track and pattern based. You could turn your computer into an Atari ST and use programs from Tim's Midi world. But you would want to use (in my humble opinion a keyboard like I mentioned earlier. There is Dr T's Level 2, and quite a few others. The documentation isn't great either, but it would allow you to build a discussion about the various facets that really are covered very well in Biab.

OK there's a lot in this conversation. There are truly two ways to go. One is to get a keyboard like the Yamaha Psr Series or like the Casio CT x-3000 which offer lots of tools that are involved in music production, checking out rhythms, splitting the keyboard, programming accompaniment patterns Learning how to use arpeggios. In other words it's a full package synth . The only thing is that the general midi samples are not the same as the PSR series, but it offers 100 effects to PSR's 10,. The other solution is getting a program like BIAB which they have a midi only version rather than using real tracks, which do sound loads better, But in midi everything involved can be shown and it is like buying a Encyclopedia of performers and they are able to interact and help you discover how they shaped music. Cakewalk was great because it was like buying a music store full of instruments. Unfortunately BandLab's doesn't include many things that were in the Cakewalk suite. So while we have cakewalk you have to find your own vst's. One that is simple to use is Cobalt VST, another is the Kawai K3 VST. Both of these are good starters, because the range of envelopes pretends to look the same, but when you investigate them. There are significant differences. I hope your project works out well for you.

I don't know if my install was incorrect or not, but I bought Geist 2 and am unable to get the drum pad to show up. Is there a key combinaiton I press to make it visible? Thanks in advance \

OK I am setting up to categorize my plugins but I find no categories in Cakewalk bandlab. where the hell are they. I have fixed this for other versions of the software, but why is it missing. Not everyone has exposure to understanding what categories vst's should be placed in. Cakewalk please make this easier so users don't have to fuss over every single instrument.

Where are the categories? I've had no issues in the past of combing through my vst instruments seeing the categories existing and assigning them. Unfortuanely that isn't my experience now. Sometimes the manager installs them and assigns them but many times it doesn't. What has changed, why? and what am I missing?

Is it possible to import a midi progression and force it onto a rhythm. Does Cakewalk have an opacity function like that? I would call that musical opacity.

I am not understanding how the export window works. I have 3 songs and I want to put them onto cd, but when I exported the audio only the last song ended up on the cd. But I see an option to bounce to tracks, is that reducing all the parts, which in this case I'm dealing with a song level. So is that not relevant? Why would only the 3rd song be exported but not the entire track with the 3 songs?

I created a test kitchen Guitar plug in board so I put some samples from Ghosthack de guitar samples and I want to try out the different guitars in the ACT Input, but when I assign Revalver 4 over the audio tracks nothing happens, it won't record the samples. If I try it with midi vst's it works fine. Am I misunderstanding something about how to get it to work with audio tracks?

I got a message when I went to update to the recent version of Cakewalk Today, that Windows 7 is no longer supported. I tried Win10 on this computer 3 years ago and within a year I had bad crashes with it twice so I put 7 back on it. Will Cake still work if I download the next update? I'm happy with 7 all my programs work and it never crashes unlike Win 10 did!!!

I boght Crescendo Sheet music making software. I have classical midi pianist and unfortunately the Cakewalk sheet music is too small for me to read. So since this is an inexpensive sheet music maker I thought it would be easy to import in your song and it would print it out on a two stave chart like a regular piano chart. It doesn't! I only get Treble Clefts and I have no idea how to set the point between staves so that the notes that fall under would be moved to the bass stave. Then it also says there are many channels in the piano music. Which doesn't make sense as this is only piano music. Any ideas? Is this common, or am I misunderstanding the creative process for notation arrangement?

Thanks I will ponder over these ideas hopefully one works. I have checked the unsorted list and it is not there either. Only the synthmaster fx are. But I will definitely try out these ideas. Thanks so much

Yes the directory for synthmaster is in vst plugins. Other programs find it Reaper(yes I bought a license for it.) But I think CW is much more feature rich. Reason also finds it, it's only CW that can't.

So does that mean it's in a midi type 0 format? Are the different instruments kept on the same channel. My eyes are not good enough to see for every note printed. I'll have to try it through Biab, but with cakewalk the notation is too small to see for my eyes. I'll try some other things thank you so much for your explanation.