Leighton Cooper

For some reason I am unable to get Synthmaster to get recognized by Cakewalk VST.  It will run fine through midi host but I have tried everything I can think of to make it work.   Does anyone have any ideas?  Thanks in advance

I bought deCoda by Z-Plane and find it very helpful to learning a song, but the midi to song is grayed out on every mp3 I have loaded.  How do I activate that does anyone know?   Thank you in advance.

In Cake 8.5 it was possible to open prv in Track inspector but that feature seems gone.  Has the workflow in Cake Band changed quite a bit and how?  I'm trying to figure out the zooms and the microscope and they seem re-designed.   
Any ideas Thanks

OK I looked a track manager but I don't see any way to insert a new synth between 3 and 4 which is where I would like it to  sit because it will trade off with Cobalt,  The one I want to put is the Kawai K3 vst.  But I don't see an option to pick the placement for it.   Does it always have to be inserted to the bottom?  

OK I screwed up.  I thought I didn't save that but I now need to replace my mistake with the orignial synth that sat there.   Maybe I'll try track manager to see if I can delete that track and put a different synth there.

OK I want to add to this,  when I copied the drum part I thought it would just copy the midi rhythm notes but instead it brought the actual drum kits  along with it into the vst that was designated for a synth .  I probably should redo the track from the media browser instead of copying and pasting  from the drum part.  So I'll try that.

I'm actually beginning my song writing.  I want to take the drum patterns to the other instruments but when I copied the drum pattern, it brought the drum list along with it.  I want to change that to a Piano Roll but I can't seem to figure out how to do that.  Then I will move the synth part to the notes on the scale I want to use but I want them to sit on the drum rhythm.  and the other part on that pattern  that are left over , I will delete.    Any ideas?

Do most of the softsynths out there accept program changes?  or do I need to record my midi outputs into audo tracks?

I have done many first's this week and I got program changes with arpeggiation changes to record as audio.  But it would be nice if I at certain spots across my tracks could change the instruments my vst has.  

Is it possible to make program changes on most VST's or do you have to convert your patch to an audio file?  When I look at the insert program change on the Insert menu, it doesn't seem to list my VST's as an option?  Do I have to create a new midi track everytime I want to change a sound with a new vst?

Thanks so much

Also you can find your serial number at Cakewalk.com which keeps a record for years of your downloads.  I checked it for my account and it listed it.  So you can get your serial numbers from there.  I remembered I had to struggle with it but if you have those 2 things I would change my foldername  (just so you don't lose the efforts of programming you have put in for that plugIn.   and reinstall it.  

It could be that you are trying to use a 32 bit Rapture instead of the 64 bit.  I've had that problem before.  Also in my opinion Rapture was never fully finished.  

http://forum.cakewalk.com/Universal-120-Vol-2-for-RaptureRapture-Pro-only-999-m3714020.aspx and that  will solve that problem for you.   Also Rapture uses the ProgramData directory which is a hidden folder and you have to turn it on in file options.

OK I will try that this week.  and post how it goes.

Did cakewalk X3 put the vst's in a different folder than the Bandlab Cakewalk editions?  I thought I had V Vocal but I can't seem to find it in the vst or dxi section.  I still have X3 installed.

I want to use three different arpeggiaton styles on an instrument track.  Do I have to convert them into audio loops to do that?  It seems as if the arpeggiators play live during the record session.   So I'm not sure what's being recorded because the arpeggiators don't seem as if they are midi notes?  Any ideas?  Thanks

OK I permanently figured this out.  On my screen display I have to close all the windows in the status bar at the bottom of the screen to be able to see the midi and audio tabs.  If any tabs underneath are open it covers the midi audio options.  

Thanks I kind of have that as an idea too, but since Omni is so large.  I didn't want to thrash about and lose my version that works.  But now it's time to correct that. I'll look through the folders it might be in.  I seem to be getting this a lot.  Cobalt VST plugIn wouldn't read the sequence so I went in to the PI and just checked off a few buttons and then back on and now it seems to work.  So I'm figuring things out.   Thanks

Cobalt VST is another good synth for beginners and Kawai K3 vst is another beginner plug in. 

https://www.lesliesanford.com/vst/plugins/ 

Kawai K3

http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?plugin=K3-V_Extended&id=2928

PlugIn botique for example.  Has a JD800 clone, a Virus clone and a Novation station clone.  

https://www.pluginboutique.com/categories/4-Synth?free=true

It's not new, and they may not update it.  But I think this one is much better thought out than Amplitube.  is Peavey Revalver 4.  What I like about it is they have many speaker cabinets available for cheap, and the speakers have spots laid out on where you can scroll through about 14 different kinds of virtual microphones and try them for different sounds and they tell you where they are.  So you aren't just second guessing everything.  That doesnn't cover the amps or the stomp boxes or the other effects that come with it.  They don't have as many amplifiers as amplitube.  But there is more than enough and the website attempts to describe the tones between speaker cabinets with different words for each cabinet which gives me an idea to think about sound.

I have Arturia's B3 V and it doesn't seem like it got high marks and they came out with a version 2 which I haven't upgraded to the next version yet.  But v1  seems to work with the Dictionary of Hammond Organ and stops which is a guide book to trying to mimic pipe organ sounds on the B3.  

Wouldn't this be the ground that PG Music Band in a box covers?  or is it a totally different subject?

Oh I forgot about Craig Andertons video's I did rummage through x1 for that but could never locate them.  

This is a good discussion.  I was always confused with the upgrades.  For example they put the prochannel plugIns on sale, and the soft tube saturatur came along with a few other pieces of equipment before X2 and I ordered that so I'm assuming that was made permanent at some point.  It would be nice if someone who was good at managing the history of sonars parts that came were documented.  If we had every available item what would they be?  It took me a long time to comprehend all the parts that come in Cakewalk, but the history is somewhat confusing.  I had up to X3 but I always upgraded during that series.  But I'm not sure of all the extras.  You have Prochannels, Regional FX, Vst,'s DXPlugIns, Is it worth adding in VVocal?  or is Melodyne a good substitue.  the DreamVST,  Some other things too.  But at this point I think we have the kitchen sink.  Also if you are just starting out on synths there is Cobalt VST and  Kawai K3 vst which are very simple to use.

Thanks I actually fixed my problem with the Omni PlugIn in reason today.  I have to load it through FL modular host to get to work.  Directly trying to load it as a plug in keeps it at the version 2.0 level.  But using that it loaded pefectly the 2.6 version.

Also my Performance is using 30% and all I did was use 3 prtsc's and Cakewalk 

I am building a general midi patch bank for timewarp basing my understandings off of Arturia Arp 2600 V and I created a prtSc of the Arp  patch I wanted to copy from for an idea to mimic it on timewarp and after I did this for several of them Cakewalk will no longer open.  Any idea why?