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Considering that you can customize how it looks and how you use it, I don't see that there is an issue here. The default interface works well for some folks. For others, just arrange things the way you like, and you're good to go.

Well, whaddya know. I saw on another thread where someone solved their cursor problem by updating their video driver. So I went to Intel and did the same. My computer's only 5 years old, I hadn't even thought it would need it. But scook, you mentioned it in this thread. I will never doubt you again. It appears the problem is solved. I now have only the staff view cursor in staff view, no sign of the track view cusror, it's staying in the track view where it belongs. Another problem resolved by Scook The incredible. Thanks again, man!

By the way, you don't have to use the Skylight interface. You can make it look and work exactly like 8.5. That's what I do. Then there's very little learning curve.

Me too, along with the TTS-1. I've given up on both of them. Fortunately I don't really need them. I wish Bandlab would make a deal with, ahem, Roland, and offer the Virtual Sound Canvass. I would pay for it without batting an eye. It's probably the best GM/GS set ever. I do have it on my really old Gateway with Windows 98, and I sometimes try to figure out how to get it over to my current rig, but it's probably impossible.

I'm sure now that this is a result of how I use my different views. It may or may not be possible to solve, it will depend on my zoning in on exactly what I'm doing that is causing it. If I can't solve it, I can live with it. but I'm sure it's not a fault of the software at this point, or my system.

Dunno scook, maybe. I'm on Windows 7 still and use the onboard graphics, which are fine for my purposes (I don't do any videos or even play games on this computer).

I thought I had posted a possible solution last night here, but it came back unfortunately. I think it's related to the unusual way I use Cakewalk. My track view is my base view, extended down as far as it will go, to cover my 40-50 tracks of orchestral projects. No Skyview or whatever it's called. Then I have the staff, event, tempo and meter views undocked, and I call them up as needed with keyboard shortcuts. Also the mixer, which I keep minimized over on the bottom left. I'll see if I can do a screenshot so folks have an idea what I'm talking about.

Well, I think I solved it. I discovered that I had the Markers view docked at the bottom. I closed that and now the Now Marker is not present in staff view (or any other for that matter).

Actually, I need help here. I have to do the above routine with Step Sequencer every time. Does anyone know a way to permanently prevent the Track View Now Marker from being visible in staff view (when staff view is undocked)?

Agreed, Macrium is a much better option. You should never have to worry about CbB, as a free program it should always be activatable. If Bandlab should stop offering it, you theoretically could run your latest version indefinitely. There is an issue about it needing to phone home every six months, but that can be gotten around by fooling your computer as to what the date is. I don't know about Platinum, but since CbB is Platinum, minus some of the plugins (which you however have from Platinum), there is no need to run Platinum. I have sonar 8.5 as my latest pre-Bandlab version, so I can authorize it forever offline with serial numbers. So I figure I'm covered. I know I can go back to 8.5 in the event Bandlab does not work anymore. But not everyone can do that, it depends on what you do with musically. Fortunately, there will always be other DAWS to turn to. I think you are doing all you need to. Others here will chime in I'm sure re: Platinum strategies, but like I said, if you have CbB and your Platinum plugins, you have Platinum anyway. And updated regularly to boot.

I am using that method with the Synchron Appassionata Strings from Vienna Insts. It works great, especially if you use staff view. It keeps things much neater, all your keyswitches and CC events are on a separate staff, and you can view all your strings without calling up the keyswitch staves, so all those weird out of range notes are not visible. No reason it would not work with Kontakt. Keep all routing the same. You also may need to solo both the inst. as well as the keyswitch track for the switches to be effective.

This is a tip, along with the one I just saw about "that line that goes on..."

So, I find the Track View Now marker very annoying when it intrudes itself into staff view. I couldn't find a way to get rid of it, so I tried this, and it worked:

I opened Step Sequencer view (which I never use), then pulled down the edge of my track view until Step Seq. disappeared. And now there is no Now time marker in staff view. It is not needed, and is a pain because it won't agree spatially with staff view's own time marker, and it gets in the way when I want to insert notes. I don't know why it is there in the first place, but it probably has something to do with the weird way I have CbB set up, which is to look and work exactly like Sonar 8.5. I have all my views undocked, and I call then up with keyboard shortcuts.

Probably no one else will benefit from this, but I post it here just in case.

Roland is still selling the Virtual Sound Canvass for around 150.00. This is an extremely comprehensive and great sounding GM/GS module that I keep telling myself I should buy.

See the thread immediately below yours. This is an ongoing problem for some users. I have given up on it. I don't really need it as I have various libraries which are much better anyway. It could be Cake is loading an earlier version which is not compatible. So make sure it is loading the latest one that came with CbB.

This has almost become a coffee house thread. Hopefully the OP has moved on, and is having success with her project.

Wait a minute, this is a coffee house thread...

I think what confused me is that I am notation oriented. For me, middle c has always been the c in the middle of the keyboard, as grem says above. But for folks who are more digitally oriented, it's whatever their daw says it is. and yes there is thus no universal agreement, I was wrong about that.

If it ain't broke...

This especially applies to Bios settings, which are not exactly an easy trick to pull off. If things are working well in your music-optimized computer, why mess with it?

Yes, this worked. Thanks again scook.

scook, you truly are incredible, not to mention extremely fast. I swear I checked the entire manual but somehow I missed that. guess I didn't expect it to be in that section. This should solve the problem.

Since I have used it, Cakewalk has incorrectly labelled Middle C, which is universally known as  C4, as C5. This causes problems with keyswitching in instrument libraries. You have to make the keyswitch an octave higher than it should be for it to work, which sometimes causes it to run into the playable range of the instrument, causing unwanted sounds that you have to track down and correct (set velocity and volume so you can't hear them). And more to the point: is there a way to change this?

Maybe this has been addressed already, if so I apologize. I can't find any way in settings to change it.

No more an idiot than I am. My Steinberg UR-22 interface has some dials on the front. Couldn't figure out why I wasn't getting any sound. One of them was turned all the way down.  This stuff may not be rocket science, but it's close.

On 3/17/2019 at 2:44 PM, Robert Bone said:

IF you simply want access to those notes on your keyboard, and aren't really needing to change the sounds with those key switches, I suggest using an option that is FREE  - instead of dealing with setting up an additional device to deal with them  I figured this out when wanting to play on some of the notes that were assigned as key switches.

What I do, in the above situation, is to edit the note numbers in the Kontakt instrument, for the key switches, so that their note numbers are lower than the lowest notes on the keyboard.  SO, if Sustain is assigned to C2, and I wanted to be able to play notes on C1, then I might edit that key switch to be C0 or even C-1.  Same goes for other key switches.  I have done this for some Kontakt Factory Instruments, such as VSL Strings - after I edited the key switch note values, (to C-1, C#-1, D-1, etc), I SAVED the edited instrument, in the same library, but with the name Bob's VSL Strings.  This way, any such edited instrument will all be grouped alphabetically in the "Bob's" section.

Bob Bone

 

This is very interesting Bob, and I'm going to try it on my VSL instruments. I work in staff view, and I hate having those keyswitch notes all over the place. sometimes they even play, introducing an unwanted sound which I have to track down and set velocity to 0 and duration to 1. I have previously tried Craig's method of using another track for those notes, which is fine when you only have a hand-full of instruments, but when you have 30 or 40, you don't need any extra tracks.

If I have success with my VSL libraries, I'll post it on their forum, and give you credit. I'm sure it will work with the Vienna Player or Vepro, but I'm not sure if it will with the Synchron player.

 

Sometimes in my clumsiness I inadvertently change sliders on synths or the Cakewalk mixer (Console View). check to see if that has happened.

Musescore is a free score/notation program. You can import your music into it and create the score there. If you have no knowledge of how to do this, some study is in order. you will need to learn the basics of musical notation. The names of the notes, how they relate to the keyboard; note values or lengths (whole note, half note etc). Just learning that stuff will get you a long way toward the goal. Learning to read music is much easier than it seems. It's not rocket science, anyone can do it. Easily.

Are you saving the vsti instance itself? In addition to saving the Cakewalk project?

If you pull it out almost to the end, you will see the places to do this. Perhaps you did not expand the view enough?