Blogospherianman

I always start with pedal down and release right at the start of the take just to make sure any sustains are killed for that take. Likewise after the fact you can hold pedal down and hit record and let it up at the start of your current take.

First off, Great job bakers! Love the ability to customize the smart tool!!!Although, I keep accidentally opening the inspector when I click a certain way on a clip, is that customizable too? J/ch Apologies in advance for the long list, but I’ve seen your fix list and I have faith in your capabilities! 😁 Could we fix the midi take lanes nudge issue please? Create a midi track record several takes. Mute all but the one you want to edit. In PRV lasso some notes. Nudge right or left and the notes will vanish appearing pasted into one of the muted takes. Expected behavior would be that the notes would just nudge to the right or left staying in the clip they belong to. Another weird issue is Midi search back recalling CC Data from a muted clip. Bounce to track is not searching back midi CCs. So if you have a CC at the top of the song and you highlight the last section of the song for bounce, the CCs before selection are ignored. Hate to have to repaste any CCs just to bounce a certain part of a clip. It plays back fine (except for muted CCs😉) Also upon pressing the spacebar to stop I’m getting random midi notes hanging that needs the sustain pedal pushed to stop the ringing. Adjusting Midi buffer has no affect. This has never been an issue before. With Load balancing enabled using waves Axxe compressor there is a loud crackling before and after the audio clip. None during the clip. Unchecking load balance fixes this issue. Very annoying clicking sound on start and stop. Adjusting the audio fade on start setting helped the starting, adjusting Fade on stop didn’t help, made more of a stutter. Nudging audio during playback can sometimes cause a loud click leaving the audio engine unable to send audio through. The Focusrite mix control shows a really high noise that you can’t even hear lighting up the output. This requires a restart of Cakewalk to bring it back. Random songs where bypassing or un bypassing effects via button in the bin causes the track to play out of time until stopping and starting again via spacebar. Random clips nudged will play out of time until stopping and starting again. Nudging two Accoustics, one high and one low and the high one was out of sync until stop and start again via spacebar. After entering an offset number in the Midi Quantize plugin the spacebar does not Play until you click somewhere else. Muted CC data and CC Clips still show in the PRV making editing VERY difficult! No option to hide muted CC. Only option is to move all other data to a separate midi track temporarily. Also the Transport bug. 🐛 Thanks again in advance! -—-Michael aka The Blogospherianman One last thing, Un-freezing instruments sometimes results in the loading of either a default patch or no patch at all. Seems connected to projects that have archived or deleted tracks. Half of my current 12 song album I’m producing for work had Synth Rack issues when unfreezing. I know, I’m one of the biggest advocates for Bounce to track then disconnect. Reconnecting if needed, but sometimes I take a chance on freezing, getting burned. Luckily I back up often, Save As Project- tempo map, add drums, add keys add guitars add vocals, mixing. I’ll even Copy the Last open file without opening and rename it what I’m working on next in the song so I don’t even open the previous save. Plus I save instrument presets for the songs inside the project folder and instrument browser if I think I’ll use it again. Please solve the unfreeze issues if possible. Again Thanks for your time! —-Michael One more thing, could we get back the ability to use layers on tracks already frozen like we could in X1. I hate having to start a new track just to have lanes available. Thanks! 😉

For audio to follow you must first (before changing tempo) turn on audio snap for all audio clips and enable Clip follows project. Then change tempo. It will sound best if you Bounce to clip the stretched clips when done with the Offline Radius Mix algorithm. Also I personally get the most reliable results if I first bounce to clip each track to start at zero and be one whole clip per track. If this is done, Clip follows project will work 99.9% of the time. Also, 16 bpm is not too far out of the stretch realm. Mix Radius can work wonders. You need to learn this technique either way. Try it! If it doesn’t meet your needs record again. At least you can then play with hearing the different tempos. Just remember it won’t sound the best until bounced with the Mix Radius offline. Highlight the stretched clip, make sure Mix Radius is the Offline render mode, right click, bounce to clip. Best of luck! 👍

I use Rx7 for various things from cleaning up fiddle squeaks to mouth smacks to vocal isolation. Also use Sound forge for various stuff when mastering. I really like being able to highlight a portion and get the RMS or LUFS . As far as using Rx7, using the connect feature sucked. So I used Scook’s tool to add it to Cakewalk’s menu. Now I highlight a clip and use the drop down menu. Cakewalk copies the file to Rx7. Edit it in there then save. Go back to Cakewalk and it asks if you reload the changed wav file, Yes please. And the file is back in it’s cleaner glory. I use Sound forge like this sometimes as well. Much better than using the Connect feature.

You. An also highlight the clip or portion of a clip the go to Process, Transpose (Radius Mix works very reliably ).

Best solution in my opinion would be to use the Midi Fighter 3d’s own Mapping manager software for this as some buttons depending on the preset might be sending CCs instead of Note on and off. Their mapping software is specifically for this purpose. Otherwise I would say Cakewalk’s Drum map manager would work. Personally I would fix it at the source. 😁

You can always change the projects tempo temporarily to work on a track of another tempo then bounce or freeze the audio prior to reverting your tempo back. If you have midi going you might bounce to audio prior to changing tempo just for the sake of hearing the same thing while you’ve altered your tempo. (Monitoring your project at the 120 tempo while recording your 60 bpm track) . After recording the 60 bpm stuff, freeze or bounce to lock it in at 60 as audio, then change your tempo back, delete the reference bounce (for monitoring at 60) and move on to whatever is next. I always Save As Project - original tempo map then as Project - New tempo or whatever just to be safe.

I gotcha! 👍

That’s what Process, Apply effect, Gain does, It will Apply Clip gain to the clip or selection and scale the waveform. That’s the way I do some pre-leveling of lines, words or syllables.

Or Process, Apply Effect, Gain. It has a preset menu of gains up and down and you can add your own.

Melodyne has never mapped accurately for the stuff I’ve tried with it. I personally like to do it by hand by drawing the tempo changes while the Click is on, making the click play perfectly on the beat. I’ve been doing this way for years, long before melodyne, and it’s 100% accurate every time. I too have enjoyed studying the human variations of groups and or individuals by analyzing tempo maps.

Now say your reference track fluctuated and you had it mapped out already (by hand or melodyne) and you wanted to adjust for the fluctuations in the reference, you can enable Clip Follows Project on your reference track and then make adjustments to the tempo map by drawing or entering values while having your reference track follow your new changes. You can also then look at the tempo list in the tempo view and highlight and delete all but the first tempo and change that one to a new averaged amount if you prefer. Pretty easy to tame the fluctuations without killing them all together from the tempo view using the draw tool. Turn snap off for smoother tempo drawing . You can also use Fit to time to change the whole map (or parts even) up or down while preserving the tempo map’s variations.

Yeah, just open up the tempo map view, make sure your click is on, zoom to an appropriate level and draw or redraw the parts that are off while listening to the click. I personally prefer to do my maps solely by hand just to make sure they’re correct. You can easily adjust your map though.

Yeah if you change the interleave in the main track view you must toggle the bypass of that FX or FX bin (or just hit E twice) for the nodes to change. If the interleave is clicked on from the Inspector or the console view the change is instant. My issue is specific to Waves Mono/Stereo plugins though. They are designed to be used in either mono or stereo. The mono ones work fine and the stereo ones work fine. (The Stereo ones don’t mind their interleave being switched to mono either) The ones that say ‘Mono/Stereo’ eg Abbey Road Plates Mono/Stereo only function in Mono not allowing their interleave to be changed. The Waves PRS collection only has mono and mono/stereo version, no stereo ones. It would be nice if the mono/stereo one could function properly in stereo.

It makes sense to me to NOT have the interleave linked to input. I might record a Mono guitar but want to process it with a Stereo Guitar plugin like Guitar Rig. Or a Mono vox track with a stereo doubler like ADT. Just because it’s mono in doesn’t mean I want mono out. This rationale makes sense to me.

Yeah this doesn’t work, nor does Forcing Stereo operation. The double nodes never show in the FX bin. Thanks for your input put though! 👍 I believe this issue requires a fix on Cakewalk’s end.

I have had issues with the mono/stereo plugins such as the PRS Mono/Stereo. Supposed to be able use them in mono or stereo but even with the interleave set to Stereo the plugin stays mono. The plugin works as expected in stand alone mode. There is no stereo version of the PRS, only mono or mono/stereo. I had started a thread but thought I’d bring it back up with this thread getting more traffic.

I prefer to Bounce to track (workflow reasons), then disconnect the synth via the synth rack. This saves RAM and CPU as well. You can always reconnect the synth via synth rack to rebounce a different part, section or mic position . The synth rack retains all patches while disconnected, so everything is still available, simply reconnect.

Thanks for checking! I’m glad it’s reproducible. The more that report an issue the bigger the priority so anyone affected reporting could only help.

You can either set up separate outputs from the single instance of Play which also requires adding Synth audio tracks assigned to each of the multi outs. This allows for freeze to make multi audio rendering. Easier way is to highlight (select) the source midi track of each part one at a time along with your main synth audio track and bounce the parts individually to their own audio track. (Bounce to track) Once bounced you can disconnect the synth (saving CPU) in the synth rack and it will retain all of your patches should you need to rebounce a part or even a single line of a part by shortening your selection. I’ve had issues in the past with un freeze not bringing back patch parts. Plus you can’t add layers to a frozen track. Plus if you had edited timing or crossfades and needed to change something, un-freeze wouldn't keep your edits. That’s my few cents. Peace!😀

Hey all! I know we have lots of Frontier Design Tranzport users here so I wanted to see if anyone else was having the same issue I am with my trusty Tranzport. So I started notice that when Cakewalk is not in focus that my Tranzport will just freeze the display at the point that Cakewalk goes out of focus. Noticed after several times heading to the booth to lay down a bunch of percussion parts that the Tranzport display was stuck. The Tranzport still controls Cakewalk, but the display is frozen. First I started deleting it and adding it back in the ACT menu which made it work again, but it kept happening. Then, I noticed that sometimes it started working on it’s own again. So before heading to the booth I always mute the control room via the Focusrite mix control software so as not to have any bleed. Clicking outside of Cakewalk (mix control, task bar, second monitor) is causing the Tranzport display to freeze. Clicking in Cakewalk restores the display. Anyone else seeing this? I’m Win 10 I had already uninstalled and reinstalled before figuring out what was going on which sucked because it had to be installed via program compatibility helper set to Win 7. I double checked in Sonar X1 and Sonar Platinum and it worked regardless of the focus as expected. Any ideas or help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!! 😁

Tested various levels of each with low ping as both 1st beat and other beats and these are my findings: 1st beat: 0 = +0.2 other beats: 0 =-2.7 1st beat: -1 = -0.8 other beats: -1 = -4.2 1st beat: -2 = -1.6 other beat: -2 = -5.4 1st beat -3 = -2.4 other beats -3 = -6.6 1st beat -4 = -3.4 other beats -4 = -8.1 1st beat -5 = -4.2 other beats -5 = -9.3 So yes this is not working as expected. I tested back to X1 with the same results. The volumes are different for each as well as their ranges when changed are different. Over the 5 db range the 1st accent had a range of 4.4 db (from -4.2 to +0.2) and over the same 5 db range the Other beats range was 6.6 db (-9.3 to -2.7) Definitely worth a fix! To achieve the same volume from the low ping you can set the 1st beat to -3 which will result in -2.4 db and the Other beats to +0.3 which will also result in -2.4 db.

You can always mount your old hard drive inside your new computer and save the digital transfer time. Also, If you have a project from 8.5 that you want to work on in Cakewalk by Bandlab, make a copy of the project file (right click the project file, copy, paste) and rename ‘project name - Cakewalk’ that way you still have the 8.5 version intact should the transfer not work perfectly or for a reference or older plugin settings etc.

Yeah I was running stand alone mode when I tested it. Definitely the patch.

Another way to export a midi clip is to right click it and Enable Groove Clip Looping. Then highlight the clip and go to File, Export and then select Midi Groove Clip. That will export the clip as a Type 1 Groove clip. You can always turn Groove Clip Looping on or off.