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I've been having a lot of trouble laying down drum tracks & even when I do enough takes to get the timing reasonably tight in real time....when I go to quantize it, it makes the timing much worse. Also....I've tried using the piano roll window to manually fix the notes(when I click on a single note to move it, all of the other notes move along with it...really?) I've never had these problems in any other DAW I've used....so I can only assume that since I am still new to Cakewalk, I must be doing something wrong....but what?
The only reason I sought out a new DAW and stumbled upon Cakewalk, is due to the fact that my Reason 10 DAW does not recognize any of my AAS plugins.....so when I began having the aforementioned issues with Cakewalk, I tried using the open source LMMS(which I didn't care for & I deleted it).....then I tried Tracktion Waveform and it was buggy as hell & I deleted that as well.
I even considered Behringer's Energy XT DAW....but their 64bit version is still in the alpha testing mode and xtsware.com, has acquired the rights to this DAW.
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I had already realized it was my own doing & admitted my mistakes( so there is no need to worry about me trashing this DAW.) Initially....I was overwhelmed and I thought it was very odd that I couldn't find a midi connection indicator light within Cakewalk & because of how different Cakewalk is from Ableton, Mixcraft & Studio One...I was really thrown off...in terms of becoming acclimated & my initial interpretation was way off base.
As it were...Cakewalk had a bad wrap(under Gibson's ownership & their subsequent mismanagement of it)....& I have come to realize that under BandLab's acquisition of Cakewalk, this DAW is in a whole other category.
There is no other software in existence(that I know of)...that is 100% free, fully functional & well maintained...so you have to expect a certain amount of skepticism from new users(as most free software...though advertised as free...isn't as such....& if it is...it's abandoned by the software developers & the user just gets the software as is.)
I've been working with DAW's since 2007 & have owned & tested out several and Cakewalk Bandlab outshines some of the other paid DAW's and once I got my bearings...I found Cakewalk to be n absolute pleasure to work with.
I was especially impressed with how easy it was to install and anyone who is considering this DAW....should definitely watch this short review of it;
By the way....I am so taken with Cakewalk BandLab...that I have deleted my Mixcraft & Ableton DAW's and although Reason 10 has been my main DAW...I'm focusing all my attention on Cakewalk.
I do appreciate your thoughts about Cakewalk & people who use Cakewalk, should defend it...when it's put into question by skeptics.
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Noel...this is extremely helpful...didn't realize how simple the layout is! One of my mistakes, was choosing the preset 16 track option, as this really overwhelmed me.
Thanks a mint!😎
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Thanks for all of the replies...much appreciated. I will definitely look into the manual more. Here is what I have discovered thus far on my own...I doubled-clicked on a VST plugin & a options window popped up & after checking off a few boxes, I now have audio.
I made a video of it, but oddly, my screen capturing software did not pick up the audio. There must be a better way to create instrument tracks(do I have to go through this procedure for each & every instance of an instrument track?
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In an effort to further troubleshoot my issues with AAS's Ultra Analog VA-3 and my Mixcraft 8, 9 & Ableton Live Lite 11 DAW's....I sought to obtain a free DAW, to see how this AAS plugin would behave in it.
This brought to discovering Cakewalk BandLab and I was absolutely thrilled with the prospect of this DAW....& I was amazed at how beautifully simple it was to install it and all of it's contents & I loved that it immediately recognized my midi controller....but for the life of me, I cannot get it to work in Cakewalk. My audio interface setup is solid....but I am not receiving any midi signal & there is no sound coming from any of the instruments I load up on track 1.
I don't even know where the midi indicator light is(assuming there is one? I sought out video tutorials on mid keyboard set ups, but this doesn't sort out my problem. BandLab tech support is useless and I have posted all over the internet, in an effort to gain some insight into this problem.
Somehow....I knew...that a free, feature-packed DAW was too good to be true(I guess it's asking too much for product support for a product that is free.) I don't want to give up just yet, but I've exhausted all possible options...it seems.
Weird Issues With Quantize & Piano Roll
in Cakewalk by BandLab
Posted · Edited by Thomas Sneddon
Please disregard this post, as for some reason, my buffer setting was set at 2048(somehow...it reverted back to this setting, as I previously had it set at 512.)