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Actually, this is a really good idea. Even if the clip gain was tied to a normalization function, that would work really well. So you could "soft" normalize the signal to -3db, and it would automatically adjust the clip gain accordingly.

If you use Insert Track from the insert menu, or the Add Track button it'll add them to the end. If however, you using "Insert Audio Track" or "Insert MIDI Track" from the right click menu, it will insert the track immediately before the track you right clicked on. If you're not currently on a track and use the right click menu, it'll add it to the end. [Edit] - once you've done that, you can then right click and select "Duplicate Track" where you can get it to duplicate it a number of times. So say you needed 5 extra tracks between track 3 & 4: right click on track 4, select "Insert Audio Track" right click on the "new" track 4 and select "Duplicate Track" and enter 4 in the repetitions.

Yeah, I use VLC on all my machines - Mac, Windows & Linux. It just works for the vast majority of stuff.

That doesn't sound right. When you say it's telling you there's a new version, where exactly does it say this? The reason I ask, is there's two things in play here: 1. The version of BandLab Assistant - normally if there's a new version of this, it tells you right away once you start it up. You should ALWAYS make sure this is up to date, as this is what authorises your copy of Cakewalk, and ensures the correct version is downloaded. The current version of BandLab Assistant is v5.0.4. If you click on the gear icon at the top left, the version number will appear at the bottom of the screen: 2. The version of Cakewalk - Notifications for updates only appears on the Apps tab under the Cakewalk logo:

There's a link to Understand on the right hand side:

It's also really useful when using plugins are particularly sensitive to gain staging. Being able to normalize to a known level that works well with a particular plugin / preset makes life a lot easier.

If you've got a real Mackie MCU or MCU Pro, you can map the function keys to the screen sets.

This is so true!!!

hmm - not much to go on there unfortunately. I'd contact support@cakewalk.com - they may want you to follow some instructions to get more info for them. Before you do that though, check Windows Defender, One Drive and any other virus checker/cloud sync software has those directories excluded.

Most people use this as a free sampler: https://www.tx16wx.com/ There's a paid for version too with more options. I'm not sure how good it is for drums specifically though.

Actually, SampleRobot does it really easily - you just add the controllers / value ranges you want to capture.... but it would be complete madness to try!

Maybe this is some weird behaviour with DrBeat, but if you've got a separate instance of DrBeat on track 1 then the effects on track 1 should only affect that track. Track 2 hasn't got any effects, so it shouldn't get any effects. Have you tried using a different instrument to check whether it's just DrBeat that exhibits this behaviour? I guess a workaround might be to create some new buses - get DrBeat #1 to send to the first bus, and DrBeat #2 to the second bus, then put the effects on the buses instead... but I can't see how this could possibly be happening. Are you sure there's not any internal effects in DrBeat that is making you think it's the plugins in Track 1 affecting Track 2?

Probably the easiest and quickest way would be to add blank tracks to pad out each group to eight. If you go down the route of using lenses or screensets to hide tracks, it'll get really confusing.

Just expand the take lanes, and one will be created for you automatically. If you need more, just click on the + sign:

You could probably do it - that is, if you don't mind using 10GB of samples on the one instrument! The number of samples goes up exponentially every time you add a new controller. It'll take a long time to sample, and use up a lot of disk space.

It'll be fun trying to keep a 4 year old away from it too!! My daughter is nearly 7 now, so she knows not to touch, but at 4 she was still into everything.

Don't give up yet... The docking status, position and minimised state of windows is stored with the screenset, so it should be possible to do what you're suggesting. So, you've got the track view spreading over both screens when full screen using the nvidia settings. For the other views, you can un-dock the console and move it so it fills the right monitor, then un-maximise the main track window and move it so it fills the left monitor. This is on one monitor, but you should get the general idea: In the meantime, I'd recommend reporting the now time indicator jumping issue to support@cakewalk.com .

I don't think you need to install any apps - the solution was in the standard NVidia control panel: "In the Nvidia Control Panel, Under 3D Settings / Configure Surround , Physics there is an option for "Span displays with surround" which must be enabled. It will require you close all widows to make the final changes. You may also need to restart the PC."

@Heinz Hupfer - just found this... the last post might help: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start/windows-10-full-screen-across-multiple-monitors/b6c80ffb-7ec8-4249-a08f-ba622e8d1aee

Ah, I'd seen that post but didn't put 2 + 2 together. I've not got 2 monitors set up, but if you extend Cakewalk over the two screens, and then press full screen does it extend over both monitors then, or does it revert back to only filling the first one?

I think this is a Windows thing - i.e. full screen means full screen on the one monitor. Can't you just resize Cakewalk's window to extend to both monitors? It should remember it the next time you run it.

I doubt if any of the things you've listed are the cause of the errors. The most likely cause is either a virus scanner, or cloud storage client accessing those files while you're scanning. Make sure all of Cakewalk's directories and your plugin directories are excluded from virus scans / cloud storage backups. If they try to access files while Cakewalk is trying to use them, you'll run into this sort of issue - or worse a crash. What error are you actually getting?

This largely depends on the speed of your internet connection. A full Cakewalk install (minus the addons like Studio Instruments etc, which you probably already have) is just under 600MB. So for me that's around 60-70 seconds to download with an 80Mbps connection (approx 8MB per sec). Once you're up to date, further incremental installers will much smaller in future - usually around 20-30MB.

@Harry C. - I had exactly the same problem with Expose. I sent them an email, and they sorted it out for me on their licensing server. They were pretty quick at getting back to me.

Acoustica basic edition is a free audio editor that works well with CbB: https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/3-Studio-Tools/48-Audio-Editor/1956-Acoustica-6-Basic-Edition I used @scook 's Tools Editor to add it to my Tools menu. Works a treat.