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Colin Nicholls

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  1. Well, that's a relief. The '99 build puts the FX plug-in flyouts back to "normal", to match the instrument plugin menus. Must have been a bug.
  2. @#$%#$%. Add Track > Instrument is still the correct polarity. Can't they at least check to see if the current theme is based on TUNGSTEN or MERCURY and select menu colors to match?
  3. This suite was inspired by a trip taken to Oregon in 2017 to witness the Solar Eclipse, but expanded with a fictional account from an Indonesian photographer for dramatic and metaphorical effect. This is the first time I've used Cakewalk By Bandlab for every aspect of the production, including Mastering. (-14 LUFS average). BandCamp: The Prodigal Sounds: Annulus Suite Thanks for listening; I hope you enjoy.
  4. To be fair, I've lived in the U.S. now for 22 years but I'm also dyslexic, so I'm basically at the mercy of my spelling checker. "Bloke" works for me, an ex-pat Kiwi.
  5. Ha! You would be right about that. Looking good.
  6. It runs. It complains there are no audio devices. But you can open a project and even run an export. It looks like it is working but the exported file will be 4kb and empty. So, you know, I figure exporting DOES use the audio interface and therefore changing it might result in, um, different results.
  7. Not what I meant. I mean, with Cakewalk indicating that there is no audio interface available to it.
  8. Not disagreeing, but have you tried exporting audio without an audio interface? Good idea about the latency and background tasks. Time for an audit.
  9. Listed in my sig. After I disabled the ECHO Layla3G in the Device Manager, I switched on the Focusrite USB and re-tested the export. My first thought was that this solved the issue, but then I noticed a glitch in one of the track exports, right at the end. Background: I have five projects, each being one movement in a suite. I export these to 44.2/24 WAV, and use a sixth project to combine them into a single continuous composition, applying level balancing and a final polish, multiband compression to -14 LUFS. This is exported at 44.2/16. I also export each track separately (with the same processing) to give me 5 additional mastered WAV files for each movement. So, that's 11 export operations. I have listened to the end results several times over checking for glitches, and quite fatigued at this point. However: Having the Focusrite instead of the ECHO did seem to be much less prone to glitching. As I mentioned, I did get one glitch right at the end (so frustrating!) but eventually I managed to get a full set of glitch-free exports, and that will be going up on BandCamp later this week. So, job done. With that project out of the way, I'll be listening more carefully in future projects to see if I can find a pattern.
  10. I bumped it up to 1024 during my most recent test; still detected glitches. Currently I'm testing with a different audio interface to compare.
  11. Thanks, Will. You'd think those types of things would be consistently found in the same location in the exported audio, though, wouldn't you? And I can't hear them when I play the project in Cakewalk. They show up in the export. Yes, headache!
  12. I'm getting random click/pop artifacts in my WAV audio exported from Cakewalk by Bandlab. It doesn't happen very often that I can tell, but I have some quiet sections where, almost inevitably, I hear a tick or pop in the exported WAV where there is none in the source project. If I re-export, the defect goes away, or appears in a different location. Honestly, I can only detect it if it happens in a quiet region, it might be happening more often. Question: Does Cakewalk use the audio interface to perform audio export? Will changing the ASIO settings affect audio export?
  13. Everything I know about Control Bar backgrounds is written up here. (Firefox understands that link and goes directly to the page. It's pages 118-119.
  14. @scook has leveled up and now all solutions are attributed to him.
  15. I'm getting MiMu Gloves vibes from that controller. Much more expressive than the D-Beam on my Roland keyboard ? EDIT: Surprise surprise. The latest Sound On Sound includes an article about MiMu gloves, and talks about how Leap Motion is using related tech.
  16. 1. Yes 2. Unfortunately, not possible. Setting a color for a bus will affect the foreground color only, and the track will also use the bus's foreground color as the waveform.
  17. Imma gonna just paste that into an appendix all of its own, Erik. EDIT: Document has been refreshed at the usual URL
  18. Let's eliminate the (other) obvious things. What does your devices look like under Edit > Preferences > MIDI Devices ? Are the correct ports enabled?
  19. I've never used ACT (that I know of) and therefore I deliberately glossed over (well, ignored) how ACT is handled in the UI. I agree that it could be reviewed and expanded. Or at least, re-factor that section slightly to make it clear that ACT is not being covered.
  20. Wait, what? ...Huh. I have no memory of doing that. I mean, it was some time ago, and my memory isn't what it used to be. I certainly like what the QC flyout looks like. I may have stolen it from someone else's theme, I definitely can't take credit for it in its current form, although I think it is a simple color inversion, and if I were tweaking it I know exactly what I'd do.... *opens Paint.NET*
  21. Zip file now contains a .clr that, hopefully does what @Starship Krupa needs ?
  22. Release 2.10 Minor cosmetic changes to Console view module headings, and Time Ruler background and tick marks, all in the name of improved clarity.
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