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  1. Colin Nicholls
    A worthy clarification, agreed.
  2. Colin Nicholls
    @scook, seems pretty unambiguous to me.... I think it is great that Cakewalk has notes at the project/track/lane level, but the number of times I've been playing back a project listening for "things to FIX" and keeping notepad open with MM:SS or Bar references for each note... it would be nice to have Timeline Notes.
  3. Colin Nicholls
    Expanding Markers to include a text note would be nice, as a way of attaching notes to a specific moment in the timeline, which currently none of Project/Track/Take notes are able to do.
  4. Colin Nicholls
    V-Vocal is still an indispensable tool for me. I tried Melodyne Assistant and it was so slow (not counting the initial load which is like molasses) when compared to VV and the results are not audibly better. Love me some V-Vocal. Glad you got it restored, @John Vere.
  5. Colin Nicholls
    I've always felt that the "Project" menu should be renamed "Timeline".
  6. Colin Nicholls
    As a purist I'm astounded that anyone would consider post-mix audio stretching an acceptable solution. That said, if you're producing uber-compressed MP3s for consumption, it probably isn't going to matter. As always, consider and compare the results carefully before committing. And also, consider this a learning experience that determining the right tempo for a project is best decided before tracking audio. For next time.
  7. Colin Nicholls
    Damn, I hope someone else has some insight on this. It's about now that @scook shows up and lays down some solid knowledge, but he's probably raving out at a Zoom Party right now.
  8. Colin Nicholls
    I attempted to reproduce the problem and couldn't. Even though I didn't save the New Project in which I'd just created and saved the Drum Map preset, when I exited Cakewalk and then re-opened it, created a new project, added a MIDI track and directed it to a new drum map - the preset I'd just created previously was there, along with all the others. Now, I expected this, of course, but I wanted to make sure. You're not switching users or anything? Can you run Cakewalk "as Administrator" just to see if it makes a difference?
  9. Colin Nicholls
    Double-check the entry under Preferences > File > Folder Locations > Drum Maps, just to be sure
  10. Colin Nicholls
    10 points to Gryffindor.
  11. Colin Nicholls
    You can monitor the sound being recorded with the track's Input Echo button
  12. Colin Nicholls
    >> "Stable"=not updated since the '90's, Like, say, the MIDI standard, for example? I'm surprised we manage to make any music at all with something so archaic. ? >> "well-documented"=you have to go to the manual to even know where to start. I would hope so.
  13. Colin Nicholls
    I submit that Drum Maps are possibly the most stable and well-documented features of SONAR/Cakewalk that get mentioned by folks having difficulty. In terms of enhancements, personally, I'd love to see an XML or JSON export/import.
  14. Colin Nicholls
    Because it is, and always has been, how you adjust both Project and General preferences. If you don't have a project open, you don't get all the possible options in the Preference dialog.
  15. Colin Nicholls
    You'll notice that the "Cut" operation changed the selected area in the tracks after the clips were transferred to the clipboard (ha). Sort of "shrank" the selected area to include just the clips, not the beginning space. I'm actually surprised that Copy+Paste worked the way it did. It would be nice if "Copy" and "Cut" were consistent. Is it a bug? Debatable. An inconsistency? Arguable. Is Ripple Edit the solution? Not in my opinion. It is, however, another tool in the toolbox that could be used to perform the operation you're trying to do.
  16. Colin Nicholls
    Do they sound good when solo'd? There is a real art to finding amp settings/FX pedal settings that sound good in a mix. They may not be the ones that sound good when solo'd. However, depending on the style of music, you probably need to EQ. Try a mix with just Drums, Bass, and one Guitar. Can you make the guitar sound good in that context? The most common thing is to cut bass frequencies out of the Guitar track to make room for Bass, etc.
  17. Colin Nicholls
    Probably not the best time of year to release a theme... *crickets* I applaud your effort!
  18. Colin Nicholls
    Document v.2020.12.20 updated and uploaded. See previous post above for change detail.
  19. Colin Nicholls
    Well, here's my 2c. I think it's polite to ask, if you know how to contact the original author. Given that we are all building on the shoulders of other folks work, I don't feel that it is reasonable to say "No, you can't use the images". However I'd be annoyed if someone took a theme I'd created and made minimal changes to it and released it as a new theme without asking first, and/or giving credit, but I don't feel I could legit prevent it. I asked SteveC before taking Polar Blue and revising it. I still use some of the ideas from SteveC in my latest themes (Pre/Post for example). I consider Polar Blue 2020 a joint effort.
  20. Colin Nicholls
    Huh. Definitely worth documenting. My research indicates that Open Insert Send Menu is used in Track View FX Bin, Console FX Bin, and Console Add Send. Scroll Sends Down and Scroll Sends Up are only used in Track View FX Bin as far as I can tell - the Console view increases the size of the Send/FX bins as they are added, to avoid the scrolling list.
  21. Colin Nicholls
    Ha ha you don't need to tell me that ? >> currently I find this 3d slider set from cakewalk working decently The important thing is that YOU are happy with the theme. I do agree that the sliders look better in AFUI 1.4 in your screenshot above.
  22. Colin Nicholls
    Right - although I also noticed that the "horizontal sliders" were not as visible as I would prefer, but I wanted to avoid the popular "if you just change this and this and this to suit ME it would be perfect" kind of post.
  23. Colin Nicholls
    I can appreciate the work that went into that, over and above your starting point. Nice. Clear. Love the contrast of the MIX controls. The "baby blue" highlight works well against the mid-grey. I see you're going for the balance of "not too light, not too dark", a brave goal. (It does make me wish for "contrast/bright" sliders as featured in Studio One, I always thought that was a nice way of allowing a user preference without introducing UI anarchy.) I recommend re-visiting the color of the volume sliders for Tracks. The "Grey on Grey" isn't working, IMO. Maybe White or Light Grey for tracks? Great work.
  24. Colin Nicholls
    This is awesome but I found you only need to set the two inner nodes, then select a region on either side of the two nodes, and then Ctrl-Drag down. Thanks.
  25. Colin Nicholls
    19-tone equal temperament is definitely a thing. It's a way of experimenting with minor third intervals that are closer to perfect Pythagorean harmonic intervals than you get with 12-TET. Other intervals are further "out" than 12-TET but it's all good stuff.
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