Colin Nicholls

Very nice, Grebz. I would make the SOLO and MUTE button icons to be less similar - frankly M and S are pretty good and distinct. Also the "off" state could be even less bright, the green in particular.

Otherwise, nice work

EDIT: Dead horse, already dead, almost unrecognizable. Sorry.

18 minutes ago, Cyanide Lovesong said:

The 4k UI scaling vector update is a HUGE upgrade

Has any representative from Bandlab actually described Sonar as such? I've seen "High DPI support" and "vector graphics" but i have not seen "scalable". Just tempering our expectations here.

I'm currently in the market for a new DAW hardware and I'm tempted. My M2 Macbook air runs Da Vinci Resolve like its nothing (just home movie editing)

Team Sublime Text here. And the logo is ORANGE, so it's got that going for it.

21 minutes ago, Anxiousmofo said:

Oof.

Looking forward to them making good on the lifetime license I've already paid for.

I'm sure someone at Gibson will be glad to take your call.

Anyone else completely out of patience with threads like this?

How about you all just wait and see, on features; on pricing; and my god no good deed ever goes unpunished.  "I can't believe this fully-featured product is now free! How wonderful" *record scratch* "I can't believe they have the gall to even hint that future updates might involve a transfer of funds! How dare they!"

JFC.

1 hour ago, Jesse Jost said:

Theming capabilities will change and there may be little to no customization in the first release of Sonar. That said, a tremendous amount of thought and effort have gone into this rework and we hope that the need for theming will be greatly diminished moving forward. 

 

Please don't limit us to "Dark Mode" only

> So what is better for music production

It depends but I think the priority is something like this:

1. CPU Speed
2. Number of Cores
3. SSD all the way
4. RAM

Oh, and wild card:
0. Motherboard supports hardware of your audio interface of choice (i.e.a free PCIe slot), and room in the case

Mike is a nice guy but recently his videos have definitely moved into the clickbaity borderline shill category.

This is pretty typical, once the number of subscribers hits a certain value, there are folks who can quit their day job and concentrate on videos and there is a lot of opportunity.  Check out Benn's take for some background on this:

(I am not saying Mike/Creative Sauce is in this category)

...people are paying money for those?!?

Probably read snarkier than I intended when I wrote it.

Seriously folks, https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Reference Guide.pdf and Ctrl-F

57 minutes ago, Steve Moddelmog said:

What hardware component is the principal driver of the performance measure "engine load?" CPU? Sound interface? Both?

From the manual:

Quote

The Engine Load value is a percentage of the total time the engine took to process an audio buffer. If it takes 100% or more of the
allotted time, the buffer is processed too late and it will result in audio glitches/distortion. The value in parenthesis represents the
max engine load since the time the engine started.
Engine load is a better metric to help troubleshoot audio glitches during playback since it accounts for other delays in synchronizing
and processing audio workloads beyond what the CPU meters report. It's normal for engine load to be higher than the average CPU
meter value shown.

Although I'm not convinced Workspaces are at the root of the problem you're experiencing, I recommend going here and Ctrl-F for "Workspace"

https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Reference Guide.pdf

Anyone who is actually beta-testing the forthcoming release (if it exists) almost certainly isn't allowed to post about it publicly... so take some of these posts with a grain of salt and a low-pass filter, if you haven't already figured this out 🙂

17 minutes ago, Joel Pixton said:

I didn't have to change the gate time values on my module

That's a relief, because that part of the manual was way out of my comfort zone. Long shot, it was.

Fantastic that you've solved your MIDI record problem. Now you can get back to actually making music.

On 5/1/2023 at 10:32 PM, kmcintyre said:

What I need to use CBB is a theme that is black on white (like 0x000000 on 0xFFFFFF).  An the fancy track coloring and shades of gray are lost on me

I get that you're looking for Black Text on White Background.. does this mean that the default Tungsten theme doesn't work for you? It is pretty good high-contrast, the only "problem" is that it is Bright-On-Dark. Is that out of the question for your visual impediment?

Just curious.

> Could I perform  a test with my computer keyboard acting as note duration triggers?

Not really - it wouldn't test the MIDI interface.

We have a very similar set up - I use an original Roland SPD-20 with a snare, kick and hi-hat pedal, driving AD2 via a Focusrite 6i6.

If we take away one of the DAW s you haven't chosen, does it make sense to switch to a different one?

I guess those isolated tracks are from the 5.1 DVD release? Interesting hearing the individual parts more clearly.

Give FLAT WHITE a try. It's not extreme contrast but might be close to what you need.

Now I have this urge to create an extreme contrast - but usable - theme. I wish I had more time!

Take a look at page 153 in the manual, and then see if your TD-8 brain has got a long gate time set. Experiment with changing the value (this could be per-pad):

Source: https://static.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/TD-8_OM.pdf

If that doesn't solve the problem try this:

• Start a new project, empty.
• Press record, hit  one pad once.
• after a couple bars, Stop recording.
• Take a look at the Event View. What do you see? Are Note Offs being filtered out somehow and not being received by Cakewalk?

What MIDI interface are you using? Is there a chance there's some filter?

Do you have any other controller, like a MIDI keyboard or something?

First, in the PRV, select from the menu Notes > [x]  Show durations in Drum Grid.

Secondly, when I record from my kit via a drum map to AD2, the midi events seem to have a default duration of somewhat less than a 1/16th note.

I can resize them all at the same time by selecting them and click-drag on the tail end of one note to resize all selected notes. So, conceivably you could resize the notes to be smaller, minimizing the chances of catching a tailing note in a loop. But I don't think you could eliminate it, and this might not be the best idea.

I'm not sure if there is a "default note size" when recording a midi track via a drum map. I don't *think* this would depend on the hardware? I use a Roland SPD-20, for what it's worth.

To be fair, Erik, you should probably take several "takes" from each DAW and compare them, because you might see differences FROM THE SAME DAW.