Colin Nicholls

I don't think such a setting exists. You're better off bouncing the MIDI Bass track to a new audio track and muting the original (just what we used to do before we had FREEZE) if you're going to move audio around.

1 hour ago, Toddskins said:

1a) Is reverb (or delay) supposed to be used at the end of the chain, i.e. Master Buss, so as to create a single atmosphere for everything, or can you use different reverbs with different amounts on various tracks? 

1b) If different reverbs and amounts are used, does that cause the end result "atmosphere" to be kinda improper, like competing room atmospheres???

1c) What if each individual instrument track "needs" it's own program reverb to get the sound you like when using it solo -- can you use the instrument the way you like it best (i.e. with added reverb), or should you turn off the reverb of all the instruments, so that you can then add it in at the end of the chain once and have everything sound like it was recorded in one room all at the same time?

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2a) Let's say I have 3 vocal background singers (or one person recorded 3x) and I wish to add reverb.  Should those 3 vocals be routed to a submix, and then apply a single reverb plugin to that submix, or use the reverb plugin on each of those 3 tracks (via the Fx Bin)?  Is one or the other advised for some reason?

2b) Does using the Reverb plugin 3 times for 3 tracks use up more CPU than using it one time on the submix of the 3 vocals?

Not a pro, but I'll give it a shot.

1a) "Supposed" and "creativity" are probably mutually exclusive. You could make interesting music either way! Experiment!
1a) That said, the real answer is, "it depends". Reverb can be an FX to colour a specific instrument track; or it could be used to place the final mix in a 3D space.
1a) That said, Warren speaks the truth when he says we over-use Reverb. A good experiment is to take a "final" mix and click on the "disable FX" button and gasp at how much better the project sounds.

1b) Not always but often, yes. Most likely the project sounds "muddy" and you don't know why because everything sounds good when you solo it.
1b) That said, I have often used individual track reverb instances with tailored settings... but see (1a) above.

1c) Invalid. You're asking about creating a mix ,  not listening to solo tracks.  If you concentrate on "getting the sound you like" on solo'd tracks, by definition you're not creating a mix. But see (1b) above.

2a) Route the tracks to a submix and apply a single Reverb FX instance to that.

2b) Yes.

Forgive me for linking to a blog post, but I've written up a little case study on using an Aux track to handle automating FX level for multiple tracks using a single envelope.

I hope someone out there finds it useful.

The Prodigal Sounds Blog - Another Way to skin an FX Send

Happy July 4th, folks.

I'd been using a theme called "Polar Blue (SteveC)" originally created for SONAR Platinum and posted on the old forums by Steve Cocchi. I liked it very much, apart from one or two minor things that I have altered. It also needed one or two changes to bring it up to date for Cakewalk By Bandlab, mostly logos and performance meters.

I reached out to Steve, and with his blessing I am making my updates to "Polar Blue" available to the forum.

Please note that everything that is good about this theme was put there by Steve Cocchi. There are quite a few subtle things in the theme that you might not notice at first, but I think are an improvement.

Enjoy!

Updated 2021-12-18
Changes: No actual image changes, but re-saved to prevent the "Compatibility Warning" message for 2021.12 release.

Updated 2021-04-16
Changes: No actual image changes, but re-saved to prevent the "Compatibility Warning" message for 2021.04 release.

Updated 2021-01-15

Control Bar Select Module

Updated 2020-09-20

Changes: Support for Markers view Lock indicator icon, missing since 2020.04

Updated 2020-04-11
Changes: Support for Inspector Tabs and Arrangement Play for 2020.04 release

GET IT HERE: Polar_Blue.zip

Earlier versions:

Updated 2019-09-08
Changes: Improved contrast in Export control module; subtle color tweaks for clarity; consistent track header icons; tweaked Show Take Lanes icons; simplified "edit" icons in Piano Roll View track list; miscellaneous other minor fixes and adjustments.

Updated 2019-07-22
Changes: Now with support for Export control module; New transport buttons; improved  icons for zoom; new icons for audio engine and MIDI panic; ruler background color.

@scook to the rescue, as ever! Thanks, much better solution. Glad to help out in a small way.

MIDI tracks have a "channel" attribute (dropdown) that you can set from the default "none" to a specific channel, after which all notes will be output on that channel regardless of the channel they were recorded from.

See: Reference Manual

Edit: Sorry, I didn't read your question thoroughly enough. This may not help you if you want to direct the MIDI notes to a VST that is already loaded on another track.

I'll have to think about this. You can't "bounce" a MIDI track into a new track to get the channel change to be written out along with the data... A CAL script could probably do it but that is getting complicated.

13 hours ago, Starlandsound said:

Hey guys thanks for all the info, [..] im on my way now, thanks!

 

ooh, looking forward to that one...

>> Do you know if there is a way to select a group of tracks to use this function with only the selected tracks?

I normally select the tracks I want to resize, then grab the border of one of them and Shift-Drag. When I release the mouse button, all of the selected tracks resize to match.

I admire your artistic efforts, Matthew. Kudos!

For me, however, having active but un-selected widgets merge with the background in an "icon only" form is not a good UI choice, and I won't be using this one.

Ooo, intriguing! I'm currently rocking Polar Blue which is a similar light theme, but I'll definitely give Titanium a whirl. 

Thanks, Matthew!

Record Mode Sound on Sound? 

Refer to https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=Recording.24.html

It's a small thing... but I would love to be able to customize the color of the cells in the color picker window that is displayed when the user presses the color marker against a track (or anywhere else the color palette is displayed).

Ideally the choices should be persisted between projects (just like a user's choice of Theme or Colors from Edit->Preferences).

A nice-to-have would be to be able to save and load palette selections from a file... but I'd be overjoyed with just being able to customize the default colors in cakewalk.ini or similar.

It would be nice to be able to groove-clip enable a clip that is one 7/8 bar in length, instead of having to double its length (record it twice) so that you can give it a "beats in clip" value of a non-fractional number of quarter notes (7) . But I suppose that's life.

Nice work! Obviously a lot of thought has been put into these themes. Well done!

1.2, Very nice

+1

I found the utility invaluable when identifying which ports were connected to which internal hub device so I could isolate my USB Audio interface to a dedicated hub, for max performance.

Try the "Feedback Loop" forum on this site.

Is it just scrolling off-screen, or is it genuinely not visible even when  "now" is in view?

Sounds like Ripple Editing is engaged. Caveat: I don't use Ripple Editing so I could be wrong about this.

21 hours ago, Pathfinder said:

So we used to be able to go to app data etc, etc and save the "exe" locally. 

That seems to not be the case anymore.

This changed a couple of versions ago - the download is now a "delta" from the currently installed previously version, and it doesn't download the full installer unless you are >2 versions out of date (I think?)
 

I would love to send a MIDI track to multiple instruments (VST or external). I know you can duplicate a track easily enough but then you have an editing problem keeping them synchronized.

I suspect this requires the concept of "patch points" or AUX tracks for MIDI - you'd create a new patch destination for your MIDI track, then select it as an input for two or more MIDI or Instrument tracks.

I guess you'd need to prevent a MIDI track from both sending and receiving from the same PatchPoint/AUX track.

On 1/22/2019 at 10:34 PM, Daryl L. Samuel said:

I vote to hide it altogether and back it into the right-click menu of the track pane.

If I recall correctly, this color picker button area was added when the "Tungsten" theme was added - and did not support color tinting in the Track View. So there needed to be an area that displayed the color.

This is still a neat feature. For those of us that don't use tinted panels, having the color visible is still good to have - obviously useful. I'm not a fan of the gradient myself, but the visible region should not be removed without an option to display it.

I agree about the right-click context menu option - at this point my brain is basically hard-wired to go to the context menu to look for actions such as color selection.

Feel free to post a mock-up, Daryl. Perhaps one of the bakers will see it and be inspired.

Well, OK then. Thanks for clarifying :-)

I think the folder locations in Bandlab Assistant > Settings might be reversed.

The "System Folder" appears to be the download location, and the "Download Folder" seems to be pointing to the system folder, with a "Sounds" subdirectory.

This is in Assistant 5.0.2