freddie_tane

As a feature request, to have an option to store a Mix Scene as a Global Mix Scene. Then within any project we could select and load a Global Mix Scene. An intermediary mapping screen could be used to match the stored Mix Scene's tracks to the current project's tracks.

Wow, that was a fast proof that plugins on Master, Drum and Vocals busses were the culprit! Note to self: During tracking, don't need all the plug-ins that would be used for mixing/mastering ! Thanks again CW forum folks!

Great advice, much appreciated -- have a couple hours "free" tonite to try your suggestions and will let you know! Thank you.

Start Recording on 1 armed track, immediately get a Loud Pop, The Output Meters are Pinned and the Transport is rolling but Recording didn't start! Press stop, the meters are still pinned and when I turn up the speaker system, there is some unusual signal present like a very low frequency and noise. Press play, sometimes the signal will stop. Sometimes not, so have to exit Cakewalk. Going to check these areas, but any other suggestions greatly appreciated: reinstall of soundcard (Behringer x32) drivers Latency/Buffer settings too low in CW Will look at removing some PC system level optimizations from Windows 10. Though the problem pre-existed, have just upgraded to Windows 11 , so may check these areas again: Control Panel: disable system sounds // Sound Panel - Sounds to "No Sounds" Power Options // = High Performance setting // display off = never // sleep == never System // ADvanced System Settings // Performance / Settings / Advanced tab / choose Background Services Adjust USB Suspend Settings // Parts 1 & 2: Part 1: Power Options // Change Plan Settings / Change Advanced Power settings / USB Settings / "Disabled" Part 2: Device Manager // USB Bus Controllers / on each, Pwer mgmt make sure the "Allow computer to turn off" is NOT CHECKED Disable background processes Settings / Privacy / Background Apps / Turn off un-wanted/un-needed Update Process Priority and CPU Affinity for Windows Audio Control Service Probably others, but again, any ideas on where to check would be appreciated.

hi Forum Folk - I've used Sonar, now CbB, for many years, very handy with using the computer keyboard for navigation (moving from marker to marker with the CTL+Shift+PgUp/PgDown, and have always preferred the ability to engage/disengage record mode with the R key, play & stop with spacebar, and of course to setup KeyBindings. Having ventured into the world of control surfaces, with the Mackie MCU Pro - it's setup as a Control Surface, and the transport works fine, but how can I find guidance (or program into the MCU) to the equivalents? Especially work-alikes to the computer keyboard's transport functionalities for moving from marker to marker? Also, is there an MCU equivalent to how the Cakewalk R key works? In other words, press R and the transport both engages Record and begins to roll, press R again and the transport disengages Record but continues to roll. Lastly, another question related to MCU transport - I have it attached to the PC via USB, so that is MIDI Port #1, therefore surely it must be sending MIDI messages into Cakewalk. Does it also send those same transport messages out on the MIDI Ports #2,3,4 ? I've seen references to a chart of the Mackie protocol MIDI note messages that are sent on Channel 1 ( Play = A#6 127 , Record = B6 127) -- are those transport messages transmitted by MCU on Channel 1 and output on its MIDI Ports #2,3,4 ? Thanks for any advise , resource info, and so on!

hi Mark - Thanks for your detailed reply! I appreciate the advise - I had come across AZController but was a bit hesitant as you say the setup is not "one-button" - however, if the end result is as-needed, I will dive in. Writing my own in C# is not at all within my skill set - I'm a guitarist/keyboardist/singer/songwriter, so the only C# I know about is the key of C# 🙂 Could you clarify a bit about AZ and MIDI messages - if I download the control surface .dll and get it to appear in the dropdown of Cakewalk's Control Surface types, then attach it's MIDI ports to the StreamDeck hardware/software, the StreamDeck's "MIDI Plugin" allows sending/receiving MIDI messages on those ports - what are the MIDI messages? Are they what is configured in Cakewalk's Key Bindings? Or is it the Play/Record/Stop messages as defined in MMC ? And, how do I find out what MIDI messages being used by the Cakewalk "R" key so I can replicate the "punch-in/out" behavior I described? Or, and if I get time to RTFM, the AZ documentation will explain how to do this? Thanks!

hi Forum folks - Are the options discussed on this thread relevant to my post:

Transport commands via sysex - which Control Surface to use? Or are there other Cakewalk-supported drivers available? I'm using the latest available Cakewalk by Bandlab version and have to assume that has the latest Transport drivers. I don't want to use the Mackie because some of their behavior is problematic - for example, compared to using the computer keyboard, first press of "R" begins recording and transport is rolling, the next press, recording disengages but transport continues rolling (like a punch-in / punch-out would). With the Mackie protocol through the built-in control surface choices, yes, the first message begins recording, the transport rolls. However, when the second message of record, recording is disengaged, but ... the transport stops !! My Control Surface is the Elgato StreamDeck, which has a MIDI plugin that uses the Mackie protocol, but also offers Sysex, Note#, CC#, so I was hoping that I could build a transport set of Sysex commands. The plugin can send keystrokes, so I currently have it send "R", but that only works when Cakewalk app has foreground focus.