JoseC

I would say you can. Right click in a cell and you can unfollow global and set specific trigger conditions for that cell.

Surprised to find out that WordPerfect still exists. 

4 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

I'm 100% with you on that. One wonders how some people obtain plug-ins if they are so adverse to connecting to the internet.

Having said that, while grumbling about the need to download and/or use a download manager to get the software is olde tyme, complaints about the bugginess and unfriendliness of a given download manager are entirely fair game. The Bandlab Assistant, which is not developed by the same team as Cakewalk, has not been the smoothest ride.

Having said that, the slowness or unreliability of downloads via a manager may in some/most cases not have anything to do with the download manager itself, but rather the servers on the other end. There's no guarantee that a "direct" download would be any faster or more reliable.

Of course, if the manager is not working smoothly complaints are justified. I may have been lucky, but I haven't had much problem with Bandlab Assistant, or any other manager, for that matter. I have a pretty fast broadband connection, don't know whether that makes a difference or not, but this is a non issue here. 

42 minutes ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

But it still is required for downloading CbB.

Well, most software nowadays requires some kind of assistant. Native Instruments, or Arturia come to mind for example. CbB at least updates directly once installed, and does not require the Bandlab Assistant anymore. Complaining about this is becoming very 20th century.

3 hours ago, lapasoa said:

If you write in english language everybody can know your issues.

Well, CbB is a multilanguage software, Spanish being one of the languages available. Since there is no Spanish only forum, I guess writing in that language here is the only way to  go for people who do not speak English. This time  I was able to solve his problem and there are other Spanish speaking users around that might have helped, too, so he did right trying.

De nada 

Parece que has insertado un cambio a 2/4 en el compás 11. Si tienes el programa en español, abre Ventanas/Medidor Tono y lo podrás eliminar ahí. Si lo tienes en inglés, está en Views/Meter Key.

29 minutes ago, Jaime Ramírez said:

The Slate plugin "Verbsuite" have a search bar, I cannot type in the search bar, instead when a type, cakewalk apply the keaboard shortcuts. For example, I click the search bar to type and type the "D" letter and open de Multidock of cakewalk, type letter "E" bypass plugin instead write in the search bar. Sorry with my little english.. 

Tienes un botón con un teclado de PC en la esquina superior derecha  de la ventana de todos los plugins. Sirve para que CbB pase los comandos de teclado al plugin.

Interesting work. Why didn´t you use -127 to +127? I do not really get why use the scale used for audio,, that is logarithmic, instead of midi values, that are a linear scale. 

1 hour ago, John Kalabric said:

And that's exactly what i was thinking. however, as i said above, I read the MIDI specs and the soundfont specs (which was the patch i was using), and they both explicitly document that CC11 ONLY changes the volume. And as the SoundFont spec details so, the engine would/should not have a mapping of CC11 to pitch or the LFO depth. It has been a while since I have made my own soundfonts with something like Vienna to check if that is the case when creating a patch.

I tested a few existing string/orchestral patches I had as SoundFonts, and they did not respond to CC11 with anything but volume. 

Yes, Expression is only volume, nothing else. If you map it to the Mod Wheel, you should take care that no other parameter is mapped. The most common use for the wheel is vibrato, so it could be that both Vibrato and Expression  become mapped to it at the same time. 

12 hours ago, John Kalabric said:

Ok, so I have two things I need to say.

1. SORRY!  and for what I am sorry, about, see point 2.

2. I was WRONG regarding expression not being a kind of volume control. I did an actual check of the MIDI specs and Soundfont specs, and it IS an adjustment of ONLY volume. The volume (CC7) sets the maximum value for volume, and expression (CC11) is for the adjustment from 0 and up to the max volume set by CC7.

I thought otherwise because an old CWP I opened that used CC11 to fade out near the end on a strings track, had some extreme vibrato that wasn't there originally. I thought that maybe the old VSTi I used to load/play the soundfont did not respect vibrato on expression. In hind sight, maybe it was actually a delayed vibrato on the patch. After reading the specs, I went back and tested the VSTi with other patches, and there was no vibrato added with CC11. So, sorry about all that, my bad. I will go back and mark those statements as incorrect in my old posts (I will simply leave them in, but strike them out to keep the logic in the flow). The other thing I learnt reading the specs, is that CC11 is actually the course control, and there is another one for fine control (CC43) to enable 128 different levels between each of the 128 levels of CC11. No-one uses or even supports it, as it really becomes theoretical to be able to hear the volume adjustments down to that detail.

Even though this re-enables my ability to control track volume (now that I know CC11 operates how I though it did a week ago), I still think for all the other reason above, that mapping track Gain on a MIDI channel to velocity, is far from optimal.

Regarding the above questions by User 905133, I will answer these a little later, possibly with diagrams!, I have a few things I need to sort in the physical world first.

I don´t make orchestral music, but I believe that the common practice with orchestral sample libraries is mapping CC11 to the Mod Wheel and use it to ride expression as you play your midi controller.

I have an iPad with Lemur and TouchOSC, plus a Contour ShuttlePro2, but for transport I end up using only the PC keyboard. 

23 hours ago, Nic Chancellor said:

This software belongs in the dark ages with no definitive answer to dozens of the same complaints that the installer is not installing and not even a download indicator to see any progress while we are tortured with waiting over and over for hours on end for an installer that doesn't install...!

Dozens? Where? "Dozens" would mean at least 24 people, wouldn´t it? 🙄

Press Z to select the Zoom tool. Lasso select the area you want to zoom to. Done. Press Z again to unselect the tool. ALT -Z to undo zoom. OR keep Z pressed while you lasso select to temporarily select the Zoom Tool.

17 hours ago, scook said:

These plug-ins were bundled with every version of SONAR starting with 8.5 through to Platinum (including X3). They were first bundled with Project 5.

 

Are thy exactly the same, or have they been updated somehow? I already had them.

14 minutes ago, Roland-Music said:

Thanks, this CALs was for repeat notes to end,  and better some transpose functions from the download page.

You can't select with this all lowest or highest notes from a Track in the PianoRoll (this is needed to select from Chord Notes for creating a baseline, etc.)

Try these.

SelectBass.cal SelectMelody.cal

On 6/30/2020 at 6:04 PM, Roland-Music said:

 

The Note Selection  is something bad, no lowest, highest Note, no Length, etc.

 

You can do much from  Process>Find/Change. 

On 6/14/2020 at 6:24 PM, Roland-Music said:

 

I found some Scripts here, which put transpose Semitones with  CAL Scripts to NUM-PAD 2 and 8 - sorry, no construction kit at this basic level, this functions should work as default like in all other Top 5 DAW's (Logic X, Cubase, PRO Tools, Studio One, etc,). It's a show stopper for me.

 

 

Moving notes up and down with the Num pad 8 and 2 keys works by default and have nothing to do with CAL scripts. And if you press CTL+8 or CTL +2 you move them by octaves. 

I was recently going crazy about something similar, messing with all the latency and sync  options to try to fix it, until I found out that my problem got something to do with having the audio metronome set with a count in. Worth a try.

On 22 de junio de 2020 at 12:03 AM, Dave G said:

 

2) I fail to understand why the Synth Rack works (or doesn't) the way it does. What would cause it to not correspond to my number of Tracks synths present?

 

The synth rack works more or less how a rack of hardware synths would. Synths are not depending on tracks at all, same as you can have an available hardware synth and not have it connected to the mixer until you need it. I find it very flexible that I can record midi data in a track pointing to a hardware synth and then change the output to a software synth in the rack to try other sound,  edit  the patch, then add another synth to the rack to try with the same notes  while keeping the other synth with its edited sound, instead of using replace to completely discard the instrument and the edits. Besides, the Synth Rack is where the assignable controls are, like @Astra-Ios points out above.

1 hour ago, Prod.Lostboy Neverlands said:

And if we just find people here in the community to make a sampler vst?

The generally suggested freeware sampler is Sitala

On 17 de mayo de 2019 at 1:21 AM, Noel Borthwick said:

Yes there are plans for MIDI. Taking raw MIDI across is relatively easy but clearly preserving any sonic compatibility if the MIDI is triggering synths is problematic since BandLab has built in instruments and in CbB you could be running any number of VST instruments.

Ableton Live Clips save all the instruments and FX chain, and can be even previewed from the browser without loading them first. They are practically track templates with included data. 

2 minutes ago, jimlynch22 said:

That's it, Very cool!!  I've never looked at CALs.  There is fertile ground for plowing through.  I'm really glad I posted my wish list, I'm learning so much. Thanks.

Notice that you can open them in Notepad to read how to use them. 

6 minutes ago, jimlynch22 said:

3 Inverting C, D, E in tge key of C gives you C, A#, C#.

Transform.cal turns C3 D3 E3 F3 G3 A3 B3 C4 into C3 A#2 G#2 G2 F2 D#2 C#2 C2

1 minute ago, jimlynch22 said:

Nope.  Retrograde simply reverses the order of the notes, left to right.  A melody is inverted by flipping it  upside-down.   For example,  Performing Retrograde on  C, D, E gives you E, D, C.   Inverting C, D, E in tge key of C gives you C, A#, C#.

Ummm...the Transform CAL script then, I think