JoseC

Another thing: in case that your keyboard is not able to sync to external gear, like some home keyboards, next best option is looking if it is possible to download your sequencer midi data to the computer, and load your midi backing tracks in CbB. 

1 hour ago, casio3000 said:

Hi Jose 

No i did not setup midi clock and as i checked now the clock is set to Audio. Change it to midi sync ? how does this affect the quantize process ? what i do is i add midi tracks and set different channels for each track and then record each track changing the track number from keyboard

 

Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought that you are using tracks in an internal sequencer in your keyboard. If you do, you need to sync them with CbB:

- Set your keyboard to receive external midi clock. Most midi equipment with integrated sequencers will allow to do that.

- Set CbB to send Midi Clock/Start/Stop to the midi port where your keyboard is connected in Preferences/Project/MIdi

That way, both are using the same tempo and grid, and the keyboard's transport is slaved to Cakewalk's.  Depending on your tempo, 1/32 note is short enough to have troubles if both are not in sync and your backing tracks and CbB drift away in time. If they drift too much quantizing will not fix that easily.

That should be the first thing that you check, because it is what will mess your timing completely.  Once you are sure that everything is using the same tempo and grid, and is starting with a single transport, you can check if you somehow need to set a fixed offset for any reason, hardware latency, or whatever, like @Blogospherianman was saying above.

I have a screenset for a full screen Console, and I am using two monitors. I used to have screensets where the Multidocker was in the second monitor, because I did not like it that much either, but I have found that it is more ergonomic for me just to press D and keep looking at the same monitor than changing my point of view, so nowadays I am using the second monitor mainly to park plugins, VU meter, Big Time window, and such.

On 5/16/2020 at 11:31 PM, Mark Morgon-Shaw said:

Previous requests for a vector based GUI would allow this

I want to believe that the dev team is working on that. Noel said not long ago that this is no trivial task, though.

I am not sure, but I would agree with @David Baay that this looks like a sync problem. Are you sending midi clock to the keyboard while you play? How are you recording the backing tracks from the keyboard into Cakewalk?

You need to insert a new event in the Event List. Click on it to edit, the dialog box above appears. just change its kind and add the desired values. There is not much to it, just follow the directions in this link:

https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=EditingMIDI.49.html#1150999

I am not quite sure about your specific problem and about VST plugins and Sysex, but I am pretty sure that Cakewalk can route  sysex in realtime. As a matter of fact, Studioware panels are still supported, and they could use sysex to control external hardware in real time. Not sure about the possible limitations with VST plugins.

I bought Rapture Pro, but I almost never use it,  I tend to use Rapture. For some reason, I much prefer the interface, and I Dimension never really clicked with me.

On 5/15/2020 at 5:33 PM, winkpain said:

@marled

This more fluid zooming (like in Melodyne) did take a little getting used to. It can make you a little "sea sick" at first. But once I got used to it, it was like a switch flipped and it became second nature. You feel more "one with the machine", so to speak.

BUT, of course each person has their own preferred style. Both methods have their benefits. For sure making a quick, concise indexed jump to a precise point is necessary at times.  And for me a more fluid pan-and-zoom controlled with a single hand movement is the usually preferred way to hone in on something, especially something that you might not know exactly where it is but know the region.  After all, it's like the two-finger pinch/zoom and move that we've gotten so used to on touchscreens.

To have the choice, 'tho,  is the point here. Clearly the function is possible,so let's add it to the arsenal alongside Mouse Wheel zoom, Z/drag-select, Key bindings, etc.

Yes, that fluid but kind of shaky zooming is something I personally do not like.  I prefer drag selecting an area with the zoom tool and zooming in instantly. It would be enough for me they did fix that ALT-Z does not work in the PRV,  but of course  I am ok with having well implemented choices.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/dxgkrnlsys-and-tcpipsys-high-latency-in-windows-10/609f7b4e-63af-40f1-85b3-7dcc7452200c

I googled around a bit and it seems that your problem is not uncommon. I am no expert by any stretch, but just for experimenting I would disable the network card to see if it does any difference. I would also disable the HDMI audio driver. 

59 minutes ago, spacekid.90 said:

 

I would not like to control the Volca by Cakewalk for now. I'm glad the option exists though

Stupid question: what happens if I connect an audio cable from the  Volca's Out straight to the laptop's jack? 

 

 

You will want to be able to send midi clock and start/stop commands from Cakewalk to the Volca, in order to sync both.

Your laptop input is meant to be a microphone input. It will record the Volca, but it will most probably sound awful. 

On 1 de mayo de 2020 at 8:12 AM, Dave G said:

Thank you for the prompt response. 😊

I thought I saw this done somehow though. For example, I've seen video tutorials where an instrument track had several separate parts, each one with a label on top. How's that done? I'm surprised this isn't documented anywhere.

This function is to help visually identify different parts of the song, as opposed to all the notation in one long continuous track. That's what I want to do. Does this make sense?

Those "parts" are clips, and each can have a name, but the Piano Roll View will show them as a continuous  line. You can see them in the Track View as separate clips. There are several ways to (re)name them, like right clicking in a clip and choosing (!) "Rename clip", or in the Clip Properties in the Inspector...It is documented, not only in the online help but also there is a beefy .pdf manual (1,700+) pages, a.k.a. the Reference Guide. You might want to have a look at it.

52 minutes ago, Peter Hintze said:

Thanks Jose, but this all this does little what it is seen in the video. 

It zooms to the desired area, faster. It is of course different, because it zooms instantly. In the video each time he zooms he needs to zoom in and out a little and then center the area in the screen. With the zoom tool in CbB you just need to drag select a marquee and it zooms instantly to it, centering it in the screen. No "camera movements". 

You don´t really need to drag in the timeline in Cakewalk, either. Use the Zoom tool. Press Z, the cursor changes to a magnifying glass, like in the video. Drag select the area in the clips pane where you want to zoom to, and it will zoom to it until it fills your screen. Press ALT-Z and instantly go back to where you were before. If you drag select while keeping Z pressed, when you release it changes back to the previous tool, also. If not, you need to press Z again to let go of the Zoom tool. You can zoom in repeatedly this way, and if you want to go back, you also need to press repeatedly ALT-Z, which might be inconvenient, so what I do in that case is to press SHIFT -F so all the project fits on screen, and then zoom select the area where I want to go. I think this is a faster way to navigate than any other possible method. The only problem is that in the PRV the Zoom tool works, but ALT-Z does not.

Not new, but as zoom issues are being mentioned in this and other threads, just a reminder that the ALT-Z zoom undo command is not working in the PRV. You can zoom in with the Zoom tool (Z), but ALT-Z does not zoom out. It works fine in Track View.

16 hours ago, Helos Bonos said:

I might have to get into this habit.

BTW, if you press Z (and keep it pressed), cursor changes into a magnifying glass. If you drag select (with Z STILL pressed) the track area you want to zoom to, and you release Z, it will zoom instantly. You don't need to drag  in the time line, you drag over the area that you want to zoom to. The narrower the area selected, the closer it will zoom.  ALT-Z undoes. It works very well in Track View, but in Piano Roll ALT-Z does not work, so you must zoom out by other means.

40 minutes ago, Peter Hintze said:

I have a BCR, but use it only to control external Midi Hw,.. how did you set it up to control UI functions? @Heinz Hupfer

thx, Peter 

 

 

I am curious, too.  

Yes, I noticed that recently because I started to keep the Help window floating in a second monitor. 

Besides all that, it seems that there is some metronome related malfunction.

I was having strange interface behavior in a project I was working  in yesterday, like the browser opening too expanded horizontally expanded on project load, occupying half of the screen with the synth rack on top instead of at the bottom. Clicking Auto Zoom in the menu would result in all tracks expanding vertically to cover almost all the screen without having  clicked or resized any of them yet.  This project was created months ago. A new project seemed to behave correctly later. 

I am noticing certain instability with the new update. I had a crash to the desktop just after updating, after a while exploring the new features in a new project with just a couple of tracks loaded. With the transport stopped I held a chord in my keyboard and Cakewalk went poof. The Bandlab Assistant was still open, and I thought that maybe it had something to do with it. I had another crash yesterday, this time in the same project I mentioned above, but it managed to save all my work before.  Anyway, I think this update is great, and the Arranger Track is a very useful tool. I'll keep on working these days and see how it behaves.

When I set Auto Zoom with all tracks minimized and only one active, it expands all of them, instead of just one. 

On that Downloads page is this document:

https://www.zoom.co.jp/sites/default/files/products/downloads/pdfs/Issues_and_workarounds_about_DAW_software_R-Series.pdf

It only mentions FL Studio by name, but nevertheless...

Puedes verlos en la propia pista midi, abriendo el panel de controladores que hay en la vista de Piano Roll, (ALT+3) o en la Event List (ALT+8)

I was having this today in a Screenset, not locked. Close the browser, change Screenset to save state,  go back to the previous one and the browser was open again. I ended up floating the window and closing it for good.

By the way, notice that  if you set Snap to Ticks, you can cut your notes in almost any length.