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  1. Sorry... That would be "Let Me Be There", recorded by several artists but my fav was Olivia Newton John's recoding. Here's a Utube vid of her performing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UcTCYmoQTQ
  2. It's actually an oldies tune that I found a MIDI file for. My hobby is enjoying creating vocals around oldies songs, and modify the MIDI's to add dynamics and customizations using synths and audio plugins. Sorta my personal "karaoke" backing-tracks! I also use Band-In-A-Box to develop new backing track styles totally different from the original songs, especially with their thousands of available styles recorded using real musicians., and ability to completely customize the results. I believe the music jargon is creating "covers" for these songs. Being retired and single, I got way more time than money, so spend hours in my music studio tinkering with songs and vocals.
  3. Gentlemen... Thank you both for the help in reviewing my problem and providing a solution that I was unaware of! I guess sending this project file to Cakewalk Support would still be beneficial for them to check why Ripple Edit does not (appear) to work in shortening these generated Cakewalk generated tracks. Given the power of Ripple Edit, I can't be sure if it's something in my CW (or project) setup preventing RE from reducing the length of a track, my limited experience with using RE, or a possible quirk in Ripple Edit.
  4. Always possible that I am indeed doing something wrong. To be clear, although the overall problem related to the song not stopping until the end of the longest track, which was about 90 measures beyond the desired end of song, the specific problem I was referencing was deleting the end parts of a single track (which was generated by a CAL routine). When I would highlight a section at the end of the track, the EDIT menu had the Delete options grayed out. Doing the same process with Ripple Edit turned on, I highlighted the same section of the selected track, and went to the EDIT menu, which did not have the Delete options grayed out, but selecting Delete (or Delete Special) did not delete the highlighted section of the track. The highlight went way, but the track was the same length as before. I have taken this project, removed all the plugins and audio sections, and have it ready to send to Cakewalk Support. But before I do so, however, I will try doing the steps exactly as you list and see if the longest track(s) get reduced in total. I will try using both the Edit Menu option and also using the keyboard Delete key, since your steps didn't specify which. UPDATE: Tried this and could not get it to work. If that works for the song, I would still question, though, why a section at the end of a track, (noting that I did not create the track(s)), cannot be highlighted and deleted using either the EDIT Menu Delete option, or using the Ripple Edit option. Thank you for your suggested sequence of steps. Always trying to learn the correct (and best) ways to use Cakewalk. I also need to learn how to capture a video of a sequence of steps in Cakewalk to help others find the problem. UPDATE: I have attached a modified copy of the problem project. Took out all the audio, plugins, and left only the MIDI. If anyone has the time, you are welcome to load the file and try to shorten the tracks that go out to Measure 170. If you get it to work, Please send me the step-by-step workflo, including menu options. I am using the Cakewalk 2021.06 Build 041 (64-bit) to try but also didn't work for me in the previous production 2021 build. Cakewalk End-of-track Delete Prob.cwb
  5. Hi scook. Always appreciate your experienced guidance, but could you clarify what you mean by " now with 2021.06, drum maps are history for simple note naming." Are you suggesting using drum maps instead of the CAL routine, or that drum maps, as well as the CAL routine, are no longer needed with new features of Cakewalk, given my desired goal is to use different audio FX plugins on certain percussion parts?
  6. I will submit it, if for no other reason than to see if it might be an odd bug. Ripple edit always works for me on other tracks that I created or recorded, but these tracks were created by the CAL split drum track into individual part tracks, and normally this routine ends the track at the same point the drum track ended. How it happened is not the real issue, though, I'm just frustrated that I can't highlight the end part of the track and use standard edit features to delete. When using Ripple Edit, at least the EDIT menu has the Delete options not grayed out, but doing the delete doesn't appear to work. Basic question is why the EDIT menu delete options are grayed out when any section at the end of these tracks is highlighted/selected.
  7. I can see the where the track ends and the end marker is the 4 hyphen doohickey symbol. The underlying problem is that when selecting the "blank space" at the end of the track, the EDIT menu has the DELETE options grayed out, so it's not recognizing the selected area. Ripple Edit on the blank space does have the EDIT menu DELETE options not grayed out, but choosing DELETE does not get rid of the blank space to the end of the track. Seems like there has to be a simple way to do it, and hoped the forum readers would offer the solution. But if no solution in another day or so, then I will forward a note to tech support on the issue. Could be a "bug".
  8. Tried to find help in forum answers or in the docs but no luck. If it's there somewhere, appreciate a link. Having a problem reducing the length of a track to eliminate unused part at the end. After using the CAL routine to split a MIDI drum track into each sound on seperate tracks, I wound up with several tracks that extended out atound 70 bars longer than the project end. I tried the standard mouse highlighting and doing the Edit Menu "Delete" but that is grayed out. Tried Ripple Edit Selection as well as Ripple Edit All, doing the same mouse highlighting, which the Edit Menu then has the Delete option not grayed out, but neither option eliminated the unused portion on a track. At the end of the track there appears the standard 4-hyphen end of bar marker, but could not figure out a way to grab that marker and drag it. My problem is that even when I set the green tabs length setting in the top bar marker area to the length I want to export to a Wav file, the Export option ignores that and records to the end of the longest track, which requires me to edit the audio file to shorten the overall length, but since this is a work-in-process project, it's a nuisance to do so after every export. Appreciate any tips, as I never had to "shorten" tracks before, only to delete end parts of content on the tracks. This has gotta be pretty simple, but obviously I'm getting senile and missing it!
  9. Reference Guide PDF now available [Updated 20-May-2021] Does this mean there is a an updated version of the 2021 Manual dated May 20, 2021? The version number listed is 27.04.00
  10. I agree for most basic MIDI drum tracks that come with free MIDI files, the copy/drag would work. The unique persussion notes, especially in latin styles, are the tough ones since you have to scroll across the song in PR view to find which notes are active and then do the same drag process. I support Cakewalk's keeping the Run CAL option available and supported.
  11. I often use the Run CAL script to "Split notes into seperate tracks" on MIDI drum tracks. The split works well, but I then have to go thru several steps to then find out which drum note corresponds to which percussion insrument as the track names are not consistently correct. Most of the issues are with the specialized percussion instruments like claves, cowbells, and latin special types. As scook has noted in the above reply, I wondered if there also is an "alternate" solution available to change a mixed MIDI drum track into sperate tracks??
  12. Trying to cleanup Cakewalk-related files which are located in several places on my C:\ drive. My Cakewalk system files appear in two locations, maybe one of the locations is a remnant of Sonar days. c:\Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Core\xxx c:\Users\Chuck\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk Core\xxx There are different subfolders in each of these locations, so I'd like to sync them and change my Cakewalk "Preferences" menu locations to point to just one location. Which of these locations is the preferred one to consolidate my Cakewalk files?
  13. Same here. Would note that after one of the recent recent minor Win10 upgrades, when I opened Cakewalk it had ASIO4ALL drivers showing in Options. I switched it back to the UMC404 ASIO drivers and all continues to work fine. Just pointing out that there may have been some "glitch" in recent minor upgrades from Microsoft that impacted Cakewalk, but for me not worth the time to figure it out and easy to remedy.
  14. Folks... several of us have brought up the "Project End" issue over time, for which allowing the setting of a Marker to indicate the Project End woulod be all that is needed. It seems like a fairly simple programminmg change, or a maintenance fix, since checking the "Stop at project end" box works inconsistently. lapasoa ... I commend your persistence. Hoping one of the tech folks at Bandlab can provide whether such a "Project Marker" addition is very complex or problematic, or agree that the Project End checkbox is not working correctly and agree to add it the list of "bugs" or on the enhancement list. I know I reported it as a "bug" two years ago, and in the various threads on this issue, adding the marker should also be on the enhancements list. Scook ... I understand your bias, just feel differently, but am continually thankful for your various workaround suggestions! Enough said... will continue living with the problem and enjoying all else Cakewalk offers me!
  15. @Colin Nicholls, @Starship Krupa The good news is I learned two ways to move bars across all tracks! Thank you guys for the help!!! Report post
  16. Colin Nicholls... Thanks for the suggestion, but I can't get that to work, so I must be missing something. I set the cursor to the "Move" icon; Enable Ripple Edit All using the Track-Options menu pulldown; Grab the left-most part of the first track and move it to the selected bar. Only the first track is showing being moved, all other tracks show no move. I opened the CW documentation which didn't add any additional guidance, basically what you said to do. I tried doing the above with Ripple Edit Selection too, no difference. UPDATE: All tracks moved correctly after I selected all the tracks! So with no tracks selected only the track in focus moved, but by selecting all the tracks they correctly all showed a move of two bars. Not sure if it's supposed to work that way, but I easily changed all tracks.
  17. Marcello.... I only have Ozone 9 Elements, but the Imager is included. Some of your questions are of interest to me, as I typically only use Ozone 9 on vocal tracks and at the Mix level, so i basically play around with the sliders till it "sounds" best to me. Please continue to post your findings as to the "right" approach to using the Ozone Imager, as they could be useful to know. BTW... are you the same Marcello that posts on the Cantabile forum?
  18. I have some older projects that start on Bar 01 Beat01. What is the best, easiest, or recommended way to move all tracks (including "takes") exactly two bars from the beginning of each track?
  19. Scook... Thanks for the prompt response. Maybe I'm having a different problem. I used the Drum Map in this project to alter the volumes of several drums. What happens is that as long as that drum track has Output= Cakewalk TTS it will play correctly and will bounce to a new track. However, once I change the Output to "DM1", the drum track plays okay, but when I try to bounce a set of tracks, the drum trach set to DM1 gets ignored in the mix. If I try to bounce just the Drums Track I get the error that says there is not Audio in the track. So I reached the conclusion that the problem was setting the Output to DM1 and the Input as Virtual Controller, which works fine as a MIDI track but won't bounce. Thought it might be an easy fix, but not worth the effort to make the Drum Map work like I hoped, since I really won't be using on other projects. I will simply use the regular drum track and not worry about the volume changes. Appreciate your help though.
  20. Hi Scook... I found this post from you through a search and I have the exact problem of wanting to bounce a drum track that uses a Drum Map. I've watched this short video several times but I'm not understanding something and have not been successful getting to the same end result you show. My question: Is the goal here to create two linked tracks, or to modify one track? I can easily do the first step to temporarily remove the Drum Map, but if I stay in that track and use the pull-down menu to "Make an instrument Track", that option is grayed out. So I made a new Instrument Track and put Cakewalk TTS as the output. That gives me two tracks, the MIDI Drums track with "Virtual Controller" as the Input and DM1 as the Output; and a second Instrument Track but I don't know what the Input should be since DM1 is not an option. Would you please help me out with more detailed guidance on how this should work with the end result being a Drum Track that I can bounce to Audio?
  21. Hey Max... I just started getting the 05 error myself (again). A few months back I fixed it by doing a Waves "repair" option as suggested on this forum which worked, but did not work yesterday when I tried that. Was just about to report the problem to Waves Support, but sounds like you already did that and they issues you a patch/fix to install? Do you recall the Waves tech support name that handled your issue? It might save a step if I direct a message straight to him. Like you, it only affects certain projects, so I can work on other projects, but good to know Waves solved your issue (and hopefully will do so with mine as well)!
  22. Yes, your last sentence is the real issue, "The project will play on in silence ad infinitum." There is nothing beyond the actual project endpoint. The only recourse is you have to be at the monitor to hit the spacebar to stop Cakewalk from playing on. As mentioned by several commentors, a lack of being able to insert an "Endpoint" is a true nuisance problem, and hopefully Cakewalk tech folks will figure out a simple way to include it on a future release.
  23. You may want to also review this earlier thread. Answer seems to be that there is no way to "force" a project end marker into a project. A couple of workarounds have been used but when a project doesn't end and keeps going ad infinitum, Cakewalk needs to develop an "Insert Project End" marker. https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/25072-audio-tracks-not-stopping-at-project-end/
  24. Yes, exactly. Last year, I was told Cakewalk development would consider the change for future releases, but I hadn't seen any references to the problem in the updates released by Cakewalk, so I posted the question on this forum, in case I missed a change. Seems like a fairly simple change... place a marker on the "ruler" and end the project when it reaches that point. Ah well....
  25. Hi Lynn... If there is a way to insert a MIDI note into an Audio track, I am unaware of how to do that.
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