Larry Jones

I hope no one takes upon themselves to decide which posts are valid or appropriate and which ones aren't.

I've never had a use for an audio-to-MIDI conversion, but because of reading this thread I dragged a bass track to an empty MIDI track, and it "worked," in the sense that it got all the way through the conversion and presented me with a MIDI track. But it also completely sucked. Note durations were off, ghost pickups were converted to quarter notes, and so on. I got a track, and with a couple of days of editing I might have been able to use it, but -- based on my one experiment -- this is not a very useful capability. Is anyone using this function successfully? (I have Melodyne Editor.)

Some of the most recent installers of SONAR permit you to choose what you want to install. In those cases, choose the bundled addons that you want/need. For older versions of the program you'll have to install the whole thing to get the plugins (sorry, can't tell you which ones). Cakewalk by Bandlab will be able to access and use any plugins installed these ways. As noted above, even a full installation of an earlier version doesn't take up too much space. Some of the plugins you mention were bundled with SONAR but not with CbB. So I vote for installing any of the earlier versions you have (or just the plugins when possible), followed by the latest version of CbB.

Thanks! In a year or two I'm sure I would have figured that out. 🙃

scook - Please take a look at it. Everything past page two is gone.

I thought the idea was to lock the old forum and keep it online as a "vital information resource." I just went there looking for a thread from a month or two ago, and the SONAR forum, which must have been hundreds if not thousands of pages, is now just two pages, going back about a month. Has all that information been moved somewhere safe, or is it now lost?

Just guessing, but I don't think MS invented a new codec for their Expression video. It must be something. Maybe you could download MediaInfo and check the file to see what it is. If it truly is a Microsoft proprietary format, I think you might be out of luck bringing it into CdB. ETA: I just googled "microsoft expression video." Is this a screen recorder?

I haven't tried with CbB, but in SONAR Platinum I was only able to import uncompressed AVI video. Theoretically you can import MP4 files. What video format is your file?

I think this ^^ makes it a bug that needs to be addressed by TTFKATB (the team formerly known as the bakers). 😉

Isn't there a bundled MIDI plugin with CbB called "Randomize" or something? Not at the DAW right now, but that might help you.

Thanks, Jim. Did you happen to look at the details in the link I posted? I went from 8.1 to 10, and didn't know at the time that I had any option to upgrade to a higher version of Windows. My impression now is that gpedit.msc is included in Windows 10 Home but disabled so casual users wouldn't mess up their systems. I don't understand that, as how many casual users would accidentally invoke it in the first place? My guess would be none. In any case I probably will never get around to using it for anything, as I'm not having serious problems with unexpected updates and I work privately on my own stuff, so no angry clients to worry about. I enabled it mainly to see if I could. Regarding "going legit," I have bought at least a dozen retail copies of Windows, so I feel like I am legit enough. 🙃

I used this method. No malware or PUPs, and now I have the Group Policy Editor on my Win 10 Home machine. Apparently, Microsoft doesn't approve of this and "deprecates" various policies from time to time, possibly including the exact one you'd like to use. But, it's cheaper than buying Win 10 Pro (it's free!), and it might work, and who cares what Microsoft thinks?

Thanks! I have X3. I'll look into this.

Just curious -- have you found a DAW that will do this?

I'm sure you will add a popup or something on the old forum, telling folks what's happening. I still see posts over there from people who seem as if they don't even know that Gibson shut down Cakewalk. (OK, maybe not that clueless, but not aware of the new forum and Cakewalk by Bandlab.)

I was a holdout in installing CbB, and kept using Platinum for several months. But once I did install it I noticed that only a few of my templates were displayed in the Start Screen. I had to manually move my custom templates into the correct folder. Not sure why CbB looked for templates in a different location than Platinum, but at least no templates were lost. OP: Find your cwt's and move them. Maybe check preferences in your old version of SONAR to see where they are.

I've tried this with YouTube and Soundcloud, and for both of them I just entered the URL of the video or clip, and boom! Embedded. I gather you're trying to do this with a song hosted on Bandlab? Sorry, can't help you there. But maybe if the song appears on a page with its own URL you could try that.

You succinctly addressed the problem. Unless a moderator imposes order by moving things around, restricting access, maybe deleting "irrelevant" posts, etc., "General" and Q&A" might as well be collapsed into one. Why debate something that "ain't gonna happen?" The people at Bandlab are smarter than that.

The grocery store where I get my fresh fruit and vegetables has rolls of green plastic bags for organic produce (which are a bit more expensive), and transparent plastic bags for conventionally grown produce. Customers ignore the color-coding, and the checkers have to look inside the bags to figure out what you're buying. I vote for one kind of bag at the supermarket, and one CbB forum for questions, answers and discussions. Same principle: No one will pay attention to this arbitrary "rule," so why complicate things if it won't make life better? How about dumping the Q&A board and adding one for hardware and third party software?

Signatures are important, for the reason cited above: If you're looking for help, folks will need to know what equipment and software you're using. I do object to sigs with large graphics and/or commercial messages. Really, just include a link to your website, Soundcloud page, Facebook or whatever. I'll click on it if I'm interested.

Great job, Kevin. I think I've heard this before -- if I haven't, it just shows it has a great hook, cuz it's familiar to me the first time through. I'm embarrassed to ask: is there a drummer on this? Drums sound great, human or machine. Classic rock'n'roll mix, everything in my face, but everything clear.

The old forum is a precious resource. Long may it live.

Thanks Dan! I think of it not as a 60s sound, but as a 1960 - 1963 sound. Phil Spector's wall of sound effect, which was great for about fifteen minutes, but wore out its welcome pretty quick. It happened mainly because Phil never met a musical instrument or echo chamber that he didn't want to include on his records. That was my operating philosophy on this one. 60 tracks and four echo chambers. It would have been bigger, but I ran out of time.😎

Hey Kevin! I had trouble singing this. I had a complete, comped "high-energy" vocal that would have worked well sunk back into the track, but I decided to go with a gentle, "sincere" vocal. In the end I just had to admit to myself that I'm not the singer I thought I was. Happy New Year!

Thanks you, Daryl. Your own productions are so good that I'm flattered that you listened.