Kev

Graphics cards can be a factor too. I have a 24-inch 1920x1200 screen that I have used with 2 different computers and ended up using different display settings for each. With one of them (with an Nvidia gaming card) I found it necessary to set the resolution to 1280x800, as text was often difficult to read at the native resolution. But on the other one (Matrox card) I found the native resolution acceptable.

On 11/19/2019 at 5:41 AM, Marc Harris said:

...native resolution of 3444 X 1440...everything looks too tiny! lol...

It could be worse still if you were using Digital Performer. In some sections of its GUI the text and objects are very tiny indeed. Some DP users complain about this a lot.

8 hours ago, JoseC said:

There is actually no need to click ALT. Just hover the cursor over the track´s header until it turns into a vertical double arrow and drag to reorder...

Right.  Sorry, I was thinking of Console View rather than Track View.

5 hours ago, Joe Dun said:

...Another item that would seem to be an easy task, is to change the order of tracks. The instructions say to drag it, but it doesn't work, regardless of where I click and drag.   I imagine there is some setting buried somewhere, that is preventing me from reordering things...

Hold down the ALT key while dragging.

On 11/9/2019 at 3:44 PM, Starship Krupa said:

...why someone would not want to connect their computer to the Internet, but I don't understand it at all...

If you rely on one single computer for all your computer needs, then yes you can't really manage without an internet connection. But it might be different if you have several computers for different uses. An internet connection is not necessarily available in 100% of situations. 2 examples:

• I used to take a laptop to work for onsite recording. I was not allowed to connect it to the staff network. It was an old laptop and did not have wifi. But I didn't need an internet connection anyway unless some software suddenly required a reactivation, which would have been very inconvenient.
• For a while, my current DAW PC was in a bad spot for receiving wifi and I had to run a 20-metre long ethernet cable along a corridor and across the lounge, etc. to a router. This was a trip hazard so I only connected it when absolutely necessary.

On 11/3/2019 at 7:58 AM, bitman said:

Yeah you would have thought the bakers would have seen the value of this and gave us a marker strip that is above or below the timeline. The shortcoming of this example is it will disappear as you scroll down far enough to hide strip 1 and it won't show up in the marker windows of the control panel which is how I navigate markers. But the select-a-section function is real cool so I'm going to have to try this.

Hey bakers. We want this.

 

A while ago I proposed a customizable timeline ruler, described here:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Offset-Mesure-One-m3097431.aspx#3098058

7 hours ago, chuckebaby said:

Ive heard that SSD drives wont last as long because of writing to disk but I've owned one for 4 years now and yet to see issue with it...

Me neither.  I have several of them in 3 different computers.  Also, nearly all of the networked PCs at my work rely on a single generic 128GB SSD.  I haven't seen or heard about any failures yet.

1 hour ago, mettelus said:

This is Motherboard dependent, so be sure to check this information as you build your machine. Typically one of them can be set to higher speeds (X2 or X4) at the expense of SATA III connections on the board...

Mine only allows one single m.2 drive and it uses the combined bandwidth of one PCIe slot plus a pair of SATA slots and rules out using those particular PCIe & SATA slots.  Some motherboards have as many as three m.2 slots, but using them all limits the bandwidth allocated to each.

1 hour ago, Leizer said:

...The big wait for me is on orchestra library samples and they will perhaps be a little quicker loading from a M.2 disc, not much else to do about it.

Multisamples are definitely better on an SSD, and better still an m.2 SSD.  Mine are on a 256GB m.2 drive.  The size that you need will depend on what samples you have.

EDIT
Sorry, I hadn't read your post about your samples.  1½TB is a lot.  I would probably split them and put the important (or most used) sample sets on the faster drive.

On 11/2/2019 at 10:36 AM, Leizer said:

..I thought of having CbB with project folder on the boot disc...

SSDs can have a longer life if you can reduce the overall amount of writing to disk. I would therefore keep project files off the system disk.  Project files are ok on a traditional hdd. You won't see any reduction in performance, aside from loading and saving projects being a bit slower.  I have one set of projects on a 128GB Samsung SSD and another set on a 128GB partition within a 2TB WD "black" hdd and I never notice any difference between the two.

On 10/25/2019 at 10:27 PM, Nigel Cassidy said:

...Does Cakewalk work ok on fairly old machines...

I've tested it on a PC that dates from 2010 (i7-950; 6GB RAM; WIndows 7) and it seemed to work ok.

I stayed with Sonar 7PE for a few years without any desire to change. The only thing that I hated in my workflow was the constant opening, closing and reconfiguring PRV, CV and other views.  I like to hop back and forth between edits of different parts of a project and this was always a bit inconvenient in the old version.  I used to wish that there was such a feature as Screensets, allowing me to switch between different view with a single mouse click, which would have solved this problem for me.  When I eventually discovered that there was such a feature in Sonar X2, I upgraded immediately.

Just now, noynekker said:

I've always done this by simply adding a volume automation on the master bus . . .

Me too.  And sometimes I want different instruments to fade out at different rates, so I put volume envelopes on several buses.

Try right-clicking on the +- buttons.

In the Edit menu under Select, there is a check-box option to Select Track Envelopes with Clips.

If your DAW computer doubles up as the "family PC", then I would definitely go for dual-boot.

I presume mean track folders. Try right-clicking in the track pane. Then Insert Track Folder from the popup menu.

4 hours ago, RBH said:

..64 gb  going to 128 gb memory ?  I can't really fathom that, I've never pushed my 12 gb over the hill...

Me neither, except on one occasion while when doing some video rendering. I have 16GB, which is more than adequate for sound production, but if I was planning to do more video work I would probably upgrade to 32GB. The OP did mention video editing, so that may be relevant here.

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On the old forum there would have been no need to ask this question. It was always displayed under the username.

On 8/9/2019 at 11:08 AM, Tezza said:

...I know that some VST instruments come with samples of 44.1 or 48k which is converted, don't know which is which though. Theoretically, if you use VST's with 48k samples then they should sound better if your project is 48k. But I don't know which is which...

I have never seen any multisamples belonging to a VSTi that are anything other than 44.1k. This includes DimPro, Rapture, Battery, SampleTank, etc.

15 hours ago, CosmicDolphin said:

3 yrs ! ..Can we listen to this Magnum opus   ?

14 hours ago, razor7music said:

You can, but it might take you a month to listen to it all! jk 😄

Take all the time you need, but 6¼ minutes should be sufficient.

It's a cover of Bowie's Space Oddity, but it also includes a load of scripted dialog representing mission control. I posted some details about it in the Songs forum a while back:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/m3775408.aspx

I was working on it alongside people with physical and mental disabilities. The purpose of the exercise was to involve as many people as possible who happened to be in the building at the time. Not everybody could sing or play an instrument, so spoken dialog seemed like a good way to include everyone.

It's on Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/slsoundpro/so7

My biggest ever project had 303 tracks in total. There would have been even more if not for some bouncing and merging along the way. But this did include some unused takes, unused 3rd-party midi tracks, guide tracks and failed experiments, all of which were eventually archived, but not deleted. The project was very complex and took over 3 years to complete.

I'm a fan of 2CAudio Aether. It's not cheap, but it's worth it. A trial is available if you want to check it out. Installation and authorization are simple and straightforward.
https://www.2caudio.com/products/aether/#_overview

This product has been around for a while. Here is a review of an early release:
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/2caudio-aether

I use Harrison Mixbus32C sometimes, just for a change. I've got Digital Performer too, but I've never really got to grips with it and it seems to have fallen out of use lately. I want to get back into it when I have more time to spare.

5 hours ago, craigb said:

It's an aspect of the phenomena, but (especially now) you're have also been subjected to a decent amount of suggestion and expectation.  One reason many things are tested using animals is that it excludes having the results "colored" (pun in-ten-did) by suggestion, expectation or the placebo effect.

 

Sure. Expectation can and does influence perception. But I was struck by the way that the people I know all became polarized into two groups in a way that seemed to be consistent with the left-right thing.

The image of the shoe has been posted on several sites and only a small minority of respondents have said that they see pink. I was curious to know whether posting it on a musicians' forum would yield a different result. That was my reason for posting it here.