puddy

16 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

 

I want to find out; what happened to the promise that Cakewalk by Bandlab would stay/remain free?? Looking at the conversations in this forum, it appears that most of the members are quick to forget or might be having some sort of amnesia;  there was a clear communication from the owner of the company, which I do not have to repeat. I am however seeing that those that have queries in this regard are seen as being 'free loaders', etc. This does not have to be so.  Did the owner come back and announce a change of plan?  Some people are expecting a free Cakewalk software, not because  they are freeloaders, but because it was promised. I would like to see an announcement that Cakewalk by Bandland has stopped being free.

Thank you.

its puddy

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45 minutes ago, Bapu said:

I mean DUH!

 

Installed!

 

I love this guy!

18 minutes ago, puddy said:

You seem to be here because you want to debate the layout of the program with a group of people whom you know to be dedicated users. This may not be the best place to begin ridding the Internet of hypocrisy and den

No ... my stance was to support someone  who saw some shortcomings with the user interface... of which are glaring... otherwise  i like the program//software.

thank you

19 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

Ohhh, I see now. There's a disconnect.

Most of the people who posted replies are trying to help the OP make better use of the program, whether we agree with him or not. Not trying to make any points about whether Cakewalk is an inherently well-designed program or whatever. For the most part, it works well for me. I have no need to defend it.

I myself would like to be able to free up the space taken up by the closed Arranger, Tempo Track, and Video Thumbnails when a project isn't using them. At this point, I can't, not even with a custom workspace. If it were that important to me, I'd get around to making a feature request. But it's not, not even on my 14" laptop screen. I really like the Skylight interface, having compared it to several other DAW's. It took some time to learn to get the best use of it, but now that I have, I don't feel that cramped on my smaller single screen.

It's assumed that for him, what he said is true about the highlighted areas being "empty, redundant, or useless space." For the rest of us, that may or may not be true. The highlighted areas are there for one reason or other (I can't really give up scroll bars myself), and this person doesn't want them. Who cares whether he's "right" or "wrong?"

You seem to be here because you want to debate the layout of the program with a group of people whom you know to be dedicated users. This may not be the best place to begin ridding the Internet of hypocrisy and den

I am not understanding what you have written, not in its entirety.... but all that i had written was in honesty. and what you are thinking i dont care about. english is not my mother toun gue

15 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

Good idea.

Indeed it is

On 12/15/2021 at 6:01 PM, Colin Nicholls said:

Dude.... you're on a Cakewalk User Forum. We're here because we think Cakewalk is the BEST. It's not denialism, it's the demographic.

Oww, I figure.

But all that you raised is irrelevant, as there was never any dispute to it.

Just makes me wonder if you DENY  the points raised on the original post.

Thank you

On 12/7/2021 at 4:37 PM, Clovis Ramsay said:

That which is highlighted in yellow needs to go.  It is empty, redundant, or useless space crowding the canvas and I would like to know if it is possible to get rid of it and end my suffering from claustrophobia.

thanks,
ur pal,

-clovis

On 12/8/2021 at 6:44 AM, Clovis Ramsay said:

Well sure when I am on desktop with dual monitors, I float this and that but when doing remote work, screen space matters.

you see, im also a graphic designer for websites but I specialize more in the customers ease of visual, navigation, and anything that can compel them to naturally navigate/scroll/select.  This is how you eliminate stress being associated with the brand/service/diner experience.  
 

Now with a demand for remote recording engineers, screen design matters and if you were actually measure the horizontal highlighted areas, it comes out to an inch or more of real screen space.  Thats actually a good amount of pixels and just the right amount to snap in the windows.  There is literally empy space in the center of the screen and you guys are like huh??  What?? Its fine dude its minimal as it gets bruh!

 

cakewalk bias.   I love cakewalk but empty non functioning pixals eating up an inch of screen matters on one monitor laptop remote situations.    Also, UI is now reaching 12 years ?  Im not here to file a complaint and im glad to know that I cannot do anything about it in the theme editor so thanks for that. 

@Clovis Ramsay Your posts are valid, thank you.

I will not even get into "cakewalk bias", which to me borders into some sort of denialism...

1 hour ago, Jonathan Sasor said:

@puddy @thegaltieribrothers This will make its way out in general later today, but if you use the web installer I posted earlier in the thread, you'll get a new build which fixes this. Thanks!

Thank you, the first note now does register on the step clip.

(Moving that resultant clip however still changes step sequencer view to console view).

Regards,

27.11 b15: 

First note of the step sequencer does not register in the step clip, in the arranger.

Moving a step clip in the arranger changes  step sequencer view to console view (the step sequencer and console are docked)

Thanks

On 11/15/2020 at 8:01 PM, Ronald Claessens said:

Yes user905133: I mean everything of the UI. I mean a scalable UI like pwalpwal said. I think it's time Bandlab redesign the UI otherwise  I think they gonna lose market share.

 

This is true and I can't agree with you more, it's amazing how I think this is the least of priorities.

I ended up buying studio one artist (it's not even extremely affordable where I'm from, about R1 200.00 black friday) cause I tried but gave up tolerating the UI.

I'll surely keep an eye on cakewalk cause the fundamentals and feature sets are okay.

A 64/32 bit vst2/3 drum sampler. Multi out, per pad pan, pitch  and AHD envelope control. You can change the UI size plus set the default side.  https://apisoniclabs.com/

3 hours ago, puddy said:

Thanks for this theme... it will probably be my default theme going forward. I havent seen anything like this one.

If it is not much trouble with you, would you be able to experiment with a bit darker greys, please... 

Thanks

What I' trying to say is, leaving the color scheme as is but reduce overall brightness of the theme... (I'm getting a closer effect when I'm reducing the brightness of my Laptop screen)

Many thanks

Thanks for this theme... it will probably be my default theme going forward. I havent seen anything like this one.

If it is not much trouble with you, would experiment with a bit darker greys, please... 

Thanks

On 7/23/2020 at 5:31 PM, chris.r said:

Are there any free 3rd party MPC expansions? Would Beats open them? Just curious.

Looks like there are and it does open them.

I'm really impressed with the Akai MPC Beats, how it does what it does.

This could be 'my perfect' music/beat making software. Thanks to Akai

35 minutes ago, Mark Morgon-Shaw said:

I really thought that by now some bigger moves would have happened on this front. 

So did I

35 minutes ago, Mark Morgon-Shaw said:

Bandlab has attracted many users because of it's slick GUI, ease of use, collaborative features and of course it's free , lightweight and runs on most anything.

If they can rework CBB into more like Pro version of Bandlab and include the tools wanted by modern producers I think they could reign supreme once again. 

100% agree with you

On 2/1/2020 at 5:31 PM, hasting said:

Hi. Just wanted to know if Bandlab have any future plans cakewalk UI theme to a more modern looking theme like most of the other DAWs or even the Bandlab online DAW (giving it that unified look). Making the buttons flat and smaller so the space can be utilized more efficiently.

 

I 💯 percent feel the same as you do.

Okay for me music making is a hobby (for now) but there's nothing worse than opening cakewalk and glaring at it's UI. Sure I keep updating and hoping for the day that the look would be modernised.

I agree with you... In fact, reworking the whole GUI is what I would prioritize if I was at the helm...

Hi @cclarry are you selling a waveform 10 account in kvr? If so is it still available? Thanks

If this hasn't been shared already.  Waveform 10 promo on computer music mag, Issue 274.

Lunga, hope you good... thought I could just greet since I'm also from the RSA enjoying this beautiful day... Have a  blast, much love!!

Hi, @ChernobylStudios

I'm still standing by my view.

After an encounter with your malicious video, I found out that you are/were a long time user of Cakewalk, something that added to my disappointment.

Just so you get a glimpse of my background, I'm an Electronic Engineer by qualification, spent five years as a junior in component level repairs, more than two years at a power utility , then up to now at a telecoms company. A career of more than 15 years. You should somehow rest assured that I know what I am talking about. 

U surely have a lot of experience with Cakewalk,  something comparable and somehow exceeded by some of the users in this forum. The logical assumption is that u made videos out of your free will and good heart, and those that contacted you for help were probably on that understanding. The most logical thing is that is that if want employment from Cakewalk you would contact them and present your case! Without bashing the company that you clearly would like to get a slice of pizza from! In fact, who said you gotta be an ambassador of Cakewalk? Your same fans or Chanel subscribers that you have been bashing the DAW infront of? YOU DO NOT DESERVE ANY COMPENSATION, no wonder you are this angry... I still maintain my view, You should just go away.... 

3 hours ago, Davydh said:

The biggest issue is Scott now has a baby, so his time for making videos is less.

So if he's going to use a daw, he needs one which is quick and unproblematic so he can quickly make a video.

If Bandlab fixed the bugs and offered to give him some financial support, I bet he'd be more than happy to make awesome Cakewalk tutorials.

Hi Davydh,

I hope you'll forgive/correct me if I'm not getting this right.

Shouldn't fixing bugs be about issues reported by users with no relation to specific priority individuals... sure, everything prioritized according to severity of course.

Also, one would be forgiven to think that making of an illustration/tutorial video by an individual will almost always be out of a good heart... (unless of course under employ, where you'd have to get paid for services rendered).

Maybe I'll never get it.

Thanks and regards

44 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

If you're worried about the lost plug-in settings issue, one bit of insurance is to save the plug-in settings for the project as Cakewalk presets, which I understand may be tedious or not even be practical.

One data point here: I've been using Cakewalk for a year and have never had it fail to save my plug-in settings. This issue is apparently obscure enough that they're having a hell of a time being able to reproduce it just so they can see it in action and come up with a fix for it.

I disagree. He's seeing issues with the software that are preventing him from making good use of it. He's not a whiner, his critiques are well thought-out even if there is some anger visible in his delivery. I think he's a helpful critical voice.

If there aren't critical voices around, a product runs the risk of becoming moonieware, where there's never anything wrong with the product, only with the way someone's using it, or their unreasonable expectations of it. And I really, really don't want to see that happen around here. I witnessed some of that attitude at the old forum. It doesn't seem to have been transplanted, thank heaven.

Workarounds are fine to a point, but are not a substitute for bug fixes.

Cakewalk has bugs. Ones that have been in it for some time, ones that affect common operations that people do with the software. Fortunately, the people in charge of such things seem interested in correcting them.

It would be interesting to know if he did actually report the bugs he is complaining about specifically...