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  1. Blogo... Tell us more please! You’re talking about running the Vienna Instruments Pro APP on a tablet, not the actual program? Can you run it without having VIP installed on your PC or Mac? How does it work? Many thanks for more info...
  2. I believe Ripple Edit will solve this for you. I find it somewhat fiddly, but in combo with slide and/or insert Time/Time Measures, it gets me where I want go eventually. Don’t do it often enough to recall the steps from memory, so check the manual. Before Ripple Edit arrived this kind of thing was darn near impossible. Hopefully you’re on the latest or recent version of CbB?
  3. Pretty sure you have Input Quantize turned on. See attached.
  4. Thank you - I’ve been fighting this for several years I think. Problem most often (exclusively?) occurs when first saving a new project created from a template. Usually have to move project files out of undesired extra nested folders. Please fix!
  5. F9 key brings up the draw tool. Hit twice will toggle the line tool IIRC.
  6. Thanks for posting this Matthew! I too bought BBCSO and am trying to come to terms with it. I started a similar but smaller-scale template, and edited each instrument to unload all but the bread-and-butter articulations so as to improve the memory/loading time/performance issues. So far I've used ~30 instances which is working acceptably well at 256 samples. (I'm running the latest version (1.0.5) , and "optimized" the samples, which are all on one SSD. My templates loads in under 3 minutes on my 7 year-old DAW. I just loaded yours and will study it further to see what I can learn. I see why you chose to "disconnect" all the instances in the synth rack, but it looks like a major pain to "connect" 60+ instances one by one. Not to mention the way CbB seems to hang while each instance loads. I did a quick search but found no keyboard shortcuts or workarounds to connect multiple instances. I've been using Cakewalk forever. When Sonar died, I bought Cubase Pro, but so far haven't been able to make the switch. I like the sound of BBCSO, and will keep trying to make it work with CbB. (I also follow VI-Control, and see you posted there too.) Oh, BTW, I'm also wrestling with the BBCSO key switches which at C-1 are too low for my 88 note controller. Cubase expression maps solves that riddle- here's hoping CbB will add that feature! Thanks again, Randy
  7. Tab key moves Now cursor forward to start of next midi note (Shift Tab goes backwards). Will also select notes if first note is selected.
  8. Several other DAWs include the option to display Note Names on midi note blobs in the PRV. Here is an old forum post re: samehttp://forum.cakewalk.com/m/tm.aspx?m=3240718&p=1
  9. CbB handles those types of projects well. IF you have tons of RAM (64gb may be overkill but things just work better). IF you have a great interface with rock solid drivers (RME, for ex.). IF you have ASIO buffers set correctly for your system and number of VSTs loaded, etc. IF your system CPU etc. is robust enough and OS configured correctly. IF you are using SSDs for samples. IF you have antivirus and WiFi off or configured properly. Etc. etc. etc. IOW, the more tracks and VSTs and plug ins and automation and stuff you have going on, the more your system will be taxed. So, it all depends. If your projects have ~100 tracks and multiple VST instances, you need plenty of horsepower under the hood, properly tuned up to prevent problems. There are workarounds for lesser systems (freeze tracks as you go), but that comes at the cost of flexibility and ease of workflow.
  10. Addendum to last post: "Add Track" dialog makes this easier: Select Split Instrument Track, All Stereo option. This will create 8 stereo audio tracks pre-patched to Play, but just 1 midi track. So you still have to add the additional midi tracks for each instrument. I setup a test project and loaded 4 pianos in Play. Setup the 1st midi track, then duplicated, then changed midi channel for each and labeled the tracks. Just delete any unneeded tracks. Screenshot below. (BTW, I can deactivate/reactivate all mic positions in Play without issue on my system.) Not sure why you can't - could be memory or config issue. Are you using SSDs for your sample drives?
  11. JKO, Re: separate bounces: Let’s assume we have: 1 Play instance with say 5 instruments loaded. CbB is setup with separate midi tracks (5), and 1 audio track pointed to the Play main outs. (NOT setup as a single Instrument Track, IOW). Since there’s only one audio track, anything we bounce/freeze has no where to go but to the one audio track. In order to have discrete bounces for each instrument, we must setup multiple audio tracks in CbB, one for each output we want to address in Play. So we must add 4 more audio tracks (for a total of 5), and point each track input to the corresponding output in Play. You may not have noticed in the lower right hand corner of the Play Instrument GUI there is an output selector drop down box. That’s where we select the independent outputs for each instrument which we will send to the CbB audio tracks. In this scenario we wind up with 2 tracks for each instrument, 1 midi, 1 audio. And even more if we use dedicated keyswitch tracks. Which is a lot of tracks, so track folders come in handy, as does the Track Manager for hiding tracks in TV and/or Console. And, since there’s a fair amount of work involved in setting this all up, Track Templates are indispensable.
  12. @chrismohr: I have an orig 2.0 disk, and 2nd disk containing 2.1 and 2.2 patches. Would be happy to send to you, gratis. BTW, I went to your website - interesting stuff. Would love to hear some of your 53-eq music. I too was born in ‘53, and studied composition at one of the top schools. Studied briefly with a fellow who was a champion of quarter tone music, but I could never understand the appeal. Just sounded WAY out of tune to me. So I would be interested to learn more about a microtonal system that sounds ‘perfectly in tune’... PM your address and I’ll send you those disks if you haven’t sourced them elsewhere.
  13. Your plan to load the KS Masters will work, but is resource intensive if you load a lot of instruments. Keep in mind you can unload any articulations you don’t need from the Play Instrument window. Cakewalk will remember the settings when you save the project. You can always reload any arts if/when you need them later. See attached screenshot. Check out pgs 66-68 of Play 6 manual for helpful info. Re: not loading individual instruments inside a single Play instance, depending on the instrument, you might be able to use the same technique: Load all the instruments you want, then selectively uncheck the “load” boxes in the Play interface. Not sure if all instruments have that option though. Or, try unchecking ALL mic positions - that might unload all samples? Lastly, you could try doing a purge with an empty project from the Plan min menu. Hopefully one of those methods will work - I’m not at my DAW so I can’t confirm. If all else fails, you can use the Synth Rack on/off switch to deactivate individual Play instances. IIRC the Synth Rack has to be floating or docked in the MultiDock for the “power switch” to appear in upper left hand corner. In your example, load each piano in a separate instance. Point your midi track to each instance in turn until you find the sound you want, then turn off the ones you don’t want. You could save that setup as a template for future use.
  14. Jko, Welcome to my world. No easy answers, but you are on the right track. Re:your ?s: 1: Yes. Use EW Master patches to switch arts on the fly. Masters use more resources but so does uploading lots of Elements. No free lunch. I use 64gb ram which helps but is overkill most of the time. Note you can unload individual arts in the Play window until if/when you need them. Again, saving everything the way you like it in a Track Template is the way to go. 2: If you are low on memory or CPU, you can just load the Elements you need. When you get a full orchestra going w/>100 tracks, it starts to add up. And yes if you have a slow legato patch loaded and need fast legato or whatever, you have to add another track with an appropriate patch. That’s why orchestral mock-ups can have hundreds or even thousands of tracks, using multiple master/slave computers. I use EWSO, HW Strings, Cinematic Studio Strings, Spitfire Chamber Strings, and many others. All work and respond differently which makes this even more challenging. But it keeps getting better all the time, so keep at it until you find your way forward. I just ran across the following old forum thread about using CbB Drum Maps as a key switch mechanism. Brilliant idea, but complicated to setup. I’m traveling today but plan to implement asap. Will report back if I have any success. http://forum.cakewalk.com/m/tm.aspx?m=3733731&p=1#msg3733731 (See Bristol Jonesey’s detailed instructions) The other idea to copy midi clips to the media browser is also interesting but is much less robust. Still worth trying. Good luck!
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