kevmsmith81

15 minutes ago, tecknot said:

Could it be that your MIDI notes are out of range of Xpand!?

Kind regards,

tecknot

It's not that - I can play the notes which are showing on the piano roll and they make a sound.  But when I try to play the track I've pasted in, nothing happens.

And it's not only Xpand I'm seeing this happen with.  Another example is a soundfont player I use, same thing happens.

It's really baffling!

I'm having an issue I can only describe as strange and I'm wondering if anyone can help.

I created a MIDI track using a different app when messing about on my lunch break, and was happy enough with how it turned out that I thought I'd import the midi data into Cakewalk and getting it sounding good using some of the instruments at my disposal (as it was done using an app on my phone).

What I have always done is import the midi file as a whole into Cakewalk, and then open a new project, load up the VSTi's I want to use and then paste it in from the midi file, one midi track at a time. 

However, when doing this, some instruments simply won't play any notes, as if there's nothing there, but some will happily play the midi data.

For example, Cakewalk Sound Center is quite happy to play the sounds, but Air Xpand! won't.  I can play a key in the piano roll in Xpand! and it will sound, but when trying to get it to play the midi data I've exported, it stays silent even though there are notes clearly showing in the piano roll.

I wonder if anybody has had a similar issue and been able to resolve it?   I can't see any good reason why some VSTi's won't play the sound!

3 hours ago, pwalpwal said:

not being funny, but did you demo before purchase?

 

There was no demo option.

And besides, I was happy with other things that it offered that I could see from videos online - especially knowing that I had one other DAW it was listed as being stable with.  

6 minutes ago, Matthew Sorrels said:

The Play plugin can take input from the computer keyboard, which is what you are having a problem with since Cakewalk wants the input to drive it's UI.  But it can also take input from your MIDI keyboard and will still play chords.  Makes it a one button chord plugin (you press one key and get a full chord).

Plugins that use keyboard input often have issues with the DAW.  Which is why there is that switch to focus the keyboard entry to the plugin.  But even that has limits.  Reaper isn't a magic bullet for this, it just is slightly different so perhaps it's working better for you.  The truth is the Play plugin is the least useful (to me) of all the Captain plugins.

In general the Captain plugins have seemed to work for me in CbB.  But keyboard control over a plugin is always an issue, doesn't matter what plugin or what DAW.  If your plugin wants to use the '1' key for a feature and your DAW wants to use a '1' key for a feature, someone is going to lose that fight.

I never suggested Reaper was a magic bullet - just seems to work better with these plugins.  For everything else, I much prefer CbB.

That said, I have recently ordered a MIDI keyboard as a controller so once I have that set up that will likely be a better option than the computer keyboard in any case.

I also know what you mean about the Play plugin.  My main idea was using it to make texture pieces to compliment everything else - it's just handy having something which will only play notes within the scale your track is in!

48 minutes ago, Matthew Sorrels said:

Turn on the send all keystrokes keyboard icon in the upper right corner of the CbB plugin UI to get the keystrokes to the Play plugin.  It mostly seems to work for me if I do that, but I think you'd have more luck with it in MIDI mode.

Ok, I'll have to give that a try, thanks.

Will make things easier if I can remove Reaper from the equation especially as Cockos seem to have ruined it!

And when you say about running it in MIDI mode, what do you mean by that?  I've been inserting it in as a soft synth with a separate MIDI and Audio track, as that is how I've always had it set up since the SONAR days.  Do you mean setting this up in a different way?

Thanks

I recently bought the Captain Plugins suite from Mixed in Key, as they seem like a good and fun tool to play around with.

However, they don't seem to work so well with Cakewalk.  For example, for Captain Play, in theory you use the keys of the computer's computer to play melodies, but this isn't working so well.  Either it doesn't play anything, or it sets other things off that I hadn't intended.

Has anyone got Cakewalk and the Captain Plugins to work properly together?

I also have Reaper which the Captain Suite does work with, but I still prefer Cakewalk (and the latest version of Reaper is frankly horrible to the point where I am seriously considering rolling back to version 5).

On 8/18/2019 at 7:37 PM, daryl1968 said:

Cool. I'll check it out. 

Thanks Kev - very nice of you to say. I like moustaches

It's well worth checking out.  Totally free to distribute, royalties paid.  And their support is very good as well when I've needed to contact them to ask questions.

On 8/16/2019 at 10:20 AM, daryl1968 said:

I remember Kev!

How do you get your music on Amazon?

I get my songs distributed using http://amuse.io.  

It's a free service, and they don't even take royalties for it - and I have received payment for my streams and downloads, so it's completely legit as well.

And I've been checking out your more recent stuff through Soundcloud as well, still pumping out the quality tunes!

Ok, thanks for the response! 

Users of the old Cakewalk Forum may possibly have heard this song before, as I did post my original version of it back in November 2015.

However, I have recently done an official release of it, having re-recorded the vocals and remixed the song from scratch.

Various ways of downloading/streaming (including Youtube, Spotify and iTunes) below:

https://song.link/i/1473491997

Thanks!

Hampshire, England.

I was looking at the piano roll last night, so please excuse me if i've missed something!

Is there anyway of the piano roll editor highlighting the notes in a specific scale?  So, for example, selecting the F# scale, and making all the notes that fit within that scale a different colour to the rest?

I don't want to use the snap to scale option, as there are sometimes obviously reasons to use notes which don't fit within the scale.  Just that this would be a useful feature for composition, especially when you're an idiot with regards to music theory like me.

Now, I know the simplest thing would be to just put some stuff in using C major or A minor and then transpose, but I'd prefer to have the option of highlighting the scale.

1 hour ago, azslow3 said:

"Extremely low" latency has Presonus Quantum under extreme settings (only). (1-2ms)

"Low" latency have some interfaces with extreme settings and RME with normal settings. (3-5ms)

"Good" latency have most interfaces with dedicated ASIO drivers.  (6-9ms)

Other interfaces have "Reasonable" latency, can be achieved by WASAPI, ASIO4ALL and sometimes WDM/KS. There are cases when WASAPI is on the level of dedicated ASIO (when the later is not specially optimised).  (10-15ms, with a bit of luck can be down to "good", but I have not observed "low" range reports. Note that reported by the DAW numbers in these modes are not real).

For testing latency, use  WASAPI exclusive. WASAPI shared normally has significant latency penalty.

We're getting into semantics here, I think.

For me, latency is low when I can record live without any noticable latency.  I consider this entirely acceptable.

What you show as being defined as extreme would obviously be very nice, but sadly I don't have Presonus Quantum kind of money.

On 6/30/2019 at 1:50 AM, LadyFuzztail said:

Yeah, I am not touching Behringer after hearing about this.

I have one of the low end Behringer interfaces which uses Asio4all, and I have to say I've had no issues with it.  Latency is extremely low even with a relatively humble CPU and the sound quality is good.

Yes, I know a interface with a dedicated ASIO driver would have been better, but it was what I could afford at the time and I've had exceptional value from it.

That said, am I reading this correctly in that the Windows 10 WASAPI drivers also offer low-latency recording as well?  As if it does, I may well have to give that a try and see how it stacks up.

Just came on to say thanks to all the kind folk who replied - I've finally managed to get back onto my laptop and have managed to get CbB to show the missing synths.  

You guys are awesome.

2 minutes ago, scook said:

Cakewalk by BandLab

There is an option to create a scan log on the VST preference page. Enable the option and run a VST Reset. The log will show if Z3ta+ and Session Drummer dlls are getting scanned.

Ah lol, should have figured that one out!!  Thanks, I will have to do that.

What's CbB?   I have set all my plugin paths via preferences so all the plugs which loaded in Sonar should load, but these two are conspicuous by their absence.

And thanks for the replies...!

Hi all.

Wonder if any of you fine people can assist please?

I'm a former user of Sonar Professional, which I purchased through Steam back in the day.

I decided to load up an old project, which dates back to the Sonar days.  When I loaded it up, I got a message to say some synths could not be found.  One I understood and was cool with, as it's an entirely 3rd party one which I'd forgotten to reinstall following a recent Windows reset I needed to do.

However, more troubling was the lack of Session Drummer and Z3TA. 

I know Z3TA is on my system - the files are all there, and it will load up if I fire up Sonar Professional.   It seems to show up in the VST effects menu, although when trying to add a synth track it doesn't show up.

Session Drummer seems to be gone altogether, as it doesn't seem to show up in Sonar either.  SD I can work around, as I have alternatives.  Z3TA was a vital component to this project though, and is also with some others I planned to finish soon.

I can't go back to Sonar though, as even though it's on Steam which still recognises my licence key, it will only load up in Demo mode meaning I can't actually save anything.

Has anybody else managed to get Z3TA to work in Cakewalk since it became a Bandlab product?  Or am I stuffed on this one?  Would be kind of irritating if I can't use it, as I bought my Sonar licence with all the stuff that came with it in good faith.