Will.

28 minutes ago, Mark Morgon-Shaw said:

I'm not sure what the makeup of the Dev team is or what sort of music they create but I do feel like if there was a Hip-Hop / EDM producer on the team this would be a priority.  Like it or not Hip Hop is the biggest genre of the past decade.

 Cakewalk is pretty adaptable but I would say it adapts least well to the Hip Hop /EDM crowd and they're the main market now. It's okay if you've used it for 20+ years like me as you can work around it but  it would probably take something pretty killer to draw the kids back back now. 'Free' is half of that equation because you can't compete with Free. 

The other half would be a great sampler workflow ..Something like Splice Sounds integration would be awesome - imagine how powerful that could be.... 

For reference here is an EDM track I made in Cakewalk that was used in something popular 

 

I myself create HipHop and EDM daily in Cakewalk. It's only if I have a client sitting next to me and request to using a DAW they're familiar with to help with idea's they want for their instrumental tracks -- but when I'm all by myself, I use cakewalk. Yeah, of course external plugins will be required to create a certain sound which is extra work, but hey 12 years in the making using cakewalk, I know my way around the DAW. 

Here's another (What I think will be a great solution for developments.) Idea I've posted. Check it out and maybe help adding to the idea. It might caught someone's attention on the Dev team if we keep it alive. 

https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/21193-mobile-app/

25 minutes ago, petemus said:

If the items are sorted alphabetically, some submenus could be generated  so that menu scrolling is not needed. Another option Windows API gives is to break the menu into columns. Both of these are pretty bad, usability-wise.

The best option would probably to implement/use a better popup menu component, which could even have an incremental search field and proper mouse wheel support. Could probably work almost as a direct replacement of the current menu class calls in the code. 😁

Even a "flat list" for the category list and sub-menu will be acceptable. It will eliminate that torture of mouse click, if the list get out of memory and stretched out. 

Hi Forum owners and members. 

I love this forum, it's a great educational platform on all things related to Cakewalk and music in general.

I think we need to turn this into a mobile app and use it's revenue from all downloads and app usage to create new FX/instrument plugins for the DAW and more. 

I think it will make a great investment on future builds. The biggest mobile users today is your youth. You will then have your Bandlab Users and Cakewalk users joining in on the hype and sharing music on the mobile app. We can then link the mobile app to a new category on the forum right here to download or Stream their tracks/albums from the Mobile App, but need to think revenue wise with this. 

2 hours ago, Mark Morgon-Shaw said:

With the popularity of the Bandlab App they are in a unique position to capitalize on that younger audience now more than ever and a great built in sampler environment could help attract those users crossing over to a more professional App.

 

Been trying to help with this for a while now, but it falls on deaf ears. If you don't at least get a 10+ positive review, it's bye-bye idea.

I work with the major genre's that the youth creates today on a daily basis. So, I know what's needed to get the youth to migrate over, but you can only do so much, if the senior members of the community on the forum don't find the request useful. 

The genre's these youth create, don't require them to use articulation maps. A few in the class I give said, the Arranger is "useless" too. I guess the Aim is more on classical music for Cakewalk. Although you can create any form of music in Cakewalk, it's main Aim is classical music. Which doesn't make sense seeing that it's free and more youth are downloading it, but as soon as hey discover it's limitation for EDM, HipHop, House and Dance, they move back to their piracy habits. 

15 hours ago, E-Woof Music said:

I honestly do not know how many times I have requested this but this is a major issue that I am not understanding why it isn't being solved. I've used Cakewalk for a long time and I can say that it is one of the best DAWS for mixing. However, it is miles away from the competition in production because they do not have an integrated sampler and a good step sequencer. 

Cakewalk had one, It was called"Dropzone." I guess they dont own the license to it. Just like "True Piano" that used to come with Studio Instruments. 

On 11/1/2020 at 12:49 AM, Starship Krupa said:

 the answer from the devs is that the Windows function Cakewalk uses for this doesn't recognize the wheel, so it's not just a matter of turning it on.

If a new feature such as the Arranger and the recent "Dynamic waveform" can be done, surely this can be coded in as well. There's progress bars all over in Cakewalk. Windows allow this all over their platform. 

39 minutes ago, Mark Morgon-Shaw said:

No,  I didn't say that at all , please re-read ( clue is in post title ) 

 

18 minutes ago, User 905133 said:

UPDATE: But its really not worth any more time discussing.  Sorry I asked.

Peace and tranquility. Woo-Za! 

Hey bakers. 

First of all, can we add the feature to insert an Aux Track from anywhere in the Console view and track view where there's an empty space. 

Secondly:

Can we please make it possible to route an Aux track input to Audio Tracks for when we work with samples please. This is currently only possible with instrument tracks.

I know we can use patch points for this too, but having the ability to route directly to Audio tracks has it's own advantage. 

1: Another form of direct routing.

2: It's great for direct sidechain too. 

3: Great for sound creation/Shape.

4: Another form of direct parallel compression or for Wet and Dry balance. 

5: It's a direct pre-fader effect. 

6: It does not amplify the signal as what a send fader does, by sending a copy to the aux track. I know you can just route the output to the Aux Track, but this is just sending the track to an aux so the entire signal gets affected when you do some tweaks. 

To demonstrate what I mean - create an instrument track.

2: Next to it, add an Audio track and route the input of that Audio track to the Instrument track -- "Ta-da!" you've just created your own side-chain track. Now you can lower the fader of your instrument track and it wont be affected. 

If this can added to Aux tracks to route audio tracks that way when working with samples - it's will be awesome. 

5 hours ago, Craig Reeves said:

The problem I was having was that I wasn't aware that you could switch from clip mode to clip automation mode as quickly. So that's why I was under the impression that this couldn't be done easily so my apologies everybody. Not only that but I was under a tremendous amount of stress earlier this week and was already in a bad mood. Like I said I shouldn't have taken it out on you guys so I'm sorry for that.

No problem.

We're all family here - and as you know, family sometimes disagree on certain things too. I'm gonna do the same and apologise my side, if I'd offended you in any way. I had my share of getting my A** spanked on the forum too. That got me thinking -- maybe I should start approaching my replies differently and stop being so straight forward, Guess I have to thank the old man for his inheritance. (May his soul rest in peace.)

It's all good bud. ☺

DAMMIT, Why are you so angry?

And can we please get the mouse wheel to work on "Insert Audio FX" from the FX bin too Bakers. 

Thanks in advance.

Not related to the EA3 topic on Articulations. In the next release can we make it possible to route the input of Aux tracks to audio tracks please. Currently, we can do it with instrument tracks, but not with audio tracks when samples are used. 

Most music today is done with only a USB mic. Realtec interface playback and recording and some decent headphones amongst the youth and get their stuff on radio. POP/EDM/DANCE and HIPHOP.

I've got first hand experience recording a pop group only with what was mentioned above and a pair of Monkey Banana Gibbon Air Monitors. 

There's great free VST's to make digital sound like analogue. Some vinyl effects, with some saturation and distortion, it can create magic. 

Yet, again, with a quick response.

Thanks Bakers. 

Good Day everyone. 

Is it possible to perhaps add a new feature to "Loop Construction" under the Loop properties - to allow us to trigger any sample by your midi keyboard/controller and with the computer keyboard to manipulate/transpose samples? This should've had been possible with loop construction way before Bandlab took over. 

Right now, the only way to audition the notes, is by manual choosing the key note and hit play everytime -- even then, this makes it a tedious procedure. Another addition to this would be the ability to move the file forward and backwards in the window too, for synchronize purpose with playback. 

This will be a traumendous improvement to the loop construction window and Cakewalk itself. 

On 10/21/2020 at 9:42 AM, Sergey trapeznikov said:

 

Do you mean Navigator?

If that's what you mean -- Just press Alt+N on the keyboard. 

15 hours ago, Maestro said:

No.

If you're going to be doing real work, you're really going to want something better than Studio Instruments.

If you can't buy something like Total Studio MAX 2 (on sale - or Komplete when it has a similar sale for a similar price as TSM2 right now), then a great budget option is SONiVOX.

If you Only need Orchestral Sketching Library, then Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 and Amadeus Symphonic Orchestra are both budget-friendly options.  Avoid HALion Symphonic Orchestra.  The other two are better, and around the same price point.

Just wanted to know if the Cakewalk Instrument comes with DEFAULT Keyswitches for the purpose of training a class.

Thanks for the shopping list though, but I'm good. 😂

20 hours ago, Toy said:

Articulation Maps is a very useful feature.

I will report it because it is in a strange state.
I displayed the input menu by right-clicking, but sometimes I can't input at all.
In this case, the menu will not disappear no matter what you do at this time.

When I finished Cakewalk in this state, the menu was discolored and remained. I couldn't forcibly terminate it until I restarted the PC.

Since this phenomenon appears suddenly, the conditions for occurrence are unknown, but it occurs regardless of the project.

I ran this problem. All I did was Ctrl+Alt+Del and closed every instance of CbB that was open in the Task Manager. Opened CbB again, now it works fine. 

Don't know why that happened, but it's gone now. 

30 minutes ago, Maestro said:

I think you are severely overrating just how valuable "being on macOS" actually is.  You're also overestimating its market penetration in the creative market.  

I guess when you read "too much" in what someone was trying to say - this tend to happen. Yet, you're still making comparisons between DAW's that migrated between Mac and Windows and a "Windows only" DAW. 

I think this discussion -- "which has turned into some sort of heated debate" between @Maestro @Teegarden and @Craig Reeves is interesting, but I feel one crucial information has been left out.

First of all, there's been some really interesting pointers given and counter attacks too. I feel this is unfair though, Meaning - We can't really make comparisons or compare Cakewalk with the DAW's mention in previous replies nor we actually say and to quote what Maestro said: I bet more professionals use Logic Pro X than they do Cakewalk. 

Of course, this will is true. So is it for FL Studio; Cubase; Pro Tools and Ableton -- why though? Well, your standard system in any professional studio's are Mac. That's why every professional studio uses Pro tools, Logic and FL Studio as their standard DAW. Cakewalk is yet to migrate over into that world. Gibson had a beta version running with Sonar, but hack knows what happen to it after they've shut down. So it's unfair to say or claim such discussion. If Cakewalk had to migrate over to Mac 30 years ago - I bet this debate would've gone differently. So, I think there's a bit of a disadvantage in the discussion on this.

Yeah, I will go as far to say -  for me, personally it's the best free "Windows DAW" out on the market right now. 

5 hours ago, gmp said:

I have a Singer/Songwriter who has a laptop which is 1.5 years old with a Celeron processor + 4 gigs of RAM and onboard Realtec audio. He installed Cakewalk. All he wants to do is to import my stereo music track and record a few vocals. I know it's not great quality, but will this work?

Yes, it will work fine. I've done it as a "On the road Studio" with a group for demo songs. Just download "Asio4all" - it's all you need. 

Hi Team. 

I love my pan pots on my busses, both input pan and standard center pan. There just come that time when things goes wrong with it - especially with the control surface or with controller that's assigned to them. 

So my request is can we get a locked or enable/disabled feature to them, to avoid some mishaps. I just had such incident where I went insane trying to figure out why my reverb is off centered while the pan pot was dead centered -- just to find out the "input pan" was 37% to the left. 

Probably would've still looked for the cause if I didn't think to look there. 

15 hours ago, peter.olsen3 said:

Just been recording an instrumental idea. Using Dimension Pro for piano and Spitfire/BBC for string parts. Piano chords first-OK. Celli next-OK. Basses-fine. Violins-nice. Then played back to do mix, and the piano track went (slightly) flat during playback. Had this before and cured it by re-taking the offending track. Has anybody had anything similar? BTW, if you haven't already done so, get the Spitfire software: it's really great sounding, and they'll let you have the basic version in return for completing a survey. Cheers.

Yeah. Check your pitch bend wheel on the midi - it happens to the best of us. 

16 minutes ago, brandon said:

I have expanded my track properties as per below. Although there are FX showing in the pro channel they are not showing where yours appear to be. I guess am looking in the wrong place?

 

If you look closely - it is there.

Question: Can you collaps your properties and show both bus pane and track view in the console view?

Meaning your tracks and Buss tracks together. 

Does Cakewalk instruments comes with their own keyswitches? (like Legato, pizzicato, staccato etc.) 

25 minutes ago, Lord Tim said:

Currently you can only do that one track 

Oh - clip scaling, yeah, that make sense.

Track zoom is possible, but not scaling. Yep definitely a +1 from me for multiple clip scaling. 

For lanes though, I normally do it on the clip and move the lane down afterwards.  

Yeah. Multiple Clip Scaling would be a great addition.