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Thanks for the reminder. I keep forgetting about this. Also, not sure if I noticed the alternative names feature before. @GreenLightInstead of being a small, single chord display in the Transport Module, I am wondering if it might be useful to more people who use midi as an optional control bar module with collapsed, small, medium, and large sizes.

(1) If you are trying to get audio [aka sound] (2) from a software synth and (3) don't know how to point a midi track to the soft synth, perhaps the video in the following thread will help: If you don't know the different types of tracks you can have in Cakewalk, perhaps there is another tutorial that might be better. What kind of icon is there for the track? If its a 5-pin DIN connector (sort of a circle with 5 dots inside), that's a midi track. Just a wild guess based on what limited info you have presented, but perhaps you don't have audio [aka sound] because you have a midi track (like above) that is not sending midi data [the clip you mentioned] to anything that will produce sound--such as a hardware synth or a software synth. Below, I have a midi track sending its midi output to the Cakewalk TTS-1 software synthesizer. This is just one possible issue you might have. Its really impossible for anyone else to tell you if this is the cause of your "no audio output" issue. Others are willing to help if you provide more information. But perhaps there's enough already posted that will help you to figure out the issue.

Did you either put the midi data on an existing Instrument Track with a soft synth or point a Midi Track with the midi data to a soft synth?

Maybe . . . . I wonder what Walt Disney would have thought of this being played at a venue bearing his name. 😛 Warning: This piece has some language some might find offensive and potentially deals with adult subjects! Listen at your own risk.

Thanks for mentioning this. I will have to look for this on my local PBS channel. I had a chance to see them live back in the day when run-of-the-mill concerts would have 4 bands [1972] and once again over thirty years later [2007]. They were amazing each time. I'd recommend seeing them live.

I could be wrong, but I think different people have different preferences, workflows, etc. For me this includes personal efficiencies. One person might have great visual discrimination abilities that make it easy to spot a specific word or set of words in a field of 200-800 phrases. Another person might be overwhelmed by anything more than 20-50 items in a display. One person might have great manual dexterity with the scroll wheel but have difficulties moving a mouse around a large area. Another person might find moving a mouse around to find and click on specific target areas repeatedly physically enjoyable and emotionally satisfying. One person might work best with a plug-in browser that in all workspaces is in the same place and roughly the same size but not do well with huge multi-column lists that cover up the visual field. Someone else might find it personally efficient based on her or his dexterity, visual acuity, etc. to have multi-column lists open and close. I don't doubt that some of you have different personal efficiencies, preferences, workflows, etc. than mine, but feel it is going too far to claim that your personal efficiencies are universal.

Maybe its just me, but I find looking for something specific in a box with 400 - 800 (or more) items arranged in multiple columns is not nearly as efficient as the current single column, searchable, hierarchically organized Browser. For the benefit of those that prefer a flatbox box / sprawling list I can see having an optional button that would expand the Browser into a huge box that can easily open and close--so it doesn't block everything else.

Just want to clarify: you are referring to the latest Cakewalk and the latest version of W10? Thanks.

While the basic Crystal Ball can just answer yes/no questions, the advanced model gives details: "Cakewalk" will increasingly be recognized as a racist term, first informally then officially, will then be banned, and any non-person corporate entity using it will be sued for perpetuating the use of that word. https://digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/student/exhibits/show/race-in-us/african-americans/appropriation

My Cakewalk shuts up on occasion. For example, if I have Cakewalk running and try to do too many other audio things on my PC, such as running some standalone soft synths, Cakewalk gets insulted and says, "I'm not gonna play any more until you give me some love and press my buttons in a good way!" 😉

Thanks for posting these @Jim Hurley. I had similar errors. Thanks to @scook for the quick turn around on the fixes. The latest version installs properly on my PC now. Thanks!!!

Thanks for posting this deal and also to those who shared their positive experiences. I gave the free player demo a try and decided for my purposes this offer was indeed a deal. Since then I have been playing with it and find it is awesome for how it could fit in with my musical goals. In my admittedly limited experience with it so far, it has a lot to offer (control and programmability on a number of levels, an abundance of well-designed presets, etc.), is very flexible, sounds great, and is quite efficient (low CPU usage).

Definitely not midi! the guitars that is.

A classic song by NRBQ!

I am curious to see if I have this issue. How long do you need to wait until CbB loses focus? I just tried 10 minutes and evidently not long enough.

TY for tackling a number of issues related to found sounds, sound effects, etc. I have seen at least one site that said something to the effect that the sounds there were free to use (i.e., no royalties) without credit, but that if used and posted to various places on the internet, the artistic creation could not be copyrighted by the artist since the works would be flagged as having content owned by someone else. I decided not to save that link.

I like consistency, too, but I have learned that often one person's improvements make extra work for someone else. So, I got used to moving some inserted tracks back down to the bottom where they were previously, in or out of a folder, deleting extra tracks and/or instances, etc. Gives me practice in being flexible--or following the advice of my mom: "Go with the flow." While I don't look forward to another change here, its nice to have the heads up so its not a surprise. 🙂

I was under the impression that if we purchased (from the Cherry Audio Store) either the Eight Voice Instrument or the Voltage Modular version and then purchased the other of the two, there was a 20% discount on the second one. However, if you purchase them at the same time, there was no discount. Of course, that might have changed by now.

Close, but not totally accurate: In brief, it was not included in CbB's Basic Workspace until recently (from what I have seen). As I understand it, the last line of Sonar products used to have Lenses. After a while Lenses became Workspaces in CbB. There have been on-going improvements (IMO) to Workspaces. Installations and Updates to CbB have factory Workspaces (Basic --> Advanced). The factory-supplied Workspaces have changed on occasion--tweaks for the better, IMO. From what I have seen the devs take into account feedback on the forum. For example, at one point the Basic Workspace was tweaked I suspect to make it easier on newcomers who were overwhelmed by the huge learning curve. Somewhere along the line, when the Basic Workspace was packaged for installation, it erroneously had a specific factory theme installed. Since this was unintended from what I read, the correct Basic Workspace was packaged in a later update/installation. As for the Event List being missing, ever since I started using CbB and Workspaces, the Basic Workspace excluded the Event List. I don't know if this was an oversight or what, but from what I have seen many users have observed/complained about it being missing. For at least a year, the best advice for getting the Event List back (IMO) was "Don't use the Basic Workspace." However as of now, its back!!!!!!!! 🙂 If you never used the Basic Workspace (or a custom Workspace that excluded the Event List), your comment is 100% true. So you and many others were genuinely confused by people who couldn't find the Views > Event List. (That's what I suspected was the source of confusion when I asked earlier.) To clarify about the beauty of customized Workspaces (unless its been changed and I didn't notice it yet): All functionality for features excluded from specific Workspaces (personal / customized or factory supplied) doesn't work--shortcut / key-bindings, menu items, etc. (unless I missed some changes in Workspaces).

I rarely use the so-called Smart Tool. But I do know the functionality can be programmed by right clicking on the button. Have you tried unchecking all of the button's functions? Maybe that leaves the button disabled (until we enable the behaviors).

What don't you understand? (I hope the source of your confusion wasn't my link to another post I did earlier today. If it was, I can easily withdraw it.) UPDATE: Based on the flow of this thread, I have opted to address what might be the source of your confusion. For a while the factory supplied Basic Workspace didn't have the Event List enabled. So there are several threads where people asked, "Where is it?" Also, there are many replies advising changing the Workspace (choosing a non-Basic Workspace, editing the Basic Workspace and resaving it, etc.). As best as I can tell around January 2021, the Event List was added to the factory supplied Basic Workspace. JMO: As a long time Cakewalk user, I think the Event List is as basic as you can get for editing MIDI data, but I can understand how it might have been excluded in the first place. If my link to another thread as well as other related threads confused you, I hope this explanation remedies that. If the source of your confusion was not my link, maybe someone else can help you out.

Does anyone know if the MSoundFactory is Multitimbral in the traditional sense (that is, we can have different programs/patches playing on different MIDI channels from a single instance)? Thanks.

I could be wrong, but the Event List now shows up in the factory supplied Basic Workspace. (At least it does on my computers.)