User 905133

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On 4/1/2024 at 2:20 PM, User 905133 said:

So, last night I tried to get rid of (exclude) the grooveplayer in the Menu-based Cakewalk plug-in manager.  It was excluded (or so it said), I rescanned plug-ins, and I even restarted CbB, but I couldn't make the Metronome fail to sound. [emphasis added]

In another thread on a different issue, David Baay wrote something that explains what I wrote (see above):

8 minutes ago, David Baay said:

Excluding plugins just hides them from the menus so they can't be added to a new project; it won't stop the plugin from being loaded in an existing project that uses it.

  This makes sense!!  Thanks.

Instrument files (*.ins) shouldn't affect whether or not CbB (Cakewalk by Bandlab) sees your interface.  Years ago I borrowed a Mio usb to midi interface cable to test drive and it worked very well, but that was on an XP SP3 PC.

Does the interface show up as a midi device in Preferences > MIDI > Devices?  A screenshot might help to figure out what's going on. Also, under MIDI > Playback and Recording, does it say MME or UWP?  

Update: For the Roland Instrument file which contains the definition for the RD-700GX, see the links on this page . However, the manual I found for the Digital Piano RD-700 is copyrighted 2001, which is not quite 30 years old.  What model do you have? If yours is really from 1994, there might not be an *.ins file for your model. The earliest Roland.ins file I have is from 1998.

I sometimes have good luck searching for *.ins files on the internet, so I will look to see if there is an instrument definition for your model.

On 4/1/2024 at 3:37 AM, Mr No Name said:

If they end use of Cakewalk DAW, that will be a very daft move imo.

it was designed as a free daw to attract people to the bandlab platform,

What do you mean when you say Cakewalk was designed to attract people to the bandlab platform? 

 Message I started:

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Oh.  I think I would have tried using the Cakewalk plugin manager to exclude them first to see if that worked (in case I needed/wanted them somewhere down the road).

but when I came back to finish up, John Vere had written:

29 minutes ago, John Vere said:

First no need to uninstall plug ins. Just exclude all the plug ins you don’t need in plug in manager.
But it’s not the problem. 

But there seems to be a new problem (or a manifestation of the original problem that didn't get fixed):

23 minutes ago, tdehan said:

Now I am trying to delete the 2 tracks with the 32bit plugin.  However, each time I try to delete them Cakewalk just hour glasses and freezes requiring and End Task to get out of it.  I've tried this now multiple times.  I get the following error in Event Viewer.

First of all, are you using the same file or did you make a "Save As" copy of it to try to repair? That might or might not be necessary; that's just what I have done.

Second, are you loading the project in CbB's Safe Mode?  Not sure it will help, but it might be worth trying.

NOTE: There are plenty of people trying to help you with this one and I am hesitant to interfere, but since no one else mentioned these two points, here's my "two-cents worth" just in case they help.

or   .

5 minutes ago, tdehan said:

I have no idea what Project 5 is.

SOS article (for Cakewalk Project 5)

SOS article (for Cakewalk Project 5 v. 2)

The only time I lose the metronome is when I accidentally change it to MIDI.  So, last night I tried to get rid of (exclude) the grooveplayer in the Menu-based Cakewalk plug-in manager.  It was excluded (or so it said), I rescanned plug-ins, and I even restarted CbB, but I couldn't make the Metronome fail to sound.

I still have the metronome today.

So I renamed this: to  GroovePlayer.pulled & rebooted CbB.

That gave me tht Missing plug-in error warning box which included this:  GroovePlayer (Track: 'LRS track bus'). 

And that's how I got rid of the Metronome.

So I shut down CbB, renamed it back to GroovePlayer.dll, rebooted CbB, and viola--I had the metronome back.

Note: I have some older Grooveplayer.dll files in storage areas of an external BU HDD, but I don't think those are being picked up by CbB.  They are older than the one from 4/24/2018 (9/12/2013 and 8/10/2011) and are smaller (the 9/12/2013 file is either 795 KB, or 659 KB for the x86 version;  the 8/10/2011 is 682 KB). 

Perhaps these details can be helpful in determining if you have the correct dll and if it's in the right place.  As for editing the registry, I don't mess with that. 

3 hours ago, msmcleod said:

IIRC... MAGIX had a product called Movie Maker... they then rebadged it as Movie Studio.  Then they bought Vegas, and released a "lite" version and called it Movie Studio, and renamed the previous Movie Studio back to Movie Maker. 

I also had a version of some audio software Magix did that was geared towards kids.  I think it was in the Win 98 SE era and might have had the word Jam in the title.  I might still have the manual somewhere. Maybe it was called Music Maker; I'll have to look.  I used Cakewalk and I got the Magix thing because one of my kids was interested in making music and I thought Cakewalk was a bit too advanced. Anyhow, maybe Magix had Music Maker and Movie Maker as an audio-video product line.

OOOPS.  I guess no one suggested to @DNnX to add  - SOLVED to the Topic.  

1 hour ago, Mr No Name said:

I have just read in another thread that it is now on a "free subscription" where you have to renew it on a monthly basis, have the people at bandlab nothing better to do than carrot and sticking people into subscription modelling?   why don't they just charge an amount of money and let people have it as it is with no more updates as they want to make it obsolete.

what will happen when people maybe are travelling or doing some other thing where they forget about daws or laptops for more than a month.

not a great strategy imo.

Would you be kind enough to post the link to the specific post where this is stated?  Thanks.  

1 hour ago, Steven Gerard said:

Even if you can save it, if it's going to require online activation, you're sol.  

What are you basing this assertion on?  If its from a reputable source, please post the link.  If it's just someone's opinion, does the source say it's a fact or identify it as speculation?

If it originates from you, what facts did you put together to come up with this conclusion?

Gearspace has a thread "Is this site a fake? - pluginboutique.SHOP" from mid March 2022!!!!

1 minute ago, John Vere said:

Sorry it’s called Movie Studio. 
The installer is dreadful and will install a ton of bloatware if you let it.
For the cheap price it costs you get the Movie editor as well as full version of Sound Forge and then a DAW I forget it’s name. But there’s way too much weird other stuff too. And then it nags you to install it later! 

Thanks for the clarification. I have the manual for Sony's Screenblast Movie Studio (2003).  I am sure I test drove the software when I first got it, but I have no files on my current computers.  There might be some tests I did on an XP SP3 PC.  For a few years I played around with Nero software, even tested editing some OBS captures with it.

1 hour ago, Sander Verstraten said:

would be great if the damn  Productmanager was working properly.
Most of the time it doesn't show if it's downloading.
But you can't close the program because it thinks it's downloading

I get these things:  

I just checked with Everything (Void Tools) and the zip files for the Sound Libraries I have been updating are definitely eating up my drive space.

I have also been taking screenshots of My PC to keep an eye on the free space on my HDD.

Not sure if the Sound Libraries will install properly (assuming I don't run out of GBs).  But the last IK Product Manager update I did has the % meter.

Looks like Tonex CS has also been updated:

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• What's new in version 1.6.1:
  • Embedded TONEX Pedal firmware 1.2.3
    • New tuner function: press and hold the active preset switch to access the tuner.
  • TONEX Player
    • 2 new and 2 redesigned skins for support of the Metal Gems Signature Collection.
    • Improved compatibility with some DAWs during the plug-in scan process.
  • TONEX Librarian
    • Fixed not working ToneModel drag from ToneNET to librarian if card view is selected.
    • Fixed not working search on ToneNET (mid bar) if librarian is opened.
  • General reliability improvements.

1 hour ago, John Vere said:

I bought Movie makers 14 Pro for about $30 on sale. It came with a full version of Sony Sound Forge which clued me in to the fact that Movie Maker was a re branded Sony Vegas. Cool. All the tutorials were for Vegas. A few year later I was offered to up grade to 17 which I still use. It will crash after 5 edit moves if you don’t save it! 

My recollection is that Sonic Foundry sold both Sound Forge and Vegas to Sony (both of which Magix later acquired). I didn't follow the products closely, but I believe Sony tweaked / rebranded these products (both had Sony Screenblast versions at one point and there was evidently a Sony Screenblast version of Acid, also acquired from Sonic Foundry).  As I understand it Magix took the Sony versions and tweaked / rebranded them. 

I thought Movie Maker was a Windows Product. 

1999 SOS Article on Sonic Foundry's Vegas Pro.

I don't really know the complete history; so maybe somewhere in there Sony also acquired software from Windows and merged it into their version of Vegas?  In 2003 Sony called a version of their video editing software, "Screenblast Movie Studio." In my admittedly limited experience, "Screenblast" referred to the non-Pro versions of various products Sony acquired.

4 hours ago, pwal³ said:

This version is outdated, might be a clearer message?

Did you see any additional wording like, "Please download and install the latest version / update?" If not, you could make note of the outdated build and mention the build number which doesn't have that wording.  

Very well done (clear, focused, positive, etc.) set of explanations / demonstrations showcasing a whole lot of features Next offers.

Welcome back, I think. In 2020 you wrote:  

On 8/11/2020 at 8:11 AM, Nathan Champaigne said:

I use Audacity? Why? Cakewalk does not contain a wave editor. Should it? I can't even pull up a wave page in Cakewalk to make cuts or paste phrases into bars. What do I do with Audacity? I copy, cut, paste, manually quantize lyrics to a midi beat. I pitch correct single words or phrases, using midi comparison,  bend or cheat. I'm a poor singer, with a voice that does not pass the test, so my goal is a completed song, with a voice that is tolerable, fixed if not potent.  I copy whole vocals for accompaniment and change pitches into 3rds, 5ths, and 7ths,for harmonies or take the whole thing down an octave and fix sibilance. I'm a vocal fake. That's what music is today and I need the tools to accomplish this.
Cakewalk has a lot of wasted space in it's window structure. It's been changed from a workable original state as it evolved through it's rebranding and DAW development. DAWs have been relying upon plug-ins to add flavor to the mix, but something was lost from the original design.
Why does the pen disallow the writer to move the midi note around and simultaneously, why doesn't it also behave without an audible response? Why are the tools on a separate window instead of inside the piano roll view, or the staff editor? Why isn't there a full sized audio wave editor? Why do effects have to be applied to whole tracks and not words or phrases?  Why isn't the tools I have highlighted in the image below included included in the piano roll editor and the staff editor? What happened to combine tracks, such that it is no longer simple as right clicking and clicking combine for selected MIDI tracks? Why is mix-down so complex?
It also too bad that both external and internal system syths can not be used at the same time. Also all DAW software brands on the market fail to disclose just how soft synth instruments are set up and implemented within  their program structure, so for me, being old-school, I have no use or understanding of the need and use of VST instruments. You can't apply what you are not grounded in. The irony is that usually when I master a technology, I do some pretty innovative stuff with it.

Now you jump onto a thread from 2021 with: 

2 hours ago, Nathan Champaigne said:

The one single problem with an online installer is you can not run the file through an antivirus or malware checker. It just loads and you have to trust that it's clean an unfettered with spyware or trojan businessware.

It seems you came back to complain about something not covered in the post from 2020.  Why?

8 hours ago, Neon Laser 84 said:

Like this but make everything that's gray white, and everything that's white black. I think that's what OP meant.

As the OP stated: 

On 5/2/2023 at 1:32 AM, kmcintyre said:

What I need to use CBB is a theme that is black on white (like 0x000000 on 0xFFFFFF). 

Also, please note that the OP hasn't been around since almost a year ago when the initial post was made.  Please note, I voluntarily removed my posts because they addressed other high-contrast possibilities (i.e., non-100% Black and White solutions): 

On 6/10/2023 at 9:48 AM, User 905133 said:

Since this is really a request by one person for a Black & White theme, off-topic content related to other high-contrast possibilities has been removed.

I'd suggest if others are interested in requesting and/or discussing high-contrast themes, that is a a different topic. 

2 minutes ago, pwal³ said:

you can't assume they're all the same dev wise, many/some were bought from indie devs, they all work differently

I didn't assume anything of the sort.  If you took the time to read what the OP wrote:

On 3/25/2024 at 4:30 AM, DNnX said:

Title says all.
It shows black GUI. Sound is OK.

It works correctly in Cakewalk by BandLab, so it shouldn't be my installation issue.

BTW, I can also report that V-Vocal, Cyclone, TTS-1, GrooveSynth are working as expected in the Sonar.
Long live DX   [emphasis added]

when you read what I wrote:

19 minutes ago, User 905133 said:

Since Cakewalk Sonar correctly picks up the presence of PSYN II, but fails to properly display the PSYN II's UI, it seems like a bug to me.   If Cakewalk Sonar correctly displays the other legacy instruments, it seems to me it should also display PSYN IIs UI correctly.

you might have realized that I was simply verifying what the OP stated.

That being said, I think it's fair to say that if something has worked continuously in Cakewalk/SONAR and suddenly no longer works in Cakewalk Sonar, it might be of interest for the developers to know that PSYN II didn't make the transition into Sonar.

I made no assumptions about the cause; I made no assumptions about possible remedies.

2 hours ago, Xoo said:

Works fine here in Sonar . . . .

Likely to be a registry key permission.

Since Cakewalk Sonar correctly picks up the presence of PSYN II, but fails to properly display the PSYN II's UI, it seems like a bug to me.   If Cakewalk Sonar correctly displays the other legacy instruments, it seems to me it should also display PSYN IIs UI correctly.

23 hours ago, Xoo said:

Works fine here in Sonar . . . .

Likely to be a registry key permission.

Since Cakewalk Sonar correctly picks up the presence of PSYN II, but fails to properly display the PSYN II's UI, it seems like a bug to me.   If Cakewalk Sonar correctly displays the other legacy instruments, it seems to me it should also display PSYN IIs UI correctly.

UPDATE (2024-03-27): See Canopus' suggestion:

19 hours ago, Canopus said:

The solution to get Psyn II to display in Sonar is to disable Enhanced Display Scaling in Edit > Preferences > Customization > Display | Enhanced Display Scaling (requires restart).

On 3/22/2024 at 3:48 PM, Steven Gerard said:

Thanks but I have all the manuals.  Can't find anywhere that my particular issue is addressed.

Glad you solved the issue.  By the way, when I wrote this? and these? I was not asking, "Have you looked in this and these?" I was asking if this? and these? are the docs for your gear.  Sorry if that wasn't clear.  I looked through the first manual (this?) and didn't see anything that would help, so I looked for more manuals and wanted to know if I was looking at the correct manuals for your gear before reading through those, too.