Jim Fogle

Greetings Bakers, While helping out a new user I noticed the media browser "Set Properties" windows labels VSTi folders as Categories. That is confusing. Please correct so the label matches the visual. Thank you in advance. https://www.4shared.com/photo/12QfRwFcea/Clipboard49.htm

@Matty L'Ange, Open the Uncategorized folder to find a VSTi. Left click on the name of the VSTi to highlight it. Right click on the VSTi name to open the VSTi "Properties" window. Select the desired category (folder) from the Category drop down menu. Note the Properties window calls folder names "Category".

+++ HERE +++ is a web article that discusses how

Do you have the Studio Instrument Suite installed? It has to be installed through the BandLab Assistant. Just to the right of the Cakewalk button is a down arrow. Clicking on the down arrow opens a new window with check box selections for the Studio Instrument Suite, a trial version of Melodyne, The Cakewalk (GUI) Theme Editor and the Cakewalk Drum Replacer.

John, Another good one. You can't go wrong demonstrating the basics. One thing you glossed over is using Shift + B to expose the Master, Preview and Metronome busses in the track view. I didn't know that. I thought those busses were only available through the Console view. 😲 Surprise! 😲

@MARTIN NICKLESS, I'm not sure why you couldn't record. I'm thinking you may have missed a step as I just tried it and it worked for me. May I suggest you try again with your browser open to this thread so you can follow each step of the process while you perform them? To make sure I completely understood each step, I started with a new project. I used the basic template since it is very minimal. For me the "tricky" part is creating the Aux track instead of using an empty audio track. If a step does not work as expected, ask a question in this thread detailing where you're at, what you expected and what happened instead. That way we can help you figure out where the process is breaking down.

The short answer is no. The BandLab Assistant acts as an install manager for Cakewalk by BandLab similar to how Native Access acts as an install manager for Native Instrument products, IKMultimedia has their install manager, Sonar Command Center acts as an install manager for Sonar products and so on. After Bandlab Assistant crashes, capture the crash file (it's a DMP file), load the file to cloud storage and send a link to the file to Bandlab support. My signature has a link to a thread about capturing crash files.

Nice first video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. I'm looking forward to seeing more tips.

I would like to turn off the SMART Tool cursor feature so when I first open an existing project, or create a new project, the default mouse cursor selection is the Select "I" cursor bar. Is there a way to turn-off or disable the SMART Tool cursor feature?

I was surprised nobody mentioned dragging midi patterns into a track from the Studio Instruments electric bass. The Jazz 3 pattern would work fine for many Bluegrass songs.

@Fwrend, your suggestion to record a few measures, convert the measures to a Groove Clip and extend as far as needed works fine if your song project is a fixed tempo. However, your suggestion will not work if the song project tempo varies. Recording the metronome while following a tempo map will allow you to make a custom audio click track that can be distributed to other musicians that will be creating tracks to be used in your song project. @MARTIN NICKLESS I believe you would first need to create a tempo map of your audio track. Then the metronome would use the tempo map as a guide to speed up or slow down as needed.

Hello @Walter Bruhn. Welcome to the forum and to Cakewalk by Bandlab or CbB for short! The best place to ask questions about CbB is Cakewalk by Bandlab. Here is a video that explains how to match the timeline to audio. Here is a tutorial about how to record the metronome to create a click track that will match your audio.

John, This is a very useful video for beginners. I was not aware there is a way to add a third party reverb into the ProChannel.

@Robert McClellan, Interesting video. I see numerous forum comments from users wanting a quick and easy way to export multiple stems. It looks like Mix Recall is a good way to perform this task. Can a user set up a variety of screen sets and save the screen sets as a template? If I have a client that always want the same stems, one stereo stem with vocal and background vocals, another stereo stem without background vocals and a third with no vocals for example, can I save the mix recalls as a project template?

Thanks @Steve Harder, I visited their website and downloaded the free Spitfire BBC Symphony Orchestra Discovery articulation maps.

The Coleco Adam had a variable keyboard feel. Some thought that compared favorably with the feel of the IBM Selectric keyboard. It had a bladder that could expand or contract against a plate to change the feel. There was an air valve to relieve bladder pressure and an air bulb to increase pressure; very clever. It also had the same sound chip used in the Texas Instrument 99/4.

Thanks to Bandlab for providing the space for the forum to grow. Thanks to the forum moderators for adding the General Music Discussion forum. Thanks most to the developers for constantly striving to build a better product.

My first articulation map is for the Amplesound M II and M II Lite virtual instruments. The more I read and understand the Amplesound user manual the better I realize this Articulation Map may be a work in progress. All feedback positive and negative is appreciated! The M II is a virtual Martin acoustic guitar. The attached comparison chart details some of the differences between the two instruments. VSTi download link Amplesound M II.artmap Comparison_AGM_vs_AGML.pdf

Thanks to Bandlab for adding additional forum sections. Having a Content section for the new Articulation Maps, Arranger Templates and ProChannel Presets and then moving UI Themes all in one place makes for a one stop resource center. Love it. Then renaming the off topic section to General Music Discussion so the Coffee House is grouped with Computer Systems, Gear and Production Techniques should work well. All the additional sections have been requested by forum members. Thanks for listening! I'm sure it will not take long for all the new sections to become beehives of activity.

John, I'm not having success using the link above. With Firefox I get a "Need Access" notice with a textbox and a blue "Request access" button. I write a few words of thanks in the text box but the blue "Request access" button will not click. Chrome does not display the textbox or blue button, just a broken image icon.

Comments in another thread got me to thinking about early home computers and the operating systems available before Windows. What brand of computers did you have, what operating systems did they run? My first home computer was a Coleco Adam. The computer shipped with a digital cassette drive and keyboard main unit, joystick controller with numeric keypad, combined power supply / letter quality (daisy wheel) printer. The default power up mode was typewriter and one button word processor mode. It used CPM, BASIC and Logo operating systems. It also played ColecoVision (a game console) games.

Google translation from Spanish: Here is the tutorial on how you can configure the audio input and output in Cakewalk and how you can correctly configure your audio interface to start recording in Cakewalk:

Google translation for post 01: This is a topic made for Spanish-speaking people who are looking for accurate information regarding the software and how they can start using the Software from scratch and how they can start investing in equipment that is the most functional and useful to be used correctly in the software and get the best possible audio quality with this software. You can see the first video of the basic mini-course that I have everything you need to know regarding how to use your equipment and software from the very basics. P.S. Do not skip the videos, because if you have doubts or questions, surely I have already addressed them in a video of the course:

@John Vere, John I watched this video a few minutes ago and all I can say is, "Very well done!" Comprehensive. It answered all my questions and some I didn't know or think to ask. Great script, graphics and screen shots.

@Guinivere a link for the overlay file is in my signature below.