Jim Fogle

@Marcello Rossi, you stated the bug has been around "for awhile". It might help the developers figure out what has changed if they had an idea when you first noticed the issue. May I suggest you submit a support request? The support request form allows file attachment so you can include your CAL file. Submit a support request below: https://help.cakewalk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000025633

@Sven, as you mentioned and included links to, adding dedicated and distinct start / stop markers to the Cakewalk by Bandlab program is an idea that is frequently raised. The fact that users keep coming up with workarounds add weight to the fact that start and stop markers might be a feature idea worthy of inclusion into the program.

KVR Forum users may remember the monthly mix contest the forum use to sponsor. The Mix Challenge has become a standalone website with contests for songwriting, mixing, remixing and mastering. The Mix Challenge is a monthly recurring one-song-per-month mixing challenge. It has one (virtual) client providing a track to mix, and the participants have 21 days to mix, plus 5 extra days for a possible 2nd Mix Round with selected candidates. They are always looking for source material for use in a contest. It might be a good way to get assistance with a mix you're having trouble with. https://mix-challenge.com/

I don't have the month-to-month or annual "All Access" subscription but have purchased three video tutorial series and consider it money well spent. At different times I've purchased the video tutorial series for Cakewalk's Music Creator 6, PG Music's Band-in-a-Box for Windows and Sonar Explained. I purchased the MC6 series after upgrading to MC6 after using MC2, 3 & 4. I wanted to gain a better idea of what undiscovered features were available and how to use the program better. The same reasoning applies to my purchase of the Band-in-a-Box and Sonar Explained series. I prefer purchasing the video series because I can then download the files and watch offline. I load them to my Android tablet so I can view the files anywhere I take my tablet. I also have the user manual pdf files on my tablet for easy access. It's nice to have my tablet close to my computer so as I'm using Cakewalk by Bandlab or Band-in-a-Box for Windows I have these resources available for use without having to go online. Another reason I like downloading the files is I'm a slow learner. I have to see a concept or technique in action multiple times before it sinks in. While the online video player gives me the normal stop, pause and play controls I don't like having the screen split between player and program. Go to Groove 3's website and look through the offerings. The site has an extensive collection of video tutorials. Click on a subject you want to learn about and navigate to the subject's webpage. Every video tutorial series have certain traits in common. I'll use Sonar Explained for the subject of my example. Every series has an outline, user reviews and a biography of the author. The videos are broken into easy to view chunks. The videos are tightly scripted, professionally edited and produced. Every video moment has a reason to exist, there is no wasted time. Because there is no wasted time they are jam packed with useful information. Pause and rewind will become your friends. Because the outline is so comprehensive, each video is smartly labeled and the videos are broken into small chunks the video series is easy to use as a quick reference guide. You'll be able to come back later and quickly find and review information you need to refresh your memory. Sonar Explained was released in 2015. The series is composed of 49 videos covering 5 hours and 30 minutes. Check it out: https://www.groove3.com/tutorials/SONAR-Explained Finally, like every other business, Groove 3 has specials throughout the year..

@marco panizza, I'm sorry you're experiencing trouble with a *wrk file. As a user the same as you I do not have access to the wrk file format specification or an e-mail address for developers support. However, I can provide you with a link to request support. I've used this link multiple times and can testify I have received a response each time. The support link is below and in my signature line. https://help.cakewalk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000025633

I really like Mike's (Creative Sauce) videos. Thanks for starting to make Cakewalk videos. I'll be watching this video multiple times.

@Massica Greetings, welcome to Cakewalk by Bandlab and welcome to the forum. One possibility is you may have VST scanning enabled during start up and the program is having trouble while scanning. Press "P" to open the Preferences window and select File > VST Settings > Manual Scan. Does that make a difference? Another possibility is the installation may be corrupt. Use the Windows Control Panel Add/Remove Programs function to remove the program and Bandlab Assistant. Then download a fresh copy of Bandlab Assistant and let it install a fresh copy of the program.

Agree, it looks like a bug to me. The track meter should never obscure the automation value. @Klaus your graphic is very helpful. Thank you for taking time to to create and post the graphic. @Devil999 and Klaus. May I suggest each of you submit a support report and reference this message thread in the support report. There is a link in my signature line.

@Starship Krupa I use https://www.irfanview.com/ to paste and edit screenshots. I save the screenshots as jpg files. I use https://www.4shared.com/ to store jpg format images in the cloud. To keep things organized I created a storage folder in 4shared.com and labeled the folder "Screenshots". Once a screenshot is uploaded to 4shared.com the website provides me with the capability to select a download link, HTML link or "forum" link to copy. The forum link includes the brackets the forum software needs to know for the forum software to display the image. An example image link is below.

Dear Cakewalk by Bandlab developers @Noel Borthwick Please implement the two MIDI standards released during the January, 2019 NAMM show. MPE stands for MIDI Polyphonic Expression. This specification is designed for MIDI controllers that allow the performer to vary the pitch and timbre of individual notes while playing polyphonically. It is an expanded message set that provides more nuanced control of individual notes while maintaining 100 percent compatibility with the previous message set. MIDI-CI, or MIDI Capability Inquiry, improves MIDI capabilities in several key areas. MIDI-CI allows devices to use an expanded MIDI protocol with high resolution and multiple per note controllers. MIDI-CI assumes and requires bidirectional communication. Once a MIDI-CI connection is established between devices, query and response messages define what capabilities each device has. MIDI-CI then negotiates or auto-configures to use those features that are common between the devices. MIDI-CI provides test mechanisms when enabling new features. If a test fails, then devices fall back to using MIDI 1.0 for that feature. Specifications to implement the new features are available for download here: https://www.midi.org/specifications-old/item/the-midi-1-0-specification

Close your eyes and try to imagine what a $90,000 pedalboard would look like. A pedalboard that has 1,248 knobs. One that requires 34 power supplies. 319 guitar pedals, 34 pedal manufacturers, 500+ feet of signal cabling, all on an enormous stage big enough for a 70-foot-long pedalboard. Fixed Link

Each Studio Instruments included in the Studio Instrument Suite includes some midi patterns. In the screen shot below, the top red rectangle is where you select which drum kit patch is used. The middle red rectangle is the midi pattern browser and player. The bottom red rectangle has four buttons where you can copy midi patterns to complete a midi phrase. Here are some links to find midi drum patterns; some are free while some are commercial. Midi patterns create small files so you'll find hundreds of patterns may fit into a small download file. https://www.prosonic-studios.com/midi-drum-beats/ https://groovemonkee.com/ http://www.fivepinpress.com/drum_patterns.html

@Eve Ripper I agree with you 100 percent that it would be nice for CbB to have a tightly integrated general purpose sampler built-in. Yes, there are many third party options available but they are an add-on. I want to be able to have a sampler in the multi dock that just works without requiring any set up beyond what CbB presently requires. I want to be able to use the media browser to be able to move samples in and out of the sampler. I want to be able to use the Cakewalk virtual keyboard to play the sampler to create an audio track. @CosmicDolphin I believe I also supported your post back when it was posted.

@Max Arwood Thanks for your suggestions. I need to stick with free for now. I looked at most of the ones you suggested and downloaded Bass professor MK II. It's not what I'm looking for but looks interesting. @scook Yep, I've been searching on my own using Google, Bing and others. It's out there, I just have to find it again. Thanks for the suggestion.

@Starship Krupa Thanks for your suggestions. I looked at all of them and downloaded Cornbear but none of them are the one I remember.

@noynekker Thank you for your suggestion however I don't have the historical assets. My history is Music Creator and Sonar Home Studio. Good idea though.

@Efrem C.'79, I agree with your assessment that the Sonar/Cakewalk legacy is complex. On the one hand Bandlab Technologies is trying to "do the right thing" by maintaining Sonar for former Sonar clients by archiving the Sonar forum, maintaining legacy releases and the Command Center download manager. Sonar clients continue to have access to the resources they collected as a Sonar client. It is Bandlab's gift to Sonar clients. Unfortunately if you were not a Sonar client in the past you can not become a Sonar client now; it's that simple. Bandlab Technologies has Sonar assets that it has not utilized yet. They may or may not use those assets in the future . I bet even Bandlab Technologies doesn't know for sure. Bandlab Technologies is growing through frequent acquisitions. Bandlab Technologies has properties in the USA, Great Briton and Singapore and other Pacific rim countries. There's likely other locations I don't know about. There's retail stores, manufacturers, social platform, magazines. How do you pull it all together into a cohesive unit? I don't know. I was involved in two situations where my employer purchased some or all of the assets of bankrupt companies. It's rarely pretty, there's always loose ends and it takes about five years for the old business culture to feel comfortable with the new organization and for the new business to come up with a plan with what to do with the assets they bought.

There is a video released a few weeks prior to the video above where the video creator explains why the signal chain uses so many effects and how he decides what settings to use. The video was made using PreSonus Studio One and PreSonus Studio One stock plug-ins. The video above makes much better sense after seeing this video.

@HIBI Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, I don't believe that's the one I'm looking for. I did download the sub kick plug in though as I was not aware of it and it does maybe 70 percent of what I'm hoping for. The Waves Factory sub kick plugin adds low end. But I remember additional effects integrated into the effect. I think in addition to low end the effect added delay or reverb based on the DAW tempo setting and the intensity of the knob setting. Again, thanks for the link and the assistance. Both are much appreciated.

@Max Arwood Hey Max, what is a PGL file; do you mean a PowerGREP Library file? http://www.powergrep.com/

Accurate observation. I suspect part of the reason is how Bandlab Technologies is composed of multiple, standalone entities. From the outside looking in there doesn't appear to be many direct channels of communication between the group responsible for BandLab Assistant, the group responsible for the DAW, the group responsible for the website and the group responsible for the social platform. Integration is happening but in small steps.

Hi David, First of all I like the tune. It reminds me of songs I've listened to in the past. I don't like the ending. The ending just stops in mid note. When I'm listening to a classic easy listening instrumental, Henry Mancini for example, I want to hear the soundstage and how the musicians are assembled in the soundstage. If you watch a big band performance like the Lawrence Welk show (it's on every Saturday evening on my local PBS station) you can visualize how the band is assembled onstage. That's also what you hear on the later stereo episodes. That's what I mentally visualize when I listen to an audio recording of a big band performance. I can't form a mental image listening to your mix. The instruments are panned left and right and there is no center. All the reverbs are different and there is no overall "sound" blending instruments together. While listening I can't tell how big the stage is or if it's in a room or a hall. I think if you visualize a soundstage and use panning and volume level to place each instrument on the soundstage the horn swells will work. I hope you will continue to work on the song as I'm looking forward to listening to the results.

Daryl, I like the song arrangement and mixing. There is a lot of definition between the instruments and good instrument choices for this song. The vocal fits into the song and is clear with good elocution. Good production.

A few weeks ago I "found" a plugin I liked but I didn't download it because I didn't want to get side tracked from what I was doing at the time. Now I can't find it. The free plug-in takes an existing kick drum sound and enhances it to make the kick drum sound massive. I think it's sort of like a kick drum style dial since I don't remember it having a lot of user controls or much of a GUI interface. It's pretty much a one trick pony but it performs it's one trick very well. If anyone knows of an effect like that please share a link here.

@Jack Stoner Thanks for sharing your review of the Behringer UMC 1820 audio interface. Since you've had an opportunity to use the equipment, do you now believe it is suitable for use in a "full bore studio"? Would you recommend it to a studio engineer looking to add additional interface; perhaps for a mobile setup or as needed within the studio? Would you care to share why?