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The only issue I've seen anyone have with importing color presets is that after you import one, the name field is blank. So you must type in the name you wish to use (Racing Green or whatever) and save it. The preset will not be saved until you type in a name and save it. They don't overwrite anything, and you can delete them later. For other reference, the Color Preferences dialog doesn't warn you when you are about to overwrite a preset, so take care while experimenting that you don't overwrite any of the stock ones if you want to keep them. So if you come up with something you like and want to save it, make sure you type in the new name before you save the preset. I don't like this (I think that any dialog should warn you before you overwrite), but Color Preferences is very old code. Not likely to change. As a last resort, if you run into trouble with custom colors (which I really don't think you will), there's a button for "Defaults All Colors." P.S. I have a memory that one of the people here did a special high visibility theme, but I did some searching and can't find it. He used larger type on his Control Bar buttons and I think they were black-on-yellow. Can't find it, though.... My own vision issues are those typical with aging (nearsighted, farsighted, astigmatism, I've got them all). More contrast always helps.

Are you looking for themes for Logic and Studio One, or Cakewalk themes that look like those programs? There is one Cakewalk theme that gives Cakewalk similar colors to Logic's defaults, there's a link to it earlier in this thread. I don't know of any Cakewalk theme that looks like Studio One. If you want themes for the other DAW's, Google "Logic Pro themes" or "Studio One themes."

@Sridhar Raghavan Glad you got it sorted. Cakewalk seems to be hard coded to look for its themes in that one location. I agree that all the folder locations should be changeable from within Preferences. I ran into issues when I added a second SSD to my laptop and tried moving my Cakewalk resources to it. You may wish to report your experiences and make suggestions in the Feedback area of the forum. Further tips: If you plan to start doing some theming, the most valuable resource (other than patience) is Colin's Young Lady's Illustrated Primer To Theming Cakewalk. It's the product of years of trial-and-error observation and reverse engineering. While many colors can be changed, in order to alter button images you'll need to get good with a pixel editor. I, too, have vision issues, and two of my themes, Racing Green and Midnight Blue are very contrast-y and address several areas where I have trouble with the stock Cakewalk themes. For instance, I make my button images as visible as possible, including extra effects for the rollovers. You may not find them entirely to taste, but they may give you some ideas. Colin's Mercury RS and my Tungsten RS incorporate a set of "standard" button image changes that he and I prefer. They may make good starting points. Investigate Color Preferences. Go to my themes download folder and download the custom color preset for Racing Green and try it out. The color of the grid lines in Track View can only be changed using Color Preferences, and mine have more contrast than the stock selections.

It may seem a small thing, but for people like me who like to sketch out ideas using Xpand!2 or TTS-1 and then experiment with different synths, it'll really help stay in the flow.

One day with the program and you already "need" to change colors and fonts. And since you're unable to install any custom themes you are "convinced" that it's "buggy behavior" that you've uncovered in "the Cakewalk code." Yet you're not aware that a custom Cakewalk theme can't change anything about the fonts, neither typeface nor size. Only colors and the look of many of the buttons (and some other art). Although it's surely impossible that you overlooked something when reading and attempting to follow the directions, I'll sum them up here for others' sake: assuming you chose all the default paths during your Cakewalk installation, the folder where you should place themes is C:\Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Themes. The behavior you describe suggests that the person installing them either neglected to move the .STH files from the .ZIP archive (although you say that you do see them individually) or placed the .STH files in the incorrect folder. Important note: the .STH files must not be in a subfolder of C:\Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Themes. If you check those conditions and find that all is in its place, the next step is to contact official Cakewalk by BandLab support. You'll find the link in the menus at the top of the forum window.

Neat. My chances of pulling that off, hmm....I'd probably find it easier to just exclude C:\Program Files\Cakewalk from my backups, then wait for my C: drive to fail, thereby affording me a clean start and, with luck, the ability to restore my key binding.

It's a very narrow, specialized use for me: dialog samples. I use them on every ambient piece. If it weren't for that one single use, this thing would be superfluous to me. For that one use, though, it's brilliant. And who knows, maybe it'll find other uses.

It can be confusing at first, but each of Cakewalk's Views has its own menu pertaining specifically to that View. This is because the different Views (except for Track View) may be floated outside the main window and because the main menu would be hopelessly cluttered if everything were in it. The main menu tends to have commands that apply to the project or program as a whole.

It's in Cakewalk's Preferences. Preferences/Audio/Playback and Recording. There's a pull-down selection box for Driver Mode. Choose WASAPI Exclusive and 99% of your audio problems should magically vanish. Of course if you want to record audio from a mic or instrument, you should get an external interface.

Unless you are a Cubase or Nuendo user, there is no impact. Existing plug-ins, hosts, and developers of them will continue to be compatible with the VST2 spec. As for anything that came with SONAR Platinum, if it works, it won't require further support. There's no company called "Cakewalk" any more. There's BandLab, which bought Cakewalk, Inc.'s products. That's all they bought. They didn't buy the company. The only connnection is that BandLab produces a DAW that's based on Cakewalk, Inc. code they bought from Gibson. They call it Cakewalk by BandLab. That's just a name. They're under no obligation to support Cakewalk, Inc.'s customers. They do, as a courtesy, keep the old Cakewalk, Inc. licensing servers running. I hope this clarifies things.

They were initially 32-bit, but the developers at Cakewalk worked overtime to make sure it was taken care of, and now they are 64-bit.

Oh, it's GOING on the lead vocals for your cover of "Strawberry Fields," isn't it? 😁 Perfect tool for nailing that sound. It has a good doubler preset. I'm diggin' it pretty good on dialog samples. Mine come from watching movies and TV shows on my computer and capturing with Audacity, so they start out way too clean. I highpass way up (of course), then bitcrush, then add some widening and delay for trippiness' sake. I think of dialog samples as slightly sour ear candy. They should be grainy enough to stand out from an otherwise glossy electronic mix, but have the effect of a surprise treat. This plug-in has pretty much everything I use to do that, with a few more tricks beside. This is one of those things where I'm sure I could nail every sound in it by using 3 or 4 other plug-ins I already have. There's a comprehensive quiver of most-used sample processing tools in one container. If I wake up tomorrow and still think it's a good idea, I'm getting it.

My name is Erik and I'm a plug-in addict. I went to download and install the RC-20 trial and found out that I already have an account at XLN Audio. My account on the site doesn't indicate that I own any licenses, but two of my computers are shown as activated. I have no memory whatsoever of getting any XLN licenses.

Have you tried Cymatics Origin? XelOhh really likes it as an RC-20-alike. I like Origin (it's just the thing for those ambient dialog samples), so I'm wondering if I might like RC-20 better.

I've had it since version 1, it is awesum for squashing the drum bus.

This is one of my favorite t-shirts. Country EDM would fit right in.

Dmitry From The Hills of Kentucky? DeadHor5? CowTipper? The mind boggles.

Although I will not be purchasing this bundle, just learning that Country EDM is an actual genre was worth following the link.

It could be, if you like "one knob" plug-ins. Compare it to the Cakewalk Style Dial MAX, I guess I already have plug-ins that do transparent, coloration, and de-essing, so I'll pass. I don't know if it's my geek nature or some kind of macho pride, but single-knob processors make me feel weird, like I don't trust their sonic embettering since it's so under the hood.

Once you have it, be sure to go to their sounds store and grab the following freebie preset packs: Ambient Soundscapes Ariel Proksa's Signature Bass Music Powerpack Dark Ambient Hansen's House House Chords Iconic Vibration Luminescent Lyli’s Signature Marc Houle's Signature Past To The Future Percussive Drive Starcadian’s Signature There's a bundle with Glitchmachines' Convex (their multieffect unit) and a new multiband delay from W.A. Production called Multibender, as well as noted resource hog SoundSpot Union. Glitchmachines' Palindrome, which is that trippy thing with the rectangular tunnel grid, is $10. There 5 SoundSpot "5 for 5" bundles for those who don't yet have every single SoundSpot effect under the sun from previous free-with-purchase offers. Cyclone, Glitch, Voxbox, and Overtone are in some of them and are all good.

I know about the base octave setting. But if I set that there are other MIDI-triggered plug-ins I have that don't line up, so I just leave it as-is and go with the transposer plug-in. It also has the advantage of being on a per-track basis, in case I have some other plug-in that uses some other convention.

Sigh. Yeah, I really wanted to like Stutter Edit 2, I thought it would be the way to level up on glitch and stutter effects. Had a hard time doing anything but browsing presets, so I took advantage of a trial membership at Producertech to take their course. Even after finishing the course, I still don't use it with anything but the presets, and infrequently at that. If one were to master it, it would be really powerful, but I pretty much just use stutters and glitches as a bit of seasoning in my ambient tracks, Chris Zippel style. A deep dive doesn't seem worth it at the moment. I agree about the UI and preset browser. Even just following along in the course, I kept getting into situations where none of the controls would move. I think it was behaving as designed, but it's poor design to let your users get stuck in potholes. One issue I found with Cakewalk is that the note names are 2 octaves off from what Cakewalk uses. No biggie if you put a MIDI transposer plug-in on the track, but something to be aware of if you can't get it to do anything. Still, it's worth $10, even if you only use it with the factory presets. There's no shame in presets. 😄

Oh, I see, you thought that once it was imported, the name field would read "Blue Midnight" (or whatever). I agree that it should. Unfortunately, Cakewalk doesn't seem to pass the string. For confirmation that the import worked you can see the changes to the colors immediately if you have a project open to Track View. My custom color sets make the grid lines much more visible, especially the measure lines. I have a harder time seeing the grid lines if I don't have one of my custom color sets loaded. As a native English speaker I appreciate the work you've put in to learn it. Written English is difficult, too much old code. 😁

Cakewalk got the Ripple Edit indicator in one of the first BandLab updates, so I've never known Cakewalk without it. I can only imagine the forehead contusions from continuous slapping.

Can you elaborate on this? I think there may be a language barrier. Click on Import Colors, then from that dialog, browse to whatever folder you downloaded the .CLR, then select the one you want and click Open. That should result in the color preset taking effect. Once it's imported, type the name of the preset into the selection box and save it. These steps work just fine on my system.