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I followed the link and created an account. I don't see a banner ad or anything indicating the MTurboEQ giveaway. What am I missing? (edited) What I was missing was that I needed to drop my Brave browser shields to get the ad for this to slide out.

I would like to have the option to log the plug-in exceptions (assuming that this isn't already being done). I don't want to keep running buggy plug-ins, and this information would allow me to either avoid them or report the bad behavior to the plug-in developer. Also, it would be great if there could be a mode where Cakewalk pops a message indicating that a plug-in has misbehaved and allowing me to click through it and save and exit immediately or keep going if I know the issue to be benign.

@Michael Fogarty, nice studio shots! I especially like the Apple subwoofer. I can't bring myself to dump mine and would love to find a way to power it up and get audio in. I also have the little spherical satellites. All sitting in a box in the basement awaiting some effort on my part. You seem to be of similar mind to me, can't have too many speakers for referencing. The tatami mats as reflection deadening really look nice.

I just added a .clr color preset file to the Racing Green folder. This allows further "greening" of the theme, most notably including greater contrast for grid lines in the Track View. A corresponding change to grid lines in Piano Roll View has been added to the theme, along with blue segmented meters for MIDI tracks. The default Cakewalk colors for grid lines have always been too faint for me, so I turned them green and made them brighter.

There are some plug-ins in that collection that are crazy good. Unfiltered Audio G8 CM, JST/Boz Sidewidener, OverTone PTH2A-CM, HY-FX CM, Audiorealism ADM CM are my favorites. There's also quite a treasure chest of sample packs.

I consider iZotope/Exponential Audio Phoenix Stereo Reverb to be the last reverb I'll need for a long while. It goes on sale from time to time for $10. Meldaproduction MTurboReverbLE is also great (I got it in a bundle). Wait for it to come around in one of their half off sales, sign up for their newsletter, and use a referral coupon (mine is MELDA1923165) and you can get it for about €50.

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Though you tried and you tried and you try-try-try-try-try-try-tried. You can't get it back and forth, no no no. Hey hey hey.

An Evans man then. My favorite heads are Aquarian. Especially the Super Kick II and coated snare batter (just the best for brushes). The built-in damping ring on the SK II makes it so I don't have to stick laundry inside the bass drum. Bass reso is an Aquarian Vintage. I use a felt strip on the bass reso head. Single chain on the DW. That's my other favorite configuration, with the round "Turbo" sprocket. I found out early on that the standard heavy double chain and standard heavy footboard don't allow fast enough rebound for me to do heel-toe doubles. Too much inertia. I think they changed the footboard in the late '90's because the stompers were breaking too many of them. The "Accelerator" sprocket is also troublesome, I think they designed it for more leverage so that the aforementioned stompers could hit harder. As you might guess from my handle, I'm a fan of jazz drumming styles, where you need to be able to "feather" your bass hits. The standard present day DW5000 with the double chain, Accelerator sprocket and heavier footboard doesn't seem to be built for that. A few years back, DW issued the 6000 series, which is a return to the earlier style, with the radius rod and no baseplate. I like the baseplate for lateral stability, so the only way I could get the combination of features I wanted was to Frankenstein it together from parts. Modern DW5000 baseplate, Delta II hinge, and goalposts for stability and adjustability, Camco footboard and strap cam for finesse. Re: tuning. I don't know what your method is, but from the start, I've relied on iDrumTune Pro. The lug tuning feature is fantastic for getting rid of unwanted overtones. The creator's philosophy of tuning tends toward more sustain and resonance, but I've found that I can go the other direction if I want to get less ring. In this way, I don't feel the need to put gels on my toms.

Oh I like that idea. There are BandLab versions for Android, IOS and browser, why not a BandLab VST? I don't know if it would even need to have the full BandLab Mix Editor UI, It could do something similar to what the Cakewalk BandLab integration does.

Firefox hasn't used RealPlayer in at least a decade. They too decided it was best to dump it. If you are "punishing" Firefox for having once used RealPlayer, you are fighting a battle long since won. Tip: since you are using Chromium-derived Edge, and concerned about security, I recommend Brave, which is a Chromium-derived browser oriented toward privacy, security, and speed. I've been using it as my default browser for a couple of months and like it lot. It delivers on the speed for sure.

In an amazing move, Ocean Swift's entire line of synths is now freeware. If you do ambient textures and sound design, there are a couple there that will surely become go-to's. There are also a couple of more standard type synths and one that does nothing but drone. Really, nothing not to like. They are pad machines. They remind me a bit of the late great HG Fortune, if you like that stuff, you should check these out. Download them, save the installers, because who knows how long they'll keep their servers up.

(Uh-oh, drum geekery. A topic I can't stay quiet about, to say the least) Nice looking kits there! Ain't it great to be able to leave it all mic'd up and ready to go? What are your rack tom diameters? They look a notch smaller than mine. I am a vintage drum nut. I'll see if I can find a presentable photo of my 1970 Slingerland New Rock (12, 13, 16, 20) outfit. Cymbals are all vintage A Zildjian save for one Sabian AA Thin Crash on the right side over the floor tom (I love my backhanded crash). Gotta have lightweight hats, I foot splash and "pssht" a lot. I bought up a few old A Zildjian sets on CL and picked out the 2 lightest. The ideal cymbal sound for me is Ed Shaughnessy. I have a small collection of vintage snares, my desert island one is (ohhhh, ohhhh) me Acrolite. Rotated in and out are a COB Gene Krupa Sound King (original to the kit), an 80's 6.5" Ludwig Rocker, and a WFL Barrett Deems (later known as the Ludwig Jazz Festival, the Ringo snare). Wrap on the Slingies is Blue Agate, the WFL is gold on black duco. Sometimes I rack up an old Rogers COB timbale to the left of my snare. This was easier when I was using my Rogers Supreme big R hi hat stand, I could mount it on that. It's fun for little latin or ska accents. Cymbal stands are flat-based DW, with a Slingerland hi-hat stand. I, too, rock the DW5000 kick pedal. Mine is a strap drive frankenpedal, started as a 2000's DW, modded with earlier DW and Camco components. Strap is Gibraltar's kevlar. Sticks are Vic Firth American Jazz AJ4's. The tips really flatter a ride cymbal. Tony: whoa, got those rack toms cranked. I tune lower. My first drum idol was Ringo, then Moon and Graeme Edge, thud tuners all. If I can get my snare to sound like the legendary "Nights in White Satin" THWACK, that's when I know I've done well. Pinstripes on the tom batters, sometimes even damping rings. Ambassador with gel on the snare. Boom we like, ring, not so much. Re-rings and vintage round-ish bearing edges on the shells help further this goal. Ed: I think your set of kick drum mics exceeds my entire mic locker. I mic mine with a single dynamic pointed at an angle to the beater impact spot (reso head intactica). I'm kinda "less is more" with my drum mic setup. Single mics pointed at batters of snare and kick, matched overheads in "Recorderman" configuration. I've tried tom tom mics and reso head mics on snare and kick, but found they are more trouble than they're worth. It turns into a Gatey Watey rabbit hole and I find myself spending twice as long mixing, to pretty much the same result.

What do you mean by "pre-roll?" There is a metronome setting that allows for any number of count-in measures. It's also easy to insert empty measures at the beginning of your project using Project>Insert Time/Measures.

Which means you have the only version of Cakewalk that's on the market. 😀 There are many Cakewalk users who have Scarlett 2i2's and get great results. It's a fine interface, wish I had one myself.

I'm on EAP (Build 125), just like you. This is weird with a beard. There must be some condition or other that I've set that's triggering this. It's this way on both of my systems, so it has to be one of my settings. Thanks for checking it out.

Did you raise it via official Cakewalk by BandLab support ticket or did you raise it in a peer support forum where the vast majority of the people reading it are powerless to address the underlying issue? This forum is not the best way to get the attention of official BandLab support. If you look at the descriptions of the forums, none of them say "official Cakewalk by BandLab support." They're forums for user discussion. Sometimes the developers chime in, but that's not guaranteed. You may, if you wish, bump it every day and continue a pointless and increasingly hostile discussion about web browsers and security settings with a bunch of people for whom it's not an issue or you can take it to those who have the power to see that it gets addressed (if it is possible to address it): https://help.cakewalk.com/hc/en-us I will second Collin's suggestion regarding the Cakewalk Reference Guide. It's much more comprehensive. I'm not saying that the issue with the broken images shouldn't be repaired, but for your personal use, the Ref Guide is a better tool. Drawback: not context sensitive.

I'm glad it sorted itself out, but it strikes me that you tried 5 different things and were on the verge of giving up without having contacted Cakewalk by BandLab support to see if they had a solution in their database. From time to time I see similar "I've tried everything to get CbB to install and I'm just going to give up" posts where the person having the distress hasn't contacted support. Is it because the program has a free license and people think that therefore there is no support? There is official free support and by all reports they are helpful and attentive.

For tech support issues like this, the best thing to do is go to https://help.cakewalk.com/hc/en-us and submit a ticket. As it says in the forum description, "This is the place to ask questions about operating Cakewalk." The people here are less likely to know about installation issues and the BandLab Assistant than the official support technicians.

A thing I don't understand: official support for Cakewalk by BandLab is only an email message away yet no one in this thread has related any instructions or solutions suggested by official support. This is a peer forum, this is not the way to get official support. Mostly the advice is going to be from veteran users who won't be experiencing such fundamental issues as complete failure to install. So it can only be educated guesses. We're able to help with just about any problem someone might be having figuring out how to use the software, but the chances that we've faced brick wall failure to install are low. Support technicians have access to a database of issues and solutions. The choice is to keep groping for a guessed-at solution here or to get in touch with them.

I'm taking another crack at creating custom workspaces for my 15" screen'd laptop and running into a problem. Specifically, my understanding of the Workspace Manager is/was that the left column is for selecting which program elements you wish to have available in the workspace. The right "Load from Workspace" column is for selecting which options will override ones default settings. If it's not checked in the left "Show in GUI" column, it won't be available, if it's not checked in the right column, it won't override the settings. However, what is happening is when I uncheck Control Bar Layout in the right hand pane, the Control Bar disappears and I can't bring it back using "C" or via the Views menu. The other options in "Load From Workspace" don't have similar results; if I uncheck Track Control Manager, the Track Control Manager is still available in the pull-down menu above the track headers. Is this the way it's supposed to work? I expect it to leave my standard Control Bar layout alone (if unchecked) or override it (if checked).

Perhaps it's just a mild case of appendicitis.

I went down the list in Preferences>Customization>Colors, and, using the search function in The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, found the entries that seem to have no corresponding entry in Theme Editor. There were more than I expected. Some of them appear to be UI elements that don't have their own entry in Theme Editor but have been determined by Colin to follow other elements' entries. Whether changing them in Colors overrides only the named UI element and not the associated ones can be discovered via testing. Not all of them are described in the unfortunately non-alphabetized documentation. At some point I might try Colin's "purpletrator" idea of changing these unlisted colors to eye-searing fluorescent in order to see what jumps out. Some of them are listed with description in the documentation but don't seem to have any corresponding actual UI element, like Folder Clip Text. One or more of them may have no effect on the UI element it is said to control. (such an entry is "Console Hardware Output Name Text") One of my goals with this is to get a better handle on it so that I can offer Racing Green users a customized color set to go along with it. Vertical Beat Lines, Vertical Measure Lines, and Tempo Envelope (which has an entry in Theme Editor but only obeys its Colors entry) are especially of interest. I find the standard grid lines in both TV and PRV too dim. Without further ado, here are the Colors entries that appear to have no direct counterpart in Theme Editor. Additions, subtractions, clarifications welcome: AudioSnap Marker AudioSnap Pool Member Marker Vertical Beat Lines Vertical Measure Lines Bus Send Angle Bus Send Focus Bus Send Front/Rear Balance Bus Send LFE Bus Send Width Clip Fades Clip Gain Envelope Clip Pan Envelope Clip Velocity Envelope Comp Header Console Hardware Output Name Text (purpletrated and has no visible effect) Disabled AudioSnap Marker Drawing Erasing Event List ChanAftEvents Event List Control Events Event List KeyAft Events Event List Note Events Event List Patch Events Event List Special Events Event List Sysx Events Event List Wheel Events Events First controller/surface channel number display Folder Clip Background Folder Clip Text Folder Line Fourth controller/surface color choice Front/Rear Balance Envelope Maximum stretched AudioSnap Marker Musical Snap Pool Markers Navigator rectangle Note that is on Peak Marker (<=0dB) Peak Marker (>=0dB) Peak Marker Text Region FX Clip Background Second controller/surface color choice Snap Offset Markers Snap To Scale Excluded Rows Surround Angle Envelope Surround Focus Envelope Surround LFE Send Control/Envelope Surround Width Envelope Tempo Envelope Third controller/surface color choice Track View Bus Send Level X Control/Envelope Track View Bus Send Pan X Control/Envelope Track View MIDI Chorus Track View MIDI Reverb Control/Envelope Track View Mute Envelope Track View Pan Control/Envelope Track View Volume Control/Envelope Values

I know that a UI color that has been customized via Preferences>Customization>Colors will override the same color as set in a theme. I also know that there are some UI colors that may only be customized via Preferences>Customization>Colors. Examples of the latter include Clips Pane/Vertical Beat Lines and Clips Pane/Vertical Measure Lines, which control the color of the vertical grid lines in the Track View Clips and Track View Bus Pane. Has anyone made a list of which colors are exclusive to Color Preferences? The only ones I know of are the two I listed above. If so, I'd like to see it, if not, it seems ripe for some "purpletration" testing. (going through the list in Colors, there are bunches that I suspect are deprecated)