Starship Krupa

Whenever I see that, I can't help thinking it stands for "CAKEWALK AS F**K!!" Maybe I'll offer that If the devs ever implement a record mode where we can switch off automatic comping, I'll get CWAF tattooed across the knuckles of my trackball hand.

Beats by Brian Wilson.

I was so bummed when the bakery thrift store near me closed.

On 12/25/2018 at 6:48 PM, Toddskins said: Sibelius and others (not Finale'), force all the notes in a measure to add up to one (1). Therefore, when you import the song you played as a MIDI file into these programs, it will force all your notes to be strange values because the measure must add up to one. My reply was more like a stand-up comedy routine, but represents of the frustration I feel when trying to use most notation software. It's notation software. When I start getting into editing with it, which is something that I will usually need to do if I've imported a MIDI file, things go sideways very quickly. I do get that for heavy duty editing, it's not the right tool for the job, but except for Finale, every one that I've tried has resulted in the explosion of tiny notes when I try to make changes. Yes, I'm doing something wrong. But why is it so easy to get into trouble in all these other programs and not in this one? The OP doesn't even know what the term "musical score" means. I'm for getting them the program that has fewer pitfalls for the clueless noob. https://www.finalemusic.com/products/notepad/

Oh, also, with stuff as big and complicated as Native Instruments' stuff, I usually prefer to either go into the settings of the NI download app and tell it to install its plug-ins where Cakewalk can find them or I let it install them and then gointo Cakewalk's preferences and tell it where to find them. Sometimes the plug-in has dependencies other than just the .dll that it can't function without.

Nice, Rick. Isn't it astonishing what we're getting for free these days? Cakewalk and the Kontakt Player and all those sounds. There is a good Rhodes and a couple of decent drum kits, and there's even Sennheiser's DrumMic'a instrument for the Kontakt Player. 5 or so years ago Sennheiser went into a studio and mic'd up a drum kit 4 different times with various models of their microphones, doing multi-velocity samples, then took the samples and made a Kontakt Instrument with this amazing GUI that lets you click on which individual mic you want to use for each piece of the kit. There's a mixer with built-in effects and you can split it into 8 individual outputs. Download it for free from Sennheiser's website, register it, and you have the best drum VSTi for the money I have heard. Sorry to hear of your bandmate's passing.

LOL kinda says it. Um, yeah. Maybe not with Bandlab the music collaboration site, although I have found it useful. YMMV. Take it or leave it. Cakewalk under Bandlab's stewardship is miles beyond Sonar in speed, stability, bug repair, and features.

It is rather obscure, isn't it? I just send people to www.cakewalk.com As far as why this might be, it could be that Bandlab are holding off until the import/export functions to and from Bandlab are fully integrated. I think "Bandlab" is very much the social media platform, and to the company, Cakewalk is a way to attract people to it, and promote their use of it. Until it's really part of the ecosystem, perhaps it doesn't need to be right there on the front page of the main site. You will notice that the iOS, Android, and web apps are featured there, so maybe when Cakewalk is as integrated as they are, it will assume its place alongside them. I will say that the main site steers you toward the Bandlab Assistant, which features Cakewalk prominently.

I believe that Noel knows about this issue and intends to take care of it in the next release.

I guess the Marines have to make do with Navy Morale, or maybe they don't need extra morale, they're Marines, ooh-RAH! But yeah, the Air Force needs morale, the Coast Guard needs morale (when it's in your job description to bust homemade submarines full of cocaine you surely need theme music).

One of the things that I do to check whether the new build of Cakewalk is legit or not is I wait until the Bandlab Assistant has it downloaded and installed, then I click on the button that says "Open." After the program starts I observe it for a moment. What I'm watching for is whether it quits. If it does not quit, I can proceed with my work, secure in the knowledge that it is legit.

Couple of suggestions: I quieted NDIS.SYS way down on my Dell tower by rolling back to the previous network driver. It was spiking all over the place according to Latency Monitor, then I rolled it back one revision and poof! Also, for troubleshooting, Resource Monitor is a great tool for figuring out what is going on with your system. You can start it up by running Task Manager, then clicking on the Performance tab, then down at the bottom there will be a button for starting Resource Monitor. It will allow you to see what process is doing what to each disk and each file, what is using memory, network activity, etc. I used it to find out that Windows Defender was scanning my audio files as they were being streamed from the disk, which prompted me to figure out how to put a stop to that silliness.

I can't help but wonder why you are setting your projects at 192 and 96 and so forth when you are using older virtual instruments. 192 and 96 are usually for people capturing cymbals with expensive tube condenser microphones and the like. I never go higher than 88.2 myself, and since the strain on the storage space and other system resources is higher, I just go for 44.1 and I think it sounds fine. Of course, I may be half deaf and/or deluded. Anyway, here's a Swiss Army Knife workstation VSTi that will give you over 2500 sounds, including several acoustic basses that are better than the one in the TTS-1, IMO: https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/1-Instruments/64-Virtual-Instrument/1560-Xpand-2 Another option, one you should probably just jump on anyway because it's free, is Native Instruments' Komplete Start bundle: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/bundles/komplete-start/ Among the many, many sample instruments it comes with is a killer upright bass. I was just playing it and it's so much fun. If you play it really fast on your keyboard, it throws in finger noise and stuff. Lastly, if you have a Cakewalk Command Center account, you can download and install Home Studio for free, and it comes with Rapture Session, which, in addition to tons of amazing sounds, also has a great acoustic bass. Your options are many. Whatever you do, get Komplete Start and Rapture Session.

Oh, no kidding. I just took advantage of having a Gibson Cakewalk account to download and install Home Studio, which got me (among other things) Rapture Session, which in itself just blew me away with how great it sounds. And my understanding is that it's just a preset player.

Others have already pointed you to the existing exhaustive, endless discussions, which leaves me to bat cleanup. Shut up about it.

The workflow of Theme Editor is: 1. Open an existing theme, either Mercury or Tungsten. These are the "Light" and "Dark" ones that Cakewalk comes with. Mercury is the default theme that is hard coded into the program. If you have downloaded one of the many user-created themes that are available, you may also edit one of those. 2. Make whatever changes you want to the art, colors, etc. 3. Save your edited theme under a new name. "Rick's Mercury" or whatever. Since you don't mention that you did this, it might be where your efforts came to naught. Default location for themes is C:\Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Themes. 4. Start Cakewalk, go into Preferences, change the theme to the one with your new name. Since you don't mention this either, it might also be where you went wrong. You can also go into Preferences/Colors and change some of the colors there, and those changes will override the choices made in whatever theme you are using. Welcome to the world of theme editing. It's a lot of fun. You can also try out some of the themes that other users have created, there are some really good ones.

Mariano, since so many people like v. 1.1, maybe you could leave it available, or even give your new one a different name? Really looking forward to seeing the new changes! You're a bright new star in the Cakewalk theme world.

Cakewalk plays better with plug-ins than any other host I've tried. Maybe give it a try in a DAW that's specifically coded to work in Windows rather than ones whose code has to be compatible with multiple operating systems.

Confirming that: 1. Installer asked which of VST2, 3, and AAX I wished to install and obeyed my choice of VST2 and 3 2. Plugin asked me for license key upon CbB startup and accepted it, no dongle required 3. Nice resizable UI, and I threw it on a drum machine track and it gave it a crunchy, slightly pumpy depth that wasn't there before, so entirely worth the registration and d/l IMO

A good thing for CbB users to do is head over to Boz Digital Labs and download Bark of Dog version 1, which still comes with the PC module.

Without that library you will not be able to play that funky musique. No, seriously, I think it has something to do with the mixer. No, really, seriously, ignore me, I think these are solid answers.

Indeed, my everyday dark and light themes are M-Spec and Boston Flowers. Having started on my own theme before M-Spec came out and made it unnecessary 😊, I got a taste of how much work is involved, and I must thank the themesters for putting in the effort to make our Cakewalk experience so much more fun and pleasing to the eye.

The thing that baffles me is what happens between steps 1 and 4. 😂 Am I just kidding myself about the results of step 1? Is it performance anxiety?

For me, it's more like: 1. Practice keyboard part until I flow like Liberace sans candelabra 2. Arm MIDI track 3. Press R 4. Stagger around on keys like a sedated kitten for 3 or 4 takes until I realize it's not going to get any better 5. Quantize

Thanks. I was having fun, and in good humour, having found a way out. And thanks to Mark and Craig for the reminders of how many ways there are to hammer MIDI problems in this program.