Starship Krupa

Bapcoin, obviously.

Indeed, a long-requested feature. You can search for the topic and add your .02.

Ahh, the "Media" tab....

Nice. On which tab? How do I access them?

Pretty simple idea: I'd like to have my list of track templates appear in the Browser. Dragging a template from the Browser to Track View would create a new track using the template. (I suggest this not only because I think it's a slick idea, but also because I personally don't make enough use of track templates. In the heat of battle, I forget that they are there. Making them front-facing would help me make better use of them, in more than one way.)

I have not tried it. It would be hard to test due to the fact that BandLab's servers are still authenticating Cakewalk by BandLab installations. Also, I don't think anyone's really going to need it. Anyway, CbB tries to connect. If your system isn't connected to the Internet, how would the program know that it's not whatever date you tell it? If it last talked to the server on October 24, 2024 and you pull the network cable out and fake the date to December 24, 2024, won't it believe that its authentication hasn't expired? I mean, if CbB is able to contact BandLab's server, BandLab would have to make it so their server actually disables it for it not to keep working. CbB is capable at this time of running on systems with no internet connection whatsoever. Not sure how it works, but supposedly you can run a program on a different system that is connected to the Internet, get a validation hash from BandLab's servers, and then use that code to reset Cakewalk's countdown. I doubt that anyone will ever need to try these shenanigans because I don't believe that BandLab intends to deliberately disable operation of CbB. If I'm wrong about that I'm wrong.

Since so many of their products fall into my "the last thing I need is another X" where X=compressor, EQ, channel strip. I only ever took advantage of in the Mega sales with no minimum spend on the vouchers, and around the time of the last one, it was almost impossible to find anything I really wanted, all I did was fill out my quiver of Unfiltered Audio stuff.

At Walmart.com of all places. I was at GC the other night looking for replacement earpads for a set of Sony MDR-7506 that I had snagged in the "free" box at a yard sale and took the opportunity to try out various studio cans. My favorites turned out to be the K240's. I'm a headphone 'ho, I have a few of the traditional studio faves, ATH-M50x, Beyer DT880, Superlux 681, but my favorite of the ones I listened to at Guitar Center was the AKG, so I'm getting a pair of those. $55 for brand new seems like a steal. BTW, when (not if) you need to replace the pads on your MDR-7506's (or any other headphones), my favorite pad replacements are the Krone Kalpasmos Instant Chill, which have a layer of memory foam and a layer of gel on top of that. They improved the MDR-7506's sound by bringing the drivers closer to my ears and sealing against my head better. I had found them lacking in the bass dept.

As I remember pointing out years ago, if BandLab's authentication server ever goes offline, you can set your Windows system time and date or run a program like RunAsDate to make CbB think that your authentication hasn't run out. d00d, I am 3733t! I haxx!

Works with Live Lite. So says Ableton's site. Yummy.

Oh, I'm getting that for sure. I scored a Wacom tablet at Salvation Army for $5, that rare thrift store Wacom that still has the stylus with it. Also always open to checking out video editing software. It occurs to me that a Humble Bundle of Cakewalk Sonar and Next would be a cool way for those products to be introduced....Humble Bundle seems to be a way for companies to get people on their platform and hence the upgrade train. I've spoken with so many people who got their creative software from there, especially younger people.

Okay, that's one thing. Discontinued. No more development, no more support, as eventually happens to most software versions. And that's entirely another. Where/when did they specifically mention that "it will not be for long?"

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Maybe it's not a good idea to throw your projects into the path of such an obsolete piece of software. I think what has happened is that you have found the limit of backward compatibility. So now you get to choose: do the (doubtless many) benefits of opening a newly-created Cakewalk project in a version of the software that was deprecated 6 years ago outweigh the risks?

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De gustibus. Read between the lines in my entries to the "favorite '80's era guitarist" topic. Notice how there is only one single overlap with anyone else's choices? The way I see it, music is a form of communication. Not everything everyone says, no matter how well-received by others, is going to resonate with us, especially given that we (as musicians) are more tuned in and passionate about music. There are some artists that many friends of mine (and musical artists whose work I love) worship like gods that I've just never been able to connect with. The fact that I just don't care for what they do seems to really rub some people the wrong way. Captain Beefheart and The Jesus and Mary Chain are two that come to mind. As an indie/postpunk musician, you're supposed to revere Captain Beefheart. I notice that none of my friends ever seem to put his records on to listen to, but still, he's a "genius" in the canon of those genres. Whatever, he just doesn't do it for me. I was a shoegaze guitarist in the 90's, that was my last band, and again, Jesus and Mary Chain were canonical geniuses in that genre. I couldn't stand to listen to them. My signposts were Lush and My Bloody Valentine. De gustibus non est disputandum: in matters of taste there can be no dispute.

Adrian Belew played some pretty tasty shizzle in the 1980's as well.

The issue is certainly never with the comprehensibility of the posted questions.....

It does not. No you cannot.

We need to know what other system components your system has. What CPU, how much RAM? Also, what is your goal in wanting to upgrade the component? Do you only use it for DAW work or are there other things you want to speed up? DAW work doesn't put too many demands on system graphics. Past the point of about GTX 550 or so, a newer video card isn't going to show you any performance gain for DAW use. For more recent CPU's than about Sandy Bridge or so, the internal graphics are plenty. There should be no difference between any of the "latest cards" for DAW work. Depending on your system's other specs, there could be things that would show you a performance gain if you updated them. Graphics, not likely, unless you want to do some gaming. The only reason I'm using the GTX 1070 instead of my passively-cooled GT 1030 is that I play games.

Well, the thing is it's impossible to know what actually solved the problems because you did at least two big things. Usually when we're trying to fix things we do multiple things while trying to solve the problem because we are more interested in having the damn thing work than figuring out why it wasn't working. Poor connections in the RAM socket can cause those issues, and heat may as well. The big issue usually with dust buildup in electronics is that dust reduces cooling efficiency, so you get overheating. The components inside computers are usually designed to slow themselves or shut down entirely when they get to a certain temperature (to prevent permanent damage). So, yeah, could have been the dust. Bad connections between component and socket can also cause that behavior, so, yeah, could have been the reseating the RAM. When I start to see weirdness on my system, I usually start out by monitoring what it's up to, if it's getting hot or whatever. My favorite tool for this is HWInfo, which is free and has both a system summary mode where it will tell you in great detail what components your system is built from, and a sensors mode which lets you see what all of the sensors in your system are reporting. And there are hundreds of them, for processor usage, temperature for various components, fan speed, and so on. It's a good idea to take the computer out on the porch every so often, open the case and blast the dust out with an air duster can. Don't neglect to do this to the power supply unit. It has a fan, and that fan moves a lot of air, and I've seen some DUSTY power supplies.

Prince, Andy Gill of Gang of Four, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, John McGeoch of Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bernard Sumner of New Order, Steve Stevens (with Billy Idol, not so much solo), Johnny Marr of The Smiths, Robert Smith of The Cure, Billy Zoom of X, Andy Summers of The Police, and the almighty Michael Hedges (Windham Hill Records).

Would it be possible to do this with just a marker? Set a marker where you want to skip to and then use Alt+right arrow to skip to the marker? I don't know if Cakewalk allows that during recording, but it might.

Okay, after many years of leeching off of IK Multimedia's GENEROUS freebies (at least one of which, their Fairchild 670 emulation, took my mixing to a whole other level), I finally crowbar'd open my wallet for SampleTank 4 MAX. With JamPoints that I "earned" by simply registering freebies over the years, the total outlay came to $50. Right now I'm in the process of downloading the 680GB+ sample data. There's no way that will fit on any of my SSD's, so either I figure out how to be selective with what actually gets installed or I pop for yet another SSD to be able to use this powerhouse. I know that there will be instruments, most likely including the sampled grands, that I already have covered. I've read on here about the Miroslav orchestra samples being kinda old, but the orchestral instruments I'm using now are based on even older libraries. One of the first things I plan on doing is replacing the instruments on one of my orchestral pieces with what I'm about to be getting with SampleTank. We'll see how it goes. Kudos to those at IK for providing such value over the years. I've had my share of issues with the authorization and installation software, but that seems to have finally been smoothed out in the most recent builds.

Um, well, yeah. Cheaply sold does tend to equal cheaply made. IME with them, MXL mics are good mics for the money, They also lend themselves well to DIY modding. Although they may now be using SMT components, which makes modding more difficult.

Seems like it would. Why not try it?