Davydh

The reason I bring this up is all the top sound engineers at Puremix & MixWithTheMasters use VCAs.

Furthermore, they translate their templates into various DAWs and make them available for download, but I kept thinking how am I going to translate the VCAs into Cakewalk.

Let's say I want to adjust, specifically lower all the individual levels of the kick drum, snare, etc BEFORE they hit all the plugins, how do I do that in Cakewalk?

I hope one day it's added.

I'd say it's an industry standard feature for audio production like midi is for keyboards.

Do VCAs affect the level of the channels before they hit the plugins?

E.g. you have SSL compressors on every drum track and all the drum tracks are routed to a VCA, so you can control how much level is sent into the compressors?

Thank you all for responding and sorry for the delayed response.

I've since found out that by sending my dry signal to a bus before the master bus stops there being a delay.

I'm only using a creative labs usb at the moment, but I intend to buy the UAD Twin Apollo USB very soon with a new system.

Hi,

I'm currenting running Cakewalk on a Laptop that isn't powerful enough,
and I plan on buying a powerful PC in a couple of months,
but right now I'm trying to do parallel compassion on the Kick & Snare,
and there's very noticable delay between the source audio and parallel return.

I rendered/exported it as a wave outside of Cakewalk and there was no delay,
but while playing within Cakewalk it's really bad.

I want to know will this go away with a fast computer?
I'm going from Addictive Drums into the master buss
and also into a Kick/Snare crush with a lo-fi & dbx160.

Just curious about other people's experience with delay on plugins and ways of dealing with it.

Thanks!

I love Misha's suggestion:

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Hide /Unhide all muted tracks and take lanes globally, with a single button

On 2/16/2020 at 5:14 AM, CosmicDolphin said:

1. Nested Folders please

2. Gobal Midi transpose + / - button

3.Indexing of the sample folders..a simple text search can tie my machine up for over 5 mins ! ( I have about 400gb's worth ) 

 

I like the global midi transpose idea, but it would have to bypass channel 10 or midi drums would sound very 'interesting'.

11 hours ago, Noel Borthwick said:

I'm happy that this issue is fixed since it could have been the cause of many unknown random crashes in the field over the years - the problem has been latent at least since 2006  Fortunately his project was reliably able to reproduce this and allow us to fix it. 

Thanks for working with us to repro the issue.

I'm curious just how many Cakewalk users would be surprised to load some of their worst buggy projects from the past with this hotfix and find them running flawlessly!!!

Thanks Steve for not just getting frustrated and jumping ship, but actually sending the project to Noel!!

Thanks Noel for terminating this stealthy bug!! I hope lots of people notice a difference with a new solid as a rock Cakewalk by BandLab!

@scook,

I did not know Cakewalk requires reactivation at least every six months. I thought it only required that for new updates... But thanks for the correction!

New leading features, sure!

But program an industry standard feature if it doesn't take too long? Yes please!

4 hours ago, MusicTech_is_Awesome said:

HI

I am intending to get students to use Cakewalk as an extension of Bandlab in their music compositions but somehow the installations are based on per account, ie only the administrators can see the software after installation. We need Cakewalk to use for computers without internet connections. I hope there is a solution to this.

The only solution is creating a local WiFi hotspot for the computers. There's no way around needing internet for install.

You don't need it for Cakewalk to keep working, but for the initial install you need internet. 

Studio One & Cubase, Protools & Reaper all have them. I would definitely use them if they were added into Cakewalk by BandLab.

It seems like a relatively easy feature to add? Compared with some others on the wish list, though I'd still love to see midi auxes!

I love what BandLab is doing with and for Cakewalk!!!

It also looked like they had folders in console view, but I'm not a Protools user, so I may have misunderstood.

1 hour ago, Starship Krupa said:

I think it's cute when Pro Tools gets a feature that Cubase and Cakewalk and Digital Performer and Logic users have all been taking for granted for half a dozen years and their marketing department goes nuts and their smug users get further confirmation that PT is the greatest. I didn't watch the video, but I'm guessing that PT folders work the same way as Cakewalk folders? You can group tracks and mute, solo, arm? Collapse the folder to save real estate?

The last one I saw that cracked me up was Clip Gain Automation. Pro Tools apparently only got the ability to automate gain within a clip in the previous revision and that was a HUGE DEAL. OMG THA CLIP GAINZ AUDDOMASHIONNZ BUY YOUR UPDATEZ NOWZERZ!!

Even freaking little old Mixcraft has had all of those things for years. I would love for Cakewalk to handle folders the way that program does.

Protools folders work two ways.

Like an Aux. The folder itself has a fader.

Or for grouping together.

Just curious how my fellow Cakewalkers do it...

I don't know what DAW first implemented folders, but I know Cakewalk has had them for years now. But here's professional audio engineer Andrew Scheps showing off an unreleased beta version of Protools with folders.

To the experts, how differently are folders handled in Cakewalk?

Andrew geeking out on folders

A great suggestion

I'm saving up for a new ultra high performance music PC in a few months, but I have Sonar/CbB on my laptop. After this update goes public, I can't wait to try the aggressive mode and see what happens!

If you want people to switch to CbB as their DAW. This would be a massive reason to do so.

Any time you need to know what to do.

Just click on the section with GIFs and instant know how knowledge.

Like a visual gif Wikia for Cakewalk practical how-to get things done!

I can't recommend this idea strongly enough!

47 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

Oh, I am really happy about this!

Isn't great that the bakers are listening? 

Just wondering how many of you are still using it.

I wish I had gotten it when it was still available...

Would you go for softube or this?

It has Mackie support.

1 hour ago, abacab said:

The manual is available as a free download in PDF format for offline viewing.

In case I had not known, I would've appreciated you telling me that. It's just I'd prefer to read it in physical form, especially because of how big it is. I could self publish it just for myself, but I'd rather buy it from BandLab.

@azslow3,

Console 1 looks awesome.

I wish I could target other plugins though.

What I want is a minimum of 8 faders and the ability to switch between plugins.

Thanks for all the great info!

Someone gave me a Trigger finger pro which supports Mackie drivers. I'll try it out using your Mackie setup link 

Roland is apparently bringing out their first midi 2.0 keyboard this year in 2020.

Will Cakewalk be supporting the midi 2.0 protocol?

Roland midi 2.0 keyboard

Midi 2.0

@azslow3,

Thanks for that very detailed and helpful reply!!

Having ACT is important, so Mackie doesn't support it? That's sad.

So you'd recommend:

Behringer BCR2000 and X-Touch Mini. AZ Controller surface module?

As the best option?

Maybe one day BandLab will make one!