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1 hour ago, chris.r said:

Yep, roland cloud authorization method sucks  

It's surprising that comes from a music tech company. They don't think people will have it on a DAW? They don't realize you don't want notifications while you're tracking? I have it installed, but I have startup and notifications disabled. I haven't purchased anything because of the implementation.

Right click the Win Start icon and select Device Manager. Expand Sound, video and game controllers an you should see Korg nanoKontrol2. If so start CbB and in Edit -> Preferences -> MIDI -> Devices you should see nanoKontrol.

11 hours ago, Mickey Monster said:

good advice. Anyone else actually own a  Roland A 300 pro?

I have one. I play guitar so it doesn't get a lot of use. Mine is branded Cakewalk by Roland and it works well with CbB.

14 hours ago, Dave G said:

I don't understand it either. (Unless I'm misunderstanding your explanation...?)

I can't draw a 3,072 RPN in the beginning of the track as a catch-all to each pitch bend above 2 notes. Every pitch bend has to be preceded by a custom RPN that sets its range.

It doesn't help with your problem, but I was trying to explain the design. On the HW midi controllers and HW sound modules I have the bend range is buried inside a menu and is not a parameter you change when playing a song. You set a bend range on your midi controller and you set the bend ranges on any sound modules you are controlling to match. That allows you to change your bend range. 

Midi pitch bend messages change when you play a song - on a keyboard the pitch wheel is there to manipulate in real time, it's not buried in a menu. Midi pitch bend messages are relative to the bend range. The value in a pitch bend message to raise a pitch a half step is different if the bend range is 2 than if the bend range is 12. If you want to bend up a fifth somewhere in your song  you set the bend range to 7 at the beginning of the song and if you bend up or down a half step you put the appropriate value to achieve that and like wise for a whole step bend. For any given bend range you need to calculate what pitch bend value you need to bend to the interval you want. That is how I understand the design and that is likely what you'll find on midi controllers and sound modules. If you record someone playing a midi controller this is what you'll see. Bend ranges are already set and when you record a midi performance you'll see pitch bend messages and if there is a wide bend range you'll note the peaks of the curves will be at different values for half step, whole step, and bends of a third and so on.

Given that you're free to do whatever you want and if TTS-1 is easier for your composing methods you should use that.

OK, you're drawing it in, not playing it? And of course there's higher resolution with smaller bend ranges...

4 minutes ago, Promidi said:

I do this in all of my MIDI projects for the SW1000XG.

Why?

1 hour ago, Dave G said:

That is disappointing...

I would hope that Rapture would fulfill that need for the extra flexibility. Looks like back to TTS-1 for using RPN controllers when the need arises.

I don't understand. Some midi controllers have a fixed bend range so the synth and controller have to match. Even if the controller has a programmable bend range the controller's and synth's bend ranges have to match. You wouldn't change the bend range on the fly. Once the bend range is set then the value of the bend message determines how much the pitch changes. Pitch bend messages are relative to the bend range. Keyboards often have a value of 2, guitar to midi controllers are often 12 or 24 - allowing you to slide up/down the neck. Using a midi controller you do it by ear and it's very simple. The idea of rising to the next note changes based on the bend range - what value rises to the next note depends on the bend range.

Does the crackling happen with wifi and lan disabled?

If you play an electric gtr  you can make it sound like an acoustic. Blue Cat Audio has the Re-guitar.

https://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Product_ReGuitar/

I use HW devices - Roland VG-99 or Boss SY-1000. Roland/Boss has other devices/pedals as well

43 minutes ago, Kalle Rantaaho said:

I wonder how freeing licenses and installing the updates in the new machine is done as the old machine is (has always been) off-line. Well,  I'll find out.

It depends on the vendors. Some let you manage license from any machine, with others you may have to contact their support.

4 hours ago, Kalle Rantaaho said:

I'm curious to know any heads-up info  that might be useful in the operation, especially conserning the updates of the VSTi's, or any incompatibility problems.

If the old HW still works uninstall/free up any SW license that are tied to that machine that you don't need when you get the new machine setup. That's more important if you keep a dual setup - DAW and laptop.

I'm a guitarist, not a keyboard player - I just play enough for some synth parts, pads, and so on, so I didn't bother to load the pianos. I have them covered by other samplers.

I don't have VST3 versions of Guitar Rig. 

If you don't see it then CbB doesn't recognize it. To see if the computer does check Sound, video and game controllers in Device Manager. Also MIDI-Ox is a useful tool for debugging MIDI setups.

http://www.midiox.com/

Got it, thanks. I have the pedal - dimension dc-2w, but it's nice to have a SW version as well.

17 hours ago, MediocreBeats said:

Essentially I have a short 808 sample. I have the audio file but that's it. I want to loop it so it plays infinitely.

To do this inside CbB look up groove clip looping. You can turn audio into a loop. You don't need a sampler to this inside CbB.

A nice feature is that you can bypass the preamp and or power amp and it has a power soak. I have an old VG-99. It has lousy speaker emulation, you had to eq speaker response to get a decent sound. Putting the VG-99 through the Suhr PT-100 with the preamp disabled is nice. Unfortunately it doesn't look like you can load IRs. I think this will be good doing the same thing with an old MP-1 preamp as well. 

According to the web the juno gi has a built in IF. If you are using that then you need to select it's driver inside CbB. You may need to configure the IF - roland/boss IFs differ. Speakers/headphones will be plugged into the juno and you need to setup an audio track for audio from the juno (track input) output to master and select Input Echo.

The first thing to do is open preferences and see if the Tascam US appears in the audio devices. If so that's not the problem. Then make sure that audio tracks are routed to a bus. Then check that buses are routed to master and that the master is routed to the Tascam.

Ooops, I haven't done it with USB. Once you have the arduino programmed and you plug it into the computer does it show up as a midi device?

If the motion depth is set to 0 in fxReverb you should be able to set the sonitus reverb to match, but you'll probably have to do some tweaking. If the motion depth is greater than 0 then you need to create a send bus and put the reverb on that and add modulation before or after the reverb. You can use sonitus modulator and try ensemble or string phaser mode on the modulator. HTH.

I have both an M4 and midi express XT and they both work fine. The drivers have been solid for me.

2 hours ago, msmcleod said:

This usually means that Cakewalk is set to use ASIO and it can't open any ASIO devices.

This could be because:

- Your audio device has gone to sleep or is unplugged

- Another application is using it

 

I got this message yesterday on my DAW. The last time I used CbB I was using a Boss SY-1000 as an interface. When I opened CbB yesterday the SY-1000 was powered off and a MOTU M4 was powered on. When I opened preferences the M4 was there, but as expected nothing was checked. Checking the appropriate boxes everything was fine. Seems like it could be a case of switching devices as well - I use both the SY-1000 and M4 in ASIO mode.

20 hours ago, reginaldStjohn said:

I use this all the time for comparing against reference tracks and for comparing tracks to eachother. 

I also use it to assist my ear when copying synth sounds from one synth to another or guitar amps and so on. 

Easy to test. Create a new project and use PRV to create a click track and then record vocals on another track. Let us know what happens.