Chaps

4 minutes ago, Keni said:

I usually use Faststone (3rd party photo library/editer), but that requires using the mouse which then drops the popups from the view before the capture happens... I just thought of another way I might try...

 

Fastone's capture doesn't have a delay? I generally use the Windows 10 Snipping Tool which has a 5 second delay available. Very handy.

59 minutes ago, Keni said:

I also notice that the popup for the PRV  snap value snap enable Shows as Mackie Control which is an entry (the second) in all of my templates instead of SNAP???

 

Any chance you could post a screencap of that?

12 minutes ago, Keni said:

Ok... anyone else seeing this? First MIDI work since official 2020.05

In PRV I have display set to follow snap. Master snap is set to measure and PRV snap at 1/16.

No matter what I change PRV snap to it continues to disply 1/16 . No changes no matter what I change to.

I restarted CbB but no changes.

Any thoughts?

I've run into the same problem. Turn the PRV Snap OFF, and then right-click to choose a new snap resolution. That worked for me.

I thought this theme was pretty groovy except for one thing. I had a hard time telling if a track was selected or not, but that's just me and my bad eyes.

16 minutes ago, Caleb Kim said:

Thank you!

You're very welcome and thank you for bringing it up. I never thought about them before but now I see how useful they can be.

5 minutes ago, Robert Bone said:

When I track, on my desktop, which uses a Yamaha Steinberg UR22 audio interface,

 

How do you like that interface? I'm thinking of getting a Steinberg UR24C when I can put the funds together. I probably won't experiment with my buffer settings until I can put that in place.

The default installation folder for its 64 bit VST plugin is C:\Program Files\Steinberg\VSTPlugins . Is that folder in your plugin scan path?

The default installation folder for the 32 bit plugin is d C:\Program Files (x86)\Steinberg\VstPlugins (32 bit).

I'm trying to optimize Cakewalk for BandLab on a new system. I never record MIDI using a controller and only use the PRV to enter notes. I don't need to monitor my microphone or guitar using Cakewalk when recording audio because I can monitor them other ways. The only time I enable MIDI Echo on a track is if I'm using a tuner plug-in to tune my guitar. For years I was on a slower system and I always moved the Buffer Size slider all the way to Safe and didn't change the default Buffers in Playback Queue set at 2. I'm using a 44.1 sampling rate at 24 bit depth.

My questions are, are there any drawbacks to using the largest buffer size and would changing to a smaller buffer size offer any increase in performance.

1 hour ago, tdehan said:

Thanks.  I downloaded, unzipped and copied the ProChannel Presets to the destination folder you list.  However, how do I access them from within Cakewalk?

First of all, I strongly recommend that you download, or bookmark, the Cakewalk Reference Guide. There is detailed information there on how to use the ProChannel (and Cakewalk in general). It is a must have as a reference to look things up and understand most functions.

https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Reference Guide.pdf

You can access the ProChannel by clicking a button in the top right of an audio track.

Now it gets a little trickier. The button to load a ProChannel Preset is invisible until you put the mouse cursor over the Preset Name Box .  Once you can see the folder, click it to see the presets.

47 minutes ago, William Craig said:

I recently purchased a sound collection from Digital Sound Factory which came with a Dimension LE installer, I tried to install to Bandlab Cakewalk, but Cakewalk doesn't see it. Does anyone have suggestion on how to install Dimension to Cakewalk by Bandlab?

Check C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Dimension Pro\Multisamples to see if the samples are there and C:\ProgramData\Cakewalk\Dimension Pro\Programs to see if the presets are there. Dimension Pro is pretty much independent of Cakewalk when it comes to installing new sounds. If you have an option as to where those things should be installed to, use those directories unless you have a reason not to.

13 minutes ago, Caleb Kim said:

Does anybody know how to see grid lines in the Clip Pane? I always struggle when placing clips down so knowing how to enable the grid lines would be great.

Try this. View/Display/Vertical Grid Lines.

1 hour ago, tdehan said:

What VST plugins that come with Cakewalk would be good to use on the bass guitar track I just laid down?

Thanks

There were some nifty ProChannel presets around that Cakewalk for Bandlab doesn't include. There are some bass presets that are a good starting point. I zipped up my ProChannel Presets folder if you want to check them out. New presets can be added to the ProChannel Presets folder at:

C:\Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Core\ProChannel Presets .

ProChannel Presets.zip

On 6/7/2020 at 1:33 PM, scook said:

This is by design as this area is intended for use with MIDI hardware. The screen is disabled when no MIDI output devices are setup in CbB.

It is possible to define alternate note name entries for the PRV Note Pane with a text editor.

Open the master.ins in %appdata%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core in the text editor (may want to make a safety copy of master.ins before editing)

Under .Note Names create a section called [AD Drums]  (or whatever you want between the brackets) and add the

MIDI note number=Drum Name

pairs to appear instead of the keyboard in the PRV

Then under .Instruments create a section using the same name (in this example [AD Drums] and add the following

Patch=1..128
Key[*,*]=AD Drums
Drum[*,*]=1

 

Save master.ins

Now the new section should appear in the drop down in the PRV note names dialog.

 

Thanks, scook. That was very helpful. I used the AD2 drum map as a guide and added all the AD2 note names to my Master .ins file, followed your instructions, and it works great. I'm attaching a .txt file of those note names for anyone who wants to copy them into their own master .ins file (after creating a copy as backup, of course). Any corrections to the numbers/names is welcome. I double checked them but mistakes are easy to make for me.

Master INS AD2 Only.txt

You can right-click a mono audio clip and select Convert to Stereo. That will change a mono clip to a stereo clip with the same audio on both left and right channels.

Skip a beat? Not sure what that means regarding the Piano Roll.  Maybe something to do with your snap settings? Do you mean you can't enter a note exactly where you want it?

2 hours ago, Michael Fogarty said:

says it all. I want to shift the entire song 20 measures forward to add an instrumental intro but scads of tempo changes later on in the song.

 

I've never used Ripple Editing but another way to do it is to go to Project/Insert Time/Measures. Enter the number of measures you want to add and make sure the appropriate  Slide options are enabled.

You can access it by clicking the little arrow next to the output of a MIDI track. There may be other ways to do it, but that works for me.

2 minutes ago, bikerduude said:

That setting was all I needed to change. Thanks a million!  

Rock on. Take it one step at a time and you'll be posting songs here in no time. 🙂

1 minute ago, bikerduude said:

That should allow you to get your MIDI info into Cakewalk. I'd disable the GS Wavetable as an output, though. Cakewalk has a GM instrument called TTS-1 that is a good basic virtual synth to play MIDI data. I suggest you look at the main page here and check out some of the tutorials, and download a copy of the reference file. Those are good sources of information that will come in handy when you start putting things together. Here's a thread in the Tutorials section that is a good place to start.

https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/1610-getting-started/

23 minutes ago, bikerduude said:

 

You are using a MIDI to USB cable adapter? Does Cakewalk recognize your keyboard as a MIDI device?

14 hours ago, Kurre said:

Everything was too fast. I tried to sloow down to 0.5 speed but the voice sounded too absurd so i skipped it.

 

You can turn on the subtitles. They are very helpful.

I recently discovered that we can link drums on AD2 so when one is triggered it triggers the other drum/s. Anyone have any experience or tips on this? Here is an image of my AD2 where I've added two more snare drums on Flexi 1 and Flexi 2 so that when a note triggers the snare the other snares sound too. I can get a lot of variety just by tweaking the different volumes.

I use Audition 1.0 with no problems. Are you using scook's tools menu editor? If so, could you post a screencap of the settings you're using?

I've been using a GeForce GT 640 (2 GB RAM) for years, and it's now on its third computer, with no noticeable problems. Of course, I don't play video games or do anything that might require a beefier GPU. I checked out that page you linked to and noticed this:

"This result is based on average CPU and GPU usage from different programs and games. It changes based on operating system, background processes activity and targeted applications. This result is not universal and changes based on differences in hardware and software enviroments. Please do not use this calculator primary as decision maker than as helping tool to understand performance correlations between different components.

26 minutes ago, mark nelson said:

Oh thank you so very much!!  I thought I had either screwed up my software settings for good or was going crazy.  You are the best.  Have a great evening!

 

I'm glad I could help.  🙂