Chaps

That would be handy. I think the closest thing to that right now is to open the track in both the PRV and Staff view and toggle between them.

Can you post a screenshot of your Audio Devices? That's a good place to start when tracking down audio playback problems.

Just now, User 905133 said:

I got a copy in the new location by holding down the Ctrl key using just the Select Tool (not Move or Smart).  Useful for doubling. 😉

But maybe that points to a setting somewhere that sets up Copy as a preference. 

Well, I hope y'all can work it out. I'll stick to using the PRV where this isn't a problem.

5 minutes ago, David Baay said:

Yes, I noticed that. I found that the following rather awkward gesture allows moving a selection:

- Ctrl+Left-click a note in the selection, then release Ctrl while continuing to hold the click, and drag.

- Only the clicked note will appear to move while dragging, but when you release the click, the whole selection will move.

That's now what I get. What happens when I do that is that it doesn't move the note, but copies the note to where I drag it.

12 minutes ago, David Baay said:

Right-click the Smart Tool button in the Tools module, and make sure the 'Move' option is checked.

I just tried that. I can move individual notes but not all the notes selected.

7 minutes ago, David Baay said:

Confirmed the Move tool seems completely broken in Staff View; I don't get the Move cursor at all.  And it goes back at least to the  final release of Platinum.

But Smart Tool works fine for moving notes in the SV so there should be no need to switch to the PRV.

 

 

I tried to move selected notes in the Staff View using the Smart Tool. I couldn't do it.

5 minutes ago, User 905133 said:

However, I might be able to tweak my current "Staff Entry" Workspace to include a floating PRV on a second monitor that I can slide over to my main work area to use the PRV to move notes around on an as needed basis. 

So, thanks for the suggestion!!! 

 

I'm glad that helped. I was just expanding on the comment made by mark skinner. Until BandLab fixes the problems in the Staff View (Hey, it could happen), it's handy to have alternate ways of doing things. The more you use the PRV, the easier it will get so you can get back to making music.

Good use of pedal point. Two thumbs up.

38 minutes ago, User 905133 said:

This is a Staff View issue.  (Some of us use the Staff View.)  The learning curve to use the PRV is too steep for me.  I have tried many times, but I keep falling off and lose precious time.  😛

I realize putting notes on staves is so old-fashioned, but I hope the Staff View is not decapitated for another few decades.     

I understand. The Piano Roll can seem daunting to some people. But all I'm suggesting is that you use it just to move the notes you want to move. Select the notes in the Staff View, open the Piano Roll View, move the notes, close the Piano Roll View. It's pretty easy to do. Personally, I like working in the Piano Roll View because it gives me greater flexibility as to where the note starts and where the notes end, very important in 'humanizing' the end product.

On 2/12/2020 at 4:45 AM, Akira Chen said:

I select notes and then use move tools to move the notes I selected. But I cannot move them. No work！

Does somebody know how to move the notes?

Open the track in the Piano Roll View and move them there. Works fine.

On 2/16/2020 at 11:05 AM, Larry Graham Alexander said:

Your music's key is important.

 

 

Another thing to consider regarding keys is that if one actually sets a project to the correct key then the Process/Transpose feature can be set to Diatonic Math, which can greatly facilitate creating harmonies or building chords.

I don't know much about the Tools Editor, and can't add the Cakewalk reference file no matter what I tried so I guess I don't know how to use it,  but it's pretty easy to do by editing the registry. Of course, it's pretty easy to mess things up if you delete the wrong thing so to be safe it's a good idea to backup (export) the registry before deleting/changing anything if you don't have much experience doing this kind of thing. To remove a program from the Cakewalk Utility Menu:

Run regedit (and export it if you have any doubts about doing this).

Click Edit/Find and search for the key Tools Menu. When it is found it will look something like this. These are the items in my Utility Menu.

Delete the one you don't want. All done. Try this method if no one explains how to do it using the Tools Editor.

On 4/12/2019 at 5:05 PM, Jim Fogle said:

 

 

9 hours ago, Rosewood said:

eg imagine I have a song that's 60 seconds long but I only want 20s-40s.  I select all & split at the two locations.  (To hopefully select & export.)

But then it gets harder: imagine it's a ton of vertical tracks so (using the mouse) you're scrolling way up and hoping to find a place to click, then you scroll all the way to the bottom and hope you don't go a little too far, or you have to restart the whole process.

I wonder if there's a way to do this with just the keyboard.

 

 

One way to do it would be to save the project with a different name (to be safe), select all, press the 's' key where you want the first split to be. The clips to the Left of the split should be selected (unless you've changed the default split behavior) and delete them by pressing the Delete key on your keyboard. Then change the Split behavior  in Preferences so that the clips to the Right of the split are selected after splitting, then select all, split where you want your clips to end, and delete the clips to the right of the split. You'll be left with just the parts you want to keep.

From the Cakewalk for BandLab Reference File: You don't even need to save the file with a different name to edit it as long as you don't Save the project after the splitting and deleting.

To specify the default split behavior
1. Go to Edit > Preferences > Customization - Editing.
2. Under Clips, select the desired option in the Selection after single split list.

Pressing the 's' key will split all selected tracks. Ah, I see you've already done that. Nevermind.

When you say 'cut', do you mean 'split', or that you want to remove the tracks but save them in the windows clipboard? If you mean 'split', try pressing the 's' key instead of using the mouse.

58 minutes ago, DeeringAmps said:

So all that distortion is the 350, or the layered synths? Pretty saturated. At times it sounds pretty heavily gated, or is that the synths cutting off? Keep it moving forward.

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Ah, another thing I did that might have had a big effect on the guitar sound is that I opened the direct guitar audio track in Audition and used the hard limiter feature to knock all the big transients down, which is something I do with every direct signal from my guitar before I use a guitar VST on it. I also removed a lot of hiss at the end of some RP350 phrases which did result in an unnatural end of the envelope in some cases.

32 minutes ago, DeeringAmps said:

So all that distortion is the 350, or the layered synths? Pretty saturated. At times it sounds pretty heavily gated, or is that the synths cutting off? Keep it moving forward.

t

I used the 'Satch' patch on the RP350 and a couple of distorted patches in TH3, all panned differently and mixed down to one stereo track. I recorded the direct guitar signal and the RP350 at the same time. I tweaked the TH3 patches a bit, mostly just to cut the low frequencies and all three had different reverbs on them. The guitar is also doubled by a couple of synth patches in Dimension Pro (that I wrote out in the hybrid staff), though I couldn't tell you which ones. I was trying things and changing on the fly and it's all kind of a blur now. I intentionally phrased the ending of the synth melody lines so you can hear the synths and guitar ending certain phrases differently when the last note slides down in pitch. I was trying to introduce the kind of randomness that one hears in a live performance.

All I kept were the audio tracks so I can't go back and check. I knew I'd be doing it all over from scratch when I have a better computer so I wasn't too concerned about it at the time.

2 hours ago, Mark Purdy said:

I think I may have fixed this by changing the Driver Mode to MME. It seems to be working now.

That's great, but you really should consider getting a USB audio interface to do that sort of thing, one that is ASIO (NOT ASIO4ALL) capable. It really does make a big difference.

2 hours ago, mark skinner said:

Chappel , Nice composition !  sounds like its' ready to drop the walking bass line a few db and lay down some vocals.    

Thanks. I've been holding off on vocals until I get mic stand with a smaller base.  I'm doing all this in my bedroom and space is at a premium. That, and I haven't sung in years.

17 minutes ago, Larry Graham Alexander said:

 

Not bad at all.  It is a bit lengthy, but otherwise it is interesting and creative.

I admire your ability to do the You Tube bit.  I have never tried doing visuals.

Maybe I can learn some video techniques from you...if you can teach and old dog new tricks.

Keep up the good work.

Larry Graham Alexander

 

Thanks. I'm far from being knowledgeable about making videos, though I'm always happy to act like I am. I used Corel VideoStudio 12 to string together the photos I had taken on my trip to Bodie and the audio from my Cakewalk project. The video software did all the work and was pretty easy to use. Of course, the new stuff is probably much better these days. All I had to do was import the photos into the video software and adjust how long a picture would show before the next image appeared so the video matched the duration of the audio. Then I exported the project into a video file which I then uploaded to YouTube. I never even considered how long the audio track would be because, in my mind, I was telling a story about the ghosts of Bodie waking up because of the noisy tourists, coming out to play, and then going back to rest. It all made sense in my head, anyway. Pioneer graveyards always bring out the romantic in me.

55 minutes ago, Larry Graham Alexander said:

Nah.  Piece of cake.  

 

 

Maybe for you. I tried my hand at something different from the usual rock rhythm section stuff I usually do a few years ago and it was a struggle. Here it is on YouTube.

1 hour ago, garybrun said:

Very nice composition and I see what you are trying to achieve and can imagine it with played with real instruments.
well done on using the basic tools that came with Cakewalk.

Thanks. I always try to make my recordings sound like a live band. I'll get it right one of these days. 🙂 I do have fun experimenting with things like layering instruments. It's pretty good mental therapy.

On 1/16/2020 at 3:02 AM, msmcleod said:

The Amplesound guitars sound fantastic.

They do a free version of their Martin acoustic (same sound, just less articulations than the paid for version): https://www.amplesound.net/en/pro-pd.asp?id=7

 

I've checked out the free version of the Amplesound acoustic guitar and it really does sound great, as does their free P Bass VST plugin.

I would like to see a way to change the key in the MIDI track inspector by octaves in addition to half-steps. That would come in very handy when previewing patches.