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David Rubenstein

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  1. I have been actively assigning new keyboard shortcuts to cakewalk functions that I use often. However, many functions are not assignable. For example, SHIFT-R turns step-record on/off. But, there is no function to close the step-record menu. This function requires using the mouse. It would be great to bring more (unassigned) functions into the Keyboard Shortcuts menu, to allow users to assign more key bindings.
  2. Do you use Windows 10? I ask because it has a built-in video record function. It is intended for recording video games, but it works for me, for all sorts of purposes. The shortcut is Windows-Alt-R to record. Also, the shortcut Windows-Alt-G brings up a set of menus for screen captures and other things.
  3. Right now, the duration of a copyright is something like 75 years after the death of the author. Every so often they are lengthened, so that Disney can keep its copyrights forever. Copyrights should be shortened.
  4. I found a possible answer to this problem in the old Cakewalk/Sonar forum here: http://forum.cakewalk.com/Export-Audio-issue-m3747886.aspx I was having freezing and export problems; Long MIDI notes were shortened, and the result was unsatisfactory. Increasing the Mixing Latency/Buffer Size to the "Safe" zone did not help. Instead, this suggestion by scook helped: Try increasing BounceBufSizeMsec in Preferences > Audio > Configuration File My default value of BounceBufSizeMsec was 0 ms. I changed it to 20 ms, and the problem was solved.
  5. John, I've been trying your articulation maps on several of the instruments. So far, they look good. Thanks--very helpful! --David
  6. I have been having a problem with both freezing tracks and exporting. I am using the 2020.11 version of Cakewalk by Bandlab. When playing the music inside Bandlab, it sounds fine. However, often--but not always--when I export a track, some of the instruments do not come out in the WAV file sounding correctly. Long-playing notes only play as short notes, sort of staccato. This happens regardless of whether the reverb plug-in is in the individual track or a bus. In order to mitigate this problem, I have tried freezing the problematic tracks. But the same problem occurs when I play back the frozen tracks. Another thing I have tried, is to turn off the "fast-bounce" option when either exporting or freezing a track. This often helps, but of course it is time consuming. I have also played around with various options in the Export Audio menu, such as bit depth, 64-bit engine, and sample rate. There are many possible combinations of options, but I haven't found a combination that is fool-proof. Any advice on what is happening? Thanks for any suggestions!
  7. Thank you, Scook. This is great news! This new feature may really speed up workflow, and also be much more intuitive than using keyswitches or separate articulations per Midi channel.
  8. I LOVE Cakewalk by Bandlab. (I've been a Cakewalk user for 24 years!). However, as an orchestral composer, I am really jealous of Cubase users, because they have a powerful feature called "Expression Maps". There is no similar feature in Cakewalk by Bandlab, although it has been suggested a number of times. instead of using Keyswitches, a VST Expression Map makes changing articulations much easier and faster. The link below shows a video tutorial about how Expression Maps work with Cubase. What are VST Expression Maps
  9. It would be really nice if Cakewalk developers could add an expression map capability--a capability that worked whether or not there are key switches available in a VST instrument.
  10. Here I will throw in a bit of my own experience. I started using Cakewalk Home Studio about 25 years ago, using so-called "Sound Fonts". I progressed to Cakewalk Professional - 9, got an external synthesizer/sampler, and composed a lot of music with it. It wasn't simple--the external synthesizer/sampler was complicated, and required a lot of integration with Cakewalk. Now, many years later I started to use Cakewalk by Bandlab, and purchased some VST instrument libraries. This was a whole new ballgame, and I could not figure out how to make ANY Midi-generated sound come out of it at all! The voluminous documentation did not help at all. So I started looking at YouTube tutorials. After watching many many videos, I happened upon ONE online tutorial that showed in detail, every single button press needed to work with VST libraries. I carefully wrote all the steps down, and -- it worked! I was back in business. Since then, I explored alternative approaches that somewhat simplified the whole procedure. The point is, that this is complicated software, with a very steep learning curve. It was steep for me, even though I was very familiar with Cakewalk in the pre-VST days. One approach that has been suggested, is to add a new Workspace option that is even more basic than BASIC. But I would suggest, instead, a very simple Quick-Start users guide. Such a guide would show how to go from a brand new installation, step-by-step every single button-press needed to produce Midi-generated music. Also a section on how to record audio from a microphone or guitar.
  11. Expression maps are used in Cubase to change articulations when using sample instrument libraries. This allows one to give individual notes different articulations, without having to use keyswitches. Personally, I don't mind using keyswitches, but they are available only for some, but not all, instrument libraries. Besides, each library has a different set of keyswitches, and it can be difficult to remember them all. A single expression map for articulations, (that the user could set up separately for each instrument library) would be very useful. Thanks!
  12. Thank you scook!!!!!!!! You don't know how long I struggled with this. You are a genius!
  13. I have an idea about the problem. I have been comparing all of the settings between my two computers. On my second computer (which does step recording correctly), the "Navigation" readout (which is in the lower-left corner of the step record window in Basic mode, and near the lower right in Advanced mode) shows the Now Time in terms of MM:BB:TTT (Measures/Beats/Ticks). For example, if the Now Time is at the beginning of the 2nd beat of the 5th measure, it shows 05:02:000. However, on my first computer (which messes up step recording), the Navigation shows the Now Time, but not in MM:BB:TTT, but in HH:MM:SS.SS, that is to say, in Hours/Minutes/Seconds. I think this is the cause of my problem. There is not enough precision in a 1/100'th of a second fraction to end up exactly at the right number of ticks when the step advances. So, how do I change the Navigation read-out to be in terms of Measures/Beats/Ticks instead of Hours/Minutes/Seconds?
  14. scook, yes I have tried all of those things. (The problem does not show up when stepping whole notes or half notes--only quarter, eighth, etc.) But, since you mention that you cannot duplicate the problem, I tried it on my second computer--with no problem. Step record works correctly on my second computer. So, perhaps it is an issue of a setting? I cannot figure it out.
  15. There is definitely a bug in the Step Record function. It is as if randomization is always turned on, and cannot be turned off.
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