Tommy Byrnes

This is the one BF sale I was hoping for. Soothe 2 is amazing. I used the demo a couple of months ago and was amazed at how much better my mix was with just a bit of resonance supression on a few offending tracks. Regular price was a bit too high but I'm in on the sale.

This is a wonderful EQ!

Thanks, Scook. I figured that might be the case.

Hi folks, Is there a way to set the multi-track grouping that is located in Preferences/Project/Multi-Track Grouping so that the default is Always group all tracks? A couple of times I've forgotten to check this when recording drums or whole bands and have had to go back and manually group them afterwards to keep the tracks and takes lined up. No fun. I looked through the ini file but didn't see anything. It would be great not to have to worry about it and avoid the "holy crap, I forgot" feeling. Thanks, as usual, for the help!

CPU gobblers at any price.

Holy moly! The ability to turn on or off all instances of a plugin is huge, especially when using channel strips across multiple tracks. Quick group delete all instances is also much appreciated. This is a great update. Thanks to the Bakers!

This really is a drum DAW. It's an amazing piece of software and I use it every day. I have most of the others but I rarely go to them anymore. What I can do inside SD3 is crazy. If you can swing the very expensive $295 you should consider it. No demo, though, as there is 4,921 terabytes of samples to download. 🙂 The upgrade price was doable when it first launched so I jumped and and am really glad I did. I can't imagine crafting drum tracks without it.

I had a similar experience with the Ultralite and customer service around the same time. I won't go into all the details but it was such a problem I wrote a letter to the president of MOTU. MOTU and I reside in MA. I mailed it on Friday and on Monday morning I got a call from his wife and the company's CEO. We spent two hours on the phone, discussing what MOTU could do better (Windows drivers and tech support, for starters), our kids, her amazing Marine Corps dad, the plans for the company, etc. Within weeks they revamped their customer service protocols and vastly improved their Windows drivers. We have since become friends and regularly chat. She's sent me products to try out and keeps in touch. MOTU gave lots of money to a benefit music festival I used to run before Covid. MOTU has a very loyal customer and I recommend their products to my clients and students over Focusrite and others. And their products are wicked good, as we would say. My little interface for travel and teaching is the M2. Kills the Scarlett 2i2. Drivers are rock solid, excellent converters, mic pres are actually OK and it's built really well.

When Gibson did the knife in the heart thing I moved briefly to Studio One before the CbB era. One of the things I missed most was the Plugin Manager in Cakewalk. I would be lost without its versatility. Here is how I have my plugins laid out. I have several custom menus, which I couldn't do in S1.

You're probably right, David. I just ran out of time. I did run it and it did show the files I needed as orphaned so I just went to the folder and imported the files I needed into a new project.

I bit the bullet and went through the project audio folder, took the correct files and just rebuilt the project. There were four full band takes so making sure each track corresponed to the right take was a bit of a pain but it's back and running, just in time for my clients to get here. That was a close call! Thanks for the help, folks. I'll have eagle eyes on what the heck I'm doing from now on.

Everything is on the dedicated projects/audio drive. It was a long session and I was pooped at the end of a crazy long day so I really don't know what I did. Nothing got moved as far as I know. This is great advice but I am trying to re-associate the files and not remove them. What I'm wondering is ifthe actual project file got deleted somehow and left behind the audio files. Yet, there is a project file with the right song name but the wrong audio. What a mess!

Hi folks, I'm having a problem that I've never experienced before. I finished up sessions with my client this past weekend and when I went to open one of the songs this morning it opened a completely different song. I've checked the audio files folder and the correct files with the correct project title are in there but the Cakewalk project file is associated with another tune and will not open the correct audio files. I tried to import the tracks into a new project but of course it imported each file to its own track. This is mostly laying down live drums with several takes so trying to sort it out manually seems impossible, given the number of tracks, which was over 150 when each clip was imported. Yikes! The stuff of nightmares! So, how do I get the project to recognize the correct audio files that go with the project and not point to a completely different song? I'm sure I messed something up but I can't seem to find what I did. It's a real poser and I've been at it for a couple of hours without any luck. The band is back in this weekend and I need to suss this out before they come in. Redoing the tune is not going to go over well and not really an option. As always, thanks for the help. Cheers, Tommy

I really wanted to like this more than I do. It's kind of fun but I'm just not crazy about the sound of the verb.

They had the Master HD on sale a month ago for $29 and it's about the best software purchase I've made in a very long time. I love the controller. It's so nice to have a tactile interaction with the plugin. And, now I cannot live without it. Hands down the best multi-band processor I've used and it now lives in an ever growing number of templates. My Sweetwater guy knows to use the Emergency Broadcast System to tell me when the Brickwall HD comes up for sale. If this reverb is on par with the Master HD I'm all in!

I have to agree. I've been down this rabbit hole for hours. It feels real. I got Capture as well so I'm looking forward to modelling my amps. I know my clients will love this!

Thanks, Peter. I figured as much but I wanted to double-check. Looking forward to using Capture with Tonex!

I enjoyed this. Peter, I've pre-ordered Capture and have it ready to go except for one thing. I've contacted tech support twice with no response. Do you know what cables are needed? Do you use speaker cables, standard TS cables, balanced TRS cables? I'm excited to use it to it's potential but I don't want to blow up my amp! Thanks!

This is wicked cool. The possibilities are pretty endless. StudioRack is a great tool for setting up custom multi-band, parallel and series splits.

Me too. I must say, I'm pretty impressed with it. I had raw tracks from a mix I haven't started yet and threw the AMEK on all the tracks. It sounds great! I love the limiter in the Dynamics section. I don't know if it was on the actual console but man, does it help on drum and bass tracks!

A really nice piece of kit for a tenner.

I love the TG Mastering plugin. The EQ is a nice Curve Bender and the other modules are really useful. It's almost always on my 2 Bus but it's great on just about anything. It comes with a Live version which uses a bit less CPU.

I just renovated my studio. Even Larry can't get an extra nickel out of me now.

I just hope it's not UAD 3 and all of our hardware becomes obsolete

You can use quick grouping. Ctrl+A, hold Ctrl and click on the On/Off button.