kday

Man it would be so cool if the Virtual Piano Keyboard from the Views Virtual Controller drop down had a Chord Button that does one of many different Chords when you play one Note!

I want to be able to play one Note on the Virtual Keyboard and have an option to play one of many different Chords like on Roland FANTOM keyboard and Akai MPC and many other VST and DAW programs.  This way would allow me to take advantage of the potential of many different VST programs that don't have Chord assigning ability.

1 hour ago, tecknot said:

Hi kday,

All you need to do is hover the cursor around the bottom of the tracks and find the double up and down arrows, grab it with a mouse click and drag it up.  Hope this describes it well enough.

Kind regards,

tecknot

Thanks appreciate it!  I knew I had did it somewhere

1 hour ago, John Vere said:

They will be added automaticly with certain workspaces. They are easily hidden. Then make sure to save your own workspace so they will not come back unless you want them. 

This video shows you how to use workspaces- https://youtu.be/tzUtfEl4sps  

This video shows you how to find the options in the Track view  https://youtu.be/1ctdDrGn7yI

 

 

Appreciate it!

How can I hide or remove the Arranger and Tempo tracks?  I see a hide function for Arranger but it's grayed out. 

I have no need for these types of tracks, so I want to increase my track space.

Thanks

44 minutes ago, msmcleod said:

Select all the tracks you want to set the input for,  hold down CTRL and change the input for one of the tracks.  It should change it for all selected tracks.

Hey Thanks!  It worked I did that, but some tracks didn't follow the same input selected. Could be due to Track setting that prevents Mic settings. Couple went to something else. I'll see what the issue is, or maybe the track is corrupted and needs to start a whole new track.

But Thanks! Appreciate it!

44 minutes ago, John Vere said:

Using the Add Track you select the correct input and the tell it to create as many tracks as you want. 

Thanks for the reference. But i think it addresses new tracks instead of a save template full of tracks already loaded. But this link is great for other info!

Really appreciate it!

How do you assign one input for a Track across multiple Tracks at once? 

Say I want to assign a Mic input to one Track, and also want to assign that same Mic input to the next seven tracks in a row, so i don't have to go and do them one by one over and over again, how would I do that?

I remember this option but i forgot what it is called and how to do it?

Any help is appreciated thanks

How can I record drum notes to a Cakewalk midi timed sequence? Do I use Clips or something else? I want to use Cakewalk as a midi sequencer.

Thanks

On 11/9/2021 at 10:41 PM, sjoens said:

One thing I dislike is big fat scroll bars that (also) take up half the screen. I am in favor of those thin ones that expand when you hover over them, tho.

The razor thin ones are a pain to find with the mouse sometimes. I like the standard ones. If you have Win 10 with that thin bar at bottom right hand corner used for making the screen transparent, then you'll know what I mean.

On 10/30/2021 at 4:14 PM, Mark MoreThan-Shaw said:

Get a taller screen

I think the worst thing about the Pro Channel is the knobs can't be moved with the mousewheel ( yet other DAW controls can ) ..bit of a workflow killer IMHO

 

 

Taller screen means the problem will be taller. 😄  This DAW needs a scroll bar on the side of the Pro-channel and a way to save Workspaces to a disk so I don't have to rearrange my Workspaces every month from updates. 

On 10/30/2021 at 7:16 AM, msmcleod said:

In the meantime you could always use the Page Up/Down keys.

I do use it. But it still forces me to scroll because using the Page buttons makes me still double check to see if I missed a module using Page up/down. So it's the same problem.  There should be a scroll bar on the side to make this easy and fluid when editing using the Pro-Channel effects.

I got 20 Pro-Channel modules and I have to use the mouse scroll wheel for a long long time just to get to the top of the Pro-Channel Effect module chain to find the effect I need to edit.  Why isn't there a regular scroll bar on the right side that you can zoom to the top of a page like in regular folders?  The Pro-Channel needs a scroll bar on the side of the Pro-Channel modules, to get to those effect modules much faster without having to use this mouse scroll wheel that's very long and tedious when working with a lot of tracks and having to scroll to the top on every track.

I see.  But it's no longer in the ALL category, it's only in Custom and FX now.

Thanks!

Also you know the Workspace option in the upper right hand corner, -- is there a way to save Workspace settings outside the program?    Because every time I update this program all my Workspace settings are reset to default.

Insert FX disappeared? I can't find it.

There used to be an Insert FX on the main page Tracks to add effects when auditioning, where did it go, and how do you now add insert effects on the main page? 

Thanks

15 hours ago, kday said:

Clicking "Run Cal" after selecting the midi track only brings up the OPEN browser from the Local C disk, Cal scripts folder. I see midi files when i do that.

Thanks Terry! Yeah I finally found out the way you described here from finding the Youtube video describing that exact process. The visual illustration allowed me to understand what was being said here.  I now see how that process works.  I think my MPC X loads midi files, and may allow the user to save as a type 1 midi file. If it does that, I may have another way to convert the files. Thanks for all your help!

6 hours ago, Noel Borthwick said:

Type 1 MIDI files are multi track files. Type 0 are single track. To convert you will have to split channels to tracks.

This can be done using a CAL script. See C:\Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Core\CAL Scripts\Split Channel to Tracks.cal

I've attached the file below if you cant find it.

Split Channel to Tracks.cal 1.41 kB · 5 downloads

Hey Thanks for all your help and the link and file! And I also found a youtube tutorial on that exact process. It divides notes into tracks, thanks again! If there are more than sixteen tracks in a midi file, but would it still divide the extra tracks in the sixteen, or leave off some midi track data since midi files only hold sixteen tracks of data I wonder?

Kurre, I'm looking for a conversion program online, probably the only way to fix this may be to buy a midi 0 to midi 1 converter program somewhere.

9 minutes ago, Kurre said:

Citation from promidi in old Sonar forum.

You could also try "split Channel to Tracks.CAL"

Here is how to do it.

Load your midi file (or import it) and select just that track.
Go to Process menu and click "Run Cal".  A file dialog box will open.  Hopefully the file "split Channel to Tracks.CAL" is listed there. Open that and it will ask you for the first destination track and the MIDI file should be distributed to the various tracks, starting at your destination track.

Clicking "Run Cal" after selecting the midi track only brings up the OPEN browser from the Local C disk, Cal scripts folder. I see midi files when i do that.

1 minute ago, Kurre said:

Try to save it as a type 1 midi file and then reopen it.

So far that way isn't working on Cakewalk, I'm still trying, there gotta be a way to do this in Cakewalk

1 hour ago, Kurre said:

In the Cakewalk browser. The media tab. Highlight the midifile. Look att the bottom frame and you can see information about the file. If it says midi type 0 it behaves as it should. That midi type act as you describe. It has to be a midifile type 1 to open several tracks.

I think you are right about the Midi types. So the thing now is to find out how to export it from a type 0 to a type 1 to separate the midi tracks. Thanks for all your help!

3 hours ago, Terry Kelley said:

Check your PMs. I sent you a test file. You can Open in Cakewalk, Import or Open With Cakewalk and it should give you multiple tracks.

I can't get it to not open as multiple tracks. If you don't mind, PM me your file and I will try it on my side.

 

Hey thanks! Yeah your file opened all the tracks, maybe you have a different Midi file type. I trying to find out how to tell the difference.

37 minutes ago, Kurre said:

In the Cakewalk browser. The media tab. Highlight the midifile. Look att the bottom frame and you can see information about the file. If it says midi type 0 it behaves as it should. That midi type act as you describe. It has to be a midifile type 1 to open several tracks.

Hey thanks Kurre, if possible can you screenshot the open media tab I can't figure out how to do this that you've mentioned thanks! If not I'm still looking and thanks!

17 minutes ago, bdickens said:

You should open MIDI files and not import them.

Using OPEN still only opens/load one Midi track and not the multiple.

11 minutes ago, Terry Kelley said:

It does for me. Are these Cakewalk midi files?

Try the attached. I can create a single midi track, highlight it and then import this file getting many tracks.

I'm trying to think if there is a setting that controls this. Are you sure they aren't truly single tracks with everything piled into it? You can do that even if that confuses everybody.

 

 

Yeah, I'm sure they're multi-track, as I can see the multi track midi data within the one midi track that loads.  You have a multi track midi file to try?

Thanks

Anyone know why only one track is created when I import a multi-track midi file?  I thought Cakewalk automatically created the additional Midi tracks when loading multi track midi files? Am I doing something wrong? I tried several midi files and the same results

Thanks for any help

17 hours ago, 57Gregy said:

Before copying and pasting, I always check the clip's properties to see where it actually starts.
It may appear to start on the measure, but checking the properties may show it starts at (for example) 15:04:889. I write that down. Then when I want to paste it 16 bars later, in the Paste dialog box I change the numbers from whatever it reads to 31:04:889 and everything will be copacetic.

Where exactly is the "Paste dialog box" you enter the bar numbers into ?  

3 hours ago, 57Gregy said:

Before copying and pasting, I always check the clip's properties to see where it actually starts.
It may appear to start on the measure, but checking the properties may show it starts at (for example) 15:04:889. I write that down. Then when I want to paste it 16 bars later, in the Paste dialog box I change the numbers from whatever it reads to 31:04:889 and everything will be copacetic.

I'm gonna try that! I never used to properties option before but if i get the hang of this i'm on to a new future! lol

23 hours ago, John Vere said:

All the tutorials are found on the Tutorials sub forum.  https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/forum/35-tutorials/

But Google is the fastest way to get answers. Example " Cakewalk copy and past clips" 

Some results= 

https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR X3&language=3&help=Arranging.17.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1EKnepfyXE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGtfz2YB4sA

 

Hey thanks for all these links, I'm gonna go through them to gets some info on the snapping process. Appreciate it!

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