Nigel Mackay

There is a problem adding TTS1 late in a project.

If you really want to use it, create a new project, add TTS1, then the other synths and copy and paste all the tracks. You might be lucky.

@SkyDropsBeatsChanging key in Cakewalk does nothing to the actual music/notes. In staff view it draws the key signature and knows where to draw accidentals.

If you want to change the actual notes you need to use Transpose. And you need to work out how many semitones up or down.

22 minutes ago, Kurre said:

couldn't the group function be used for this.

That is pretty much limited to level and pan. Things you can adjust an the console view.
And that is better being done with the audio created by the VSTs.

15 minutes ago, JoeGBradford said:

I think Nigel may have been thinking of Reaper?

 

Nope. Nigel just didn't read ALL the information. 🙄

You might be able to do some of it with the MIDI Event Filter FX.

OK.

Spitfire LABS is not a Kontakt instrument.
When you install it you select where to put the library and the plug-in. Run the Spitfire Audio app, and have a look around to see where you installed everything. Make sure that the location of the VST is in you scan path.
If you run the app you can relocate parts to better folders if you so wish.
It appears under Instruments in Browser.

Guitar Rig 6 is an FX. It must be in your scan path.
It appears in Browser as an Audio FX, and you add it to the FX rack of an audio track.

Traktor DJs are standalone products. They are meant for live DJ work. You get a simulated DJ desk on your desktop or iPad.

Reaktor is a DAW. Has its own instruments and effects.

Look up Reaktor and Traktor on YouTube. Neither of them have anything to do with Cakewalk.

It might be a good idea to start from scratch, installing everything properly, in suitable folders.
Each Kontakt library must be an intact folder structure. You unzip them into your master Kontakt Library folder. Whatever you want to name it.
Things like GuitarRig must be done properly. The various bits need to know where the other bits are.

Got together with Spitfire Audio. They have problems with their installer. Doesn't write the config files to all users. With me, placed the files under a phantom user. Had to copy to the correct location.

I don't offhand know of a good tutorial about the concept of using Kontakt.

Kontakt plays VSTs designed to be played in Kontakt. And only those designed to be played in Kontakt. You put Kontakt in your VST folder. (Not the other stuff.) In your project you insert Kontakt from the list of instruments.

Create a folder called Kontakt Instruments or whatever, and insert the folders of all those NI instruments as sub-folders. This is not essential, you can have them all over the place and add them one by one, but it is easier to keep track if they are in a master folder.

In Cakewalk, you open the GUI of the inserted Kontakt, and click on Manage Libraries. You use the Add Libraries button to add all those folders. When you close Manage Libraries you will have the familiar list of libraries that you have seen in videos.

On YouTube go to Creative Sauce and see the tutorials on using Kontakt Multiple Outputs. Also have a look what is recommended in the Tutorials section of the Forum.

Be aware that something like Blocks Base needs to be played inside Reaktor. You can search YouTube for guides about that sort of thing.

BTW If you use the + at the top of the track pane to add Kontakt (choose Instrument rather than Audio) you can limit the number of audio tracks Kontakt creates. If you drag from the Browser the Limit To entry does not work with Kontakt.

EDIT In YouTube search for kontakt library install. Plenty of tutorials.
 

Kontakt is not the best way to learn how to use a DAW, much too much to learn. Put all that stuff in a folder called Kontakt Stuff for Later When I have Learned.

Then watch this video. (Ignore the Audio Inputs setup bit because you don't have an audio input interface.)

Play with the SI Bass, Drums, Strings and Piano.

The watch this video.

More videos to watch: 1  2 

Watch this  and then immediately this.

22 minutes ago, seakay beats said:

I asked the question about pitch-bending before, but that was using the bottom part with the wheel option. But is there a way to do this in the piano role? Like overlapping with legato notes.

That would be up to a particular VST how it interprets such an event. It could never be a Cakewalk thing.

Overlapping notes are usually, legato, glissando or hammer-ons. Pitch bend is improbable.

44 minutes ago, 😎💘💝 said:

How can I make tow acounts in bandlab

You need 2 email addresses. Just create a gmail account and use that for the 2nd account.

1 minute ago, DocBob said:

What do you mean by “not multi-threaded?” 

I assume multi-timbral.

Install both. Try the VST3. If it gives problems, disable it and use the VST2.

For this use the excellent Plug-ins Manager.

12 hours ago, Terry Kelley said:

All white keys - it must be C.

Or Am.  😀

It would have to be Key at the Now marker, because of modulation.

38 minutes ago, G Randy Brown said:

Not sure why I didn't get a notification regarding your reply Steve but thanks very much!

You do know that Notification means a badge on the notification bell at the top right corner? 😀

And if Forums is open on a tab in your browser the word Forums gets a badge.

I have tried Repair, Reset, Relocate, you name it. Nothing clears Error #3.

I have tried the VST and VST3. No luck.

Looked in YouTube. Nothing.

Google only finds their guide. Anybody know what I can do to get it to work?

Check Edit -> Preferences -> Audio -> Playback and Recording.

If Driver mode is WAAPI Exclusive, change it to WASAPI shared.

Almost no synths do. Multiple audio channels out (drum kits for example,) but all incoming data is on a single channel.

34 minutes ago, Matthew Sorrels said:

.  Might be able to convert Cubase articulation maps over but it's still a lot of work to organize all of that.  But those maps will save with the template so you can just load and start.

Most, but not all, convert by using Import in the articulation map editor. When you import it even asks you where to store the converted articulation map before it imports it.😀

You can get different levels/volumes by having different velocities/expressions (depending on the synth) on the different tracks.

But the synth doesn't really care which track the MIDI data comes from, it produces audio. And so Pan can't be controlled before the synth.

The only option is 2 instances of the synth.

What synth is it? Maybe other advice you can get.

Do you have any FX - reverb, EQ, etc - applied and when you bounce, do you select to have everything applied?
Are the audio racks of the synth and the bounced track routed the same?
Are the Gains and Levels of the synth tracks and the bounced tracks set the same?

Leaving that pitch-bend sensitivity out is fine, 256 = 2 semitones, which is the default value.

Regarding drum maps, watch this and this.