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Hermann Seib also contributed to the development of Nanohost (cue the Twilight Zone intro 👀) which may be why it is the only flavor FreeSauce on Tone2’s menu. Either way, Nanohost has allowed me much joy in nostalgia being able to resurrect a 32-bit FM7 synth released in 2002 by NI. The Tres Hook preset is one of the greatest decadent synth sounds created since Purple Rain. Hermann, if you ever see this post, we sweet tea drinkin’, sock knitting, coyote stuffin’, porch swinging southern folk down here in Georgia, U.S.A….we thank u kindly

You can purchase a MIDI guitar "pickup" converter that takes your playing in realtime and translates the audio into MIDI to be recorded just like a keyboard would.

The Yoko songs on Double Fantasy were actually on pitch pretty well, though tastefully is anyone's guess. John was just so accomplished and enjoyed feeding off controversy, he indeed would have used auto tune for a song he would knock out in 10 minutes and then act like it never happened once asked to make a comment on it. I would have LOVED to know what he would have said about that album had he lived to see it released. His guitar work on Walking On Thin Ice (Yoko cuckoo bird dark disco song) was just so out of character for him yet he did it brilliantly.

While in Task Manager, locate Windows Explorer and select it as if you were going to end task, except it gives you a “restart” button that will correct most issues that pertain to hung programs or misbehaving drivers and a great way to regain control over a fussy GPU. Your icons and windows will disappear for a second and you will only see your desktop background but once Explorer re-executes, it all comes back. Its a great option if you do not want to sign out of your account or restart the OS.

Nanohost is a plugin wrapper that will allow you to turn any VST instrument (32-bit & 64-bit) plugin into an executable standalone program to use your synth or sampler outside of the DAW. It’s by Tone2 that use to be a 3rd party supplier of its BiFilter2 plugin that came bundled with SONAR PLT. The Nanohost is totally free and shareable. https://www.tone2.com/nanohost.html

The built in MIDI fx plugins will give you real time results as well as utilizing alongside using the MIDI inspector window, it has great filtering parameters for realtime use also.

Isn’t the Cakewalk platform a .wav clip sound/audio designer? I think Cakewalk at its core has always been a program for creating and designing .acid files and for designing and manipulating samples and loops. Though it isn’t obvious, considering that it looks like it functions like most DAW’s do, but Cakewalk is like a super sampler that eventually added in audio recording capabilities. When using Cakewalk through that context, It’s functionality and features make more sense to me. Cakewalk to me feels more like a specialty software hub controller for control surfaces and external hardware. Maybe like the mainframe mothership for all of the digital external gear and mixing boards to sync up to and enable total and tactile audio/midi production. Other daws feel designed specifically for point-n-click and click-n-drag audio production.

I may have included CA2A by mistake as a few of the images are screenshots created by Reason and are great small graphics to utilize

@Bill Campbell I use this plugin in a few projects of mine currently ongoing, in the insert aux sends primarily. Though I have had a couple of crashes, none of them have been caused by this plugin. I do however stay a couple of versions behind the current and I tell myself that it is more stable doing this but I am no developer so It could be placebo

@Moving Air Productions Templates are already very capable of doing more than we may be aware of, such as key bindings, data exchange and control of external hardware and anything that accepts MIDI. One just needs to take a moment to read up on templates in the Cakewalk Reference Guide. Now when it comes to changing sample rates and bit depths, that's something that must always be under the control of the soundcard and drivers because some setups are so complex and sensitive to sample rate changes, which in many setups also regulates word clock and digital sync with the computer. A template that forces such a change for anyone who is vulnerable to damaging their gear, would be a lot of angry members.... Now as far as the Cakewalk interface goes, that is all customizable using the "workspace" screensets that allows you to save 10 shortcuts of different screen configurations so that you can toggle between each one that suits your working style. It even allows you to save and change your displays and the color themes as well. Most dual monitor setups float the transport bar, I collapse mine most the time and use key binding commands. Each section such as Inspector, Track view, console view, browser, synth rack, piano roll, sample slicer,....all have the option to float and resize to your liking, arrange them to other monitors, use the multidock option to make the windows function like multiple tabs in your internet browser. The synth rack in particular has far greater capability with assigning automation to virtual instruments when it is in the multidock. If you are a fan of templates, I am about to upload about 25 templates that are each designed for a particular need and work flow, a lot of MIDI and sysx enable hardware templates will be included..

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These are template icons for anyone that would like to utilize them. They have transparent backgrounds to they display exactly as project temp icons were meant to do.

I am glad that I had reestablished my membership with Cakewalk during the implementation of the Command Center and so greatful that it continues to sync with my account data. It's the little things like this that win my loyalty and support. Celemony for example doesn't mention anything about destroying your license to a previous version of Melodyne if one accepts a free upgrade..... but once one finds this out via Cakewalk forum, then one just becomes bitter at the fact that ones Windows 8.1 laptop can no longer have such great performance and use of Melodyne as version 5 isn't compatible. MY version 4 is dead. They killed her and my mood and my loyalty.

Yes and this is why i've made BandLab my ride or die when it comes to mobile and web based audio production, utilizing the song streaming, management, distribution, and promotion. They put up and maintain a service that cannot be rivaled in it's features, ease of use, and never not once have I been asked for a single penny for using these services for my own benefit and supplemental stream of income. Usually what happens in these types of relationships between developer and user when the service is totally free is that they are allowed total access to ones digital data for ad revenue and target marketing, however, if this were the case then it has been concealed which is illegal in many countries and yet no one has filed a complaint against them with any of the accusations of privacy intrusion. I've never seen an ad nor have I seen a single product being sold and never have I been asked to click anything that takes me outside of the platform. It's so honest and liberating that it makes me WANT to pay them just out of gratitude for providing what they do and then allowing oneself peace of mind. There are some issues I have personally that come down to technical applications of certain features within their methods of processing audio files. I have a feeling that dithering is applied and double applied in mastering, and many songs in the past of mine have had encoding aliasing and glitches, but there is improvement as we go along this journey.

Bet you wished you had tv channels in your start screen for icons dontcha?? yea i know you do!!!

Ohhh. Hmmm. So this just made me think that the start screen is customized by html code. Or is it? ......wink wink......wink.....muwahaha muwahahaha!

CA-2A or any of the _A-2A emulators, CLA-76 is two compressors and limiters in one and is a beautiful compressor that just gives you instant results, i love results. Then I use the ProChannel P4k 1176 compressor a good bit for general uses but especially for frequency triggered side chaining! Its a lovely feature having the sidechain to trigger by frequency really helps to allow tracks to move out of each others way when sharing the same frequency bandwith. Bass and Kick, Snare and Vocals, Guitar solos that need to be outfront can just step on in as the sidechain pushes back the other guitars on the same frequency band. Love that ProChannel module.

No Need to reinstall the programs if the presets have been deleted. Go to iZotopes website and in their support section there will be a FAQ that links you to all of the presets that can be downloaded in zip files. You just either extract them back into the Documents folder or manually drap and drop them into the folder to restore your presets.

It has come a long way since it's debut under the BandLab brand and is basically like using GarageBand on iOS except its powered by servers and the BL cloud. The virtual Instrument souunds are not quite yet the quality that one would prefer to use coming from a background of using pro VI's, you will be dissatisfied, However, the mixeditor WORKS and you can import and export MIDI and edit tracks. The FX modules are useful too but again, they are not going to get you excited if you come from the production world already experienced. They work as they should and I have gotten some good results in their use but limited within the Mixeditor ecosystem applied to the built in sounds is where they perform the best. But what no one seems to really grasp about BandLab is that its a free unlimited SONG STORAGE CLOUD with each song allowed UNLIMITED amount of revisions to its sound and FREE AI MASTERING.....I have to have at least 250 GB worth of my songs stored on BandLab and I can listen to them just like I would SoundCloud but better than soundcloud, I can open them up and make changes to them and the quality of them. FREE UNILiMITED SONG CLOUD is what I call it

There are two versions of the plug in, the first version use to come as a part of the plug in suite of SONAR that requires you to have that particular version of SONAR that was released in 2015 but it will not exist in later versions of SONAR as they took the LP EQ and LP MB plug ins and turned them into mastering quality commercially sold plug ins that you must have registered and obtained a license to use that is connected to the command center servers. To get the versions that are apart of some of the FX Preset Insert modules, you must install a pre 2016 version of SONAR.

I've always thought Cakewalk has always had a great sample and acid file creation feature, as seen when double clicking an audio clip but always felt it was incomplete with its library browsing and preview capability. I use ADSR Sample Manager alongside Cakewalk and any DAW I use as it offers all of the features listed in this thread as lacking, as well as offers more than what other DAWs are capable of providing. And it's free so why not? It's an answer to a problem I have always run into which is learning every DAWs particular sample management capability. With ADSR It solved that and I no longer use any DAWs sample browser and editors. BandLab Assistant manager I find to be a great way to obtain sample packs, MIDI packs, and one shots that sounds pretty great and works great alongside Cakewalk. However, it isn't an editor and there isn't a wave form previewer so if that is what you need then perhaps BandLab will implement such features into the assistant manager??

@carloshhp Wasabi...heh I meant WASAPI in exclusive mode means audio is only going to function for the first application that was initiated in this mode and cannot be shared with other programs. Thats what WASAPI Shared is for. However, ASIO is generally the universal and most stable option in terms of driver compatibility across hardware and software. This also allows you to utilize larger sample buffers and lower latency and isn't nearly as fussy as the drivers that come from built in soundcards normally used for entertainment purposes. WASAPI is basically WDM drivers fortified to withstand demanding audio situations and is a great alternative to ASIO when on Windows PC. Your settings are fine and shouldn't have issues if your CPU is 4 cores and 8GB Ram, stock settings will do fine. I believe what you are missing is a plugin by reaper that allows you to stream out of Cakewalk into OBS. The plug in is free and comes bundled with their free plug in bundle.... Im sorry I do not know the step by step nor the name of the plug in, but search this forum for OBS REAPER to locate the exact info.

@aidan o driscoll ahh yes, me and Soundforge had a little fling for a couple years back in the very beginnings of my journey into the realm of DAW around 02’-03’. I was the only kid in highschool within a 50 mile radius that was doing any sort of audio production. I do like to use a separate wave editor for various reasons that need that streamlined interface and fine resolution for precise edits. I used to use Nero for sequencing CD albums but ever since the move to digital downloads and streams, I moved into audio restoration using RX. This led me into doing some forensics for private investigators which I don’t really recommend doing if one is highly sensitive to violence and the occasional audible death all day long, like myself I didnt get into this gig for a few subpoenas and to employ a therapist full time, I need Rock n Roll to get out of bed. …so anyways, what was the question again?? I went on a tangent and I forgot how I got here. Something about drum tracks…

For collaborative remote sessions and for file transferring that is setup more like ReWire interconnected plugins, that essentially opens into a Mix Editor BandLab DAW without the need for chrome or a web browser. Check out this recently released vst plug in that does exactly what I described and works universally across the most recognized DAWs available. (image only)

I think the capability to have remote sessions with the band is a great way to keep moving forward on projects and saves time from commuting, and I have been trying to make my band get into it for like the last ten years now, I swear! Tell me where did you learn to normalize your tracks to boost its level?? I read a lot of others normalizing their tracks but I in the last 15 years of recording and mixing thousands of songs have yet to normalize a track to raise levels. I just use the gain knob or a gain plug in or boost the gain on the clip using the clip gain automation. ......am I missing something with not Normalizing tracks? I feel kinda insecure about me methods of mixing now tbh.. perhaps I shall hit the books again for the tenth time of the year!