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    Possible to Change Name of Cakewalk Workspace Folder?

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted · Edited by jsg

    14 hours ago, John Vere said:

    It's not clear why you would ever need to do this? It's generally not a good idea to mess with Cakewalks utility folders. Is there a reason you need to even go into these folders? You can do everything needed from within the Workspace drop down menu. Use the Workspace Manager to make changes and you can delete your own custom spaces but not the factory ones. 

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    I want to do this because when I pin this often-used folder to Quick Access, I can't change the pinned name, which is "user".  There are many CW folders that we can move around, in PREFERENCES-FILE-FOLDER LOCATIONS we can change names of some folders and move others to different locations. 

    I actually got it to say Cakewalk Workspaces in the pinned folders (Quick Access) but now I don't know how I got it to work.  I bet there's a way, I just don't know what it is.

    UPDATE:  I figured out how to do it:

    1.  Go to App Data=Roaming-Cakewalk-Cakewalk Core-Lenses. 

    2.  Make a shortcut from the Lenses-User folder on to the desktop. Change this shortcut name to Cakewalk Workspaces.

    3.  Drag this short cut to the pinned folder on the Explorer folder icon on the taskbar.

    4.  Move it up or down within the list under Quick Access if you like folders in a certain order.  Now, the real folder "user", has the name that CW needs to function, but the name in the pinned list is "Cakewalk Workspaces". 

    That's how to do it without confusing Cakewalk.

     

     

     

    Possible to Change Name of Cakewalk Workspace Folder?

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted · Edited by jsg

    The default name of the folder is "user". If I change the name to "Cakewalk Workspaces" Cakewalk won't recognize the location of my custom workspaces.  I want to change the name so that when I use Quick Access in Windows I see "Cakewalk Workspaces" rather than "user".  It worked before but now I cannot get it to work.

    I went into the Registry (I'm fairly familiar with it) to seek out where Cakewalk defines the location for user-created workspaces but cannot find it.

    Anyone know how to do this?

    Thanks,

    Jerry

     

    Puns Anyone? Got 'em? Post 'em.

    in The Coffee House

    Posted · Edited by jsg

    Not exactly a pun, but:

    A guitarist and his wife did not get along well at all.  One night, after he had been drinking heavily, she grabbed one of his guitars and hit him over the head.  Next, she took his other guitar and whacked him again so hard that he died. 

    But a neighbor heard the commotion and called the police.  They came to the house and arrested her.  In court, the judge asked her, "First offender"?  

    And she thought for a moment and replied,

    "No, your honor.  First I hit him with the Gibson and then I smacked him with the Fender!"

    😜

     

     

     

     

     

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    CD Players

    in Gear

    Posted

    Hi All,

    My 11 year old CD player died and I have an issue.  I have the Argosy Halo desk that has racks on it but the racks are slanted about 50 degrees.   The CD player that died had a tray-loading mechanism that was slanted and sometimes the disc wouldn't play without skipping.  I am not sure if it was because of the tilt or the fact that the player was old.

    Does anyone have an experience using a CD player on a tilt?  Is slot-loading better than tray loading?

    Thanks!

    Jerry

     

     

    Seraphim on a Subway

    in Songs

    Posted

    5 hours ago, Larry T. said:

    Hi jsg....pretty perfect....you guys that combine classical, opera and synths into your compositions so well....i find that so refreshing....enjoyed very much 🎹🎶🎧🎻

    Thanks Larry for listening!

    Jerry

    Three Short Virtual Keyboard Works

    in Songs

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Jesse Screed said:

    The Master posts!

    If I hadn't read this interview from Soundbytes Mag

    https://soundbytesmag.net/interview-jerry-gerber-on-masterful-virtual-orchestration/

    I would have thought you were otherworldly, but in truth, you are just a well practiced, extremely talented, human being to which we can all listen to learn, and be entertained.

    Glad you enjoyed the pieces Jesse and thank you for the kind comments! 

    Jerry

     

    Three Short Virtual Keyboard Works

    in Songs

    Posted · Edited by jsg

    49 minutes ago, jwnicholson78 said:

    Very impressive compositions.   Did you record these?  The sound like maybe they are little too quantized and could benefit from some humanization.

     

    49 minutes ago, jwnicholson78 said:

    Very impressive compositions.   Did you record these?  The sound like maybe they are little too quantized and could benefit from some humanization.

    Thanks jwnicholson.  If you mean record as play them into Cakewalk, no, I sequenced them.   I try to achieve a sense of intention and humanness through rhythmic syncopation, tempo variations and always paying attention to strong and weak beats.   This approach may not be within your tastes.

    If you'd like to hear something utterly spontaneous, nothing memorized, sequenced or quantized, here's some free improv for piano and clarinet.  

    https://www.jerrygerber.com/mp3/Austin Gerber Improv.mp3

    Thank you for listening jwnicholson, much appreciated!

    Jerry

     

     

    What is your favoruite way of backing up project? Saving per-project, as bundles or something else?

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted · Edited by jsg

    I don't use the bundle feature.  I back up the .cwp file in 3 places: on a second internal hard drive, on a flash drive and uploaded to my server.  I backup all audio for a project to another internal hard drive, to a DVD that goes into a safety deposit box offsite and to a flash drive.  When I finish an entire album, I make at least 2 masters and one goes into the offsite safety deposit box.

    Offsite backup is always a good idea in case of fire, flood earthquake, nuclear war, alien invasion or asteroid strike.  😁

    Studies have revealed that most accidents occur within 2 miles from home, so it's also a good idea to move every year or two 😜

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    Integration of Software Synths with Orchestral Samples

    in Instruments & Effects

    Posted

    I've received many comments and questions about how I integrate software synthesis, with the many arpeggiation, filtering, envelope and sync-to-tempo options with virtual orchestral instruments.

    When orchestrating a passage that contains a synth timbre, listen closely to the harmonic pattern and/or the rhythmic pattern that is being expressed in the arpeggiation sequence or filtering. This information can give you both melodic and harmonic clues as to how to proceed with orchestration.

    Also, it is very common with many synth timbres that the attack times can be very fast, faster than many acoustic instruments are capable of. The solution is to simply delay the entire synth track by X number of milliseconds or ticks (division of quarter notes into 480,. 960, etc.) so that the synths and the samples have better coordination with their attacks.

    Measures 45-65 demonstrates some of these techniques:

    Example

    Jerry

     

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    Two Songs About War

    in Songs

    Posted

    The first song, Dulce et Decorum Est, is based on a poem by the English poet Wilfred Owen. He was killed in World War I after returning to the front from previous injuries.

    The second song is based on a poem by Enheduanna, who was the daughter of a wealthy political leader in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) about 2000 years ago. I wrote this piece as a response to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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    Staff view drives me mad

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted

    On 11/26/2019 at 9:47 AM, jieva said:

    I do most of my work in staff view.  In older Cakewalks there was an option of snap to grid.  In the newer bandlab version it seems to be set at a 32nd note.  This is slowing me down by a long way and I would be very happy if the snap function could return.

    Also the duration  selection    used to automatically change if you touched and clicked a previous note in the score.  That was very helpful indeed.  This seems to have been removed.

    And lastly why is there no erase function in the staff window.  If find it very awkward   to leave the staff window to select the erase tool in the   main tool bar.

    Please can we have the previous functionality back.  I know that you can move the now time to the exact position for the note but that is very laborious  indeed.

    Having an erase in the staff toolbar would be a bonus.

    Kind regards

    Jim

    I've been working in the staff view since the early 1990s.   The snap issues have all been fixed quite a while ago.  Make sure that your snap function is ON and that you've set the SNAP TO or SNAP FROM length to what you want (i.e. 16th note, eighth note, etc.).  Remember that the snap function is independent of note values.  If you want to enter, say, a 16th note, but the SNAP value is on 8th note triplets, you'll have a problem.  What I do is usually default the SNAP value to either an eighth or 16th note and if I need to enter triplets or some other value non-divisible by 2 or 4, I change it. 

    The erasing of notes in the staff view is very easy.  just lasso the notes you want to erase and press delete on your keyboard. 

    The duration selection does still automatically change if you touch and click on a note, it will go to that note length and velocity.  It has not been removed (I'm using latest version).  But you have to turn it on.  Bottom of the note value selection list.

    Jerry

     

     

     

     

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