Jerry Gerber

I am running the very latest version of CW. 

When I choose to hide all midi tracks and display only an audio track and save the file, the next time I open the file some of the tracks I've chosen to hide (all hidden tracks are muted and archived) reappear and I have to hide them again. 

I think this may  be a bug.

Thanks,

Jerry

I've been posting movements from my new oboe concerto.  I finished the 3rd movement today and am posting it, so the composition is now complete.

I am thinking about recording it also with a live oboist when COVID is really over, but for now I think the VSL oboe sounds good.

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Hi all,

There's a setting in Preferences-Customization-Display that I've never understood in all my decades of using Cakewalk.  Whether I check or uncheck the setting "Display Envelopes on Percentage Scale" I don't see any visual change to where the envelope sits relative to the audio waveform.  What I expect, when I check it, is for the envelope line at 0dB to sit right in the center of the waveform window--exactly between the left and right waveforms.  But it doesn't appear that way, it doesn't change its position at all whether it's checked or unchecked.  It always appears a little above the center of the left waveform. 

What am I not understanding here?

Thanks!

Jerry

1 hour ago, Larry T. said:

Hi Jerry....beautiful and brilliant, as always....a writer once reviewed a new Beatles album back in the mid/late sixties and remarked on their "compulsive creativity" which is a description i think also applies to your musical abilities as well 👍🎶🎹🔊

Thanks Larry! 

1 hour ago, noynekker said:

Hi Jerry . . . I always save your posts for a Sunday night, when I can have a good listen. Some truly great orchestration and dynamics in this one. You really do show off what Cakewalk can do orchestrally, and I really enjoyed this piece !

Thanks Noynekker, it pleases me that the piece brought you some enjoyment!

Jerry

14 minutes ago, Shane_B. said:

Actually, Schitt makes very good audio equipment.

https://www.schiit.com/

Well, I hope nobody takes offense. On the other hand, is it possible to write or say something funny that doesn't offend someone? 

Hmm, that's something to ponder.. 

You Don't Know Jack Schitt?

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Against her parents' objections, Deep Schitt married Dumb Schitt, a high school drop out. After being married 15 years, Jack and Noe Schitt divorced.

Noe Schitt later married Mr.Sherlock, and because her kids were living with them she wanted to keep her previous name. She was known as Noe Schitt-Sherlock.

Dip Schitt married Loda Schitt and they produced a nervous son, Chicken Schitt. Fulla Schitt and Giva Schitt were inseparable throughout childhood and subsequently married the Happens brothers in a dual ceremony.

The wedding announcement in the newspaper announced the Schitt-Happens wedding.

The Schitt-Happens children were Dawg, Byrd, and Hoarse. Bull Schitt, the prodigal son, left home to tour the world. He recently returned from Italy with his new bride, Piza Schitt.

So now if someone says, "You don't know Jack Schitt", you can correct them. Not only do you know Jack, you know his whole family!
 

3 minutes ago, bitflipper said:

You deserve the recognition, Jerry. You've long been an inspiration to me. There were some surprisingly philosophical and historically-relevant responses in there.

Thanks for reading Bitflipper!

Best,

Jerry

Interview conducted in December, 2021

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28 minutes ago, Will_Kaydo said:

Cc cleaner also scan programs in the background at their startup process -  CuberSec too. Antivirus: Windows built-in Antivirus or any other is the main culprits. Then there's those ridiculous Plugin Manager Assistance/Installers. There's the iLok Manager the host tries to find and scan for licenses and of course the iLok Dongles. This is all programs that permanently runs and gets scanned in the Background when you open any DAW - even when the scanning feature in the DAW is turned off. 

In General: dust on the system fans will slow the overall performance of the system down. 

Thanks, will check out if any of those are scanning at startup..

4 hours ago, Bajan Blue said:

Hi Jerry

Excellently done - really great listen

Enjoyed it very much

Nigel

 

Thank you Nigel!

On 1/15/2022 at 1:17 PM, TVR PRODUCTIONS said:

Mine opens in a few seconds.  Maybe because I have SSD drives.  16 seconds sounds a bit long. If it doesn’t affect the performance, I guess it doesn’t matter.

I have 2 SSD drives so that's definitely not the problem.

1 hour ago, AndyB01 said:

Yep another 👎 for fast start, turn it off.

CCleaner is a piece of junk IMO (both professional and personal - I work in CyberSec) and a great way to cop a dose of uninvited malware; especially if you use the freeware version. If you're on Win10 or later it serves zero value.

16 seconds sounds short but it's an age in IT terms, if it's not the VST scan then something else is going on. 

The only variable that affects my startup time is whether or not my MIDI controller is connected. Mines' a right old lump of a thing so I only plug it in when I need to. When I start CbB without it, it takes a little longer to start up - as though CbB is searching for it - but it's barely long enough to register.

They only other thing I can think of is power settings - especially around USB ports. There's a thread somewhere that sets out all the things you should consider to optimise a DAW PC and the stuff on power settings is well worth a read and can make a difference.

It's a process of elimination, these oddities are rarely easy to nail down.

Hope some of that helps

Andy

Thanks Andy!

On 1/13/2022 at 1:09 PM, Bill Phillips said:

Could it be that fast start (probably not the correct name) is enabled allowing your PC to restart quickly most, but not all, of the time?

If fast start is enabled, you should probably disable it. It can cause serious problems.

Fast start is a no-no, it causes all kinds of problems.  I never use it.

2 hours ago, Tim Smith said:

Nice work on this as always. I can appreciate maybe to a smaller degree the effort that went into it since I have attempted some of it although not using VSL. I admire that you have a dedicated web site for it and even went to the trouble to show scores. I hope you draw a client in if that's what you want.

Best

-Tim

No clients anymore.  I stopped soundtrack work to focus on my own music and albums..  Glad you enjoyed listening Tim and thank you for commenting.

Jerry

3 hours ago, DeeringAmps said:

Aways a pleasure hearing your work Jerry! (fan here, but you know that)
Is the ambiance a part of VSL, or is that a separate VST?

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Thanks again Tom for listening and commenting.  Glad you find pleasure in my pieces!

Jerry

57 minutes ago, bdickens said:

I thought the orchestration was really well done. After the first time the brass comes in, I like how it comes in and then drops out instead of continuing. I also really liked the way about halfway through the when the brass drops out and the whole orchestration Steven's way out and the dynamic gets so much quieter. That was really effective and really grabbed my ear. Completely unexpected.

Thank you for listening bdickens, much appreciated!

On 7/10/2020 at 5:13 PM, jieva said:

I too am a classical musician and really like using Staff view for composing.  Some Instruments I play virtually using a keyboard, some I record directly as audio and some I notate.  I can't do that in a Publishing tool like Sibelius but I do use it to print scores and parts if need be.  A previous post saying that staff view is unusable is not my experience and I can live with its limitations for my use and I will be quite happy when the snap function returns and the ctrl+right click is restored back to just right click.

Another reason that I like Staff View is that I can see more easily the "shape" of the phrases if that makes sense and for multiple parts can see where the melody, harmony and counterpoint move in relation to each other.  I find that really hard in Piano Roll.

Reaper notation is not Sibelius compared to Cakewalk for me.  I use both and find the reaper notation a bit more cumbersome to work with on the whole, however, it's snap functions are perfect!

 

 

I think this is true for standard music notation, not specifically the CW staff view. It's difficult to control contrapuntal music without SMN.  I can hardly imagine some of the great works by Bach, Mahler, Brahms, etc. being composed if standard music notation hadn't been invented and evolved.  The piano roll view (I suppose, I've never used it) can work for simple music, but when you start getting into 6 part harmony or 5 part counterpoint, you're not going to be able to fine tune and develop your ideas as you can with notation.  My only gripes with the current staff view is the oldest of all--the inability to display tied and dotted triplets.  I've gotten used it, and I can have affection for the imperfect, just as others have affection for me with all of my imperfections.  I write tied and dotted triplets whenever I need to and make the quick corrections in Sibelius for the the score.

From the album Cosmic Consciousness

Scored for VSL Orchestral Cube

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3 hours ago, John Vere said:

Only thing comes to mind is the plug in scanner

Try setting it to manually scan  that will take it out of the startup 

 

 

Thanks, I'll check that out. 

53 minutes ago, Seb Julien said:

Are you using this PC for something else than playing music? Like browsing the internet or playing  games. If you browse with it, cookies and spies etc. can really messed up a  PC. Personally I know I should not use it for anything else than a DAW, but I game and browse with it.

But every time I finish browsing I use a program called CCleaner to clean up behind me. Maybe that could help you. Not sure I can post a link here though.

And sometimes Windows is updating stuff and your DAW is at the end of that chain of event or in the middle of it.

I think this post can help you a little bit, here is an excerpt:

''DAW applications use the "Multimedia Class Scheduler" service (MMCSS) to ensure prioritized access to CPU resources, without denying CPU resources to lower-priority background applications.''

http://forum.cakewalk.com/Sonar-Optimize-Win-10-MMCSS-m3622091.aspx

Good luck.

No, of course not.  It's a DAW in a professional music studio and the computer is dedicated solely to music production. I use CC Cleaner too but that isn't the issue.  Thanks for the weblink and tip.  Much appreciated!  I will check it out.

Jerry

2 hours ago, jsg said:

You've taken my reply too seriously and you didn't offend me.  I guess my humor didn't come through very well. And yes, meditation is not a contest. But it is a great way to live a better life. 

 

 

Exactly. If the same conversation happened face to face we'd probably be laughing together.. 

8 minutes ago, bdickens said:

Really? You actually timed it?

 

In all actuality, probably nowhere near as much as if you chilled out a bit and quit counting every second.

 

That's quite an impressive output. I can't see how having to wait a few seconds now and then has hurt you.

 

Good for you. Meditation isn't supposed to be a contest, however.

 

Sorry if I offended you, but I spent too much time in some of my former jobs with a clock held up to me like it was a gun to my head by office bound jackwagons with no clue about the realities of things on the shop floor that I have a strongly negative reaction to anything remotely resembling that kind of stopwatch clicking mentality.

 

A minute or so would definitely be excessive but I think 16 seconds is barely noticeable.

You've taken my reply too seriously and you didn't offend me.  I guess my humor didn't come through very well. And yes, meditation is not a contest. But it is a great way to live a better life. 

1 hour ago, bdickens said:

Sixteen WHOLE SECONDS?

Not to be an *****, but the only idea I have is to develop just a wee bit of patience.

Patience?  You've got to be kidding!  I've composed and produced 11 symphonies, 43 full symphonic movements among many other works for albums and soundtracks. Do you have any idea how much patience that requires?  It's not only about time, it's about understanding my tools and why they behave the way they do.   And besides, 16 seconds twice a day 6 days a week adds up to 192 seconds a week.  that's 9,984 seconds or over 166 minutes (2.7 hours) a year!  Do you know how much composing I can get done in 2.7 hours?  😁😃😁
 

p.s.  I meditate 45 minutes a day and have done so for the past 49 years..  Try that if YOU are serious about learning patience!  In fact, I will teach you how for free if you want...

Now, back to my original question, might anyone know what causes this behavior?

Hi All ,

Every day I start up Cakewalk the same exact way, I turn on the equipment in the same order, I boot up the computer with the exact same configuration.  But CW starts up differently:  Sometimes it starts up immediately, the Cakewalk logo screen comes up and a second or two later the program opens.  But most of the time, the CW logo screen comes on and it takes 16 seconds to CW to fully open.  I've never understood this, I've tried changing the order of when I turn on the USB MIDI interface,  and I've tried waiting a few minutes after booting up Windows 10 before launching CW.  But none of this affects the seeming randomness of why sometimes CW boots up immediately and sometimes it does not. 

If anybody has any ideas, I'm all ears!

Thanks,

Jerry