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Thanks,  Downloaded Command center which  installs it but it continues to be the demo edition   :-(

Anyone know how to activate the old L-Phase EQ plugin, or... alternately, how to use the Pro Channel EQ in the in the Fx bay like Breverb?  I don't like using the ProChannel because I can't see at a glance what Fx I have enabled

2 hours ago, Colin Nicholls said:

Clear that "Show Strip Colors" checkbox under Preferences > Colors

THANK YOU!  Never even knew this option existed!

I find the whole track get coloured in the track view,  console view,  and the inspector instead of just the colour bar as shown in your picture.  Any way to fix it?

It’s working now.  Perhaps you mistyped the url...  I often  see this sort of thing when I make a typo

You can have BOTH installed 

Thanks.  I’ll live with it.  Having to change to note view doesn’t do it for me.

I'd like to be able to hide the cc data in my track view clips and just see the notes without going to "note view". I find the cc display obscures the notes unless I have the tracks expanded.  Anyone know of a way to do this?

On 1/22/2021 at 9:02 PM, Promidi said:

With 2021.1 Build 085, I am now unable to display the articulation map pane on a newly created MIDI track (Or SIT) in a new project. 

Clicking the PRV menu item: View | Show\Hide Articulation Pane has no effect.

I can, however, display the articulation map pane from an existing project.  But even on an existing project,  a newly created MIDI track exhibits the same issue.

I reverted to 2021.1 Build 075 and the View | Show\Hide Articulation Pane on a newly created MIDI track is worked again

Anyone else experiencing this before I shoot a note to support?

Same issue - can't open the articulation map pane on a NEW midi track.

I tried to read an arp file as a text file...  no dice. It is proprietary and not editable as far as I can tell. If anyone figures out a way, I’d love to know.

Thanks for the thread.  I  was really scratching my head about this. I tried all kinds of routing. External arps record perfectly but the internal one doesn't. ounce to clip is so simple but so not intuitive.  Thanks to the forum, and I think the manual needs a real overhaul

Wow!  This just saved me the cost of a new orchestra!

Thanks to both of you.  I hadn’t figured that out.

I want to be able to select cc data in the prv in multiple tracks and edit them together. For instance I fund my 3 clarinets too soft. I wanted to select all the cc11 data and raise them up a little so they’d  all sound louder. 

11 hours ago, Promidi said:

This seems to be normal behaviour for Aria player. 

Consider using an external reverb on a bus or an AUX track.

Thanks for confirming.  The aux track or bus is one approach.  I happen to like the Garritan reverbs however. Another approach might be to leave the first instrument slot blank,  and solo it along with the instrument audio track. 

I have 16 separate MIDI tracks in an instance of the Aria player and 16 separate Audio Out tracks, each correctly identified in the Aria player as 1/2  3/4  5/6   etc.

Everything works correctly EXCEPT all the sends - the reverb within the Aria player are outputted to 1/2  no matter which output is selected . This  means that soloing an audio track loses the reverb unless I also solo audio  track 1.  Kinda seems to defeat the purpose of having separate audio outs.

Is this normal behaviour, or am I setting something up incorrectly??

20 hours ago, Glenn Stanton said:

i generally use busses -  reduces overall sliders to move and and groups of instruments can be controlled easily. grouping the busses and tracks can also add some additional control but i find if i want to adjust an individual track in the group, then i have to disconnect it (using keystroke or mouse-menu). if i use a surround buss to send things to, i can also do some adjustment for positioning that a simple pan will not. even in a stereo field.

aux tracks - can do the same for grouping, group effects, pan, etc. 

tracks folder in CwB are just for organizing and being able to hide/unhide easily. if i'm using track folders to package  up a group of instruments, i leave the aux track outside the folder, so, like my buss approach, the main sliders to play with are visible and the tracks are tucked away...

For MIDI??

I'm using  a  VST orchestra. I'd like to group all the MIDI woodwinds tracks and send them to an Aux or other such track so I can automate the whole woodwind section together.

Any way to send MIDI to Aux, Patch point, or Bus? If not, is there a workaround.

In Reaper for instance a track folder acts as an aux track and any mixing moves on the track folder affect all the tracks in the folder equally. Clearly that's not how track folders work in cakewalk.

2 hours ago, Colin Nicholls said:

You can:

• duplicate the "sketch" track as many times as you need; assign to instruments; then solo and delete the notes from each track you don't want
• set the "sketch" track to a non-competing sound (e.g. piano when writing a string quartet) and then create a new track for each solo instrument, and re-perform the part for that instrument, playing along to the "sketch".

I don't believe there is any other practical way to do this. MIDI filters on note ranges isn't going to cut it, for me.

That is what I've been doing - in addition I set each track to a unique colour and have all tracks I'm working on  show in the PRV using the "auto lock" feature.

It's fine as long and the degree of polyphony equals the number of parts I'm assigning them to. But if I have a chord of 7 notes that I'm assigning to 5 instrument tracks, or a triad going to 5, it get visually messy. As I said, I'd like to be able to select a note or notes and selectively colour them within one clip in PRV.  Then be able to select notes by colour to be able to copy and paste.

Thanks - I learned something new... The Midi plugin doesn't seem to work at all, and the Select by event filter doesn't work in the PRV although I can get it to work in Track view "notes".

It's still crude... once selected I'd like to be able to colour the selection  so I can work within the one clip to separate parts.

Does anyone know a quick way to take a piano or "full strings" midi sketch with multiple chords and lines and separate them into individual parts for separate instruments? 

This is the only task in Cakewalk that I actively avoid. I get lost and can't keep the parts straight.

Often I write an orchestral passage using piano or "full strings" as a sketch, and later try to disambiguate the polyphonic midi into distinct instruments. What would make my life MUCH easier is if I were able to select notes and color them within the one clip before copying the clip to each instrument. I would be easily able to visualize each part and make choices about which notes to assign to each part.

Thanks for all the great new developments ... especially the articulation maps!

13 hours ago, abacab said:

With my current system, Intel i5-9600K at 4.6Ghz, I start getting breakups (pops & crackles) with 8 instruments loaded in a single instance of ST4 using ASIO at 256 buffers (24/48000).

If I run a CPU monitor I can see one core (of 6) doing all of the heavy lifting. When that core gets over 50% on that single thread is when I start hearing noise.

With my old dual core at 3.4Ghz I only got about 3-4 instruments per instance. YMMV.

VST2 or VST3 doesn't seem to make any difference in this regard, as well as setting plug-in load balancing on/off in Cakewalk preferences. I recall Noel mentioning somewhere that load balancing only applies to effects rather than instruments. This seems to be more of an issue with the new ST4 library.

So if instruments are single threaded, then separate instances would be necessary to share the load. I did notice that if you are using the older ST3 based libraries in ST4, they are less CPU hungry. The ST3 engine is included within ST4 for compatibility with the older instruments.

Very useful information, thanks.  Explains a lot.

13 hours ago, Promidi said:

Personally I have found the VST2 version to be more stable than the VST3 version - especially when using multiple tracks.

I find I have to use several instances as ST4 itself is not multi-threaded.

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

My brief experiment with identical setups... 3 instances of ST4 each with 8 parts loaded.   VST 2 wins easily. VST3 has clicks, stutters  and delays unless I set  the buffers so high that latency becomes intolerable.