Terry Kelley

You want something other than the green solo S on each track? Looking at Track Manager, it's still possible you'll have to scroll it like track view to see everything.

You might have to contact them and have them deactivate the old one manually on their side. I had to do this with Xpand!2/iLok. They did it withing hours.

5 hours ago, abacab said:

5 or 7 frets? I don't understand...

E1 to C5 works here. And it appears to include 20 frets. 😉

 

On the freebee? That's what I have. On mine, I can't play anything above the 4th fret on all but the high E on the fret-board.  On the keyboard I can play all the way up but if you watch, it only plays in the 1-4 fret range until it gets to the high E. That will go all the way to the top of the neck.

Maybe there is a magic setting to go higher? It's not like I read the book ...

I think Ample Guitar is 5 or7 frets. And it won't go below the standard guitar tuning. Same for the bass . Still useful for the most part.

I think in one way or another each of us have expressed our reasons for liking and wanting to use TTS-1. It's not a one-off by some internet random. Old, oh yeah, but when functional, it's extremely useful. But to your other point, yes, many of us have learned it's limitations and don't expect it to fill every need.

I do agree with your point about (generally) avoiding the myriad of one-off VSTs floating around. But I don't see TTS-1 as one of them.

Did you insert the TTS-1 with the Instrument Track per Output checked in the Insert Soft Synth Options? When you do, it creates 4 tracks for each output. Then you go into the TTS-1 settings and assign each "Part" to an output. You then route those 4 to some master or main output. You can insert audio effects on each track but you are stuck with any/all Parts sent to that output going through the same effects. You can alternately, assign each midi track to an output one by one, freeze it, copy that to a new track and keep going until each one has it's own track and therefore can have it's own audio effect.

Your questions imply you missed a step somewhere.

24 minutes ago, User 905133 said:

Please notice what I wrote: esp. "for some of us."  I did not say "for everyone." 

Please understand that not everyone has the same experiences. 

You can contradict me, but that doesn't make you right. 

Also, doing an internet search and finding "people battling it as far back as 2006" does not disprove that, "TTS-1 has worked flawlessly as intended for some of us over the years."

I have seen people talk about issues with TTS-1.  I never doubted their experiences.  We all have different experiences. We all have different preferences. We all have different workflows.

Obviously my experiences are not the same as yours.

I stand by what I wrote.

 

Ok.

On 4/29/2021 at 8:06 AM, User 905133 said:

Maybe someone can figure out why TTS-1 has worked flawlessly as intended for some of us over the years?  Perhaps there's something about it that makes it not work properly on newer computers with CPUs and other chips/devices built past a certain date?

Toward that end, I'm willing to test drive on my PC a few TTS-1 only *.cwp files known to crash on other systems. 

Actually it hasn't. If you do a search on the internet you can find people battling it back as a far as 2006.

I've done a ton of experimenting trying to nail down what breaks it and what fixes it after it breaking. At a minimum I've  discovered that once broken (freezes, crashes with C0000000005, just closes Cakewalk with no error, etc.) it will never work again. You can't back out tracks, move stuff, remove and add it again - nothing.

It does appear to be related to the amount of memory you are using. If you start a project with it, it works. Now start adding other stuff. At some point it's likely to stop working even thought you didn't touch TTS-1 directly. I have a couple of crash files I test with when a new version of Cakewalk comes out wondering if it might start working. It never does.

And to be clear it's not CbB's fault or their product. They would likely fix if they could considering they fix CW bugs within a month while adding new features.

Yeah, my requirement to add it to Cakewalk is dumb. I was stuck in Satellite.  I would be happy to just be able to stream high quality audio to a friend. I'll check those out. Thanks!

I’ve been looking for something that would allow me to stream high quality stereo to a friend. The latency isn’t an issue . Something I can insert in the master output. I don’t want to have to always do a stereo mix and then send it to them via email, One Drive, etc. I hit play and they hear it some milliseconds later. 

Thanks for updating this Colin. I can't live without it. Well, I can but prefer not too. Well, I won't do anything drastic but I really like it.

17 hours ago, Jim Fogle said:

@Terry Kelley,

Gosh Terry, What did TTS-1 ever do to give you the snarks against it?  Not just in this thread but this one too!  C'mon man, lighten up!

It was a bully in high school!

I don't think I'm hurting its feelings. I love TTS and wish it worked better.  I get that it's old and can't be fix but when people post asking why it's going stupid, well, you know ... But I will point out that their frustrations are valid and it requires finesse to use it. And finish with snark.

Use it early, use it a lot, freeze and get out.

Are you using the Sonitus Reverb by any chance. This FX plugin will kill audio or make  horrible sounds when it decides to be mean.

55 minutes ago, reginaldStjohn said:

I remember the feature being added that when you adjust clip gain automation the waveform would change. I don't remember anything about track automation doing the same.

Ah, maybe that is what I am thinking.

I often sit and read through threads just to pick up new knowledge without looking for anything specific. I recall reading once that there was a way to have wave clips animate the automation changes (like the wave would get smaller or larger as the volume changed from the automation.)

I went back and did a search and I see references to "animation" but often they are talking just normal automation nodes. Nothing about something visually moving around, getting bigger, small or any visual representation in an audio clip.

Did I not read something about this visual wave animation based on automation?

If that makes any sense ...

Oh it varies all right ...

It's call the original.

 Is Stop at End of Project on?

Too bad, it still has value when it works. An MT32 on steroids.

I vote for Forth!

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Take that C!

I had to switch to closed back headphones to minimize this but I noticed some leakage is still possible but not enough to show up in the mix. Only if I solo the track and listen carefully.

I'm not surprised this makes TTS-1 work since virtually anything will make it not work. Lol

(Did I say this out loud?)

I sometimes wonder if having accidentally "played" a bundle directly from the Google Drive has made it associated CWB with WAVs but I can't find any local or account settings suggesting that.

On a side note, the question about this issue that I posted on the Google Drive Help page shows one "upvote" and it was promptly locked for any comments. Definitely a conspiracy.

My formal backup is raw files. No zip, compression, bundles etc. Just the files ma'am.

This is a real problem. I see this too. I haven't figured it out. For some reason Google appears to be associating CWB files to WAV. I checked the browser (FF) and it's not doing it nor is Windows. If I put a CWB on the drive for my buddy, it's fine. When I bring in one of his, ".wav" has been appended to the file name so I see it as "song.cwb.wav".

I asked the Google forum about it too but got no replies. It only started happening recently (about 2 months ago.)

As far as a quick fix, just rename the file to .CWB.  You can also tell Cakewalk to open *.* and it will see the .wav, you can open it like any other .cwb file and re-save.

The value of bundles is a totally different subject.

On 4/2/2021 at 11:17 AM, scook said:

Once the lanes are cleared, right-click in the parent track and "Remove Empty Take Lanes"

For those wonder exactly where to click, you have to expand the takes using the icon and then right click on the top (parent) clip. I kept clicking on the track information and not the clip itself.