Terry Kelley

On 1/29/2025 at 1:32 AM, Wayne Smith said:

That's interesting :>)

For now.  
 

Is don’t think all Real Tracks have a corresponding midi track. When I have  switched, the midi was different or nonsensical. But often it does work. BIAB is a good composing tool.

Yeah, if they are green the midi wont be a direct copy of the Real Tracks. It’s often nonsensical.

Read in the BIAB manual about MIDI instrument assignment and hit up the BIAB forum. You can switch any instruments to MIDI or select a style that doesn’t use Real Tracks.

Export the midi from BIAB, then export the wave instruments from BIAB (select file per instrument. ) Next import the wave and midi into Cakewalk tracks.  Make the tempo in Cakewalk match the tempo in BIAB. Watch that the midi and wave clips are aligned. You might need to slide one to match the other.

Now you have some choices. You can apply whatever instruments you want to the midi tracks plus you have the wave stems to mix in if you want. 

You can also go back into BIAB, change the style and extract various new instruments as you like. It’s great for getting away from the canned BIAB styles.

Finally, you can add the BIAB VST into Cakewalk, load the BIAB VST with the SGU file (File at the top left) and see the chords as you play your song in BIAB. It will also play the BIAB audio if you want.

Ah, good point. I don’t use Sonar and didn’t think about 4k. So my comments are wrong.

I have to admit, if SoundCloud said I needed 2FA, I’d wonder why. They never did. I dropped Pro Nov. ‘24.

When I got Producer 8, I had to load my old .wrk files in the 32 bit version, save them and then they could be loaded into the 64 bit version. 64 bit wouldn’t open them.

On 1/26/2025 at 12:46 PM, Promidi said:

It doesn't, but I would recommend it, especially for older CPUs.

For the i7-14700, a dedicated GPU would be less important.  However, you might still benefit from a dedicated GPU

Remember, it's not only Cakewalk that would utilise a dedicated GPU, but you overall Windows GUI would as well.

If you are worried about fan noise, you could always see about getting a fanless, or a card where the fan only starts up when the GPU load exeeds a given threshold. 

It wouldn't surprise me if some slower i3 or i5 processors might benefit some. My earlier i7-4790 didn't need the card. The VSTs themselves did a fine job of grinding that processor into the ground. Arturia's Augmented anything was usually the cause.  It wasn't the graphics load.

Anywho, no harm with a card. Have at it. It's doesn't need to be an expensive card.

 NV. I see he's posting.

Hell, I use them in other DAWs.

I’ve turned on 2FA anywhere I can that involves money. We dropped SoundCloud Pro and it was a hassle to stop the charges. None of these “We’ll Make You Famous” are worth it. Landr, BL, SC, etc. YouTube is one of places where you might get some valid likes.

Right. What we are offered now is rental, not a subscription.

I know some GUIs on some VSTs might benefit if they are animation heavy but I’ve never seen anything that appeared to be messing up or delayed. So I don’t bother.

I believe the general consensus is that the graphics load is minimal and a card won’t really help anything. 
 

I’m using the built in graphics of the i7 12700 with dual monitors. Works fine. Getting an external card won’t do much of anything for me.

Hmmm. Yeah. Clips but not the track in whole. Well, another reason to go back to the DOS version!

I should pull my D110 out. Haven't used it in decades.

I've copied tracks  between projects. Isn't it going to the Cakewalk clipboard (vs the Windows clipboard)?

Naw, it’s easy to get. For licensing reasons the two ROMs are separate but there with the VST. I’ve had 10 instances running at one time.

And interesting aside is that it sounds like they undid the 15 bit audio hack and 14 bit reverb hack and this removed the decay noise the MT-32 had. It was terrible.  My D-110 was better.

On 1/13/2025 at 2:51 PM, Dormant Cell said:

Thanks!
I rely heavily on the TTS-1 drums so far & haven't found anything i like to replace it with.
Until then I don't want to risk the TTS-1.
B.R.

Munt MT-32 is a good substitute if you can’t use TTS-1. It’s pretty much the same sounds.

We will never know. I believe the Gibson dump scattered many (rightfully pissed off) users and the free (for a time) Bandlab version probably brought some back but I would suspect not many. Has the Sonar rental plan got more back? I doubt it but they probably brought in new users and that's what more important. Most people once pissed off rarely return to a product if they can at all avoid it.

I seriously doubt Bandlab will ever tell us the bottom line but being tied to Bandlab  gives them some leverage. I am not sure Bandlab expects Sonar to be profitable standalone.

In the end, Sonar (and CbB) work well and if it's worth it to you, rent it.

Has anyone list out the specific differences outside of the visuals? I know they've added some new features.

Amazing how many people can play other people’s music either note perfect or with massive flair, but you never hear their compositions.

I love the Who too but I consider Tommy to be their weak point and the god save me from the movie. And yes, the Sgt Pepper’s movie was competitively worse. 
 

But this bunch did an outstanding job.

It’s the same in other DAWs. Use it at the clip/item level or regret it in the end.

I had long hair until I married a barber. She’s been doing it ever since. And I don’t miss it. Mine was long mainly because I was lazy back in the day.

Regardless of the number of different speakers and headphones I’ve used over the millennia, if I mixed in headphones, the mix balance is off on ANY loudspeakers.

So I don’t. I might rough it out but I mix on my monitors and check on my dipoles. Those two agree.