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Thanks for this theme, it's great! ❤️ I've been using Mercury for many years, but realized this theme increases visibility for many things, including automation. And the flat look also helps readability of the FX names in the FX bin! 😃 Is it time-consuming or difficult to learn how to make personal modifications to it with the Theme Editor? I would like to try slightly less dark lines between the tracks in the track view, and also have less saturated colors (I think I'd like pastel) for clips, for example. Edit: In projects where track colors are set, the clip colors don't match the colors set for the track. Would this be technically possible to achieve? It would make more sense... 😉

Interesting, thanks. I can see how that slipped between through the cracks. 😃 Keep up the great work, Cakewalk rocks! 🎵

I agree, I have also been missing the ability to have a keyboard binding for "UnSolo All Tracks" for years. 😅 I also miss being able to bind "Archive Track".

Great, good luck! 👍 No, unfortunately I don't have a repro... but give me a couple of years and I might! 😂 I look forward to testing the 2021.04 final, to see if I still get issues with the preview bus suddenly changing. Just out of nerd curiosity, what kind of error in the code - on a high level - caused the bug that made already listened to sounds always play through the same preview bus?

Exactly, it's stored per-project. But what kind of circumstances do you think could cause it to suddenly change to another bus within a project? It changes for me occasionally, even when I know I haven't added or deleted any buses within the project... (And this behaviour/problem then obviously exposed the abovementioned bug for me. 😬)

FANTASTIC, thank you for this fix! ❤️😄 It bugged me for years, and I've been pestering forum members about it. 😂Then I finally figured out how to reproduce it, and reported it to support. I have also noticed that the selected Preview bus changes now and then when opening projects... it will be interesting to see if this fix has any bearings on that problem as well. Or maybe it's something else?

Disclaimer: I am not an expert on this subject. 😂 I agree with @msmcleod. For example, I am using a Roland DP-10 sustain pedal, which has half-pedal (or "continuous pedal") capabilities, i.e. it puts out a continuous stream of values from 0-127 instead of just on/off. (See this Gearspace discussion for examples.) Of course, your piano instrument has to support half/continuous pedaling as well, which many do, nowadays. That said, when you don't need CC64 to be continuous, it might be nice if it was possible to have another "view" of the automation lane where it's only possible to draw and display 0 or 127. Maybe something for a future feature? 😄

Hm, I agree with @Rogério, right click lassoing IS tricky when nodes are close to a track's top or bottom. 🤔 So how about this suggestion:💡 When one is right click-lassoing and the mouse pointer reaches the top or bottom of the track, the pointer would be stopped from moving to adjacent tracks (= confined to stay within the track where you started dragging)? Maybe this behavior could be enabled with a keyboard modifier and/or a specific tool? One could easily start from the bottom and also easily catch all nodes at maximum height, without worrying about including stuff in the track above. It would be a lot faster than CTRL adding nodes separately... 🙂

This is what I do most of the time! Right click + drag.

Hm, did I understand correctly: you only want to copy the 127 and 100 nodes, but nothing in between? If the answer is yes: how should Cakewalk know what to put in between, what kind of transition should be placed between them? Edit: By the way, how did you get the red "Automation" label on this topic?

Remember that keyboard shortcuts are essential for power users and to reduce RSI risk. ☺️ Promidi wrote earlier that he had some issues with the new keyboard shortcut for the tempo track: I think keyboard shortcuts get too little love in general... (for example, "Archive Track" is still not yet bindable... 🙄) Excited about this new release, keep it up! 👍

Thanks for chiming in! I actually set the interleave on the bus to mono as well... That's what is so weird: I had mono on everything from the source material, the channel interleave and (a single) bus interleave all the way to the destination track and with no plugins in between, yet the bounce generates a volume difference. 🥴 I managed to reproduce it in a new empty project in Cakewalk 2021.01. When I find the time, I think I will post a short video here, hopefully the Bakers will accept it as a bug. ☺️

I just lost a couple of hours to this weird +3 dB mono file issue when bouncing mono tracks... 😒 In the Cakewalk documentation quoted above, they mention "data interleave". What is that? Is it something else than the track interleave? My files are mono, my track interleaves are mono and my bounce to track channel format is set to mono... and still I get an unwanted +3dB boost... 🙄 I think Cakewalk doesn't really like working with mono files?

Ahh, I thought it was just me! 😂I've been interested in learning and trying Live, but within 10 minutes I felt GUI so inflexible... Live seems to be designed from the ground up for a single (laptop!) monitor setup.

Loving your attitude! ❤️

You're right - it's not really the same thing. To be honest, I recently made a similar request myself, of building-in the chord analyzer that already exists as a MIDI plugin. But thanks to your helpful fellow forum members, light has been shed on other tools (other than the CAL scripts that the OP mentioned) that can provide workarounds and that are indeed available out of the box. 🙂

I think a lot of workflow-focused changes are long overdue in Cakewalk... really looking forward to small enhancements like these! And man, I need to go make more music instead of hanging around on these forums all day... 😂

Good idea! I wouldn't mind either way! 😎 I like the control bar module concept a lot, but it should be fully customizable, basically down to individual button level if possible, like the Microsoft Office ribbon. An example is the new button for Select track envelopes with clips – a button I have been wanting for years! – it's only visible in the Large version of the Select module. But the large version of the Select module is HUGE, and I need other things more. So it would be great to have a fully customizable control bar, as close to button level as possible. 🤓 I think the Select track envelopes with clips button actually would be more logical to have in the Track View button bar, next to the Crossfade and Ripple Edit buttons...

I'm sorry, I think I picked a misleading video in general. 😀 No, I'm not after a chord track in this case. Logic has a input chord analyzer permanently living in the button bar, that always analyzes chords coming in at MIDI inputs. It is as if the Cakewalk MFX Chord Analyzer would be permanently available in the Control Bar in Cakewalk... which is what I'm after. Quick, and always available. @Kevin Perry Exactly, it's great, I would just like it to be permanently visible as a module in the Control Bar. 😀 Check out my concept art for this feature:

Exactly, I do that a lot too. 👍 So custom MIDI CC names would have to be visible there as well.

Thanks for the tip @msmcleod that's something I had never realized/considered! 😀 It would be awesome though to be able to rename the "mouseover name" of MIDI CC's, since I rarely expand the automation lanes... I usually edit them in the main track using the Edit Filter. And it would also take effect in the menu: But still a great tip, thanks! 👍

Yes, there is: scroll up to see the first reply in this thread by scook. 😆 Scook mentioned (and linked to) the included MIDI plugins you insert on MIDI tracks, they work well. Velocity is good to inject more life to hihat and percussive patterns and Quantize can also do randomness, and it's also one of the many ways to apply swing in Cakewalk. But I agree it would be a quicker workflow to implement some humanization features directly into the PRV and/or Inspector for MIDI tracks. It would be especially nice to just have a slider for Swing. 🎶

@Promidi Is it something like this you're after? 😀 Remembering what CC52 or CC38 does can be hard... 😂

Ah, thanks for pointing out my mistake, I have now updated with the correct image. 👍 If you're not convinced, check out this Logic Pro X that demonstrates the live chord display. Simple and brilliant! 😁

I am more of an electronic musician, so I don't have experience or opinions on the sources you mention... but check out some articles and tutorials on Sound on Sound. This might be of some help: Making The Most Of The Stereo Panorama https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/making-most-stereo-panorama