GreenLight

14 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

It is indeed confusing, when I don't think it needs to be.

I'd always thought that the grouping of commands by view was just to make them easier to find in the list, I had no idea that it meant that the same key combos could do different things depending on which view. I have a shortcut that shows Track Manager, and I never could figure out why it didn't work for the Track Manager in Console.

Very well put!

I thought about that as well – using the same shortcuts for different actions in different views – and how that could be really nice in some scenarios.

For some time I've been using NUMPAD + and - for zoom in/out in Track View, which btw has been a great workflow enhancer for me. And then I thought it would be cool to use the same combo for zoom in/out in PRV as well... but maybe it's a bad example, since it has been very convenient to be able to zoom in/out in Track View even when working and having focus in PRV.

Ok, my aim is always to try to write forum posts that have constructive content and that are useful and interesting for the topic at hand, but...

On 8/18/2022 at 9:53 PM, Will. said:

I have had this issue in the past and spend hours with the bakers trying to fix this in the PM section. 

I've manage to fix it myself, but i'm trying to remember now how - to you help here. ? It's literally just a setting. ? 

Check if your "Apply workspace to project" is ticked, right at the bottom of teh workspace dropdown menu. 

I'm trying to think now. ?

In Preferences > keyboard shortcut TAB -- make sure "Save Changes For Next Project/Session" is ticked.

I have now checked how my Cakewalk is configured: "Save Changes for Next Session" is checked under Preferences/Keyboard shortcuts. I don't think it's ever been unchecked.

Workspaces are configured as seen below. Are you saying I should enable "Apply Workspace on Project Load" even though I'm not using workspaces? ?

On 8/17/2022 at 1:12 PM, Starship Krupa said:

(Crossposted in the Deals subforum because there's not 100% overlap in readers)

@scook (who else?) has unearthed a file that I've been searching for for literally years: The Alesion Arps . He's been kind enough to host it for download by the Cakewalk user community. The link is to the top level of Steve's page, because it has a bunch of other stuff that Cakewalk users should know about. It's the first link on the page.

Thanks a lot for this, Superrabbit ?, very interesting. I have downloaded and installed them and will definitely try them for my next melodic techno track.

The page on the B Rock website was very ambitious in its explanation of these. In summary, there are 32 different arp patterns and each of  those is also available in 15 different variations, truncated to shorter lengths to make it very easy to achieve polyrhythms when layering them on top of each other or other sequences. Cool!

It makes me think of the arp in U-He's Diva synth. It has a Restart parameter which lets you do the same thing, i.e. it allow you to restart the arp sequence earlier. Very useful for more organic patterns!

4 hours ago, Peter Hintze said:

+1

my keybindings dissapear every now and then`also. I suspect that changing the Cakewalk Version could be the reason perhaps?

I export my bindings often, to revert if i have to.

Thanks for chiming in, Peter, interesting to know there's more with the same problem.

2 hours ago, msmcleod said:

The assignment for the current area is always shown on the right, whereas the current assignment for the Global area is always shown underneath and on the left.

What you're seeing for CTRL + R, is your "Track View" assignment on the right ( i.e. Rename Clip ), and the Global Area assignment underneath and on the left.   For CTRL + J, you're seeing the description for your "Track View" assignment to Bounce to Clip(s) on the right,  and it shows that it's unassigned in the Global area on the left.

It would be fantastic if the "Global" aspect/concept you describe could be indicated more clearly in the Preferences GUI. It is a bit confusing the way it's currently displayed. ?

22 minutes ago, Will. said:

I have had this issue in the past and spend hours with the bakers trying to fix this in the PM section. 

I've manage to fix it myself, but i'm trying to remember now how - to you help here. ? It's literally just a setting. ? 

Check if your "Apply workspace to project" is ticked, right at the bottom of teh workspace dropdown menu. 

I'm trying to think now. ?

In Preferences > keyboard shortcut TAB -- make sure "Save Changes For Next Project/Session" is ticked. 

 

Appreciate your help, as always, Will!

Will (pun not intended) check it out. ? (Note though that I'm not using workspaces nor screensets.)

1 hour ago, Michal Ochedowski said:

Save Changes For Next Session is constantly switched on. Thanks for the suggestion. The "system-specific" phrase describes my problem very accurately. Perhaps I will investigate the matter further, when I'm not distracted by other things. 

I have tried to find some pattern in the disappearing shortcuts, but have so far not succeeded. As a backup, I constantly export my binding setup as soon as I make any changes to my shortcuts. I try out new configurations pretty often, so I have a lot of backups.

About the "unusualness" or "system-specificness"  of this problem – all I can say is that I have reported in a bunch of very odd, and very difficult-to-reproduce Cakewalk bugs lately, that the Bakers have fixed swiftly and competently once I managed to reproduce them and report them. Some of the bugs to me literally years of enduring to get a repro on (I'm looking at you, "preview bus suddenly changing bug". The obscure bug existed for years, and it was very annoying for me! But victory to those who persist! ?)

As I wrote elsewhere in this forum recently, I think the Keyboard shortcuts preferences part of Cakewalk could use a facelift (not least with the long delays in opening the window) a trip to the gym and makeover, if you so will. ?️‍♂️?

I also have the problem of my own bindings occasionally randomly unbinding... it's very annoying. I am not using either Screensets or Workspaces.

@Michal Ochedowski Did you isolate your shortcut unbinding problems to Workspaces?

3 hours ago, msmcleod said:

FYI - fixed for next release.

Brilliant, thank you for the fast work!

1 hour ago, David Baay said:

Confirmed. And the musical value is ignored in favor of the Landmarks as shown in your video. I also saw some other odd behavior where it nudged by random small amounts (4 ticks, 32-ticks) when the clip start was between 1:01:000 and the first marker, but I can't reproduce it consistently

Thanks a lot, mate! Always appreciate your input, David.

Pinging @msmcleod... Houston, we have a bug! ??

20 hours ago, Glenn Stanton said:

i use the task list to create a number of export options and i just check the one (or more) in the list i want and run it. i have this type of presets in my templates so they're already there. so, one key technique is to leverage the task approach - although i agree, having it remember the last settings would be nice.

That's a very interesting workaround, I will give it a try. Thanks for the tip! ?

2 hours ago, Adam Janz said:

Hi everyone, I installed Cakewalk for the first time today and the UI is just so tiny on my 27" 2560 x 1440 monitor that it's sadly unusable for me. Setting scaling to 150% in Windows makes it too blurry to be usable and setting to 200% makes it too pixelated to be usable. I'm on Windows 8.1. Googling this it seems most people complain about the interface being too big, but such is not the case here. ? I assume there is no scaling options in Cakewalk itself? Thank you!

You describe Cakewalk's scaling problem with current hi-res/hi-DPI  screens correctly. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find a good compromise with that screen size and resolution. There are some small mitigations that you can try with Windows' High DPI settings on the Cakewalk shortcut, I think they were described earlier in this thread.

As I created this thread, I thought a lot of people would have problems with it, but surprisingly many don't. For example, the people responding in this thread are either using very large screens (32") or lower resolutions, creating situations where you don't need scaling. Then there are probably also those who don't care or notice if things are a bit blurry as well...

Noel from Bandlab said a couple of years ago that they are aware of it: "This is a known issue and we have plans of gradually addressing it. Its not impossible but its a significant amount of work for the UI to fully handle DPI scaling in the app"

On 7/29/2022 at 6:17 AM, Mathew Valente said:

• Automation lanes get ignored for a bar or two whenever a loop is set in the project, and the project is playing. This makes troubleshooting loops harder.
• Looping and automation lanes are completely broken. If there's a loop set, the automation lane nodes will sometimes get ignored after the loop. I have noticed that if I set the line to "jump" it sometimes fixes it (sometimes). As far as I can tell, MIDI automation lanes break more often than audio automation lanes do.

I really appreciate all the work you put into this, and together we will improve Cakewalk, but I believe your findings will make a bigger impact if put more succinctly.   Let's start with the the looping issues... first, are the two bullet points above talking about the same thing?

I use looping all the time but cannot recall having problems with automation being ignored in a loop. (I mostly edit my automation on the main track, without expanding the automation lanes, but I wouldn't think that should make any difference.)

Is the looping issue reproducible for you?

It would be great if the Export Audio dialog would remember the previously used preset on per-project basis. Currently it only remembers the export location (a recently introduced change - which is great!) and it would save time if the previously used preset also was remembered.

Thanks!

On 7/30/2022 at 4:54 PM, scook said:

In 2021.04 there was a setting added for this. Check out the Windows 10 high DPI rendering option (experimental feature) section about 2/3rd down this page

I just stumbled across the setting while looking for something else in the help.

Thanks @scook, I tried the EnableWin10DPIAwareness setting earlier but if I recall correctly I didn't really see any difference.

It should be noted that in March this year, msmcleod actually said that the EnableWin10DPIAwareness "...setting is highly experimental, and not recommended." ?

There are some further DPI related Windows settings one can set on the cakewalk.exe shortcut: the new "System (Enhanced)" option for High DPI scaling override actually seems to improve the menu texts in Cakewalk, but it obviously cannot improve bitmap graphics.

Hi all!

I think I found a bug which is the following: Nudging with Follow Snap Settings will snap to any enabled Landmarks even if the Snap To Landmarks button is disabled. This is not expected behaviour, I would say?

The video shows:

1. Markers is enabled in Landmarks
2. Cakewalk now snaps between Markers with the Snap To Landmarks button enabled
3. Turn off Snap To Landmarks button
4. Cakewalk still snaps to the Markers
5. Disable Markers under Landmarks
6. Cakewalk now snaps according to regular snap setting (whole measure)

I didn't have time to test the EA, but I just installed the final 2022.06 build 034... and now it's all golden. ??

1 hour ago, Lord Tim said:

Just tested the EA then - all appears to be working correctly now  

Glad to hear it, thanks for the teamwork. ?

11 hours ago, Lord Tim said:

I haven't had a chance to try this out yet to see if it's solved the issues I came across but see how you go with this, @GreenLight

https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/48070-cakewalk-202206-update-1-early-access/

Wow, the Baker's were fast with this bugfix, they probably just came back refreshed from vacation. ?️☀️

Will try this tomorrow!

1 hour ago, Jimbo 88 said:

...so the JV 1010 is just used to give me a piano sound out of my midi controller (StudioLogic 88) when I'm not connected to a sound in a DAW.   I have a rack of similar modules behind a wall I can access, but have not used in years! Probably should sell them, but you never know when ya might wanna fire them up just for fun.

The monitor on top is really just a hair above eye level when I sit straight up... which is what I try to always do and is a good tip to know.  The better your posture, the easier it is to work long hours.  I never sit back in my chair.  So I really do not look up at the top monitor.  Much of the time I also have notation software (Sibelius) rewired in that monitor.  When I'm working not scoring to picture I always have notation up. 

A very clever trick I learned from Jerry is to put a dummy track in Staff View up on the top screen that works as a sketch for melodies and chords and then open a separate Staff View in the docking station below to edit arrangements.  Something not possible in any other DAW, but CbB.

Smart with the JV module for instant piano sound, maybe I should do the same... Although I can't call myself a piano player, I do occasional piano practice and quick access to a piano sound can sometimes be the difference between practice or no practice. ?

Good to hear you've got the ergonomics nailed! ?? It's so important – when I see some people's studio pics, I think "I wouldn't last there for a day"... ?

4 hours ago, Jimbo 88 said:

Hey so I tried to up the resolution on my monitor just to see what i might be missing and it turns out I'm maxed out probably due the age of the monitor.  It has to be at least 10 years old.  So now I might be monitor hunting in the near future.  Here is what I look at every day...

 

Great to see your setup! Lots of interesting gadgets... A good 'ol JV-1010, do you still use it? (I still have a JV-2080 in my rack, but I guess I ought to sell it as I don't use it... if those are sellable these days?) Ah, ah Kensington trackball, I got one last year, as a complement to the mouse.

You're using the monitor on top to show video when scoring to picture? Cool! (No neck pain from that high angle?)

On 7/20/2022 at 10:22 PM, Bill Phillips said:

I have a 37" curved LB at the recommended 3840 x 1600 and 100% text size. I picked it because it fits between my monitors. I'm old and have to move my head right to left to see some things clearly at either side. So a wider display might be harder for me to use. I like this one a lot everything is clear in Cakewalk and plugin pop-ups.

Sounds like a good resolution for that size. But I can totally get that if it's too wide, you're going to get a "tennis effect" with your head moving back and forth all the time... ?

8 hours ago, Lord Tim said:

Nah, it's really the vertical height that makes the difference - it's a 49" 32:9 monitor, basically 2x 27" 16:9 monitors joined together into one really wide one, so if people like a 1440p 27" monitor at 100% then this would look the same, just extending out on either side.

But like I said, it's definitely personal preference. 100% scaling feels just right to my eyes but might be too small for others.

Lovely setup, real wiiiiide! I considered a 49", but it seemed most Picture-By-Picture solutions were potentially messy, so I decided to stay with physical dual screen... the KISS principle.

11 hours ago, Michael McBroom said:

I have an LG 34" (2560 x 1080) that I run at 100% with all my apps and programs. It's a great monitor, especially if I want to watch a 16:9 video -- which ends up being full screen. I've owned this monitor for about 3 years now, I guess it's been. Its only drawback, if you want to call it one, is it is HDMI only.  With CWbBL, I've had zero problems, both with Win10 and Win7. I really like being able to view 22 tracks or so in the Console View.

Thanks for the input, Michael. That sounds like a good solution. ? I will just have to try 27" at 2560x1440 at home to see if it's workable with Cakewalk at 100%... everything will certainly be displayed smaller than with your setup. ?

8 hours ago, bitflipper said:

You can imagine the impact that could have on a program like Cakewalk that needs to be heavily optimized. Imagine if it had to check screen resolution every time it scrolled the track view during playback. I think it's a reasonable assumption that display parameters won't change while Cakewalk is running.

The mystery is what kind of magic Ableton is performing to suppress scaling.

Microsoft talk about three different scaling categories: "dynamically scaling apps: "Apps that scale themselves on the fly no matter where they are presented" (this is what I think you are referring to?), as well as "'System scale factor' apps: "Apps that understand a single system-side scale factor (usually taken from the primary display at logon time)" and finally "'Scaling unaware' apps".

Well, Noel said Cakewalk eventually get a "UI to fully handle DPI scaling in the app", so I guess we'll just have to have patience. ?