John Nelson

Update... based on latencymon readings and overall smooth sailing with Win 11 on my non-DAW PC, I went ahead and updated my DAW machine. So far, performance is excellent.  Latencymon as good or better than before.

No tweaks, repeat... no tweaks. Just straight upgrade via Update Assistant in Settings.

I'll report if any snags crop up. It's easy to roll back to 10 anyway so I don't feel any reason to worry.

You have a 7.1.4 listening room?

Update... installed Win 11 Pro on my non-DAW machine (i5-9400 2.90 GHz) and everything runs pretty snappy.  I ran latencymon and it gets excellent grades, although I don't intend to use it for audio.

On 10/28/2021 at 3:33 AM, Roger_L said:

I may be being stupid, but why this rush to install Windows 11? 

I have multiple PCs. Will upgrade on the one which I don't use for audio engineering and run through its paces on that one. Just use that machine for emails and such so not much risk.

As a corollary to this, I've created a theme named tester, then renamed it outside of CBB, and the old name persists in the directory. Must be a registry thing.

Erik, I made a few minor changes.

1.) Stereo/Mono Interleaves (closer matching the prototype) 

2.) Round Write Automation buttons.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vbtbhojkffnxb5b/Flat Minimalistic %26 Dark.sth?dl=0

Cheers!

Microsoft hasn't supported Win 7 for quite some time but it seems like half the folks here still use it 😉

If the other options don't work for you, maybe try the last version of Automap. It worked fine on my SL a few years ago, but I confess I used it little because I use a Mackie Control Universal for my DAW control surface.

Maybe I'm missing something but, why aren't you using Automap?

Automap | Novation (novationmusic.com)

1 hour ago, Starship Krupa said:

Woo-hoo! And for irony, it appears to be derived from the gaudiest theme in the pantheon. 😆

You may want to revert About Box to the original. It shows an Evangelion Angel getting ready to attack Boston.

I'm glad it follows the Nicholls/Krupa icon choice for Instrument and Synth tracks.

A suggestion: in keeping with the black-and-white look, replace the note durations in PRV with the ones from Tungsten, and black-and-white the #2 cells:

I may go back to that green gridding in the PRV. I since changed it to  have red lines for the measures in some of my dark themes, but having them be a brighter version of the theme color still looks pretty nice. It goes well with the Midnight Blue color preset to brighten up the grid lines in Track View.

There's one issue with your Smart Grid button. It looks the same as your Standard Grid button, so I can't tell when Smart Grid is enabled. Something like this maybe?:

I've already made these changes to my copy of the theme, let me know if you want to incorporate them.

Also: it looks like you're working from an earlier version of EVA 01 and/or Yellow Submarine. I've tuned up many of the images since then. Sometimes I slipstream updates without making a big announcement.

Thanks for backstopping me, Erik. I'll clean 'er up a bit (if you happen to send me your icons it would be great).

Well, someone had to haul off and do it then.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vbtbhojkffnxb5b/Flat Minimalistic %26 Dark.sth?dl=0

*updated 10/20/2021

Erik, your burgers deliver the beef indeed.  And as a user of your themes... thank you!  That flat minimal thing... not so much.

16 hours ago, abacab said:

Nothing beats a live performer!

But many cannot acquire said performer, due to either location or budget!

True. I've had great success with remote collaborations. My go to bass guitar and  pedal steel guy even uses Logic (!) and we just exchange aiff files and are good to go either way. He hits me up for parts I can provide and we have a seamless process. No budget involved!

Before the internet it wasn't possible. 

My suggestion, find a local Irish pub that hosts live music. Open mic nights draw a fair number of players of varying skill levels.

Get acquainted and see if a fiddler can be wheedled into coming over and recording. A modest remuneration shouldn't be too much of a stretch.

Might get someone who'll do it for free for various intangible rewards.

You stand a decent chance at getting a track you'll really be happy with.

As that old commercial asked, "Where's the beef?" 😄

Correction, it was the M-Spec theme that matches with the Export dialog box nicely (not Silk).

On 8/28/2021 at 7:12 AM, Matthew White said:

As I prefer dark themes I liked this change a lot, I was rather hoping it would stay and also be extended to the Instrument menus but that's just my own personal preference though ideally I think these should be themeable. We can but hope! 🤩

Matthew, your M-Silk theme matches up really well with the new Export menu IMHO.

Umm... a harmonica is like $20 bucks.  Easy to play, no lessons required.  

Every point in the signal path where you can increase or reduce the signal strength is a "gain stage".  What you choose to do at each point has an impact on the final sound.  There are well established best practices which can be found with a cursory search on the internet.

At the end of the day it's voltage.  The signal begins as voltage at a microphone transducer and ends as voltage at a speaker transducer.

With MIDI VSTi you are in a somewhat different boat however, there's still a sweet spot.

If you drive your digital signal path hard it sounds like crap at some point. Maybe that is what you as the mixer wants but most pros avoid the hotboxed territory.

This happened to me a couple of days ago.  I had to save, close the project and reopen.  Then it was fine.  As you say, nothing else would wake it up.

On 7/15/2021 at 8:41 PM, Sam Stalos said:

2.  If you save an open .cwp file in Cakewalk , that file name will not appear as an option the next time you boot Cakewalk. That is, the file name will not appear in the Recent Projects menu of the Start Screen.

 

 

 

^^^Seeing this here, too.  I am able to use the Open menu to open the project but it's not in the quick start list.

13 hours ago, Marcello said:

Man thanks but be very carefull with FreeG plugin! I have put it on some busses and on the master fader, and basically after months of investigation I discovered what was applying a sort of stereo widener on my Track! It was the freeG! After you use it just remove it from the tracks! it mess up everything!

I have two FreeG's, one is stereo and one is mono, both 64 bit VST2.  Maybe try the mono one?

Another option, insert FreeG as needed in the signal chain.  You can always leave fader at unity so as to use only the metering.  Or add gain where needed.

FreeG - Sienda (sonalksis.com)

Erik, this is really fun theme.  I like your approach to theming, go bold as it were.  The more variety in our theme collections, all  the better!  Thanks for your hard work.

The whole idea behind Fraunhofer coded MP3 is to trade-off some audio loss to achieve a much smaller file size.  

Well done, Matthew!