MarianoGF

Dear @Colin Nicholls,
Excuse me, did you find a way to customize the forthcoming export menu (2021.09)?
I just would like to change the color of the (blue) titles.
Thanks for your awesome work.

Thanks bakers for another awesome update, and specially for adding my request of exporting each individual arrangement section as a separate audio file. Now let's see how it works!

On 7/14/2021 at 12:55 AM, Nico said:

Hola, necesito ayuda con lo siguiente.

Tengo que grabar dos tracks en simultaneo, uno con una guitarra de linea por la entrada 1 de mi placa de sonido y el otro con el sonido de mi ampli por la entrada 2 d emi placa de sonido. Cuando pongo a grabar en simultaneo ambos, la señal de linea de mi guitarra de la entrada 1, queda grabada con un ruido parecido a fritura de fondo. Estos sucede cuando quiero grabar al mismo tiempo entrada 1 y 2. Si embargo, si solamente pongo a grabar la entrada 1 de mi linea, el sonido es correcto. He probado en otro software (Cubase) y no pasa esto, solamente me esta pasando con el Cakwalk Banda Lab Version 2021.06. Alguna informacion al respecto? ya que pareciera ser alguna cuestion del software evidentemente.

Hola.
Sería de ayuda si posteás una foto de tu placa conectada a los instrumentos; marca y modelo de la placa; y una foto de la pantalla en la parte de configuración de audio de Cakewalk.

1 hour ago, fitzj said:

I know Bandlab are doing a great job in keeping  this DAW updated etc but I feel this forum  is missing something. As a cakewalk user since the 90's I feel the Gibson issue destroyed  us all  in some little  way. Many  people just left. Not the buzz we had had years ago. I wonder what can do done to bring that back? No media from the Bandlab team and over  at  Presonus they are churning out great video's daily. So let's hope they hire people,  create  more videos on the  new features and  do some serious marketing.

Like you, I thought BandLab didn't promote Cakewalk, but then I realized something basic: the strategy is not to promote Cakewalk to the general public, but to do it for the ones who already use BandLab online DAW. Into the BandLab social media there is simply a button to download Cakewalk. So I think that's the best way to attract new young users. They first use BandLab DAW. 90% of them then dedicate their lives to completely other proffessions and use BandLab as a hobby. 10% of them want to go deeper and download Cakewalk (those who have Windows).
The majority of people who went away to other DAWs when Gibson abbandoned Cakewalk won't come back, but we are giving the welcome to new young BandLab users. They simply don't use this forum, they share their ideas into the BandLab social media. This forum is the Cakewalk's best compilation of resources provided by us, the old users.

On 6/10/2021 at 12:45 PM, Light Grenade said:

Apple's marketing department have been successful in their quest to solidify MacBooks as the ultimate portable computer, even though they are gravely overpriced and underpowered. This is why you have students using MacBooks for nothing more than word processing. You go into a coffee shop, how many folks are using Dell, Lenovo or HP laptops? Not many. Apple have created an environment where anything android or windows is seen as being cheap, not as good or not as cool, and sadly this matters to a lot people.  

Cakewalk's biggest hurdle is trying to compete in an industry, and wider creative landscape which is so apple focused. In my experience of recording studios and general music production, 95% of people are using Apple products, a lot of the time to their out detriment. For example, students shelling out 1.5k on a MacBook, only to find out it's has a Quad i5 CPU with 4gb of RAM, and this doesn't actually get very far.  There seems to have been a bit of a realisation recently due to even more obscene Apple prices. This has resulted in a lot of people I know going hackintosh, so hopefully this combined with stability of W10 will see transition away from Apple over time, which will no doubt benefit Cakewalk. 

This is only my opinion of course!
 

I agree with your opinion.
If I'm not wrong, you were the first one in this thread in talking about "recording studios". You know, when I created this thread about claiming for younger people to come to Cakewalk, I was thinking about the future recording studios, but I didn't say it clearly. Then lots of people fortunately started to give their opinions, almost every one of them talking about "teenagers making music with phones". What I wanted to mean is that, beyond how teenagers make music with phones, recording studios will keep existing in the future, even evolutioning and changing. So what mattered to me in my original post was how Cakewalk, now being free and acquired by BandLab, can attract young musicians and future engineers to be better established in the future recording studios. So your post was the best to me to clarify what I wanted to say originally. Thanks::.

3 hours ago, mdiemer said:

Everyone has a right to express their opinion.

I never said or think the opposite.

3 hours ago, mdiemer said:

If you don't agree with it, fine. Don't read their posts.

Fine. If that's your point of view, and you don't agree with my post, just don't read it. But, thinking twice, looking the way you "answered", I guess you didn't read it.

3 hours ago, mdiemer said:

Just because you disagree with how they see the world, that doesn't make you right and them wrong. Or vice versa.

To think that a server is trying to steal your music composition because it asks for activation frequently is not a way to see the world. It's something concrete which happens or doesn't happen. And in this case, clearly doesn't happen.

3 hours ago, mdiemer said:

You can also block people whose posts,  writing style, age, or whatever,  you don't like.

Thanks for the advice, but that talks more about you than about me.

3 hours ago, mdiemer said:

But honestly, nobody cares if you're getting tired of reading opinions you disagree with.

Right, nobody seems to care... except you.

Or maybe the current strategy is that the young BandLab DAW users who want to go deeper in pro audio, have Cakewalk at one click distance. Then the marketing tool that Cakewalk has to attract new users is actually the BandLab social network. So perhaps I was wrong and Cakewalk is the best future-facing pro DAW, due its aquisition by BandLab. I hope so::.

6 hours ago, Pragi said:

Hello Mariano,

are you hating veterans ?😃

Haha, not at all. I'm one of them. But I'm a bit tired to read people who say they don't update Windows because "every new Windows update destroys the PC", or people who uses CbB in an offline PC, for "safety reasons". The crazyest thing I've read is the post in this link. The guy argues will stop using CbB because he suspects "BandLab is spying his músic composition through its frequent activation".

It's obvious, but the future of any software is determined for the amount of new users it attracts. I love CbB, but I see it's something like a gift by BandLab for the +40 users (like me), who used it for decades. But unlike me, lots of veteran users hate every new feature or change for the good of the software. They are stuck in the concept of "all the past time was better", and there's no other ambit in the universe where that concept is wrong, but in technology.

Cakewalk is constantly improving, even more frequently than ever in the past, but along with technical improvement, it needs a daily dynamic community activity, in order to get new users who assure the existence of CbB in the future. This forum is awesome for those who already belong to the community, but it's not an entrance door for new users. A more active official Facebook page, as well as an Instagram, not to mention a more dynamic and complete website, are essential things to get new blood. Once they know about Cakewalk and start using it, they can join this forum and give fresh ideas to build the future of Cakewalk.

Just my point of view.
Thanks::.

Nice theme. It has something nostalgic about the DOS years, when Cakewalk started in 1987::.

No changes needed for CbB 2021.04 Update 1 👍, so it's totally compatible::.

Compatibility with CbB 2021.04 Update 1 now available::.

Version 2021.04 now available::.

Version 2021.04 now available::.

Boston Flowers 2021.04 compatibility update comming when Cakewalk 2021.4 official update available👍
Stay tunned::.

Deep in Lab 2021.04 compatibility update comming when Cakewalk 2021.4 official update available👍
Stay tunned::.

Hi @Colin Nicholls and thanks for this incredible guide.

Just one question that I couldn't find. In tungsteen theme there are a some special details which are not in Mercury theme. One of them is the console gain an pan indicative color (I paste the example in "young lady's" purple).

Do you know if is it possible to change their color? Thanks::.

A mistake of mine in the FX Name Background (ACT Focus) color, now corrected::.
Please download the theme again.

Thanks to @Rudy Varner for letting me know about the issue.

1 hour ago, Rudy Varner said:

When the currently selected track FX plugin is highlighted, both the box and text are orange and makes it almost impossible to read. Can we get the text changed to black?

@Rudy Varner can you post a screenshot so I can understand better? Thanks for using the theme.

On 2/14/2021 at 5:20 PM, User 905133 said:

@MarianoGF  How do you get (1) more than one option and (2) a column for checks?  I only had one option and no check column, so I thought it was a tooltip for the button.  In fact, when I turned tooltips off, I didn't get it at all regardless of the size of the module.  

So, if you turn tooltips off do you still get the box with what seems to be options to select?

Verified on my PC, too:   OK.  I figured it out--I was hovering not right-clicking.  When I right clicked, I got the same quickly disappearing selection box (even when using Mercury and Tungsten).

I was able to make the change, but the box shouldn't time out like that.  

 

 

Yes, it is very possible to choose an option, but the first time it took me four tryings just to read and understand them. Then I discovered that the issue didn't happen with the large size select module. I guess they will easily fix it for next release. Thanks.

On 2/14/2021 at 7:51 PM, msmcleod said:

This menu is also repeated here, which may be quicker/easier to access than using the select module if you've got it collapsed.

Thanks.
Actually, I can choose an option from the select menu, but anyway that's something very simple to fix (I guess) for the next version.

On 2/14/2021 at 6:30 PM, scook said:

Try right-clicking on the button to bring up the Select options. The popup menu hangs around long enough to click on a new setting.

Thanks. It happens exactly the same way.
Actually, I can choose an option, but anyway it is something to fix for the next version.

8 hours ago, Will_Kaydo said:

Try the two default themes that comes with cakewalk. 

@Will_Kaydo it happens with the stock themes too. Thanks anyway.

First thanks for all your hard work improving Cakewalk for us.

Don't know if this minimal issue was detected yet by other users:
The drop down menu of the "select sections..." button in the Select Module goes away quickly before one can choose an option. This happens ONLY in COLLAPSED Select Module.

A mistake of mine in the select module background, now corrected::.