Bill Phillips

Do you use Aux Tracks or Buses for Group and FX channels and why? Originally I used Buses modeling the hardware mix console layout because it was the only practical choice. When Aux Tracks became available and the patch point bugs worked out, I switched to Aux Tracks because I like having Group tracks adjacent to the source tracks and FX distributed across the console logically. But now I'm wanting to use more Track Templates and finding that Track Templates can create and populate buses for their outputs and sends, but not Aux Tracks. So far I haven't had too much luck using Project Templates. Adapting the templates I create usually seems like more work than starting from scratch for some reason. Thanks for your thoughts.

I keep forgetting to use that feature.

Track Templates create Patch Points but not Aux Tracks those Patch Points reference. Having Track Templates able to create and populate Aux Tracks (including track and PC configuration) referenced by the Track Templates output and sends. This would create and populate Aux Tracks the way Buses are created and populated now. Add Bus Templates so that templates can be used to populate buses they way they are used for Tracks.

I was searching on Track Template posts for another reason and I came across your post. By now you probably have the answer, but if not: You can already do what you're asking for. The switch the Browser to media mode, browse to Cakewalk Content/Cakewalk Core/Track Templates, pick a template and drop it in the Track Pane.

The track envelopes can be copied and pasted in another track too. Not so for clip envelopes.

Add the option to copy clip automation and paste it on another clip either in the same track or in a different track. Track automation can already be copied from one track to another. I often find myself wanting to copy and paste clip automation envelopes to another clip usually in another track. Example: I want to apply the same clip automation to two vocal tracks (one vocal, two mics). Manually drawing identical envelopes is currently the only choice.

Thank you @scook for the confirmation. I was just trying a couple of more ideas. None work. I'll give up and submit it as a feature request.

Thanks. Doesn't work. The clip automation goes with the clip when I drag the clip.

Thanks. Nice comparison, except ProTools is missing and the video didn't address send panning. To me having stereo panning of sends is as important as for outputs. ProTools has separate pan knobs for the output and each send. That's what I'd like to see, though the dual function pan/width control would also work. As @msmcleod pointed out Channel Tools in Cakewalk when used as the last effect in a track can provide true stereo panning in a way similar to BitWig, but stereo panning for sends in Cakewalk is not possible.

Without drawing two identical envelopes can I copy the clip gain envelope from one clip and paste it into another clip? I recall seeing that discussed here before but can't come up with a search string that finds it. I want to apply the same clip automation to two vocal tracks (one vocal, two mics). The clips all have an absolute time base. Things that haven't worked: I've tried copy and paste special but to copy or paste the envelope I must include the clip. I've copied and pasted the clip + envelope and deleted the clip but deleting the clip deletes the automation. What happens here is I get two takes, the original clip plus the pasted clip with an automation envelope. I've looked at assign and copy and assign the envelope but that only works on the clip with the automation and he only assign choice is pan.

I downloaded a bunch of these. Thanks.

Wow! Thanks. I've been using an international date notation standard for decades and didn't know it.

Maybe the request isn't clear. I'll say it again. We're asking for separate left and right pan pots for stereo channel outputs and sends with similar functionality to those in Protools. In any case, it sounds like we're going to need to live without them.🤣 And, I'm ok with that.🙄

Are you saying that you can't use your firewire interface with Windows 10? My firewire MOTO 828 mkII is working fine though I did need to replace my firewire card at some point.

Thanks! Me too, since PCs first came available! But I don't see anyone else doing it, untill now!

Thanks, but I don't think Channel Tools is a realistic substitute for Protools separate left/right pan controls. Channel Tools on the source track would affect all sends and the output. Channel Tools on the receiving track would affect all inputs. Protools separate left/right pan controls allow each send and the output of source trackes to be panned differently, and allow each input to receiving tracks to be panned differently.

I didn't do that, but if it removed the 27 files it had identified for removal it would have removed all but four of the 13 files I'd originally loaded. It could be that the Clean Audio Utility is far down the Bakers list of bugs. 😀

Thanks for the explanation. I used Save As to verify that only the original loaded files were the 13 I'd originally loaded using the Media Browser. So I deleted the other 18, I think duplicate, tracks which didn't seem to have any impact on the project performance. I'm going to keep the Audio folder open in Explorer to get a better idea when new files are created. The Clean Audio Utility doesn't seem to identify the correct files. In my case all the files created by Cakewalk and all but 4 of the files I'd loaded would have been deleted. The Play button doesn't work either. I'm guessing it hasn't been maintained as Cakewalk has evolved.

Nope. Clean Audio is wrong. Completely wrong. The Associated Audio Files for each track are the ones I loaded using the Media Browser. That works with the expected result. The 13 audio files that I'd loaded using the Media Browser were copied into the new project.

These tracks were recorded some time ago in another project. I loaded the audio files into an empty project using the media browser. There's 11 tracks. Two tracks have two takes. So there are 13 files. The other 18 files are not associated with any tracks and were added by Cakewalk or maybe Melodyne when I dragged one clip to the time line to create a tempo track.

Where the 18 additional audio files in the project I just created come from? And is it ok to delete them? The additional files are the ones shown in Explorer with one and two digit sequence numbers and shown as selected in the second screenshot. I noticed that they were all created over about five minutes about 45 minutes after I finished loading the audio files. See second screenshot. Could that have been when I dragged the acoustic guitar DI clip to the timeline to create the tempo track? If Melodyne did create them, why? Are they at all useful? I just created this project, starting with the empty project template dragging audio files in using the media browser. I have 11 track. Two have two takes. So that's 13 files all with three digit (i.e. 242) sequence numbers in their file names. I have slip edited and dragged clips to start at 1:01 and I've dragged the acoustic guitar DI clip to the time line to create a tempo track. I haven't bounced anything to clips or tracks. Then I opened the audio folder (lower left) and was surprised to find 31 not 13 files as shown in Explorer at lower left of the first screenshot. Not knowing why I had the 18 additional clips, I opened Clean Audio Folder, which I don't think I've ever used, hoping it would show the 18 additional files as no longer used. No such luck. It shows 27 files are no longer used. That would leave only 4 of the 13 files I loaded. The top three clips in the Clean Audio dialog are also the top three files shown in File explorer. The one with the (242) sequence number is the one I dragged in from the browser and the one shown in track 9 of Cakewalk on the right side of the first screenshot. I also went through all 11 tracks and verified that the files I drug in are the only ones listed as "Associated Audio Files." If I were to "Delete All" in the Clean Audio Folder dialog all but 4 of the audio files I want would be gone, but I'm not going to do that. I tried to play the additional clips (the ones with one and two digit sequence numbers) in the Clean Audio Folder dialog but the play function didn't work. The Clean Audio Folder looks to be pretty much useless and dangerous. Am I wrong?

It looks like it's been a while since the first sentence at the top of the main page has been updated. "MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface and has been the rage among electronic musicians throughout its six year existence."

I see. For me on my 3840x1600 monitor most things are as small as I want them. Though some plugin UIs are not as wide as the plugin header bar which leaves a block of empty space under the right side of the bar. It would be nice if the plugin header shrunk to fit the plugin UI.

Isn't it scalable now? Dragging sides, top, bottom or corners will shrink or expand the Cakewalk window. That's pretty much the same as the browser and other apps.

I've definitely saw those when they were introduced but can't remember when that was. 🤣 And the picture resolution isn't high enough for me determine whether the displays are character or pixel based. So I'm guessing late 80's or early 90's.