Bill Phillips

By trial and error I've learned that the CTRL/ALT/SHIFT keys in combination with the mouse scroll wheel can be used to scroll/zoom in track view. But I can't find that documented anywhere in the online or PDF documentation. I've searched both using various search phrases with no luck. Is that documented somewhere? Also it looks like there aren't any keyboard shortcuts to do those things except for the Enhanced Keyboard Editing using the numeric keyboard. Is that correct? My problem is that horizontal scrolling using the 4/6 keys is intended for scrolling on the clip in the current view rather than scrolling through the track end-to-end. Looks like not all combinations of the Left/Right arrows and CTRL/ALT/SFT are assigned but scroll functions are not listed in the function table. I believe that I can't assign a keyboard binding to scroll left/right/up/down. Is that right? Anyone else have any suggestions for keyboard control of scrolling? I'm using version 2021.04 Build 175 and the PDF documentation version 27.04.00.

Cakewalk makes three additional stereo inputs available to SPAN giving you a total of four. I think some of the videos talk about that. I don't think the one suggested above talks about using multiple inputs. I usually put span in a Group or Mix bus. Once SPAN is loaded in the bus, I go to up to three of the tracks feeding the Group or Mix bus and assign sends to the additional three inputs allowing me to analyze all four track spectrums and overlay one over another. Only two spectrum graphs can be displayed at a time.

Check out numerous YouTube videos available, a number of which show SPAN used with CbB.

That's what I'd do.

The only signals that a Neutron instance can send to Insight are those where it is. You should be able to place relay instances in signal chain locations without other iZotope plugins that you want to monitor.

Maybe more like 10,000 bug fixes. 🤣

Keep it up!

John, this is the second of your videos that I've watched. I think they are great, succinct and very useful.

I hadn't thought about this before but decided to give it a try. With the Options dropdown open as shown in your screenshot below, I pressed "t" which opened the Meter Options submenu. I then pressed "p" to toggle playback meters off then on. So it appears that the underline keys can be used to navigate the Options menu. I'm going to try it on other menues. What I don't see is a keyboard shortcut to open the options menu and it doesn't look like you can create one but you can create keyboard shortcuts for each of the items in the Options menu. I'd suggest adding a Track View keyboard shortcut for each on the dropdown menus would be handy since the keyboard shortcuts to navigate those menus exist.

@Mr. KubikoV here's another thread on a free sampler that can be added to Cakewalk. I don't have any experience with samplers. So I can't comment on the viability of the sampler propose. It the one here doesn't work out for you, I suggest that you search the forum for sampler threads and look at what others are saying.

What does that mean? By "help" are you referring to the Online Documentation accessible from the Help tab drop down in Cakewalk? I don't check the Online Documentation for updates but it seems when I go there looking for info on updates I can find it.

Thanks. I am really happy that the PDF version exists and is kept up to date as well as practical. That said the searchability of the web version is improving. So far I only use it to find stuff I can't find in the PDF version.

Yeah. We're both way off topic. But stories are similar. I'm an electrical engineer, retired, and grew up along side digital. I remember being on vacation with my family I think around 1980. We were having dinner and my dad ask me how different digital processing was from analog. I said way different, you're dealing with numbers not wave forms. He agreed that's what he was seeing as the TV station was transitioning from analog to digital. He announced right then that he was retiring.

That reminds me of my dad who was an engineer for the local TV station from it's startup in the early 50's until he retired. He was the go to Ampex video tape machine expert. One of the station artist did a caricature of him working on an Ampex machine as a gift for his retirement. They stopped using video tape after he retired. He did most of the maintenance, all of the troubleshooting, and much of the local program and commercial tape reel editing. I would watch him doing that when I'd go to work with him on Friday nights. I don't recall how he did it but he was fast. I think he mostly synced and copied from one machine to another to edit/produce program and commercial string reels, not much tape splicing but he could do it. I was always amazed.

It does. I wouldn't know where to start.

Yep.

OMG! How did you do that? Is there a 12-step program? Just kidding. I see myself with just a few plugins that I know really well some day. I just have a ways to go.

I played it. Seems very comprehensive to me. I'll try to remember it next time I need an audio interface. I always forget something important. You sound a little like Tom Bodett.

Thanks. I verified that the sandbox option had been checked and I was up to date. I download and use each release as soon as I notice it's available. I'm very appreciative of the effort being expended to maintain and improve Cakewalk and want to do my part, which isn't much. I have very few problems with early releases. So I'm minimally impacted. I've not had many vst scan related problems. So this one was a surprise. But I think my own actions contributed heavily to this one. I suspect that my problem was caused by a collision of launching a just installed release and instantly loading a project after renaming a VST subfolder (i.e. not a new scan path but a new and removed folder in an existing scan path). Anyway it hasn't happened again and all I needed to do to resolve the problem was close and re-open the project with the 10 copies of a VST that was in the re-named folder.

Not that old.

I had a similar experience. I solved it by canceling the scan, closing the project with the failed plugin messages, closing and restarting Cakewalk, and waiting for the vst scan to complete before launching the project. In my case I have close to a 1000 vsts because I have two or three versions (x32 & x64 vst, and vst3 x64) of so many plugins. Also I'd renamed a folder of a plugin used over 10 times in the project I opened. It seems that usually the project being opened waits for the scan to complete and find moved or updated plugins, but that didn't happen this time.

Don't you need to navigate to the "Shared Plugins" folder inside the command window as administrator? When I open the command window it opens my user folder or C:\Windows\system32 when I open it as administrator.

Use one of the compressors included with Cakewalk such as the recently added CA-2A.

Thanks. That's the approach I'm going to adopt.

Thanks. I have MEqualizer as well.