Bill Phillips

Are Screensets and Workspaces mutually exclusive? It appears that I can either use Screensets or Workspaces but not both in the same project. I'd stopped using Screensets and have setup several Workspaces for mixing and editing. Today I decided to investigate adding Screensets to the mix and am confused. When I open the project I'm working on it opens in the workspace I saved it with which is good. No Screenset is shown at startup since I haven't been using them. What I wanted to do is save the view I have as Screenset 01, but there's no way to save a Screenset. When I open Screenset 1 it opens the default screenset 01 which I don't want. So I re-open my workspace which blanks the screenset display. I've read through a number of the existing discussions on this topic and didn't find an answer.

For me the problem with the online documentation is the lack of a way to search it. The PDF document is easy to search which is the way I use it. When I'm having a problem, am confused, or can't remember something (i.e. most of the time), I look it up using search.

Yes, but folder options don't affect auto-discovery which determines column headings. It appears, that nothing short of the registry edit @Kevin Perry proposed will do that. Even after I change the column headings for a folder, auto-discovery will revise them if I copy that folder.

@pwalpwal, thanks. Where's the "apply to all folders" option? Also is there a way to undo it?

Thanks @Kevin Perry That's the answer. However, I suspect the "consequences" would be more annoying than the one I have now. I tried creating a project audio folder template and included a wav file to hopefully maintain the column format. No luck. When I pasted the manually formatted folder to another location, auto discovery re-formatted it. No luck. Microsoft needs to add a "custom folder types" option. I'm not holding my breath.

Has anyone found a way to set up custom file explorer column headings sets like those shown in the bottom screenshot? By default, File Explorer selects column headings appropriate for published songs for .wav files. See top screenshot. Any suggestions?

I immediately added the Arranger Track to the project I'm working on and am using it to navigate as I mix. Love it so far. Very useful.

@scook thanks for the clarification.

@scook I think I'm missing something. My understanding is that when two audio interface mono inputs are recorded as a stereo track, two tracks are actually recorded just as if each input was recorded as an independent mono track. The difference is that the two tracks are placed in a single file allowing them processed as a single stereo channel. Visually, the top (left) trace in track view represents the odd numbered audio interface input and the bottom (right) trace represents the even numbered input. So, if I later decide that I want to process the two unaltered inputs independently as mono tracks bouncing them to split mono will simply separate the combined tracks into the mono tracks recorded. Is that not true? If the split mono tracks are different, how are they different from the two mono signals recorded?

Another option is to export the stereo track as split mono and then add the mono tracks into the project.

Is there a way to copy/paste track automation in a track without a clip? I don't think so, but wanted to be sure. See the screenshot. The track with the automation has patchpoints for input and output, so no clip. The edit dialog opens but is grayed out.

@scook you are correct. Thanks. Wish I'd figured it out. I don't have an Nvidia card but I do have a AMD card with a recently updated Radeon version 20.2.2 which, apparently by default, has a whole passel of hotkeys including Ctl+Shft+S an instant replay toggle. Since I don't do gaming I turned them all off along with most everything else with an on/off switch in settings. I guess I'll need to remember to do that each time I update the Radeon software. I always opt for the minimal feature set, but that's apparently no longer enough. Ctl+Shft+S is working again in CbB to initiate Save Copy As. Don't know how may other key bindings would have been affected but think I nipped it in the bud. I also, noticed that Ctl+Shft+S appears to trigger a cool page copy feature in my Firefox browser that apparently allows entire pages to be copied not just the visible portion which is something I've often wanted to do but never new how.

What's "Instant Replay?" When I press Ctrl+Shft+S the "Instant Replay" dialog circled on the Control Bar in the second screenshot appears. I've never seen that before and couldn't find it in the Reference Guide. I've mapped Ctrl+Shft+S to "Save Copy As." See the first screenshot below. So I was expecting the "Save Copy As" dialog.

Correct. Just tried it for clip automation. De-selecting the Event (clip) will deselect the clip automation for Copy Special, and the clip automation can not be selected without the clip in Paste Special.

Gain automation on three identical copies of a vocal track has disappeared. I don't believe that this has ever happened to me before. Does anyone have any idea how this happened or how to restore the missing automation? Also is there anyway to paste automation from one clip to another? Paste special won't do it because unticking the events box in the clip edit dialog grays out the automation box. The clip automation for three vocal clips circled in the top screenshot from an earlier auto save has disappeared. All three tracks use the same vocal clip. The second screenshot shows those same three circled clips with a new version of the vocal clip above them. The existing gain automation was copied manually (using aim assist) to the new vocal version (top clip in the second screenshot) making the automation identical for all four tracks.

Route their outputs to an aux track. Use the aux track fader as you would a VCA fader and use the individual track faders to adjust the relationship between the drum tracks.

Nice, detailed description of VCAs and the related capabilities of other DAWs. I used VCAs a long time ago on a live sound mixing console where we'd use VCAs to control drums, backing vocals, horns, etc. But don't have a clear memory of their function or uniqueness. I'm pretty sure that I've seen this batted down as flawed before, but right now can't understand why routing the outputs of tracks that you'd control with a VCA in Protools (drums for example) to a group aux track or bus in Cakewalk wouldn't accomplish the same thing. With the aux track or bus approach, you could control the level of all selected tracks by adjusting or automating the aux or bus fader, and you could control the relative level of each selected track independently by adjusting or automating the individual track faders. What am I missing?

I've been trying to understand how to convert IRs in my IR library for use in Waves Audio's IR-1. So I opened a 3rd party IR wav file in Cakewalk to see what I was looking at. In the screenshot below, the file I opened is highlighted in the green box in the Browser and folder contained in that file opened in Cakewalk is highlighted in the green box in Track View. It appears that my existing IR library is composed of mono and stereo IR files and that I don't have any of these quad files My questions: How was the wav file I opened created? I played it with Windows Media Player and it played. Note that this is an IR .wav file not a IR-1 proprietary .wir file. It's apparently loaded into IR-1 using a preset. Are all IR-1 proprietary .wir files sweep files? Looks like the answer is yes. The IR-1 has instructions on using a sweep file furnished with IR-1 to create .wir files. Is there a way to convert 3rd party IRs to IR-1 proprietary .wir files? Looks like that may not be possible but want to be sure. Is there a way of avoiding loading four mono files to create a "full stereo" preset?

@Noel Borthwick & @Matthew Sorrels thank you very much! Can't wait.

Another problem that @Maxim Vasilyev didn't mention is that the features in the Advanced tab are available in the VST2 version of relay but not available in the VST3 version.

RedFox, I'm not sure about Cuda Cores, but I am sure that some VST plugins use OpenGL, particularly for sophisticated graphical audio data displays. In my case my CPU is an older i7-6850K with 6 cores and 12 threads. I had an older AMD R7-250 video card. I use the iZotope Music Production Suite which has, what I consider, an awesome user interface using lots of sophisticated graphics. I've also verified that iZotope plugins use OpenGL. With my existing R7-250 video card I would get lots of pops and cracks anytime I opened certain iZotope plugins. Opening several iZotope plugins and interacting with the graphic displays would cause playback to stop even at the highest audio interface buffer size. I could see that the problem wasn't driving up or overloading my CPU and decided to upgrade my graphics card to a RX 580 to make more OpenGL processing capacity available for iZotope and any other processes that could use it. The result was a night and day improvement allowing me to drastically reduce audio interface buffer size in some situations and allowing Cakewalk to use more of my CPU's processing capacity. Here's a thread to the SoundonSound forum I used to get advice in addressing the OpenGL problem. The advice I received helped me understand the problem and select a replacement graphics card. At the end of the thread, I posted a summary of my conclusions from the graphics card upgrade. Hope you can open the link and read the thread. And I hope it's useful to you.

I'm pretty sure that you are licensed to use any samples that are included in Cakewalk as well as any you purchase. I do recall from years ago that Fruity Loops included samples that the user was not licensed to use. That may no longer be true. At the time, the fact that the user was not free to use samples in their productions was not obvious and hidden in the fine print.

I'm not at my DAW but recently auditioned them and I believe they're in the Prochannel presets folder accessed by clicking the folder icon at the top of the ProChannel module.

Correct, and I haven't tried any of those, but will now that you reminded me. Thanks @lapasoa

@Craig Anderton, thanks. I copied all of my Platinum 30th Ann, CA-X and Anderton FX presets into the Cakewalk Core FX Chain Presets folder to make them available in CbB. While I was at it, I also copied the 30th... ProChannel presets into the Cakewalk Core. I wanted to look under the hood of the Acoustic Piezo FX Chain preset but couldn't extract the plugins. The extract plugins option (which works for other FX Chain presets) doesn't appear on the Acoustic Piezo FX Chain dropdown and the shift load option doesn't extract plugins. Any suggestions?