Bill Phillips

Dumb question: How do you use imgur? When I need them, I create links to images, usually screenshots, on OneDrive. I signed up for imgur and looked around a bit. Looks like it's mainly a sight for publicly sharing memes, kinda like instagram. I didn't see anything about storing images that couldn't be viewed and shared by the public. Thanks. Bill

How can I export all clips in a project as broadcast wave files? I want to do this so that I can, hopefully, import the clips into projects at their original absolute time stamp. All clips are selected, clips is the Source Category and Channel Format Follows Source. However only 15 of over 30 clips were exported.

@reginaldStjohn, thank for the question. No those are notes in the 1st track. What's new is the line through the center of the blobs and the orange rectangle around it. I think I found the problem. Melodyne RFX (and maybe RFX in general) don't support multiple takes open at the same time. I think I've used Melodyne to edit multiple takes but I haven't used if for comping where I'd have more than one take open at a time. So the work around I've found is not using take lanes when I want to use Melodyne for comping. Below's a screenshot of the same two takes in separate tracks open in the Melodyne editor. So looks like it will work, though I haven't done any comping yet. Note the two tracks in the blue box in the upper left corner. The lower one, the one with the highlighted orange blobs, is the one currently shown in the Melodyne note editor window.

Better integration with iZotope's Production Suite and Ceremony's Melodyne Studio.

I tried that for an acoustic guitar track and it's not working. The blobs in the blue box in the attached screenshot show what happened when I created a Melodyne Region Effect in the second acoustic guitar take. What am I doing wrong? Also I I have Melodyne Studio 4.2.4 which allows me to open multiple tracks in Melodyne Standalone.

I have Melodyne Studio 4. Doesn't tht Studio version allow me to use ARA to apply the tempo map of a file in the Melodyne RFX to a Cakewalk Project? There should be an "Apply File Tempo to Project" option but I can't find it. I just applied a Melodyne Region Effect (RFX) to an acoustic guitar for a project that I'm working on. It's the only file in Melodyne at the moment. Once Melodyne finished analyzing it shows a project tempo (from Cakewalk) of 120 bpm and a tempo from (the Acoustic Guitar track play head location) of 93.23 bpm. See first screenshot. But there appears to be no option for applying the track tempo to the project. I tried all the options in the green box in screenshot 2. The remaining tempo related options are in the green boxes on screenshot 3. I know that I can drag the acoustic guitar track to the timeline to apply the tracks tempo map to the project. But, my understanding is that I should be able to do that from inside the Melodyne RFX as well.

Does the Melodyne Essential which is bundled with Cakewalk have any tempo settings features? If yes, that might be another option. I have the Studio version which has substantial timing and tempo capabilities which I'm trying to learn.

I have AAS GS-2. I think it's an upgrade of a version that was bundled with SONAR at some point. AAS has discounted pricing several times a year.

Thanks, but I don't think duplicating the track is necessary. Region effects leave existing clips intact and create new clips that are used by the region effect. Rendering creates a 3rd clip. So you're left with 3 clips: The original clip; The one sent to the region effect; and The one rendered by the region effect.

Yes. I was able to import the clip sent to Melodyne, but only after deleting the rendered clip in the track leaving a gap. The rendered clip is still in the audio folder just no longer in use. Originally I thought that I could import the original clip over the top of the rendered clip but that seemed to affect adjacent clips. So I abandoned that approach

What's the best way to restore a clip edited in Melodyne as a region effect and rendered thereby replacing (overlaying?) the original clip? See screenshot. The rendered clip is overlaying (I think) and replacing the original clip (Ld Vcl T3 RX (Bounced, 259) shown in the browser. The two clips have exactly the same number of bytes. I tried importing 259 but that didn't work. I'm guessing that the original clip is "hidden by" the rendered clip but I don't know how to bring it to the top. I thought it might show up when I opened take lanes but only one take is shown.

Works like a charm. Thanks.

I don't think "bounce to clip" will work for a region effect. What I do for a Melodyne region effect is right click in the clip and select Region FX > Melodyne > Render Region FX. What I'd like to do is replace that operation with a keyboard shortcut.

CTRL + M opens a Melodyne Region Effect. Can I make a keyboard shortcut to render a Melodyne Region Effect? I couldn't find the CTRL + M keyboard shortcut that opens a Melodyne Region Effect in the Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts and I can't find any of the Region Effect related functions in the Keyboard Shortcuts Function list. So I'm guessing that the answer to my question is no, but would like to be sure. I'm finding myself creating a lot of Melodyne Region Effects clips right now and am getting a lot of benefit from the CTRL + M shortcut and could make good use of a companion shortcut to render Melodyne Region Effects.

@Funkfingers You can add clip automation and drag it up and down to adjust clip gain. I use this to reduce peaks and raise the level of quiet parts. You can also add a gain plugin on each clip which will act like a clip fader.

Thanks @David Baay I don't know how I added a fade across the whole clip. This clip was under another (sound on sound). When I unmuted it the fade was there. I couldn't seem to find the correct fade handle but eventually did and removed it.

Thanks @chuckebaby. That does sound useful but I never imagined it being a DAW function.

See screenshot. I'd used Melodyne RX to align this clip with the one clip above it but got comb filtering. So I muted the rendered clip and went back to the original clip and wanted to slip edit it to fit. As soon as I started slip editing from the left edge that black line across the clip appeared. Why's it there and what do I do to get rid of it?

Well my response was a question not an answer. But, I did have an approach in mind that I would try if I ever wanted to rearrange a song, though I haven't tried it because I haven't had a need to. So, I'm not sure it would work. Starting with something I do for every project: I work with live recordings not recorded to a click track and use one track (usually acoustic guitar) to set the project tempo using Melodyne to extract the tempo. Before I do that I change all clip time references to absolute time so that clips don't move when the tempo map changes. This may help keep clips aligned when they are moved as well. Now to the part I haven't done: After the project tempo is set and any clip editing is done, couldn't the clips in each track be bounced to clips for each verse, chorus, etc? Then couldn't all the clips in the verse, chorus, etc to be moved be selected vertically in track view and moved in mass with the tempo map to wherever you like on the time line and inserted complete with the tempo map? If that works, what I'd do is save each arrangement as a separate project in the same project folder so that all arrangements share the same audio folder. Would this work? Another possibility for projects recorded to a click track that I haven't tried is putting verses, choruses, etc in Matrix View clips where they can be shuffled but I think this would require bouncing all clips in each verse, chorus, etc into a single clip which would rule out track effect and automation tweaks during the rearrangement exercise. This wouldn't work for me since my projects don't use click tracks.

Thanks scook. Hopefully I won't need one. I already have my hands full.

You can't do that in track view?

Can the Loop Construction View be used as an audio editor? I haven't had a reason to edit wav files other than moving blobs around which I do using either the smart tool or Melodyne RX. But I've thought that's what LCV is for.

Thanks for the insights Matthew. For me that's all useful information. Hopefully it will get sorted out. I really like the iZotope Production Suite for mixing. Bill

Matthew, thank you. You are correct and I hadn't noticed that. I switched to the VST2 version or relay to get access to the Advanced features. See screenshot. Looks like I'll need to pick between the two versions choosing between getting the track names or the advanced features. I've reported both problems to iZotope and they say the problems are likely Cakewalk specific because they don't support Cakewalk. It's nice that Melodyne does support Cakewalk!

It appears that something in the 2019.11, Build 63 update broke track name communications between Cakewalk and iZotope for use by iZotope's Neutron 3 Visual Mixer. I haven't checked other iZotope inter-plugin communications. This is a new problem, iZotope plugin's have been showing track names and communicating those track names to visual mixer until now. On the attached screenshot red boxes outline where the track names should be shown.