Seth Gamba

This one goes back a while. I'm using Session Drummer 2 to trigger a set of special purpose samples that I recorded. I am loading them by drag and drop from a samples track within the project I'm working on. Works great until I close the Cakewalk. When I reopen cakewalk later and I load the project all of the samples are gone from SD2, and I have to reload them all causing a moderate pain in the butt. I get this error each time, and I have to click OK for the file that it doesn't find for each sample: Here is what I know so far: 1. I can close the project and reopen it just fine. I don't get this error unless I quite Cakewalk entirely. 2. I can find the files in the Temp directory mentioned until Cakewalk closes - it is obviously scrubbing the temp file upon close. 3. I have tried saving both a Bank and an Instrument from within SD 2. Those files do not, however, bring the audio samples with them, so when I go to load the bank or instrument I get the same set of errors again. 4. When I look through the SD2 options, I don't see a way to save something with sound files bundled or direct SD 2 to find the missing files - for instance if I moved them all out of the temp directory. Does anyone know what I'm missing in being able to get SD2 to retain this sample library? On another note, does anyone know of another plugin that can fulfill this function - assign specific samples to be triggered by specific MIDI notes. When I was searching for sample triggering plugins, all of the other ones just took a single sample and transposed it around depending which key was played. Thanks for any help on this one. - Seth

I recently had to rebuild my computer and upgraded to CbBL. I'm generally happy with it, but I have to get access to some of the Sonar add-ons that I used to have. I've downloaded Cakewalk Command Center, but it won't let me log in - I'm virtually certain that my username and password are correct. In any event, the reset password link is not working. I have also been unable to log in to my account on Cakewalk.com. Similarly, the lost password link seems to not be working. Anyone else having trouble with this or know of other ways to retrieve and install Sonar add-ons? Thanks, Seth

Msmcleod - this third option might give me what I'm looking for. Thanks for the suggestion! Ultimately, this project will be exported into Finale for notation and there are several parts that will require instrument changes. This seems like it will let me keep those parts consolidated in a way that makes sense to me.

Can I change the output of a MIDI track in the middle of a song? In case my question isn't clear, here's what I want to do - I would like to switch which soft synth is being triggered by a MIDI track for a part of a song. For example, the chorus uses a different synth than the verses. I know that I can just make a separate track to use the other instrument during the chorus, but I would prefer to keep some things on one track because of the way it shows up in the Staff view. Too many tracks and the notation gets hard to keep track of. Thanks for any suggestions. Seth

Made the video. Here's the link if you'd like to check it out. Share if you think it might help someone.

Scook - Thank you! Your suggestion worked really well and is very easy. I did find that as I got farther away from the original tempo, the loop wasn't perfectly aligned with the project tempo. If I turned on the Metronome During Playback, the click would be slightly off. The further away I was from the original tempo, the more distance there was between the metronome click and the audio click and it happened for both faster and slower tempos. That said, the audio click track was steady and sounded as it should. So, if someone wanted to do a big tempo change, they could still use their audio click track, they would just have to disable Metronome During Record.

Been playing around with this, and so far, this is the best workaround I've found for getting a tempo-changeable audio metronome loop without artifacts: Record 2 bars +1 beat of metronome at 120. Trim it to exactly 2 bars. Copy & Paste Special for the required number of repetitions. When you need to change the tempo, delete all but the first clip of metronome. In the Groove Clip Properties (found under the Clip tab in the Inspector pane) check Stretch To Tempo. Now change the tempo to 90 (or whatever). Copy & Paste Special for the required number of repetitions. I now have audio track metronome at a new tempo without having to completely redo it. It seems that you cannot select Looping and Stretch to Tempo at the same time. The steps here are slightly involved, but not too bad. Still seems like there might be a simpler way (like if the Groove Clip loop function just worked the way it's supposed to around tempo changes.) I would still love to have thoughts and suggestions.

Thank you for the suggestion! Let me paint the picture a little more fully here: I am an Orchestra teacher struggling with how to keep learning going amidst school system shutdowns. I'm also a moderator on a large facebook group of Orchestra teachers who are collaborating on ideas and techniques. We are all looking for ways to get our students playing together. I am a longtime Cakewalk user and have a semi-professional recording studio, and I think Cakewalk can fill an important void - especially now that there's free access. If I want to get click tracks into my projects, I can do it a number of ways that don't involve the problem I ran into in my original question. That said, I really don't know my way around the looping capabilities of Cakewalk very well. I'm a play-it-live sort of guy. Frankly, I am more than a bit surprised by how not so well it's working. Here is a link to a short Logic tutorial that got me started on this: https://youtu.be/Btaiy4jjpEg. When we are setting up projects for our students to do these multi-player videos that you see all around, we have to provide guide tracks with parts and metronome for the kids to play along with. Most teachers don't know their way around the DAW/recording world. They are getting a crash course in it right now. So, my thought was I could make a Cakewalk tutorial video similar to this Logic video showing the same capabilities and how easy it is to get going. Getting the click into an audio track using patch points is easy. My personal workflow from there would be to trim the metronome track and then do a Copy/Paste Special... and specify the number of repetitions I need. Still very easy. That does not, however, give the ability to change tempos without having to redo the click track. It seems like the groove clip thing should be an easy way to do that, but it's turning out to be somehow buggy. Anything I pass on to my group of teachers has to be nearly idiot proof because so many of them are brand new to this world and already overwhelmed trying to figure it out. Anything about hooking up external midi gear or even having to set up soft synths in instrument tracks is way too much. I'm afraid trying to get through audio snap is probably also too much. Sorry to be so wordy, but now with the whole story told, suggestions are welcome! -based on the suggestions, I tried setting the clip to "Clip Follows Project" in audiosnap. I pasted the clip out a bunch of times and after I changed the tempo from 120 to 90, there was all manner of weirdness there too. The tempo actually floated around quite a lot and every so often, I would get two beat 1 clicks in different places.

Here is the scenario: I have recorded 4 measures of the built in metronome at 120 to an audio track using patch points. I've trimmed it and converted it to a groove clip so I can loop it out as far as I want to or change tempos. After converting the audio track to a groove clip, I'm getting several conditions that are resulting in hearing double clicks on each beat - as if there's a slapback delay on it. It's less bad if, before converting to a groove clip, I record one extra click and then slip edit that one out than it is if I stop recording after the beat 4 click and then extend my selection to the start of the next measure. Sometimes, the doubled beats show up immediately upon conversion, sometimes I'm not getting them unless I change the tempo of the track say from 120 down to 90. Can anyone give me a little wisdom here? What I'm really trying to set up is a template file with a flexible audio track metronome. Thanks, Seth

Found the answer after several tries and searches. Took me hours as well as a failed install of Sonar Platinum with the same error. There is a reason I never update things once I have a stable system... To get the install to work, I had to specifically uninstall C++ 2017 x64 & x86. I then had to install C++ 2015 x64 & x86. After I did that, the install worked. I read in another thread that doing this broke a different application for that user. I will report back if that happens to me as I continue to work on rebuilding my system. Here is the link for C++ 2015 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

My system drive failed today and as I'm rebuilding my computer, I figured now was to time to go from Sonar to CbBL. I've tried to install 4 times now. The first time, it finished downloading and then nothing. The second time, the installer ran, but I got the error in the first picture. I clicked abort, and lost it all. The second time, I got the same error, so I clicked Ignore. I had to ignore a lot of the same error for different dll files after which the install failed. I did get a desktop icon, but when I clicked I got the error in the second picture. Since this is a fresh Windows install as of this morning, I ran Windows Update just in case I was missing something. I then tried again and got the same error. Any help would be appreciated. I would prefer to move forward rather than going back to my old Sonar installers. Seth