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    Very Sorry

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted · Edited by timboalogo
    I'm dumb

    Hi,

    Judging by your user name, we're both born in '58 and it's tough to be our age sometimes. Maybe I'm wrong with my assumption but it seems logical.

    I'm often a "get off my lawn guy" and have had many issues with being a newly forged senior citizen and with issues with the young folk out there and their newfangled ideas but I try to learn.

    I think we're all a bit afraid as we move into a new version of paid Cakewalk. Saying that, it scares me that I can look over to my shelf and see the Cakewalk Home Studio 2004 box and M-Audio Audiophile 192 that were my best Christmas presents ever and that they started me off on this wonderful musical journey that we're all on. But I digress ...

     My family and I spent the afternoon at this amazing place called the Donkey Sanctuary of Canada (https://www.thedonkeysanctuary.ca/). It was an afternoon that I will never forget. Donkeys are incredible animals, less inbred than horses, and sensitive like you and I.

    Don't worry, we all say stuff that we want taken back.

    Timbo

    New DAW build

    in Computer Systems

    Posted

    I thought I'd share the deets of a new DAW I bought the parts for.  Actually my daughter assembled it cuz my eyes and fingers don't work so well anymore. I already had a Komplete Audio 6 (v1) interface and AKAI Advance midi keyboard and didn't change them, just the PC. With an old i5 system I was frustrated with project loading times and the system coming to a crawl for a song with 30+ plugins and lots of VSTs and VSTis ... I'm the type of amateur who likes to mix as he records and see where the song takes me.

    So it's made of an Intel Core i7-12700K on a Z690 AORUS ELITE AX with 32 gigs of Kingston Fury Beast RAM. I bought 2*2 TB SSDs as well. I can't think of what I got for a case, but it's darned quiet - funny thing is I haven't built a PC in so long I was surprised to find that most cases don't come with CD drives anymore! Getting old I guess.

    I cannot believe the difference between this and my several year old i5 ... the darned thing boots Win 10 in less than 15 seconds! I've never had an SSD before ...

    Cakewalk projects that took minutes to load now take seconds and I've been able to record and mix more easily without having to bounce tracks to audio.

    All of this for $1700 Cdn, say $1000 US or 1200 Euros or 1000 Pounds, and IMO a pretty good price.

    There have been some glitches with Cakewalk though that I've been unable to identify, the one that ticks me off the most is that the scroll lock stops working regularly and I have to hit the ScrLk key on the keyboard to get the screen scrolling again. Didn't change the keyboard, so there's something off somewhere.

    So if you're tired of your old PC and have 1000 whatevers lying around under your mattress and want to fly me and my daughter to wherever you live ... the upgrade well worth it!

    The patrons at Tom's (tomshardware.com) helped me and my stupid questions and I'll give them a plug here if it's okay. 

    Hope this helps someone take the leap,

    Timbo

    PS Kidding about the road trip, pay your PC store $50 and they'll assemble it. Then again, if you live in Bora Bora, we're up for the drive.

    Orchestral Piece

    in Songs

    Posted

    Well done, Jonesy! This is genius ...

    Since you didn't have access to the Philharmonic, this is incredible with samples! I have glimpses in my little mind of music such as this but have never been able to pull off something like this, it's majestic! 

    Tell us, how many tracks, how many instances of EWQLSO? How, how, how, WOW ...

    Melodyne 5 problems, anyone else see issues?

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, HOOK said:

    I upgraded to Assistant 5 within the last 30 days or so.

    I'm having issues with it not initially lining up to the timeline.

    Sometimes....often...the blobs aren't even visible the first time I insert the Region FX.  I have to undo and redo to get it to show.

    Also having issues with it reverting to the rhythmic algo rather than the melodic one.

    I'm in the middle of a lot of re-recording of old songs, and I'm also having issues dragging clips to the timeline to build the automatic tempo map.  It usually locks up Cakewalk.  I have to shut it down with task manager and then try again.  If I'm lucky, I can see the tempo before it crashes so that I can manually enter it when I open the project again.

     

    I have had the same issue with the invisible blobs for years now. Melodyne doesn't always play nice with CbB, IMO. Ditto for reverting to the simple algorithm. And I'll add that it doesn't remember when I set the time division , I always have to reset it to the smallest (1/32 T or something like that).

    I find it disappointing that it doesn't work as advertised with CbB, everything works fine in their videos!

    Melodyne 5 Studio

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted · Edited by timboalogo
    Forgot

    I've been working with the Editor version (Santa brought it last year) and people in my family think I've learned how to sing. At 64.

    Melodyne has an offer for Studio at $149 US which is $200 in Canada. Does anybody here use this product and if so how does it work with CbB?

    Is it worth it to pull the trigger?

    Ho ho ho,

    Timbo

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