tparker24

You could try the free Sonitus fx Wah Wah that's included with Cakewalk.

On 5/28/2021 at 9:09 AM, sadicus said:

Where is the  list or PDF of all the updates with the animated tutorials?

How about this:    New Features

@Clovis Ramsay thanks for the info.

BTW, I'm using Melodyne 5 Editor, as I mentioned in my original post.  I only really use Melodyne for vocals.

I'm still struggling though on comping with Melodyne.  I wish I could do it like in the video that @Glenn Stanton posted above.  There it seems so straightforward and flexible, with no need to prematurely freeze things with a flatten.

I found this documentation reference that seems to show a different mode of operation.   I note that:

1. It doesn't say you need to create multiple Region FX, and
2. From the picture, it looks like Take lanes have all had Melodyne incorporated, and the takes are present and accounted for (unlike my example above, where they have vanished).

This is the way I hoped it would work ... nice and simple.

The reference is from https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=NewFeatures.10.html which I assume is for old SONAR.  Have things really changed that drastically from then to now?

UPDATE:  I think my analysis below, is not correct.   So, I'm going back to my original post above.  And I share the concerns expressed below by @Glenn Stanton

(Can you tell I'm confused by comping with melodyne?  🤥 )

Ok, I think I figured it out!  

Thanks to this article I found by Craig Anderton:  Comping with Melodyne and Other Region FX Clips  (see page 5).

Basically, I need to do a separate Create Region FX for each clip area.  In my example above, that would be 7 separate Create Region FX (1 for each of the 7 clips sections).

I note that the original data for each clip take will still be immediately replaced by the Melodyne version.  Some posters have suggested making a copy of the original takes prior to using Melodyne ... just in case you might need the original.

Kind of confusing, but I think I'm starting to understand ...

Here are two other posts I found that may be relevant:

https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/9804-how-to-use-melodyne-while-comping/
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Audio-Comping-Melodyne-Editing-m3610118.aspx

I speed comp some vocal track lanes, select them all as a region, and then run Melodyne as a Region FX.

My original track lanes get immediately wiped , before Melodyne eventually shows up in the Dock.

This doesn't seem right.  Am I doing something wrong?

I'd like to do be able to do things like in the Celemony video Comping with Melodyne

I'm running the latest Cakewalk, latest Melodyne Editor 5, and latest Windows 10.

In a similar thread "Clips are Automatically Shortened' at

https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/29371-clips-are-automatically-shortened/

one suggestion was to Copy the MIDI clip and then "Paste as new clips".

I do this via the Mix Module in the Control Bar:

On 2/2/2021 at 2:05 PM, Colin Nicholls said:

Can't take credit for it  (except for updating it for 2021.01).

That was great.

Any chance you could do another update (to Sonar.sth) for the new 2021.04 release?   Pretty Please?  😉

I have a Keyboard Shortcut (in Global Bindings) set to Play/Pause. (In my case the shortcut is Y).  I use it when I want to do a "true" pause, in that it doesn't change the Now Marker.  It's the same as clicking the Pause (or Play) button in the Transport Module, but it's a bit easier than mousing to the little Pause button.

If I play a MIDI clip via the Media Browser, it seems to always loop (plays repeatedly) even though I turned off Loop Preview.  

I would think that it should only play once (if I have Loop Preview dis-abled).  Happens with both Groove clips and with non-Grooved clips.

Check out the handy ProjectScope:

http://forum.cakewalk.com/ProjectScope-for-Sonar-Project-Files-CWPs-updated-to-support-new-Sonar-project-features-m3584169.aspx

Here's one to try:    https://www.heikoplate.de/zips/S90ES.zip

18 hours ago, tecknot said:

There is no way to show just one clip at a time in the PRV other than zoom settings, perhaps.

Here's one way to do it.

  1) Check "Hide Muted Clips".  This can be done in either Track View, or in PRV (see images)

  2) In Track View, Mute the clips you DON'T want to see in PRV.

That's it.

Tip: You might not need to Mute ALL the clips, just perhaps the neighboring ones.

4 hours ago, abacab said:

Just curious, but with that BIAB plug-in now available, what would be the use case for DAW users to ever run the standalone BIAB application? I don't know the product in-depth enough to spot any differences, or any limitations of the plug-in version.

Just recently upgraded to 2021 Ultrapak.

One obscure thing I just ran into, was in testing the "Chords from a text file" capability.  Looks like it only works for stand-alone, and not for plug-in.  Probably not a bigee for most people.

Maybe this would help:

While holding Z key, lasso desired area.  That should zoom in on it.  You can un-do the zoom with Alt+Z.

Is there a way to better format the Tempo View?

Notice below how the second entry, which has a time of 100:01:000, and a tempo of 104.00, gets smashed together, making it quite difficult to read.

On 11/14/2020 at 10:55 AM, Russell McKnight said:

Report on all installed plugins (Manufacturer / Type / Specs ) and in current project. This could be shared (Excel) with co-producers on a projects.  

There's a very nice program called ProjectScope, that reports on what's in a project.  See the discussion at:

http://forum.cakewalk.com/ProjectScope-for-Sonar-Project-Files-CWPs-updated-to-support-new-Sonar-project-features-m3584169.aspx

and the Author's site, and download at:
https://www.adamczyk.com/miscellaneous-files

I found at least 3 tutorials on youtube (search term "cakewalk drum maps").  Two of them are by the wonderful "Creative Sauce" guy.

I don't know if these would be of any help, but if you haven't seen them, it might be worth a try.

Also check CSHumanize

7 hours ago, murat k. said:

I've uploaded revised version with the script to the Github. I've removed the old files with the Github download link as you can see above.

I see the .ahk file now.  Thanks!

Can you post the AutoHotKey code?

FYI, there's an excellent documentary about Tower Records called "All Things Must Pass".

It's on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxyon6mBXfU

15 hours ago, William W. Saunders, Jr. said:

MIDI just goes one place - to the output(s) you assign it to.  Its simply digital instructions to your MIDI devices, soft-synths and MIDI-automatable units.  It doesn't get amplified or processed or messed with unless you have MIDI FX in your FX bin,  in which case it make a pit stop there and is tweaked before heading to your output.  Otherwise it doesn't go through any gain staging, busses or other manipulation.

There are also several other items involved, like: clip FX,   Key+, Vel+,  and the  new articulations maps. 

It would be very helpful to have a signal flow diagram to show the paths and the interactions.

On 11/11/2020 at 12:25 PM, tparker24 said:

Is there a similar chart for MIDI signal flow? 

(I've looked all over)

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