Michael Richards

I'll take a shot at this. I think he wants to hear the audio on one PC in his studio from his office PC.

I recorded a vocalist on 2 songs 100 miles away from me. You have to use WASAPI Shared to hear the audio. Controlling the other computer is something I do by using Anydesk. Would that work for you?

Michael

I agree, no reason for 44.1.

is it higher or lower? I can’t see why any professional would go lower. I could be wrong.

I spend a good deal of my day in the staff view, but for note durations it is much easier to view and edit in the piano roll. You can edit the lengths of each note very easily this way.

Thank you, Freddy.

That is something else, I have never heard of baking recording tape.

Marco and Treesha. Thank you both for listening. I appreciate your comments.

On 10/19/2023 at 12:18 PM, Bajan Blue said:

Hi Michael

Also sorry I have only just seen this.

Good track, especially liked it when the Guitar came in around 2.15

Cool Stuff

Nigel

 

Thank you, Nigel. I appreciate you listening.

Thank Gary, this song didn't get much love. Ha.

garybrun: What a BEAUTIFUL voice. I must have been absent when they handed out great voices. Also, nice recording. Very full.

Michael

Marco, I enjoy your music, especially your harmonies. You are right, it is a great time to be alive and producing music. Just wish this all would have happened 40 years ago. 

Back in the early 1980s when I was a working musician my band had 2 Teac 3340s decks. We used one to bounce to the other. We were never good enough to bounce again, so we only really used 6 tracks. I have one of the 3340s and let it sit for 4  years. It no longer works and it seems it will cost a fortune to fix it. I look at it quite a bit and feel very bad I let it get in that condition. I then had a Tascam (?) 8 track cassette. It always sounded thin. Then I had a Sony DAT. It still works fine, but I no longer use it. Don't feel so bad about that.

My band recorded in a New York recording studio with a Studer A827 24 track beast. We thought we were big time. The recordings were not very good. I learned a lesson early on that the person doing the recording is probably going to determine the quality of the recording more than the equipment used. I think that is one of the reasons I have stuck with Cakewalk for 30 years. I feel like I need to explore more than what we have and hope the new Sonar will eventually have some fancy bells and whistles. Yet, I realize I can get better with what I have.

I agree. I think it is very debatable. There might be some pixie dust that gives tape a warmer sound, which is very pleasing to some people. Though, you can't deny the clarity in something like Blu-ray audio that was recorded in a digital studio, that probably still used analog outboard gear.

I think of it like gasoline vs. electric automobiles. You know which one is the future but you still have a passion for all the cool things a powerful gasoline engine gives you, like the sound of a Ferrari or a Porsche. I recently drove a Mustang Mach-E GT. I forgot about the sound after I became obsessed with pinning my head against the headrest. Wow, what a thrill. 

I don't know this for a fact except for my own home studio experience but I feel like every little mistake or note that is not played to perfection is duly noted in Cakewalk. My memory says that my recordings on tape seemed to hide slight imperfections.

I know tape and digital are different and totally feel digital is better but I love the passion that people have for tape. Not a bad thing to debate about.

I add measures all the time. This week, for the first time that I can remember, I had problems. Strange problems. I needed to add 24 measures. Couldn’t do it. Couldn’t do 20, 18, all the way down to 12. That worked. So I added 12 more measure. That didn’t work. Only 2 measures would work. After that nothing worked. I gave up.

Michael

Hello group  Here is the latest from the Curtin Richards Project, Night of the Living Dolls. The melody was written 7 years ago by Hugh Curtin and I orchestrated and finished the song last week. Hope you enjoy it.

Michael Richards

https://viamichael.com/2023/09/15/night-of-the-living-dolls/

So glad you use Cakewalk. Top shelf work, and the video is impressive.

I've seen most of Guy Michelmore's videos. Funny guy with what seems to be a wonderful career. He's happy, therefore not using Cakewalk to score video games.

I just started using the free version of DaVinci Resolve and can't seem go get one of their export formats to work. As Andres said, I've tried all their MP4- H264 codecs. Nothing works. I did get some free-for-a-day software (either Vimeo or Filmora) and was able to convert an iPhone video to an mp4 h264 and it worked. I just didn't like them and figured Resolve would be better. 

Anybody using Resolve and exporting successfully into Cakewalk? If so, what am I doing wrong?

Michael

I say, after Sonar is released Lord Tim , Jimbo, and Andres should head up some subcategory for film scoring in Cakewalk. I am sure there are many others in our forum that have a serious interest in this. I am amazed by how many people started out, like me, with Cakewalk on floppy disks. People usually evolve, their interests expand, and moving into film composition is a very natural transition. We probably lose a lot of composers who can't get over these hurtles that we have been discussing and move to a program like Cubase. That's a shame and also a business loss.

Michael

2 hours ago, Jimbo 88 said:

So take some advice from an old man with a storied history of scoring to picture...and I've done the lion's share in Cakewalk.  Cakewalk's capabilities for scoring as they stand are fine,  more than fine.

People will argue with me about this, but I have the royalty checks and I don't need to debate this the slightest.  If you want to make $ scoring to picture, you need to be prepared to do some editing.  Just a fact. So get a simple video editing program and learn the basics.  It might just save your life.   No matter what DAW you use, there are formats and codecs that work better in that DAW.  Editors and clients will send you all different formats.  Find what works best and render every cut you get in your DAW's preferred format.  When you have a sample to send back to the client for approval, or you want to create a video...do it using the video app not the DAW.  I've outputted video files from Cubase, CbB and ProTools. Sometimes the client can view them, sometimes not.  When i export out of my video app there is never a problem.  CbB renders audio files quickly and more efficiently than video.

You want the picture to start later?  Slide it in your video app to where you want it to start.  I'll admit, this feature is available in Cubase and other DAW's, but that is the only small advantage.  And I would warn you not to do that in the DAW.  Spend a thousand hours working under deadlines and you will find out why.

OLD MAN RANT!

PS.  Want to look like a pro?  When sending  samples to clients for approval, put your name and version number on a title card at the start of your video.  Include Time code for referencing...that is all

Jimbo88, that is excellent and hard earned information. It also gives me hope. I can’t believe you have scored so much to picture in Cakewalk. That’s the best news I have learned in a long time.

Michael

51 minutes ago, Lord Tim said:

No, this is still as it was since the Media Foundation Engine was introduced, unfortunately.

By the sounds of it, it's not an easy fix and would need a fair overhaul with how it's currently implemented. Hopefully they get onto that sometime after Sonar is properly underway.

Thank  you, Lord. I really want to learn how to score a movie and want to start with short video clips. I think this is the only music skill I didn't learn in music school. I really don't want to make the expensive move to Cubase so I can try my hand at this. I really don't think Sonar will have this capability, though I am holding out for it. I would think they know almost all of the competition offers decent video scoring.

I have tried everything I can think of. Can't seem to reset the start time. They always start at the very beginning.

Michael

1 hour ago, msmcleod said:

In my experience, the Korg nanoKONTROL 2 / nanoKONTROL Studio are by far the easiest to integrate with Cakewalk - as long as you're using it in Mackie/SONAR mode that is.

It's pretty simple to set up... just follow the steps in the nanoKONTROL 2 manual:

SONAR
1. While pressing and holding down the SET MARKER and REC
buttons, connect the USB cable from your computer to the
nanoKONTROL2.
2. Open the “MIDI device” window in SONAR, then select
nanoKONTROL2 for “Input” and “Output.”
3. Open the “Controllers/Surfaces” window, then select “Mackie
Control” for “Control Surface.”
4. Select nanoKONTROL2 for the MIDI In/Out ports used.

If you're using it as a generic ACT controller, your mileage may differ however.

Swapping between nanoKONTROL 2 "modes" can be a PITA ( i.e. using it in Mackie/SONAR mode, then changing it to CC mode) so I'd avoid doing it unless you want to go through the setup steps every time you swap.  Better to get an additional (and different) controller so you have one for each mode.

But to answer the original question of the post... "How many users does CbB have?"... go here:
https://bandlabtechnologies.com/brands/cakewalk/

I’m with Starship Krupa. I gave up on using the nano KONTROL2. I spent over a month trying to get it to work, awhile back until it broke Cakewalk and Noel had use some debugging software to revive Lazarus. Last week I spent several days, again, using these directions which are very clear. Still, it does not work. I really want it to work. I didn’t ask for help this time around. I think I was annoying my first time around. 

On 8/20/2023 at 1:03 PM, Henrizzle said:

I just did another giant mix this morning in StudioOne, took about an hour and a half. Same mix as I have done in Cakewalk. In Cakewalk, it took weeks sometimes months because there seems to be this scratchy-ness that is mixed in and you can never get it to sound clear. I'm here to tell you, spend $99 on StudioOne, the cost of this free software is now your sanity. I'm outta here, no more Cakewalk madness for me. Good luck everyone and stop giving all the voodoo advise, the issue is plain and simple, this software is buggy and not maintained because it is free. 

I have been using Cakewalk for more than 30 years and have never experienced scratchy-ness in my mixes. Also, I am not so quick to jump ship. Years ago I produced an industry (not this one) newsletter and many Mac people came to me saying "you can't do that with a PC." I did, and soon began to understand the lure of a Mac. It looks cool and more importantly doesn't have any issues, because you aren't using it. Once you use it, it will have issues. Guaranteed. If it doesn't, then you aren't pushing it. I have DPC problems with my powerful Dell. Once I spent several months trying to solve this problem I eventually found out that the problem has existed for years with different manufacturers, different motherboards, different video cards, etc.

Maybe you are correct and Cakewalk is scratchy, then you are very fortunate that you found a product that you could mix with in 90 minutes in what used to be in more than 30 days. 

Thank you, Mark. I appreciate it.

I figured something out about SoundCloud. I cannot be logged into the account and copy the location of that song in SoundCloud. I only gives me the first song location.

When noynekker was able to post a song location I figured something was at play. The way to solve this is to use a browser where I am not logged in to SoundCloud.

So, here is another instrumental (Final Destination) I wrote with Hugh Curtin. I played all the instruments and did all the recording.

Michael