Mark Morgon-Shaw

Yes this would be a good workflow enhancement - make it so !

Please let me know if this already exists but I would like to be able to quickly re-solo a selection immediately after un-soloing it

I feel this would e very helpful when you're trying to A/B things in a project and make fine adjustements..the ability to flick back and forth between two states

The workflow would be:

1. Make the selection of solo'd tracks as per normal 

2. Unsolo them all in the contol bar in the standard way

3 , But then have the ability to immediately re-solo that previous selection using the same button and perhaps a modifier key

Voila......

Thank you

100% this 

Same here  - I also found a pair of +0.75 really glasses helps !  😃  ( I need +2.0 for reading but they are no good for the PC ) 

Any publicity is good publicity

Yes I think I have seen this too put not really paid it any attention

Yes this would be really useful

6 hours ago, Xel Ohh said:

That sounds awesome I'm in 4 libraries right now just got signed to a new one recently. Learning the ropes myself got a couple of placements already on about 6 different shows. So far I'm enjoying it but I hate the waiting for approved tracks and placements .. but it's cool to hear your song on a show... That's one of the reasons I like the Arranger and the new export option that cakewalk has done. Good luck on that medieval track that you're working on..😀

That's great man, congrats. 99% of the folks making music never get to the stage of having it heard on TV...you're part of a very select club. Once you've had like 100 placements some of the novelty of hearing them on TV will start to wear off though 😃.

The new Export module is fantastic, although I had to persuade Noel to add the export by folder option - IDK if you've had to deliver stems yet but it it makes it super easy for those of us that need to. Love the Arranger too  but I mostly use it to define the Export area of my track so the Alt Mixes will always be the exact same length. 

PM me if you want to chat Libaries, I'll tell you which ones have sucked for me !

34 minutes ago, Xel Ohh said:

Im starting to dip my toe into sync as well how long have you been doing it?

Started in 2016 - tough gig ! You have to be very versatile. I'm in  10 different Libraries, 550 tracks, over 1k broadcasts deep now in about 350 shows...really makes you learn the DAW when you make that much music .

I am just working on Medieval style track for an album now. Never done one before.  Last week it was Tension Underscore, then before that I was doing positive guitar stuff and I started the month of doing Old Skool Breakbeat type stuff but we're not allowed to use samples so you have to kinda make it sound like you sampled stuff you actually played 😆 

1 hour ago, Xel Ohh said:

This is working on the app itself it's part of the big picture for Cakewalk.

Is it though ?  - Really they are just 3rd party plugins licensed for inclusion in Cakewalk  , I've nothing against them being improved but not at the expense of other more important things. They are great for those who don't want to spend any more - you can do a whole mix with them no problem but they are easily replaced with other 3rd party options for those that need better. 

1 hour ago, Xel Ohh said:

And to reach for third party plugins all the time is cool but it's taxing on the CPU at times with certain plugins.

I remember when I had to upgrade from a 486DX4 100mhz to a Pentium 95  just so I could run a single instance of Antares Autotune

1 hour ago, Xel Ohh said:

 I do urban music mostly and to not have a built in sampler is a pain in my side for Cakewalk especially since the Bandlab Online App has one but we can't get one for Cakewalk it just frustrates me to no end...

I sometimes have to make urban music as well -  had some on the NBA channel this year iirc but it's just one of many genres I make  for TV music libraries.

100% agree we are desperate for a proper sample based workflow and I would much rather Noel and his  team use their talents to work on much needed features like a Sampler and a Chord Track than give us a slightly more functional Pro Channel EQ - I think that would be a waste of the Bakers time and energy. 

1 hour ago, Xel Ohh said:

I don't think people understand what feature request is sometimes on this forum.. the Bakers put this here to see what we want to add to the DAW there are many things that need to be done but the things I am asking for will help everyone be more efficient and faster with mixing and mastering. There have been countless times that others and I have posted what we want as a request and people say the Bakers don't need to focus on that I don't get it. 

I think they do understand but they have different perspectives. What one person thinks is a good idea may not be of concern to others depending how they use the DAW. 

Most of the requests that get shot down are ones that have existing solutions or very marginal gains for the effort needed. Some are the result of very unique workflows that very few would benefit from. 

I'm not saying that nobody would benefit from improved PC plugins and I'm not against it per se but I believe the ones we have are perfectly fit for purpose and the folks that outgrow them would be inclined to pay for something more specialized. 

 I just think if there are limited resources that can be put into the overall development of the platform then it's just near the bottom of a very long list compared to other requests. ( like a sampler )  

+1

Personally I would rather the Dev Team work on the actual Cakewalk App itself because there are a gazillion FX plugins out there of all shapes , sizes and budgets. 

I don't use the Pro Channel myself as my workflow pre-dates the Pro Channels existence  and I'm faster with my go to plugins but if you want more Pro Channel Functionality you can host 3rd party plugins within it right ?  They don't have to be specific Cakewalk ones.  

So I would advocate for that  - and if that doesn't work well enough ( which IDK as I've never tried it ) then maybe ask the Devs to make the PC hosting of 3rd party plugins even better.

Hey Folks

Because I make so much music I'm all about the workflow, so over time I've added my own macros and shortcuts to my Streamdeck to make up for some things I feel CBB is missing that save me time.

The one I use the most is whilst in the  Track View is :  " Transpose Up or Down one octave " - I made one button for each. Just select the clip and hit the button. Boom. Done.

I find this super handy, it works on midi & audio and my workaround is basically a macro of : Process-Transpose-  with +/- 12 semitones which then hits OK. It is way faster than doing it manually as it only takes a split second for the macro to complete, but it allows you to quickly try parts in different octaves and is especially handy during arranging for midi strings and pianos etc. or doubling orchestral part that need to be in different octaves. 

There is already a shortcut for Process-Transpose that can be bound to a key but this takes it one step further by going up or down an octave

PS - I know it can be octave shifted in the PRV but I am talking about just in the Track View to save time. Whilst I can happily use it on my own streamdeck I think if this could be incorporated as a keybinding option a lot more folks would make good use of it. 

4 hours ago, Jesse Wolfe said:

My .02 for the chord track wish-list... personally, I would use it to sketch out chord progressions first and then improvise/record another track real time. To make this easier, the chords names need to be at least as large as the Arranger track labels so you could easily see what chords are coming. Marker labels are just too tiny. For now, I don't use the Arranger track for song sections so I could use them for the chord track.

That is very similar to what I was thinking, I already use an arranger track just to to label chord changes along the timeline. 

Having skimmed the entire thread again I've noticed nobody else really gave Noel much of an answer when he asked about how people would actually use it.

There seems to be a lot of talk about extracting chord info from pre-existing audio/midi rather than using it to create the chord track in the first place which would seem more important to me.      

Do you have Cakewalk set to " Per Project Audio Files  " ? 

Folders are just a way of visually organising tracks, and one of the main benefits IMHO is that they can easily contain tracks that are routed to multiple destinations but are still grouped together. Having a different type of folder that behaves differently such as Aux Folder just muddys the waters for me. Folders shouldn't be deciding where the audio is routed.

You can already send every track in a folder to a new destination in a couple of clicks, just click the folder, go to tracks, and choose 'selected track outputs ' and choose it from the drop-down. I'm not at my DAW machine right now so I'm not sure if that includes any Aux tracks but I often use it to send folder tracks to a Bus , so I imagine Aux tracks would show up too?

11 hours ago, Old Joad said:

I forgot about Snow Patrol, You're All I Have is a good song👍🏼

Yeah it opens the album , track 3 is Chasing Cars

I don't really think you can know until an album has been out for 20yrs if it's did the test of time. A few albums I liked back in the day of not aged well ! 

In no particular order:

Violator - Depeche Mode

The Bends - Radiohead

Power, Corruption & Lies - New Order

Together Alone - Crowded House 

The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem 

Songs For The Road - David Ford

Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not - Artic Monkeys 

The Circus - Erasure 

Black Holes and Revelations - Muse

Eyes Open - Snow Patrol 

7 hours ago, Ronny.G said:

it would be useful to have the colored indications of the range extension that you have available for the instrument. In addition, you could also create various piano keys templates for orchestration in which you can indicate instruments range according to the ones used using different colors and also add on the piano key a text indicating which instrument the color zone is (copy this "customized piano roll definition" on multiple tracks and you can use it in PRV multitracks editing too, etc.

Thanks for the explanation, yes I can understand how it would be helpful over and above the standard articulation keyswitches now. I don't have a fancy light up NKS keyboard but I do have 3 screens so I tend to have any Kontakt instruments open on screen 3 so I can glance up and check I'm using the the right note range or keyswitches.

I  can't always recall what some  notes ranges do on certain instruments as they are so varied and It would be very handy to have them on the PRV if I chose to and having slept on it I think I would use quite regularly .

This suggestion would  really enhance workflow for Kontakt users such as myself and I am sure there are other use cases for it I haven't thought of  ,  but I also like that it would have zero impact on anyone else and hopefully wouldn't require too much Dev time as it's really just enhancing something that already exists.

 We should ask @msmcleod what he thinks about this suggestion but it gets my vote.

I think it's a good idea although although you could argue that for many Kontakt instruments we can now use the articulations pane so maybe there is is some crossover if you intend to mainly use it to identify keys-switches etc ? 

You would need a way to store it, so would you make an instrument definition for each Kontakt Library you own that could be recalled and included the custom note names and colours ? 

I like the suggestion in principle if it can be implemented. 

Not sure if this is already a thing - Please correct me if it is, but I was thinking life would be much easier if drag - copying an FX to another FX bin  had the option bring any associated automation along with it .  This would be handy when layering sounds etc.

Maybe implement it with Shift+Ctrl+Drag which has some logical consistency with other operations 

It would be very nice if Noel and the whole could get the CLAP

26 minutes ago, Keni said:

 Everyone’s entitled to their opinion .

Yes but you have to weight them appropriately

19 hours ago, Keni said:

To me, Lanes are sub-tracks. 

Yeah, they're not though. That's the issue.

4 hours ago, azslow3 said:

Putting FX on a take lane is using it as a track.

In my view you would effectively be using a "Track " as a  "Track Folder "

Take lanes have a different modus operandi...they exist to help us record multiple takes of a part so we can comp together something better than we could perhaps perform in a single take.  

I don't see any benefit in then treating it as though it was a track / track folder. We already have those.