Mark Morgon-Shaw

It's similar in some ways to the existing " Apply Trimming " function so maybe it could be an extension of this Apply Trimming-> Constrain to Measure

PS - You should try to edit your post titles to something else instead of " hello " Maybe " FR : Hide All Midi Tracks "

You can already do this. Press H to bring up the track Manager - Select the Midi toggle - Press Space to check / uncheck I guess you could prgoram a one button macro for it if you wanted to

Haha..yes you could put it that way..actually that might better but maybe quite a bit more complex for the Devs to code.

For clarification, all I am asking is whether it's possible to add extra functionality to the Midi Tab in the Inspector so it has the most commonly used quantization options available without needing to insert a plugin each time.

Yes - I meant you can't add them to the track FX bin

I am asking for the functionality of the Quantize Plugin from the MidiFX to be replicated in the Midi Inpector per track for the following reasons: 1. The plugin is more flexible than the Process - Quantize menu as you can tweak the parameters 'on the fly' for best results ..some may ask ' well why not just use the MifiFX plugin then ' and my answer would be that (a) it takes time to instantiate if you want it on lots of track and (b) You can'tadd it to the FX bin of a Simple Instrument Track. 2. There is a great big space just crying out for something useful to be put there If you watch this tutorial from another DAW you can see how handy it is, and how it operates.

There is - It's useful when using string libraries with variable attack envelopes, they can change just by switching articulation for example. Being able to see the audio waveform for these types of parts makes it way eaiser to align them with each other so it's better to freeze and slide them around. If you could unfreeze it and have the underlying midi move along with it this would be a huge benefit as it would keep all the timing adjustments but allow you to still edit the part later. At the moment you just have to put it off until the end and then do it in the hope no further changes are required otherwise you have to do it all over again.

I can't get it to work under Mackie Control here, I've given up on ACT. Can you outline exactly what settings you changed ? This is what I tried..I set the DAW mode to Cubase on the Oxygen Pro, then selected the below on Cakewalk..it doesn't respond at all when I try any knobs, faders or transport control though. The Oxygen keyboard itself is diplaying various knob and slider values on it's own display.

Yeah, I mean who wouldn't need to open it ?

When a track is in a Folder the " Move To Folder Option " is removed from the right click contextual menu and replaced with " Remove From Folder " IMHO It would make more sense if the " Move To Folder" option also remained so track can be easily shunted from one folder to another without an intermediary step. ( appreciate you can drag an drop but in larger projects the right click is easier than a lot of scrolling )

Or get a Stream Deck...so handy

You can also do this by double clicking an instrument in the Browser

I don't think it's as straight forward as that - you're not only muting the existing audio but overwriting what is held in Melodyne's cache and then re-processing it It seems this would be complicated for it to do ( i.e. will it overdub/replace or merge audio ..how will you handle regions that overlap etc ..when will it re-process the new audio ) One of the Devs like @msmcleod will probbaly have a much clearer insight to the inner workings . Maybe these are good suggestions for ARA3 .....if they ever make one.

To try and and do it your way I'd probably duplicate the entitre track ( keep the orignal just in case ), render it to audio , then work with the new audio track and punch in as normal. I cut my teeth recording with tape and syncing it to a computer based sequencer with a SMPTE timecode box , you had one or two tracks to record your vocals and if you wanted to do a new part you had to record over what was already there and hope you did a better job. Autotune and the like had not been invented and if you wanted compression or reverb or delay you had to spend hundreds per unit for the hardware. I remember buying Autotune and it wouldn't run on my studio PC as it was a 486 and a Pentium was needed, another costly upgrade. We have it pretty easy these days, sometimes things don't quite work how we think but there are often reasons for it. Yes it's a bit of a workaround but ARA is an open standard used my multiple DAWs so I don't think Cakewalk can make it do what you want it to regardless of if they decided it was a good idea or not as it's the plugin that's dealing with the audio not Cakewalk.

Yeah I agree, this can be a huge pain on larger projects - I've had to open some that are several years old and I've changed PCs etc..missing plugins all over the place. If there was a more consolidated way of enabling / disabling / replacing missing plugins it would be a huge improvement

Yeah...frustrating as it might be, it's not really a 'fault' ....it's working as intended. If you think about how Melodyne operated pre-ARA integration it's an insert effect which you then had to 'record' the audio into by playing it all the way through with Melodyne in record mode. Obvously this was quite long winded and ARA is a massive time saver but essentailly under the hood the same process is still happening. Your Meoldyned Audio is not in Cakewalk. Like you say Melodyne has "phantom copy " that it is working with and Cakewalk is just telling Melodyne to play along with the DAW. Therefore you can't expect Cakewalk's recording functions to control anything within Melodyne. They are two separate things. Personally I see this as more of a workflow issue. When I was taught by experienced engineers the typical order of things when working with a vocalist might be :- 1. Record Guide Vocal ( i.e. lead from top to bottom..get levels right etc..relax singer ) 2. Record multiple alternate takes ( this is where your singer can try different techniques for different lines etc ..I usually go for 3 - 5 takes depending on the singer ) 3. Pick the best lines of each take and comp a quick lead vocal track from above 4. LIsten through and then puch in any parts you think can be improved 5. Once you have all the best bits comped and have dropped in any overdubs you should have a good overall final vocal track 6. With the recording session over you would then go through your lead vocal with various tools and fix / enhance so this includes timing edits, volume / gain automation etc. 7. Once that's done you'd normally sort out any tuning issues using Melodye as you'd have the entire final vocal take to work with. 8. Render / Bounce a copy of the Melodyned vocal and complete the mix as normal.

I was kinda joking, not really a big user of it myself but surely a bigger screen will have a higher resolution so more of the ProChan will fit within the height of the screen and hence less scrolling ?

I write approx 100 instrumental tracks per year for various Publishers that supply TV production houses with their music. I started out primarily focusing on Electronica , EDM and Pop but over time I've branched out into Orchestral, Trailer, Hip Hop, Rock and a few crossover genres too. I'm a Brit but most of my music has been used in shows in the US & Germany - If you live in one of those countries and watch enough TV there's a chance you might have heard one of my tracks without knowing it. My German placements have exploded this year as I've been working with a new publisher so I've had music on air almost daily during October. With most Publishers you have to write, mix and master everything yourself as well as providing alternative mixes so you get to know your DAW extremely well.

When the new version / upgrade toast notification appears it has a link which doesn't work https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk/whats-new

Just made me wonder why they say Logic specifically, pretty sure they have other Mac Daws with ARA ?

The new release of Izotope RX is touting ARA integration with Logic ( boo , hiss ) This would be very handy in CBB also

Get a taller screen I think the worst thing about the Pro Channel is the knobs can't be moved with the mousewheel ( yet other DAW controls can ) ..bit of a workflow killer IMHO

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Murdering the Erasure classic