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Michael Vogel

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  1. There you go. With a little help and patience, you've taken a small but important step. Now get yourself a copy of the Cakewalk reference Guide and start to slowly start study it. It's a big book but don't be overawed by its size. It's in PDF format so you can search it to help answer questions. It's a comprehensive guide to all things you need to know and then some. Apart from doing the tutorials mentioned in the earlier parts of the guide, it will familiarize you to "Cakewalk speak". Audio recording has its own language and getting to grips with the terminology will aid you in framing other questions you'll no doubt ask in due course. Interactive Help is always available from within Cakewalk itself simply by hovering over an icon which triggers the Help Module to load relevant information in a window on the right of the screen by default. If it's not visible, select it from the Views Menu. Like most Cakewalk Views the window can be docked or dragged around and placed where you choose. Along with the others - welcome to the Cakewalk by Bandlab (CbB) forum. To view and download the PDF, click the Cakewalk by BandLab forum menu and select Reference Guide PDF. OR Reference Guide here BTW does the Koala moniker mean you're an Aussie. You'll find quite a few of us on here. I live in a small rural town west of Ballarat in Victoria.
  2. I suggest checking out the Reference Guide for help with templates as I have various synths setup in different track templates and everything loads fine when selected.
  3. You can use the free version of Macrium to create an image of your current C drive and use that for your new computers C drive. In Cakewalk Preferences\File Locations you can see where all your various files are being saved. Backup all those locations and once you’ve got your new PC setup, copy all those files over to it.
  4. Unfortunately most threads on the forum come about due to people experiencing problems. Not very often that people post how wonderfully things are going. In any case, most problems are resolved without that being reflected in the forum. When you own multiple DAWs you’ll realise that we have a very interactive forum with good support from the developers. I don’t know of any other forum where the company’s CTO (Noel Borthwick) regularly answers technical questions directly for users.
  5. Native Access provides options for choosing your own installation paths for the libraries as well as the plugins and as has been mentioned the option to Relocate an already installed program and/or application. It seems many companies now have dedicated Installation Managers to help keep on top of the large volumes of associated files. Apart from programs I have a dedicated Installation Manager folder on my Windows Desktop where I keep them all.
  6. But that’s only the update installer, not the full application as per the release note’s instructions re updating all dlls.
  7. It’s been through the 2202.09 release cycle that the issue of the updated dlls was presented by the devs as well as instructions on how to update all of them by using the full installer. How to access the full installer however is still not clear despite a lot of discussion.
  8. How do we access the full application installer as referenced in the 2022.09 release notes; “Note: If you do an update install of the application, only the main application and its DLL files will be updated with the new digital signatures. To update all signed components, you will have to run the full application installer.“
  9. For known files its far better to exclude them from scanning by your Anti Virus program. It saves a bit of overhead while using your DAW,.My anti virus is actually off while using my DAW.
  10. I’ve read the posts; I’m with John T. If the dots’ purpose is to indicate that data exists at a zoom level where that data is not currently visible, then surely the dots themselves should not disappear at any reachable zoom level.
  11. Hi Jonathan, it's certainly been a while since we've chatted. Prior to this occasion of doing a V-Vocal installation I've always followed those same steps as you've highlighted. Interestingly, after having installed Sonar X2, V-Vocal was immediately available and fully operational in CbB without doing a reinstall of the current version. I've not yet found any problems with CbB but am cautiously aware I might have to reinstall it if the X2 installation overwrote a file on which CbB relies.
  12. Yes. Cakewalk enables many tasks to be accomplished by various means often depending on the view that is exposed. In track view, select which editable parameters are exposed by using the button at the top of the tracks pane. If you select "All" (See attached pic) then you will see a horizontal slider for volume, Left click select and pressing enter will allow you to type in values. Many pictures and written instructions to be gained from the Cakewalk Reference Guide. A recommended read. https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Reference Guide.pdf or by using Cakewalk by Bandlab drop down menu at the top of the forum page.
  13. Glad you got it sorted out. You might like to edit your thread title by adding [SOLVED] to the end. That will let folks browsing the forum no that there’s a resolution for the posted issue.
  14. I’m not sure I agree that PC audio users are a minority. I’f anything I’d say it’s the other way around. Still, that’s not really the point. There are tools you can use to process the video files enabling choice of the video and audio codec used and the container in which they’re delivered. I used to use a free program called SUPER that allowed you to manipulate all aspects of video/audio files to get around compatibility or sync issues like you seem to be having. I’ll look it up and see if it’s still around. SUPER be careful. In the past there used to be lots of advertising on the page and it was easy to download another advertised app instead of SUPER. Give it a go, it pulled me out of quite a few tricky spots. You might have to go all the way to the end of the page. I’m using my phone at the moment and as it’s a PC application I’m not seeing all the correct page details. I hope it can offer you some help. Cheers,
  15. I assume by your comments that you’ve not rendered/processed your v-vocal Region Fx. Try rendering/processing the v-vocal clips (make duplicates) so that you don’t need to have the region fx active. It might eliminate the errors.
  16. I have a couple of sets of powered speakers; connected to a Presonus Central Station Plus for routing and monitoring selection for maximum flexibility 1 x Pair of JBL LSR2380 & LSR2310 Subwoofer 1 x Pair ADAM A7X Single Avantone MixCube for Mono monitoring I also have an older pair of Kef 2 way driven speakers powered by a fully re-built Marantz SR-96 THX Receiver which I use to test mixes in a home theatre environment. Fully recapped, with beefier transistors in both the preamp and output stages. It’s a very clean sounding amp which I’ve owned since new, though now pushing 30 years old. I had the rebuild done about 15 years ago by a specialist repairer as it had developed a fault which needed quite a bit of work in any case. All that said some basic room treatment will probably make a bigger difference than speakers and amp. Early reflection points (walls and ceiling) and bass trapping in corners can be extremely helpful and accomplished on a fairly modest budget, especially if you can do a bit of DIY.
  17. Can I ask why you have those 3 installed? You need at least a full install of any one of the 3 for V-Vocal but for included content and plugins you don’t need a full installation. E.g. I have all the plugins and content from Sonar 5 onward (when it went 64 bit) but only the program for X2 and CbB. Oh and I had Platinum installed believing it gave me access to v-vocal but it didn’t.
  18. You might have to try a virtual audio cable software like; VoicemeterBanana It should allow you to do what you want.
  19. All 64 bit. I had only Sonar Platinum (Splat) (for additional content) installed which doesn’t include V-Vocal. I then installed X2 selecting the advanced Installation then deselecting everything except Program Files then completed the installation.
  20. I notice you mention Quicktime. Apple dropped support for Windows many years ago. See article in link. https://support.apple.com/kb/dl837?locale=en_AU I have no sync issues with video in Cakewalk, using Vegas Pro 17 and even a really old version of Premiere from Adobe suite 6.0
  21. I’ve looked up Sitala which is a free Drum plug-in by Decomposer.de Still a new and possibly immature plug-in at V1.09 https://decomposer.de/sitala/ I’m not going to add it to my collection . Perhaps it’s just not very stable.
  22. It’s strange how these anomalies come about. It seems like there’s something else at play other than just the absence or presence of Cronus.dll. I noticed during the install of X2 that there was an MS library installed perhaps there’s some inter-dependency that is being effected. As long as you’re able to get it working. Cheers.
  23. V-Vocal needs the full Sonar X1 or X2 program (Not sure which but you don’t need both) installed to work with any later versions including all CbB (Cakewalk by Bandlab). Best to do the Sonar installation before CbB as if done after CbB, Sonar will overwrite some shared files with earlier versions. I hadn't used V-Vocal in quite some time and discovered I didn't even have it installed. To make sure that what I'd said above was accurate I decide to re-install V-Vocal and test out the instructions generally given to people. I selected the Advanced SONAR X2 installation and deselected all but the Program files and let the installer do its thing. On opening CbB and I was able to immediately use V-Vocal and edit audio with it as expected. Surprised I didn't need to reinstall Cakewalk over the top, as I had expected the X2 installation to have overwritten an existing CbB dependent file, so it "seems" all is OK at this stage. V-Vocal certainly works in the latest version of CbB. One additional point of note: I have always used Sonar/Cakewalk by Bandlab default paths. I have used Directory Junctions to redirect some default locations off the boot drive to conserve space. It would be interesting to know if others were also experiencing problems.
  24. Glad you got it going. I make changes so infrequently that I always have to follow the basic guide for setup as even after 8 years or so my brain still has trouble keeping the complicated setup clear. Only after major updates do I then have to "go back to basics" with the driver manual. These days I use it all so infrequently that it takes a while to once again familiarize myself with all nuances of the various screens in the driver and eMotion mixer where settings have to be made. Cheers.
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