Michael Vogel

Notes:

“Yes I'm also dating myself. I've gotten past lying about my age to the point where I brag about it :D”

When you’re “dating yourself”, who picks up the tab? You or the other person?

9 hours ago, InstrEd said:

Mike be careful you might have insomnia for the next decade😀 

But this decade wont finish for another year.

10 hours ago, JohnG said:

Don't lose sleep over it, Michael.  😉

Dam*. There was me planning a night of insomnia!

Sorry for creating the confusion between Garritan and Garrigus. My bad. 

Love me some ‘bone. The instrument that consolidated my love for making music with others. Even played the bass ‘bone for special occasions in orchestra and concert bands. 
Ah what could have been. 

Scott posted upstairs just a few weeks back. Hadn’t seen him in ages. My point is, he still had his comprehensive signature full of links to his various media. Should be around. - off I go to find him - I’ll be back. 
There: that was quick.  Scott R.. Garrigus in all his interwebby  glory. 
http://www.garrigus.com/

5 hours ago, SteveStrummerUK said:

Just the other day, my vegan mate started questioning me about my dietary and lifestyle choices ...

 

"Why do you even eat meat?"

"Do you think it's ethical to consume animal products?"

"Why should animals have to suffer and die just so you can eat a steak or a pork chop?"

"Don't you know that global warming is in part caused by livestock farming and the transport of animals and their products?"

"Do you realise that studies have shown that the human body can get all the nourishment, protein, minerals and vitamins it requires from food not sourced from the animal kingdom"?

"You do know that animals feel pain too, don't you?"

"Wouldn't you rather see a lamb happily gambolling and frolicking about in a meadow than lying dead on your plate in a pool of gravy"?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.... Jeez, I wasn't expecting some sort of spinach inquisition.

 

 

A 👍👍 up on the missus and me scale. 

A girlfriend a long time ago sent me a bunch of flowers at work. Man I was embarrassed. A guy getting flowers in front of all my macho mates. 
It was years before I ever said anything to her. She was just being nice to me using language she understood. I was far too sensitive. 

I like the spaces. After all, most everything is just space with a little stuff around. 

It’s been a feature request of mine that goes back more than a decade. Long before any program had it I described a way to use a list of marker regions as a means to generate a “region playlist”. It would save having to copy, cut & paste sections.  Still waiting 

Don’t understand what you mean by “up front”???

As far as I’m aware you can adjust clip gain in the Process menu but it’s destructive. Make a copy first. 
 

As for the others, like any frequently used feature you can create a key binding which will save you drilling into multiple menus.  
 

Not sure if that answers your question. Hope so. 

It’s possible to export to the .ogg  format. I’ve ne er had the need but why not try it. You won’t hurt anything. 
 

According to pg 321 of the Cakewalk Reference guide, under Import Audio files, ogg vorbis is listed. Use the Import Audio menu. 

9 hours ago, Olaf said:

Great pholisophy. I guess changing software is better and more helpful than just assisting Bandlab in having Cakewalk perform at its best.

One thing I don't understand, if change suggestions are "deafening" why seek them out, and still comment, but distructively, instead of ignoring them in the first place? You see, if I were bothered by the existence of improvement suggestions, I'd avoid them, instead of going in just to tell people to not have them.

I’ve learnt that my personal wishes for Cakewalk features don’t matter one single iota. In more than 20 years association I’ve only known a very small number of user requests to be turned into features. 
Like any other goods, I buy what I need to do things I want. It’s not my job to create or try to influence the creators of the software I use. 
I came to the forum looking for answers and having found them and a community of generally helpful, generous people decided to stay. 
Sometimes there’s an opportunity to help. Sometimes people accept the help sometimes they don’t. C’est la vie. 

Decided to delete my comment. Not that interested. 

On 12/27/2019 at 5:56 AM, David Baay said:

That's why I so often advocate for recording the best real-time  performance you can get to reduce the total amount of editing and arranging you have to do after the fact. To me, the gestures of playing and recording are the simplest, most enjoyable and most productive part of a project. I realize there are genres and compositional methods that inherently involve a lot more editing, but I just don't personally have a lot of interest in that side of making music.

I enjoy participating in the forum to help users understand and make good use of what already exists, and, in some cases, to work around limitations because they need to get something done, and can't wait months or years for a enhancement to make is easier. Discussing workflow efficiency, and how many clicks it takes to do this or that just isn't my bag.

If something is absolutely not possible or not working as advertised, or the workaround is grossly inefficient or painfully awkward, I'm likely to be more interested in lobbying the Bakers to address it.

Completely agree David. I’m all for letting the Bakers, bake, and I’ll use what they provide to make music. If I can help someone here, great. Create a work around if needs be and it’s possible. If I’m in a hole maybe another piece of software will help me out. Usually does. 

I appreciate the relative engagement of the Bakers on the forum but the noise from thousands of contributors suggesting this change or complaining about what’s there or not there must be deafening at times. How could they possibly read and process every post. Let alone implement all the suggestions. Who’s do they choose. Best they just follow their internal roadmap, at least it will have cohesion.  

Seems you have a passion for using lots of words. My comment had nothing to do with egos, nor am I trying to trivialise your efforts. Nonetheless from more than 20 years working with Cakewalk, the software and the people, dressing your requests in a War and Peace length post will not bring you the result you desire. 
It’s a case of more posts each containing less words is what’s required to get your many points across, one at a time. 
This was the very first suggestion made but you clearly weren’t convinced. Believe it or not I’m really just trying to give you helpful advice. 

4 hours ago, Olaf said:

You have to click on both, first to select, then to place the cursor. But it's not even the repeated extra click, it's always needing to check and thinking about it, instead of following the reflex. Would there be a bad side in having the focus shift with just clicking in the track lane?

Do you have stuff that you'd like to see implemented? If you do, it would be great for you to point it out.

The idea is to raise enough voices to have what we would like implemented. Because the guys are open, that's extraordinary, and the idea is that the relationship is mutual.

We also help them in making the program as smoothly, simply and intuitively flowing as possible, with no technical hindrances, workflow, etc. Cakewalk is often reproached being too complex. Not that it's bad, it's good to have many options, but some seem accomplished in rather complicated ways. And many can be easily accomplished in simpler ways. I'd like to have as much as possible be done on simple gestures, without thinking too much - it gets you out of the flow.

Merry Christmas!

For someone who wants more simplification within CbB you’ve made your post too complex to participate in by adding too many points of discussion. Your determination not to take the advice already given will see little discussion or attention from Cakewalk. The very people you want your message  to influence. Too bad. 

2 hours ago, Gswitz said:

I believe transmitting Becan by radio is reserved for national emergencies.

Too many hams transmitting on interwebs now. 

3 hours ago, craigb said:

 

A few more years and maybe you'll get your Becan radio license too??? 😆

 

. Becan n eggs, over and out. 
 

BTW. 30th wedding anniversary this Sunday.  Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. MUDGEL. 

Surprising Mrs MUDGEL with High Tea at a swank local Hotel, historical tour of said Hotel with dinner, a show and overnight stay. Becan n eggs for breakfast. 

On 12/19/2019 at 1:54 AM, InstrEd said:

I would like them to come out with some items to purchase for us to support the CbB.    Time will tell. At least Noel and company are really working on making CbB a really solid release.

Not long after BandLab took over, they created a bunch of merchandise viz, T-Shirts, Mugs and the like. I grabbed a T-Shirt and a mug. You bewdy. Maybe you need to ask if they have some left or if they’re interested in re-issuing them.

After 3 previous stalled attempts from age 15, I’m finally now, nearly aged 66, studying for my Amateur Radio Operators Certificate of Proficiency so I can get my Ham radio License.

Of course. I forgot all about Cakewalk Command Centre, and the individual installers for various packages of content. It’s been a while since I’ve used, let alone installed any version of Sonar.

On 10/13/2019 at 5:03 AM, abacab said:

TTS-1 has always been a DXi only, available in 32 or 64-bit. Unless you use a VST wrapper, the only other host I know of that will load a native DXi is Reaper.

As far as what you have installed, you can always check whether it's installed in your 32-bit or 64-bit Cakewalk/Shared DXi folder.

 

I think Sound Forge and Acid Pro both load DX plugins.

On 12/18/2019 at 2:02 AM, Jonathan Sasor said:

Just bear in mind that if you install Platinum, you'll want to then reinstall Cakewalk by BandLab on top again as there's shared components that will get overwritten by Platinum. 

Can’t your select the Advanced Installation option in Platinum and only install plug ins without installing the program itself.  This would avoid over writing any existing files with older versions and causing problems.

And this forum software is a lot more user friendly than the old Cakewalk forum software.