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  1. There are two basic track types in CbB: Audio and MIDI.

    The signal flow of  a soft synth is MIDI > Soft synth > Audio

    So soft synth need at least one MIDI track to hold its data and one Audio track to capture the sound produced by the synth.

    An instrument track is a hybrid track created from a MIDI track and an audio track with a soft synth routing. IOW, it is a simplified version of the minimum setup needed to use a soft synth.

     

     

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  2. From the e-mail

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    The Isolation Choir for M-Tron Pro®

     

    The idea for the Isolation Choir came after a Sonic Talk episode during which two
    moments collided.

    Firstly, we made mention of our 20th anniversary and how it felt disingenuous to make a big song and dance about it when the world was in the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic. The overriding feeling here at GForce Software HQ was rather than pat ourselves on the back, it was a time to try and give something back to those who’ve supported us over the years.

    Secondly, and on the same Sonic Talk podcast, Jamie Lidell made mention that he’d created a sample pack called ‘isolation loops’. As part of this pack he’d recorded himself pitching a series of chromatic notes so that people could use them in a ‘tron’ type way.

    But the question for us was, “What to do?”

    The idea came immediately. Let's create a set of choirs for M-Tron Pro and give them to our customers as a way of saying thank you.

    Also, because Covid-19 affects the lungs, the notion of people singing out in unity and defiance seemed incredibly poignant.

    The vast majority of the inclusions were contributed by artists & musicians in self-isolation, and who had the courage to bare their souls in the hope of benefiting others.

    As library curator Dave Spiers says, “Sat self-isolating in my home studio, having had an initial dialogue with each contributor, as each vocal recording came in I focused on chopping and editing the individual notes, tweaking and pitch shifting where necessary... but also being careful not to iron the character out of their contributions. It was only after I’d completed a set and put them into M-Tron Pro did the impact of these lone and self-isolating voices hit me. It was hugely emotional.”

    We think the results of such a first rate bunch of friends and artists are genuinely moving. Plus, in keeping with the original 'Tron being the world’s first sample replay instrument, many of the recordings were made with whatever was close to hand - be that a simple phone microphone or a more elaborate studio set-up.

    Final words come from ace contributor, Angie Pollock, who, on hearing the Isolation Choir in use, commented “I can’t quite explain the feeling when I listened to what we had made, but it was a very magical & emotional moment in a horrendous cloud - everything stopped for something beautiful, which is what we all need !”

    Thank you for your continued support. We sincerely hope you and your loved ones emerge from this situation as unscathed as possible.

    Stay safe - stay courageous - stay creative.


    The Isolation Choir Expansion Pack for M-Tron Pro contains over 150 Patches from 20 tape banks including voices from; Alex Ball, Angie Pollock, Anna Kumble, Dave Spiers, Duncan Parsons, Jamie Lidell, Les Pressure, Maddie Jones, Matt Berry, Mike Rose, Nate Williams, Neil Rough, and Putte.

    The Isolation Choir is freely available to registered M-Tron Pro users and can be downloaded via this link.

    To get the library log into to your GForce account. It is on "My Instruments" below the M-Tron Pro installers.

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  3. 22 minutes ago, chris.r said:

    How to do it?

    Start with one of the existing layouts and manually add the other plug-ins or build the entire layout from scratch

    23 minutes ago, chris.r said:

    Is there a use for it?

    I see no advantage to maintaining one big file.

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  4. 3 hours ago, msmcleod said:
    4 hours ago, Kalle Rantaaho said:

    AFAIK there are no interfaces that can record higher than 24 bits. Has this changed?

    Not that I know of... and in fact many interfaces only really sample at 20 bit due to the limitations of A/D conversion.

    IIRC some drivers send 32 bit data to the DAW not because of the hardware but the extra processing done by software that comes with the interface. Still they are the exception. An ASIO driver sending 24 bit data is just fine.

  5. I believe this may happen if CbB was told to import a previous SONAR config and the "Always Use Local Help" was set in preferences.

    CbB does not have a local help file and the option was removed from preferences but the code is still in the program.

     

    To eliminate the error either set UseOnlyOfflineHelp to 0 or remove it from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Core

    Or copy an old SONAR.CHM from a previous install but this is not as helpful as it was back in 2018 and will be less useful as the program continues to get updated.

     

  6. 9 minutes ago, chris.r said:

    Do I have to update manually each time I'm adding new plugins?

    Yes, or the plug-ins will not appear in the layout. Only the factory supplied "Sort By" layouts are automatically updated.

     

    13 minutes ago, chris.r said:

    I couldn't find a way to create single layout for both the fx and the instruments plugins

    You may create a layout with both effects and synths but they will not appear together when displayed.

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  7. I got a reply from them last week.

    There is a problem with the Vermona Random Rhythm module for Modular along with the PC modules.

    While their suggestion (disable Open GL support) did not fix the problem and I told them so, there was no indication they did not support CbB or the PC format.

     

    I figured out why my Saturation PC module was OK. I have an older dll for the Saturation plug-in in my PC module folder. When I renamed the old dll, the plug-in broke like the other PC modules.

    This lead me to a (hopefully) temporary solution for the rest of the Softube PC modules. Here is what I did -

    • excluded the VST2 plug-ins in the plug-in manager
    • installed the previous release of the plug-ins
    • copied the VST2 dlls into C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Utilities\Internal
    • ran a scan and validated the PC modules worked
    • ran the latest installers
    • ran a scan and validated the VST3 plug-ins worked with the PC modules

     

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  8. Having already purchased a license for Melodyne Studio I did not install the Melodyne bundled with CbB.

    I can tell you BA looks in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Installers to determine what products have been installed. My guess is it should be pretty easy to see which key holds the Melodyne install info. Delete the key and BA should think the product is not installed.

     

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