OutrageProductions

2 hours ago, Bryan K Borgman said:

I used Cakewalk and Sonar for decades but stopped making new music in 2017 when my wife's cancer really took hold. I am interested in getting back in but my old desktop PC with Sonar 7 is long gone and now I've discovered Sonar is also long gone. I am trying to understand BandLab but so far no real results.

The current version of Cakewalk by Bandlab is very similar to Sonar (5 to Platinum) so you will recognize most of it. It has lots of new features, but the core is identical. 

2 hours ago, Bryan K Borgman said:

I have figured out how to upload an old CWB and listen to it but when I hit Mix Editor is gives me just one audio track and not the separate tracks of loops and live instruments.

If your old CW Bundle files contained separate MIDI & Audio tracks, they should expand and be available (sans plugins & other minor items), if you open one and it only contains a single 'mixdown', then that was the way it was saved years ago.
If an opened CWB appears usable to you, immediately save it as a standard CWP (project) file and get to work!
Good luck!

Hey... it could be much worse... like a popup advert every 5 mouse clicks. 🤪

Have you tried to open the project in safe mode? (hold <shift>, then click on the filename; do not load any plugins when prompted).

@Promidi  very cool. Thanks!

@Promidi
I'm assuming that the "defaultLength" is in ticks, but what color wheel does the 10 digit  "color"  entry relate to???
[It's not hex RGBA, so...?]

FWIW; I use an ASIO M-Audio driver that was last updated early in Win7 and have OS system sounds, CbB, my video sled, Windows Media, and YT (in a browser) all running through it simultaneously for years with no issues.

Someday the other shoe (x86) will drop, but so far, so good.

I suspect that, because your audio I/O is Behringer, the audio driver is ASIO4ALL, which is not really a 'genuine' ASIO driver and is just a 'wrapper' for the OS WDM driver, which has no "shared" mode. 

At the sacrifice of some latency, you could try WASAPI (shared) and see if it works.

Then consider an upgrade to a better interface with real ASIO drivers.

I just tried this several ways, including closing and reopening CbB and the project and also cannot duplicate your issue. All hidden tracks STAY hidden as set. Even when changing to any other view.

Accidental notes outside of a scale are used all the time in composition in passing to create tension, but generally not as a resolving part of a chord structure. IE; glissando, or grace notes.

I found that I was so disgusted with the Win10 Metro start menu that I installed the Classic Shell so that I didn't have to re-train my brain from Win7.🤣

And on the opposite end of the spectrum is a film like "Pieces of a Woman" where the soundtrack is all but nonexistent. 

I actually dubbed several scenes out of that just to practice on.

It is possible that you have a lost or incompatible plugin that was saved into your FX Chain.
Try to build a new FX chain from known good Plugin EFX, save as FX Chain (or FX Chain Preset) and then close/reopen/reload session.
Insert the new built FX Chain first into the FX bin and see if it works.
If so, insert it into the ProChannel bin as an FX Chain preset and see if that works.

Maybe try to do this in a new empty session first also.
 

17 hours ago, Phillip said:

Hi. I updated cakewalk to the new version and noticed an audio I imported is semitone higher. my previous projects are also a semitone higher. Please help me fix it. Cheers.

Along those lines; the first projects that I re-opened after the 2022.02 update were all a semitone sharp. Close, reboot, re-opened again... all fine.

The 2022.06 update wiped out all of my hardware (stereo x2 & surround) outputs from my default custom project templates. Rebuilt them and all is fine again. I just chalk it up to the electron gods, or Murphy.

Stuff happens.

2 hours ago, TheSteven said:

... it can come in handy if you feel the need to drown crappy vocal tracks. 

I don't deal with crappy vocal tracks. I just hire a better vocalist! 😁

And if I ever need to really screw up an instrument... well that's what sound design is all about, and I have the tools and skill set for that.😉

What is the deal with instrument manufacturers thinking that their debut demo track to introduce a product is cooler when it's buried in an heavily orchestrated track?

Maybe they don't want anyone to hear how weak it actually is?

Meh... let me hear the instrument in solo performance mode or don't waste my time.

Half of 'em are probably 8 bit... 😁

On 6/16/2022 at 6:12 AM, murat k. said:

I thought you were joking. No I think this issue doesn't depend on my system. Like I said in this phrase:

It seems Cakewalk has issues with video playbacks regardless of my or any system. This is a problem and I think we don't have to deal with converters, other 3rd party softwares like @Promidi said. Cakewalk has to deal with the video formats automatically like Cubase do. This is the normal thing a normal user can expect.

I have used the video window for composing to ever since it was first introduced in Sonar; using WMV, MPEG-4, and AVI files, and have NEVER ONCE had any glitches, black screens, or other anomaly occur. So, yeah... it would seem that it IS system dependent.

Shift+F will fit entire project to the window. If there are more tracks than will fit, they all collapse to minimum height.

I know that Cubase and Nuendo can sort active tracks to the top, and then delete what is left, but since I started way back in the analog tape days, I'm used to doing a little "housekeeping" before mixing LOL!

Sorry, man. Not that I know of in an 'automated' way.
I have large scoring templates, but when I'm down to the point of exporting stems and everything in the composition is in audio format, I just delete the completely empty tracks and save a copy of the session as filename_MIX. 

Yes. Use the Track Manager (preset shortcut key = H), or available from the [Track Pane/Tracks Menu/Track Manager]. 

UNCHECK those types that you DON'T want to see in the track pane or Console view, but you know that.

As for finding only tracks that contain audio or midi data, still use the same technique, but would require a little more work. There is no preset way to filter that I know of. If you use folders for sub-types of instruments, but don't use those instruments in the composition, that may be easier.
Otherwise, just delete the empty tracks after completion and before mixing. It won't have any effect on your opening template.

That is a loop marker. Hit "L" on the querty keyboard to remove, "shift+L" to enable.

Also can use the loop module in the control bar.

I use a KK  S61 Mk1 all the time as a second control surface (to my Promix) set up as an MCU and everything works in the transport section except for the Loop button (don't really care).

I thought about adding a Nano control, but opted to build midi editor setups where pitch & mod touch strips become CC3 and CC11, or a couple of other expression controls, and changing to the general midi is a two button press on the keyboard. 

If I could get it to change track focus in CbB, I'd be in Val Halla.

2 hours ago, jono grant said:

People that want to do this are not editing video. They are scoring music to picture, and when working on a 2 hour film, constantly going to other programs to do a simple task like this is not something a composer has time for. 

You are evidently not building enough time into your contract bids.

I always plan for at least 4 round trips to layback audio into the directors cut on my video sled and bill accordingly. And I'm faster on that than in CbB by  long shot.

I have no need to export dailies for Director approval from Cakewalk, but... as @Jeremy Oakes said, YMMV.

CbB is not a video edit sled (yet!) so all you can do is to check this post reply from Mark McLeod for a workaround:

I tested this method and it does work, but it's not elegant or sleek.

Usually when I have my audio exported into stems, I just load them into my Video edit platform and sync.