murat k.

17 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

Well, son of a gun, you can double click on the thin splitter line and open and close the Browser and Multidock, but not Inspector. I never even tried that. Kind of a skinny target, but it does at least open and close the pane.

My feature request stands: expand the functionality to include the borders as well, and include the Inspector in the fun.

No. You can expand and collapse any of them also including the Inspector instead of either click on a rather tiny button or a keystroke.

On 2/18/2023 at 6:00 AM, Starship Krupa said:

I'd love to be able to double-click on them to open the panels.

Double click to "Separator Bar" instead.

6 minutes ago, Fred Kells said:

I was astonished to find that Midi Sends/Midi Aux is not a feature of Cakewalk. (And this is a product that began life as a midi sequencer!)

Yeah, Cakewalk is astonishing in every way. I hope the astonishment changes to a good way after the implementation.

21 minutes ago, Terry Kelley said:

Which is ...

Aim Assist digits in front of the marker line.

But in a different box that can be independently resizable than the Time Ruler height.

Maybe like that which I requested years ago:

And one of the solutions can be a resizable Time Ruler. By this way we may not need a different position than the inside of the Time Ruler. Also increasing the opacity of the digit box can make it more readable.

In the current situation, Aim Assist digits in the Time Ruler are very small because they're restricted by the height of the Time Ruler. Maybe showing them under the Time Ruler with big fonts can be better for viewing.

+1 for both ideas.

Cakewalk already has a magnifier for PRV called Microscope. So implementing the same thing to work anywhere in the software might be easy since there is already a working code. And that tool can be toggled by a shortcut anywhere when needed.

1 hour ago, Steve Moddelmog said:

I got Dreamstation working in CbB with the help of dxishell.  Google it if you don't know about it.  I thought I wasn't going to be able to make it work, but the trick was only to put the 32-bit dxishell file in the VST folder, not both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Finding a way to run 32 bit Dxi in the Cakewalk. That's great! 👍

I read the whole conversation, I guess having a this kind of a thing in the Cakewalk seems solving the issue.

On 1/22/2023 at 5:35 PM, marled said:

In Reaper there is a "Batch File/Item Converter" that can apply a LUFS volume adjustment and/or any plugins to a batch of files.

2 hours ago, tecknot said:

Thanks for this comprehensive list, murat.  I appreciate it!

You're welcome @tecknot I'm not using a very different theme than the Tungsten Theme because of this reason, because it is always incomplete.

I'm supporting a Complete Theme Support in the Cakewalk.

Here is the full list of the uncustomizable parts in the Cakewalk:

BACKGROUNDS
Menubar
Track Control Areas
Track View Bus Envelopes Pane Background
Piano Roll View Tracks Pane
Piano Roll View Tracks Pane Unselected Track
Piano Roll View Musical Snap Resolution
Media/Plugin Browser
Media/Plugin Browser Search Bar
Unactive Notes Pane
Arranger Track - Track View
Tempo Track - Track View
Tempo Track - Inspector View
Articulation Maps
SynthRack View
Control Bar
Staff View Tracks Pane
Big Time
Lyrics View
Meter/Key
Sysx View

TEXT
Menubar
Track Control Areas
Arranger Track - Track View
Tempo Track - Track View
Tempo Track - Inspector View
Articulation Maps
Video Now Time
Big Time
Lyrics View
Meter/Key
Sysx View
Export Module
Clip Stretch Percentage
Selected Clip Stretch Percentage

SCROLL BARS
Piano Roll View Tracks Pane
Plugin/Media Browser
Synth Rack View
Event list
Lyrics View
Meter/Key
Sysx View

ICONS
Piano Roll View Piano Black Bars
Multidock Scroll İcons
Synth Rack View Synth Background
Menubar Icons
Loop Construction Vew Horizontal Zoom Control
Arranger Sections and Arrangements Area

BORDERS
Inspector View Left Right Borders
Selected Clips Border
Track View Track Separator Color
Matrix View Notes/Cells Separator
Track Icon Border

CURVES
Selected Clip Fade

And this is the Checker which is a Theme&Color settings for to see missing parts directly:

Checker.zip

Yeah, and I'm talking about a full integration. After the integration, it will be like seeing and using Musescore in the Staff View just like a part of the Cakewalk.

I think Musescore contributors would welcome this kind of collaboration request when it comes from a DAW like Cakewalk. 

This step can also allow for both software to create an API just like ARA developed in a collaboration between Celemony Software and PreSonus, then it will make possible to any Music Notation Software integration to any DAW.

4 hours ago, hadada said:

The function of the staff is really just a tool to show your own music to others. It would be great if you could automatically turn what you made into a staff,  but I don't think it can be done by cakewalk alone.

For now yes. But it can be. 

I'm asking to the Bakers, may you want to integrate Musescore to the Cakewalk? As Glenn said it would be great to have an application integrated in the Cakewalk like Melodyne.

Musescore is an opensource application but Cakewalk developing such an implemantation alone may not be convenient, so something like this to happen, a collaboration with the Musescore team would be a right approach.

Both softwares will start to communicate with each other after the integration. For example when you use an Articulation Map for Staccato, already binded Articulation Map to the Note Articulation wil turn notes in the Musescore to Staccato automatically. 

I don't know if either side would be willing to do. But this kind of a collaboration can fix the gap between the Music Notation and DAW softwares. Then each software can focus their own profession with using each others strengths.

3 hours ago, fossile said:

still thinking ARA like mechanism for MIDI to Muse Score would be awesome. regardless of light or dark settings 🙂 

I realized that I missed out your idea. Yes, if it was possible ARA like mechanism for MIDI to Muse Score would be awesome. with dark settings for sure 🙂

1 minute ago, hadada said:

You're right. but If you don't watch a white screen in the dark, it won't stimulate your eyes. You can turn on the light in your room, or use the night mode. I work during the day, so I always use the white theme. And my eyes never hurt after that.

You need more light in your screen if your environment is bright, and this is not related to the dark or bright theme. Because the screens of today needs more backlight in a bright environment only if you don't use a screen which use e-ink. But yes, white screen is bearable in the daytime compared to the night but still it is not good for eyes.

And coming to the topic, the Staff View, having a dark theme in the Staff View will make it usable anytime of the day regardless of the enviroment light you have.

12 minutes ago, hadada said:

I'm not saying that you should stare at the sun.

You say it without knowing it actually. White screen and sun is almost the same thing for eyes. When the retina’s light-sensing cells become over-stimulated from looking at a bright light, they release massive amounts of signaling chemicals, injuring the back of the eye as a result. I'm just stating what I know.

I agree with the idea of seeing and editing Articulation Maps in Track View. It will be helpful to see multiple things at once.

Similar request for the Staff View :

6 hours ago, hadada said:

cakewalk has it too：

Thanks for the information. If Studio One  is doing the thing with the same way with the Cakewalk it doesn't seem helping the issue. It needs to be dynamically creating staff when you add notes as I stated earlier.

6 hours ago, hadada said:

I also used to think that the dark theme is good for the eyes, but in fact it will only make your myopia worse, all animals that live in the dark are blind during the day. And I've seen a lot of research papers saying this. What really helps the eyes are the UV rays, open the windows to let the sun in, put the computer sideways, and use a white theme. Therefore, I don't think cakewalk should turn everything black.

Dark Theme is a needed feature. With the white screen my eyes are bleeding. You can do a photon ray bombardment your eyes anytime by the way.

7 hours ago, hadada said:

I don't think you should underestimate the piano roll. It's much faster than you are editing in the staff view.

And as I stated earlier this topic is about improving the Staff View, PRV is out of topic.

6 hours ago, hadada said:

Maybe Cakewalk cooperates with other notation software can solve your problem,

And he also mentioned that he doesn't want to have to use another software. 

It seems that some other DAWs already found a way to deal with the issue. This image is from Studio One:

Also it has a Dark Theme which is good for eye health:

The DAWs of today are not focusing a specific task. They are leading a way to do many things together. And I don't want Cakewalk to lag behind that.

15 minutes ago, Mark Morgon-Shaw said:

4 Years on from my well reasoned request for an integrated sampler , and we don't have one yet Bandlab App does.

You are risking losing those App users that want an upgrade path, I've said it many times that certain modern music genres are built around sample use and Cakewalk doesn't really cater for those users. 

Cakewalk is getting better with every update. There are couple of major things left to implement. Integrated Sampler is one of them. Talking about it without knowing it's development situation is not helping, so we need a declaration from the Bakers.

2 minutes ago, scook said:

There is nothing in the OP about implementation details, just a request that the DAW include a sampler.

You elected to read more into the OP (and my post for that matter) than is there.

Can you please point to where I offered ANY solution to the OP in this thread?

Yeah you are right about that. But he used "plugin" word for other stuff. So you can get it from there.

Also VST advice came after my post which made the request obvious.

And this is a general advice for forum users:

33 minutes ago, murat k. said:

Instead of advising by considering that the person who asks for something doesn't know anything, reading the OP carefully and comprehending the situation of the asker and the asked thing, then keeping things in a concept will help you to help people better.

3 hours ago, scook said:

It is perfectly appropriate to post suggested solutions to feature requests.

No. When someone requests for a "built-in sampler "and you came up with "use a plug-in sampler" this is the most inappropriate thing to do in a feature request topic.

Also when the word "built-in" is used in front of the word "sampler", means there is also a "plug-in" version of it. So there is no need to be a wise person to get it.

Instead of advising by considering that the person who asks for something doesn't know anything, reading the OP carefully and comprehending the situation of the asker and the asked thing, then keeping things in a concept will help you to help people better.

11 hours ago, Promidi said:

Use a VST for that.  There are plenty to choose from.

I'm sure that everyone knows about it so it's funny that you think it wasn't thought.

2 hours ago, Promidi said:

Well, while you folks wait and wait for the Bakers to add a built in sampler to Cakewalk, I will opt to use a VST for that......

No. You will not opt to use a VST for that because it is not an option. You have to. But after the implementation, yes you can opt to use a VST for that.