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That's really clever. Not trying to be funny, but seriously, could this construct be used as the visual basis of a Cakewalk chord track?

While I don't disagree that SO has features which songwriters would appreciate, I'm curious about which songwriting features Cakewalk lost. There are excellent "music assistant" programs like Scaler or even Band in a Box which come in VST format that make it really easy to integrate with DAWs like Cakewalk. - though it would be great if Cakewalk had a chordtrack.. 😁

Here is a video showing Melodyne Essential (included with Mixcraft Pro Studio) converting guitar audio to MIDI, so yes it is possible, but results will vary... https://youtu.be/LvALF5oAB6s

Exactly. I haven't kept up either. From a brief viewing of the video, it appears that you can key lock to the chords. I wonder if you can also lock to scales? This is very similar to Cubase's MIDI input transform. Scaler can make any DAW a powerful composition tool.

Hasta la Vista

A different theme can make it look like an entirely different program. Although when you get into it, all the behavior will be the same.

Indeed, all chord track requests / comments should be placed here for maximum united visibility: https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/21717-fr-chord-track/

Ahh, all is well with the universe again

Audio to MIDI Public Service Announcement (sorry, doesn't belong in this thread, but I figured those interested in Melodyne are probably subscribed to this) Melodyne 5 Assistant allows you to convert audio to MIDI (including polyphonic audio). HOWEVER, you cannot EDIT polyphonic audio with Assistant. Editor or Studio are required for this. Had I known this, I may not have been so quick to upgrade from Essential to Editor.

Hah!! Same for me.

I am considering this. Any thoughts re: Studio One vs Sphere?

For me, since 1981, COBOL, UFO, ADS/O, PowerBuilder, Peoplesoft. As a DBA, IDMS, Oracle, E-business Suite, SQL Server. All with 2 years of tech school. 😄

Oh no, I hope no one was injured.

I still have an unregistered Cubase 10 Crossgrade. Hopefully, it will be good for 11.5 if I register when it is available. I'm still on the fence between Cubase and Studio One.

You have to consider the total cost of ownership - including labor. 🙂

And this is considered a Deal?

That's the first thing I look for when an Early Access release is made available 😉

Has anyone run the numbers comparing cost of Sphere to S1 Purchase over the course of say 3 years, assuming one keeps up with upgrades? I saw something somewhere...

I'm love the remixes and the demos, especially the Abbey Road package - and I'm a mega Beatles fan. I know what you mean by the instruments being too discrete - sometimes stacked or smeared sounds of the originals are cool because they blur the boundaries of where one thing ends and another begins. Having said that, I rarely go back to the originals. I just really like clarity. I listen on headphones 97% of the time. Yes, the bass could be evened out on AR, but having better drums and a nice stereo spread is worth it for me.

In order to perform polyphonic audio to MIDI conversion in Mixcraft 9, you need to have Melodyne 5 Editor or Studio installed. It is the same for Cakewalk.

His swan song

Do you remember the joy and amazement of being able to record 4 tracks, overdub and bounce, all in the same machine? 🤩

I'm not seeing the promotion. Is there a license serial you are supposed to use after downloading?

I still have my Tascam Porta-studio 244 - the tape operates at 2x normal, for increased fidelity.

It's pretty cool that you are looking at the staff view code and can actually decipher it. 🙂