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31 minutes ago, charles kasler said:

what is LMB??

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14 hours ago, msmcleod said:

IIRC, Overloud changed the way automated parameters work.

This thread in the old forum covers the solution ( scroll down to comment #16) : forum.cakewalk.com/Solved-30th-Anniversary-CAX-Amp-Sim-FX-Chains-No-Longer-Work-with-TH3-349-m3791681.aspx

Thing is, that's already selected on those presets:

Later versions of Kontakt use disk streaming instead of loading stuff in your RAM because modern storage is fast enough.

3 hours ago, Mark Morgon-Shaw said:

One user's design flaw is another's established workflow. 

Changing in this case would not affect any workflow for that specific case.

3 hours ago, Mark Morgon-Shaw said:

Personally I don't see it as design flaw , I see it as a RTFM situation.

If I have to read your manual to learn how to use a function called "Export Audio" and that is not necessary in every other piece of hardware which has it, then you're probably not doing your homework in regards to User Interface intuitiveness and standardized mental models.

3 hours ago, Mark Morgon-Shaw said:

Sometimes when I buy a new car from a different manufacturer the reverse gear is in a different place. It might be push down and top left to find it...instead of pull up and bottom left on the previous car. Does this mean I should petition the manufacturer to change it because other cars I've driven do it differently ? Or should I just....you know..learn how to drive it the way it's been designed ?  

This analogy is not equivalent to the current scenario, because the mental model to how you change gears is the same. What is equivalent would be doing something unrelated to shifting you did in all the other cars you had before changes how your gear shifter works in this one.

4 hours ago, Mark Morgon-Shaw said:

Well that is a shame , I export approx 1,000 files a year from Cakewalk and I can't recall the last time it didn't export what I thought it should. I don't use any other DAWs so I don't get confused between them working differently to each other. Maybe that's the key. 

Then pat yourself in the back. You're a special little piece of individual which never makes mistakes like everyone else. I envy you.

3 hours ago, Mark Morgon-Shaw said:

Exactly. Adding things is fine - Removing long established workflows - not fine

You're missing the point. Nobody wants to remove anything.

After toying around with the FX Chain presets, I noticed the Guitar and Bass ones which include TH3 have improperly mapped macros or some knobs don't actually do anything.

Here are a few examples:

1 hour ago, Starship Krupa said:

No need to debate about whether the current feature is misnamed or misdesigned or whether some other program(s) does it better, yada yada.

This type of attitude is what makes Ardour/Mixbus the outdated thing it is. If anything suggested or mentioned is not how the lead developer uses the product or doesn't make sense to him how one would do so, despite being given explanations about it, he simply doesn't do it.

5 hours ago, Lord Tim said:

Entire Mix, from the point of view of routing, does exactly what it says on the tin - everything selected goes through all of the routing in the project and spits out whatever was selected (or everything if nothing or all is selected). The big key word here is "selected."

This is not a semantics matter. This is a case of bad design, as even if a preset which does exactly what it's been asked was added, you would still have issues because of the selection overriding it.

If anything, the export window options should override what you have done on the DAW and not the other way around. Otherwise, there's no point in having it, as you could just select whatever, pick a preset and fool yourself thinking you're getting that instead of your selection.

2 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

I agree with you (except I'd make it so that it's whatever's being sent to the hardware outputs due to not wanting the setting of the hardware faders to affect the exported track's level), but it's been done differently under the term "Entire Mix" for so long that changing it would throw too big a spanner into too many works.

What you describe but call it "What You Hear" or something. The feature would be great, but the name is already taken.

I set up an extra bus for Export and just go from there, but due to the whole "oops I had a track selected" thing I get either a silent or single track export on my first try about 50% of the time. The rendering process in Cakewalk is way too fraught with ways to mess it up.

As a matter of fact, I screw things up due to having something selected that I didn't want selected so often that I bound a single key (~) to "Select None" and hit it reflexively every so often, like checking to make sure I have my keys and phone, and checking my zipper after coming out of the men's.

The sad part of all that is not the wonky functionality itself IMO, but seeing people defending said design flaw and engaging into semantics arguments as if the whole issue with the thing was a matter of whoever is complaining about it not understanding the meaning of words. Despite knowing about these quirks, I still run into these problems when I export because no other DAW does it that way. You hit Export, maybe choose what you want to export or maybe it's different options and it just does what you expect it to do. Plus that overriding thing is duplicated functionality that the Export window already provides for you in the form of you being able to choose what you want to export.

But, of course, I won't be surprised if this behavior never changes and I still have to try the same export a few dozen times until I get it right. I'm just holding it wrong.

Racer X - Mad At The World

3 hours ago, sjoens said:

All Audio Tracks may be an alternative. Currently it seems Entire Mix is referring to the entire project length of all audio tracks within the project itself. It includes unfrozen synth/MIDI/instrument tracks and FX  but no outboard sounds or outboard FX unless they are recorded onto a track 1st.

I feel like this is  Cakewalk's version of MuseScore 3's "New All."

41 minutes ago, chris.r said:

Glad to report that the guys from support have taken care of me and finally this issue has been resolved. They manually registered missing bits in my account 👍

Now onto this ongoing promo...  

At least you didn't have Syntronik 2 added to your account, never installed it once, then came to discover you can't use it because the sounds downloads expired and that confuses you because the first version didn't have this BS.

I wonder how it measures against the "big kahuna" of distortion/saturation, which is FabFilter Saturn.

AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions) were added to Intel CPUs in the Sandy Bridge architecture and on the Bulldozer like for AMD in 2011. If it needed AVX2, that came in 2013.

If you are able to install and use MODO Drum, your CPU has AVX instructions, as the installer will refuse to run without it.

Judas Priest - Breaking the Lawn.

On some Vs the output jack is on the upper "leg" and that prevents you from putting the guitar in that position. Like on the Jackson King V:

If you're gonna get some guitar which is a copy of some other brand, at least get a Xaviere, Agile or Harley Benton. At lest these have some level of quality to them are are not what people call a Chibson.

On 5/9/2023 at 1:05 AM, John Vere said:

Your missing the point. You can choose entire mix but if only a few tracks are selected and some are not that is the mix.

Cakewalk seems to be the only DAW in the market where an Export preset called "Entire Mix" can mean something else depending on arbitrary factors like track selection. Plus, that's functionality which is duplicated in the Track Export window itself with presets and and the options. If the tracks you have selected before exporting override the presets, what's the point of even having presets in the first place?

Aren't all the Exponential stuff authorized through the iZotope app these days?

You can do that using Waves Central, although it now allows management of plugin versions down to version 10, so those extra WavesShell servers might have to stay there.

So far, I'm not impressed with what TONEX offers. It's not as flexible as Amplitube, being effectively a glorified preset player that occupies 7 GB of disk space, it doesn't integrate well with Amplitube and all the sounds that come in the free version can be recreated with Amplitube by combining the amps that come with it. The simple fact that you have to pay to have access to user created presets and use them makes it worse.

If anything, this new export window is currently a downgrade the way it works. You have to do extra steps for the same result and, on top of that, you might not get what you're expecting. There are other posts suggesting ways of you getting the entire mix but they're workarounds for a feature which currently reinvents the square wheel.

The only place where it struggles is legato IMO. It doesn't sound like actual legato.

If I got a dollar for every Piano library which always samples a Steinway, I could buy a Bösendorfer 290 Imperial Grand, have it fitted with the Disklavier system and have a technician shipped from Germany to have it tuned and setup for me.

I guess they haven't learned the concept of shifts. It's not like you can have people have lunch at different times to prevent services from stopping or anything. I guess that concept is too alien for them.