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2 hours ago, abacab said:

Ran across this Music Radar article, "Here are our 5 favourite effects in Kilohearts Essentials, the biggest free plugin bundle on the internet":

https://www.musicradar.com/news/kilohearts-essentials-bundle-guide

The best part of Kilohearts Essentials is not some of the modules it has, but Snap Heap. Not only you can do really interesting things by combining the essentials modules inside it, you can also use Snap Heap itself as a module.

On 4/1/2023 at 8:03 PM, mark skinner said:

 I caught information about this guy on an online IR shootout video. He wrote the program and made it available for free to make your own IR using your own acoustic guitar. I'll probably try him for a few of my guitars.     mark

 

If you have the professional version of Studio One, they have tools specific for making impulse responses since version 2.

On 3/31/2023 at 2:30 PM, John Vere said:

Personally I think you are risking future headaches with depending on the one synth that is now causing crashes for many of us. I guess is in a few years TTS-1 will not even be included with Cakewalk as they developers can no longer support it in any way. The Code belongs to Roland who make the Sound Canvas which is supported still as a VST.  But Cakewalk team can do nothing about the TTS_1 becoming unstable. 

 There are so many better sounding instruments available and you can do this for free if you want. Tell us what instruments you like using and we can make recommendations.  

The only downside of taking TTS-1 away is that you then have nothing capable of dealing with General MIDI files or even provide sounds outside of what Studio Instruments can give you. I think Only Studio One maps MIDI tracks to its equivalent Presence sounds.

If you have any modern graphics card, it does have their own screen recording thing which does very well for simple recording stuff. nVidia has Shadowplay, AMD has ReLive. They both use the card's dedicated encoder/decoder and have almost negligible performace hit on your machine.

MODO Bass uses synthesis to create all those bass sounds. It's not a sampled library, which explains why its size is so small in comparison to other similar products out there, which are several GB in size depending on how much different instruments and variants you have.  MODO Drum only has the drum parts synthesized. All the cymbals are samples, and this is most of the 7GB of size it has.

That's either only one of the plugins or a combination of them. You'd have to go by elimination. My wild guess would be Waves Submarine causing it.

On 3/20/2023 at 2:00 PM, Byron Dickens said:

More and more steps towards "push button, out comes song." No skill or work required.

Bandlab already does that. It's called SongStarter.

https://www.bandlab.com/songstarter

Sonic Anomally's TriLeveler 2 is also a pretty decent alternative to Vocal Rider and, much like the Waves version, it's made to be used on vocals.

But we already had a free Kontakt alternative for years. It's called Maize Sampler.

While that looks like a moment to celebrate, that reinstatement is just a stop gap solution to a problem Waves will reintroduce later. Don't be surprised if they plan some killer plugin and lock it behind their subscription plans. Or they slowly start fading away from their WUP  model until you the only thing you have available is subscription plans. They would force you into subscription only if they had the same relevance and weight as Adobe or Avid have. These two could force their userbase into that model (although a good portion of ProTools users are also Avid shareholders, so it's no surprise there was little drama over their subscription model by comparison).

On 10/10/2022 at 5:48 AM, Cassandra Lesh said:

I tried Harrison mixbus a while back before I lost everything in a fire. I thought about getting it again since I can download it but I didn't like it.

I mean like, the mixer is cool but it's no midi sequencer.  If you work mostly with midi, stay with cakewalk.

Mixbus is Ardour with some proprietary plugins thrown in. It's even developed by the same people.

On 1/8/2023 at 1:34 PM, Lemar Sain said:

4. Bonus: Many don't know this but SI Instruments have several built in presets. Click where it says Default Prog and a browser menu will pop up with many instrument presets.

And a years old bug lives in that program window: The scroll bar doesn't show up unless you resize that window. Depending on how much screen space you have, that window can cut at a point where you'll think you only have that amount of programs to work with. All Studio Instruments plugins have that issue, since they have the same interface.

While this isn't a very practical solution, you could emulate the behavior of a Chord Track using a MIDI Track and making use of the Chord Articulations that come with CbB. Then you'd just map that track as input to all the instruments you want affected.

EDIT - Upon checking the feature (sending MIDI from one track to several). It's not possible to do that natively within CbB. You'd have to install a virtual MIDI driver like loopMIDI

On 3/29/2023 at 5:05 PM, pulsewalk said:

AFAIK it can't just jump over portions of a track smoothly. Looping is smooth. Excluding a bit of a track would also be smooth. Not to mention both very quickly done. Arranger track is a different thing.

You can do that using arrangements.

You can also create multiple arranger tracks, which makes them more versatile than markers, as you can stack them for different things and both are visible. While you can create multiple markers in the same place, only the most recent sits at the top.

2 hours ago, User 905133 said:

Is it Real or is it AI?

 

"Using artificial intelligence A.I. to identify key elements of a spirited outtake from the 'Get Back' sessions, we've attempted to create a new arrangement of this forgotten Beatles moment that we hope fans will enjoy."

So, this video is 1% AI, 112% human work. If anything, all the stuff done in the video could be accomplished without AI and the result would be more or less the same. Also, the lovely videos about AI always focus on that 0.1% where AI succeeds at a task instead of the other 99.9% where it was wrong.

The problem is that you'd have to bundle in already pre trained datasets which will still be several Gigabytes in size and you'll also push your system requirements to require a proprietary framework (CUDA) just to run the thing. And that assuming you even have enough computing power to run a local instance of any AI algo out there. The most optimized version of Stable Diffusion requires at least 16 GB of RAM and 10 GB of VRAM for example.

57 minutes ago, msmcleod said:

Cakewalk does support MPE - for MPE support all you need is to be able to record/transmit on all channels.

MPE and poly aftertouch are different things.

Poly aftertouch is a specific 3-byte MIDI message containing the Poly Aftertouch command/channel, the key, and the aftertouch amount.  In this respect it is similar to a note on message - i.e. it is tied to the MIDI channel it receives/sends on.   

MPE is a method of splitting up the expression over several MIDI channels, where each MIDI channel is responsible for a key range.

Considering all MPE controllers have pressure, having full MPE support would require supporting poly aftertouch. That means Cakewalk is not fully MPE compatible, as you cannot do anything with pressure messages sent by MPE controllers.

28 minutes ago, User 905133 said:

I have used MFX plug-ins successfully.  Are you talking about audio plug-ins which also respond to MIDI to affect how they handle audio (i.e., using MIDI to control audio settings on the fly)?

I am not sure you are talking about MFX.  If you are, maybe you could give an example of an MFX that you can't use on a MIDI track.

Some I can mention is this one https://hy-plugins.com/product/hy-seqcollectionwinmac/

Here's a free one https://stochas.org/

Both are MIDI plugins, but CbB sees it them an audio/instrument plugin, which means you can't add it to MIDI tracks nor use to process MIDI.

This is not possible in CbB as it doesn't have MPE support.

This is a feature that Studio One and had since the beginning. Essentially, it exposes your hardware inputs as channel strips you can access, except you can treat them as tracks and add effects to them. When you record from that track, the effect is printed to the recording as if you had your signal going through external gear before hitting the DAW. You can do this in CbB using either aux tracks or patch points (they're essentially the same thing under the hood), but it requires two tracks and they're only deleted after you detach the aux and patch point and reopen the project.

On 2/26/2023 at 1:00 AM, jono grant said:

The question is in relation to the Apollos and cakewalk vs protools specifically, so no, I use only the Apollos in my system. 

It's not a really a performance issue, more a difference in performance settings! Hence my question. 

Thanks

J

One thing to note is the number you see in the settings for your driver is not the value Pro Tools uses. ASIO4ALL shows that well. PT will sometimes change the buffer size without your consent because "it feels like it."

Another thing that makes CbB a cit cumbersome is you can't configure a plugin to be MIDI only. Those exist and you can't use them in CbB as they simply don't appear on MIDI tracks. Heck, even the built in plugins are no categorized as MIDI, which makes things weird when you want to use them in the PRV and they live in a strange "Uncategorized" field. Even adding plugins which are MIDI Only to the correct menu and saving the layout results in the plugin not showing on the list.

It's always a good practice to turn on your MIDI devices before starting Cakewalk. While some MIDI devices can be detected after the fact, that tends to only hold true for class compliant ones, which don't require a specific driver to work.

On 9/29/2022 at 11:32 PM, bitflipper said:

 Melodyne is, of course, far superior.

There are some things you can do in V-vocal which are impossible on Melodyne, because Melodyne is scope limited.