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Hi Guys, Been a long time CAKEWALK user ( since early 90s ). Throughout those years we have had an original band called COLOURTIDE from Cork City, Ireland. All the material on this album used CAKEWALK to record it even the remixes of Driving home & was used for backing tracks when playing live. This album was for a good while now stuck on just CD but finally its gone digital on BANDCAMP. I play guitar on this plus most of the keys and the sequencing via Cakewalk .. So have a listen .. and even buy a track or two or the whole album https://colourtide.bandcamp.com/releases

who buys BOXED product these days where software is concerned, infact who SELLS boxed software product anymore FFS

An FYI ... Yes i can confirm this is because of GEO BLOCKING. I just tried my VPN software set to USA and I was able to get at the pages on MF. BTW .. its $4.99 boxed version so if outside US there is shipping ( which they would not probably anyway ) bringing the price to about $50

Something odd of late wth the MF site. No matter what product you click on it either stays on the catalog list or it goes to the home page ( Chrome, EDGE ). Geo blocking of sorts? I am in Ireland ..

@msmcleod I think there is potential there for Arrangement Feature tied in with Matrix view. I think as it stands there is a sort of interplay via drag and drop from arrangement sections. Its a case of different thinking on how you might use this. As an aside I also have been trying out LOOPCLOUD and started a thread elsewhere on this: https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/16026-loopcloud-anyone-else-using-it-with-cw-an-issue/ But particularly mentioned MATRIX View there using the Loopcloud plugins in the cells could be very interesting Loopcloud has a 30 day full free trial

Another thing I have not tried that could be interesting is to use LOOPCLOUD plugins in the MATRIX View

I also in the past have used Ableton and have to say I love the session view for creativity and trying out different clips as you build your project. https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/session-view/ Up to now I was always hoping CW would show some love to the Matrix view thinking that this could be CWs Session View. BUT having used the new ARRANGER Feature with this background in Ableton, I think the Arranger view, once used like Abletons Session view IS CWs Session View. So it takes a bit of a rethink in how you create a project/song. Instead of building it linearly you need to build it in a way similar to FL Studio/Reason .. creating PATTERNS along the time line, then making sections of each pattern in the Arranger feature. Create every single different part of your track along the timeline rather than the actual song. So instead of intro verse chorus verse chorus bridge chorus chorus create INTRO VERSE CHORUS BRIDGE and then any variations of same. Now you can experiment via the arranger feature putting your song together with all these parts & variations in a similar fashion to how you might use the session view in Ableton. To an extent the Matrix view has that kind of idea BUT it has not been shown love for a long time. I wonder will the Matrix view in some how be married to the arranger feature sometime?

UPDATE .. I had an issue with a DB error but I seem to have sorted this by uninstalling / reinstalling Loopcloud app on the system I copied the project too. Got help on this from Loopcloud via Facebook messenger, good service

I took up the loopcloud 30 day demo on Friday & I am finding it a very good experience so far, the integration, the included VSTs. In fact it has inspired me to finish a track this weekend. Because you can live audition loops, instruments, drums in realtime as you build your song it does get rid of writers block nicely. I found it great too coupled with the new arranger feature in CW .. pretty much gives you the Ableton experience. Being able to build your track from blocks and parts and with Loopcloud auditioned loops, instruments, drums. An excellent idea when using the Loopcloud Drums VST and having a kit loaded is to export the chosen kit that plays well with your song as separate parts via soloing the drum parts in the loopcloud drum vst and exporting that loop only

So it must be something to do with maybe location/Public IP that it changes the page number and word

That would seem to be it @ZincT .. however I just tried the link in another 2 browsers and on a different machine. All show me Im just clicking the SHORTCUT link above https://bit.ly/BeatDL174 ( thats also in the PDF Mag ) which results in the proper link here: https://www.plugins-samples.com/downloads/?x=JGHRXDUH So @ZincT I wonder if you click on that proper link do you get the page 20 .. and the word is 5 letters starting with V

the message says PAGE 20 not 66 .. from your link above AND it worked for me, in English, the 2nd word, on page 20 top left, first "headline"

For those in Europe etc the price is €39 + VAT ( sales tax ) Thats what bugs me about VSTBUZZ, the Vat doesnt turn up until you go to checkout on any of there deals. They should say this at the product page in my opinion

Day 2 of the 7 day trial. I decided to look at AAS Strum GS 2 ... in about 15 mins ( first few vids ) I learned a huge amount about how this VST works and the way to think about it .. from a guitarist perspective ( me, Im guitar background ). Very good tute this: https://www.groove3.com/tutorials/AAS-Strum-GS-2-Explained

@scook Yes it does. Actually got it working now in the DX7 but a bit intermittent. Some of the knobs seem pre assigned ( like transpose ) and I cannot unassign as the learn box is greyed out for the knob. I think part of my issue was I didnt have AKAI MPK Mini 2 selected as omni in the track input drop down as you suggested

ACT required to be in learn mode

Hi Guys, Anybody here got the mapping working on arturia vsts inside Cakewalk or any other DAW? That midi button top right of all the instruments. The mapping/learn panel seems greyed out all the time when it pops up. I have an AKAI MPK Mini 2 Cheers Aidan

Well .. I have spent a bit of the avo here going through the ARTURIA DX7 V Explained by Tyler Coffin. Have to say I really like it. Even in that 2 hours I have picked up alot. Really enjoying the lessons where he construct some presets having earlier explained the various parts in the plugin: https://www.groove3.com/tutorials/Arturia-DX7-V-Explained So far so good .. on the 7 day trial

I was thinking pretty much the same thing. I plumped for the 7 days trial to have a look at the ARTURIA vids. Will see after next week whether to do the $15 a month for a few months here and there OR the $100 for a year.

I just emailed GROOVE3 to ask about how long the $100 vs $150 per annum deal was going on for AND about taking up the 7 day trial. Then if one likes the trial covert it to the year sub for the $100. I also asked how long the reduced year sub was going on for. Here is the reply I got back for those interested:

Hi Guys, Anyone use GROOVE3 for training? At the moment they have an offer for a year sub at $100 instead of $150 Just wondering have others used GROOVE3 and are they worth a punt? I am interested in the ARTURIA training they have ..

Some DE LA SOUL from 89 with some HALL & OATES ..

Could ye try go to the home URL for MIXCLOUD and try search "thomas Dolby is 60 minutes" from there: https://www.mixcloud.com/ @emeraldsoul Im from IRELAND ( republic of ) .. so there

A MIXCLOUD mix - 60 mins of the master himself starting with EUROPA and also lots of ALIENS ATE MY BUICK tracks etc etc all mixed together Loving it

I have 2 systems I use for Music ( Laptop and Desktop ) Having downloaded & installed all the LABS stuff on the desktop via the Spitfire Audio util DOES ANYONE KNOW if I need to do it all again on the Laptop or just copy over this folder: \Spitfire\Spitfire Audio - LABS