JoeGBradford

Larry never sleeps 🙂 Thanks!

I have their free Layers orchestral instrument and haven't had any problems with that

Ah thanks I didn't know that as I downloaded as one bundle

Computer Music once described it as the only synth you'd ever need. They hadn't reckoned with those of us on the deals forum 😉

Isn't PS Free Orchestra a one off whilst this seems more like Labs - intermittent releases of individual instruments?

Looks like OT are following in the footsteps of Spitfire - should be some good stuff in there - kicking off late January
 

By coincidence just noticed it's  several months since my last back up! I'll do it tomorrow.......

9 hours ago, Ruby Gold said:

Hey Joe - no - I don't think I have - just the drums that come with the CW install - which aren't bad. But for me to build a beat track from scratch might not be the best way to go... Thanks - I'll check out the tutorials you mentioned.

Those will be the drums I mean I think

Great advice there mettelus and I repeat my suggestion of checking out the Creative Sauce tutorials I mentioned earlier - also Robert at Home Studio Simplified has some  excellent CbB tutorials here https://www.homestudiosimplified.com/2020/12/cakewalk-by-bandlab-tutorials.html

I must admit I seem to spend more tie watching tutorials than writing music at the moment!

11 minutes ago, Zo said:

Happy new year partners !! Health and peace of mind , quality time with family and yourself ....

Less plugins more music .... 

On the last point - not a chance 😉

Have you downloaded Studio Drums when you downloaded CbB? There are some patterns in there that may work for you. If you haven't there are also other Studio Instruments to download

The soft synth is the instrument you assign the midi notes to - if you have recorded a midi track insert a soft synth in the track below it - go up to the menu along the top of the screen  and click on  insert then  hover over soft synth - that will give you a list of the soft synths you have installed. Click on the one you want. Then click on your midi track  - at the bottom left of the screen you should see a small rectangular box with the letter 'o' in it - this is your midi track's output - click on the dropdown arrow to reveal the instrument you want to output to.

Hope this helps a little!

I noticed it (but knew already) - at least they didn't put it first - that would have been very dodgy!

Happy New Year everyone - let's hope it is a better and kinder one (but still with lots of great deals 🙂 )

Glad everything has worked out for you. Check out the Deals sub forum  here for news of other bargains. Larry there is hot when it comes to spotting new deals!

Happy New Year everyone. Let's hope it's a better one!

2021 😉

1 hour ago, abacab said:

The hearts show up here in CbB.

All very strange. Still at least I can go through and 'like' presets on Reason and they should then show up in the Liked tab

Thanks Robert - really useful!

Ah just thought to try it in Reason - the hearts and the arrows both show up there but not in CbB!

It is obviously recognising liked presets that I chose in AL4 as there are entries in the Liked tab but no way to favourite the AL5 presets

Clicking where the hearts should be seems to reorder the presets! Very strange! Also I notice the GUI isn't showing the increment / decrement preset arrows in the active preset box - though if I click where they should be the presets respond as they should do

18 hours ago, Lemar Sain said:

Click in the blank spot left of the names. Hearts should appear.

 

Afraid not! No hearts anywhere to be seen 😞

3 hours ago, Lemar Sain said:

Hope this helps.

Thanks for that but I don't have the hearts column  down the left hand side as shown in your screen shot

Welcome back indeed! A great (re)starting point are Mike's videos here 

- he has a whole series on CbB and is an entertaining teacher. There are several other great free learning resources - check out the tutorial sub forum. The guys here are really helpful & friendly as well of course and you can learn a lot just from reading through the various topics! There's a couple of freeware threads in the Instruments sub forum for instruments and effects if you want to build up your VST stash!

Good luck!

I'm only getting free stuff unless Best Service reduces Tarilonte's Duduk 'Desert Winds' to £30 or less!