Freddie

Thank you all.

5 hours ago, John Vere said:

Seems all you need to do is drag each song into cakewalk and drag them so the end of one overlaps and will automatically cross fades with the start of the next. 

Thank you for your answer. Crossfade would be too simple. Transitions must be as inaudible as possible. That means the tempo of e.g. two songs must be the same and the beat must be aligned. You also need loops and effects to connect different genres with each other. 

In my DJ program Serato, the songs are already stored with a beatgrid that absolutely fits the beat. Too bad that the tempo tag (ID3-bpm) is not read out when importing. It would be even better if you could take over the beatgrid, which is already stored in the ID3 tag. That would speed up the remix and much more.  

6 hours ago, bdickens said:

I'm sure you could do it, but Cakewalk seems like overkill....

I don't think so, because that's not only crossfade 😉

I want to mix many different songs one after the other, like a DJ does. With appropriate transitions etc. Is it possible to use Cakewalk for this? Inserting a beatgrid seems a bit difficult to me. Is there a better way to do my "project DJ mixing". Of course you could do it in the DJ software and then record it. But for that you would have to go through the whole set error-free without a break in between. I want to mix an hour of music into each other without breaks.

Thank you.

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On 7/25/2020 at 6:40 AM, Adam Frechette said:

1. Add the ability to bind a new key to insert a synth track - the only way I have found besides the synth rack or menu options is by the preset binding SHIFT+Insert
2. Add the ability to global bind the mod wheel with the ACT or CWGS control surfaces - if there is one I haven't found it. I had to use MIDI-Ox to data map it. Seems like it would be a relatively simple thing to add.
3. Add a lot more options in both the ACT and the Cakewalk Generic Surface controllers to allow more binding of buttons.  A solution to this would be prompting for the amount of knobs, faders and buttons the user wants. An APC Mini is a perfect example of a common surface controller with a ton of buttons.
4. Enable actual stacking of instances of ACT and CWGS controllers, and not sharing the same presets. 
5. Add the ability to lock a synth windows size even if you expand options within it (Looking at you Kontakt)
6. Add the ability to view a staff in multiline page format, and in single line format - instead of only single line format.
7. Make it so when you open a tab and resize it the tab stays that size. Make tabs size independent! If nothing else please just keep it full size. Also when you bind a key to open a tab in multidock,  make it multi functional - double pressing it can expand and shrink the tab window to its previous size.
8. A way to keybind DOTTED and TRIPLET instead of wasting a ton of hotkeys. For instance if you want quick access to all versions of a whole note, it would require 3 different keybindings. To keybind all notes up to a 32nd would require 18 keybinds. Whereas if you implemented this it would only require 8, six keybinds for the whole through 32nd notes and two for the DOTTED and TRIPLET modifier keys.

I want to use the APC mini too. Thanks for your points!

Is there anything new here? I bought an APC mini from Akai. Actually, mainly for lighting control via MIDI. Now I wonder if it could also be used for the matrix view to play and record clips etc. Loop recording I would also like to do with it, as well as beat making with the step sequencer.

Does anyone have experience with this or ist anything new?

I've playing around with Touch Portal but can't find a solution for Cakewalk. 

If I find highres Buttons as png or ans other Format, I'll do my own set for Touch Portal. Could anybody help?