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@John Vere Yes, I am only using a .wav audio track. I am using Cakewalk because I can create a Playlist that loads the next tune but waits for me to initiate playback. What do you use? I am also still using Cakewalk because I am planning to have a very brief MIDI track at the beginning of each tune to change the Patch on the keyboard automatically without me having to do it at the beginning of each tune.

The tune is a take on The House of the Rising Sun – which is actually an ancient folk ballad (16th or 17th century), not written by The Animals as I'd always thought – with new Nativity-based lyrics. And two guitar solos, because. BTW, while I (showing some degree of restraint!) haven't posted most of them here, I've produced 20 Christmas tracks of various sorts over the past 2 years. They're all in this playlist, if anyone's curious: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtwxdNkCVKIcvub4tOCOFVJgGGCFMp9k4

This is the link to my playlist which in the first 10 videos you’ll be an expert ! watch for the end screen links that takes you to the next video in the series.

There are some excellent tutorials in this playlist. And the first post in this topic will link you to the last PDF manual, which is easy to search.

Ya I abandoned Sound Cloud a few years ago as it seems to be declining. I like that on Sound Click you can easily update a song. Only reason I put this song on Sound cloud for now is it’s a work in progress and I seem to have a lot of followers on Sound Click now so didn’t want to contaminate that playlist just yet. I sort of use Sound Cloud for music that I do for fun. I forgot about the Uncle Stuff that was our band 12 or more years ago. It was a lot of fun but the Drummer moved away and we never found a suitable replacement.

Hi, I'm considering using VSTi's in live performances with Cakewalk. I don't know how to begin. I'm familiar with using Cakewalk for home studio recording, but it's totally unclear how I should use it live. Basically, my idea is to have 1 cakewalk project for each song. I think I can benefit from the Playlist feature, Cakewalk's documentation will help, that's totally fine. However, there are several requirements that I have no idea how to achieve: I might need to have multiple sounds (either from the same VSTi or from several VSTi's) controlled from one unique keyboard at the same time, either layered, or split, with sound A at the bottom of the keyboard, sound B in the middle, sound C on top, or maybe sound D on just one key, etc. I might need to have multiple keyboards or controllers connected to Cakewalk, and each keyboard should be able to control its very own sound setup. I might need to switch from one sound to another, from a specific keyboard, during a song (rather than between songs), and in this case, I'd need to be able to do that without loading another project, rather by using some key or click instead. Are these expectations realistic? Any tips to begin?

FL Studio 21.1.1.3750 (21.1.1.3318 for MAC) (not a deal) https://www.image-line.com/fl-studio-download FL Studio 21.1.1 (Maintenance Update) Projects - Don't automatically set the 'Show info on opening' option when editing project info. FL Studio Mobile - Updated to 4.3.16. Bug fixes - over 60 bug fixes including: 16355 Canceling the warning about plugins with large data will still save the project 16354 Can't change a pattern name to an empty string 16334 Search text in the plugin picker isn't shown completely 16323 The 5th line of the browser search path list is always selected when opening File settings 16344 The browser shows multiple identical search results 16343 The channel arpeggiator jitters 16337 Fruity LSD: crash when opened in Windows on ARM 16357 Maxx plugins: maximum polyphony is too high 16307 Sawer: cpu usage is too high 16365 Soundgoodizer: crash when audio input contains NaN values 16360 MIDI scripting: playlist.muteTrack's value parameter is ordered incorrectly 16356 Edison scripting: InsertSilence always inserts silence before last sample 16158 (macOS) Browser sample preview refreshes randomly when dragging samples to channel rack 16286 Browser doesn't show when it's auto hidden and "Browse parameters" is used for a plugin 16239 Can't color a pattern without renaming it 16287 Can't set the pattern name to anything that contains a # character 16278 Crash on undo after canceling the "Import MIDI data" window 16284 Crash when creating an automation clip while the playlist is not visible 16018 Crash when dropping an audio sample on an audio track header 16223 Crash when pressing Ctrl + Shift + down arrow in the picker panel 16209 Crash when previewing a PNG file with a JPG file extension 16275 Crash when the browser saves its settings 16011 Crash when using the graph editor after a channel was deleted 16246 Dragging playhead where there is a fade on an audio clip can cause loud clicks 16295 Fade-outs sometimes click at the start 16322 Key markers don't show the correct root note when the scale is changed 16285 MIDI devices can't pause playback 16225 Moving a pattern in the Picker Panel doesn't always work 16311 Newly added key markers don't snap to the grid 16256 Only the current pattern is updated in the browser when working with multiple patterns 15913 Paste at cursor in the playlist doesn't work when the position was changed with keyboard shortcuts 16253 Pattern colors aren't always updated correctly in the browser 16321 Playlist zoom levels don't work correctly for all scaling levels when reopening projects 16156 Recording options window is shown twice when recording is started during playback 16217 Running tests changes the last used project path 16138 Sample preview playback position in the browser is not in sync with other audio 15973 Short freeze when changing the theme 16224 The last used folder is not correct after canceling the Open window 16226 The channel rack's loop button doesn't reset when opening a new project 16303 Version information in the preview panel in the browser is not shown correctly 16164 Warning for the Fruity Fire edition is not themed correctly 16236 Drumaxx is pitched up 16249 Drumpad is pitched up 16305 FL Studio VSTi: host can freeze when an error is shown after MIDI devices change 7873 FL Studio VSTi and AU: latency changes aren't reported to the host 16288 Granulizer: possible crash when adding samples with a long path 16257 Hardcore: control values are shown incorrectly 16215 HTML Notebook: crash when the plugin is removed or replaced 16262 Maximus: the selected view (Bands or Monitor) is not stored in presets 16254 MiniSynth: channel volume doesn't change the plugin's volume 16250 MiniSynth: piano roll slides don't work 16238 Morphine: saved preset files don't have a file extension 16200 X-Y-Z Controller: keyboard shortcuts don't work on the input and output mapping envelopes 16152 MIDI scripting: plugins.getPadInfo reports the wrong number of pads for FPC 16213 Piano roll scripting: can't set the last bit of Marker.scale_helper 16247 Piano roll scripting: hitting accept runs the script again with different output 16185 Piano roll and Edison script windows have some graphical issues 16300 (macOS) Can't right-click by holding Ctrl while left-clicking in the channel rack 16214 (macOS) Detached windows are behind the main window 16166 (macOS) The locate button in the browser's Library tab doesn't work for samples and loops 16267 (macOS) The program won't start 16159 (macOS) Diagnostic: reports aren't saved to the desktop 15760 (macOS) FL Studio AU: the editor window is not scaled correctly 16260 (Windows) Edison: the declicker doesn't work anymore

The Human League - Dare! (Full Album - YouTube playlist)

Update January 31 2024: Good news for people whom English is not their native language. I figured out how to add sub titles to my tutorials even after they are published. It will take a while to complete them all but this works brilliantly as you can now read a very basic script and follow along in your chosen language. So far I did the 2 last ones I published. https://youtu.be/eQWPVc6azHc and https://youtu.be/AKsvOP87yGw Update note Jan 2024: All the basics for new users should be here including step by step on recording a song. I will be redoing some of my old videos I took down due to errors and reposting those as well. I will also be slowly adding all the Transcripts for the narration on my web site for those who like reading. They can also be used to translate into other languages. https://sites.google.com/view/cactus-studios/cakewalk-tutorials https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7YqVth30eGsURWrKGeu-fFyg3ETjF-Ox

If you Open the midi file Cakewalk automatically inserts the TTS-1 and your midi file will play. If it is a GM midi file the correct instruments will also be assigned. This video explains how to use a pre made midi file. I have a few other videos that explain how to edit midi as well my playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7YqVth30eGsURWrKGeu-fFyg3ETjF-Ox&si=0y1uOWy6ysV5tgVo

Now that I have the Everything Bundle I've only tested a tiny fraction of all the new presets, but so far I like quite a lot of the presets. I added almost every preset from Bluffmunkey's expansions for Synthmaster 1 to my favs. Big Tone's Analog Basics 1 and 2 for Synthmaster 2 has plenty of gems. So true. The demo tracks and descriptions give quite a good impression of the expansions, since they're only made of those presets, except for the drums usually. What I like about the expansion demo tracks that they have on Soundcloud is that quite a lot of them have the names of the presets that were used in the track comments, assigned to the track timeline where they're used. That's astonishingly little. Have you really tested all presets? After having read what you wrote I had another look at the factory presets and actually found quite a lot usable. There's a Soundcloud playlist and a YouTube playlist with demos of the factory presets that they've made for Synthmaster 2, with tracks demonstrating their use across various genres: Expansion playlist on Soundcloud for Synthmaster 2: Expansion playlist on Soundcloud for Synthmaster 1:

Here a link to my covers playlist. Thanks for your interest!

That’s funny I was just sending those links and you guys posted. Thanks Here’s the whole playlist which will walk you through everything you need to know to get started.

You need to set up your computer for audio. Obviously it’s not optimized at all. Watch this for details Playlist of all my videos https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7YqVth30eGsURWrKGeu-fFyg3ETjF-Ox&si=nlEfhtK42q_6FKcy

(ot, have a playlist

My playlists are crashing Cakewalk when loading the next track after first one has ended. Minidumps are too big to attach.

I don't use the playlist, so I can't answer your question, but I know the question of changing font size for various other things things in SONAR/Cakewalk has come up in the forum. As you may know the company that makes Cakewalk by Bandlab is in the process of developing two new products, Cakewalk Next and Cakewalk Sonar. Perhaps one of those will include the playlist feature. From what I have read, the UI experience will be very different from SONAR/Cakewalk as we all know it. I don't know if you looked up the question of changing font size in general in the forum. If not, here's what I did to find related posts. Using the forum's search features: Chose "Home" (upper left of Cakewalk Discuss to set the widest scope for the search). You could also choose "Everywhere" in the Search Bar's dropdown menu. Typed "font size" in quotation marks in the search bar (upper right on the same line as "Home"). I hope this helps until someone comes along who uses the playlist and can answer your question.

Thank you ! Here is a link to our first album with the song Lady Alibi but since then there have been changes in singers, we only have one singer, Agnès. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_klBiVH7D97kYQgywgOEMEXB3Ml9NyVC1Y

Partial Changelist New "Plugin Manager" window Take control of your plugin collection in a powerful new way: You'll find the new "Plugin Manager" in the Window menu The Plugin Manager provides a complete list of plugins that were found on your system, and data about each plugin's scan results. New standalone scanner applications for VST and AU plugins will scan your whole plugin collection without danger of crashing Mixbus. The new scanner dialog allows you to skip individual plugins without canceling the whole scan process. Or set the scanner to auto-timeout while you take a break, and come back later to re-scan those individual plugins that wanted some user input. Sort and filter your plugins by name, brand, tags, or format. Tell Mixbus to Ignore troublesome plugins so we won't try to load them at all. Mixbus loads AU, VST, VST3, and LV2 format plugins. Choose the format that works best for each plugin, and Hide the ones you don't use (but might be used in some existing sessions). Next-Level Playlists Sweeping new changes to Playlists include: Global playlist actions like "New Playlist for rec-armed tracks" allow you to record a new take on all tracks that are record-armed, whether they are in a Group or not. You'll find these actions in the Track menu. "Copy Playlist for All Tracks" will store the timeline state of your arrangement, edits and automation. You can later switch between them while leaving your static mixer and plugin settings intact. Select a track and click "?" keyboard shortcut to open the Playlist Selector dialog. Click any playlist to listen to the alternative takes of that track, OR... ...change the scope to "ALL Tracks" and you can switch all tracks that have a matching playlist to your selection: if you recorded a take of the drums and bass together, you can switch the drum and bass playlists together even if they aren't in a Group. Create the perfect vocal or guitar comp: Create a new empty playlist and call it 'comp'. Then use the selector to switch between different takes and move the best take to your comp playlist. You can even have more than one comp playlist to compare with each other. And like the other playlist functions, you can edit multitracks with ease: by group, rec-armed, or ALL tracks. Read more in the manual! Varispeed Recording (Mixbus32C only) Varispeed recording provides traditional tape-style varispeed techniques: Slow down a recording by one or two semitones, and play along at the lower pitch to master a tricky solo, or retune a song to match a singer's range. Change the recording by a few cents and detune your guitar to match: now record a shimmering doubled guitar without having to use a different guitar for each pass. A blinking red indicator shows when the Varispeed dialog is operational. Click the VS button to enable and disable your varispeed settings. Your setting is remembered so you can revert to regular playback for auditioning, then re-enable varispeed for additional recording passes. v7.1 includes dozens of other user-requested Improvements:"Slip Contents" editing modifier Hold Ctrl+Shift (or Cmd+Shift on Mac) to slip the contents of a region without moving the region start/end points New shortcuts (mac shortcuts shown; check the menus for windows equivalents): Ctrl+0 = Toggle Region Opaque { = All {selected} tracks switch to "overlaid" layer view } = All {selected} tracks switch to "stacked" layer view | = Raise to top layer (was Ctrl+0) Playlist actions: : = Copy playlist for selected/grouped tracks Cmd + Ctrl + Shift + : = Copy playlist for rec-armed tracks Cmd + Shift + : = Copy playlist for ALL tracks “ = New Playlist for Selected/grouped tracks Cmd + “ = New playlist for rec armed tracks Cmd + Ctrl + Shift + “ = New Playlist for ALL tracks ? = Show/Hide playlist select dialog box for selected track < = Start Recording with Pre-Roll > = Start Recording with Count-In Cue Markers in Regions Right-click in a region to add a Cue marker Cue markers display the embedded cues in imported midi files Cue markers are a good place to add comments or lyrics Cue markers move with the region, and copy/duplicate with it "Promote to timeline marker" converts all region markers to location markers in the timeline New "DSP Stats" window Window->DSP Stats Helps troubleshoot DSP usage Calculates the worst-case DSP usage New: Region loudness normalization/analysis (same feature as the master-bus loudness analysis, but applied to a single region) Export improvements:Updates to loudness normalization New with-limiter option lets you specify an export target with a higher loudness than your mix, and the output will apply a fast limiter to keep your peaks under control while increasing the level to meet your target. Include loudness (LUFS) graph in export report Fix export analysis when trimming silence Use triangular dither as default Count xruns during realtime export Fix timespan count (progress report) Fix exporting multiple timespans Warn when overwriting files LAN dialog has been updated with user-customizable presets, loudness graph New "Remove Gaps" feature: removes gaps between regions Various improvements for ripple-edit (proper undo, significant speedup, automation ripple) Significantly sped-up region edits Improved realtime scheduling (notably Linux cpu/dma latencty, some macOS tweaks, windows MIDI and ctrl surface priority) Add a preference for "No auto-return-after-rewind-ffwd" TapeX: Tweak track renaming (allow to move to next/prev, cancel on focus out) ACE-fluidsynth: add dedicated bypass (ignore notes, but retain reverb) PT Import: significant speedup, fix importing of large sessions New MIDI selection modes (invert + extend note selection) Control Points no longer obey Lock Edit Directly import the audio from M4A files MIDI tracer can directly monitor input ports Multiple MIDI tracer windows Change Mackie Control combined meter to use a peak meter with falloff More consistent control surface rewind/ffwd behavior, MCU separate shuttle and scroll Allow to skip setting MIDI patch on session-load (do not change synth parameters by sending a PGM message) 'Escape' key was not working to cancel all selections when in Internal Editing mode ... this has been fixed 7.1 has over 900 "under the hood" changes since the last release: Fixed cue monitoring during record w/preroll Fix asymmetric systemic I/O latencies Disable rec-arm on export (was on with latched-record-enable) Fix muted MIDI regions Update record file-name when changing track names Fix blurry text in connection manager Remove unused auditioner MIDI port Preferably show port names in port-matrix (not bundles) Fix an occasional crash when consolidating range with automation Fix video-monitor display when seeking Fix for region-drag to the dropzone Use insert-position when adding route from template Fix loading old (v4) route-templates Keep MIDI List Editor in sync when region changes Fix export race condition (and crash) when exporting multiple ranges Fix position of imported MIDI markers (apply tempo map) Fix rare hang at exit (waveview threads) Fix session loading when aborting latency measurement Fix Automation context menu when used from track-header XTouch: Don't crash if master fader is not available. Avoid playhead jumping while we locate from a control surface Various Control Surfaces: Fix one-off error in calculation of fader position Fix missing entries in source/region-list Record Window: Fix record-region display when a track playlist is changed Fix A/B plugins, skip internal but visible plugins Fix bounced region filename Fix running multiple instances on Windows Fix loading old session w/missing playlist TapeX: Refactor input port monitoring (use less resources) Fix capture alignment (MIDI, loop recording, manual punch in/out) Fix pre-roll MIDI capture alignment Fix Rec w/count-in: directly roll transport Fix crash on MIDI bounce w/processing Fix crash when deleting Plugin within 30 sec after MIDI binding Fix incorrect splash screen visibility Fix crash when switching backends, and chasing external TC Fix handling of SMF files with consecutive noteOn events LV2: allow multiple atom buffers, ignore CV plugins Fix VST2 enter/return key-press ambiguity VST3: do not split cycles for automation VST3: fix crash on fan-out Ignore symlinked, duplicated VST plugins Tascam US-2400 fixes: fixed the panner direction, fix the joystick, fix the order of mixbuses in Flip mode Do not show controller ports (like Mackie, US-2400) in the Recorder page meters Replace the missing View items for toggling 32C EQ and Sends Plugin "Favorite" list on the mixer-window: now correctly searches the Tags as well as plugin names Linux fixes: Override Ubuntu global menu (fixes crashes on some Linux systems) Mac fixes: Coreaudio: fix duplicates in device list, retain current device even if list changes Fix Mac Plugin re/sizing Fix an occasional crash when unloading mac VST2 plugins Windows fixes: Windows BPM/Note button text Windows: prevent config file corruption Windows: limit to single-instance only

Merry Christmas everyone. There's so many albums it's hard to choose what to postas my favorites. I seem to play these a lot. I have over 40 albums I shuffle in my Christmas playlist.

xfm cool cool xmas lp playlist

I had this one growing up! This is a link to the full playlist. Good stuff!

The Shadows - 20 Golden Greats (YouTube playlist)

You are Welcome. There's a whole series and if you are new to Cakewalk it's a good Idea to go through the first 10 on the playlist at least to get the basics in using Cakewalks User Interface. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7YqVth30eGsURWrKGeu-fFyg3ETjF-Ox

Will be fantastic to fix when load a project from playlist, the loop function (yellow flags) still enable, now if i save a project with a loop, when i load from playlist it disable the yellow flags. Thanks.