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Thanks John. Playlist causes Cakewalk to crash every time unfortunately. Actually, if there was a way the you could clear ( close ) the last track that was just played, that would make Playlist work without crashing. I think it's because it stacks up track after track, that this is what causes it to crash. Harley

As said by @OutrageProductions always use per project folders if there will be any audio in the projects. Never use a global audio folder this seems to always ends up with orphaned tracks.. You can take projects that are using a global audio folder and make them per project folders easily. Open the project and then using “save as” and checking the “ copy audio with project “ box. Save the project in a new location and possibly rename it too. Now the project will be in its own folder and the audio folder will also be inside that folder. But this is not necessary if there is no audio in a project. freezing a midi track only temporary saves the audio. Open the project audio folder. Now freeze the synth. You will see the new audio file created in the audio folder. Now unfreeze the synth and the audio files disappear. Even if you save and close the project that audio file is only there when synth is frozen. I would not freeze the midi any how as CWP projects with no audio are almost bulletproof for me. And they are very small file size. They are similar to a pure midi file but CWP also loads all the other goodies like effects and instruments. I have over 200 backing track CWP files and never had any issues at all for years and years. So I'm not sure why you had issues in the past. My first guess would be there were misbehaving VST instruments used. I was careful about my choice of instruments. I only used ones that seemed CPU friendly and avoid huge samples needing loading. So instead of freezing what might have worked was evaluate why a project caused an issue. If you want samples of my Backing tracks I have shared them freely on my web page https://sites.google.com/view/cactus-studios/cakewalk-backing-tracks Also why are you having to create new versions to create new set lists?? Are you using Cakewalks Playlist? You don't need to have different files to use Playlist. You just choose your files and save each set list you can re order playlists as well and re name. Very quick and easy.

The Verve - Urban Hymns (Full Album) YouTube Playlist: Or the whole album in one go:

Oh ye of little faith Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material (Full Album - YouTube Playlist)

@pwalpwal There's quite a few Nick Cave covers that Nell Smith did with The Flaming Lips here (YouTube playlist): That's something I would probably come across if you hadn't posted Giant Sands.

Check out the "Cakewalk by Bandlab" playlist (50+ vids) from 'Creative Sauce' on YouTube. He does a fantastic job covering both the basics and lots of secret functions too.

It's a deal if own any version of FL Studio https://www.image-line.com/fl-studio/lifetime-free-updates/ https://www.image-line.com/fl-studio-download/ WHAT'S NEW? FL Studio: Colored waveforms - General settings option to color code frequency content in audio waveforms. This applies to the Browser, Playlist, Sampler Channel etc. MIDI Control - New 'External sync' mode & improved MIDI master clock stability. This allows FL Studio to 'slave' to an external MIDI Clock so that it plays in time to an external MIDI clock source. Automated updates - Option to automatically download FL Studio updates and apply them at the next restart. Piano roll Snap to Scale - Piano roll option to snap notes to the selected scale on placement or movement. See the note icon on the toolbar. Menu > Tools > Script - Scripts are Python based that allows custom manipulation of Piano roll data. There are several pre-made scripts or you can write your own. Scripting also includes automatic user interface creation. See the Piano roll scripting forum to share and discuss Scripts. New & Updated Plugins Hyper Chorus - Extreme chorus FX plugin, included with Producer Edition and up. Edison Declipper - New and improved AI-based declipping tool. Can restore recordings that have been clipped due to level issues. SliceX - Now resizable by dragging the lower-right corner.

Valid point. I was looking into several VST Host applications, all of them had upsides, downsides. Cantabile looked promising, along with Hermann Seib's VSTHost, but none of them had a builtin MIDI player with playlist, so at this point, having already needed an external player (using Media Player Classic Home Cinema with default MIDI device patch in Windows registry together with loopMIDI), I tried setting up Cakewalk for live use. Probably the biggest selling point to me was the Console layout (like a digital mixer), ease of use through that GUI, I create all the MIDI backingtracks in Cakewalk, Sonitus FX, TH3 Cakewalk, and the other plugins being there are also a big plus. The 2 features I am missing from this setup are: setting tempo from outside and MIDI patchpoints (along with proper MIDI signal flow control to the plugins).

Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves (Full Album - YouTube Playlist)

last three i listened to, in reverse order jellies - 77:78 (playlist) king gizzard - fishing for fishies brightblack- -ali.cali.tucky

There are some plugins that could be used - SLGain Gain ($2.50) Hornet (Several to choose from), Waves - WLM Plus($29), Playlist rider($77), Vocal Rider($29), WA Production - Outlaw ($39), Nugen MasterCheck($199), LM-Correct($399!), Adobe Audition, Reaper,Audacity. "It should NOT be a big thing to code." To get an audio file to actually sound the same volume is very tricky. Different frequencies are louder at the same RMS and Peak. LUFS is supposed to take in consideration the Fletcher-Munson Curve. I have to use several plugins stacked in comping mode to make the takes close enough to only focus on the tone, pitch and performance. Vocal Rider, Outlaw, MasterCheck and Playlist rider. Waves MV2 is super good too. If you use plugins you would probably bounce the clips which will blend them into a single track. Probably not what you want. Check these Freebies too-> I have not used the Dynamic-Audio-Normalizer of the Volume-Normalizer-Master but, I have used The-Levelator. The-Levelator does not use LUFS but, is does bring low volume audio files to a very good volume level. You could drop your "audio" directory file in this. They will be renamed but, it shouldn't be too hard to copy the new file to your cakewalk project. https://www.videohelp.com/software/The-Levelator https://www.videohelp.com/software/Dynamic-Audio-Normalizer https://www.videohelp.com/software/Volume-Normalizer-Master

It's a fine idea but the issue with that idea is that Cakewalk/Sonar is at it's heart is based on a traditional studio paradigm with a linear timeline running left to right and playing it as one would a hardware tape machine. It doesn't run from a playlist like some other DAWs do and it would be pretty seismic shift to move to that world at this stage. I would also argue that in a typical song most folks wouldn't want the exact same section played 12x over as it could get boring. But eventually you're going to want to commit to new arrangement and write it back to the linear track view in any case. Maybe there is a better solution like a floating arranger page so you can make more eloborate arrangements full screen, which would also make it fully visible and avoid it scrolling off the screen. Or maybe they are willing to change the whole ethos of how we play tracks and make it a more non-linear DAW.

Run ASC Analog Lab V V 5.7.3 New features: KeyLab Essential mk3 : Choosing a subtype does not load the first preset anymore KeyLab Essential mk3 : Pushing the main encoder after loading a preset when adding a part validates it KeyLab Essential mk3 : Entering a Playlist/SoundBank/Favorite now highlight the first preset of the list Bug fixes: Keyboard settings are now properly displayed when loading a multi preset

Tin Tin: Japan Tin Drum (Full Album - YouTube Playlist)

I had an addiction I needed to kick. Posting on this forum. Back in November, to kick the habit, I deleted my Cakewalk Form Bookmark and that was it. No withdrawals or late night trauma. That was easy. I thought my time would be better spent actually using Cakewalk now that I had the beast fully under my control and continuing to produce videos about Cakewalk . Making those tutorials about features I had never bothered to explore before put my learning curve was at 76 degrees. I feel the videos are helping a lot more people that I was reaching here. And it was getting frustrating as the new generation are not as engaged as we old farts were so the forum made me feel like most of my answers were talking to the wind. In doing research for my videos typing in questions would often open this forum and like today I would see I had some PM's and then I also found that @Starship Krupa A member I highly respect, had tagged me in a thread. I didn't want to go off topic in the thread so figured the good ol' coffee house is a nice safe place to hide now. Here is part of his post I wish to respond to. Approaching BandLab for any kind of promo money is a good way to be disappointed. It's just not how they roll. As far as why YouTubers not being around the forum, well, unfortunately, it's apparently not even worth it for them to announce new content here, as so few hits come from this forum (or any, for that matter). That's according to @John Vere of Cactus Studios fame, who remains a stalwart forum participant. @AdK Studios is the only YouTuber who still bothers to announce new videos in the Tutorials section. It's sad. Not even XelOhh posts announcements here any more. This is so true. And say what you will about Facebook < I personally avoid it if I can, it is were all of our potential new form members are hanging out. It's a terrible format which I need not explain but that is where I post my videos when I publish them. I will have over 100 views by the end of the second day. My analytics show that it's about 40% coming from Facebook and 50% from subscribers and then 10% are keyword searches etc. There are 5 Facebook groups I post the videos to and I sneak the odd one onto Mike's page so that #6. I have to check those pages for notifications and sometimes get sucked back into the question and answer vortex. So I'm a forum lurker now and once in a while I'll check my notifications and PM's as well as I might scan through the main forum and Q&A . I see nothing has changed and people are getting top quality help. I got a nice new mike for Christmas a SM 7B and so I'm on a mission to redo 30 songs vocal tracks. I also grabbed the upgraded to Melodyne Editor and looking forward to surgically fixing a few guitar chord boners. If anyone is interested in what I'm up to this is my new playlist I started. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7YqVth30eGuFWMs-8myWkFMJBrEnPU9b

I use the Media browser to play some mixed instrumental wave/mp3 files, and play/sing through the tracks in Cakewalk - so effectively have a Cakewalk project that is just used for mixing/effects rather than recording. It works as far as it goes, but I'd like more control over the audio file playback - a playback head to seek within the file, no automatic repeating, etc. Is there some capability for this already in Cakewalk, or a VST plugin available that would give me this functionality? I've seen the Cakewalk "Playlist", but that seems geared toward playing project files and not in conjunction with the DAW console/mixer features. I'd be after essentially something with the playback/seek features of the Windows Media player with a file list and the ability to only play one file at a time in a playlist, without auto-advancing to the next song. I would be using this for streaming my piano/vocal sessions on Twitch, where some songs have an accompaniment wave/mp3 file.

I wonder if anyone else has ever had this idea (and acted on it!): - Make a YouTube playlist of the top-40 for each year in descending order That would be cool! (I'm just too lazy to see if they have right now! 😆)

I can confirm that Cakewalk runs on W7. I have an old laptop with it installed I was using to test Cakewalk Playlist. The projects I used were all vere basic but it most certainly works if you can be patient and don’t mind waiting for everything you do to take forever!

Basically if you want to automate a light show while using backing tracks you need to use a DAW that handles both Midi and Audio for your playback engine which most do including Cakewalk. Cakewalk has a Playlist feature just for this. I have never heard of a lighting rig using SMPTE? But Midi to DMX is common.

That whole Ronnie Scotts concert was awesome! I'm not certain, but I think that's the concert that introduced everyone to Tal. I love how Jeff just watches her in wonder. 😊 I hope this is a good playlist (there were a few to choose from!):

My recommendation is bulletproof and only for the final project used for playback. That project will have minimal CPU as well as load super fast if you use Cakewalks playlist. Freezing instruments is a temporary fix for CPU needed and the projects will still have to load all the instruments and effects. More things to go wrong so not bulletproof.

Yes, here's a general overview of the chord modes and strumming: And here's a video tutorial on using the strumming pattern editor: You can access a playlist of all the tutorials for the Evolution guitars here:

FL Studio 20.9.1 Released Info Here NEW KEY FEATURES Playlist - New 'Quantize song jumps' Playlist Menu option. Playlist - 'Make unique as sample' no-longer prompts for a filename when the Shift key is held. Playlist - New option 'Show Peak Meters for Instrument tracks'. Browser - The Undo history in the browser no longer opens automatically while undoing. Mixer - New 'View > Always show external input levels' option to the mixer. Useful when monitoring is set to 'When armed' or 'Off'. FLEX - Shows a message in the "Free" and "Store" tabs if there's no internet connection. FPC - Added context aware type-in value support. Frequency Splitter - Added context aware type-in value support. Plugin Manager - Changed text of 'Find installed plugins' button. Unlock - Changed the text on the 'Show unlock window' button in the about window. Scripting - 9 new functions & features including: Retrieve FPC pad info, 'Bypass all effects' and 'Inverse polarity' in the mixer, Master sync status, Channel types request, Show rectangles for parts of the channel rack, Sequencer steps undo flag, Distinguish Audio and Automation Clip Channels, Allow simultaneous highlight rectangles & Detection by hardware ID is now case insensitive.

Add Protools like playlist.

I think this weekend might be a good time for a Pink Floyd discography playlist. ☺️