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Nice tip Canopus. I personally love ez drummers interface and "ease" for putting quick drum arrangements together, but addictive drums sounds better to me, regardless if it hasn't been updated in a few years.

Very nice Martin ??

I see what you mean, I respect that. Yeah, as far as I've heard, the new sonar won't permit it at all at 1st. I saw a screenshot of the one that was leaked a few months ago somewhere, and lets just say I'm not a big fan of the new look. Hopefully that was just some prank and the real thing doesn't resemble what I saw ?

Respectfully, there are many of us, me included, who use mixing surfaces to control our daws. These look and feel just like a console, and in some cases integrate function/function directly with a daws layout. Maybe this would ring true for bedroom/home studio producers, but many people work on large format mixing surfaces just like in the old console days.

Melodynes files bypass that, regardless of how you setup your project folders. It's audio is sent to a specific "separations" folder usually in the documents section of windows under Celemony.

By any chance did you open a track template from cakewalk's preinstalled ones? At least that's what that looks like to me. They have all the routing pre determined when I've done it, but I could be wrong.

I got it on both my devices. My laptop, that I keep connected to the internet and my desktop which I don't, go figure.

Same, been waiting to see how many people this hit this morning.

Not sure. I'm going to try what Outrage suggested though, it makes more sense to me.

Awesome. I'll try this out soon as I get in. I'll let you know if it works, thanks!

Oh, this sounds interesting, so I load up a vst in it's folder like normal, then just hit the A button?

Huh, that's interesting. If that's right, then I shouldn't have any issues with this, I'll have to test it. Thanks.

Hey Guys/Bakers, I'm still here building my custom production template and am almost done. I was wondering, is there a way to load up a vst instrument and have it on standby but not actually loaded in the session? For example, you can load a plugin chain and deactivate all fx until you want to use them. Is there a way of doing this with VSTi's? EDIT: Hey guys, thanks for everyone chiming in and trying to help me, I tried all the methods described here, and they all helped, but I ended up going with setting up the vsti's I needed then playing a dummy midi note and freezing the track. I just felt that was easier and less hassle for my set up since I literally only use virtual instruments sporadically. Thanks again for trying to help me out.

If it's a small section, best advice I can give is to go back and re-record that section. There are plugins that will use trickery to mitigate some of the damage, but in my experience they never quite sound natural. If it's a very short portion, like a one word, or a couple of words, and the project isn't going for commercial/major label release, then maybe just clip gain it down to match the other phrases in that section and call it a day.

Hey Gregy, just an FYI, I figured out what was going on on my end here. You have to put the keyboard in DAWRec mode in it's settings for it to track out properly in cakewalk. You lose Arpeggio functionality, but it lets you hear only the track selected when highlighting different tracks as intended.

Yeah, I figured as much, no problem, I'll just have to get creative with my routing then. No worries though, you saved me from a major headache today! Thank you

That worked! You're a lifesaver Gregy! One last question. I'm making my template so I can get to creating much faster, for each section I have a folder with a midi track and an audio track for bouncing down ideas later. So far I've only set up the bass folder, and ran into the routing issue with my second folder, drums, when I reached out to you. My question is, setting up bass with it's one instance is relatively easy. Is there a way that I can split the drum kits parts to different outputs, so like Kick, snare, toms, etc? From one midi instance?

So if I understand you correctly setting each instance to midi omni would have them play their respective parts without triggering the same notes on each channel? I had it like that, so now I'm even more confused. I also tried to give each midi track it's own channel and that would result in silence in all but the 1st midi track. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, I appreciate it.

Hey 57Gregy, Sorry to bother you about this again but since you showed me how to do this, I sort of left it on the back burner. Today I was setting up a new production template ready to put your tips to good use when I realized I didn't know how to split the channels up so that each midi instance doesn't trigger the other. Would you mind walking me through how to separate channels so they trigger only the chosen instrument in the mx49? I tried using different channels in the drop down menu in cakewalks midi tracks, but all previous midi tracks would still play when I'd strike the keys. I'd really appreciate any direction here. Thanks!

Thank you so much Klaus, that worked perfectly! To think I've been dealing with this for ages.

Hey everyone, I'm building up my new production template and I came across a problem that's always bugged me but I sort of just dealt with it. When I create group busses and set up my preferred color palette, I'd like to save them in the boxes made for this, but it only allows me to save one color. The moment I try to add another color to my favorites, it overrides my last choice. How do you add more than one color in that section? Thanks.

Sorry about this happening to you. This is one of the main reasons why it's good practice to always disable any wifi before opening a session, cakewalk or otherwise.

Hey Everyone/Bakers, I do a lot of vocal editing and production work. For years I've done this all pretty much exclusively in cakewalk (sonar back in the day). I've always had to color take lanes differently one by one manually, and I'd love for it to be automatically done, or at least have an option one can turn on or off for this to be done. Why? Because when you're comping a vocal, especially in heavy, very dense productions, it's useful to see visually which parts of the comp came from where. This is extremely helpful when going back for edits, or the ocasional "re-comp" when asked by a producer. Personally, I'd find it useful for double tracking, as I usually make doubles, and sometimes harmonies from the takes that weren't utilized in the final lead comp. Just my 2 cents, but I think this would be a cool feature to have.

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Compressors have 2 basic functions. The 1st is to control/lessen dynamic range. So if you have a sound that has parts that are too loud, and parts that are too soft, you'd use a compressor to even out the level to a more manageable dynamic range (volume). The second basic function is to glue things together and make them more cohesive. Think bg vocal bus, drum bus or the master bus for example, where you'd use light compression to make everything gel a little. There's also a third, but this is a bit more subjective. Some compressors (think vintage, analogue type, and those modelled after them) have a certain tone/character that they give a sound when you run audio through them. In these cases you'd use these types of compressors for dynamic control AND the tone they'd give you. If you're a beginner, I'd focus on the 1st two basic functions, and worry about tone after you feel comfortable with that first. Good luck.