Matthew Carr

I'm certainly not advocating a full blown score editor or a way to print/share beautiful scores - just a staff editor that works. If you spend any time with staff editor as is, you'll come across lots of aggravating issues - try entering some lyrics and you'll soon want to throw your PC out the window! Updating the component that the staff view was based on with the new version from Sonic Scores would probably address many of the issues, without Bandlab having to re-work the whole thing and commit a lot of development resource.. .. then again, it's never happened before, despite all the feedback and requests, so maybe there's a reason we don't know about.

I'd definitely like to see the staff view get some love - there seems a fairly pain free way to upgrade it using the offer from Sonic Scores, so why not move forward with it? As well as benefiting existing users, having a decent staff editor has the potential to make CbB great choice in the education sector, being free and all - that would certainly help drive adoption of CbB, and promote BandLab.

I've used Cakewalk in a live scenario before. I found the best approach was to abandon the cakewalk playlist program, set options so that only one project can be loaded at a time in Cakewalk, and use a program called midi automator to to create a setlist which will open a project file for each track in order, in response to a midi signal (or keypress). If you have any backing in your projects, freeze the backing tracks so the VSTs don't need to be loaded when the project is loaded. Search for "Cakewalk Midi Automator" once the cakewalk forum is back up.

So maybe I'm missing something, but the search seems broken on the legacy forum. Enter a search term in the search bar, there are no suggestions, if you hit enter you get zero or very limited results. E.g. a search for midi returns 2 results... surely there's a lot more results than that? No much point in having the old forum available if it's not searchable.. Anyone else have this issue? Windows 10, tried both Chrome and Edge browsers..