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Yeah, the list of plugins available are not exactly the best, until you get to the $29.99 pm "deal", and even then I couldn't see the SSL4000 or Scheps 73. So on the basic plan you pay $120 for 6 plugins, which I guess isn't bad, but I'd be stretched to find 6 I'd actually want out of that list. L1, MV2, R-Bass are the only one's I'd look at. I guess V-Comp, V-EQ and either TrueVerb or R-Reverb, but I wouldn't choose them other than to fill up 5 + 1 free.
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Korg NanoKey2 no longer working in Bandlab version
msmcleod replied to cmbrowns's topic in Cakewalk by BandLab
@cmbrowns after upgrading to Windows 1903, I had exactly the same issue. I found this fix: https://thedigitallifestyle.com/w/index.php/2019/04/23/fixing-korg-usb-midi-driver-issues-in-windows-10-may-2019-update/ The "distilled" instructions are: Open up regedit (windows key + R, type in regedit, followed by return), then follow these instructions: The two registry addresses to copy/paste are: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32 Note: If you've more than one korg device, you'll have to do this for each one. So for me, my NanoKontrol was 0011 / midi5, and my nanoKey was 0012 / midi4. Each device should have a different alias. -
They key things for me, was to get to know the different cursors. The Smart Tool does loads, and the tool mode can change not only with combinations of shift/ctrl/alt, but also depending on whether you're at the top half of the clip, the bottom half, or the start/end. It might seem a lot to learn at first, but once you get used to it, you can do edits very, very quickly. But knowing what the different cursor icons are and what they mean can help stop you slipping up along the way.
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Silverlight is actually Microsoft's attempt at something like flash, but I think Keni means skylight interface - i.e. the Cakewalk GUI, which was introduced in Sonar X1. Layers is what Sonar used prior to X1 (Sonar 8.53 and below). I found the transition from Sonar 8.53 to X1 a bit of a learning curve too, and the change to the skylight interface & layers to takes were probably the main things. IMO they're both an improvement, but they did take getting used to.
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I guess this is a valid point, but as I've got 3 x MU10, 3 x NX5R, a MU100R a QY70... which all have exactly the same sound ROM as the SYXG-50, I figure I've pretty much paid Yamaha for the use of their sounds. If it really was going to be an issue, I'd just re-record using the hardware instruments.
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I use this as an alternative, as I've always preferred XG to GS: http://veg.by/en/projects/syxg50/
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One of the reasons I did this is because I had a dual boot (well, actually I've got a quad boot: Win 10, Win 10 "test" [for testing updates etc], Win 7 64 bit, Win 7 32 bit), but it means all four boots can use the same ProgramData and I don't end up having multiple copies of samples. But it also means my backups are quicker, as I don't have to refresh my back up of the ProgramData drive as often.
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The issue is likely to do with your online / offline stretch algorithm settings. When you stretch audio, by default it uses a quick & dirty online render method. This is very fast, but doesn't sound good. To get it to sound good you need to "Bounce to clip(s)". The idea being, that you can make lots of tweaks very quickly to get an indication of your results, then use "Bounce to clip(s)" when you're finished. If this isn't what you want, you can change both methods to be the same (or just match what is set within Platinum):
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If you've ONLY got programs on your OS drive, then a 240 SSD should be fine... however, that's assuming any sample-based packages have their sample data on another drive. In this isn't case go with at least 1TB. Although a standard HDD might be tempting as it's much cheaper, any sample based synths (Komplete, Omnisphere etc) will be MUCH slower at loading. I've got a 250GB C drive with programs only, a 500GB SSD E drive with the "ProgramData" parts of (i.e. samples for) NI Komplete, Omnisphere, AIR Complete & Sonitus stuff, and another 500GB SSD F drive for my own samples & project files. D drive is my DVD-R. It's worth mentioning my 500GB Program Data drive is almost full. All that's on there is what I mentioned above, plus some 3rd party Kontakt libaries. Oh, and I've got Komplete Standard - there's no way Komplete Ultimate would fit on that drive. So my recommendation would be: OS/Programs drive: 250GB SSD Program Data/Samples : 1TB SSD Projects Drive: 500GB SSD ...and get a 4TB HDD drive for backups.
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He's just the one guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vangelis I say just the one guy, but he's more of a legend really...
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Use the 2nd headphone output, and route your monitor mix outputs accordingly to outputs 3 & 4 (i.e. tracks to output 3, vocals to output 4). It's probably worth creating two buses within SONAR for this purpose (one panned left, and one panned right), but both set to output to outputs 3&4. You can create sends on the relevant tracks/busses to set the levels. You may need to check within the MixControl app that the outputs 3&4 are routed to headphone 2. They are by default, but you may have changed them.
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In addition to Cakewalk/SONAR Platinum, I've got Studio One Pro 4.5, Mixbus/32C 4, MixCraft 8 Pro Studio, Samplitude 3, and Band in a Box 2019. I pretty much use Cakewalk for everything now. Any precision audio editing gets done in either SoundForge or Acoustica (depending on what PC I'm on). Band in a Box gets some use on occasion (maybe once a month), but the others hardly get used at all. Oh, and my Amiga 600 with Music-X 2.0 is still setup in my studio connected to a 5" CRT TV. Does 250 MIDI tracks + 4 tracks of 8 bit / 22Khz audio still count as a DAW ?
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Click on the Keyboard icon on the top right of the plugin to send keystrokes to the plugin rather than Cakewalk:
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Tab in dock where you can put lyrics or other notes
msmcleod replied to Jeremy Jensen's topic in Feedback Loop
I normally use the notes tab for this. Also, if you click on it to give it focus, the font gets bigger (so you can read it!): [Edit] As an alternative, you could use something like MNotepad (one of the free plugins from MeldaProductions) and dock it in the multidock: -
Korg NanoKey2 no longer working in Bandlab version
msmcleod replied to cmbrowns's topic in Cakewalk by BandLab
Have you got a control surface setup in Cakewalk? This has a nasty habit of stealing other MIDI devices if the ports have changed. -
Actually the midges are incredibly small (less than 1.5mm long), but they'll eat you alive in swarms. We get quite a few US Navy ships visiting, and you'll always get someone from Florida who's never been here before dismissing them... until they bite! If you're ever in the West coast of Scotland between May & September, or even as far South as Cumbria in England, here's a local secret (well maybe not so secret nowadays)... put on Avon skin-so-soft. They'll stay well clear of it. We used it for years until Avon cottoned on to it. I used to be able to by a box of 8 x 500ml for around £20. Nowadays they're selling it as bug spray in 150ml bottles for £5 each. It really does work though, and it won't melt your sunglasses like some other products.
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Ones I know of: Apple Logic Pro X 10.4 PreSonus Studio One 4.0 Cockos Reaper 5.97 Cakewalk by BandLab 2019.05 Cubase 10 is likely to support it mid June 2019 : https://www.steinberg.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=157077 Tracktion Waveform 10 ?
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Adding Highs That Aren't There - AD -SOLVED-
msmcleod replied to razor7music's topic in Cakewalk by BandLab
Enhancers/Exciters would be my first suggestion too. Alternatively, you could try sending the HH/Cymbals to an aux track, where you compress the cr*p out of it to bring what highs are there up, and maybe also put it through a high pass filter to tame the lower frequencies. If you then gently mix the aux track with your original, you should get some high end back. -
Bites from the adders here are unlikely to kill you, unless you have a bad allergic reaction. We get deer & foxes mainly - and they'd run a mile away from you if they saw you. Humidity is about 99% on a normal day
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Earlier this month we had a warning about adders around the Argyll & West Dumbartonshire area of Scotland. Obviously the cold doesn't bother them, although, to be honest, it's never really that cold here. They're protected though - so they can bite you, but you can't fight back
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Friends Remind Friends to Back Up! - My Cautionary Tale
msmcleod replied to Simeon Amburgey's topic in Cakewalk by BandLab
It's so ironic that this topic should come up now. I've had a week of hardware failures: Last Sunday, my external 2TB backup drive died along killing around 3 months of backups of my website databases, source code & emails. Wednesday, my old laptop (which I use for automated instrument sampling) had the tell-tale ticking noises on it's internal drive And this morning, I woke up to the CPU on my net-top (which I use as a Subversion server, remote email client via VNC and for firing off website backups), grinding loudly which promptly fried the CPU just before leaving for work. Feels like I've been trying to hit a moving target with fixes this week: Monday, I put an old 120GB SSD in an external drive caddy to act as my database backup drive. Yesterday evening and this evening I replaced my old laptop drive with an SSD (thankfully the old drive hadn't quite died yet). And I've just replaced the net-top with one I got off ebay a month ago as a spare, and managed to transfer my emails, SVN repo and set up the database backup. Thankfully, I've not lost anything important, but it was a close call. Time to backup my backups... just in case. Now I'm left worrying what's gonna break next? -
Song file not saving Screen layout ???
msmcleod replied to James Pearl's topic in Cakewalk by BandLab
Maybe that's the issue... maybe if Cakewalk doesn't dirty the project, it doesn't save the changes to the screen layout. If this is the case, muting/unmuting a track then saving should solve it. -
I've done it with 50 or so tracks without issue. It did take its time though on some projects. Out of all the methods of importing stuff, I've found the media browser to be by far the most reliable. Even projects from ancient versions of Sonar that would refuse to load normally could be successfully imported by dragging from the media browser.
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Song file not saving Screen layout ???
msmcleod replied to James Pearl's topic in Cakewalk by BandLab
I'm definitely not seeing this behaviour. I originally thought it might be down to the project reverting to a different screen set on reload, but this also works fine for me. Can you post a screenshot of your screen layout? Even better would be a quick video showing the behaviour (https://www.screentogif.com/ is good for this) -
Thanks for posting this link - I was unaware of this.
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