msmcleod

@Larry Novik - minidumps are located in %APPDATA%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\MiniDumps

One of my main criticisms of BiaB is that many of the styles are pretty boring, middle of the road, and in a lot of cases,"cheesy". I think this is true even more so for Bandora. To my ears it doesn't sound much different from the auto accompaniment you get with home keyboards. At least with BiaB the RealBand tracks go some way to mitigate this.

I'm kind of on the fence with this one. I generally agree with him, however RIck makes a few assumptions: The song is already written & arranged It's being performed by a full band The band can actually physically play together (i.e. they're not spread around the world) Assuming the above, then what he says makes sense. What he doesn't account for though, is unfinished songs, one-man bands or remote collaborations. Not all bands perform - some just record. Arranging unfinished songs is much more difficult if you're not quantised to a grid, and the results are usually less than satisfactory unless they are. Personally I find natural variations in dynamics are far more important for feel than variations in timing. I do agree with him being against quantising audio tracks after the fact. Playing to a click is fine by me, but editing the timing of a performance afterwards (unless it clearly way out), isn't desirable. I guess once you've finished a song, you could record your part again from start to finish by just playing each part along to the original, and not quantise anything. I've done this before with a band, and it works pretty well, but it's not quite the same as a band playing together. If studio space is an issue, a better approach would be to record the band to play the song in full together in a rehearsal studio (even if it's recorded on an iPhone), transfer that track to the studio, and then record each part separately against that. But for one-man-bands & remote collaborations, you're limited in your options, and click tracks/quantising is your friend in these scenarios.

I got a years' subscription on Zinio for Computer Music, and noticed they do Sound on Sound as well ... so I went for it. I wish I hadn't now though, as for a few extra quid I could have got a real SoS subscription which would have given me access to the back issues too Just goes to show: you really do get what you pay for.

I've made an update to the C4Mapper: Loading of GenericPluginParams.xml is slightly quicker A progress bar is shown when loading GenericPluginParams.xml and processing the plugins, so it doesn't look like it's hung when starting up Same download URL: http://msmcleod.co.uk/cakewalk/C4Mapper.zip

There's obviously something wrong there. Maybe it's stuck somewhere.... have you tried pressing ALT+TAB a few times to see if there's a dialog box that's waiting for a response? It may be that its being obscured by something else. [Edit] - If there's no dialog box anywhere, kill the install process and try running BandLab Assistant as Administrator. There's a possibility it could be a permissions issue.

Here's a link to a zip of all the .ins files from the old Cakewalk ftp site: http://msmcleod.co.uk/cakewalk/InstrumentDefinitions.zip ... and here's a post from the old forum with some more links: http://forum.cakewalk.com/Instrument-Definition-Files-Cakewalk-Sonar-INS-Files-m3716596.aspx

I takes about 20 to 30 seconds to install. The Studio Instruments Suite from the add-ons menu takes a little longer (maybe a couple of minutes):

If it were me, I'd look at using 2 x Behringer RX1602 mixers, and daisy chain them. In saying that, for live use, extending your passive mixer to 12 channels should be fine. Lowering the resistors to 2.2K might work better for more channels. You could modify an old patchbay for the housing, or just use a 1U panel pre-holed for 1/4" sockets at the back. Alternatively, get an ABS rack case similar to this and drill the holes yourself. It's much easier to drill plastic, and it will weigh much less too. https://www.newark.com/pro-power/g17081ug/case-19-abs-1u-grey/dp/74M2232

What's your clock set to in preferences? If it's set to Internal, set it to Audio: Also check your Playback Timer Master is set correctly:

I used to do that, but 3 days of re-installing, finding licenses etc, versus 3 hours of a relatively unattended restore of everything (i.e. I only need to be there to switch disks)... backup images became a no-brainer for me. A full restore takes 1hr 40 mins for my WIN10OS/DATA drive, 30 mins for my WIN7 drive and 30 mins for my project drive. Plus, it gives me the confidence to mess about with my configuration and try new things. Only backing up the Win10 partition takes 30 mins. I can change hardware, install new software (or Windows updates), do what I want... and if I don't like it, I can go back to what I had in 30 mins. This was invaluable when I was getting my mLAN system up and running on Windows 10. I had to restore the OS a number of times to get the install right. Now I've an easy way of switching between my Scarlett setup & my mLAN setup, and it takes less than 2 mins to switch... click a batch file, reboot, copy my AUD.INI & TTSSEQ.INI over.... done.

FWIW the only SSD I've had fail on me within the warranty period was a SanDisk SSD Plus (it lasted around 14 months). It was my samples drive as well, which for the most part was read only. To give SanDisk their due however, they did replace it without fuss with an Ultra II which has been going strong ever since. Almost all my other SSD's are Crucial MX300's or MX500's which have been rock solid.

I agree, although I normally use audio editors for editing the waveform itself, either cut/pasting or removing clicks or pops. If I want to apply an effect, normally I'd just do that in Cakewalk.

I think you're right, but then again so was SoundForge until version 12. I'm still using SoundForge 11 Pro with no issues, but I do find Acoustica much easier to use, and faster for basic edits.

I forgot to mention, yesterday I was using Melodyne again and the problem has re-appeared... although in a slightly different way. Now it doesn't crash when dragging audio to MIDI, but any subsequent creation of RegionFX will not have any algorithm selected. Re-selecting the algorithm fixes it for that edit, but it forgets it again for the next edit within the same session. This I can live with as at least it doesn't crash. Hopefully @Noel Borthwick has got to the bottom of it.

Yes, that's the best way to do it.

I'm sure some of you are aware of this, but for those who don't, PluginBoutique are offering Acon's Acoustica 6 Basic Edition for free: https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/3-Studio-Tools/48-Audio-Editor/1956-Acoustica-6-Basic-Edition Using scook's excellent ToolEditor (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eiVH_I1clbbRtWFh4-3Mo7HANjCxR8SwqHJtYXy19gw/pub ), you can add this to your tools editor to edit audio within CbB: The settings for the ToolEditor are as follows:

I struggled to find it too - it ended up in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Steinberg\VST3, so I just added this to my VST search path, re-scanned and it found it. I only tried the GFX in stand-alone mode, and it seemed pretty good - as you say, good not great. My only gripe was that the noise-gate is saved along with the patch, rather than a global setting. I've not tried it in an FX bin yet... [EDIT] - Just tried the VST3 in an FX bin, and it worked fine for me.

Have you changed your audio driver settings recently, or updated any drivers? I've found that after any driver changes, or even just changing from ASIO to WDM to ASIO again, can occasionally mess up AUD.INI, and can cause the problems you describe. While you're not running CbB, try deleting AUD.INI from %APPDATA%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\ - CbB will create a new one the next time it starts.

FWIW I use screensets to give me this sort of functionality. So for example, screenset 2 only has the Console View in the multidock, whereas screenset 3 has PRV and Event List. I think this is actually quicker than having to manually arrange the tabs to what you want, as you just press 2 for screenset 2, 3 for screenset 3 etc.

FWIW, I've noticed that Groove Music plays things louder than other players (e.g. VLC). It's almost as if it's got some sort of automatic volume control built in to try to make every track the same volume. This post seems to support this theory: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/musicandvideo/forum/all/groove-music-very-heavy-sound-distortion-and/665bdf56-5438-4cf2-aae7-fb7afd671c6b

I've got it's baby brother, the i3570 which I'm more than happy with. I've never had it max out yet in a real project.

6GB RAM? Did Dell supply sell it to you with 6GB RAM, or did you upgrade it? If you've got more than one memory module installed, they usually have to be exactly matched (e.g. 2 x 4GB, or 2 x 8GB). If not you can run into what seem like random crashes when the CPU accesses RAM across the two modules. Even if the specs match but are different makes/models, you could have issues. You might not notice any issue with normal usage until it starts using up more RAM, forcing it to cross over the second memory module. I'm not saying this is your issue (although it could be), but its something to be aware of - especially if you're considering upgrading your RAM.

Try Insert Series of Tempos from the main menu. It's on page 429 of the pdf reference guide.