msmcleod

BitBridge wrapped plugins have a blue/white title bar: JBridge wrapped plugins have a normal title bar, but have an extra bar at the bottom with a "Settings" button.

I tried a few kits out a good few years back, although I never actually got around to buying one (I'm still using a DIY kit based on a Remo practice kit & Alesis DM5). The Roland kits definitely stood out as the best, at least from a controller point of view - i.e. pad responsiveness (especially the mesh kits) and also the fact the hi-hat was completely variable between open and closed. Sound-wise I actually preferred the Alesis, but the hi-hat is an on/off type with nothing in between. In practice this didn't cause me too many issues, but it did limit my playing. Personally, I think the TD-17KVX is a good choice... and I think you're right about the machine gun effect being more to do with Roland's internal sounds.

I was thinking the same myself. Another thing that crossed my mind was exporting the stems and importing them into ProTools First (which is free, but limited to 16 tracks). At least that way you're actually sending a ProTools session to your colleague. But if quality is maintained in BandLab, then that might be a good choice... as long as the 6 minute limit isn't an issue.

JBridge is well worth the small investment. It offers far more options/tweaks to get around potential compatibility issues with various 32 bit plugins. Note that there's no need to use the JBridger program to create wrappers for each plugin. If you fire up Cakewalk Plugin Manager and select plugin properties on your 32 bit plugin, you can just check the "Load with JBridge wrapper" option and it takes care of it for you.

This is a known issue with Addictive Drums. Every time you do a major Windows update, you have to un-authorise and re-authorise your computer using the XLN installer.

You could try MFreqShifter from Melda Productions, automating the Shift parameter. Its free as well.

Just tried it myself. I get the same clicks & pops using the BitBridge wrapper. It works fine with JBridge.

I do the following: Select Views->Tempo from the menu to display the tempo map on the multi-dock. Double click on the tempo list entry on the right hand side to bring up the tempo dialog Click the "Click here to tap tempo" button

I've had this before on my laptop. It was down to me having Input Echo enabled on a track whose audio input was set to my laptop's internal microphone. Other times I've seen this, is when the laptop's input device is set to "Stereo Mix" and the track has input echo enabled.

You need the full version of Kontakt I'm afraid. Kontakt player only plays sounds that have been specially licensed by Native Instruments (which costs money). That's why Kontakt player compatible sounds cost so much. SF2 is a standard SoundFont, so any soundfont player should play that. SFZ will work with Rapture, Dimension Pro, sfz+ to name a few.

I've had the flu for 2 weeks, so I've been limited to playing my Yamaha digital piano when I felt up to it. I got really frustrated that anything I recorded sounded radically different both sound-wise & expression-wise when using any of my usual piano sounds (MiniGrand, AddictiveKeys etc), so I took the plunge and sampled my piano. So here it is, all 88 note's sampled at 7 velocity levels: Kontakt: http://msmcleod.co.uk/sounds/GPiano.nki SFZ: http://msmcleod.co.uk/sounds/GPianoSFZ.zip SF2: http://msmcleod.co.uk/sounds/GPianoSF2.zip The SFZ/SF2 will need a release time of around 0.5 secs. Personally, I find this piano sound radically different from all the others. Hopefully some of you can find a use for it too.

The MackieControl surface is shipped with CbB, even though it was written by a 3rd party on their behalf. Both Azslow3 and myself have made enhancements to this, but the original MackieControl should work fine for basic operations. I'd try re-installing Cakewalk to see if this fixes it.

I use a Shure SM58 for my vocals too (just the standard one, not the beta). I've never got along with condensers for my voice. I suspect a Shure SM7B would be better, but I'll need to find somewhere to try one out first.

The 2i4 doesn't use MixControl - only 6i6 and above do.

It's worth noting that the 2nd gen drivers will only work with the Solo, 2i2 & 2i4. So they won't work with the 6i6, 18i8 or 18i20.

I've been caught out a few times with the control surface plugin "stealing" my MIDI ports. This is especially true when my actual control surface isn't plugged in, so CbB chooses some other ports for it instead. As a general rule, I make sure all my MIDI interfaces / control surfaces are switched on before I switch on my PC. This ensures that they are all picked up in the same order every time, and there's no weird re-ordering going on. If you do get strange MIDI behaviour, checking which ports are selected within your Control Surface setup is always a good start.

Have you set up the Icon pad as a control surface within Cakewalk? e.g.:

Ah got it - CTRL + UP ARROW / CTRL + DOWN ARROW.

What are the default shortcuts? When I go to Keyboard Shortcuts in preferences, they're both unassigned.

Here's a free tutorial on MixControl:

I don't think there is, and what's more binding keys to "Zoom In All Tracks - Vertical" and "Zoom Out All Tracks - Vertical" doesn't seem to work. There is the vertical zoom tool though (left click between the two magnifying glasses and hold, whilst moving the mouse up & down):

To be honest, I find it a bit confusing myself. It's the same mix app for both my 6i6 and my 18i20. What I found helped enormously was a tutorial on it on groove3. It explained it all very well: https://www.groove3.com/tutorials/Focusrite-MixControl-Explained FWIW, there are far worse routing apps out there. The one for my mLAN setup ( Yamaha 01X / i88x ) is an absolute nightmare. All the sources/destinations are (to my mind anyhow) the wrong way around, and the connection points are ridiculously small.

I felt the same when this was first posted. I hope BandLab consider resurrecting this as this is exactly the sort of thing users would be happy to pay extra for.

Thanks for clarifying this. I've got this option set, but still get the issue.

This issue isn't a new thing, it's cropped up several times over the years: http://forum.cakewalk.com/X1-Bug-Stop-andor-Pause-cause-continuous-audio-quotbuzzquot-m2197350.aspx http://forum.cakewalk.com/Strange-loud-buzz-m3537847.aspx http://forum.cakewalk.com/Audio-quotbuzz-sawquot-effect-m974755.aspx http://forum.cakewalk.com/buzzing-noise-m3668256.aspx http://forum.cakewalk.com/AAARRGH-Is-nothing-ever-easy-Loud-buzzing-in-Sonar-m1621675.aspx There are more reports, but they all say more or less the same thing. I believe there was a workaround for some people, which was to set the "Play Effects Tails After Stopping" option. However, this option no longer exists in CbB. For me it's a minor irritation, but it would be good to know what's causing it / how to fix it.