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Unfortunately it's not easy to solve. but it is high on our to-do list.

Anything that lives in the multidock can be undocked and moved to another monitor.

ooh... this sounds like a 3rd party plugin that isn't authorized. This can happen occasionally with some plugins after a Windows update. You'll need to bypass all the plugins in the offending project and enable them one by one to find out which one is the culprit.

I use a couple of these with Cakewalk occasionally....

This is almost certainly nothing to do with Cakewalk, but more likely to do with a mismatch in sample rate between Cakewalk and Windows. If you've got Cakewalk is using the same audio interface as Windows is, make sure you change your sample rate and bit depth in Windows to match what is set in your Cakewalk project. If this doesn't fix it, I recommend re-installing your audio drivers.

If you've got the space, don't discount a mixing desk with direct outs. I'm using an Allen & Heath MixWizard WZ3 for 16 inputs, which has a HPF @ 80Hz, hi/low shelving and two semi-parametric mids on each channel. The WZ4 is the updated version which retails around $1800 new, but you should be able to pick up a used WZ3 for around $500. The pre's / EQ are incredibly clean on this board, don't go for this if you want a "character" eq. For another 8 inputs, I've got an old Alice 828 with Hi/Low shelving and a parametric mid, although I mainly use this for the saturation given by the Belclere transformers. The new Mk3 will set you back around $2500 (the Mk3 has Carnhill transformers as they own Belclere now, and only 3 mono channels with EQ - the rest are stereo), but if you can find an old Mk1 or Mk2 with the full 8 channels, they go for around $1000 used. Another 6 inputs use the TFPro P3 (basically a rebadged JoeMeek MQ3), which give me an optical compressor, and 3 band EQ on each channel. These go used for around $150 - $200.

There are two ways of dealing with SysEx data, either in Banks or as inline events. In Preferences->MIDI->Playback and Recording, there's a "Always Use Sysx Bands for MIDI Files (Instead of Sysx Data)" setting, which I believe is checked by default. If this is checked, then any Sysex data will be moved to banks - if it's unchecked, it'll stay inline in the sequence. Banks can be easier to deal with in most cases. The only time I ever use inline events is when sending firmware updates to hardware over MIDI.

As an alternative, you could get another device that sends out sustain messages: https://www.thomann.de/gb/midi_solutions_footswitch_to_midi_controller.htm The advantage of this device is that it merges the MIDI output of your piano with the pedal CC64 messages, so they come out of a single MIDI output. It's pricey though. However, a much cheaper solution (which I used myself for a while) is to get a Miditech i2-mini 32 (£36), and plug any generic sustain pedal into it. You can get sustain pedals for around £10 - £20. Stagg do one for £10 : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stagg-21203-Keyboard-Piano-Sustain/dp/B00EZPBA0U/ref=sr_1_2

Cakewalk's clip stretching algorithm preserves the pitch, so it's unsuitable for this task... however, if you've got an older version of SONAR installed, you may have the "Time/Pitch Stretch 2" DX plugin, which should do the job. e.g. these settings will play it back at half speed and pitch: However, any audio editor should be able to do this, e.g. SoundForge, Acon Digital Acoustica, Audacity etc. Audacity is free: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/ You can get a free version of Acoustica Basic Edition 6 here: https://acondigital.com/software/AcousticaBasic6_0_19us.exe Drag the clip from Cakewalk to your desktop (or any folder), then open the file in the audio editor, do your processing, and import it back into Cakewalk. There are ways to integrate the tools into Cakewalk's Utility menu so you can run it directly from Cakewalk, but this is a bit more advanced, so probably best to keep it simple for the moment.

Although it may seem that the hierarchy is Tracks->Lanes->Clips, this isn't actually the case under the hood: Clips are directly owned by the tracks. The lane that a clip appears in is purely a UI concept, with the only exception being lane solo/mute, where some special processing is done to exclude those clips from the audio graph. Adding an effects bin to a lane would not be an easy task, and as others have said, it's something that can be easily accomplished by separate tracks.

I've managed to reproduce the issue when the clip is close to zero, and you move 10ms right then attempt to move 10ms left. It's now fixed for the next release. The issue was that because the clip is in musical time, but the nudge is in absolute time, it has to temporarily convert the clip start time to seconds to check it can move to the left. However, the start time is coming back as a clip start of 0.0099999999 seconds rather than 0.010 seconds. As it thinks this would result in moving to a time less than zero, it abandons the operation.

1. What are your "Nudge 1" settings in preferences? 2. What is your audio clip's time base? If you open the clip inspector, and look at the start time, it should move by the same, but opposite amount when using 1 & 3 on the keypad. As long as it's doing this, there's nothing wrong with nudge. Also, bear in mind that if you've got "Nudge 1" set to follow snap settings, then landmarks could also come into play. This might explain why they're different.

It's a recent one - I got the email about 5 hours ago.

@Andres Medina - thanks for the report. It's been fixed for the next release.

Check your timing master settings are set correctly: And check your clock source for MIDI: The clock source for MIDI should always be audio, unless you've only got MIDI tracks and all of them are routed to hardware MIDI devices.

It Bites - Kiss Like Judas:

The screenshot you've posted is a mono clip.

When I was playing guitar/singing with backing tracks, I prepared all of my backing tracks in Cakewalk (well, SONAR at the time), but live I used a MiniDisc player with a portable CD player as a backup. I've been burned too many times in the past with computers on stage, so I avoided them when possible. I tried to keep my live rig as simple as possible, as less gear = less things to go wrong. I also had a backup for everything: spare guitar, mic, guitar fx, vocal fx... even a spare PA Mixer Amp. The only things that never failed me the PA (which I built myself), and the MiniDisc player. Every one of the other bits of gear failed on me at least once, and was glad I had a backup at hand.

It took me a couple of years to save up enough to get Omnisphere... something else always seemed more important... but I don't regret it. It's one of the few software synths that to my ears sounds as good as, or actually better then a hardware rompler/sample-based synth. The only others that come into that category for me are the Korg collection, which are just exact clones of the hardware, and SynthMaster.

The {trackname} tag will use the section name when exporting arranger sections ( or the arrangement name when exporting arrangements )

I was told the issue was that users were accidentally holding down CTRL and inadvertently changing everything when they didn't mean to, which is why it was changed to not quick group unless there was a selection. In any case, if you really do want to change everything, just press CTRL + A before you do your adjustment.

The switches have nothing to do with how suitable it is with the DAW, it's about what combinations are most suitable to the thing you're recording. 99% of the time you want the directivity switch set to Cardioid. The hi-pass (sometimes called low cut ), rolls off lower frequencies. Unless you're recording a kick drum or a bass guitar amp, you may want to switch this on to help get rid of low-end rumble. The only thing is, it's fixed at a particular frequency, so you may find that it sounds better with this switched off, and opt to use EQ inside the DAW to deal with any unwanted low frequencies. Just use your ears on this one. Unless you're recording REALLY loud instruments, I'd advise keeping the -10dB attenuator switched off.

You can change banks in articulations. You need to use: For "normal" bank changes (i.e. MSB/LSB) - use Kind = CC 14b , Note/CC = 0, Vel/CC = your bank For Controller 32, use Kind = CC, Note/CC = 32, Vel/CC = your bank For Controller 0, use Kind = CC, Note/CC = 0, Vel/CC = your bank For "Patch 100", use Kind = Patch, Note/CC = your bank Then add your Patch event immediately afterwards.

Thanks for the report - it's fixed for the next release.

It's most likely the filename you've chosen isn't resulting in a unique filename for each track, so each exported track is overwriting the previous one, leaving only one at the end. Make sure your filename has something that makes it identifiable such as {trackname} or {tracknumber} so that it'll be different for each track. I normally use this filename for track exports: {projectname}-{tracknumber}-{trackname}