Colin Nicholls

@Jack Hawk, post your theme here and I'll fix it for you if you like

I've written up my knowledge of how Drum Maps work, and adding the link here for future readers:

Not hijacking the thread, just adding a link in case it is useful to future readers:

Here's everything I know about using Drum Maps in Cakewalk. Blog Post: Drum Maps in Cakewalk Feel free to let me know about errors, or other posts I should link to, or indeed anything. EDIT: I've already added some additional notes, and fixed some errors.

Please feel free to add your vote to this feature request:

Feel free to add your vote to this enhancement request

I have it installed on my laptop as well as my DAW. Even when it was a paid product, Cakewalk were quite permissive about users being able to install it on multiple machines.

That's the "Go To Start (RTZ)" button and as far as I can recall, it has meant "set the now pointer to the beginning of the project". See the Transport Module Documentation

During playback or record, if you press the "M" key, a marker is created but you don't get to enter a caption - instead, they are auto-labelled A1, A2, A3 etc. Could you have used a typing keyboard with a glitchy M key?

Can you zoom in and post a detail screen shot of the ruler? I think they are markers of some kind.

If you're running a 64-bit version of Windows, there is no reason not to install Cakewalk By Bandlab and give it a try! I currently have SONAR 8.5, X2, and Platinum installed on my DAW alongside Cakewalk 2021.04. Bonus - you'll get to keep all those nice third-party goodies if you keep SONAR 8.5 installed - Cakewalk By Bandlab will see them and make them available to you.

Snap Offset or Disabled AudioSnap markers?

I'm experimenting with this look for Mil-Spec Alpha R3: As for color customizing, you can tell from the latest new features that the Bakers are doing their best to deliver functionality without impacting theme designers or requiring supplemental work on supporting theming, and I can't say that I blame them. It's a fine line and I applaud it, so far.

Some custom themes provide this, or you can roll your own

You need to rip the audio from the CD to a file. An Audio CD does not have a file system you can drag and drop from without software assistance. EDIT: Well, today I learned something. See below.

Is there a way to do this already? I haven't found it. If I select multiple WAV files to import into an audio track, Cakewalk creates a new track for each file and aligns them starting at 0:00. It would be nice if we had the option to: Import the files sequentially into one track Cakewalk created Arranger Sections for each file, with the file name

Updated 2021.04.28 I've incorporated documentation on Color Preference values that are not included in the Theme Editor, but may still be useful to folks who want extra "fit and finish" in their theming. Bus Pane Clips & Clips Pane Piano Roll View Staff View Event List

I feel bad that my document didn't describe this behavior more clearly. I'll rectify this in the next update.

The Theme Editor hasn't changed. It is still 1.2.0.14. And I can still edit the Browser/Plug-in Browser/PlugIn Types/* images, and save them in themes, it's just that they are not used by the Cakewalk application, not since a long time back - before I was creating themes. In my document, I've marked them "Not yet identified" since the beginning. The only way I know of changing plug-in icons is to alter the Plug-in Browser / Plug-in Tree Icons strip. As for the theme compatibility warning, that's not a bug, it's a new feature. Old themes have always worked (for the most part) in new releases, and this is still true.

See Plug-in Browser, I don't believe the behavior has changed (outside of the changes to the insert menus in 2021.04)

The work-in-progress continues to, um progress. Updated 2021.04.27 Refactored the introductory chapter to include a section on Preferences > Color Customization and how they interact with customized Theme elements. This is preparatory work so that we can start including references to un-themeable UI elements that are customized only through color preferences.

Personally, I use this link: Cakewalk By BandLab Reference Guide (PDF) and use Ctrl-F to search for stuff.

Keep fighting the good fight, @jonathan boose

Updated 2021.04.25 Minor changes relating to obsolete theme items; console EQ plot backgrounds; and Tempo View.