Colin Nicholls

I know, right? This morning I actually deliberately closed the "browser" but left the Synth Rack docked to see if the collapsed tab would show up under that condition, but no - there's just the collapsed bar with "SYNTH RACK" instead of "SYNTH RACK | BROWSER" so I guess it really doesn't need a tab button of its own.

Not quite. YLIP started out as a basic dump of every theme-able element as listed in the Theme Editor. If the entry in YLIP isn't bold text then that means either that I haven't bothered to track it down and document it (because it's obvious), or I haven't found it YET. At the point of determining with 99% confidence that the element is no longer used, I mark it "No Longer Used" or "Obsolete". Thanks for reminding me about this one - the Synth Rack tabs are not used as far as I can tell, and I believe @sjoens is correct about this. I'll mark them as such in the next YLIP update.

I bet that track is marked Automation: Time Base: Absolute instead of Automation: Time Base: Musical.

I don't think that is velocity but it is probably controller data. The Event View will tell you for sure. Try changing the Track Edit filter from "Clips" to "Notes", just for fun

If they sound great in Cakewalk, then it isn't your Audio interface. Changing audio interfaces is not the answer. There must be something not right in the export process. (Chosing the wrong bus, exporting from a submix, exporting as 128 bit mp3, etc. Can you tell us a little more about what you're doing?

You could try using one of the wonderful "light" themes created by forumites in the Themes forum. Or just change these colors, under Edit > Preferences > Customization > Colors:

Well, um, you can: Rate the topic using stars Reply with "Me too!!!!" "Like" the post with a "Good Idea" emoji all of the above

Um... define "Waltz feel". The metronome should provide a "BAP bip bip BAP bip bip" without any difficulty.

I just realized that I really don't cover how to set up clip foreground/background colors in any great detail in the YLIP. I guess I just assumed it was obvious. Yes, these colors are controlled by the current theme, and may be over-ridden by color prefs, or customized on a track-by-track or clip-by-clip basis.

Glad to help!

Andrew Byrne created this theme. Updated for 2021.04 (compatibility only) Soft tones highlighted buttons.sth

@Jack Hawk, try this

@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.

@Noel Borthwick, Pros: The text is definitely crisper Con 1: The text is rendered smaller than when the config setting is 0. It maybe just goes under the threshold of comfort, for me personally. At my normal scaling of 125% I find I prefer to turn off this feature. Con 2: There is some kerning issues with bold text. Probably nothing you have control over, font scaling is tricky. See below, specifically "gr" "it", "at" etc.

@Herbert Zio, huh, you're right. If you pull the Bus Pane separator all the way up so that it fills the space (hiding the Track Pane) and then press the Show/Hide Bus Pane button, the separator line is not re-drawn. The reason I called it a bug fix is because I don't recall the separator line being shown at all in earlier versions of SONAR/Cakewalk. Thanks for taking the time to prepare the visual.