Colin Nicholls

Changing the key signature at any point in the timeline is not going to change any notes you have already recorded, MIDI or Audio. Read here

@John Paul Anthony Dela Cruz, hold down CTRL while making the assignment on one of the selected tracks... the others will follow. Works in both Console View and Track view.

@DocBob, I do it like this: Open the PRV with sketch + target tracks Place the NOW time at the start of the note(s) you want to move; Use right-click-drag to select select (hold down Ctrl for non-contiguous selections); Ctrl-X to cut the notes to clipboard; select target track in the track pane (on the right) ; Ctrl-V to paste the notes at the position of the Now time. As shown here, where I distribute notes from the sketch into three target instrument tracks: Caveats: You need to position the NOW time at the beginning of the first selected note, in order to ensure the notes are pasted at the correct location in the target track; You need to colour the target tracks appropriately (unfortunately I've used three shades of green, but they are different tracks!) (*) Hold down CTRL to select non-contiguous sets of notes, as shown in the first move of notes to WATERPHONE. I don't see how this could get easier. I mean, yes, OK you have to be careful and methodical but it is essentially doing what you're asking for, right?

You can: duplicate the "sketch" track as many times as you need; assign to instruments; then solo and delete the notes from each track you don't want set the "sketch" track to a non-competing sound (e.g. piano when writing a string quartet) and then create a new track for each solo instrument, and re-perform the part for that instrument, playing along to the "sketch". I don't believe there is any other practical way to do this. MIDI filters on note ranges isn't going to cut it, for me.

I don't think the Arranger was designed to be your primary playback control. Try setting loop points, or set markers for "useful playback start points". That's how we did it before the Arranger came along... and it's a "nice to have" that you can use the Arranger to play a distinct section from start to finish without creating any new loop/marker thingies...

You've basically described how the FX Bin works today.

Try this thread:

@jimlynch22, oh, I get it. Duh. I'll be honest and say, *blush*, I have never really paid attention to the Key part of the Meter/Key view. It's like, it's invisible to me or something. Yeah, great idea. Having it visible in the Control Bar Module, along with the time sig, probably would have drawn my attention to it. Seem like a simple enhancement. I'll upvote it.

I was meh on the whole chord track idea, but the thing that really tickled my fancy in the Cubase video posted earlier was the placement of chords; picking a chord; using the built-in circle-of-fifths to workshop progressions.... I could have a blast with that. I probably would never use the chord track as a real-time playback component of a project. But as a compositional tool, re-harmonizing an existing melody; refining my boring chord progressions... Having it built-in and sending MIDI notes to an instance of Pianoteq or my string sampler du jour.... yummy. I feel like this should be implementable as a VST plugin but I suspect there is something about the inputs and outputs that would require some plumbing refactoring under the hood. Actually displaying the chords in a track above the project (c.f. the Arranger track) I honestly don't see the point, although I respect other user's needs here.

Ouch. What option do you have under the Track View menu, Options > Select Events with Sections ? I do not have this option selected.

Couldn't this requirement be satisfied by an additional arranger track? E.G: I get that ideally you'd like some intelligent tools in Cakewalk attached to it, that could use the current key sig to, I dunno, offer modulations or transpositions or whatever...

How would you like Cakewalk to determine the current key?

@Steve Harder, just to be super-pedantic, the file format is JSON, not XML.

@micv, there's a way of locking a screenset so that you don't accidentally change your previously saved layout, which is easy to do otherwise.

Here's what I did to achieve the workflow I understand you to be asking for. I start off in ScreenSet 1. Open the Console View Dock the Console View in the multidock (if it isn't already there) Press D to hide/minimize the multidock. Now select ScreenSet 2 At this point, your screen arrangement will be saved in ScreenSet 1. Press D to show the Multidock Grab the splitter bar and drag it all the way up to the top of the screen. In my environment, this does NOT cover the Control Bar. Now select ScreenSet 1 At this point, your arrangement return to what you previously saved, and the "full-screen console" should be saved in ScreenSet 2. Flip between the two arrangements by selecting ScreenSets 1 and 2 (without making changes to the arrangement) Again, I don't use Screen Sets routinely so I could be missing something, but this should let you play around and see if it works for you.

Screensets is probably the feature you want to leverage for this use case. To be clear, I mean, you can pull the separator bar of the multidock all the way up, covering the track view entirely, and save as a screenset 2. Then flip back between screenset 1 and 2, using the number keys to change sets. Caveat: I don't use screensets myself. But I recommend reading the section of the manual linked to above, then trying out some experiments, and then report back here with your findings.

I suspect you're seeing the benefits of the optimizations included in 2020.11

Arghh, my bad for not reading your post thoroughly. Sorry for the duff answer. I'll let it stand so that future generations can assess my work. Yeah, I don't know of any way to map Console view changes to a keystroke.

It's definitely map-able to a key-press in the Preferences>Keyboard Bindings, and until now I could have sworn it was mapped to "M" but I think I was imagining things. It's SHIFT-B, as per The Manual

@Jimbo 88, have you actually encountered a problem with importing and miss-aligned articulation keys?

Articulation maps should be using MIDI note numbers. Note 60 will always be "middle C" at 262Hz. Cakewalk seems to respect the "Base Octave for pitches" preference setting in the Articulation Map editor. I typically use a Base Octave set to -2, and it looks good to me: If I set Base Octave = 0, then the Editor respects this and shows "C3 [36]" against the Note/CC instead of "C1". I haven't imported any articulation maps from third parties so I can't see whether other products only refer to Note Names and don't assign artics to Note Numbers. But if they are designed correctly they totally should be using MIDI note numbers, not note names. (LATER: I was curious and checked the JSON .artmap format used by Cakewalk, and, yes, parameter B2 is definitely storing the MIDI Note Number. Of course.)

It's "capo". You had it right the first time.

Dude, if you've watched all of the video and you still have this question, then there are other issues you need to resolve.

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