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  1. Colin Nicholls
    I can appreciate the work that went into that, over and above your starting point. Nice. Clear. Love the contrast of the MIX controls. The "baby blue" highlight works well against the mid-grey. I see you're going for the balance of "not too light, not too dark", a brave goal. (It does make me wish for "contrast/bright" sliders as featured in Studio One, I always thought that was a nice way of allowing a user preference without introducing UI anarchy.) I recommend re-visiting the color of the volume sliders for Tracks. The "Grey on Grey" isn't working, IMO. Maybe White or Light Grey for tracks? Great work.
  2. Colin Nicholls
    This is awesome but I found you only need to set the two inner nodes, then select a region on either side of the two nodes, and then Ctrl-Drag down. Thanks.
  3. Colin Nicholls
    19-tone equal temperament is definitely a thing. It's a way of experimenting with minor third intervals that are closer to perfect Pythagorean harmonic intervals than you get with 12-TET. Other intervals are further "out" than 12-TET but it's all good stuff.
  4. Colin Nicholls
    @Jim Fogle, at first glance it appears you are using a quote from a post on my own blog to support your position, which is flattering. Just to be clear, IN THIS THREAD I never said MIDI note 60 = C4. What I said was, MIDI note 60 will (or should) produce a tone of ~262 Hz which is considered to be "Middle C". The convention of whether "Middle C" is C3, C4, or C5 is a whole other discussion ?
  5. Colin Nicholls
    Come next Black Friday sale, it probably will be $99 to upgrade to VC 8.
  6. Colin Nicholls
    It's more likely that the PDF is missing the information, rather than the other way around. I guess an Appendix "What can't be themed (as far as we know)" would be a good addition...
  7. Colin Nicholls
    Page 101 in the Young Ladies Illustrated Guide demonstrates a "PURPLETRATOR" theme where every color has been replaced with a hideous purple. It's a handy way to quickly find out if a region is able to be changed via theming. I've found it quite handy in situations like the one you're describing.
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    It's never too late to learn. As I said, personally I use Studio One for DDP export. But, int the spirit of helping folks out on the forums, after I posted the link a couple days ago, I downloaded the utility from the link in my post, and read the manual and ran the --version to see if it matched expected output, verified it apparently ran fine on Windows 10 64-bit. Then I started researching the CD Cue Sheet format. And then I said, "maybe I'll explore this further and write a blog post about it, when I have more time". I see no reason why it wouldn't work, for someone who didn't have a DAW with DDP export and didn't want to spend money and was willing to put in a little effort.
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    @John Vere, I'm glad you found a solution. I'm not sure where you got $CA 700 from. The command line tools are downloadable and free. But obviously you don't need them and that's cool - I wouldn't look forward to creating a CD Cue Sheet by hand either ?
  10. Colin Nicholls
    Please see the link in my first reply to the OP: http://ddp.andreasruge.de/
  11. Colin Nicholls
    I assume you've investigated Track Folders (Tip: They aren't busses)
  12. Colin Nicholls
    DDP. (Disc Description Protocol). Studio One has an export option for this from its Project page, which is what I use. I know that doesn't necessarily help you, but perhaps this will.
  13. Colin Nicholls
    Dumb question... you're not feeding your imported reference track through your own mastering chain are you?
  14. Colin Nicholls
    Hi @John Paul Anthony Dela Cruz, According to my PURPLETRATOR theme, that feature can't be re-coloured: You can, however, turn the separators off, which is how I usually roll:
  15. Colin Nicholls
    Whats the resolution of the new monitor? Can you try temporarily switching to a more common resolution (i.e. not monitor-native) to see if Cakewalk starts working again?
  16. Colin Nicholls
    I know it's incomplete, but feel free to suggest additions: http://prodigalsounds.com/sonar/themes/Young Lady's Illustrated Primer to Creating Cakewalk Themes.pdf
  17. Colin Nicholls
    Go for it! Pretty much everything except for some colors can be changed, provided you retain the dimensions of each graphic element.
  18. Colin Nicholls
    You're missing the fact that the key signature doesn't affect what notes of the scale you are allowed or encouraged to play. It won't disable notes that aren't in the key signature; it won't change existing notes to be on the scale of the key signature; etc. As @User 905133 says, it just shows up in the Staff View. If you want to see a specific PRV behavior based on Key Signature at a given time in the time line, I recommend you submit a feature request in the Feedback Loop .
  19. Colin Nicholls
    I think you are not understanding. What do you think should happen? Can you write out steps of what you are doing, and what you expect to see?
  20. 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
  21. Colin Nicholls
    @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.
  22. Colin Nicholls
    @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?
  23. Colin Nicholls
    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.
  24. Colin Nicholls
    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...
  25. Colin Nicholls
    You've basically described how the FX Bin works today.
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