Colin Nicholls

I guess this question is for @Craig Anderton - do we have any Techniques articles about Cakewalk to look forward to, or is it a done deal now that it's a free product? If so it's a shame because it seems to be that CbB is actually gaining new users, based on questions I see appearing on Reddit and Youtube comments....

Do you have a USB audio interface? Are the mouse and audio I/O sharing a USB Hub? I may be way off-base but I used USB Tree View to map the ports on my DAW so I could be sure that my Focusrite USB interface was optimally connected and there were no possible conflicts. That said, I have no idea if this is your issue but it's probably worth an investigation.

One person's "dated" is another person's "tested, trusted, familiar, efficient, muscle-memoried".

Can't you create an arrangement with multiple copies of the section? And then commit it to the project? (not something I've tried, just thinking on the fly)

Feel free to contribute your voice to this thread:

I am pretty sure it is these: If you're using a custom theme, then changing the colors under Preferences > Colors will override the theme. The theme settings are here:

@fonolit, just in case it helps: Timeline editing in Cakewalk, reloaded

In Sonar/Cakewalk? Per clip? I don't think so. You can set the clip header colors for the whole environment using the Theme Editor, of course (Track View -> Clips Pane -> Clips) but the clip-specific options only cover clip body foreground and background.

This was attempted a couple of years back, but the results weren't productizable. And now that Cakewalk is free, you'd have to be insane to think that the costs associated with such a development are recoverable.

Clear sky thunder strikes are an actual thing

Updated to 0.9.6 to cover version 2020.04 because I was updating my themes anyway and I figured I'd just Get It Done. See top post for URL.

I've updated for 2020.04 EA release; see top post.

I've verified that this theme works fine in the 2020.04 EA release. Feel free to use it as-is.

I've updated this theme for 2020.04; see top post

Nice work!

If the MIDI track is muted, it won't play. If another track is solo'd and the MIDI track is not solo'd as well, it won't play. Otherwise, it should work.

When you want acoustic instruments to sound "acoustic", nothing beats a microphone in an acoustic space. The difference between using my piezo equiped nylon string guitar wired vs recorded via a mic was so different, I stopped trying, and used mics. Of course, if you want that piezo sound (it is useful for some use-cases) then you're good.

The same thing happened to me just now - I guess my browser cached it - pressing F5/Refresh manually in the browser brought up the latest version 0.9.5.

Uh... there wasn't a deadline :-). Your post about the Transport Background was the trigger for me to update the doc earlier today, so yeah, it's included. I didn't use your images, though, I generated some new ones. Oh, and I see a spelling mistake. Oh well.

FYI, the document at the URL in the first post has been updated to 0.9.5 which includes changes posted here by users since the last update in December.

I think you've misunderstood the purpose of the menu option - you're changing the current setting of one of the two rulers. If you want to remove the rule entirely, use the [-] button on the far right of the ruler.

This should work unless it is a mono bus, or an FX plugin on the bus is in mono. Have you reproduced with a simple project? One track, one stereo bus, no FX plugins? Then add the plugin to the bus, see if it changes?

Um, not sure if this is helpful or not but here: http://www.prodigalsounds.com/blog/post/2019/08/05/Using-a-MIDI-controller-with-Guitar-Rig-VST-in-Cakewalk

For what it's worth, I am using Windows 10 1803, Echo Layla3G, latest Cakewalk 2020.01, flawless performance. So it might not be that clear-cut. I've seen more reported issues with "up-to-date" Focusrite drivers than I have with the W7 Echo drivers.

Interesting... I did not notice that. I assumed that the "Thumb" color was also drawing the arrows. I will update my document with this information.