Colin Nicholls

I'm working on a comprehensive visual reference for color items in the Theme Editor. Would some kind Theme Author like to review it? It's not complete (yet) and I'm not looking for comments on style or content at this stage. - I have a number of entries for which I can only put "Not yet identified in UI" and although I suspect they are obsolete or unused, I would like to make sure I haven't missed anything obvious. Let me know and I'll PM you a work-in-progress copy.

Christian, you can swipe to select them just like any other CC value - then use Shift- to lock the mouse drag the selected values into a horizontal or vertical movement. It takes some practice. Zooming in horizontally may help with this process. Also, for simple On-Off, note that you can get the value anywhere above or below the center line to act as an on or off. < 64 is UP/SUSTAIN OFF, >64 is DOWN/SUSTAIN ON.

Totally can do this. Go into the PRV and add a controller lane for Control: 64-Pedal (sustain). Then you can edit them like any other CC value.

Both. Audio and VSTi's. Fairly big project. Despite my best efforts, I could not reproduce it, today. I'll post back with more info if it happens.

I'm experiencing a problem with playback (and recording). When I start the transport (either playback or record) I hear a sharp transient and then nothing. Stopping and restarting just produces the same transient, followed by no sound. The current song position increments steadily as though it were playing back, but no sound is heard. The only way to recover from this is to go into the ASIO panel and change the buffer size, either up or down. Then it works as expected for a few minutes more. Note that "recycling the audio engine" by clicking on the icons in the transport module in Cakewalk is not sufficient. I need to change buffer size in the ASIO panel. Here's the kicker: This has happened with both my ECHO Layla 3G PCI and also my Focusrite 6i6 (2nd Gen) USB. I realize that I need to repro this behavior with the Focusrite exclusively, and demonstrate that it worked better in 2019.09 than in 2019.11, before I have a legit claim that some change in .11 has been detrimental, but I thought I'd post here. I'll be running more tests today.

Just watched this all the way through. Nice work!

I'm an ardent user of V-Vocal, going the extra mile to ensure it is installed in my DAW environments. The version of Melodyne Essential included with SONAR Platinum and CWBB was not usable, in my view. (The opposite of "essential"). However, I took advantage of the recent Black Friday deal to upgrade to Melodyne Assistant (MA), which according to the feature comparison, seems to be a more 1:1 match with V-Vocal. My first impression is that MA is much, much slower that V-Vocal to bring up the editor. I think there may be a bug in that the editor comes up with no content (no "blobs" visible) and I had to exit and re-open the editor to see the clip contents. So I thought I'd start this thread as a place for us V-Vocal fans to share our experiences evaluating Melodyne Assistant. Any tips or tricks that will help us V-Vocal die-hards to enjoy and leverage MA ?

I've been running the hotfix since Friday and haven't noticed any problems. That said, my audio interface runs great until it doesn't, so perhaps this is premature, but add the data point anyway.

fjord perfect Thanks in advance

In Track View, Shift+LeftArrow or Shift+RightArrow will cycle through the Track Control Visibility presets. I had no idea about this. Cool. I can definitely see setting up some optimized views and switching between them.

It's not a bug so much as it is the Sonitus Suite not keeping up with "improved" security constraints in later versions of Windows.

I bet if you run Cakewalk as Administrator, you can save the presets you want. Then they are available in later sessions without Admin privileges. There's a hack you can do to lower the privilege level required to write to the specific ini file used by Sonitus, if this is a convenience you want. See scook's post below.

>> Any chance they're being overidden at the Colors level? Hi @malborinatiro, welcome to the forum. If you read your quoted text carefully, you'll see that this, indeed, was the case!

Glad to help!

Does Addictive Keys respond to CC:7:-Volume ? I checked the manual and it indicates that : AUTOMATION: The following parameters can be automated in Addicitve Keys: Channel Volume (Instrument Ch 1, 2 and 3, FX1, FX2, Master) FX Sends 1 and 2 for each Instrument Channel Master Channel Filter (Hi/Lo) ... So it might be that it expects you to explicitly assign a CC to a specific instrument channel to automate volume. I'm not a AK user, so I could be off-base.

Choose "custom installation" and de-select the bits you don't want. But to be safe, I recommend installing the whole thing. Then re-install Cakewalk By Bandlab.

I've never ever used controller 7 (MIDI volume) in my projects, so just for kicks I created a new project and dropped in an instance of Pianoteq. I then recorded some notes and opened the PRV, and added the CC : 7-Volume controller and drew some values. What I see is shown here: (animated gif removed to free up space and because it was no longer useful. Sorry!) You can see the notes I've created, and the CC:7 values I added, first with Snap quantizing and then with Snap disabled (smooth curve). Then I scroll to the left outside the borders of the current clip, and add some addditional controller events. Then I use Right-Click-Drag to select the events. Does this help? >> I'm trying to "paint" a line and it won't paint it, the way I'm used to seeing it do this. Instead as I drag my mouse, it generates a green rectangle, which does nothing --- or at least nothing I care about. Check Snap settings, just in case >> Near as I can figure, Velocity controls the volume at the mixing console whereas Volume controls the volume of the instrument itself. That's not how I would describe it. Velocity has nothing to do with Mixing Consoles, and everything to do with a binary value describing the attribute of an individual note - and how it is respected (or interpreted) is up to the module responding to the information stream. (MIDI controlled lights, anyone?)

@marled, if practical I would be willing to apply the required pitch shift using V-Vocal. It may not be of interest seeing as no-one can actually purchase V-Vocal if they don't already have it, but the offer stands. In case it is not clear, this is just so that you can add another data point to your tests.

You, sir, are brilliant. That was it. Screen Set 1 was somehow selected and locked. I must have pushed a random key at some point that made this happen. (Possibly the "1" key). It had to be *something*. I've never been a fan of Screen Sets.. They just never gelled with my workflow, at all. This is a second time I've been bitten by them. Hey, @Noel Borthwick, I finally found a use for Lenses! I created a Lens that removes Screen Sets! ? Thanks as ever to the Bakers for giving us "such stuff that dreams are made of"

I figure you didn't also trial V-Vocal because you don't have X2 or earlier?

I'm not sure how to describe this, but at some point, Cakewalk stopped remembering how i last left the project and is opening it as it was several weeks ago: The position of the vertical scroll (i.e. which track is positioned at the top of the View; the track folders' open/close state; the last VSTi property window opens It does remember the position of the NOW time, and all my edits are there, of course. But no matter how I scroll or collapse or arrange the tracks, then SAVE, when I next open the project it is back to the starting state. I don't know what I've done to make this happen. I can't believe it is a bug but if anyone out there has any insights, please share! It's annoying.

I don't think you need to freeze the track... if you select all the MIDI notes you can use the Ctrl-Drag on the end of the clip to scale all the notes. I've done this for short phrases, never an entire track! But it might work.

Huh, I never noticed that. Sorry for the incomplete answer., @D Chance Gold. I recently re-installed everything on my DAW but, of course, I installed Platinum first.... Of course, scook was on the ball as usual.

You should be able to download the installer for the Studio Mixing FX Suite from your Cakewalk Account under https://www.cakewalk.com/My-Account/Products under SONAR Platinum.

I don't disagree with you, but I'm not sure there is much that you could do to make it easier to use - except perhaps to have the list available by default. You can show it by pressing the "Show List" button: How would you improve this display of Tempos in a project?