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Preferably by having the Cakewalk "Matrix" setup like the Performance Panel in Mixcraft, which is "in-line" with the tracks they represent. Just as it was in Cakewalk Project 5. Having it in another tab, or docker, or page view is just a workflow killer.

Mixcraft Recording Studio (and Pro Studio) has the Performance Panel. "Performance Panel offers incredible features for live performance and loop-based composition, rivaling the best DAWs on the market. Trigger audio and MIDI loops with a Launchpad, MIDI controller, or even your typing keyboard. Record directly to slots, and make real-time edits to sounds mid-performance." I don't use Mixcraft, but believe this feature is somewhat similar to the "Session View" in Ableton Live, or the Bitwig Studio "Clip Launcher". Funnily enough, the now defunct legacy Cakewalk Project 5 had a similar feature. The bakers tried to move some of it's functionality over to Sonar as the "Matrix", but IMO it came up a bit short, and has never really been realized to it's full potential.

A company that I used to work for had an office equipment partner that had equipped our office spaces primarily with Steelcase chairs for years. They were solid workhorses that were ergonomically adjustable for desktop computer users. But one day, the Herman Miller Aeron chairs began appearing in select conference rooms. Funnily enough, many of those chairs got "borrowed" and ended up in some team members cubes. At one point eventually, there were enough Aeron chairs nearby that you could grab one if you wanted to. So I jumped aboard! For some reason, I never could get that darn thing set the way I liked it. So back to Steelcase for me! I guess that it's like buying shoes. They just need to fit.

Just click and drag when the "smart tool" is over the end of the note. It will change to a double ended arrow that you can use to stretch the note out with.

Drawing an 1/8 note in the piano roll, and then stretching it out to a whole note with the mouse works with SI Bass. It then sustains for 4 beats.

Full scalable UI is a must-have in 2022. I sure hope the next version of Kontakt will feature that. The Kontakt ecosystem is too important to be left hanging in the past. I might be able to understand if NI did not go back to their older plugins and upgrade the UI, but not Kontakt. Here is a Native Instruments community thread on this topic (5 pages): https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/169/please-make-all-uis-scalable/p5

The rushed product thing is a popular opinion, regardless of any deadline. Version 1 was released in Summer of 2019. NI finally added a proper preset browser to Massive X in v1.4 THIS YEAR (2022). The product release notes tell the tale of a product released before it was fully baked. And there are still other WTF "features", such as you can only automate the macro knobs. No other parameter automation available. And no ability to create and organize custom preset banks. Everything that you, or a 3rd party sound designer creates, goes into the "User" folder. Only NI issued preset banks have custom folder names. ?

Me too!

Alongside the "Pro Tools" placebo?

That's a tough call! Waveform has always been a special teams player for me. A backup DAW for special projects and experiments. I have run across a few Traction bugs over the years, especially with certain plugins. But I give huge credit to the very small and always determined Tracktion development team for pushing a DAW forward that is focused mainly on musicians, rather than engineers! YMMV. Reaper is probably the most stable DAW I've experienced, with some of the best track routing features I have ever seen. But the workflow has cut it from my starting team. It's my backup when I can't accomplish something elsewhere. Always very reliable! I am now seeing Studio One as my main go to these days, but with a fond spot for Cakewalk and Sonar, which after 20+ years, I just grab CbB first sometimes to try out an idea. Muscle memory, LOL. You are best when you use what works for YOU!. Don't listen to anyone else, especially me! ?

Make sure that you are running XLN's latest update. And that your video drivers are up to date.

I tried that, but even with help I still had to put it down. Then life got in the way for a while, and I just lost my momentum I suppose. Maybe one of these days... ? I still remember that large tower looming ahead. But could never reach it before being killed. Over and over and over.... ?

Weird! Are you using any Windows scaling with your monitor? The AD2 GUI is now scalable from within the AD2 plugin settings, 50%-200%. AD2 is displaying just fine here, either VST2 or VST3. I'm using the OpenGL acceleration option in AD2, with the latest Nvidia drivers and a 24" display at 1920 x 1024 HD native.

That should be against the law, I say...

Good for a rainy day, or a sleepless night!

They tried once with a Mac port, even while still backed by Gibson. But that project was too difficult for the cost/benefit apparently. Never got past an alpha demo... Cakewalk is heavily dependent to its core on Microsoft code libraries, a heritage of being an early player on the PC platform. Some of the newer DAW players were coded from the ground up for their source code to be compiled for other systems.

Standard Edition now on giveaway until Aug 25th. WIN/MAC https://www.gog.com/en/game/stasis

I believe that he was asking if there is a way to to force only an off-key note into the correct key. The transpose function will transpose all selected notes relative to each other by the same amount. So an off-key note will remain off-key in a new key. Unless you just selected that specific note and transposed it to the correct key. I think it would be much easier to just move that note via the MIDI editor to the correct key.

When I use Reaper, I stick with this Echolot theme. Makes me feel less like a stranger in a strange land...

No doubt! Good luck! Everyone use Reaper! Problem solved! ?

I understand that doesn't get around the MIDI side of things. But if each collaborator is working on a different instrument part or section, hopefully they can bake any necessary plugins into their wave files before exporting. So that whoever is doing the final mix only has to assemble all of the audio stems, and apply final mixing & mastering plugins.

Obviously only an issue for collaboration with those on other platforms. I have always used Windows myself, but I can understand the issue. There still doesn't appear to be a workable standard for cross-DAW project interchange. Haven't had to deal with that personally, but maybe this might help a bit: Cakewalk's new Control Bar takes all the pain out of exporting stems. "Cakewalk has always had advanced export options, but now that functionality has been streamlined into a Control Bar module that simplifies exporting projects and, perhaps more importantly, stems." https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/cakewalk-export-stems-control-bar

For Windows only!