Mr No Name

To be polite If I had a band and that drummer came for an audition, he/she wouldn't get in the band.

The thing is they said it would be still available to use, but I have a bad feeling about it, I've had to reactivate twice in a month, used to be only after an update. Hopefully It will stay at once a month, but being the cynic that I am, I have a feeling they will squeeze it into shorter re-activation windows.

I have noticed that there are frequent requests for reactivation for Cakewalk by bandlab, this has to be done within a certain time window, I am assuming if this is not done Cakewalk will be unusable with no way to reactivate moving forward. Is this the game plan to make the free version of Cakewalk obsolete and get the number of users of it to zero, in order to move to a paid version. I can see a scenario where these requests for re-activation become more frequent and the window to do it in becomes shorter, people who don't constantly use the DAW, who might only open it up once a week of so, may get caught out by this and have their "copy " of the DAW rendered unusable and their projects lost? Would seem like a sneaky and underhanded thing to do. Any thoughts on this?

Someone seems to be on the case inventing a similar idea where you can hum your music into a daw and turn it into music via MIDI, like a reverse Shazam. Interesting stuff. https://vochlea.com Produce entire songs using your voice Dubler 2 turns your voice into a real-time MIDI controller, letting you create music you dream of. Sing, beatbox, hum or whistle your ideas and Dubler 2 will translate them into MIDI notes, allowing you to write music at the speed of thought.

here you are folks, just incase you thought I was totally crackers. He says it's done by "AI" but it seems to me to be voice activated MIDI, which is a nice invention. another 3 years it will be in every DAW (maybe)

Have you not seen this new thing where Barry who can't sing to save his life, now can sing over his songs, out of tune, presses a button, 30 seconds later he sounds like Barbara Streisand. There you go, et voila.

It means if you do any singing into the daw while recording a midi track the singing will be recorded onto the midi track aswell as the midi information, I assume the singing will be in midi also, which is amazing seeing as midi stands for "musical instrument digital interface" and has nothing to do with singing. ?

subscription for a daw is stupid unless you run a recording studio and are able to deduct it as a business expense, anyone else who does it is a moron. imo.

you will own nothing and be happy.

You are right of course a million people have different things connected by usb at the same time, interfaces as monitoring devices and midi devices as inputs, but if the input signal is not recognised or set incorrectly in the preferences you won't hear anything on the output, an output of a silent or incorrect input won't work..

some driver installation may be necessary or it might install them automatically.

plus you have your output as speakers and trying to listen on headphones, whole thing looks abit un-orgainised, I would try turning off your laptop, disconnecting your equipment, replugging in your piano by usb, leave the interface unplugged, and see if your piano shows in your output preferences as yamaha and use that with you headphones connected to your laptop or keyboard.

if you see that button on the end that looks like a radar ? (input echo) 2 across from the "S" button ? that should be lit up, press it see if anything happens.

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you would be better with your set up using midi cables from your piano to your interface, and usb from your interface to laptop, I see your interface has no midi ins/outs ? also your piano has no 1/4 jack output to connect to the interface? if you have both your interface and piano connected to the laptop by usb cables it won't work? you may have to connect the piano by usb to the laptop direct and use yamaha drivers (it should then show in your settings in cakewalk as an output - yamaha ) and use the headphone socket of the laptop? looks like a mismatch of piano and interface possibly ? or it would be better to use the headphone direct output of the piano.

you would be better with your set up using midi cables from your piano to your interface, and usb from your interface to laptop, I see your interface has no midi ins/outs ? also your piano has no 1/4 jack output to connect to the interface? if you have both your interface and piano connected to the laptop by usb cables it won't work? you may have to connect the piano by usb to the laptop direct and use yamaha drivers (it should then show in your settings in cakewalk as an output - yamaha ) and use the headphone socket of the laptop? looks like a mismatch of piano and interface possibly ?

try your soundcard settings in the preferences ? make sure your channels are routed to your master. check you haven't got mute or solo buttons active where they shouldn't. make sure input echo button is selected. a few for starters.

Yes, you have to be careful of these things, there is apparently a tool from kushview that works, free also, I have no idea how it is used, looks quite complex and utilitarian, https://github.com/kushview/Element/releases/tag/0.41.1 and no viruses attached. from this thread https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=560297&start=30

don't click on the xlutop link, my antivirus says it contains a trojan , I should have checked it first, apologies

from Bitflipper post above ? Another possible avenue might be a VST3 wrapper, a VST2 plugin the serves as a VST3 host. I found this one, from the people who make the Sequoia DAW: https://www.xlutop.com/buzz/zip/vst3shell_v1.3.1.zip That's a direct link to the plugin. Here's a link to the KVR page: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=565924

https://stash.reaper.fm/theme/2767/Echolot_1.8.ReaperThemeZip

I shouldn't type this as I may be in danger of being banned, but someone invented a reaper UI theme which is an identical copy of Cakewalk UI.

You can literally see it on the screen shots of the fonts posted on this page, 2 posts above and top of the page, I have no idea what resolution my laptop monitor is working at, but the text on this forum or any other text I read on it is not blurry or out of focus, if you were to zoom in on it the edges would not be defined by lines or square pixels, it looks like if you were using a paintshop program and the edges of the text would resemble a micro version of a spraycan effect on the edges? This is not a techical analysis, it's a everyday consumers initial verdict on the clarity of the text, I can only imagine the graphics department have the latest ultra high definition macbook superpro mk5 and can't see it possibly. It's very apparent.

first time seeing the new interface up close, I can understand now why people describe it as "blurry", seems very difficult to focus on the text, seems to be no proper definition on the outlines of the text.