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I feel like we need more info on keyboard shortcuts, especially when some of them are changing with new updates. The manual is very much incomplete on this, and not all the shortcuts available by default are listed there. The Key Bindings dialogue in the Preferences menu is awkward, and shows that some functions have multiple key bindings, even though some are as obscure as "Enable/Disable GUI Throttle mode"., which if enabled by accident could cause much confusion and annoyance. I think that an updated, comprehensive list of existing shortcuts should be in the manual. And maybe a way of exporting a text file with the Preferences Key bindings.

Not sure if this was broken before: ALT +Z is not working in the PRV. You can use the Zoom tool (Z), but you can not undo with ALT +Z.

You can actually do that. Click the folder to select it, and it will select all tracks within it. Then just CTL+click the output of any selected track and change it to the bus you want. All tracks will change outputs to that bus.

What badge? The only badge (a little shield with blue and yellow quadrants) that I see is the one that marks the programs that are set to be run as administrator. 32 bit programs show no special mark here.

The events are colored by type. I find this a convenient way to see at a glance what is in a track. Notes are black, aftertouch events are red, and so on. If all were the same color, you would need to filter them out always. I use the Event list, either to insert a single CC or sysex event, or to troubleshoot the behaviour of a synth that might be receiving an unintended message. About selection, they already appear selected. All events selected in other views appear selected in Event List.

I WAS missing something ? Yes, that does it. I had tried setting the snap to measures, but I missed that. Thanks a lot!

Unless I am missing something, while CTL + D seems to work as announced with clips in track view, it does not really help much in the PRV. The problem seems to be that you need to select the time range in the time ruler, otherwise any empty space after the last note will not be duplicated. For example, if you have a bar with an eighth note on every beat, you need to select the full bar in the time ruler, because if you just select the notes, when you duplicate them the new copy will start on the last eighth note of the previous bar. This is expected, of course, but the problem is that the time ruler selection does not persist, so even if you select the full bar before duplicating, the selection that includes the full bar with the empty space at the end does not persist after the first copy. So, you need to go back to the time ruler and select again the full bar before duplicating, something that makes the CTL +D shortcut useless in the PRV. So, for it to be useful the time ruler selection should persist and allow to repeatedly press CTL +D without having to select each time the area to duplicate. And it would be great to be able to select the area to duplicate just by clicking and dragging in the PRV instead of having to move the mouse to the time ruler.

Installed here already, thanks a lot to Noel!. ?

Will the final release install on top of my current build? If yes, I guess that I´ll rather wait. It will be a few days, won´t it?

Unable to install. The installer will only install over version 25.07.0.79, and I have 25.07.0.84 that Noel kindly sent me to test persistence of VCV Bridge plugin parameters (that BTW has been fixed in this update). Guess I´ll have to wait.

Yay!!!!

It seems that your best choice is what you are doing now. Anyway, I found that my suggestion would not work with sysex. Matrix cells will only play midi groove clips, and those will not save sysex, for whatever reason.

The thing with doing it from the Matrix is that if you use to start from a template you can have this set up there hidden out of the way within every project. Now that I think of it it probably can also be done with sysex banks in the Sysex View triggered from a clip in the Matrix. If I am correct, and your synths support this, you would need only a track and a single clip.

Thanks for your reply. Yes, the idea of saving PTN files, and especially arpeggiator files for the CbB is what made me ask. I have much fun jamming with arpeggiators to come up with ideas, but I use to do it with hardware and I had not really paid much attention to the track arpeggiator in CbB until the other day that I played with it for a while and found that you cannot really program your own patterns unless you use P5, and searching a bit I came up with this: http://project5.technetos.com/technique/alesion-arp.shtml So I thought about giving it a try.

In the meantime, you can do this: create a short midi clip, open the Event View and place a single event (cc 122 val 127) in it. Place copies of it in the Matrix view stacked in the same column, make them One Shot, and point each cell to a midi track that goes to a different synth. This way you just need to click the column header to send Local On to all your synths at the same time. It is still a manual solution, but it just takes a second.

Just wondering whether it might be feasible to install it again and remembering old times...or making arpeggiator patterns, that IIRC should work with CbB

I don´t really get this post. What "feature gap"? CbB has its own feature set, that obviously is not the same as programs like Bitwig or Ableton Live, but that is not much different from other programs of its kind, like Logic or Cubase, and both of them are widely used for electronic music. Even though Live has become the de facto standard for that, you see a lot of people using Logic, that has a feature set much like CbB´s. I also do not see that attitude that you mention, "you can't complain about free" from the developing team´s side, who seem very much commited to make this software improve, not only in stability but also in core features. And yes, maybe sometimes you can not complain about free if your complain is that you are not getting enough instruments or plugins of your liking with your free DAW.

That will only split by measure. Unless I have been missing something, it will not split by quarter notes, for example.

Thanks for your reply. Yes, it seems pilot error here. I have managed to make it work here somehow, but somehow I still don't get well the correct way to do it when I import clips from the browser.

Just noticed that moving the contents of a clip while leaving its edges fixed do not work as it did. Pressing ALT-SHIFT with the Smart Tool or the wrench tool selected should change the cursor in the upper third of the clip and allow to grab and move the content, but it shows the Split cursor (scissors) instead. EDIT: For a minute I thought that it was solved. After bouncing the clip, ALT-SHIFT makes the right cursor appear...but of course then there is no audio to slip edit beyond the clip edges. ?

This should be a simple task, but I cannot find an easy way to do it. I just want to take an audio clip and split it repeatedly at the grid resolution. The Edit/Split dialogue just will do this with 1 Measure as the lowest resolution. I have tried with Audiosnap, but I I cannot get consistent results, probably because (I guess) it works with transients and will not place a marker at a silent place. I always end up doing this manually. What is the easiest way to do this?

I just noticed that the new green selection markers do not disappear when unselecting pressing the number 5 key. They do when using CTL+SHIFT+A.

All IDF that you install are imported into a file called Master.ins. If you had all your synths IDF in Sonar, the easiest way would be searching for that file in your previous Sonar instalation and just copy it instead of the default CbB Master.ins. The file format is identical, just copy your old file to the right CbB directory and it will work. Master.ins is a text file, so you can open it with any text editor and check whether you found the right file and your synths IDF are there. In older Windows OS, Master.ins used to be in the same directory than Sonar.exe. This is more confusing (to me, at least) in newer OS, so what I use to do when migrating my Master.ins file (something I don't do often) is a drive search until I find the right place to copy it. Maybe somebody can tell us the right path, but if not, a bit of drive searching will do.

Maybe you did not notice, but Cakewalk by Bandlab (there is no Sonar anymore) already HAS a very good line of plugins within Pro Channel. About a full graphic redesign, I think that all users would say that it would be nice to have, but for now, the work of the developing team has already made clear that there are "serious intentions" even without it.

1. You use One Shot, well, when you do not want the clip to loop. If you also want to perform with the Matrix, launching clips from a controller, you´ll probably want to play some clips just once. 2. I am not sure now whether you can assign specific keys directly. You navigate within the Matrix with the arrow keys, and fire them with Enter. I guess that what you want to use is the Virtual midi keyboard, that can be played from your computer keyboard. I guess that you could map it to the Matrix. 3. On how to map controllers: https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Views.47.html#1366958