chris.r

in google search look for "cakewalk forum" and not "sonar forum", this will bring you here quickly

OMG the new v2 sampler-track in cubase is killing it even more now, just check it out (and watch the whole video from beginning for more): such feature can speed up your work by miles if you need to cook up a track from sample(s) or loop pack.. no idea why anyone wouldn't want it in cakewalk (and EDM is not my main style )

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... No he hates it... oh wait, there's no Deals forum there?? ??? then WUP would be the only deal ?

In addition I would suggest starting a new topic or forum that's global for all articulations that are supplied by users from now on here on forum, similar to UI Themes or Deals, so we can keep them combined in one place and could find them easier later if one need to. Just a thought.

Me too ! there's something about the diamond I still love ? I have also Sampletank Max but not yet installed, will have to check if there is Alan Parson in it.

Couldn't agree more, love to play with my Pianoteq but as soon it's going to be a record I will reach for CFX lite that for me sounds always like a real piano record and blends seamlessly with the rest of mix.

Well that makes the deal even more sweet

Cheers mate, that's a lovely offer indeed, sadly I have no more money left after my spontaneous DCO-106 purchase just recently ?. Guess I'll bite the upgrade to the newest version on another occasion anyway, might even go the up tier if money allows. Luckily I have no pressure for it right now so I'll be fine with 6 Stage for a while. Just curious what's the additional instrument when going Stage>Standard?

Do they make sales on upgrades?

one question to those with Modo drum installed - how much disc space does it take after installation? thx

Will CS version be of the same size? Actually that would have to force me to do some long deferred cleaning on my tiny crowded SSD.

ah, and I'm looking for the final sound and not the experience, thanks for mentioning that

Would appreciate some direct comprarisons.. youtube, soundcloud, mp3, etc - I don't have SD3 nor BDF3 so can't demo those and didn't see many/any comparisons against MODO Drum or AD2 (that I own).

you have to bounce your track/clip after a tempo change to apply the high quality algorithm.. I still like to use Radius Mix for best quality, I've compared it to the newer Elastique Pro and in my ears Radius Mix always wins by a strand of a hair, it may depend on the source (type of music, etc)

I bet it is! In cubase everything routing related is called VST - deal with that . I hope it was clear from my post that my intention was not bashing Cakewalk but to bring the routing topic back to light, at least for that short while. And I was talking also based on my own experience. Once this software enters homes routing becomes an issue, fact. In cakewalk if you want to make a MIDI arpeggiator (or vocoder) to work with another VSTi then prepare for going through few hoops and caveats, and some steps you have to go are very non-intuitive. I believe there's some space for improvements. In the early VSTi times when there was this inconvenience of dealing with MIDI and audio tracks separately and route things the way to make the VSTi work then the bakers came up with Instrument tracks which was an brilliant move, come on bakers .

Fwiw, I somewhat sympathize with what was said here. Over the time I was asking here on forum, several times I believe, for making audio/MIDI routing a bit more simple, streamlined or anything to help those situations. This is indeed something musicians have to face when coming straight from the music world to digital world and many of them, including me, were hitting their head on the wall of this topic as routing in Cakewalk, for someone who's not a PC literate, is a tough topic, especially in the beginning. And even after time spent on learning how to route things in Cakewalk, I often have to sit back and pull my head away from music, just to be able to focus on how things should go, how to connect, why does it still not work, what did I miss, etc. So though I understand now the full power of this software and how much it let us achieve technically, I still feel where the frustration is coming from when dealing with routing, lurking back into manuals and troubleshooting instead of making music right away.

one thing I have noticed BA is updated usually before a new Cakewalk update or new EA is pushed EDIT: Larry beat me... but I'm OK

"In fact, JST (a pretty big player in the scene now, especially among rock/metal engineers and musicians) has flat out recently told me to switch DAWs (not just for troubleshooting purposes, but permanently) and that they don't recommend Cakewalk." I was planning on buying their Bus Glue-Bass plugin, but this is all giving me a huge warning about support and possible issues re compatibility with Cakewalk.

Great to hear about resizing, thanks for that Peter! Couldn't find any info about the updated 'routing freedom' in CS, unless it's the same as 'drag & drop chain' - please could you confirm it's in the CS version as well? Paying for re-measured cabs is perfectly understandable. And sorry to hear about the flood damage, beside AT Metal what else did not get re-measured? edit: preset filtering - another sweet move!

yeah I mean playing it two hand on piano is extreeemly challenging.. third hand would be handy for incessant wiping sweat off your eyes

Yes that's my observation too and I would add Waves shell files to it cause they take a substantial amount of time when scanning but I didn't figure out yet which folders exactly to exclude plus they may change them after updating from V11 to V12.

Idk, I see it different, a bit. I would prefer that for a simple one-sample use, think of 808s, they would create a new very simple sampler based functionality that's baked-in flat into Cakewalk as if it was another piano roll, loop construction view, etc. Not resources hungry, not crashy, Cubase does it perfectly and it seems very simple and it looks like Cakewalk already has most of the code for that. For all the other, more advanced jobs, let them work on Rapture/DimPro or let us use 3rd party sampler.

only that when TR5 came out, going from Tracks4 CS to TR5 CS, it wasn't! the features were locked up can't comment on Sampletank, was never using it previously but quite possible it was a whole different story... there's a hope?