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I'm considering buying R4. Are you saying there aren't any problems with new projects in Cakewalk? Thx

And another one that is theoretically simple to implement: wish I could Ctrl+click (or any other key, doesn't matter) on an effect's on/off button in the console and instantly turn on and off, preferably gap-less, all effects that sit in the same slot on other channels. Simply said - the whole row of effects. Imagine someone likes to start with the same channel fx on every track, or filter. That could be a great way to compare the sound.

@CHCollins How do you get the note properties pop-up by right-clicking? I get note deleted here. Or did you mean double-click on the note (left click)? There are several ways to change velocity of a group of selected notes. The easiest would be typing in the Event Inspector module in the control bar. You can type a fixed value for all selected notes, place '+' or '-' before a number to add/subtract by the amount, even place a percentage there. Another great option is the Transform tool. But really, for an instant change just drag at the top of velocity tail to change only the selected notes, you can also shift+drag to scale the tails or ctrl+drag for anchored scale. There's even a setting in PRV view menu to show velocity tails for selected notes only (under Notes). On one thing I agree though that right-click on one of selected notes to show a pop-up where you can change properties of the whole group would be the most intuitive way .

Another one, although not so sure it's an easy tweak. There's a checkbox in preferences "Split MIDI notes" in Editing. I wish it could work this way: if OFF, when cropping a clip (slip-edit), the overlapping notes will be canceled i.e. if you shift the clip end over a note it will disappear, not change the length (same way as they are vanishing now when cropping the front of a clip) if ON, the start and/or end of the notes will be moved along with the start/end of the clip (the same way notes are shortened now at the end of the clip if you're overlapping them with the clip end, but they are not with the clip start)

I was doing it for years with pretty good effect, lol

Num 2/Num 8 to transpose half step up and down, ctrl+num 2/8 for octave transpose. But agree that Ctrl+up down are more intuitive. Perhaps there's a possibility to change that in keyboard shortcuts. don't have to double click, if that would be the case I would have already left Cakewalk for something else , just click-and-drag to create a note. Agree it's still one move away from single click but well, that's how it is (could be worse). And there's what Josh Wolfer said about juggling with the tools. If you mean events or notes than it works fine for me just need to be careful with how the selection works before duplicating. If you mean tracks then I think that's not what PRV is meant for. Your workflow may be way different though. Tend to agree with Josh, need to be careful when doing certain operations during playback, may cause the engine to go unstable or crash. Would love to have the engine more realtime playback-proof but that's not an 'least amount of work fix' OTOH: could be useful. Personally I'm missing Ctrl+Alt+Spacebar binding in keyboard shortcuts. I use it to step events one-by-one in Event View. I'd love to change the combination but it's missing in the Preferences. Also there's a small inconsistency when using it: if I press the combination and release it the way Ctrl key is released as last one then Play bar jumps back one event as it should, but if I release Alt as the last key, Play bar stays in place. Maybe it's deliberate, idk. Another one: clicking on the menu in any view, like the track view menu or console menu, opens the drop down menu but you can't click the second time to close it. You have to click somewhere else. That I believe should be a simple fix. In some views like the prv, staff or event view, picking previous/next track should appear as direct buttons on the menu bar. EDIT: I'm not a programmer so I assume that what we think an easy job could be much more work in fact (or maybe less) .

Thanks, that makes sense. I'll try to google out how to exclude a folder from indexing. Not sure why indexing turned off should slow down loading Kontakt libraries but mine are on a m.2 drive so I should be good.

This is actually the case that makes me understand why a simple sampler track built in the DAW is so handy. No need for tedious sample editing, no need for external sampler installation. Just pick a sample and start writing your melody. Adjust fades if needed, like here: Another great feature is to audition acidized samples from media browser as matched to project tempo and beat all while playing the project.

What is the procedure to do it? Or you mean to exclude just the Audio Data folder and not any audio files on the entire disk?

MacOS only... I have only an old iPhone 4 getting dust somewhere

A quick question: if I upgrade my Melodyne 4 Essential to v.5, can I still keep the v.4 on my other Win7 laptop, do they allow that (since v.5 is W10 only)?

Also there should be a simple way of deleting a chosen split.

I remember, in the middle ages of cakewalk like the 90-ties and Cakewalk Pro Audio X, there was a sequence player that utilized standard MIDI files. You could build your own midi files database and create songs with it very quickly, pretty useful. It disappeared later shortly.

There was a key combination in the past in Sonar, not sure what was it exactly (Shift+Spacebar maybe) to delete the last recorded take without even stopping the engine. Is it no more today? Obviously the history wouldn't keep the 'undo' in that case, I assume, but the wave file could be still present in the Audio Data folder until closing Cakewalk.

I always endorse this principle

Thanks. Still a bit too enigmatic for me but worth keeping in mind.

Tend to agree with Brian. Cakewalk is much more tender on eyes and it looks mighty more colorful now than before track colors was introduced. But I get the point that clips should have the color and not the waveforms and with cakewalk's saturation setting set to low it could look better.

Is there a chapter in the manual or maybe old cakewalk knowledge base where it is explained more closely what it does exactly this setting?

One day... one day I'll buy it, but first... need to buy Kontakt, and that's another $119... sort of a bummer.

Indeed!

oooh... that make it even more useful... will google some free expansions later, cheers!

Nag screens are fine, as are emails as long I can unsubscribe. What I want to avoid is installing unwanted codec packs, background processes or adware. 129MB seems reasonable.

Is this something I should go for if I want to keep my freshly installed Windows uncluttered and clean from any add-ware like codec packs, 'helpers', ads, any bundled software, etc that could come with this type of software? Or should I look elsewhere? Thx

Are there any free 3rd party MPC expansions? Would Beats open them? Just curious.

sorry... wrong thread <facepalm>