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That was pretty quick Larry, good job! ? But something's still not quite there, plz try harder, we need more discount!

Thanks. That's probably in automation lane? Because on the track itself, when working in focus to clips, when clicked on the bottom half, it's changing the clip's gain. But, unfortunately, always the whole envelope regardless any selection within the clip ?? EDIT: sorry I misread your post, I mean Ctrl, not Shift... didn't see any change when using shift in automation lane either

That 'Create a Tempo Curve' is brilliant idea! Another handy tempo feature I'd gladly welcome is to smooth-out the changes. I recently created tempo map from a loosely played strummed guitar, using 'Set Measure/Beat at Now' on every beat. Turned out the changes were all over the place, they kinda stuck close to the target tempo but was constantly up and down. Any tempo based effects did literally freak out just each next beat. The proper smoothing-out in my understanding would calculate a perfect (average/balanced) curve from all the changes, denying the need of wonky tempo jumps every beat

What is the shortcut plz? I typically maximize track height for fine adjustments.

Definitely! Once cakewalk became a free product more people will start using it - that was my initial argumentation. Now is time to give him some reasons people ! I think his plugins are excellent on their own and he probably should be fine with his sales but prochannel modules could open a whole new market. The only reason I didn't buy the Pan knob yet is that I want it as a PC version, that's a first hand example.

Absolutely support this idea! I had a short email conversation with Boz shortly after Sonar was taken down and reappeared as Cakewalk by Bandlab, asking him for ProChannel version of his new plugins. He wasn't sure if it makes sense, that was the answer from him. People go bother him!

Get prepared people!

You realize because of that the plugin market almost collapsed...?

But yes, I would love something like a simple click of a button to split controllers to take lanes or tracks, without involving fussy CALs, split by channel, thin out, smooth out (this one for tempo changes as well), double click in the controller pane to select all events in the pane, select only a bunch then edit just on these, draw a line then click in the middle and bend etc.

Is the king back? ?? EDIT: No...?

While I'm all for any tools that could make working with MIDI easier, especially that we have to deal with tons on different controllers, channels and other type of events, where such a simple things like selecting and copy/pasting can be tricky, I'm not sure how such a function you're asking should look like. What I do in your case is to use snap setting "Snap By" when dragging a selection that is not perfectly aligned to measure boundaries, to keep it in it's relative position. Set snap resolution to measures and check your Snap By is on, then drag or ctrl+drag your selection and you should be fine. If you make a selection first, for example select measure 3 and 4 of a given track, then Edit>Select>By Filter (Ctrl+Alt+F6) and there you can specify exactly what you need, for example click 'None' at the bottom right then check only Control, number Min: 64 and Max 64 and then OK (up in the right corner) and you'll end up with only sustain pedal controller selected but your selection (measures 3 and 4) will remain untouched.

Life hack of the week

yeah I wouldn't mind reworked drum maps or floating palette with key input at least

I would like to have an option to one-click bypass for the whole row of effects at once in the console. For example place the same type of effect, say an EQ or a compressor, or channel FX, as the first fx in every track, then ctrl(or anything)+click 'off' in only one of them to bypass all at once. This is for quick comparison. Something like a 'dummy spacer' would be handy in cases where I would need to set the FX order properly, in some tracks.

What I like in the S1 example is that after activating the gain env. (and we have shift+drag that is awesome in Cakewalk), you don't have to switch back and forth between clip gain and focus to clips, to edit the gain env. You just do it right away in the clip focus. Mind you this is not about the regular working with automation like volume, pan or any other. This is about fast clip gain workflow, like a quick fix of a spike or correcting uneven loudness of certain words, for example, before you proceed with mixing (compression etc). Just select a portion of a clip and drag it up or down to adjust the gain, in Cakewalk it's almost there thanks to dynamic waveform, but not there yet because when focus to clips, ctrl+drag works only on the whole clip gain envelope . What's missing is the select then ctrl+drag to alter only the selection. In S1 there's even transform tool on the envelopes, how cool is that!

If you want both, go for Fabfilter now, as they don't do sales frequently. iZotope do much often so you can get them on the next sale... EDIT: very soon

I think it's already covered by many and there's no need for special research and tech, like the one from IK to recreate vintage gear. Digital delay can be programmed by anyone, and many can do well. Where IK is good at is cloning that vintage gear, and only few do it so well. Let them clone!

Thanks, as I hate to have to click and go there, somewhere, just to check the price, since we've been already given so much information in the OP.

Oooh ? been waiting almost too long for this one particularly. Without even testing it yet, what I can say about it: I like the look and most importantly the sound, quality of this or the Sunset Studio reverb are without question. What I dislike is the resources it takes to operate, high CPU is (almost) fine as long as it brings the details of an analog gear but the insane amount of space (over 1.5 gigs for a bunch of plugins), really? I mean really? And the high price... but there's a remedy, need to wait for another group buy which makes it reasonable, luckily I have time. For me a must have .

Well yes, we have it in Cakewalk once you change the focus to gain envelope but then the waveform becomes greyed out and of course there comes additional clickology so you can't do a quick clip gain change of a small selection in one-two clicks. And when focus set to clips, having ctrl+drag to adjust clip gain is so brilliant, but not having the additional possibility for selecting just a fragment of a clip and ctrl+drag to change clip gain of only the selection, is a missed opportunity imo. Studio One is not my thing as I need so much more in MIDI department but I really enjoy their excellent workflow ideas.

That dropdown with option for creating a bus is brilliant.

Custom bindings, you mean the ones done in preferences>keybindings? After I saw that Ctrl+Alt+Spacebar binding is not availabe I thought that the other spacebar bindings aren't as well, but I just checked again and all the other spacebar bindings are available in preferences, so I may give them a try. I start thinking that this Ctrl+Alt+Spacebar one is simply overlooked, it used to be Ctrl+Spacebar back in the X1 days. Perhaps worth of reporting.

That makes a sense. About Ctrl+spacebar and alt+spacebar, do you think, if I assign them to other functions, am I risking any conflict in Cakewalk? My goal is: Alt+Spacebar = stop with Now marker Ctrl+Spacebar = play events step by step Ctrl+Alt (or something else)+Spacebar = preview arrangement

Tried to search for it but failed Anyone? If I want to change the shortcuts to: Alt+Spacebar = stop with Now marker Ctrl+Spacebar = play events step by step Ctrl+Alt (or something else)+Spacebar = preview arrangement Is that possible to change in cakewalk shortcuts? How?

like this?