David Baay

Glad to help, Nigel.. You're not the first to be caught out by this. ;^)

Punch uses region muting to mute the overlapping parts of other clips. Switch to the Mute tool, and drag through the top of the clip to unmute.

Edit Filter not set to Clips? Dim Solo? (but that wouldn't prevent editing)

Disable 'Stop at Project End' in Track View Options.

This happens when Cakewalk is recording from the soundcard's output instead of its input. In your onboard soundcard's mixer app, change the Input from 'What U Hear' or 'Stereo Mix' to 'Line' or 'Mic'.

MIDI track output assignment will jump to the virtual port of a newly inserted soft synth when no hardware ports are available. Possibly your Fantom X wasn't powered up when you opened that first project...?

Definitely use your own self-created MIDI. As I'm sure you know, a GM file is likely to be sending a GM/GS Reset and contain all kinds of controller messages, some of which Cakewalk will migrate into the track header controls as initial settings (e.g. Volume, Pan, Chorus, Reverb). If the MIDI volume widget is showing '(101)' - disabled at default level - try raising it to 127 which will enable it to be sent when play starts and set the output volume on the module to max. Then go into the event list of your self-created MIDI clip, and add CC1 = 127 and CC11 = 127 events. And disable 'Zero Controllers when Play Stops' in case that's silencing the module. Conversely, you might try deliberately adding a GM/GS Reset to the SysX view and read through the section on working with GM/GS/XG devices in the Ref. Guide for other ideas. I believe there may be some messages that Cakewalk sends at startup by default, but I've never had them cause a problem with any of my outboard gear. Or possibly you've actually enabled one deliberately at some point in the past. Check your Cakewalk.INI file against the Ref. Guide for anything that's non-default.

You mean you don't get how to have the imported audio land at the correct position in the first place? I kind of wondered what the need was to move data within the clip. I have pretty much never had a need to do that. But my workflow doesn't generally involve importing samples, either.

Seems more likely the issue is that the module isn't responding to MIDI that is, in fact, reaching it. Does the module have a MIDI activity indicator? Can you configure the OUT to be a THRU, and pass MIDI back to Cakewalk? Otherwise, check the usual suspects: - Some other app is not releasing the driver. - Receive channel does not match what Cakewalk is sending. - Event velocities are too low. - MIDI volume has been zeroed by track volume or other wayward CC7 message. - Some other controller, (CC1 Modulation. CC11 Expression) needs to be raised. - Notes are out of range of the current patch . - The patch has a very long attack, and notes are not long enough to get the sound to an audible level.

My thoughts exactly. Very moving. Thanks for sharing. The SoundCloud player seems to have 'thrown away' the very end of the fade-out here, but otherwise flawless.

Thanks for the listens and comment, gents. Glad you enjoyed it. We had Dave Brubeck playing in the house all the time when I was young, and I never got over it. I just love 'odd' time signatures.

I have a song that was originally recorded without a click into a 4/4 project. After I set the timeline to it so I could tighten up some timing, I experimented with changing it to 6/4, because it was more like the way I felt it while playing, but it works either way, and I ultimately ended up leaving it as 4/4. https://www.soundclick.com/html5/v4/player.cfm?songID=8229694 There's also an example of the 3 in 5/16s thing I was talking about. Since I found it in this piece, I've discovered I do it all the time! Usually just a triplet here and there so I have to treat it separately when quantizing. https://www.soundclick.com/html5/v4/player.cfm?songID=13249262 I have a lot of fun analyzing my own timing after the fact since I write by improvising, and am not really thinking analytically about what I'm doing at the moment of inspiration. I may not even know I'm playing in 7/8 or 10/4 or whatever it is until I go to record it.

It's working here. You sure your getting Shift? Alt+Smart Tool without Shift is the split tool. Also, you can move data within a clip without already having the borders slip edited. Cakewalk automatically adds a slip edit to the boundary when you do that.

Is the Fatar only a controller, or also a synth? If it's a synth, you can check it by connecting MIDI OUT to IN directly on the keyboard, turning Local Control off, and seeing if it can 'play itself' via MIDI. To check the interface cable, you can do something similar: Enable the interface's MIDI Out in preferences, and connect the OUT to the IN. Then set up two MIDI tracks in Cakewalk, one to play an imported or step-entered MIDI clip to the MIDI OUT, and one set to record the MIDI IN, and see if it makes the round trip.

Re-mixed/mastered and re-posted from Soundclick to Bandlab. Don't think I ever actually posted it to the Songs forum. Has some simple, light percussion and ride cymbal. Any jazz-fusion drummers or sax/flute/horn players out there that might want to have a go at playing over it, let me know. Cheers, Dave

Re-posted with transposition up to G from Eb. Sounded okay on the digital piano, but is clearer on the real piano in the higher key, and easier to finger the modulation to A, although I'm having to re-learn how to play it there... muscle memory is both a blessing and a curse!

Make sure you successfully copied something into your paste buffer. Paste can't operate on nothing. Right offhand, I don't know of any other cause of the the Paste Special dialog failing to come up.

FWIW, I often run into the situation where I've played both straight and triplet 8ths, and want to quantize both toward their respective grids. In this case, you have to quantize to 16th triplets (the greatest common devisor of both durations), but if your playing is loose (or just plain 'bad'), some notes may move the wrong way. In that case what I do is create a clip in another track that has notes exactly on the matching 8ths and 8th triplets, and Groove Quantize to that reference clip. I also discovered a while ago that I'm in the habit of playing a figure of 3 in the time of 5/16ths. I have to watch out (listen out?) for that, and avoid quantizing those bits, and then separately Groove Quantize them to a reference clip with notes at 400-tick intervals. I often wish Cakewalk could really 'understand' rhythm, and take care of all of this for me. ;^) Kudos to Michael for taking the time to explain the ins and outs of swing quantizing. I wanted to help when I first saw the question, but felt it it would take to much typing to explain!

If the Input Echo button has an 'A' in it, that indicates it's being automatically enabled by having 'Always Echo Current MIDI Track' enabled in MIDI preferences, and will stay on until you change focus (track name highlighted) to another track. Otherwise, I know of no situation in which Input Echo can't be disabled on a MIDI or Simple Instrument track.

Regarding the above question in the old original post. I just checked this out, and it appears to have a bug. You have to add 1 to the number of measures you would expect to enter. So for the above case, where you want the iterations pasted every 12 measures, you would set the 'Interval' at 13:01.

Edit > Paste Special or Ctrl+Alt+V

Once you have your two tracks with output channels assigned, you simply change focus from one to the other, and 'Always Echo Current MIDI Track' in Preferences (enabled by default) automatically enables the Input Echo on that track to the specified output channel. Note the 'A' in the Input Echo button in the screenshot; this indicates Track 2 is being Auto-echoed because it's focused (track name highlighted).

I should say I'm also in the habit of setting the track Input channel to 1 since the keyboard I used for the first 25 years of my MIDI 'career' transmitted on both channels 1 and 2 at power-up by default. It is a best practice just to be sure you don't echo/record doubled note events.

Each synth presents its own port to Cakewalk, so unless it's a multitimbral synth that needs separate channels to drive separate instruments, you don't need to use a specific channel to drive it; it will respond to anything, and because it's a separate port, the MIDI on the track that Outputs to that port can't be picked up by any other synth. For single-channel. 'mono-timbral' synths like this it's easiest to insert it as a Simple Instrument that automatically sets up the MIDI and Audio routing to and from the synth for you, but I often recommend using separate tracks and setting up the routing yourself until you thoroughly understand how it all works.. The reference to not using Omni is referring to the MIDI (or Simple Instrument) track's Input assignment. That doesn't need to be set to a specific channel, either, but you do want to set it to only listen to your keyboard/controller's port. With the Input set to Omni, it's possible for the track to pick up and echo MIDI being passed through or generated by other synths that have MIDI Out capability. The only time you might need to specify an input channel is if your keyboard is transmitting on more than one channel at the same time.

Double-clicking a clip will open it in the PRV . The menu options shown the screenshot are in the View menu of the PRV. If PRV snap is enabled at the upper right, it overrides Global snap in the Control Bar - often desirable so that you can having a finer resolution for editing MIDI than you use in the track view for arranging clips. There have been bugs with snap in the past, but i;m not aware of anything outstanding. Can't think right offhand hwy it wouldn't work if it's properly enabled. Hopefully people will notice this is resurrected thread, and not be responding to the earlier posts.