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The internet says: From another source: And from what appears to be a February 22 reposting of February 21 family posting:

In addition to the anecdotes and the insights into music, one of my takeaways from those interviews is the respect Beato and his guests have for each other as well as for the love of music.

Most of what I have seen in his videos is neither pessimistic or nor whining. Though you may enjoy that, the overwhelming majority of the content he offers seems to be more insightful, positive, and enlightening. Of course, maybe that's biased by the videos I choose to watch.

Thanks for the clarification. Hope my original post was helpful in getting you up to speed with adding a synth / instrument track. oh i will and thanks for the answer so difficult for others to provide, Not sure what you mean by this ^^^^. Not sure if you noticed that my response included three of several possible ways to add a synth track. Those three were not difficult at all to provide. The difficult part was trying to write it in such a way that it would be accurate and helpful (1) depending on your level of knowledge and experience (and those who might come along later and have a similar question), and (2) without running the risk of appearing to be insulting. snooty, snarky, etc. Peace.

I was already subscribed, still am, and was busy listening to live electronic / synth / experimental music. Out of curiosity, what did he do for the three plus hours (or at least what you watched)? Curious if he played clips from previous content with added commentary, if he did live ear training, countdown lists--such his top 25 interviews, or what.

Since he made 5 million yesterday, to be a true contrarian shouldn't you be advocating that people UNSUBSCRIBE to see if he will do another lengthy livestream and if so how long it will take him for all the subscribers who unsubscribed resubscribe??

PS: Once you find an organ emulation [softsynth, plugin, VST] you want to try, the basic process to use it is: run the software installer, run Cakewalk's VST Scanner (under Preferences), then insert it as an instrument track.

As a consumer of music products I have been using Cakewalk Software since the days of MS-DOS when it was a sequencer--that is before there were software synths, virtual instruments, etc. If your keyboard has an organ patch, you could take the audio output and record that, unless your keyboard is really a controller and doesn't have any sounds. If you are using Cakewalk by Bandlab (sometimes called CbB by users--a free version of the older pre-Bandlab SONAR software) there are an amazing amount of software instruments (including some that have organ sounds) available for free or for a cost. You could also use either a sampler or sample player. I guess you would call that outsourcing. If you are looking for recommendations for a specific kind of organ emulation, it doesn't hurt to ask for opinions. Also, there are many videos where YouTubers do tutorials, comparisons, "best" lists. There are also web bloggers who have webpage-based lists. Obviously, people have different tastes, needs, preferences, so where manufacturers offer free demos, you might want to try the demo out before purchasing one.

(1) TTS-1 is no longer distributed with Cakewalk by Bandlab (CbB). (2) The video doesn't really call attention to the importance of MIDI Channels. Some background which you might already know. MIDI is a communication protocol. Your controller tells hardware and software devices what to do using MIDI Commands (Instructions). Basic MIDI data (e.g., notes on/off, controller changes) are channelized on up to 16 MIDI channels. TTS-1 uses the 16 channels for up to 16 different sounds. But without a multi-timbral sound device (such as TTS-1, or a hardware sound module), you can still use Cakewalk to record on different MIDI channels and/or to play back recorded MIDI data on different channels routed to different sound sources. Without going into a lot of detail that you can get from tutorials, documentation (manuals, online help), etc. you can add an organ if you have a device (hardware or software) that makes organ sounds, such as an organ (or multi-purpose) plug-in / virtual instrument. There are other sections in the forum where different software synths/instruments are discussed. There is also a section devoted to tutorials, including some series that many new users have found very helpful.

You know that I and plenty of others here know all this, but IMO it is very well worth repeating in this thread for the benefit for others who might be new to Cakewalk and who might get a little frustrated when figuring out how to start getting up to speed.

What do you mean "nothing in the forum ?????!!!!!?" OK. I figured out: you posted the definitions and the files and they didn't show up so you posted them a second time.

Glad to hear you found the secrets to using Roland's sysex to switch patterns/variations. For all the Rolands I did sysex parameter changes on, I always thought Roland's scheme made sense once I got the basics down. For me the tricky part was calculating the correct checksum. I often made math errors adding up all the relevant bytes. So, I found it easiest (and more reliable) to take a sysex byte chain that I knew worked and tweak it--if I added 5 to the parameter value, I subtracted 5 from the checksum [staying in the 00H to 7FH range]. When I get a chance, I'll look at the sources you found--just because I am curious. So, thanks for including the links. BTW, if Roland doesn't know how their TR8S Sysex is designed, its nice that someone took the time to document it and then to share it with the world. Again, congratulations for getting the SECRET CODE to work!!

Footnote: At one point it was $49.99 with ($99.99 minus a $50.00 Crossgrade coupon). When it came out, the Sunset Sound Reverb Collection Upgrade for MixBox was an additional $9.99. Not sure if MIXBOX was ever higher than $99.99.

Over the years I have sometimes had a phantom (non-functional) vertical transport cursor/line that I have suspected was the result of a re-drawing glitch. I haven't seen this as much as I used to, but today yesterday it happened. I had the DAW open for several hours while I did other things including being inactive on the computer. So, the phantom line might have resulted from a Windows sleep or power saving function that didn't get restored properly when redrawn. Yes!! Also, when you minimize the DAW does the line stay on the desktop? Sometimes that happened with what I have been describing. (Also, does it stay in the same place when you switch screensets, workspace, or change DAW UI Modules? Example (phantom non-functional cursor on top of a synth plugin that I just assume was the result of a re-drawing issue):

Assuming for the moment you are talking about adding a track to use software synths (as opposed to hardware synth), there are a number of ways to add a synth / add an instrument. Let's also assume you have software synths on your computer (probably VSTs) and you have done a VST scan, mainly because autoscan is the default VST scan mode and you probably didn't change it to manual scanning. Some people like to use the Menu Bar > Insert > Soft Synth . method which calls up the list of the soft synths you have installed. From there its just a matter of following the steps, one of which calls up dialogs that let you set various options/choices for inserting the track(s). If you've added FX plugins using the Browser [default shortcut key = B], you might want to use the Browser to add Instruments that way. Choose the plugins tab in the browser then the Instruments button to access the list of soft synths you have installed and scanned. Personally, I automatically just right click in the TV [Track View], select Insert Instrument and the use the Add Track Wizard. Obviously, I am leaving out steps, but since you seem to know how to chose FX plugins to insert, these three basic methods of Inserting a Soft Synth/Instrument should get you going. There's more, but these will get you going to add Instrument Tracks. As you explore, be sure to pay attention to various items in the menus/lists/dialogs. For example, if you want to change to a different synth, there's a replace feature. Standard methods to add Instrument tracks have both an Audio Instrument Component and a MIDI Component. You can Separate the two and under some circumstances you can combine a "synth only" Instrument track with a MIDI track. For multi-timbral synths with different sounds being played via different MIDI Channels, you could choose to have several MIDI tracks pointed to one multi-timbral instrument with a different sound on each channel. There's a whole lot more but from the sound of it, once you get Instrument Tracks, you'll see tons of options. Hope this helps. Read the manuals, watch videos, explore, ask questions. Each synth is different. So how to use one and what they each do will vary quite a bit.

I was under the impression that Mike has made his video series freely available to all. I edited out a rather lengthy post I did trying to explain about tracks. Since I had to assume you were a "newbie," it was very wordy and left out a lot. So I felt that Mike's Creative Sauce series would better meet your needs. Sometimes I save old posts when editing them (especially when I have spent a lot of time writing them up). Maybe I saved my original post and maybe that will meet your needs after all. I'll take a look. GREAT NEWS [I hope]: I found it. Since it is a pdf, I will have to edit it down to the way it looked as originally posted. (BTW, if it turns out not to be helpful, I apologize in advance.)

Assuming you are talking about Cakewalk by Bandlab (not Cakewalk Sonar), maybe you missed the update in December, so it's new to you?

Out of curiosity, why do you think it will be easy to implement a theme editor given all the changes? I was under the impression that the previous kind of editor couldn't be easily implemented with the new graphics methods. Personally, I would love to be able to use an editor to do personal customizations that meet my needs, such as the following: .

It's been a while since I used sysex command to change settings, so I gave it a try. Unfortunately, while we can enter/load sysex byte chains as banks and we can name/rename them, in the Event List only the bank number can be inserted/edited. Sysex Bank List: Event List: Also, though I don't use Cakewalk's Articulation Maps, I looked them up in the Cakewalk Reference Guide and didn't find a way to do settings changes via sysex byte chains. Maybe someone else has some ideas that might work.

trying to tie fish/fishing back in with days/days of the week.

Does the minus at the right side of the timeline allow you to remove it? ADDENDUM: It looks to me like the Time Ruler Format sets the FORMAT (not whether or not a specific ruler is removed).

I don't generally use *.pcp files, but I looked for them on my PC. The earliest ones I have are dated from 2010 and generally run through 2014. I found them in folders for SONAR X1 Producer and SONAR Platinum. To the best of my memory, I have not tried using them in newer products (Cakewalk by Bandlab, Cakewalk Sonar). If you have the older SONAR products, maybe you have *.pcp files in folders related to those products.

ADDENDUM (just a historical footnote, which I suspect you might already know) Thanks for confirming that you already knew (as I suspected). To be honest, at first I wasn't going to try to help because I had no idea what a TR8S was, but decided to look it up because I knew the 41 [manufacturer's ID] looked very familiar. So, I decided to look for the MIDI documentation. I had no idea Roland no longer made the details of their MIDI commands available. Hexadecimal can be quite scary. And playing around with it too much can make someone go blind. 🤪