User 905133

Thanks for confirming that despite nasty tinnitus and a huge mid- to high-range hearing loss, my septuagenarian ears are good for something! ? Thanks to your friend for asking and to you for sharing her method.

Glad you were able to figure out the solution. Why do you want to see all plugins at the same time? Is it to choose what to insert somewhere within Cakewalk? Or is it to take an inventory of your plugins? If the latter, there is a tool available called VST Inventory (part of scook's CbB Tools).

I can't diagnose your issue, but I was playing with Surge XT a day or two ago and have some preliminary questions that might or might not be relevant: (1) Does Surge XT show up if you select the Instruments tab in the Browser? (2) Do you have the Surge XT Effects plug-ins installed (dll and/or vst3)? (3) Do the other instruments we see listed under Favorites in the Plug-in Manager show up in the Browser when you selected Instruments (instead of Audio FX)?

If by "this" you mean the animated video scook posted a couple of years ago, I see it.

Are you saying that you have had keyboards and mouses that never went bad? Two to three years seems typical to me, although it's really how you use them as well as how well they were made. As for the possible coincidence factor, I once had a pocket watch (1970s) that died after about 2 years. Unfortunately for me the warranty only last 2 years. But as long as I had gone back to the original store to see if it was covered, I got another one--same model because I liked it. Wouldn't you know it, a week or two after the two-year mark, that one also died!!! Some coincidence, eh? ?

WOW! I pull out Surge XT once in a while, but haven't done a sufficient deep dive to be able to use is as efficiently as I'd like. JMO: based on all those improvements it looks like a real testimony to the value of a vibrant and highly competent community. I don't think I have ever looked at Surge's use of formulas as modulators, but it has now piqued my curiosity. Thanks for mentioning the update and for including the changelog.

Thanks for posting product details.

Assuming it is a single snippet from a single word, I am not sure how extensive the editing was. It could be truncated at the end with some processing to make a not-so-abrupt release and a short adjustment to the start of the sample; my ear didn't detect a looped section of the sample, but maybe she did that for a few cycles.

Very nice post from his wife. R.I.P.

Looks yummy: (I hope "yummy" isn't slang for a dirty word in British.) Enjoyed the ear worm; made me feel groovy. And congrats on your 4,000th post. Anyone who goes from Zappa's Flakes to a Groovy song by a group called Fluke (FLK = another connection!) deserves the honor of a milestone post.

I watched about 20-30 seconds of the video I linked; not sure if used Omnisphere (or any other purchased samples). Seems to me (1) she is the singer, and (2) she chopped it herself. But I am just guessing based on limited info.

PS: Maya Clars - Diagonal of Love (Official Audio) Why not contact the artist and ask her? Also, she has a video channel with some videos that seem to talk about her production techniques. Not sure if she has one that describes the song you are interested in or if she uses the technique in any of the production oriented videos she has posted. Who knows--maybe she would be inspired to do another video if you ask.

To my ear it sounds like a snippet of the singer's vocal was isolated and played in some way, such as by using a keyboard.

Bring back the simplicity of I-IV-V (and minor variations)

Connections: (1) Soup mixes are often flavored with flakes (parsley flakes, etc.). (2) Flakes references Bob Dylan. (3) Flakes includes an impersonation of Dylan (by multi-instrumentalist / vocalist Robert Martin, IIRC)

In an interview with Dan Dather from a few years ago, Lee references his hobbies. Also, his brand new 4-part documentary series touches on his hobbies as well as those of the four bass players he asks, "Are Bass Players Human, Too?"

There have been several discussions about this in the forum. Due to issues with Windows 11, Cakewalk by Bandlab no longer lists it as a device. Sorry, I never used it, don't remember the name of it, and therefore can't do a search for the other discussions. UPDATE: Pure guesswork, but I found one of the threads: NOTE: The second post there references this post: https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/65864-closed-cakewalk-202309-early-access-updated-to-build-62/page/4/#comment-469452

Thanks for providing the steps. You saved me a lot of time searching for them.

"I've spent more time hunting down plugins than I do making new songs..." Yes, and then I remember a strategy I learned in school related to poets choosing a specific form to use for different poems: Pick one and see what you can do with it.

Yup! And some manufacturers have decided not to implement even CC controls. I was disappointed that a couple of PSP Stomp Boxes I pick up were ones from after they updated their products to exclude MIDI. I never became fluent with automation, but I suspect they do work with automation. I do understand how automation technology works and have used it, but turning a knob or moving a slider is easier for me and is more ingrained in my brain. Maybe Cakewalk Next and Cakewalk Sonar will make automation as easy as using knobs and sliders mapped to user CCs.

FWIW, I just created a very simple Voltage Modular preset that takes CC 18 from my usb keyboard (coming from Cakewalk) converts it to a CV to change the A|A|S Player's patches when the player is hosted in VM within Cakewalk. Likewise, CC 18s recorded or placed on a Cakewalk track hosting VM can be used to switch patches.