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Is there a guide somewhere to creating *.spp files?

See "Using the Plug-in Browser" in the online documentation (G. Search Filter).

Evidently the owner of the group (Mike of Creative Sauce) created it as a private group at Facebook, which is his right to do. There are plenty of groups that make their sites accessible to the public for reading posts and comments and for watching videos, etc. I noticed on a recent video Creative Sauce still creates videos including a recent one related to Cakewalk. He now has a sponsor. Perhaps that is why he doesn't have a presence here. I wondered if that's why he left and why the group is private. From what I have seen, there have been others who used the forum here and then "went private" such as developing content and then publishing it. I think they have a right to make money from their efforts. In this case Sal was kind enough to share the information about this possibility (presets being listed via an *.spp file) and Mimo was kind enough to have posted here the work that he did. I assume any individual who contributes material the results of their own individual efforts there is welcome by Bandlab to share it here. I can understand that the owner/moderators of a private group might see a need to have a blanket policy. Personally, I have never met Mark Zuckerberg, but based on what he has done and continues to do I have no plans to join Facebook. I am thankful for those companies and individuals that have made their groups public. In fact I have now book marked two such groups that have content related to my music-making interests. Peace.

CbB still has Screensets, flexibility with customizing the Control Bar, and Key Bindings. Not sure why you aren't seeing them or why they aren't working for you. What Workspace are you using? Try either none or Advanced because sometimes other Workspaces don't have features enabled. Also, have you looked in the current Reference Guide or online documentation? I don't intentionally use Screensets any more and only use a few keyboard shortcuts. Maybe an other user can tell you if the F shortcut has changed. I have different Control Bar configurations for different types of projects, mostly a floating one with most modules collapsed and only the floating, resizable Transport Module (Large) showing. Right-clicking on the Control Bar should bring up a context menu where you can set it up, lock it, etc. Right-clicking on any module should bring up the context menu for any individual module, including the Tools module. I don't change that myself. If there is a problem with the settings not being saved, maybe another user can help with that. Sorry, I can't help with the specifics, I just wanted you to know Screensets are still a part of Cakewalk, keyboard short cuts still work, and in my experience settings do get retained, although there have been some changes, such as various settings for some default behaviors. In fact, I just used F to get my tracks equally spaced verticcally.

Thanks for sharing the details of this very unfortunate situation here. If you are still working on sorting it all out, I hope it gets fully resolved soon. And thanks for alerting us to the need to be overly cautious--Stranger Danger!!!!

Your videos are quite helpful. Hope YouTube can get it sorted out!

This ^^^^ helps explain what I was wondering about when I stumbled onto the change to my Special Offer. With tips like this, I am starting to learn about the arturia's marketing MO. Thanks! This ^^^^ helps, too, both in terms of understanding their marketing MO and in my financial planning. Pigments is new to me so I have been going through more tutorials and manual reading. It seems quite flexible -- enough to keep me busy developing a deep understanding of how to design sounds for my own use for a while.

Update: My Special Offers now includes the MiniFreak V for the same $189. So its now $798 $189. Not sure I need / can afford this; not sure if the successor to V Collection 9 will be even better (and might include sets of 10 Sound Banks, non-vintage emulations, new / original instruments, how arturia's marketing promotions work, etc.). Updating this for 2 reasons: (1) to let others who were sitting on the fence know in case they want to see if their offers have also gotten better (more alluring) and (2) to ask for insights / thoughts on this revised deal.

JMO: So far the videos available to date seem to be full of self-promotion, are geared towards absolute beginners and people who have very little understanding of orchestration, and has a high videographic pizzazz to actual content ratio. I have been watching / listening to an orchestration series elsewhere, so maybe I have higher expectations. I previously knew a lot that's covered in the paid series but have also been learning a bit. It is more like reminding me of what I learned decades ago and forgot from a lack of regular use plus tips that supplement my personal knowledge base using computer tools. On the other hand, the Virtual Orchestration series, in assuming a near total lack of prior knowledge, seems light weight, dumbed down, etc. Might be ideal for beginners. Might become more useful as a resource for non-beginners once they add more meaty content without the promotion and glitz. Time will tell. Worth book-marking and checking back later.

I assume you know that TOTAL MAX 3.5 doesn't include a lot of new things that have come out since it was released. If you currently qualify for the $99 MAXGrade, don't want any of the newer stuff, might not be able to save up enough money to afford TOTAL MAX 4.0 when it comes out, etc. $69 plus Jampoints might work for you. Only you can say whether or not the stuff included in TS3.5 MAX would be a good decision or if it would be in your interest to wait. If by "them all" you are including reverbs that were released after TS 3.5 came out, I would encourage you to check out the What's-Included list to make sure the ones you want are included.

Done. There's no time like the present. Thanks for the encouragement.

I agree; there's lots of potential here. Artists can specify charities and maybe they could even specify charities for their individual tunes. Someone who uses the foghorn might want the proceeds to go to restoration projects. Another artist might want contributed space music tunes to go to science/space exploration. There's potential to tap into donations from existing dedicated communities. Other ideas: Tunes using string libraries to benefit music education, community orchestras, etc. Low-income artists specifying neighborhood/regional artist organizations

If this type of technology [modeled acoustic spaces] isn't used in VR, it should. Is anyone here into VR? Is this kind of thing done? I can imagine VRers moving from space to space based on the modeled audio environments combined with visuals and subtle sonic cues. Simple example: walking out of the confines of an elevator into a spacious building lobby. Not just specific sights and sounds to orient VRers, but the acoustic environment. Cool technology!!!

There are no contributions there yet. Maybe that's intended to encourage contributions?

Yes, for those who like automation lanes. Cakewalk's automation has never fit my work flow. I have work arounds,** but since CCs have been such a basic part of MIDI since the beginning and continue to be both useful and used, the lack of that kind of MIDI control is an omission. I pride myself on being resourceful enough to design workarounds, but sometimes its nice to use direct approaches. Thanks for the suggestion; I will give it a try, but since the parameters are exposed to other software, I fully expect MCCGenerator should provide another successful workaround. Just to be clear, I agree with this ^^^^ and have always found its creative potential agrees with the stuff I do. My point was simply one about $20 for objeq delay alone. As noted, it was previously offered for $10 and free with purchase. I paid more for mine and have not regretted it. NOTE(S): **My go-to workaround is Voltage Modular. It is child's play for me to put Objeq Delay in there and use the Plug-in Host module to assign remote control CCs. Works interconnected with CbB (VM as an FX Rack within CbB). [This space reserved for reporting results of the MCCGenerator workaround.] Update: I started to try, but setting up MCCGenerator is taking way too much time for me. I might try another time. Since I already have the VM FX Rack approach down pat, I'll stick with that, but thanks for the suggestion. Also, I can already send CCs (learned and generated) from VM to control plug-ins inside of CbB. I'll spend my Melda learning time with Chandler's MSF videos!

If it responded to MIDI CCs, I'd agree.

Just My Opinion: For anyone still using the older SONAR Edition of the Sessions Bundle that wants Session versions that are not tied to SONAR/Cakewalk, this is a good deal--update Strum Session, Lounge Lizard Session, Ultra Analog Session, plus get Objeq Delay and 5 older Sound Packs (as well as some non-AAS stuff). Two years ago I got a similar bundle (also $20 or more but with 5 different Sound Packs) and qualified for sale prices on instrument upgrades that were lower because I was upgrading from the registered Session version. Not saying this will meet anyone's specific needs; just pointing out some possible benefits in case you were thinking about it anyway. Good point for those who have AAS stuff already. If the bundle you mentioned is the one I got in in January 2021, here's what I got: Sound Packs: Cinémathèque – Ultra Analog VA-3 and AAS Player sound pack Entangled Species – String Studio VS-3 and AAS Player sound pack Multiverse – Chromaphone 3 and AAS Player sound pack Plastic Pop – Ultra Analog VA-3 and AAS Player sound pack Starlight – Ultra Analog VA-3 and AAS Player sound pack Instruments Ultra Analog Session 2 – Analog Synthesizer Lounge Lizard Session 4 – Electric Piano Strum Session 2 – Acoustic Guitar FX Objeq Delay – Acoustic Filter and Delay I am assuming anyone who got the Tier 3 Bundle at that time got the same Sound Packs, but I agree: people should check what they already have.

It is a private group and is not available to people who don't have a Facebook account,

First question: What do you mean by the "MIDI view?" I can think of several possibilities. Not sure if those are what you have in mind. Second question: Why do you want to use a special Workspace? (What are you trying to achieve?) Third question: Can you have the MIDI view as a tab in the Multi Dock and use the D shortcut to toggle between (1) full-screen track view and (2) full-screen dock view and select either the Console or MIDI view? (I have done that for some projects.)

I was under the impression that you would be adding in other instruments and then assigning each midi track to a different instrument. If you want to delete the TTS-1 assignments, try going into the Synth Rack View and deleting TTS-1. While in the Synth Rack View maybe you would want to insert the other instruments? Did you try changing the output widget of the existing MIDI track to the new instrument (instead of copying the MIDI data)? As 57Gregy said: Output routing of MIDI track after TTS-1 was removed using Synth Rack View: Output routing and Channel assignment immediately after I inserted a new software synth: Live keyboard presses were directed to the newly inserted synth. The MIDI data previously assigned to TTS-1 played on the newly inserted synth. Footnote: After I inserted the new synth: (1) I now have both single track replace synth command and the one to replace the synth in all tracks and (2) replacing the synth on all tracks worked!!! Previously, I had set up a Split Instrument track. This time I set up a Hybrid Instrument track and did the replacement from the hybrid track. Hope this helps.

I see now that you are using one instance of TTS-1 and multiple midi tracks. Do you want to remove TTS-1 and just have the MIDI tracks with the MIDI data on them? If so, just delete track 11. Then you can insert other instruments and point each track to those instruments one by one. Sorry about the confusion. I didn't understand what you meant by removing "all instrument patches" and wrongly assumed you wanted to replace TTS-1 on multiple instrument tracks. Upon re-reading after seeing your project, I see now that all you wanted to do was just remove TTS-1 and keep the MIDI data that was on all of the separate MIDI tracks. If you want to delete all program change commands that might be embedded in all of the tracks, I remember seeing a discussion of that. I seem to recall it involved using the Event List View, filtering the data so you just saw the program change commands, and then deleting them one by one. If you have the initial patch set for each MIDI track, you might have to change that for each midi track one by one.