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I don't have a Ronald Juno of any type, but I do have a Roland.ins file which has patch banks with the following headers:

[JUNO-Gi GM2 Capital] , [JUNO-G GM2 Rhythm Sets],  [JUNO-G GM2 Var #1] and a number of other Variations of the "Capital" patch bank.  Here's where I found the Roland.ins file:

I don't recall where I got it.  I do have Roland.zip files that pre-date that one, but they don't have the Juno-Gi GM2 patch banks.  Perhaps you have the above file in the same folder?

Update: If you don't have it already, Roland.ins seems to be one of the files linked here, specifically "Download Instrument Definitions included with the latest Cakewalk software."

10 minutes ago, javier said:

When changing the meters range, remember there is also a DISPLAY tab on the bottom of the Pro Channel View (I just discovered it), so you can specify the meter range for a track and its associated bus in that view.

So far I found 4 places where to change meter ranges:

1- Options/Meter Options (on the Track View)

2- Options/Meters (on the Console View)

3- Display/Module Options/Meters (on the Pro Channel)

4- Right click on a single meter to see the options for that particular track/bus.

So far I am using only 3 Workspaces to see only the Track view, the Console view, or both, along my 2 screens; so I opened them and change the meters range for each Workspace and save them. Now I have all my meters at -24dB regardless of the Workspace I am working with.

So there are even more combinations and permutations!!!!!!! Thanks for mentioning those, and for organizing the "So far . . . " list.  I was editing my post with the Addendum (my results).  I had fun testing the templates, but I have taken enough of a "fun" break for today!!!  Time to get back to other things.  If I can't sleep tonight because of different meters with various meter ranges chasing me in my dreams, I >>might<< get up, boot my PC, and poke around some more.  

56 minutes ago, javier said:

Hi,

I have tried changing and saving all the Options for meters in my template and they are not recalled.

Nevertheless, I followed reginaldStjohn suggestion; I changed them in my Workspaces and it worked great.  Thank you!!

As a Cakewalk user, I am a big fan of Workspaces myself; I almost never use templates--just previously saved projects that I tweak extensively (e.g., deleting all tracks, adding tracks and plug-ins, etc.). 

I have tested the "blank" and "empty" templates just so I can understand issues others talk about. (It helps me to develop a deeper understanding of Cakewalk so I can see how to use new-to-me features and techniques.  You have my curiosity, though, and will try to change both track and console meter settings to see if I have the same issue (i.e., that when a custom template is recalled, the meter ranges don't get restored as intended).

Thanks for sharing your results.

UPDATE: There are a lot of combinations and permutations to try to test, but I did do a quick test as follows.  First of all, it makes sense to me that with Custom Workspaces the Meter Options should come from the Workspace settings--even when a new template is chosen. To me that is the genius of Workspaces.

However, it seems to me that if a user has "None" for the workspace and then opens a template, the "None" workspace shouldn't override the template settings.  So, I tested that--at least with two newly created, formerly empty templates ("Whacky Meters - 001a.cwt" and . . . 001b.cwt). 

Note: I first saved the "Whacky Meters*.cwt" templates in with Projects, but moved them to the templates folder so they could be selected  from Start > New.

Condition: Workspace = "None" ;   Rebooted Cakewalk [I think rebooting might make a difference]

Results: When the template came up, my hardware buses had -90dB meters (from the template). When I added an audio track, the track meter came up as -78dB meters. In the console, the meter came up as -12dB meters.

Note: When I tried it before rebooting Cakewalk, I don't think I picked up the *.cwt meter setting; not 100% sure, though.

SWITCH: With the above in place, I simply selected one of my personal Workspaces.

Results: Track meter stayed as a -78dB meter. However, its corresponding Console meter when back to my default: -42 dB.  My Hardware meter also went back to the -42dB range.

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This was just a quickie test, so I did not look at all possible combinations and permutations. 

Conclusion: Some of it seems to work as I expect; some of it doesn't. I don't know if its my expectations that need to be tweaked so I understand what's going on better or if the complexities (of what changes when) could be explained better better.

I am optimistic about Workspaces and still think they are wonderful.  Hope this helps someone; I know I now know more about different meter ranges and might even use that knowledge.

Whacky Meters*.cwt attached.

Whacky Meters - 001a.cwt Whacky Meters - 001b.cwt

38 minutes ago, bitflipper said:

"Static" is often used for many meanings, so it's not a particularly helpful description. Do you hear garbled playback, or a steady hiss?

This is an excellent point--the need for more descriptive phrases for labeling auditory anomalies (maybe even a companion listening guide with audio snippets).  One time I reported something that I had to describe as "It sound like two audio drivers competing for the same audio signal" which is very different from the sounds of "mismatched audio sample rates," both being different than garbled playback and steady hiss.  I know I have audio of a couple of sample rate mismatches--somewhere in some files.

I looked and there are a few threads related to Workspaces and Screensets, but I specifically remembered one post that talked about something coming up initially and then changing after a few seconds.  I have not been able to find that post/thread.  Not 100% sure, but where I go in the direction of creating personalized Workspaces, I think one solution offered to have the last visual arrangement  come up automatically was to use "None" for the last Workspace.  Not 100% sure if that was the solution, though.

I seem to recall a similar discussion on this recently.

Yeah--I had a feeling you were changing things in the Arpeggiator section.  From what I can tell, there are issues with the arpeggiator responding to midi controls.  Glad you got it working with your Casio!

41 minutes ago, Rafal said:

. . . under tabs (View, Options, Tracks, Clips, MIDI and Region FX) I don't have this blue indication of time. I have plus and multiple plus icons . . .

I just checked all of the factory Workspaces as well as None. On my PC they all show the blue time display.  Not sure why you wouldn't have it. 

BUT if you right-click on the grey area next to the plus and multiple plus icons, maybe you have "None" selected for the time display?

26 minutes ago, Rafal said:

Sorry for bothering you so much about my enquiry. I think we may have a bit different version of the software (I have downloaded it today) because under tabs (View, Options, Tracks, Clips, MIDI and Region FX) I don't have this blue indication of time. I have plus and multiple plus icons and then this combo box with All, Custom, Mix, FX, I/O, Track Control Manager options (you have different options on your screen shot).

So I have changed it to "All". What should I expect now? It didn't open for me any Track Header Widget (and C button still opens the same). I have also searched for "Track Header" in the documentation you mention but it didn't help me much.

Help > About Cakewalk shows version.

It is possible I have a different "Workspace" selected than you have.  That might explain why you don't see some things.  There are several factory Workspaces that change (1) what you see in menus and (2) the functions you have within Cakewalk.  See upper right corner of the main Cakewalk Window. You should be able to select None, Basic, Advanced, and some others. 

But, maybe you need to widen the track so you see the track controls.

PS: to see larger versions of the posted images, click on them. 

By default "C" toggles the Control Bar. See the Brown Square and the Purple Circle for access to the track header widgets.

See also The Reference Guide PDF.  Also, I find the Theme Editing Guide helpful for finding things.

1 hour ago, Rafal said:

I have also tried the following. I have entered inspector and there in the clip tab I can choose Track 1 or Track 2. There is also "Ch 1" there and I can change it to "Chan 3" by selecting 3 and deselecting 1. Then I have done similar to change Track 2 to channel 4 and saved modified midi file. But it still doesn't play correctly in the learning mode on my Casio. So probably it is not the place where I can make this change I want to make.

Hmmmm.  This is another way to access the force channel drop down [green box / orange circle].  (Often there are many ways to do things in Cakewalk.)  Is that what you are changing?    I don't have an option in the Clip Properties section (or any other section) of the Inspector to force a midi channel. Hmmmm.

Also, is the Output Track Control widget pointed to your Casio [purple box]?

I will defer to other Cakewalk users who might have other suggestions to get the midi tracks to play properly on your Casio.

22 minutes ago, Rafal said:

In the second point you write about forcing a track onto a single channel with C widget. When I press C the widget appears but I wasn't able to find the part of this widget where I can make the change of channels. Where is it?

In the image above that has 16 channels for my E-Mu Virtuoso 2000, there is a small arrow on the right side of channel widget button. In the picture above, I have "None" selected. That means that whatever channels I have in that track will be sent to my E-Mu Virtuoso (for example). This is useful for sending midi that's on multiple channels.

To force all the midi data on one specific Cakewalk track to be sent to just one midi channel on your external gear, choose one of the 16 channels (below "None").

Below: the arrow (circled in orange) gives you the drop down menu forced channel channel choices/

(3b) Another useful feature is Select-by-Filter, though more involved than (3a) for the current task. You could duplicate tracks and then Select the ranges of notes with a text-based filter. Easier than changing channels for each note in the Event List, though.  Just wanted to add this option because it might be useful for future tasks.

1 hour ago, Rafal said:

PS How is it possible that such an advanced software is available freeware ? ?

There are tons of us that paid hundreds/thousands (USD), perhaps starting with the MS-DOS version plus many upgrades along the way that built a solid core of loyal users (and some disaffected users) and abundant support from staff and third parties so that when the last previous owner of SONAR / Cakewalk abandoned it, the dedicated owners of Bandlab saw a good product, wanted to make it accessible at a very low cost, and rescued the product from the ashes.

Just a guess.

(1) Make sure the track you want to view in Staff View (or another view) is selected. With my Theme (below), the selected track number is highlighted in blue. Then go to Staff View.  It also works if you have multiple tracks selected. You can then see multiple tracks in Staff View. By the way, you can see the midi data as text in the Event List.

(2) You can force a track onto a single channel with the "C" [for Channel] Track Control Widget.  If  you don't have the channel widget, choose "All" in the Track Control drop down (probably in others, too, but "All" is probably easiest for now). You can also create your own set of visible widgets with the Track Control Manager.

But first you probably want to separate the two staves--unless you want to change channels note-by note-in the Event List (the hard way). There are several more convenient ways to select notes and change the channels in groups of notes. 

(3a) I would probably make two copies of the track and mute the original just to preserve it. Then with one duplicate track, I would erase all the left hand notes with the erase tool and force the track to play on channel three.  Then, I'd turn the second duplicate track into a right hand track and force that to play on channel 4.

There are other ways depending on personal preferences.

ADDENDUM: Instead of using the Erase Tool, you can use the Select Tool and hit Delete.

1 hour ago, Jonathan Sasor said:

You can do this in Track View's Options menu, Meter Options. This is then saved with a project/template. The template will appear in the start screen so long as you save it as a .cwt file in the correct location with the other project templates. There's a "go to folder" drop down that will take you right to the template folder when saving a template. 

Thanks for the explanation!!!!! I never have changed my Meter Options (at least don't ever remember changing them). So the other day, I checked all my console meters (tracks ==> hardware buses); they were all at -42dB. Today, I see that my track meters are all at -60dB.

So, since the OP didn't specify track or console meters, I wanted to mention that there seem to be (at least) two places to set meter range preferences (in templates) in addition to thanking you for chiming in with the information of where to look for the settings and how to set them up in a template--assuming the preferences for console meters will will also be stored in project templates.

51 minutes ago, Base 57 said:

Shift-Spacebar is the combo for play selection.

YES!!!!!  Works here.  Thx! 

[Listed as "Audition Selection"]

Even though I said this before, I like that this topic has generated a number of practical and useful options.

Since it hasn't been posted in this thread (so far as I can see), here are two additions: (1) a screen shot of note properties showing one place where values can be adjusted using a mouse and (2) my personal reason for not using the method even though I tend to use a mouse approx. 75-85% of the time I use a computer.  Oh--a bonus: (3) a screen shot showing a another way to scale velocity (discretely or by percent) for making crescendos and decrescendos.

(1)

(2)  Deleted from above where I wrote "never mind" because I hate animosity and antagonism, and I thought even as benign as I think it is, I was afraid it might have been perceived in the wrong way and might provoked an escalation, but now it seems relevant:

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I don't know if you were talking to me, but when I tried your method, the up and down movement of the mouse felt unnatural and was very uncomfortable. After a few attempts, my right scapular started to ache. And now (a few minutes later), it seems to be causing issues with my neck muscles. Perhaps it is related to an injury I sustained in the 1980s.

If your method is simpler, easier, and faster for you, great.  I will not be using it for the reason stated [because it bothers my shoulder and neck.]

(3)

Mugs in different sizes?  Maybe Regular, Large, Quad, and All-Nighter sizes? (Or borrow from shirt sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 2XLT, etc.?)

Not sure if there are dishwasher and microwaveable safe plastic decals/coverings, but if so those might be a nice option.

As for printed manuals, I have long been a fan of reading huge printed manuals, and it is nice to have a professionally printed one that I can read while relaxing in a tub as opposed to a self-printed one with water-soluble ink!  The drawback is that when changes are made, a bound, printed manual can become out of date fast and having separate printed updates can get cumbersome.   Also, printed manuals with decent margins are great for personal notes--self-reminders, personally significant cross-references, sticky notes as tabs, etc.

7 hours ago, RBH said:

Those functions are all relevant and I use them regularly - But they also take visual focus from the track view to operate, it's that short interruption that I'm wishing I could solve. Typically, I'm focused on short specific regions for detailed waveform editing, setting loop points doesn't trigger playback from the loop start time and multiple repeats on short regions is really disruptive.

It would be useful to make a selection and invoke a single key command to play the region a single time and allowing rapid resetting of regions for comparing similar sections. It seems so basic - that I think I'm just missing the command somehow and I've been messing with Cakewalk for about 30 years.

Thanks for the reply. I think your suggestion for a command that can be bound to a key for a "Play Selection" feature would be handy!!!**

If the developers can add that, it would be nice to have it also listed as a possible command for the Custom Module for people like me (1) who cannot remember all the key-bindings/shortcuts and/or (2) who find menus (and the per Workspace Custom Module) useful.

**if its not available already and we just can't find it

47 minutes ago, RBH said:

Is there a way to simply and quickly playback a region defined by the time line selection ? With out needing to set a loop point or specifically set start and stop point ? I was looking to see of there was a way to Key bind such a thing - but I didn't find a way to actually just play ( one off ) from the time line selection. I'm looking for very quick,  fast way to mouse swipe a section in the time line and trigger playback. Seems like an obvious capability.  Or- maybe it's there and my old work habits are blinding me to it ?

Would one of these work for your needs until such time as there is a "Play back selected region" function (if its not there already)?  

To diagnose what CC number and the value Cakewalk is getting from the pedal, while recording a midi track: hold down a note, press the pedal, let go of the note, then release the pedal.  Look at the event list.

3 minutes ago, Davydh said:

Roland is apparently bringing out their first midi 2.0 keyboard this year in 2020.

Will Cakewalk be supporting the midi 2.0 protocol?

Roland midi 2.0 keyboard

Midi 2.0

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"Recently, C++ framework company JUCE spoke with several members of the MIDI Manufacturers Association who said it will likely take “several years for a wider range of MIDI 2.0 products to start coming to market.” The challenge with every MIDI update has been getting companies to support it. The association officially adopted MPE last year, but so far, only a few companies — like Roli, Sensel, and Roger Linn Design — have created products to utilize it."

I think there are a lot of good options/suggestions in this thread and I'd hate to see it closed to avoid further escalation.  JMO.

But I absolutely understand--people have to do what is right for them.

Hey, I have an idea!!! Maybe some people can post some other options for manipulating velocity en masse?

Hmmmm. Maybe all the options have been exhausted and the horse is not only dead, but it has been made into glue?

I usually route TTS-1 to an audio device or a bus (routed to an audio output).  When I looked up Aria Player just now, it seems to be a sound/sample library player. If so, what happens if you route the audio from TTS-1 to an audio out or to a bus and then to an audio out? 

It's a matter of preference, but I often like to split a TTS-1 instrument track into its components--an audio and a midi track.  If you are trying to layer the TTS-1 sounds with sounds loaded into the Aria Player, does splitting the TTS-1 Instrument track (if that's what you have) allow you to route just the midi portion to the Aria Player?

These are some initial thoughts because you have my curiosity (and because I use TTS-1 a bit, esp. routed to Z3ta+ FX); I defer to others who may have experience with the Aria Player.