Jim Fogle

@JohnK, thank you for providing your response to my question. Your description and screen shot answered my question. I do not use the trimming command so I am not familiar with using it. I use forum questions and responses as a learning tool. I was having trouble understanding how the program was supposed to "know" what you wanted without you telling it. Normally there is more than one way to perform a task. Alternately could you have split each clip again adjacent to each note and then deleted the resultant two empty clips?

I'm not understanding. At step # 3, "I try to trim the first clip, but it does not change." and then at step # 4, "I manually trim the end of the clip a little." If you manually trimmed at step 4 what kind of trim did you attempt at step 3? Will you clarify step 3 please @JohnK?

The icons include a Ludwig kit (ugly), TAMA and DW. It would be nice if they had a Gretsch or Premier kit too. Strange how times change, Ludwig use to be in Illinois. Now their factory is in Wilson, North Carolina a nice day trip from where I live.

Greetings, While reading another thread about a similar issue with another chording VST @Matthew Sorrels suggested I had this thought after watching your video. On the track where midi data was recorded, look at the event list. Look at the velocity level for each note. My gut feeling is it will be zero. If I'm understanding the Chordz screen correctly, each note has a slider you're moving to set when the note triggers that determines when each note is output. To the right is a rotary knob that sets the velocity for each note. I'm thinking that when the slider is moved, velocity goes to zero. Here is a link to the thread. There are some more thoughts that may help: https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/9338-captain-plugins-from-mixed-in-key-anyone-got-this-to-play-nicely-with-cakewalk/

I use the start screen and I agree there are some neat looking icons. The icon of the Slingerland drum kit is what made me think of the path I provided. I used that icon. That sucker's pretty.

Greetings @Dd, Welcome to the forum and to Cakewalk by BandLab. There is a good chance the software developers may miss this post and your observation. The developers have started a thread to post feedback on the current version here:

The Workspace Manager includes a description text box that describes all six factory Workspaces and is available for use to describe user Workspaces. Workspaces can also be selected any time after the Cakewalk by BandLab program opens, including before a project opens. In fact a Workspace can change what modules are displayed on the control bar before a project is open. However the Workspace Manager selection is not available until a project is opened. This prevents users from reading descriptive text until a project is open. I would like for the Workspace Manager, and it's description box, to be available anytime a Workspace can be selected; in other words for the selection to always be available.

Very nice and relaxing. Well done.

I can't think of any 19 year old I knew back in the day that could write this song. It take life experiences, or the ability to sing like you've lived them, to sing a song like this.

Very energetic. I enjoyed listening to it. I like all the background detail you provide about the song. Good singing and playing.

Gary, Instrumental 3 version sounds nice. The only change I would make to the sound is I would make the bottom end a little more pronounced. It's there but the notes are not distinct. I have a problem with the introduction. After the count-in the first sound seems to be a high hat sweep, then sustained keyboard chord, then closed high hat hits and side stick and then guitars. I would eliminate the initial high hat sweep for two reasons, the sound interferes with the initial keyboard sound and all the instruments have their own introduction except for the drums which is introduced twice, before and after the keyboard introduction. I'm looking forward to hearing the final product.

@Starship Krupa, take a look at c://Cakewalk Content/Cakewalk Core/Track Icons

@Reinielle Matt, I don't think any forum member has tried a BandLab digital audio interface. Certianly no one has published a review in the forum. However, your question prompted me to look at the BandLab store again. There have been some changes since 2019. There is a note that the BandLab Store in the link only ships to Canada and the US. For the continental US, also known as the lower 48 states, shipping and delivery has changed to free with any sale above $25 US. Sales less than $25 incur a flat $10 US shipping and delivery fee. The shipping and delivery fee is $20 US to Canada, Alaska and Hawaii. Also, BandLab published Link Digital and Link Digital Duo specifications. The specifications are the same for both digital devices except for differences created by one versus two channels such as the number of controls and dimensions. Finally the webpage for each device has a link to a device specific quick start guide.

Unfortunately I haven't found any music staff or instrument characters yet. ☹️

@lapasoa, Sonar may include XLN Addictive Drums but Cakewalk by BandLab does not.

@chuckebaby, Windows 10 recently added a new feature. Press the Windows key + the period key and a pop-up window opens. The pop-up window includes a lot of special characters that Windows formally did not support. I just tried "∆.txt" and Windows accepted it.

An integrated sampler is better than none but, as @Starship Krupa said, well integrated is preferable to something just patched on. Some features I'd like to see include pitch and timing detection in addition to pitch and timing shifting, waveform display, reverse waveform and individual ASDR controls. What other features are needed to create a comprehensive, integrated sampler?

Scott, I've subscribed to your channel. I'm looking forward to learning the tricks to using Cakewalk by BandLab. Now all I have to do is create song projects that need some of the tricks to sound like I want.

But yet, the program still is capable of using the future for new plugins, VST3, to bring the thread back into the scope of the topic ?.

Nope. ? If you your music doesn't fit into any music genre, ? or if none of your mixes can be considered a standard mix, ? then the video or book is not for you! You would not gain anything by watching the video. ? But, what if you saw ONE idea of interest and that ONE idea elevated how good your mixes sound, would it be worth watching then? A more serious and less sarcastic answer now. An experienced mixer has likely developed an understanding of what they are hearing and developed a process that allows them to translate what they're hearing into a vision of what it can be. But what happens when that person encounters audio material that lies outside their comfort zone? Will their process still work? Maybe not unless their process includes a way to break the audio material down into understandable chunks. The video offers a way for a person that doesn't understand what they are hearing, or have a process in place to efficiently and reliably create a pleasing sounding mix, to develop a process that is genre agnostic which should be both efficient and reliable. I can state without hesitation I found the video provides an excellent primer on what constitutes the art and science of audio production.

The song Mark mentions is used as an audio example throughout the video. ?

This is a 2.5 hour video that visually explains how a mix works. In my estimation it is the best video to help a beginner understand the concept of mixing as art. I can't over emphasize how good this video is. Back when the video was first released, it cost hundreds of (US) dollars, now it is free. The video has a companion book available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07H4YVXR1/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1 Here is advertising copy from the book:

@huik Hello. Welcome to the forum and to Cakewalk by BandLab or CbB. Are you suggesting CbB add a chord track? If so then your post would get more views and discussion by posting in the "Feedback Loop" section of the forum. The Feedback Loop is where suggestions are normally made. That section is here: https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/forum/8-feedback-loop/ Done.

The more I think about this idea the better I like the idea of animated buttons. I can see a track's record button flash when it's armed and change to solid when the transport record button is pressed. Flashing play button when paused and solid when running. Many opportunities become available to make the interface more user friendly.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! No external midi controller for me so I'm really looking forward to testing this out.