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Another thing that you can do is render at 88.2 or 96 (or higher) and then convert the rendered file for distribution.

I've been using Cakewalk for over 4 years and it's not an issue for me. General, ongoing, or otherwise. If everyone else who uses Cakewalk is suffering as you are, they are doing so in silence. I wasn't trying to have an argument, merely to give you some advice that might help you eventually get a solution. Keep the secrets of your workstation configuration to yourself, relax. and wait for the Cakewalk developers to fix the issue. Good luck! ?

Per suggestion of @chris.r, I'm rolling out my new Ableton Live and Studio One-inspired large, flat Transport Module buttons as a mod to Tungsten RS. I've changed a couple of colors to unify the theme (actually to make it so that I can stand to use it myself). If you don't like that, change 'em back: As ever, link is in my sig, and don't forget the color preset.

Patience is certainly a virtue. Go to my themes folder on Dropbox and you'll see a folder named "Tungsten RST." In the folder you will find a version of Tungsten RS that's been updated to use the dark, flat and bold Transport buttons. I did it while watching Hawkeye. Behold Tungsten RST:

Check out the current state of the Transport Module: Inspired by the look of the ones in Ableton Live and Studio One. I'm getting happier and happier with this one as I go along. What you describe as far as getting this using Tungsten colors is not difficult. This theme starts with Tungsten and uses hue-shifting to get the blue color in place of Tungsten's orange. Then my own Control Bar and iconography tweaks.

Hey, suit yourself. I was in no way suggesting or implying that it is dependent on or unique to your system. This isn't finger pointing, it's trying to make things easier for the devs to fix. I have been submitting bug reports for 30 years in the software industry, both as an in-house professional engineer and as a member of multiple beta teams, and submitting system configuration is part of the process. With beta teams, they often keep your system specs on file or just have you keep them in your sig in whatever forum software the team uses. This is especially true with Windows, where the hardware isn't locked down by a single manufacturer. When it comes to video playback, for instance, do you really believe that it doesn't matter what video card you're using? Do you believe that it doesn't matter whether it's occurring with an AMD, nVidia, or Intel GPU? Usually when you submit a bug report, a dev engineer will give it a try on whatever system(s) are available to them. If it happens on their system(s), bingo, they can start working on a fix. If not, then it becomes much more problematic. One thing they don't do is fire up a copy of a competing product for troubleshooting. So while "it works in "Cubase" helps you narrow it down, it does nothing for the people who are tasked with fixing it.

What the appropriately-handl'd Mr. Blip said is true, though. Nobody has been able to invent a DAW to do either of those things. There are of course multiple plug-ins that can credibly perform those tasks, as b kindly points out. I can only speculate that the reason that nobody has been able to invent a DAW to do either task is because it wouldn't be economically feasible to invent an entire digital audio workstation just to perform those tasks. There are already so many great multipurpose DAW's on the market at several price points. It's a mature market, and the things you'd want a DAW to do are really covered. Audio recording, MIDI recording, editing and manipulation both in studio and live environments, built around a pleasantly diverse array of workflows. Inventing a DAW is a poor idea because DAW's have been around for over a quarter of a century, and once a type of technology has been around, being used and refined for that long, there is no need to invent it all over again. It would be like inventing an airplane to fly to Greenland. We already have airplanes. Many of them are already able to fly to Greenland. We don't need to invent an airplane to fly to Greenland. You can just charter one. It will take less time and money.

And I still think that they would want to know your system's specs, especially what GPU you're using. Also, when reporting issues with Cakewalk reading media files, grab a copy of MediaInfo (everyone should get it anyway, so useful) so that you can see what kind of CODEC's were used to create the file, frame rate, etc.

Unquestionably, but to be fair, murat did say playback. The intended function of Cakewalk's video track, from my understanding, is putting up a video so that you can create/edit the music that goes with the video. A DAW is, IMO, an appropriate tool for that, and if Cakewalk has the feature, it should work well. I have two different ways of going at video with music. The first way, the "music video" way, is I create a song that I want to do a YouTube video for. In that case, I do the song first in Cakewalk (or another DAW) import it into Vegas Pro and start having fun with video clips and FX. The audio comes out mostly untouched, except for maybe adjusting the ending. The second is when I have shot some video and want to "score" it. In that scenario, I want to be able to play or program or edit or whatever, audio to fit the images. In that case, where the heavy lifting is audio, I prefer to be in my DAW.

"I'm a VIP with a Ph.D, I'm here to tell ya 'bout C-L-A-P!"

The powers that be would probably like to know the specs of your system, especially GPU.

Do you mean posting, then the brain catching up and having to go back and strike through what I just posted? Heaven help you.

Noise Engineering have released a 3-plug-in freeware bundle. I just saw Cameron/Venus Theory raving about them and demoing them, and yes, they are alll that. If you like the sounds that result from using Glitchmachines/Freakshow/Unfiltered products, get over there. BIG sounding drones and things ranging from ethereal to soundslaughter. I already got the effect to make Monastery Grand sound like a lo fi cello. The UI's are a visual treat, waveforms and animations that glow with the sound (and you can select how much of that eye candy you want). Two synths and an effect: https://noiseengineering.us/products/the-freequel-bundle-sinc-vereor-virt-vereor-ruina abacab, Brian, go. go. go.

Noise Engineering have released a 3-plug-in freeware bundle. I just saw Cameron/Venus Theory raving about them and demoing them, and yes, they are alll that. If you like the sounds that result from using Glitchmachines/Freakshow/Unfiltered products, get over there. BIG sounding drones and things ranging from ethereal to soundslaughter. I already got the effect to make Monastery Grand sound like a lo fi cello. The UI's are a visual treat, waveforms and animations that glow with the sound (and you can select how much of that eye candy you want). Two synths and an effect: https://noiseengineering.us/products/the-freequel-bundle-sinc-vereor-virt-vereor-ruina abacab, Brian, go. go. go.

Their impending arrival was mentioned by Larry about a year ago in this sub I think. I just saw Cameron/Venus Theory raving about them and demoing them, and yes, they are alll that. If you like the sounds that result from using Glitchmachines/Freakshow/Unfiltered products, get over there now. BIG sounding drones and so forth. I already got the effect to make Monastery Grand sound like a lo fi cello. The UI's are a visual treat, waveforms and animations that glow with the sound (and you can select how much of that eye candy you want). Two synths and an effect: https://noiseengineering.us/products/the-freequel-bundle-sinc-vereor-virt-vereor-ruina

There is a Deals subforum on this board where you'll get a better response than posting here. https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/forum/34-deals/

If you take the previous projects where Kontakt 6 is working and add new instances of Kontakt, do those work? If you replace the Kontakt track with a Kontakt track does it work then?

Oh heavens yes. Signed up for Disney+ just to watch that, stayed for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's the only time The Beatles as a group recorded in the studio they built in the basement of the Apple building, so as a studio geek, it was pure pr0n. Every second that was shot in that studio, oh boy. The business of the lads declaring it too live sounding and having Mal (or whoever) bring in panels. Man oh man. Well, look no further than the wallpaper for my Yellow Submarine Cakewalk theme. It's Apple Studios. I freeze framed several times just to check out the gear. The Beatles and The Moody Blues and The Beach Boys and Prince's all having built their own studios made it a dream of mine to one day have such a playpen. Since fulfilled, even if it's just my dining room/library. It's odd that in this lineup, The Beatles and The Moodies each tracked only one album in their bespoke studios. The rest of the recordings were solo projects and acts that were signed to Apple and Threshold. Maybe because by that time the artists had decent home studios. I don't know what became of that basement once they shut the studio down in 1975, but what an adventure it would be to explore that space.

Glad you got it working. VST3's working in Cakewalk doesn't mean all VST3's will work in Cakewalk. Acon Digital Multiply's most recent incarnation in its VST3 form results in horrible screeching coming from Cakewalk. The most recent VST2 version? Solid as Multiply has been for many years.

Whoa, looks like The Pharaohs' drummer was playing one of those Trixon Speedfire kits with the "Salvador Dali melting bass drum." From the day Ivor Arbiter's salesman convinced him to go with Ludwig until the Candlestick Park gig, Ringo only ever played his iconic Ludwig Black Oyster Pearl set. The most iconic drum kit in history. During the subsequent studio era, he sometimes played a natural maple finish Ludwig kit (although always using the same Jazz Festival snare that came with the Oyster kit), notably seen on the rooftop of Apple Corp. Yes, I am both a vintage drum and Beatles geek. For anyone who is into drums, one of my most prized, carry it out of a burning building instruments is my 1959 WFL Barrett Deems snare, which is what the model of Ringo's snare was called before the Ludwig family bought their name back. Even though I consider myself a Slingerland man, I acquired and restored this drum although I have the really really great brass Krupa Sound King snare that came with my vintage Slingy outfit. My Ludwig snares, specifically this one and my Acrolite, are the only ones that sound "right" to me. Thank Hal Blaine, Ringo Starr, John Bonham, and Graeme Edge for that I guess.

If I understand correctly, you're in luck. As with so many things, Cakewalk already has such a feature, Clip Automation. This is in addition to Track Automation. Each clip can have its own automation. Check the documentation. Again, Cakewalk already does this, at least on my systems. If your system hasn't separated FX and instruments into different lists, you need to force a re-scan of your plug-ins. When it comes to effects categories, a host must rely on tags embedded in the plug-in's code by the people who make the plug-in. There is no other practical way for a host to figure it out, so we have to rely on the plug-in manufacturers' using the feature as well as them using it correctly. I've had a manufacturer's FX placed in categories that were the company's own name, which I'm sure is against the VST spec, but there is no actual enforcement of the VST spec other than market pressure (also license revocation, but I've not heard of Steinberg doing that for a relatively minor infraction. AIR's XPand!2 is a favorite of Cakewalk (and other DAWses) users who seek to graduate from TTS-1. I have seen it priced as low as $5 during sales at Plugin Boutique and elsewhere. Sampletank 4 SE is a freebie that includes multiple synth and drumset sounds, as is KONTAKT Start. It's crazy how much great music creation software you can get for free these days, but Cakewalk by BandLab users already know that!

Really? Is this as-designed? Or a bug or just an oversight? A pain, as the first time I noticed it, I was dragging an audio clip to drop it onto a Matrix cell and flubbed it and the clip moved in the timeline a sixteenth or so. Next move was to Ctrl-Z and put position locks on all the clips I wanted to Matrixize. 'cause I wanted to prevent it from happening again, right? It's odder still because I could Ctrl-drag those locked clips to copy them elsewhere in Track View. I didn't like that they copied as locked, because I wanted to scoot them around a bit, the inability to drop them into the Matrix was worse. The former is easy enough to remedy with a right click or keystroke, the latter not. Both Documentation and Ref. Guide are silent about this phenomenon.

Did you see the thread in Deals about how both Waves AND PACE couldn't deal with me disabling (and immediately re-enabling) the network adapters on my notebook? Some of those poor folks wound up traumatized, I think. I take it in stride that by the time my computer even boots, I've cheated the adage that chances for a system's failure increase in proportion to the system's complexity by so much that every processor cycle that passes without it spitting out springs is a tiny miracle. ? Judging by the number of bewildered people who used to show up on this forum, I suspect that BandLab Assistant may have had a lunar phase issue, at least at first. Well, that and the aforementioned people who couldn't get used to the fact that the software they downloaded from the web wants to phone home every 6 months. BTW, it's been so long since I did a fresh install that I can't remember whether the user is cautioned about that during the process.

Not a sign of dumb, rather an indication of being human. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that every computer recordist who has demo'd commercial software that either ducks or emits hiss has gone through the process of tearing through their systems to figure out where the heck that dropout or noise is coming from. Only to discover/remember that they had neglected to put in the serial after purchasing the plug-in. Just as we've all been in the situation where we could not get an audio signal to come out of our gear no matter what we tried, where we exported 4 minutes of silence rather than our latest rough mix, and, one of my favorites, have spent 15 minutes carefully tweaking a compressor plug-in only to discover that it was either bypassed or on a track other than the one we thought.

Even further outside the box. I've been putting the Matrix through its paces this evening. Bounce each of your songs into clips (or multiple clips as need be), put them in Matrix columns, then use MIDI-Ox to have Gig Performer trigger the columns with MIDI note messages. That way you don't have to be concerned with exactly what time each song starts, you trigger it when you like. You could even get a Novation Launchpad like the kids use for live performance these days. ? The Matrix is set up so that cells that share a column can all be triggered simultaneously with a single note on command. Cells that share a row cannot play simultaneously. This acts as insurance that you won't accidentally trigger things that you don't want playing at the same time. If you never want to hear certain things at the same time (which in your case would be the entire songs), stick 'em in the same row. Cells can be set to loop until further notice or play through once and stop. It occurs to me that you might need to switch to a different tempo for each song. I think Cakewalk can handle being the follower in a leader-follower sync with other MIDI software. That would include the clock. Set it to follow Gig Performer's clock.