Starship Krupa

In Track View, Current Control Outline is a color selection for the little highlight corners that appear around the last control the user clicks on. Console View has the same highlight system, but doesn't seem to allow us to change them, leaving them always "refrigerator white." I thought that at one point I had them set to a different color and wanted to change them back, but am not 100% sure, and if I did, I don't remember how I finally did it. I've done the obvious thing, which is to look under "Console view" in TE and see which colors are set to white, but there are none in Racing Green and yet the control outliners are bright white. It seems odd that we would be granted control of them in one view but not the other, but oddness abounds in the world of theming.

Okey doke, blokes and gals, she's in the wild for you to download and try!

Apologies, I assumed from your use of spellings (and taste in literature and sense of humour) that you were a Brit. ?

Right. Remember, a drum kit doesn't have "octaves," it has kick, snare, hat, toms, crash, and ride. Those are mapped to MIDI numbers. It's only when people use the "C1, C2, C3" designation that we run into confusion, because that is not properly standardized. @Colin Nicholls describes it pretty well: http://prodigalsounds.com/blog/2020/11/03/midi-notes-names-and-numbers/

I do when I'm talking about British guys. I guess I'm one of those American "anglophiles" who likes to drop in British slang and proper UK spellings when conversing with people who get them. I watch a lot of British TV shows, so I pick it up. The bloke in question has spent hours tirelessly documenting colours in Theme Editor whilst having to refer to them as "colors," so it's the least I can do. ?

I gave Music Maker itself a try. It has the basic features of a DAW, too rudimentary for me. There was nothing about it that compelled me to continue.

I did not mean to suggest otherwise. Humble Bundle is an outlet where Magix software has been sold at deep discount from time to time. I've acquired several Magix products there myself, including a version of Acid, albeit not the version that you use. They may in the future offer more deeply discounted Magix software, which might include an updated version of the program you want. The products they offer are usually a revision behind whatever the current release is.

Your description makes me want it, as a fairly rabid Unfiltered Audio and Glitchmachines fanboy, but as you say, they put stuff on deeep discount all the time, usually through PB.

Keep your eye on the Bundle that is Humble. I scored Studio 11 in a Magix Bumble Hundle a while back.

Well, they're at least similar in that if you get weird noises while it's in operation, a good thing to do is go over the maintenance records!

Before you do this, be sure to check and make sure that the Windows update that rolled out around the same time isn't responsible. I just went through a system reset, and was getting a nasty latency spike in my network card driver, which Microsoft loves to "update." The one that Dell puts up on their website cures the problem. Samesies for video drivers, etc. And they love to reset Defender anti-malware to scan everything at all times. So make sure that any optimizations you did to your system didn't get reset by Microsoft.

Nickel Mint Theme Notes: I decided to go in almost the opposite direction of my previous themes. It follows the light paradigm, starting from Mercury rather than Tungsten, it's not based on a pop culture reference, and has 3-D buttons. This theme is supposed to fade into the background rather than grab the eye. The only similarities are the green highlights and use of the same panel show and hide buttons as my other themes, as well as Explorer/Finder turny triangles for opening and closing folders and ProChannel. Since I think that the Control Bar is the most important element as far as making a theme really different, my goal with this one was to "unify" the Control Bar. In locked state it looks like one big Control Bar rather than a collection of modules. I also wanted to make my Control Bar actually light, unlike Mercury (and most of its derivations) that have dark Control Bar modules. This was inspired by the old Retro Hi-Fi theme. Also lightened up the Cakewalk logo so that it's not dark-on-dark. Default clip colors are stock from Mercury, but the track backgrounds have been shifted to a subdued green. If you use the custom .CLR preset, you'll get nice strong grid lines in your Track View. The name: Nickel because it's a silvery metal and a tribute to the bloke whose work made it possible for me to start creating themes (he prefers light themes, he might not recoil in horror from this one), then Mint because of the green highlights and because in the US, we call 5p coins "nickels," which are of course, minted. Comments and critiques are welcome. The idea with this one was to make a theme with broader appeal than my nutty pop culture ones (or dark dark dark Racing Green), so I'm even more interested to see what you have to say. I put a lot of work into it, but I can put in a little more if needed.

One could have a bit of fun with that if one were of a mischievous nature. As anyone who's opened the About box on EVA 01 knows, it's a good place to put Easter Eggs. I've started "signing" my custom themes in the About box.

Forgive me if I'm not getting this, but how would this be different from what we have here?:

To answer your question of Kevin, I'm not sure precisely what he had in mind, but you could use Archive and Hide as follows: Do your usual bit, but after you make the bounce, instead of deleting the original track, click on the "A" button to Archive it , then right click on its header and select Hide This Track. If there isn't already one, you could create a custom keystroke for the hiding part. Alternately, instead of hiding them, you could make a folder for archived tracks and send archived tracks to that folder. Use the folder like the Windows Recycle Bin: don't delete the tracks in it until you're not in the excitement of your creative zone and you're absolutely sure. If you need to save screen space, you can even hide the folder. Side benefit: maybe tomorrow you listen to your project and decide you want to do something different with the track that you tortured with your Glitchmachines or Unfiltered Audio fx, it's there in your Recycle Bin folder in its unmolested state. (Safety is part of what the Archive function is for, when you're not sure if you want to keep the track, but don't want it sucking resources. I use it all the time to save alternate takes that I don't want cluttering things up.) I would find this simpler and less confusing than opening a second project. When I do that I find myself making mix moves on one that I meant for the other, etc. It's for special occasions only.

As I'd remind anyone else who made good feature requests prior to 2018, Cakewalk is for sure Under New Management, who have shown much interest in implementing these quality-of-life features. So, ye olde tymers, if you submitted the request during the Obama administration and either had the developers of the day say "sure, great idea!" and never implement it, or had them say nothing despite a dozen fellow forumites clamoring for it: please re-submit them! Think of all the longstanding ones we've gotten over the past 3 years. It can be hard to remember them, because they fade into the background and Cakewalk just feels friendlier overall. Cakewalk is of course no longer driven by the need to earn new license fees. The developers have a lot more flexibility as to how they direct their efforts. The people who've been using the program forever are a really great resource for digging up these old bugs and features. The "fresh set of eyes" crew (like me) are good for bringing up stuff that everyone else has been working around so long they don't even think about it, but we haven't dug as deeply into the features.

I've ID'd another image location. Y'know that set of logos in Global/About Box? They show up when you click the "LEGAL" button in the About Box:

I think that system could have plenty more life as a Cakewalk system, depending on what kind of work you're doing with it. Since you're seeing a single core spike, I have to ask: in Preferences/Audio/Playback and Recording, do you have Plug-In Load Balancing enabled? If you don't, then enable it and see what happens with your ML Sound amp sims. Other settings that can help are Preferences/Audio/Configuration File, where you can set a Thread Scheduling Model (mine seems to work best with 2) and Extra Plug-In Bu Also, in your system's BIOS, do you have Hyper-V support enabled? When enabled, it splits your 4 physical cores, giving you 8 virtual cores to play with, and DAW's love more cores. Your system is (I think) one generation older than mine, and mine runs just fine. And if all you're doing is mixing down already-tracked material, who cares if you have to crank the buffers up to 1024 or 2048?

I am, not surprisingly, intrigued by this deal. It seems like MAutoDynamicEQ or MSpectralDynamics would be the likeliest candidates for interoperability. At this point, I guess you use it like MAnalyzer where you can copy and paste the analysis into MEqualizer or one of the others? That's always been one of my favorite features (as always, unfathomable that you can do it even with the free versions).

In Cakewalk, VST's are accessible via the FX Rack menu. Have you tried the free Meldaproduction tuner I suggested?

When I add a new track, folder, or bus, the first thing I want to do is give it a name. I imagine that I'm not the only one who does this. My suggestion is that when a new track, bus, or (especially) folder is created, focus should immediately shift to the name field. As it is, when creating new ones, they are given generic names, which is fine, and if it worked the way I suggest, all we would have to do to keep it or defer renaming would be to hit Enter. Before any olde tymers raise protest, as with all behavior changes, this would be made a Preferences setting.

I don't use Expose as much since I got MtM's Levels, which sits on the output bus of every template I use.

It doesn't. You can download the Meldaproduction FreeFX Bundle, which includes an excellent tuner plug-in. It can do polyphonic, and even has a MIDI out function so you can do pitch-to-MIDI with it.

Yes, at this point, you need to be using a new(er) computer. A Pentium 4 with 4G of RAM and a spinny hard drive is not adequate in this day and age. It's a museum piece. The only thing I can think of to do with such a system is install Lubuntu and use it for web browsing. You don't mention what the full specs of your laptops are, but if they have at least 8G RAM and i5 processors, you should be able to record 6 tracks at once using Cakewalk by BandLab. Better still if they have SSD's. However, you also need to drop a couple of hundy on an interface that can handle 6 inputs. Look for used on Craig's List or Reverb.com. Your XP system has had a long, long life and you've saved a lot of money by keeping it running. It's time to invest that money in newer hardware.

Got other uses for View Border and View Menu Text. They're used for ProChannel module menu. As follows: