Starship Krupa

After literally years of trying, I finally completed their registration process, only to find out that every time I want to use the thing, I have to sign in. With Cakewalk and Waveform and other excellent free DAW's, I could see no reason to proceed.

You had a sextant at least! I remember when "piano roll view" meant going to Shakey's Pizza and staring at the piano, when "track view" was something that you had while waiting for your train, when "console view" was what happened when you'd watch TV, and when "staff view" meant that a company had windows in its offices. A "cue sheet" was something we sat on at a cookout and "cursor" was what my mom became when she dropped a jar of applesauce.

First, DallasSteve is correct in referring to that as a "page" rather than an "article," as in something written by one or more people who stake their reputations on its accuracy. Notice there is no way to up or downvote comments. Slant seems to be a collection of laypeople's opinions. Nothing wrong with that as long as people reading it remember it. SONAR is on there as well, and one of its "CONs" is supposedly that it has no scissors tool. It's as if Consumer Reports were written by YouTube comments. I do notice that in the summary, while Cakewalk outranks Pro Tools overall, Pro Tools has a slight edge when Slant's community of experts is ranking "free music making software tools." Got that? Cakewalk's the better DAW, but Pro Tools is the better free software. Second, Steve, did you miss this comment higher on the page? "Pro: Updated frequently" ? Since there's been some confusion expressed regarding BandLab and its relationship with Cakewalk, I'll see if I can clarify: BandLab is a company and also the name of one of its flagship products, a freeware DAW that runs in Chrome-based web browsers and on iOS and Android devices. There is a "social media" site also by that name where musicians may connect and collaborate using the DAW. Cakewalk by BandLab is another product of the BandLab company, a freeware DAW that runs on Windows and was originally based on the SONAR DAW code that BandLab purchased over 3 years ago and has been constantly improving ever since. Cakewalk has a small amount of integration with the BandLab social media site in that it is possible to upload and download projects directly from and to Cakewalk. It is not necessary to use the BandLab social media site or any version of BandLab the DAW in order to use Cakewalk. The only requirement is that the user must create a BandLab account in order to download, install, and register Cakewalk. Cakewalk must be allowed to connect to the internet at least once every 6 months to contact the BandLab licensing server and renew the license, no user intervention necessary. So, if you want to use a DAW on your phone, tablet, or in a browser, check out the BandLab DAW. If you want a much more comprehensive DAW that runs on your Windows system, check out Cakewalk by BandLab. Hope this helps.

This. You may choose how to apply your upgrade credit, either for enabling extra features in the single plug-in, or getting a collection with more plug-ins. FWIW, regarding the assumption that the user paid 50% of list if they bought it from a reseller: at least in my case, that would be quite generous, as I have always paid much less than 50% of list when buying from resellers. Resellers put certain plug-ins at way deeper than 50% discount from time to time. I got MReverbMB that way at PB. Otherwise, why bother buying from a reseller? Meldaproduction rotates all of their individual plug-ins through the 50% off sales anyway. Regarding users airing grievances because the calculations from the website came out wrong, here's a consumer tip: the first place to contact is customer support at the company. Then if you still don't get satisfaction you can complain on public fora to warn/commiserate with other consumers. Companies make mistakes. Web sites have programs on the back end that can have bugs. Orders are not processed by human beings. Assuming that it's a deliberate "policy" rather than a bug, well, does making that assumption get a person anywhere except angry? Unless they somehow enjoy venting and then eye-rolling when they don't get validation? I don't get it. If I think I was overcharged for something, I contact the company and ask them to make it right, and that can include a refund of the transaction. This policy has never failed me, ever, in half a century of buying things. Some companies don't apply any credit from individual products toward bundles. A wise consumer must study the upgrade policies if future upgrading is important to them. There are many plug-in developers out there. I don't require any single company's product(s) to be perfectly happy and functional making music and mixing and none of them owe me conformation to my idea of "fair" when it comes to their policies, merely that they allow their policies to be known before I purchase. People on this forum especially should remember that there's never a guarantee that any company is going to survive until you decide to upgrade. If I had held a license for SONAR Artist or Home Studio in November 2017, and BandLab hadn't stepped in....yikes.

lkjb QRange. A 12-band linear phase EQ. Excellent plug-in. I'm also a fan of the same company's Luftikus knob EQ.

I did a more detailed review of TurboComp(LE), back when we all got it: If you're a first time Meldaproduction customer, use my (or anyone else's) referral code to get 20% off your first order. My code is MELDA1923165. It's also a good time to upgrade your 37 FreeBundle FX while you're getting that 20% discount. Sign up for their newsletter and get another $12 credit to really bring the cost down.

Nice. They don't often include Cyclone in these deep discounts. Overtone is pretty cool, too at this price.

I'll try working in offset mode first and see if I hit any snags. I saw it in the documentation, but couldn't quite figure out from reading what it does. Thanks for all the suggestions, it never ceases to amaze how many ways there are to accomplish a task with Cakewalk!

I messed around trying to do this, but I couldn't figure out how to select the whole track. Do I need to switch to the Select Tool instead of the Smart Tool?

I'm only now getting into track automation, with my "rock" projects in the past I've handled dynamics with compression and clip automation. Now I'm doing more electronic stuff and getting into track automation. At the moment I'm trying to figure out how to be able to adjust the overall level of the track after I've done some volume automation. What happens is that I'll solo the track and work out the automation, then later decide I want the whole track louder or softer in the mix. So: How do I keep my automation and still be able to adjust the track's level relative to the other tracks in the project? Is there a mode where the faders still control overall level and the automation is relative to that? An easy way to adjust all of the automation moves at once?

Works great in Cakewalk on both of my systems. I ran the updater, so I'd say they squashed the bugs. I found it inspiring enough that I came up with a riff and created a song around it as soon as I opened it.

Convert to credit, as I have yet to be offered anything I want.

It hasn't gotten exactly zero attention in the BandLab years, there have been a few bug fixes. I wouldn't look for feature improvements or additions, though.

I went there and found a sound that I wanted, clicked the download icon, and was presented with the option to download as .WAV or .MP3. When I selected .WAV, it downloaded just fine. Thanks for posting this, it will be immediately useful in a current project!

Next time you install Swatches or a sound pack, search for "AAS Player" from the root of your system drive. I think 17-18 copies of it are strewn around in various forms like 32-bit VST3 and AAX. I wrote a tutorial on how to clean up after installations, with A|A|S as the prime example. What I have now is a folder on my desktop called "A|A|S Wipe" that has shortcuts to all the locations where they install unwanted copies. I just open that up and get busy.

Oops! My bad. I think I got it through that deal as well, then once I was registered for it, it showed up as free, which led me to believe it was free without signing up at soundbetter.com. . I hope the deal still works.

+1 on not having troubles with any of my AIR synths. I use the most recent installers on Windows 10.

Actually. no. It would be wonderful if this were the case, but it's not. I can change the "Input 1L" part of it, let's say I change it to read "Inputs 1+2." What I'll get in Cakewalk is the following choice of inputs: Stereo Inputs 1+2 Left Inputs 1+2 Right Inputs 1+2 For the even-numbered inputs, there is no way to get them to display correctly in Cakewalk. If it allowed us to rename the inputs individually it would be a great improvement, and at least I would shut up about it. It would be nice if the program could display the actual input numbers by default, but if I were able to do it myself, that would suffice. I don't like to play the "every other DAW" card, but in this case, since the retort has always been "we report what the driver is telling us," I will. So Cakewalk reports exactly what the driver says. That works great when the driver is correctly reporting the names. Many drivers do not, so can we please stop doing that and start doing whatever all the other audio programs on my computer are doing when they manage to correctly label my inputs? I suspect what they do is if the inputs are reported as stereo pairs, they throw away the "Input 1L Right" stuff, and just divide by 2 and label the inputs sequentially. There's nothing on the front panel of my interfaces to indicate that they are stereo pairs, or left and right, they're just labeled 1-8. This has caused problems in the heat of more than one recording session when I had the vocal mic plugged into input 2 and then accidentally armed the track to record from "Input 1L Left" when it should have been "Input 1L Right." How silly of me. I sure looked silly as I tapped on the mic trying to figure out why it was only picking up room noise while the singer fidgeted. I was actually monitoring an amp mic that was plugged into what Cakewalk calls "Input 1L Left." (When Show Mono Outputs is selected, Cakewalk also lists the outputs in the same, incorrect way)

Arturia Analog Lab Lite is something along the lines of Kompakt Komplete Start or A|A|S Swatches or Sampletank 4 CS. Like those others, it's not a timed demo or feature-crippled version, rather they include hundreds of useful sounds with the expectation that you'll be so impressed by the quality that you'll want to spend money on more libraries. When I obtained it, I was able to download both Analog Lab IV and Analog Lab V, which come with different sounds. Also, cruise around in their store and pick up the free soundbanks.

You are expecting Cakewalk to be able to correctly enumerate and display the inputs on your audio interface. This is a shortcoming of Cakewalk's. Consider yourself fortunate to get "1 Left, 1 Right." With my PreSonus Firepod, Cakewalk reports them as "1L Left, 1L Right, 1L Stereo." And so on. Yes, it calls my second input not "two," or even "two right," but "one left right." And yes, this has led to my assigning the wrong input to a a track when in the heat of recording. As pointed out above, Windows reports the inputs like this to Cakewalk, unfortunately, unlike other audio programs, Cakewalk displays this to the user without translating. It's possible to do, Cakewalk is the only audio program I've used that doesn't tell me that input 3 is input 3. If you don't like how this works, please do report it in the Feedback Loop forum.

Duhhh, of course, it's "Cakewalk For Windows," version 2.01. ? I was in software QA at the time a few years away from the IT phase. I liked Windows for Workgroups 3.11 because it finally came with a Microsoft TCP/IP stack. Funny, I'm also watching Captain Marvel on my second screen and they start the film out with a Kree agent traveling to Earth in the mid '90's.....they are doing a pretty good job with the recreation of California 25 years ago. They're on the wrong side of the country to run into Greg Hendershott, though.

1994 is kinda late in the game to have anything to do with Windows 2.01. By that time I was all about Windows for Workgroups 3.11.

If you look at my sig, you'll see that under $100 cans are my thing. I really liked my Samson SR850/Superlux HD668's, but the magnet for one of the drivers fell off after about a year so I replaced them with a pair of Superlux HD681 EVO's which look and sound similar. Superlux OEM's these to half a dozen different companies including Monoprice, Focusrite and PreSonus. I think I may slightly prefer the sound of the HD668's, but since I can't try them side by side. I'm not completely sure. The stereo image is great on these. For long mixing sessions into the night, these are the most comfortable and easy on the ears of anything I've tried. Importantly, my mixes translate well. Detail is easy to hear. These are the closest to ideal cans I've yet to try, but I'm always up for checking out something that might be better. I'm always kinda chin-scratchy when I hear about amazing cans for under $50. The Sennheiser HD 200 Pros were a disappointment, sound-wise. Their big advantage is that they isolate well, so I use them for monitoring while tracking. Not recommended. The Audio-Technica ATH-M40X's sound the most neutral of them, which is good to have around. I'm still getting used to them. I got them after trying a friend's M50's. They kind of have a thud in the bass that I don't care so much for. Ah I hate when that happens. Has the decay gone beyond just pad replacement?

I delved into this last night for the first time putting some pitch and mod wheel moves into an existing synth track, and yes, when I went to draw in the curves using the freehand tool, each node, or "event" was on the snap. I turned snap off and got much smoother curves. I also commented and suggested that he come to the forum with these issues, so we'll see.