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I myself dislike when people offer clumsy workarounds when a feature request is in order, and I fully agree with the feature request. Apologies if I didn't make that clear in my reply. My purpose with the workaround suggestion is to help anyone temporarily while the problem is addressed where we think it should be addressed, which is in Cakewalk.

Let me see if I understand it correctly, because I haven't tried patching in any external processors. Let's assume I want to use it with my @Craig Anderton PAiA Hot Springs Reverb, which would actually be my most likely scenario, as the Hot Springs is a favorite external processor. The Hot Springs is mono in, mono out, so I only need one output and one return from my 8-channel Firepod. The Firepod only actually has two channels that may be used in this way, if I recall, so they are "expensive." You're saying that if I assign the first output to the plug-in, I can't do anything else with the other one? That it's grabbed by the plug-in and may only be used on that channel. That does seem like a big waste of I/O, especially in situations like mine, where I only have two in the first place. Now before I say this, I will mention that I dislike it when people offer clumsy workarounds when a feature request is in order (with the implication that your feature request is unnecessary), and I fully agree with your feature request. Assuming that all external processors are stereo in/stereo out is incorrect and should be remedied, especially now, when so many people are using interfaces that only have 2 channels to play with in the first place. So. If the devs don't think this is worthy of their attention, or even if they do, it will take them time to implement it, I think I may have a workaround for people like us who don't like it: use Aux tracks. You can make multiple Aux tracks with the inputs set to mono left and right. Try creating 2 Aux tracks, putting the plug-in on Aux 1 and setting the inputs of the Aux tracks to Aux 1 left and Aux 1 right. Then use hard panned Sends from your tracks to Aux 1, depending on which processor you want to use. They should be returned to Aux 1 Left and Aux 1 Right, which can be routed anywhere you want. I haven't tried it in practice, but it might help, or something similar might work using a Bus.

It can help to zoom in to the end of the clip you are trying to trim until you get a feel for it. And what Mark said about "hit zones." Drag the width of your track down a bit to make for a larger target, easier to hit. Sometimes when editing, I like to switch to the Edit Tool rather than relying on the Smart Tool to obey my wishes. I'm editing, so why not use the Edit Tool? It can eliminate ambiguity. Those other tools are on there for a reason.

Really, Mark? What constructive purpose does it serve to say that so bluntly after the guy's been told where to find what he's looking for? I put he chances that the bakers are going to read what he said and then try to convince their bosses that what Cakewalk really needs in order to take off is a bundling agreement with a piano and/or organ VSTi developer (those being highly personal choices in the first place) at somewhere less than the chances of the Lyrics View getting a major makeover. He's not wrong, it would be a "great feature," to him. But I think that if he combs through the Freeware Instruments thread or even just tries the ones I suggested he'll end up an even happier Fred than if Cakewalk came with a piano or organ.

Maybe they can get Blondie to play "Rapture." Have you heard the National Lampoon Radio Hour tribute where they recreate the bit using '70's band names with a rock promoter and a venue manager? Predictably, The Who are on first....

More than just views. Huh. I was going by the Ref. Guide, but it seems like there's more to know. I just took another crack at Workspaces, with....undesired results. What I wanted to create was a Workspace for mixing on my laptop, so a single screen paradigm where the Multidock dominates the lower half of the screen with just enough Track view to see where I am in the piece. Only Control Bar modules that matter to mixing. No synth rack, no help. So I set all that up, saved the Workspace, exited, called up a template, applied the workspace, and blooey, it looked nothing like my screen did when I saved it, my Browser and Inspector were suddenly expanded, Track View dominated the screen, and the Console was scrunched down at the bottom. It had exactly the opposite effect I wanted, which is to say that when I called my template up, everything was orderly and ready to start work, but after I applied my custom workspace, I would have had to undo a bunch of clutter to get it to look like I wanted. For a thing that's supposed to provide convenience, it frankly takes less trouble to just make everything look like I want and save it as a template. At the moment, it strikes me as programming a robotic arm to move my desk chair to the exact spot that I want as opposed to just grabbing the back of the chair and moving it myself. Maybe my expectations are off-base, but if so, what is this feature for? Sorry for the thread hijack, I should have tried experimenting with the Toolbar state while I was at it.

Yes, yes, 1000X yes. From this point forward, if I were you I would check to make sure that any plug-ins you acquire are in the 64-bit format. And don't start any projects using old 32-bit plug-ins. BTW, re-reading this thread, I love the "Who's On First" bit that I play the Lou Costello role in with scook and others taking the Bud Abbott part.

I agree wholeheartedly and am surprised that it's not. Also glad to be forewarned.

Even the guy making the suggestion isn't 100% sure which one it is.?‍♂️ Maybe I'll change my handle to "Workspace Screenset" because those are the scariest two words in all of Cakewalkery. Like "Keyser Sose" in The Usual Suspects. Well, maybe not as scary as "Drum Map." Seriously, I would really like to get better at Workspaces, because I know how useful they can potentially be for me. But I think the last time I tried it exposed a bug, which was later fixed, and I haven't goten back to them since. I finally sorted out the difference between the two; screensets are just saving whatever state your views are in when you saved it in the various slots (right?). Although you can copy those between two open projects. So I guess if you had your Tool set to the Edit tool, that would be part of a Screenset. But it seems like using screensets across multiple projects is a hassle. Workspaces are more heavy duty, they let you streamline the interface and environment, optimize it for single screen workflow vs. dual monitor, specific tasks such as tracking vs. mixing, etc. They work across whatever project you choose to use them with.

Sampletank 4 Free CS for an excellent piano and CollaB3 (and Martinic Model V and Model F) for organ(s) and you have it covered and then some.

In the meantime, there are many 3rd-party freeware instruments of that type available. I just posted a link to CollaB3, a Hammond B3 clone that is free with submission of a valid email address,

I'm really pleased to be able to bump the thread with that rarest of creatures, a freeware Hammond B3 emulation that comes in 64-bit form. It's specially issued by Sampleson and other sponsors to be of help to musicians who are shut in due to the big health crisis: https://sampleson.com/collab3-free-tonewheel-organ.html I also somehow stumbled across a company called Fanan Team Pro who make some virtual instruments including Stringya, a string machine, and Clarinetica, an "ethnic clarinet instrument" that have UI's that must be seen to be believed. Not since Terry West have I seen such apparent attempts to emulate the slot machines at an off-the-Strip Las Vegas casino. Check them out if you're into unintentionally weird virtual instruments. The string machine has a 3-band "Trance Gate" as one of its built in effects. So if you've ever yearned for a trance gate in your string machine, they have you covered.

It sounds like the OP is starting with a download of CbB? The thrust of Maxim's post is kinda odd, as if the only plug-ins there are are ones that either currently ship with Cakewalk or once shipped with SONAR. TTS-1 has very little in common with Square I, TTS-1 is a GM ROMpler and Square I is a subtractive synth. Maxim doesn't want to use the ROMpler, so the next best thing is Square I? My standard recommendation for people who are tired of TTS-1 is first to try the secondary sounds in it, then plunk down $14.99 for a 2-seat license for Xpand!2, which is, as of now, the best deal in software arrangers, IMO. If only there were still software engineers around at SONiVAIR to give it a scalable UI.... Y'know, I know of this cool guy who collects once proud, now dead in the water MI brands.?If he could get Jordan on loan from Fishman....

As long as I'm fretting (pun intended) about this stuff myself, there probably ain't no money on or below it either.? (which is fine by me)

Yes, those are actually cleaning rods for gas welding nozzles. I've gone through 2 sets of them. That's why I work from the underside now. ? I think I have at least 4 part-o-casters and 3 part-o-basses in various states of completion at the moment. Also a neck that I refretted that I botched and need to re-refret because I used a 9.5" radius fretting caul and didn't realize the fretboard radius was actually 12". I seated them with cyanoacrylate, so I have to heat them up to get them out. The neck is from a Behringer Strat-alike, which are actually one of my favorite cheapocasters. I have 3 of them, one of which has a built-in USB interface. ?I haven't tried it with CbB yet.

Wow, Tezza, you are my brotha from anotha motha when it comes to setup advice. Yes, I am a fiend for low nut slots. Not sure why the zero fret never really took off, it pretty much takes care of it. Old Hofners had them. It's not just intonation for me, I have the Tony Iommi handicap of two damaged fingertips (not as bad as Tony), one of which is my pinky, so if I am to play 1st fret chords, I have to have the lowest possible action down there. I usually just pop the nut out and file the bottom of it rather than file individual slots. Nut slot files are, for some reason, pretty pricey. I first set intonation at the 12th fret and then fine tune it at the 17th fret. As you say, in a noisy rock band, it didn't make so much difference, but go direct, and start working in the Piano Roll, and it grates after a while. While composing/mixing with the DAW, I will loop the piece hundreds of times, and if it's not in tune, it will bother me. So this video is really "how to compensate for a high factory nut?" Not surprising. I think people still don't realize that guitars come from the factory with a conservatively high "no buzz EVER" setup, because people won't buy an axe that buzzes, and people often try out guitars unplugged in noisy stores. I've made plenty of friends' Squiers and ?casters play and sound so much better just by raising the pickups and dropping the action a little. Pickup height makes a BIG difference in tone and power output. Get that Strat bridge pickup closer to the strings and it will start to roar and drive the front end of your amp better. Keep it 1/8"-1/16" away to avoid the dreaded string pull.

Yeah, watched the video with good ol' Jason there, I only wish that whatever crisis befell the company, that he could have stayed around long enough to finish a manual for Vocalizer Pro. And no, I have no personal knowledge, but I've worked at companies like that. As soon as all the code was in a state where it wasn't crashing, they canned everyone and sold the brand. He seems like a nice enough bloke, and sharp, and I'm sure he hit the ground running. Hmm, curiosity got the best of me, looks like he did. Wow, worked at SONIVOX for 11 years before their Death Star blew up, that's an eternity in the software or MI world: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonrjordan And I was right, looks like he left right around the time that Vocalizer Pro shipped. He says that he worked on Tony Colman Drums and that's one of the last new ones I remember coming out of SONIVOX. I guess there's a cluster of music software companies around Boston due to the Berklee/MIT convergence?

I faced directly into the windstorm of "common wisdom" and peed into it by turning Intel SpeedStep on in my BIOS. Every compendium of tuning tips says over and over again "TurboBoost good, SpeedStep bad." And if you look at the description of what SpeedStep is supposed to be doing, yes it looks like something that's there to throttle your CPU cores. But apparently in practice, at least in Dell's implementation, it ain't that way as long as you have power plans like mine that tell the system to leave the CPU at 100% all the time. So my Optiplex went from idling at 3.4GHz to 3.7GHz, and the cores don't budge, according to HWINFO64. Even with the Latitude E6410, whose core speeds bounce around no matter what power plan I try to enforce on it, when I enabled SpeedStep, at least they started bouncing higher than the baseline processor speed, according to HWINFO64. And when I do something demanding, they rally like good soldiers and ramp up. I'm planning on rewarding the E6410 with a processor upgrade to a quad-core i7, which should be a nice upgrade from the dual-core i5 she has now. Thing is, it's scooting along so nice now, there's really no need at the moment, other than my impulse to hot rod. I sure hope mine does! Now that you've decided to cruise for a while longer with your aging, but still viable workhorse, you're in my territory, so pull up a chair. I have a few tricks for you to try for your next session, that if you're not aware of them, might make it so that you don't have to tiptoe once you get into double-digit tracks. If you are aware of them, maybe someone else will benefit. I notice that you said your audio drive is a spinner? I would remedy that, unless it's something really quick like a WD Blue with a lot of its own cache. First trick: set the project up so that it records to your SSD system drive and see if you notice a difference. Cakewalk does a lot of disk I/O, as it streams every non-archived piece of audio in a project, even muted take lanes and entire tracks. My guess is that by the time your track count is up in the teens, your disk I/O is getting heavy. Do you do all your tracking, then edit and comp? That's the way I do it, and if you do, you wind up with a large number of audio files streaming away, especially with multi-mic'd instruments like drum kits. Multiple takes on a drum kit that has 6 mics on it? Yikes. Next trick, go into your Windows 10 Security settings and tell Defender to exclude certain folders from realtime scanning. The most important is your Cakewalk Projects folder, which is where your projects' audio is written to and streams from, but I also include the Cakewalk program directory, my plug-ins folders (including VST3), samples folders, anything to do with Cakewalk. With all that disk reading, it's no good to have Defender scanning our recorded audio files for malware every time we hit Play or Record. Since your system was pre-configured, and you probably know how anyway, you know to set your power plan for 100% max/100% min, but with the advent of Windows 10, it's weird, but I've found that my customizing settings can get mysteriously set back to the default after a few updates. I make the rounds and check to make sure that one or more of these hasn't been set to the default. Finally, and this may be controversial, but you read what I said about my Optiplex. I turned SpeedStep on in the BIOS and squeezed a little more speed from the processor. Go through your BIOS and see if there is anything that may not be optimized, or may have once been but got switched. (Caveat: Dells are....different. They deliberately lock them down so that you can't overclock them in the traditional sense, many OEM drivers will kick you out of their installer and tell you to get the Dell driver, etc. (there is a workaround for that). I understand why they do that, it's to prevent "clever" office drones from screwing up their computers, and Dell has a well-earned reputation for supplying solid, reliable office machines. They don't want to tarnish that reputation because some dolt tried to overclock his work Optiplex and melted it down and then lied and blamed it on the computer. They wind up in the hands of people like me when some middle manager gets computer envy and wants the latest thing because their friend at another company just got a brand new desktop. And we're tasked with trying to squeeze performance out of something that was designed to thwart people like us.)

Can vouch for BlueJay Drums and Harpsichord as sounding top notch. Sounding. They are wrapped in the usual "Companion" sample player interface sans documentation. Don't know about the rest, but $3 a pop for sampled virtual instruments seems fair. Another caveat: my BlueJay Drums license was for a single computer, my Harpsichord for two.

I wound up using TAL Vocoder II with its internal synth as the carrier. The Sonivox, wow, the more that I think of it, there's no excuse for shipping a plug-in of that complexity with no user manual, no matter how many video tutorials are out there. I just wanted a quick off-the-shelf vocoder effect, not to have to reverse engineer an alien spacecraft. And to do a vocoder-esque effect that doesn't have a basic "Autobahn" or Tupac "California" preset? Also, it didn't allow feeding it an external signal as a carrier. Just not for me. I'll figure out the routing in CbB to do the external carrier with TAL Vocoder next time. The SONIVOX probably has its uses for other things, but IMO, it falls short at "basic vocoder sounds." The Mixcraft vocoder is great, and it loads in Cakewalk, but apparently it doesn't expose its sidechain in a way that CbB can Send to it. Not that I could figure out, anyway. And yes, nice collection of plug-ins with Mixcraft, especially the Pro Studio suite, which has Melodyne Essential, and Pianissimo, a nice low-resource hybrid grand. Their GM player also works in CbB and has some good-sounding instruments.

Welcome, George. It is a coincidence to me as last night I started watching a Russian television series, Лучше, чем люди. It is good to get your feedback, however, the correct forum for it is this other one: https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/forum/8-feedback-loop/ You posted in the forum for discussing User Interface Themes, how end users can use the Cakewalk Theme Editor to customize colors and buttons and knobs and other graphic elements of the program. I know that the online Cakewalk Documentation is automatically translated into many languages, including Russian: http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=0x184C5 Is it possible to use a service such as this one to translate the Cakewalk Reference Guide?: https://www.onlinedoctranslator.com/ru/translationform (it may not be possible, I and other forum members have tried translating the Ref. Guide to other formats and had the process fail due to its large size) If you are not already aware, you may download the full Cakewalk Reference Guide from here: https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Reference Guide.pdf Take caution, it is over 2000 pages! You are also very welcome to ask your technical questions here. We have all had our "elementary questions" and very few people here are hunting for disputes (the English expression is "looking for an argument" :-)). I think we're more likely to dispute with each other over who's going to give you the best answer. Cakewalk is a large beast that has lived for a long time. There are often many ways to do the same operation. I myself had some trouble in this same area when I was new: understanding exactly how Cakewalk creates final mixes. If I am correct and this is what you are having trouble with, I can at least tell you how I do it and we can see if it helps you. (I don't work for BandLab, I'm just hoping to help out)

Hey, whoo, bumpity-doo, I finally found something cheap that I didn't already have a license for: W.A. Productions come through again, this time with Imprint, a 3-band Transient Shaper for $5: https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/36-Transient-Shaper/5450-Imprint I haven't had much time to mess with it, but it has an attractive GUI, kind of similar to SoundSpot Axis multiband compressor. The bands are adjustable, making it the most flexible transient shaper in my collection except for LVC's Transector. Reason Lite? I couldn't even figure out how to get sound to come out of the standalone version, I had to load it as a track effect on an audio track in CbB before I could be suitably impressed by the "2005 called and wants its freeware back" sounds of the subtractive synth, ROMPler, and multieffect unit. If the idea of this promo is to draw users in with how amazing Reason is....well, shoot, I really wanted to like it. Maybe it just totally has the best workflow for making beats, but since I couldn't figure out the workflow for making sound come out of it it's starting on the back foot with me. I won't give up just yet. I had been intending to finally get a license for Trackspacer, but, uh, spaced on the expiration date for the $39 sale, so when I went to check out at Pluginboutique, it was back up to $59. By which time I had already fallen in love with it. I shot on over to Wavesfactory's own website in the hope that their web developers might not yet have committed the changes, and yep, $39. Whew! But first my debit card was rejected when I know there's plenty in the account, then it said my PayPal payment couldn't be completed, but it also spit out a valid license for Trackspacer....haven't checked yet to see what went through and what did not. ?

Scott, you are aware that Cakewalk, Inc., the company, went out of business over 2 1/2 years ago, in November of 2017? This is a forum for discussion of Cakewalk by BandLab, a newer program that's based on the SONAR code as it existed then and has since been revised, amended, and expanded upon. Cakewalk is now licensed under a freeware subscription. There are users here who used to use SONAR 8.5 who may remember how to help you out. In the meantime, Cakewalk by BandLab is very many things, but most importantly to you it: Costs nothing to use. That's right, completely free. It's like getting SONAR Professional 2020 for free. Will install right next to SONAR on your system without overwriting anything or disturbing anything SONAR-related. Opens old SONAR projects going WAY back, back earlier than the one you're trying to open, if I'm correct. Is supported. You can send support requests about Cakewalk issues to BandLab support techs and they will answer, and there is a lively community here of current users Kicks all kinds of butt. Seriously, way, way better than what you have that came with an audio interface in the early days of the Obama Administration Given all of the above, it might behoove you to download and install CbB, load your project into it and try the export from there. Also, I tried the time-honored method of Googling "OMFI_ERR: Mob does not exist in this file" and found a possible answer for you right here: http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=1190244 I thought that Mike V. (Mudgel) was on this forum, but I guess he's off Cubasing or something. Anyway, it looks like I was on the right track with opening it in the modern version, but it may be that your project is just too big. Is there anything you can do to get the size down below 2G? Cut it into movements or songs? Part A/B?

Well, look at my sig. ? My take on upgrading your current system with a new mobo and RAM is that I'd hope you'd find a good home for your still perfectly viable i7 3770 motherboard and 16G RAM. Mine ain't going anywhere anytime soon unless someone gives me a better computer for cheap or free. I just figured out how to trick the BIOS into running the CPU at a constant 3.7GHz even though it's a Dell, so look OUT. It's as "overclocked" as a Dell Optiplex is likely to get.

I do not disagree there. As I said, no endorsement or recommendation implied. Especially as someone who tracks everything at 44.1/24, if these are locked at 48/16. I would not want to have to work within the constraint of having to fit all the range into 16 bit. Still relevant: absolutely. Up there with the best of them....depends on what you mean by "them." If "them" is "the in-house plug-ins that come with the DAW," I think they're fine. I don't use them myself because the DXi format doesn't work in any of the other programs I use, so learning them in depth isn't going to happen unless/until they're issued in 64-bit VST form. I like to be able to use my tools across different programs. (I'm a Meldamoonie, and after that, it's whatever works. Boz Digital (Gatey Watey), Sonic Anomaly (Unlimited), SoundSpot (Cyclone), Wavesfactory (Trackspacer), IK Multimedia (One), Acon Digital (Multiply) are all in my project templates and A-List folder)