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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)

So good that if feels like cheating.

So you My apologies, goodsir, it was what was in your quote from azslow that was in error, but the page does say that they intend for people to use the things with their Macs and PC's. Whether anyone would wish to....not for me to decide. You are perhaps under the misapprehension that I somehow endorse these things, but if you get around to reading my original post you'll find that it concludes with me saying "I personally would pass." In case there's any ambiguity about that, it means that I would not wish to purchase the BandLab Digital Link interfaces due to their beginner-level specifications. Where I said "whether you think they are 'deals' in general is up to you," what I meant by that was that it was not instantly apparent to me that they were, and that people should decide for themselves. I see you're doing a service to the left-mouse-button-challenged by copying and pasting the specs, and even giving them an example of a competing product and telling them they should compare them. Perhaps my "whether they are 'deals' is up to you" was a bit fancy. Well, good on ya, mate.

Ooh, thanks for the reminder that I should sit down with a Google Sheet and record all of my PB serials for backup purposes. Most of them have some kind of redundancy in the form of the manufacturers' websites, iLok, whatever, but I do kind of rely on PB as a central repository and sometimes memory jogger. Companies fail, websites get compromised, websites crash, databases get corrupted. I must remember these things.

Oh, you must not have noticed the link I included, which when clicked on, explains everything. ? You must have thought the part of my post where I talked about them being "capped at 48" were the rantings of a madman.? "Technically," the ones I linked to are USB digital audio interfaces, which is why I posted the link here. I had a hunch that some people would be under the same impression that I was, that BandLab were still only selling preamp dongles (The BandLab Link). These are full-fledged interfaces complete with XLR combo inputs and phantom power (The BandLab Link Digital). Here's what I suspect happened: In the 2 years since azslow posted his message, BandLab came out with new products. Other companies have pulled it off, why not BandLab? Once this thought occurred to me, it started to fall into place. They had a small product line, then they expanded it. I thought that putting the link at the top would make it easy for people to notice. Maybe if I made it bigger? You still have to click on it to find out the information, nothing I can do about that. https://store.bandlab.com/collections/link-digital

Not a Staff View user, just a sympathetic bystander, but what I am curious about, and alluded to in my bug report: why does the Right Click vs. Ctrl-Right Click work differently in Piano Roll View? It seems to me that the same note selection issues would apply there, wouldn't they? But when I select a bunch of notes in PRV, then Right Click, I have access to all of the MIDI Process commands that we're talking about. I don't have to hold Ctrl to get them. (matter of fact, I am endlessly plagued by performing operations in PRV where I hadn't realized an entire clip was still selected from when I was in Track View)

My suggestion wasn't intended with the idea to lock anyone into a particular use or workflow, more that I'm proud of Cakewalk for making these advancements, and this seems like an easy way to show off what people can do with them. And in the hope it would spark some ideas as to how I and other users might use them to our advantage. I mean, what are the demo projects for? My impression is that they are there to show off what people can do with, well, SONAR circa whenever Scott and the others submitted their projects, and sometimes to ask people having trouble with the software "does the error occur when you load the demo project?" So how about we have a demo project or two to show what people can do with Cakewalk by BandLab circa today? Work for hire, winners get a BandLab Link Digital.

I've bugged it up, actually, but Jon might not have entered it in the database. He had an objection to it:

I'm not making this request only for myself, and I'm not expecting projects that fit my workflow. It would be nice to just in general, get some projects that were in different, perhaps updated styles of music, and show off and demonstrate the big, new feature. Maybe a project from someone who has utilized the Export to BandLab feature to show that off as well. Cakewalk is a different program, a superset of SONAR. It has surpassed SONAR in every way (except for bundled add-ons), so why not have a demo project or two that shows that off?

TTS-1 has always been solid in on my systems, but I have another question: if it's as crash-y and touchy as you say, why keep using it in your projects? XPand!2 is on what appears to be permanent discount for $15 at Pluginboutique. I've never heard of anyone having trouble with it in Cakewalk, and it comes with over 2,000 sounds.

The "Cakewalk Edition" could be the one with the driver that enables the 44-196 that the chip in those things is surely capable of. GPU companies have been doing this for years, sell what's basically the same hardware with a different driver as a "workstation" graphics card for 3X the price. But far be it from me, BandLab seem determined not to market to me. Even their new "Albums" feature, which is huge, potentially a game-changer, I only heard about from someone on the Deals sub-forum. For all the initial paranoia about what the company was going to do with people's information and all that, I only wish there were a BandLab mailing list I could subscribe to to be informed about what they're doing. Instead, it could have been my friend telling me "hey, Erik, that BandLab company that you told me about, I heard they're taking on Bandcamp with a no-fees direct music download site?" and that would have been the first I would have heard about it. This lovely forum here, no place for BandLab company announcements that might be of interest to us? (sorry, aidan, for off-topic blather, back to your quest)

Not a time-sensitive offer, and whether you think they are "deals" in general is up to you, but since this forum can seem kind of insulated from the rest of the BandLab empire at times, I wanted to make people aware of these: https://store.bandlab.com/collections/link-digital The last time I checked, they weren't shipping yet. BandLab are officially in the interface business, I don't know how long they have been shipping, and I guess my having to post this suggests that "we can sell a lot of these interfaces to the user base" wasn't a major motivation for the Cakewalk acquisition. Or did I have my head in the sand and there was a big announcement accompanied by a contest and giveaway? All I remember is a contest and giveaway of another company's interface to a lucky Cakewalk forum user. Anyway, they look nice, although if the rates are really fixed/capped at 48K I personally would pass.