Starship Krupa

As someone who doesn't own Kontakt, who runs his home studio hobby on a shoestring budget, the big difference is that libraries created with/for TX16Wx aren't proprietary. Just something to consider: proprietary format vs. open. It limits the audience, or user base or whatever of people who can enjoy your libraries.

@msmcleod has a nice set of definitions for using the nanoKONTROL II in Cakewalk.

Dude, I was at that show. You were so wasted you got the name of the venue mixed up with the name of the band. When Stacia offers you a strawberry soaked in "wine," hang on.

Hey, calm down. We're trying to help here. As I said, you had it coming with calling your issue "Blue Sticky Finger Bar." I did the best I could with the information you posted, really I did, including looking closely at your screen grab, which appeared to me to show the Inspector with a white box around it. Your Inspector just so happened to be inspecting a track that you had colored blue. I have helped people with simpler questions. Pretend for a moment that I can't read your mind and that terms like "blue highlight" or "blue highlight box when dragging window" or something mundane like that might help me understand what you're talking about and that I might not think of it in terms of "finger" "sticky" or even "bar" no matter what you personally call it. ? Now I understand what you mean, you're talking about how when you move an undocked window back over the main Skylight, there's a blue highlight that appears showing you the place your undocked window will dock into if you let go of it. Right? To my knowledge, there is no way to switch it off, the only workaround is to hold the Ctrl key when dragging those windows. Please give it a shot in the Feedback Forum. I, too would like to be able to turn this off, as I, too, like to work with floating windows.

Do you have any other VST hosts to try them in? That may help narrow down the issue to "working on your system" vs. "working with Cakewalk on your system."

i-yi-yi, I thought that was the case, then I opened the Views menu and there was no "i" shown as the shortcut. Thanks for setting me straight!

BTW, Percolate, I'm sorry to say, is not even worthy of unZIPping. Absolute poo. I don't think they even list it on their website any more. It's the kind of plug-in that probably gave SoundSpot a poor reputation early in their history. Ho-hum processing in a needlessly obscure UI. SoundSpot seem to be focusing more on the "hot producer" EDM market, which I think is a good idea for them. They have cool-looking UI's that inspire messing about, but when it comes to more straightforward "I need a warm-sounding compressor for this acoustic drum bus," or "let's put some EQ on the master bus," I haven't found as much use for their offerings. And....ho-lee virtual space, does Phoenix sound amazing! I did a simple, quick A-B putting it into my reverb send bus with Oril River on a drum mix and the difference was spectacular. I just left Phoenix on its default preset, with similar levels and whatnot on Oril River. With Phoenix, my mix' image extended beyond the monitors both left and right and up and down and front and back. It was stunning, and at first of course I didn't trust myself, so I switched back and forth, checked the settings on Oril River....nope, pretty similar. Up to this point, I've loved Oril River. It just slaughtered every reverb I've ever auditioned, instantly and decisively. Never heard anything like it. Of course, I am wary of FX that instantly make a mix sound like a million bucks, so I will revisit this phenomenon and see how it holds up, but for now it's the best $9 I've spent on a plug-in in quite some time. Also, the first reverb I've liked enough more than TrueVerb or OrilRiver to even pay for, and the descriptiveness and abundance of presets will help a great deal in guiding me to select the right one for the sonic space I'm trying to create.

As a SoundSpot fan I can say that Nebula is absolutely worth installing if you're into messing with modulation. It's a creative tool, as in, when you play with it, you'll find things to do with it that you hadn't thought of. Plus it has the gorgeous SoundSpot UI. MSW2....just got it so I can't say. MSW1 is not a go-to width manipulator for me, but they say that 2 does stereo-from-mono as well as being able to set a lowpass and then mono-izing below the lowpass, a-la Boz' Mongoose. And it has a display that shows you what's going on. And the newer SoundSpot UI look. In my quiver, it's up against the Boz/Joey Sturgis CM one, which is a hard act to follow.

Can verify both feelings of happiness and consternation. Reverb is something I still don't have the best handle on, I'm not far past scrolling through the presets in the hope of finding one that sounds decent on my send bus. Just the fact that Phoenix has jillions of great well-organized presets with descriptive names puts it miles ahead of anything else. For instance, the first professional sounding reverb I got was TrueVerb in a giveaway. Have always loved the way the algo sounds, but it comes with only about a dozen presets with the usual "Medium Hall," "Drum Room," "Cathedral" designations, a complicated interface, and a thick manual that reads like someone's master's thesis.

Open Preferences and scroll down to the Workflow Impediments section and uncheck "Blue Sticky Finger Bar." You had that coming. I believe you're referring to the Inspector. Looks like you undocked it and it's floating around obscuring things that you would rather be inspecting. You can banish it by clicking on the little "X" in its upper right hand corner (not kidding this time, Cakewalk is a Windows app and I went an embarrassingly long time before I realized I could close the Inspector that way), or go up to the Views menu and unselect Inspector, or....well, there's no keystroke to show and hide the Inspector so you have to use the menu command.

Blue sticky answer. Duplicate post.

My favorite is BlueLab's BL Gain. Very simple. But as others have pointed out, Cakewalk does already have a channel gain knob on each strip. It's nice to have something like BL Gain around, though, because you can stick it between plug-ins if needed.

The OP isn't having problems with audio recording. They're getting an audio engine stall with an error message while playing a VSTi. Game audio is actually a demanding application for an audio CODEC, and the Realtek chip has a bit of a starting advantage hardware-wise by being directly connected on the motherboard rather than through a USB port. There is no practical reason that Cakewalk should not be able to play a violin sound through a given sound device without crapping out when a game can play an explosion sound through the same device without crapping out. In my opinion, unless someone is recording audio into their DAW computer, it is not strictly necessary to buy an external device which would be used only for sound playback. The biggest reason not to bother trying to use onboard audio facilities for DAW recording work is that the input is usually a flimsy unbalanced line level 1/8" jack. You'll spend all your time trying not to get it to hum, clip, hiss and cut out. But if you're not recording audio, and plenty of EDM and scoring music is made without ever touching a microphone, you don't need a fancy audio device. I have some suggestions for changing the settings in Cakewalk to help it not drop out when playing virtual instruments. Check in Audio/Playback and Recording and see what Driver Mode you are set to. Cakewalk only allows changing the buffers slider if you are in the WDM/KS or WASAPI/Exclusive modes, so if you are in WASAPI/Shared mode, yes, it will be greyed out. The best mode for running with a built-in sound device is WASAPI/Exclusive. You can achieve lower latency for soft synth playback in that mode, and you can also move the slider to set the latency a little higher to prevent Cakewalk from dropping out.

A tuner would be an excellent addition to the ProChannel modules. In the meantime, my favorite tuner plug-in is Meldaproduction's MTuner, which may be had as part of their Free Bundle.

Ah. I was wondering how the 8.5 stalwarts were feeling about Take Lanes after the recent retooling. Used to see a lot of complaining about the Take Lanes workflow vs. Layers(?) but that seems to have quieted down. Have Take Lanes improved or have the Layers fans just given up for good? So before ProChannel there was a conventional channel strip EQ that was replaced by the Quad Curve ProChannel module. I can see where you would miss that. The ProChannel is an extra click. Usually when I'm using it for simple HP/LP I don't bother to pop open the full interface. And how I wish double-clicking on the graph in the channel strip would pop open the full interface without having to open the ProChannel first. That's a sweet collection of synths. I just make do with a handful that AIR and iZotope put on deep discount. Hybrid 3, Iris 2, Vacuum Pro. I also have a bunch of A|A|S soundsets which I love, great for electronic/ambient. For orchestral sounds, Sonivox' great samples delivered in in crappy UI's. ? And of course whatever free loss-leaders a company is kind enough to offer.

Remember that while at least initially the forum regulars skewed heavily toward Sonar Platinum refugees (like you, I believe), Cakewalk by BandLab only ships with the Sonar Professional set of ProChannel modules. So no Concrete Limiter or CA-2A for instance. I started with CbB and therefore am missing a pile of the Platinum Suite plug-ins. All the high-end synths, for instance. Rapture, Dimension, etc. Ultimately, it's up to product management to decide what are good ideas to implement and what to wait on. Most suggestions would improve the program, if only for the person who suggested them. ?Although once in a blue moon we see something like this one guy who came up with the idea of putting advertisements in a splash screen because he was having issues with BandLab Assistant. His logic was, I think, the product of frustration. ? I did not hold back from telling him that I thought his suggestion was a poor one.?

Another visit from Annoying It Can Already Do This Guy: if you go into Preferences/File/Advanced and uncheck Allow Only One Open Project At A Time, you'll be able to open the project you wish to import the tracks from. At that point, you should be able to just drag and drop tracks from the source project to the target project.

To the righteously outraged: the ban was probably due to the petty authority figure in question getting bent out of shape due to Larry's buy and flip thread, not the ferreting out of great deals such as he does here. Still BS, because Our Master of Deals does adhere to the letter of the law, and I'm with him, why open multiple threads, if you want to know what he's selling, click on his thread. Doofus can't tell the difference between someone who wants to try out lots of plug-ins and recoup some of the cost of doing so and a "dealer," as if a dealer would go to all that trouble to sell a few plug-in licenses.? (Oops, good guess!)

I have no ready answer for this. It sounds like Cakewalk is sending a MIDI event somewhere that Cubase isn't. If you look in Cakewalk's Preferences/MIDI/Devices, what is listed?

Pluginboutique has one too. Egad, anyone who doesn't already have a set of sampled orchestral instruments, $20 for the entire Film Score Companion set is....well, if I didn't already have more licenses for Strings, Woodwinds, and Brass than I have computers to put them on, I'd do it immediately. I enthusiastically paid more than that for the licenses for just the Orchestrals, and you add to that the 11G sampled Steinway and 15G of percussion. Any one of the instruments is well worth $20. Just get it.

I notice that in the Piano Roll it works the way you describe, with a simple right click, so it looks as if something got botched. Do you know if this has been reported? If the behavior was changed deliberately or by accident? Did you notice the change with the very first CbB release or later? P.S. Regarding the business model, I've posted at length regarding my speculations, but think of Google Chrome and other freeware programs that tie into other products and services that a company sells. BandLab is a diversified company with many brands, and was already marketing 3 freeware DAW's before they acquired the Cakewalk, Inc. IP. The code was already mature and in place when they bought it (likely at a good price!). It's low overhead, the people who make up the staff are not in one big office, they don't take out big magazine ads, etc. They have larger plans for it that we haven't seen yet, I am sure. We haven't been told because you don't show your hand to possible competitors.

I heartily endorse this.

Sigh. That is a thing, isn't it? So weird. Otherwise, when I was DAW shopping so many years ago, I went with Mixcraft in part because I liked their forum. And I still do. Ask questions, people don't lord it over you, helpful without being condescending, very nice. But suggest something, anything, and it's like you kicked the hornet's nest. When I started using Mixcraft, the Undo/Redo command didn't show what operation you were undoing. Yikes! So I of course suggested that, and I got pushback in the forum. I pointed out that every content creation program I had used for the past 20 years had had that feature and still. Maybe it's because Mixcraft is such a good "starter" DAW, it attracts people who have less experience with how other DAW's work. And maybe they are attracted to niche software in other areas as well, so they don't care much about conforming to industry standards or what else is going on in the marketplace. And not to badmouth the company at all, I have the utmost respect for their attention to quality, but they too have their blind spots in certain areas such as keystrokes. So @kennywtelejazz, sounds like they tried to gaslight you about MIDI file preview and why it shouldn't or couldn't work the way you suggested?

Yes! Up above your list of products, there's a link for Offline Activation. It's kind of a process, I think you have to run each of them and generate a file, which you then upload to the server, which sends you a code, but do it, do it, do it. Especially for stuff like Dimension Pro and Rapture and Linear Phase EQ that BandLab haven't released.

Oh dang. I looked at your other thread and now I realize that this must be what Jerry is talking about. You can get the context menu, but unless you open it with Ctrl, all of those commands are greyed out. From what he says, I guess it didn't work that way in Sonar. Won't know until he reports back.