Starship Krupa

Oh, no kidding! When I first downloaded CbB, which was just a few days after the announcement, I exported raw audio stems from my previous DAW of a couple of projects I had been working on for months, using my favorite plug-ins. I decided to just fiddle around with Cakewalk using as many of the included plug-ins as possible and try to get a decent-sounding mix. ....and was blown away by first how quickly I was able to surpass my efforts in the DAW I was so familiar with, and second, by how capable and great-sounding the ProChannel modules were. I still have and use my specialty FX like MAutoAlign and Gatey Watey, and my "cheaters" from iZotope, but those ProChannel modules stopped dead my search for an 1178 clone, and I had already snagged the CLA2A when it was a freebie a couple of years ago. The QuadCurve EQ pretty much replaced my use of MEQualizer. And that's not to mention the Sonitus DX FX, which sound great. The only issue I have with them is that they look kinda homely, but as far as sound , operation, and features they are great. Multiband compressors are few in the freeware world and the Sonitus DX one is a treat.

My biggest beef with selecting FX from the insert menu is that my mouse scroll wheel doesn't function when scrolling down the list!

MacOS, Linux, it would be great to have Cake-alikes on all of them, but I would see as a likelier path partnering with an existing Macintosh DAW manufacturer to build in some or all of the BandLab integration that Cakewalk has. Cakewalk was probably a very desirable purchase for BL because it had been orphaned (hence a bargain, and a fit with the company's fondness for picking up good old respectable brands) and was already mature code. A from-the-ground-up DAW project would be a different thing and require a development team familiar with the MacOS environment. It's my impression that Cakewalk and Microsoft had a close relationship. With Apple, Cakewalk would be a competitor to Logic. I'd love to see it, but I doubt that we will.

Oh yes, this. It was so tough to figure out how to do it in the first place, too. Not the most intuitive process. Navigable once you know how, but the road to knowing how was ?. Considering the importance of the piano roll view for me when putting together beats, it was daunting.

I second that recommendation for the amp sim from Blue Cat. I was impressed with that one, and also Boogex from Voxengo. Less guitar specific, big ups on the Sonitus plug-ins that come with Cakewalk and the FX that are there on the ProChannel. You can spend a good long time just getting to know those and making great sounds. The Free Bundle from http://www.meldaproduction.com/ is a trusty favorite of mine. Go to iZotope and pick up their freebies, the Vocal Doubler is especially good. www.pluginboutique.com is an online dealer but has a collection of freeware plugins from various sources, in addition to regularly running deals on $1 and $5 plug-ins. Right now you can get most of the Soundspot line for $1 each, and I like their stuff. If you have any interest at all in softsynths, they have Hybrid 3 for $1 and Xpand! 2 for $4.99

First bit of timesaving info: when they start going on about the "PRV," that means Piano Roll View. ?

Whoa, Mark, that's rad that you're concerned about, like, other users' diverse communication styles. 'cause, totally, I hear ya, bro, without the "California" under my avatar, people have, like, no idea. ?

I have noticed something odd, which is that the avatars of two BandLab staffers seem at first to show them having hairdos that I don't think they actually sport in real life. By which I mean that when I look closely, I don't think that Jesse actually wears his hair in a mullet, nor do I believe that Noel has a flat top. Is it just me? Maybe they do have these hairstyles and I have it backward. Is it the "portholes" that we make our avatars fit inside now?

I guess this is payback for my "I'll never let them harvest my precious AOL address book!!" rants on TOP. Whatever happened to that poor feller? The SONAR Platinum lifer who was convinced that the whole point of the CbB project was to distribute spyware, and that anyone who believed otherwise was just being naive. Probably still waiting for the grand plot to be exposed....

You're also using WDM with an interface whose drivers support ASIO. Unless you're required to as part of a Living History project, why not take your free upgrade to Cakewalk by BandLab? While you're at it, that sweet motherboard and all that RAM and that nice video card might love ASIO mode.

Hello, cats and kittens. It'll be interesting to become reacquainted with some personae with new handles. I've got a new handle (although I'm keeping the "smile on the EQ" avatar), which I had been planning along with a less ironic manner. Users from the old digs would remember me as "Euthymia" if they remembered me at all. I hereby pledge to give up my favorite sport of taunting those casting doubts upon the new product's licensing model (my battle cry: "ever heard of Google Chrome?") in favor of using this new forum to help people use the software. That is, now that I stand a chance of finding people with less experience using Cakewalk than I have! (joy to the WORLD!)

Heh, maybe for a similar reason that I know better than to ask my friends' kids if they use "Live," because nobody calls it that, they call it "Ableton."