Starship Krupa

Yes, I just had it happen this evening. What was happening was I was setting up to record my friend playing guitar, and had recorded a little bit of him playing just to see if everything was getting through properly, then hit Ctrl-Z to delete the little bit that I had just tracked. Poof! No more Cakewalk, no error message, no hang, no freeze, just absence of Cakewalk. There it was, and the next second there was the Firefox window displaying the documentation page I had been reading when I had launched help ab out copying Quadcurve EQ settings.

I know you've been around for a while, so you know they've been working the code hard to take care of those issues. I'm relatively new and I saw vast improvements in stability and speed just in the first 6 months of the BandLab stewardship. If you're getting the same kind of crashy behavior with all those different versions on your system, have you totally exhausted configuration issues? 'cause that is a drag.

Oh man, you are in for a treat. Cakewalk by BandLab is designed to install right alongside your existing Sonar installation without interfering. As long as your system is 64-bit Windows 7 or later, you're good to go. Once you have it installed, you should be able to use any VST in CbB that you use in Sonar. The only issue that I've seen people have, and it's unusual, is that sometimes they need to go into Preferences in Cakewalk and add a folder or two to get all of them to show up. Your friend had it wrong, BTW. I didn't personally do it, but Sonar Platinum was the next revision of the product after X3, and I've not heard of anyone losing VST's in the upgrade. The old forum, which goes back at least a dozen years, is still readable at cakewalk.com. There are people here who have gone from Sonar 8.5 to CbB and are using the VST's that were included with 8.5. Give it a try, as I said, there's little risk, it drops into its own folder and doesn't mess with your Sonar installation. If you do run into any snags, there are other CWAF! people on here who will help you straighten things out, as well as the fact that Cakewalk has a support staff that answers users' support requests. And yes, I believe one of Sonar Platinum's licensing models included a monthly fee. There was also a pay once lifetime model. Neither of those has anything to do with Cakewalk by BandLab, which has a free license. The only requirements are that you create an account, which you've already done, install the BandLab Assistant, use it to install the program, and then after that you need to renew it at least once every 6 months by connecting to the internet so that the BandLab assistant can ping their licensing server, and that's it. BandLab updates Cakewalk about every 1-2 months, usually a nice feature or two and a fistful of bugfixes. It's becoming easier to transfer projects back and forth to BandLab's website.

brainworx bx_saturator and bx_subfilter and the guitar amp sims. Softube Tonelux tilt EQ, Sonnox Dynamic EQ, Antares Auto-Tune.... ....to name a few that are available in both versions.

Now that you've sorted your MIDI issue, I must ask why you're using such antique DAW software. Is it a retro thing to go with the MicroKORG? You're aware that there's a successor that runs faster, crashes less, uses fewer resources, and has more features that you can get for free, right? It works just like Sonar X3 and if you install it you can even still use X3 if you miss it (one thing, you don't want to delete the Reference Manual that came with X3). CWAF!

A UAD processor card will do nothing for a plug-in that is not specially coded to make use of the UAD card. That is what I think the OP wanted to know. Many plug-in companies make two versions of the same plug-in, a version that will use the UAD processor and a version that just uses CPU processing like everything else ("native"). Questions I'd ask myself: is my system running out of muscle now? If so, is my 7 hundy best spent here or on some other hardware like an SSD or more RAM? All that coprocessor does or can ever do is lift some of your system's FX burden. They sure are nice. Dedicated, purpose designed and built hardware to process your signal is very sweet. I don't know how much or even if the UAD versions of plug-ins are different, but programmers can be more extravagant when they know that there's a whole dedicated chip for them to play with.

Well, my personal fave freeware limiter is Sonic Anomaly's Unlimited, but I did snag a copy of Frontier and if it sounds half as good as it looks, it might make me think twice.

Oh my. I feel your pain. I have posted elsewhere about how it is necessary to periodically "sacrifice a chicken" to my Cakewalk MIDI chain in order to get sound coming out of it again. Same thing. Project I've been working on previously, and something happens, I do the wrong thing somehow and suddenly I ain't getting any VSTi's. Or I just open it and try to do some editing in the Piano Roll and I can't get sound to come out. Even careful examination reveals no MIDI Black Holes (notes of zero duration and velocity). Usually the Great and Awful Baron Samedi demands that I exit my project and start a new one, create some new tracks, stare at them incredulously as they work perfectly, then either I will figure out what I have been doing wrong, or I will exit my new project and go back to the problem one and it will mysteriously begin working. This is the tariff that he extracts in exchange for returning my MIDI data to the world of the living. I suggest you try it, and if your functionality is not restored, you may have to remit a greater price, like opening a helpdesk ticket or beyond

No, that is not expected behavior. Definitely not "as designed." Cakewalk should save any plug-in in exactly the state it was in when you hit "Save." As a workaround until you get it sorted, you might try using the Cakewalk dialog for saving the patch just to see if it helps. Up at the upper left of the plug-in window, double click in there, give the patch a name, then click on the floppy icon to the right of it. At least at that point you won't have to remember which of the 1,000 factory patches you used. I often do this anyway as a bit of insurance, and name the patch after the song. "Petty Revenge B3" or whatever. It's possible that there is some MIDI data in your track that is telling the instrument to revert to "Universe" at the beginning of the project. Maybe check the Event List and see if you see anything suspicious. Don't know how it would have gotten there, but it's all I have at the moment.

Every few weeks you must sacrifice a chicken to your Cakewalk MIDI chain in order for it to begin making sound again. That's how it seems to work for me at least. I will start to think I have it all figured out, which of the approximately 5,000 outputs from the MIDI track I need to be concerned with and the rest of which seem to have no function I can determine, all this, then I will....do something or other that kills the whole deal to the point where I'll be loading up other programs just to make sure it's not hardware, and then I end up starting with a new project and batting it around until it works again, much as you did. I refer to this process as "sacrificing a chicken." Baron Samedi demands it in exchange for returning your MIDI tracks to the world of the living.

Paul McCartney was into the RAM thing, too, wasn't he? I sold out! I recently switched the system drive in my main DAW system to an SSD. Thanks to Black Friday freebies, I own several Wave plug-ins, including TrueVerb, my "go-to" reverb (even though it has steadfastly resisted my several attempts to understand its theory of operation). Mostly I put that in my sig because of coming across threads where someone would ask about how to tune their compressor settings to get a lead vocal to be more up front in the mix, and sure enough, if the discussion made it to page 3, they would have been counseled that Renaissance Vox was on sale for only $29, that 8G of RAM wasn't enough for a DAW, and that an SSD was mandatory if they were really serious. Because I guess, everybody needs to load humongous sample libraries, everybody mixes large band album projects that go up over 24 tracks with multiple overdubs, and you'll never really get the results you're after using the FX that come with a DAW. Meanwhile, there are all kinds of different things that people do (and in the case of Cakewalk, the FX that come with it are of excellent quality). I know lots of people who do acoustic music that never go above about 12 tracks, never use a single VSTi. Friends who do punk and indie derived music don't usually go near VSTi's either. Some friends, it's all in-the-box electronic, and they never touch a mic except to record vocals. None of these people load orchestral or percussion sample libraries. For these types of users, a system with 4G RAM and a 5400RPM hard drive will run Cakewalk just fine, and I know this because I have done it. To declare otherwise is merely to display ignorance of a wider variety of uses than one is used to oneself. To say that 16G of RAM and an SSD are the absolute minimum for a DAW computer is like saying that electric cars are useless because they can't go more than 300 miles on a single charge. In other words, all it does is expose the person saying it as having their head up their ass. They can't imagine someone using the tool other than for what they use it for. "Silly man, you can't run a DAW with only 4G of RAM, how will you ever load Miroslav? And that 5400RPM drive will never keep up when you try to record a 20pc. drum kit at 2mS latency!" And while I'm in rant mode, the Sonitus fx:Compressor has some pretty slick controls, although I don't use it myself. When it comes to advice, my best respect goes to those who tell the OP how to get there with what they have available, less so to those who tell them to go buy something (unless Pluginboutique are doing a BOGO iZotope giveaway!). Hmm, maybe having much respect for the included FX and instruments is part of being CWAF.

For those who know how to set Windows Environment Variables, a time-saving trick is to make one called VST_PATH that is set to your VST2 directory. Most plug-in installers will look for this variable and plug it into the dialogs as the default instead of the "Program Files\Steinberg\Vstplugins\Whatever" that I would otherwise need to delete and type in the actual path of my VST2 folder. If you're as much of a free plug-in 'ho as I am, and/or you ever need to rebuild your DAW system, it is a very nice thing to have in place. I install both the VST3 and VST2 versions of all plug-ins, if they have such, because I've found that some hosts play better with one or the other I'm not going to post full instructions on how to set environment variables, because it's just south of regedit as far as being able to cause trouble if you don't know what you're doing and mess something up. If you know, you can do it, if you don't, it's a good excuse to learn how.

https://www.pluginboutique.com/deals/show?sale_id=4958 The 3 Orchestral Companions we like so much are $4.99 each just like at JRR, plus a couple of synths named Twist and Wobble, and then a virtual ARP 2600 for $19.99 and a fancy vocoder for $19.99 We already discussed the Orchestral Companions, which are a great deal. Easily worth three times the price.? The only one you might not find useful is the Strings one, just because the strings instrument that comes with Cakewalk is already so good.

Are apologies in order? I have it in my sig now. To me it means I only ever run Cakewalk, not Sonar, and I never call it "Sonar" or "Splat" in the forum and I'm also down with Take Lanes. If any of my brothers or sisters comes here for help with "Sonar," I remind them that there's something better. ? (PLEASE understand that the above is meant to be an ironic parody of punk puritanism!) I don't know anyone's age or musical/cultural background, so I don't know if "punk as f---" rings any bells. I'm not sure where it originated, but it was a phrase that hardcore kids used to describe things that were totally "punk." Like if you brought your boombox into study hall and blasted Minor Threat and then flipped off the monitor and told them that they were a tool of governmental/corporate oppression when they asked you to turn it off. A new neon yellow mohawk could also be "punk as f---." In my specific scene in the '80's, it was a phrase that was parodied the instant we became aware of it, because everything was one big joke to us, and anyway, we were what is now known as post-punk, so talking about what was or was not "punk" was kiddy stuff. The most enduring one was "funk as puck" because there were a few West Coast Red Hot Chili Pepper Gang of Four slap bass/rap shout funk-punk bands around. "Hey, y'all are funk as PUCK!" Hilarity ensues.

Whenever I see that, I can't help thinking it stands for "CAKEWALK AS F**K!!" Maybe I'll offer that If the devs ever implement a record mode where we can switch off automatic comping, I'll get CWAF tattooed across the knuckles of my trackball hand.

Beats by Brian Wilson.

I was so bummed when the bakery thrift store near me closed.

On 12/25/2018 at 6:48 PM, Toddskins said: Sibelius and others (not Finale'), force all the notes in a measure to add up to one (1). Therefore, when you import the song you played as a MIDI file into these programs, it will force all your notes to be strange values because the measure must add up to one. My reply was more like a stand-up comedy routine, but represents of the frustration I feel when trying to use most notation software. It's notation software. When I start getting into editing with it, which is something that I will usually need to do if I've imported a MIDI file, things go sideways very quickly. I do get that for heavy duty editing, it's not the right tool for the job, but except for Finale, every one that I've tried has resulted in the explosion of tiny notes when I try to make changes. Yes, I'm doing something wrong. But why is it so easy to get into trouble in all these other programs and not in this one? The OP doesn't even know what the term "musical score" means. I'm for getting them the program that has fewer pitfalls for the clueless noob. https://www.finalemusic.com/products/notepad/

Oh, also, with stuff as big and complicated as Native Instruments' stuff, I usually prefer to either go into the settings of the NI download app and tell it to install its plug-ins where Cakewalk can find them or I let it install them and then gointo Cakewalk's preferences and tell it where to find them. Sometimes the plug-in has dependencies other than just the .dll that it can't function without.

Nice, Rick. Isn't it astonishing what we're getting for free these days? Cakewalk and the Kontakt Player and all those sounds. There is a good Rhodes and a couple of decent drum kits, and there's even Sennheiser's DrumMic'a instrument for the Kontakt Player. 5 or so years ago Sennheiser went into a studio and mic'd up a drum kit 4 different times with various models of their microphones, doing multi-velocity samples, then took the samples and made a Kontakt Instrument with this amazing GUI that lets you click on which individual mic you want to use for each piece of the kit. There's a mixer with built-in effects and you can split it into 8 individual outputs. Download it for free from Sennheiser's website, register it, and you have the best drum VSTi for the money I have heard. Sorry to hear of your bandmate's passing.

LOL kinda says it. Um, yeah. Maybe not with Bandlab the music collaboration site, although I have found it useful. YMMV. Take it or leave it. Cakewalk under Bandlab's stewardship is miles beyond Sonar in speed, stability, bug repair, and features.

It is rather obscure, isn't it? I just send people to www.cakewalk.com As far as why this might be, it could be that Bandlab are holding off until the import/export functions to and from Bandlab are fully integrated. I think "Bandlab" is very much the social media platform, and to the company, Cakewalk is a way to attract people to it, and promote their use of it. Until it's really part of the ecosystem, perhaps it doesn't need to be right there on the front page of the main site. You will notice that the iOS, Android, and web apps are featured there, so maybe when Cakewalk is as integrated as they are, it will assume its place alongside them. I will say that the main site steers you toward the Bandlab Assistant, which features Cakewalk prominently.

I believe that Noel knows about this issue and intends to take care of it in the next release.

I guess the Marines have to make do with Navy Morale, or maybe they don't need extra morale, they're Marines, ooh-RAH! But yeah, the Air Force needs morale, the Coast Guard needs morale (when it's in your job description to bust homemade submarines full of cocaine you surely need theme music).

One of the things that I do to check whether the new build of Cakewalk is legit or not is I wait until the Bandlab Assistant has it downloaded and installed, then I click on the button that says "Open." After the program starts I observe it for a moment. What I'm watching for is whether it quits. If it does not quit, I can proceed with my work, secure in the knowledge that it is legit.