Starship Krupa

If you're looking for peculiar cymbal sounds in general, not necessarily sampled real stuff, Applied Acoustic Systems' synths and soundpacks have a TON of such sounds. You can check it out for free using Swatches, which has over 600 of their synths' sounds.

It's because REAPER is different. Cakewalk could be different too, but making Cakewalk different is a feature request. I've seen other programs that do or do not allow setting buffer size for WASAPI Shared. I imagine that the companies that make it fixed do so with the idea that the fixed number of buffers that they use is a good compromise between playback latency and leaving enough resources available to other programs that are playing sound at the same time.

Since I make music to please myself and I like to listen on both loudspeakers as well as headphones, I try to make it sound good for both. People also listen to music on loudspeakers at clubs and when they watch TV and movies. For long haul multiple hour mixing sessions, I can go either way. I have multiple sets of monitors that I like and multiple sets of headphones that I like.

Why does this discussion continue after this point? You got it to work. Now you're claiming that there's a bug in Cakewalk and someone else is suggesting that your onboard hardware CODEC may be "garbage." WTF? Cakewalk and Exoverb Micro work together when you configure Cakewalk to use WASAPI Exclusive, which is the preferred driver mode for onboard sound. What is there to say beyond that point?

They don't. These are always free. Also great for anyone who uses Hybrid 3. I was hoping they'd drop the Multivation bundle for XPand!2 down to $9.99, but see that it's $14.99....still not bad for 3 expansions.

The preferred term is "hobbyists," thankyouverymuch. ?

You don't say how "large" you mean. I bought one of these a few weeks ago for $72.00: 2TB Silicon Power 2.5" SATA III. Silicon Power are my favorite brand of SSD and RAM. Their reviews are as good as WD, Hitachi, SanDisk, Crucial, Kingston, Samsung, etc, but their prices tend to be a few dollars lower.

Forum search function, missing or just invisible? BPB are I can't speak to the part about Waveform, but Cakewalk, as a free program, is being discontinued. It will be replaced in BandLab's portfolio by Cakewalk Sonar (mixed case), which will be a paid product. So the only thing incorrect about BPB's article is the punctuation of Sonar. People who are looking for free DAW software because they don't have the budget for it should stay away from Cakewalk by BandLab for that reason. I'd consider CbB at this stage to be a free demo for Sonar. We don't yet know what the license fees will be for Sonar.

Did you look at the pages I linked to? The motivation isn't collaboration: The target use isn't collaborators who prefer different DAW's and want to go back and forth. It's for "I like composing in Bitwig due to the MIDI tools specific to Bitwig, but when the project gets closer to completion I prefer Studio One's console and the ability to sync to video." The ability for person A at facility 1 to start their project in one DAW and sending it off to person B at facility 2 for completion is less likely and not even mentioned by the sources I linked to. The target use is a single user or organization that wants to be able to start a project in one DAW and then continue working on it in a different DAW. Not incidentally, a situation where licenses for any plug-ins involved will be owned by the person(s) doing the migrating. I'd like to pronounce that straw man beaten to death, but since people seem to leap to the conclusion that it's about enable multiple creators who prefer different DAW's to collaborate that I'm sure he'll rise again.... And for the record, it's not a feature that I personally would make use of at this point. My DAW of choice is Cakewalk, and if that were to change, migration would take place via the traditional audio and MIDI files. I'm advocating for it because I think that it would benefit Cakewalk Sonar (and users other than me) to support it. Practically and symbolically. If Sonar were to be an early supporter, it would get the name out there and being discussed by people who need to know that such a program even exists. Here's a joke I thought of that illustrates my attitude toward interoperability standards. Q: Remember the synthesizer companies that decided not to support MIDI? A: Yeah, me neither.

The closer one stays to an ecosystem the greater the chances of compatibility I'd think. My guess is that S1<>REAPER via DAWProject might stand a better chance of arriving with PreSonus Plug-in Extension API-specific information intact due to REAPER being a host that also makes use of the PreSonus Extensions API. We may be focusing on and making a bigger deal about what happens with FX plug-ins than the expected use of the format warrants. To the extent that I use plug-ins during the tracking phase of an audio project, they're typically not in the critical path (comfort reverb, maybe some compression on backing tracks for easy monitoring). Mixing and mastering is when the plug-ins go on. An amp sim might be an important element while tracking but not much else I can think of at the moment. I'm with you all the way on DAWProject being for one-way trip workflows. I can think of why some people might want to try going back and forth, but it seems like asking for trouble.

My favorite (maybe little-known) way to quickly switch to another tool and immediately come back to whichever one I was using is as follows: Assuming that you're using the Smart Tool and you want to momentarily switch to the Move Tool, press and hold F7*. While holding F7, do whatever moving tasks you wish, then release F7. The tool will switch back to the Smart Tool. It also of course works for any other pair of tools; for a track with phrasing issues you might want to start with the Split Tool then quick swap to Move, repeat until you have it sounding in time with the rest of the music. It may feel a little stiff the first half dozen times you do it, but once you get the muscle memory, you'll probably be able to fly. (*this assumes standard SONAR/CbB bindings, so unless you're really attached to your custom ones, maybe re-import the SONAR bindings from the Keyboard Shortcut prefs. or set up some new ones for the tools) As @David Baay said, the Smart Tool can do different things depending on where you click, so it could also be an opportunity to print out the page of the manual that has the diagram for that and get to learnin' it.

I did some digging and PreSonus and Bitwig have DAWProject on GitHub. @azslow3, you may find it interesting. I'd love to hear what you have to say about it if you take a look under the hood. PreSonus have a page that points to developer resources for ARA and other extensions to the VST spec that they are involved with. I'm especially intrigued by the PreSonus Plug-In Extensions. Among many other things, it seems to allow VSTi's to report to the DAW what articulations they have available. I'm impressed by how cozy Studio One seems to be with certain manufacturers' plug-ins (specifically brainworx/Plugin Alliance), and now I know what's behind that. Kudos to them for putting the extensions out into the wild for everyone to use. Cakewalk has a proud history of embracing stuff like this (ARA, Groove Clips), and I'd love to see that continue with Cakewalk Sonar.

You've come to the right place....

I wish that it hadn't gotten less interesting lately. Custom theming was one of my favorite features of Cakewalk. Here's hoping that Cakewalk Sonar brings it back.

Just guessing, this is probably where the process is running into trouble. Either that or the switch in time signature.

Bapcoin, obviously.

Indeed, a long-requested feature. You can search for the topic and add your .02.

Ahh, the "Media" tab....

Nice. On which tab? How do I access them?

Pretty simple idea: I'd like to have my list of track templates appear in the Browser. Dragging a template from the Browser to Track View would create a new track using the template. (I suggest this not only because I think it's a slick idea, but also because I personally don't make enough use of track templates. In the heat of battle, I forget that they are there. Making them front-facing would help me make better use of them, in more than one way.)

I have not tried it. It would be hard to test due to the fact that BandLab's servers are still authenticating Cakewalk by BandLab installations. Also, I don't think anyone's really going to need it. Anyway, CbB tries to connect. If your system isn't connected to the Internet, how would the program know that it's not whatever date you tell it? If it last talked to the server on October 24, 2024 and you pull the network cable out and fake the date to December 24, 2024, won't it believe that its authentication hasn't expired? I mean, if CbB is able to contact BandLab's server, BandLab would have to make it so their server actually disables it for it not to keep working. CbB is capable at this time of running on systems with no internet connection whatsoever. Not sure how it works, but supposedly you can run a program on a different system that is connected to the Internet, get a validation hash from BandLab's servers, and then use that code to reset Cakewalk's countdown. I doubt that anyone will ever need to try these shenanigans because I don't believe that BandLab intends to deliberately disable operation of CbB. If I'm wrong about that I'm wrong.

Since so many of their products fall into my "the last thing I need is another X" where X=compressor, EQ, channel strip. I only ever took advantage of in the Mega sales with no minimum spend on the vouchers, and around the time of the last one, it was almost impossible to find anything I really wanted, all I did was fill out my quiver of Unfiltered Audio stuff.

At Walmart.com of all places. I was at GC the other night looking for replacement earpads for a set of Sony MDR-7506 that I had snagged in the "free" box at a yard sale and took the opportunity to try out various studio cans. My favorites turned out to be the K240's. I'm a headphone 'ho, I have a few of the traditional studio faves, ATH-M50x, Beyer DT880, Superlux 681, but my favorite of the ones I listened to at Guitar Center was the AKG, so I'm getting a pair of those. $55 for brand new seems like a steal. BTW, when (not if) you need to replace the pads on your MDR-7506's (or any other headphones), my favorite pad replacements are the Krone Kalpasmos Instant Chill, which have a layer of memory foam and a layer of gel on top of that. They improved the MDR-7506's sound by bringing the drivers closer to my ears and sealing against my head better. I had found them lacking in the bass dept.

As I remember pointing out years ago, if BandLab's authentication server ever goes offline, you can set your Windows system time and date or run a program like RunAsDate to make CbB think that your authentication hasn't run out. d00d, I am 3733t! I haxx!

Works with Live Lite. So says Ableton's site. Yummy.