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Getting Mixcraft 9 at the $20 level is pretty sweet.

Quern is on sale right now for $7.49. I suggest picking it up now at that price. https://store.steampowered.com/app/512790/Quern__Undying_Thoughts/

I've seen it said that "people die from 'exposure'." I'll license all day long, with the fees dependent on the licensee. Sometimes that could be zero, like music for fan-created ages in MYST Online: Uru Live. But for commercial use, gotta get commercial fees.

Cakewalk by BandLab has at least one feature that someone doing a game soundtrack would find very useful: Arranger Track. In addition to the smaller take-it-for-granted ones like Ripple Edit Indicator. Moreover, for something so mission-critical, why use abandonware when a newer, better, supported version (that is 100% workflow compatible) is available for free? It's not as if installing CbB breaks SONAR. I know there are still SONAR holdouts for whatever reason (some people still think that it requires you to participate in BandLab), but I don't know that I've seen a SONAR user try CbB and reject it. Cool summer job! I once worked as rides and shows supervisor at a theme park in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

These days geography is hardly a stumbling block....no need to give yourself reasons not to try. ? What games other than MYST pique your interest? I dug the MYST series in a big way and my interest was rekindled in a big way a year ago December when I snagged a Humble Bundle of every Cyan title ever for $10. Played through all of the MYST series and then Obduction. Since then I've been exploring how many games MYST influenced in one way or another. Probably the closest non-Cyan title I've played was Quern-Undying Thoughts. then Zof (demo), Pneuma, Dream, Firewatch, and Eastshade. I also discovered puzzle/platform games like Portal, Lightmatter, The Turing Test, and The Talos Principle, all of which also have interesting storylines. Now finishing up Outer WIlds, an amazing space exploration game.

His name is Aaron Gwynaire, his company is Defy Reality Entertainment, the game is called Neyyah, and he's using Cakewalk SONAR (I'll have a talk with him about that?) to do the soundtrack: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1289720/Neyyah/

Yes. @Dave G, can you say exactly what it is about your templates that you would like to apply to your existing projects? If it is the layout rather than routing, FX or other nuts-and-bolts audio things, Screensets can be applied from one project to another, as can Workspaces (using the window layout feature). I use Workspaces to quickly switch themes but not for anything else.

Here is proof that just about any random thing you can think of is already available on the Internet:

Your best bet might be to get familiar with Track Templates. They're meant for use with existing projects. You can save the tracks as you've set them up in your new project template and then use them in your existing projects.

Guy like that has songwriters, engineers, producers and musicians lined up around the block begging to work with him. Many with way more musical (and pruduction and engineering) talent than I have been refused, not a doubt in my mind. As for the terms in popular use these days...."content creator" seems to fit as a description for someone using software to make music and video and games. A marketing term that describes the people being marketed to, who do have similar needs: powerful, stable computers with specialized peripherals like audio interfaces and powerful graphics cards (not always the case with music creators), as many plug-ins as they can get their hands on. I might find "multimedia creator" to be more accurate, but it sounds a little archaic, like they're making learning CD-ROM's with animated slides. "My latest title, Ranger Rick's Reading Ranch earned a Gold CD award from the Academy of Electronic Courseware." Maybe I'll start referring to myself as a "contentment creator." "Producer" sounds weird and pretentious to those of us of a certain age who grew up hearing Phil Spector and Bob Ezrin and Tony Visconti and George Martin being called that, but that one itself had a pretty flexible definition by the time the 70's rolled around (it could include arranging, engineering, playing, any number of roles). But is there an alternate term for someone who (as I do now) uses their computer as their primary composition tool and instrument? "Computerist?" "Laptopper?" "Computer musician" sounds old-fashioned to me, like it evokes CANYON.MID playing on a Sound Canvas being driven by an MPU-401 when someone uses the term. "It sure is easier now for us computer musicians than when we had to encode every note on a punched card and set up patches with 1/4" cables."

The ones I would check out if I were seeking to do this would be Decent and Soundpaint. This isn't due to any experience on my part as a creator of libraries, but from a user viewpoint.

What I meant (and it's already been explained to my understanding) was exactly what I said. The DAW's I have the most extensive experience with, Cakewalk and Mixcraft don't have it. I've also had some time with Ableton Live and Studio One. They may have it but since I was not familiar with it, I wouldn't have known. Now I know, and I agree that it would be a handy feature. We're forever pointing out to fellow users that Cakewalk already has some feature or other, but since there's not a big front-facing button labeled with the name of the function, they missed it. Still happens to me from time to time.

"....I thought that was out of business!" got an actuaLOL out of me.

I've been noticing some uptake amongst indie developers, if you mean CLAP. I guess one wouldn't hear much about it until they went to acquire a plug-in and noticed that the developer offered it in that format. What else is there to hear? Which was part of my skepticism about its eventual success: it doesn't really mean anything to me as a consumer. There aren't going to be any hosts or plug-ins that are going to be CLAP-only. It only (possibly) benefits developers, with mayyyyybe a slight benefit to consumers in the form of letting Steinberg know that there is a viable format ready to take VST's place if they ever decide to wield their power in a crappy way (again, like they did with VST3 by essentially forcing plug-in developers to code in features that were missing or broken from Cubendo like sidechaining support).

It might have been. IIRC, I compared the offerings in the MPS vs. Everything and either saw that I already had licenses for the difference. Stutter Edit, etc. I think I even have more iZotope products than there are in the Everything collection due to their discontinuing stuff like Trash, Iris, Breaktweaker. and various flavors of Exponential reverbs. I re-posted it over on VI-Control and people went nuts. I like iZotope's stuff, especially the UI's, but they seem to pay little attention to getting their code to run efficiently. Maybe not using enough GPU and the CPU has to draw all of the pretty faces? Neoverb, which supposedly uses the algos from the Exponential line, uses way more audio engine than the Exponential Reverbs, even after it's finished its analysis.

Did they use it? I thought that Mackie was the hardware company associated with Tracktion.

I'm reminded of the iZotope "glitch" several months ago when I picked up the upgrade MPS 5 Advanced for $150 despite not technically having qualifying licenses. It went on for some time, iZotope had to have been aware of it. Then IIRC, it went on sale at PB for a similar price with a much smaller requirement, maybe it was any iZotope product? ?Something else that these "glitches" do is create a sense of urgency: I better take advantage of it before they figure out what's going on! Then it strangely goes on for a week even though they must be aware of it.... I jumped on it quickly during the glitch because shoot, just Neoverb, Stratus, and RX10 are worth at least that, but I have to admit that the only thing I've used so far is RX10, on one project. Not that I won't eventually use the rest of the goodies, it's just that it's a lot of software to figure out.

Heh. Anyone else remember the free DAW that Behringer teased a few years ago? Wonder whatever became of that....

Okay, I think I get it, it's having some deadspace before "zero" on the timeline? Part of me wants to be like Marty DiBergi in This Is Spinal Tap and ask "why don't you just make 1 your new 0," but I do get it. I'm forever inserting measures at the start of a project.

Could you explain in greater detail what "pre roll" is when applied to a DAW? I know what the term traditionally means, but not in this context. None of the DAW's I've used have the feature.

DeOxit in its various forms was the lifeblood of my amp repair business. Caveat, though, DeOxit's FaderLube is the better stuff for cleaning pots because it adds a bit of lubricant for the pot shaft. A pot won't ever be as smooth as it was when it was new after it's been cleaned, but it sure can become as quiet again.

What, no love for the REmatrix Solo found in Cakewalk's ProChannel? I have no idea myself how it stacks up as an IR loader, but hey, it has handy and free going for it.

Was just alerted to the existence of Audio Sorcerer by @Kerryman. He does a lot of Pro Tools tutorials as well, which is a combo I don't think I've seen before: Note: after I posted this I noticed that Jim Fogle already alerted us. Oh well, doesn't hurt to give the thread a bump!

Welcome to the Cakewalk user community. I read your other topic and it's cool to see someone with such diverse instrumental skills. I've always been intrigued by non-keyboard MIDI controllers like the EWI. Cakewalk has some good features to help with MIDI data from "alternative" controllers. In defense of John, whom I've found to be a stand-up guy who does a lot of work to help people learn how to use Cakewalk, when someone asks a question, those of us who are trying to help have no idea what their background is or how much research they've already done. One (imperfect) clue we have to go by is the person's post count. If it's low, they're usually a newer user who we assume can use some hand holding. That assumption is not always true. Everyone who's ever started using Cakewalk has experienced the daunting number of features and ways to get things done, and most of us remember how baffled we felt. My usual way on this forum is to over explain (as I'm surely doing now?), because it's a shotgun approach that saves time and also because the original poster is not the only one with similar issues who will be reading my replies. The OP is not the only audience. "Forgive me if you've already tried this" is kind of implied, but over explaining can, I suppose, come off as condescending. I've personally had the experience of being at wits end about something, spending hours trying to find an answer, then posting on a forum where I was besieged by weenie wavers eager to display their superior knowledge (or tossing out "RTFM"). This isn't such a forum, I hope. From my observations at least, that is not John's way. He tries to help people get the same utility and enjoyment from the software that he does. The added personal bonus is that when I jump in and try to help someone sort things out, I often learn from the suggested solutions of others. John has said this is true for him many times, including in your other topic. Case in point: even in your angry reply to John, you mentioned Audio Sorcerer, who I'd never heard of despite the fact that I look for YouTubers who have series on Cakewalk so that I can add them to the list I started in the Tutorials sub. Audio Sorcerer will be added, and I thank you. I try myself not to take offense where none is intended, but I also know from bitter experience that it's possible to mean no harm and do harm anyway. The Skylight interface is a really great thing, one of the features of Cakewalk that I like best, but it took me a lonnnnng time to figure out just how I could make the best use of it. It would have been nice to have some guidance earlier on. And I still learn new things about it. So I'll probably go watch John's videos on the subject. All of this said, some personalities just don't get along and I've found it necessary for my own serenity to block certain users. Block him if you must, but you may miss some valuable info.