Jacques Boileau

I think you should , at least I do.

I solved it by going into Custom Shop and doing a 'Restore My Purchases'.

Cakewalk looks great on a 2K 32" monitor. I have been using one for a few years. The resolution on mine is 2560x1440 though, so less than what you are specifying. Here is how it looks on mine. It works very well, nothing is two tiny, plenty of room to work.

With all the money we are saving with Larry gone, maybe we could chip in and get the internet available where is at! Can't be more than our collective savings! ?

Hi ikelly, I use a Scarlett 2i4 to record my guitar. Here is a few tips and a video to hopefully get you up and running. Let me know if you have more questions. I was also a little confused at first when I started out with Cakewalk, but it is easy to get past this small hurdle and get into enjoying Cakewalk. To hear your guitar, you must have: 1. Your Scarlett input in which your guitar is connected must be correctly selected. Which I believe it is since you see the meters moving. 2. Input echo button must be active to hear anything To record: 3. You must arm the track using the track's record button before you start recording using the top toolbar record button. Here is a screen shot of these: If this does not get you to hear and record your guitar, take a look at this video which is more in depth: I hope this helps you out!

This new video from Creative Sauce just came in this morning. It's a review of IK Multimedia's interface for guitarist. A little more expensive than the Focusrite, as you will see at the end of the video, but you get more features for guitarist and Midi connectors.

Also to consider: not all interfaces have Midi connectors. If you intend to use an older keyboard that only has the 5 pins connectors (no Midi over USB), you may not be happy with the cheaper interfaces. For example, the Scarlett 2i2 does not have Midi connections. The 4i4 or the previous generation 2i4 do. Although I am a guitar player, I have an old Midi keyboard I use as controller. I settled on the 2i4 a few years ago.

Played both when they came out. I still have the boxes for both. I played tons of point and click games and these broke new ground at the time. That was some great story telling.

Being Canadian, what I like about jam points is that 30% is about the exchange rate between US$ and CAD$. So when I look at a price on IK's site, I can say that it is what I will be paying in CAD$ after using jam points, no need to calculate the conversion. So I guess I am thankful to IK for saving me the brain hurt of doing the 'what will that be in CAD$?' thing. Hey, every little bit counts in saving those rare little brain cycles! ?

Thanks Fleer! Before going ahead with the install I saw this in the agreement and wonder what it entails. Anyone knows? "TECHIVATION LTD products use Google Analytics™ to receive statistics data about their usage. TECHIVATION LTD products never transmit any private data, especially names, email and street addresses. TECHIVATION LTD applications and effects don’t access your private data at all. Agreeing with this License Agreement you agree with the transfer of some non-private data from TECHIVATION LTD software to TECHIVATION LTD server (such as versions of the installed SW to allow to offer updates etc.). "

Wait a minute... In all the video games I've played: X always marks the spot of a great treasure! I predict we will be getting tons of free stuff! But since all my predictions turn out to be wrong, make of it what you want... ?

So true! Just went back one page and there it is! Thanks Treesha! In my own defense: it was a few months ago. It has nothing to do with my aging brain of course! ? I have the latest Melodyne Editor and am using the leveling macro to quickly adjust vocal volume. Melodyne is not only for tuning vocals. Just wasn't sure this shortcut was a good alternative and could have drawbacks I hadn't noticed.

Could the Melodyne amplitude tool be used for this? For those who have Melodyne of course. Is their leveling macro a quick way to get more even vocals, with one tool on all notes?

Sometimes we just don't know a functionality exist! I sometimes move faders accidently when scrolling the console using the mouse wheel and inadvertently overring over a fader. Now I know how the undo it. Thanks @Noel Borthwick !

Personally, to give another opinion, I have gone the VST3 route only, for a while now. I used to install both and I still have VST2 version for a lot of plugins I installed. I need to do a clean up. VSTs do add up. My VST3 folder is 7.44GB and my VST2 folder is 9.49GB. That is not a few kilobytes! And that is after moving most sound data and IRs to another drive. There where also instances where both version showed up for some reason in my list of plugins. Cakewalk is very good at managing this and it may not happen anymore, but I would rather keep only one than have to disable one of them. I'd rather jump in the future of VST than stay in the previous version. That said: I do not own a professional studio or make a living out of music! If something goes wrong I am the only affected with downtime and it's no big deal. And I would assume it lengthens the VST scan to have more than one version of the same plugin to scan... If, for some reason the VST3 has problems (I have yet to come across one that did in my plugins list of about 800 or so, but I know it happens) I can easily run the install again and install the VST2 version for that one plugin. But I would probably remove the offending VST3 at the same time... or both if the offending plugin is not that worth it!

Yep, got for 7$ canadian bucks! Even if I only play with it an hour or so, its worth it. If I end up using it to record some tracks, its a steal. Haven't tried it yet, but the UI is different, everything's in your face. Kinda cool. I think I received the 10 euro coupon when I signed up for the free FrontDAW plugin...

Thanks! I'll look into these avenues and see if I can make my exports easier. I seems easy enough to default the wav bitrate with these. For mp3, I'll probably wait and see what the bakers are cooking for us in the next release...

Which is totaly fine. Being able to chain multiple exports frees you from being there to start the next one. Start multiple exports, go make coffee, come back and it's all done, great!

Great to hear that you guys are working at improving the export workflow. It is one of the few areas that feel a little underwhelming at the moment. If its not already in the works as part of that, the ability to set defaults or at least remember our choices by projects would be a time saver. As @Mark Morgon-Shaw I always export in two formats like him. But wav always defaults to 32 bits when we need 24 bits and mp3 defaults to the lowest quality when we need the highest quality. I also like to include id3 tags for mp3s and although part of the tags can be set in the projects settings, not all of them. Looking forward to try any improvements to the export you guys cook up for us! ?

Boy, that title threw me off at first! The traduction for dirty in french is spelled 'sale'. So at first glance, that title translates to: 'UVI dirty music fest' ?

How does it sound? How do you like it so far?

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I have Black Rooster Audio's Magnetite tape machine emulator that was given by Focusrite's Plugin Collective a while back. How do these compare? Am I all good with Magnetite or are these much better?

If someone wanted all 4, IK has the bundle on sale for 79$. A little more than B&H but using jampoints you can bring it down to 56$.

Dang, I just learned a new verb! This forum is educational in so many ways!