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The keyboard nerd here with an additional tip: If you have "Recycle plugin Windows" enabled, you can temporarily disable it by keeping CTRL pressed while you double click a plugin. ⌨️ ? Yeah, I agree it's too cryptical. Recycling is obviously the future, but it's not self-evident what plugin recycling means... ?

Hi all! I would love if envelopes could be made brighter/thicker for better visibility (when not using Automation Lanes). I am referring to envelopes for plugin parameter on audio tracks and envelopes on midi tracks, for example MIDI CCs. It would be enough if this is applied just to the selected controller in the Edit Filter. Visually, the envelopes could be like how the envelopes were before the thinner envelopes were introduced last year. It would also be great if one could easily change the color of individual envelopes on the fly. Sometimes they clash with the background. Case in point: Which envelope is selected in the Edit Filter in the image below? ? Keep up the great work! ❤️

I just tried experimental EnableWin10DPIAwareness=1 option (introduced back in 2021.04) when using 125% scaling in Windows, but I couldn't see any improvement in clarity. Does anyone else see a difference? Would be awesome if the DPI awareness got some love, at some point in the future! ?

My head spins when I try to make sense of this focus mess... ? But as you say, the Inspector definitely causes problems with focus. If none of the Bakers happen to reply here in a few days, I will email this bug report to Cakewalk to ensure they see it.

@msmcleod Can you reproduce these CTRL+TAB focus issues that I and @sjoens have? To sum up my findings: I have managed to introduce the problem consistently when I open the Browser. As soon as the Browser is opened (undocked and floating as a separate window on my a second screen), I cannot CTRL+TAB focus back to the main Cakewalk window. If I have several undocked windows, focus switches between those, without ever getting back to the main window. The same problem occasionally occurs with an undocked and floating PRV, but I think the Browser is the culprit here too, somehow. @sjoens I'm not sure I fully understand your summary?

THANK YOU @sjoens for verifying the Browser focus bug! ?? Woho! It has been driving me crazy on and off for years, now we have a repro for the Bakers! I totally agree with you - the very long delay when opening the keyboard shortcuts window, and occasionally when working in it, is very workflow-prohibitive. I think it is reading all the shortcuts from the Windows registry or something? The Keyboard shortcuts window could be a good candidate for a total makeover... it's done it's job well for years, but it's time to go to the gym and get a total makeover.

Always just one project open (it was a good question!). I think I have some (weird) repro progress: I have managed to introduce the problem when I open the Browser, and it actually seems consistent. As soon as the Browser is opened (undocked and floating as a separate window on my a second screen), I cannot CTRL+TAB focus back to the main Cakewalk window. If I have several undocked windows, focus switches between those, without ever getting back to the main window. Can you see if you can CTRL+TAB focus from an undocked and floating Browser window back to the main window?

When I have the problem, the PRV is definitely undocked and floating on my secondary monitor. The interesting thing is that I can CTRL+TAB the focus from the undocked PRV back to the Track View, but not the other way around. (I am not using the MultiDock.) But as I mentioned, I suddenly got it to work as expected yesterday after fiddling with MultiDock settings back and forth. I will do more testing to see if I can understand what it is that gets in the way sometimes.

Do you guys have any idea why it occasionally might not work to use CTRL+TAB to switch from the main Track View window to a floating PRV? I'm thinking it might have something to do with the MultiDock and how it is or isn't docked, or something...

Sorry to spam, but now it seems to work to use CTRL+TAB to switch to an undocked PRV!? ? I don't understand what's going on, and will be quiet for some time now to try to figure it out.

Our own, always very clever usability guy @Heinz Hupfer has a partial solution for the switching problem from 2019: to use the PRV in the multidock as a workaround. Then you can switch to the PRV (now in the multidock) with CTRL+TAB from the main window (Track View). Unfortunately, it's not really a workable solution for me, as I constantly close and open the PRV on selected tracks (ALT+3 to open) and the multidock doesn't remember its position on the second screen.

Hi all! Can someone help me check if this is just a weirdness in my system or a bug? If you use floating windows - a floating PRV in this example - then I cannot switch focus from the main window to the floating PRV, using Windows standard shortcut CTRL+TAB. But once the floating PRV window (or any other floating window) has focus, I can switch it back to the main window with CTRL+TAB. It behaves like this in an empty project for me and I'm not using screensets nor workspaces. I'm on Cakewalk 2022.02 build 039. This is a bit annoying for me, as the biggest keyboard nerd here on the forum... ?? Thanks! UPDATED July 12: Description with repro I think there are some intermittent issues with CTRL+TAB focus shifting between undocked/floating windows. I have managed to introduce the problem consistently when I open the Browser. As soon as the Browser is opened (undocked and floating as a separate window on my a second screen), I cannot CTRL+TAB focus back to the main Cakewalk window. If I have several undocked windows, focus switches between those, without ever getting back to the main window. The same problem occasionally occurs with an undocked and floating PRV, but I think the Browser is the culprit here too, somehow.

Thanks for your input, I should have clarified that I'm after multiple clip rename using the bindable keyboard shortcut. As my mantra is to the Bakers: Always Think About The Keyboard!

It would be very convenient if it was possible to select multiple clips and rename them all in one operation using the existing keyboard shortcut. Thanks for a great product!

Sorry, a little bump, to see if others find this idea useful! ?

It is interesting that the delay still happens even with no bindings. I haven't this checked with ProcMon, but maybe Cakewalk enumerates all potential keyboard shortcuts in the registry every time you open the dialog?

Wow, thanks, Bapu, great timing. ? More hardware compatibility is great news for Cakewalk adoption out there. ? NKS integration is probably next... ?

I am so curious that I started a speculation thread about this yesterday...

If I'm not mistaken, there has not been a 3 month release gap since the whole Early Access thing started in 2019. (The current release is 2022.02 and there next possible EA is 2022.06) But I'm willing to wait another 6-12 months if that means they can implement a "De-Cheese" button for my melodies! ?

An improved browser with waveform preview and maybe a sample file info pane, as well as quick buttons for on/off Loop preview and Preview at host tempo would be awesome for workflow! ??

Good idea! ?

Could you guys please consider this? ? It would be so nice to be able to set custom names for the CC:s in the PRV below: Keep up the great work! ❤️

Whaaaa... it works! Cool, thanks. ? No need for the CALs anymore. When was this introduced? Also, wouldn't it be nice if these new built-in octave transpose actions were displayed in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog? As it is now, it just says "[Unassigned]" on CTRL+NUM 2/8, so people have no idea it's actually used for something.

@Heinz Hupfer Nice! I think I got my CALs from you! In the keyboard preferences, what are the new bindable actions called, what should I look for?

By default, is CTRL+NUMPAD 8/2 mapped to transpose an octave up/down in Cakewalk?! I have been using CAL scripts for that... are you guys saying I could do this without them? ?