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As discussed in another thread, the Quick Group function was changed but the manual wasn't. BTW, I am well known for being stupid but no one knows why. ?

Both ways were available. Box set was additional $$.

Bug??? When closing the Articulation window with OK or Cancel, Cakewalk disappears to the background and I'm immediately sent to another open program forcing me to navigate back to Cakewalk.

Using the PRV Controller Pane or a 2nd controller pane or another TV Header lane would be cool. Currently the B/P buttons don't change leaving you scratching your head when ICR sets in.... or is that CRI?! Oddly, setting Controller type in Event List seems to have no affect on my synth. It plays correctly no matter which one is selected. FWIW I always wondered why the "Insert" commands were split between the Insert Menu and the Project Menu.

YAY! Easy fix no doubt.

It would be cool to mouse hover and scroll over the Inspector's Bank/Patch buttons to change them instead of as an option to opening a list.... like Inspector's MIDI Key+ works.

I realize this probably isn't a real bug but in a text box characters should type as typed, like in Note Pad, no?! FWIW, you can see it being typed correctly and then it changes when you hit ENTER.

Hi. If you have a question, your title should be more specific like: "Is this mic any good?" You might also consider reducing your pics to 1MB or so and posting them within the same thread instead of creating a new one for each pic. You can also post about gear here & here. Hope this helps.

The ampersand character "&" has to be typed twice to display properly in the Inspector's Track Description text box. "&" becomes "_" "&&" becomes "&" "&&&' becomes "&_" with no space before the next letter "&&&&" becomes "&&" All other characters seem to display correctly.

Check the note's length/duration in the Event Inspector. They can touch back to back but even the smallest overlap can cause this.

I've logged in to BandLab several times over the years, so the part about "Cakewalk will stay permanently activated" confuses me. It sounds like it should only need to be reactivated if your system is offline for 6 months... "If your system is offline, however, the activation lease will last for up to 6 months, after which you will need to reactivate Cakewalk." I'm online everyday.

Today I got the red flag again. I get it about once a year or so. Logging into the forums doesn't count, I guess. How long does activation last? Under normal conditions, if you are signed in to BandLab and your system is online, no further user intervention is required and Cakewalk will stay permanently activated. If your system is offline, however, the activation lease will last for up to 6 months, after which you will need to reactivate Cakewalk. When this happens, you will get a message informing you that Cakewalk needs to be activated. Activation can also be needed under rare cases if you make major changes to your system like installing a new OS, changing the motherboard, etc. Re-activation will normally occur automatically and seamlessly when you launch Cakewalk if it's needed. However, if you don't have an active internet connection, you will need to enable it or follow the offline activation steps.

Boy am I confused. How does that "save" anything? All it does is put a short clip meant to be looped into the track. And aren't the patterns already "saved" in the folders? Boy am I confused.

... then right-click and Bounce to Clip(s) to finalize the process.

Interface will be grayed out if drivers are installed but hardware is not hooked up, turned on, or selected. It seems even the same interface will invoke the "Missing Audio Outputs" window if it's Friendly Names are changed.

I would think you could click the dropdown arrow and select the correct one from the list.

To my knowledge there's no way to change the default note velocity, which is 100 if entering notes by mouse in PRV. - However, if you change a note's velocity (say to 127) and select it, the next note entered will have the same velocity. If notes are entered by a keyboard or drum pads, velocity is determined by how hard you hit the keys. https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Playback.31.html If you want to vary a track's note velocity, you can... 1. enter notes by playing them with an outboard controller, or 2. drag the mouse horizontally while moving it up & down across the velocity controllers to change them , or 3. select all notes and run a CAL script like VARYVEL.CAL or HUMANIZE.CAL or HUMANIZE PLUS.CAL (Menu bar > Process > Run CAL). HUMANIZE.CAL will change note spacing and velocity with only one value, so it's not the best choice.

I figured out you're in the Drum Map pane. I don't know. I don't use Drum Maps. I would not use Drum Maps for this. To learn more about Drum Maps, there's the Cakewalk manual and several youtube videos. 127 is the maximum velocity of any midi note. 1 is the minimum. If you want to change a note's velocity, you can: 1. Select it in PRV (click it or right-click & drag) and change it's velocity in the Control Bar Event Inspector, or 2. Double click the PRV note and change it in the Note Properties window, or 3. As David said Changing any instrument, global, or track volume or gain will not change the note's velocity. This merely increases/decreases the overall volume of the entire track.

The X50 and Gi10 only have MIDI in & out. You may be able to change the X50's Global settings to pass data thru USB (manual pg 33-35*). If not, the only way it can send MIDI thru USB is to play notes with it. (*2006 manual) Since you're using the Gi10 as the MIDI controller to play notes, it should output to the PC as well as to the X50. You can do this with a USB MIDI router or interface (manual pg 12**). (**1995 manual) 1. Gi10 output -> MIDI Interface input 1 2. X50 input -> MIDI Interface output 2 3. X50 output -> MIDI Interface input 2 (to use as a controller-option 1) 4. X50 USB -> PC (to use as a controller-option 2) 4. MIDI Interface USB -> PC 5. MIDI track Input set to Gi10 6. MIDI track Output set to X50/Bank/Patch (An Instrument Definition file [.ins] is handy for selecting sounds) When using a USB Interface the X50's USB isn't necessarily needed.

You can also drag a clip to desktop or other folder as a .mid file, tho I don't know which "type" it would be.

Sorry for my confusion. I couldn't reproduce the OP's issue because I had Audio & MIDI tracks in the same group and for whatever reason, MIDI track behavior overrides Audio track behavior within the same group. They are different: (This may be why they shouldn't be in the same group). 1. Grouped Audio Volume, Send Volume, and Bus Input Gain will all return to "INF" when one knob is moved there, as Will said. 2. Grouped MIDI Volume, Pans, and Track Input Gain will not all return to "INF" when one knob is moved there, maybe because they don't use "INF" but instead use a fixed numerical value? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This must be by design for a reason not mentioned in the docs.

Thank DB. Has it really been 5-ish years since the change? I keep hearing "Read the manual!" But if it's not updated, what good is it?!? Doc updates should be an integral part of the feature updates, not an after thought, or no thought at all.

In Quick Groups you select certain tracks and control only them using the Ctrl key. The Ctrl key works to put the selected tracks into a "group". In Control Groups you don't select any tracks, but put individual track controls like Volume into a group by right-clicking the knob and picking a group (A-X). In this case the Ctrl key is used to isolate one of the grouped knobs so you can adjust it independently of the others in the same group.

Cool! Now try and edit it in PRV. I'd also rename the clip to reflect the arp style so as not to forget what I did there.

Control Groups behave much the same but use Ctrl key to isolate one from the rest of the group.