Bill Phillips

I don't use Reaper. So I can't be sure but it appears that you've adopted Reaper's file naming convention as the only acceptable way to name a file. Since you're using Cakewalk, why not adopting Cakewalk's naming convention and save yourself some work? For me "01_Kick In" is incomplete particularly if I have 50+ tracks a day to keep track of. I include the artist and song name, as well as the date in every project file name.

Wouldn't omitting the word "Silencer" leaving only the"-" solve the problem? You'd have the edited name you show preceded by a dash.

@scook, thank you for the clarification. Hopefully that ends my problems with installing Cakewalk updates.

Have you tried exporting tracks? You'll need to add some text in the file name box ("Latest Edit" for example). The exported track files will be named "Latest Edit Track Name." Does that work for you? If it does either pick an export preset that works or define and save a new one.

@User 905133, thanks for the suggestions. I moved around visible dialog boxes and checked the tray but couldn't find any hidden popups. Any suggestions on where else to look? I was also miffed that Bandlab Assistant was still running after I'd closed and uninstalled it. Why would it still be running? That sounds like malware behavior.

I just updated Cakewalk to 2020.01 and am kicking myself for not taking screenshots of the gyrations I went through to get the BandLab assistant to run so that I could update Cakewalk. Highlights include: BandLab Assistant launched and I logged in but it needed to be updated. So I downloaded and installed the update which required that I agree to stop Bandlab Assistant. But BandLab Assistant didn't appear to start so I tried to launch it from the Start menu which didn't appear to work. So, I went to programs and features and found two versions of BandLab Assistant installed. So, I uninstalled the older one but still couldn't get BandLab Assistant to start. So, I uninstalled the version that I'd just installed. Then I installed it again having to agree to stop BandLab (which was apparently still running even after all versions uninstalled) to do the install. Now I was able to launch BandLab Assistant and do the Cakewalk update which appeared to go well. I launched Cakewalk and verified that I have the 2020.01 version and closed it for now. If you're having trouble updating Cakewalk because you can't seem to launch BandLab Assistant consider these steps.

Thanks. That's good to hear. I'll start shopping again.

I don't have a 4K monitor but would like to buy a 40" one once Cakewalk is updated to handle DPI scaling. @jono grant maybe the two post on previous threads below will help. It appears that the Cakewalk UI doesn't handle DPI scaling unless, it's been addressed since @Noel Borthwick post below. @Matthew Sorrels is also using a 4K monitor and has some troubleshooting suggestions.

I don't think that Cakewalk supports DPI scaling. I seem to recall reading that in a thread on using 4K monitors. At the time I was thinking of buying a larger 4K monitor, but decided not to after reading that post.

iZotope's RX7 Music Rebalance does a good job of removing acoustic guitar from a vocal track. Not sure how well it would do with a click in an acoustic guitar track. RX 7 is expensive but very handy. I have it as part of the Music Production Suite and got it through multiple upgrades over a couple of years which made it seem a lot less expensive. RX7 also has a de-bleed tool, but I've had less luck with that.

@scook thanks. I'll start using it myself. Bill

Dumb question: How do you use imgur? When I need them, I create links to images, usually screenshots, on OneDrive. I signed up for imgur and looked around a bit. Looks like it's mainly a sight for publicly sharing memes, kinda like instagram. I didn't see anything about storing images that couldn't be viewed and shared by the public. Thanks. Bill

How can I export all clips in a project as broadcast wave files? I want to do this so that I can, hopefully, import the clips into projects at their original absolute time stamp. All clips are selected, clips is the Source Category and Channel Format Follows Source. However only 15 of over 30 clips were exported.

@reginaldStjohn, thank for the question. No those are notes in the 1st track. What's new is the line through the center of the blobs and the orange rectangle around it. I think I found the problem. Melodyne RFX (and maybe RFX in general) don't support multiple takes open at the same time. I think I've used Melodyne to edit multiple takes but I haven't used if for comping where I'd have more than one take open at a time. So the work around I've found is not using take lanes when I want to use Melodyne for comping. Below's a screenshot of the same two takes in separate tracks open in the Melodyne editor. So looks like it will work, though I haven't done any comping yet. Note the two tracks in the blue box in the upper left corner. The lower one, the one with the highlighted orange blobs, is the one currently shown in the Melodyne note editor window.

Better integration with iZotope's Production Suite and Ceremony's Melodyne Studio.

I tried that for an acoustic guitar track and it's not working. The blobs in the blue box in the attached screenshot show what happened when I created a Melodyne Region Effect in the second acoustic guitar take. What am I doing wrong? Also I I have Melodyne Studio 4.2.4 which allows me to open multiple tracks in Melodyne Standalone.

I have Melodyne Studio 4. Doesn't tht Studio version allow me to use ARA to apply the tempo map of a file in the Melodyne RFX to a Cakewalk Project? There should be an "Apply File Tempo to Project" option but I can't find it. I just applied a Melodyne Region Effect (RFX) to an acoustic guitar for a project that I'm working on. It's the only file in Melodyne at the moment. Once Melodyne finished analyzing it shows a project tempo (from Cakewalk) of 120 bpm and a tempo from (the Acoustic Guitar track play head location) of 93.23 bpm. See first screenshot. But there appears to be no option for applying the track tempo to the project. I tried all the options in the green box in screenshot 2. The remaining tempo related options are in the green boxes on screenshot 3. I know that I can drag the acoustic guitar track to the timeline to apply the tracks tempo map to the project. But, my understanding is that I should be able to do that from inside the Melodyne RFX as well.

Does the Melodyne Essential which is bundled with Cakewalk have any tempo settings features? If yes, that might be another option. I have the Studio version which has substantial timing and tempo capabilities which I'm trying to learn.

I have AAS GS-2. I think it's an upgrade of a version that was bundled with SONAR at some point. AAS has discounted pricing several times a year.

Thanks, but I don't think duplicating the track is necessary. Region effects leave existing clips intact and create new clips that are used by the region effect. Rendering creates a 3rd clip. So you're left with 3 clips: The original clip; The one sent to the region effect; and The one rendered by the region effect.

Yes. I was able to import the clip sent to Melodyne, but only after deleting the rendered clip in the track leaving a gap. The rendered clip is still in the audio folder just no longer in use. Originally I thought that I could import the original clip over the top of the rendered clip but that seemed to affect adjacent clips. So I abandoned that approach

What's the best way to restore a clip edited in Melodyne as a region effect and rendered thereby replacing (overlaying?) the original clip? See screenshot. The rendered clip is overlaying (I think) and replacing the original clip (Ld Vcl T3 RX (Bounced, 259) shown in the browser. The two clips have exactly the same number of bytes. I tried importing 259 but that didn't work. I'm guessing that the original clip is "hidden by" the rendered clip but I don't know how to bring it to the top. I thought it might show up when I opened take lanes but only one take is shown.

Works like a charm. Thanks.

I don't think "bounce to clip" will work for a region effect. What I do for a Melodyne region effect is right click in the clip and select Region FX > Melodyne > Render Region FX. What I'd like to do is replace that operation with a keyboard shortcut.

CTRL + M opens a Melodyne Region Effect. Can I make a keyboard shortcut to render a Melodyne Region Effect? I couldn't find the CTRL + M keyboard shortcut that opens a Melodyne Region Effect in the Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts and I can't find any of the Region Effect related functions in the Keyboard Shortcuts Function list. So I'm guessing that the answer to my question is no, but would like to be sure. I'm finding myself creating a lot of Melodyne Region Effects clips right now and am getting a lot of benefit from the CTRL + M shortcut and could make good use of a companion shortcut to render Melodyne Region Effects.