Keni

Thanks Matthew!

That sounds like a good solution. I'll give it a try later this morning when DAW is up and running...

Yeah, my fault. But trying to see if I can find a way...

I bought the waves puigchild 670 without thinking. No returns on software.

v12 plugins require win10 and I’m trapped at win8.1

so, I forced the install but it doesn’t appear after a vst scan so I searched for the plugins, found them and copied the dll to my vstplugins folder. Still no luck.

Does anyone know of anything I’m missing or some trick, I would love to know. Thankfully, not a huge amount of cash to throw away, but.........

20 minutes ago, craigb said:

It is both.  MP3's are considered a "lossy" format because, after compression, you can't uncompress them and get the full fidelity.  FLAC (and others like ACC) are compressed, but they don't lose any of the information required to recreate the original.  Hence they are obviously larger than lossy types, but are still much smaller than uncompressed formats like AIFF and WAV.

Also, FLAC files can also provide a resolution of up to 32-bit, 96kHz, which is even better than the standard CD!

Thanks Craig...

I'm looking into flac now. Me desire is to decrease file size for internet friendly sizes, but retain a higher quality.

I'd like to start storing 24bit copies online, but while wav supports up to 32/192, file sizes are typically too large to be web friendly. Hoping to store 24/48 lossless. Right now a 24/48 4 minute song is about 40M and a 16/44.1/192 mp5 shrinks it down to around 5M. 

2 hours ago, Colin Nicholls said:

FLAC ? Not as compact as mp3 but TANSTAAFL

My music archive used to be 320kbps mp3 but I've recently been ripping all my CDs using FLAC.

Thanks Colin...

What are FLAC variables? I thought FLAC to be full fidelity, not compressed. I guess I was mistaken?

Does FLAC have a 24bit compressed format? I’ll start looking around. I will see what CbB's FLAC export offers...

Yeah... what an nested loop of diminished thinking.

I was simply wondering if there is an audio compression technique that yields a compressed 48k/24bit playable file akin to mp3?

It's a funny thing in my mind, but I was thinking I would like to share a higher quality online than mp3 as compressed 44.1/16 yet more expediently (smaller). Kind of 3 steps forward 2 steps back, but better none the less?

Anyone have any thoughts?

Just astounded! Thanks. I downloaded it, installed and browsed a few presets and immediately came here to post the deal. Of course, others were faster! ?

I browsed the available options and were very pleased. I made my living for many years with one of the hardware beats back in the 80's and this seems to have all plus extras!...and you don't have to leave it on overnight for the oscillators to settle!

Thanks! First impression is great job. Sounds wonderful has the thngs expected. Great job!

BTW. I do still own a stripped down 2 voice version with keyboard currently disconnected in road case and deep storage... ? (originally a 4voice but that's a story for another time and when the keyboard got disconnected0

I am, and always have been...

Coming Soon! The Has Been Who Never Was

3 hours ago, kc23 said:

 

It is necessary to understand correctly signal routing as a universal concept, and then understand how the tool at hand (in this case cakewalk) functions, to make these kind of things work as one wants.

-A send is a send. It SENDs audio to where ever you want it to be received. It can be a bus, or a track (used as an aux track in cakewalk). In analog, a send does not need a dedicated "return", you can return it to a bus (if it has an input port) or a track,  as you can do in cakewalk.

-In a patchbay, a mult is the result of an input being duplicated in a given number of outputs.  You would have to patch the output of a track to the mult input, and then the outputs of the mult to the inputs of the tracks you want it to be duplicated at. In cakewalk, if you want a track´s signal to be received by multiple other tracks (thus creating a "mult") then: set the output of the track to a patch point (the "mult input"), then in as many tracks as you want, set their inputs to said patch point (the "mult outputs"). If you want to receive that signal also on a bus, send it through a... send, having decided for it to be pre or post fader.

Understanding the signal flow and the software´s functions, this should take a couple of minutes to figure out, and another couple to experiment if it will work.

Hope it helps.

Thanks... I am quite well versed in signal path and understand send vs track output...

That said, Though I’ve been using son-cake for decades, I have not played around with patch points and forgot about them. They may function exactly as the mults of analog days. I will investigate.

 Thanks.

58 minutes ago, Kevin Perry said:

The nomenclature isn't explicit but the UI wouldn't be that dissimilar since the controls required would be essentially the same.

I would imagine significantly small adjustments. Extra widgets or new widget to display choices/settings and a selection list that accommodates multiple choices?

Obviously the necessary code is more tedious...

24 minutes ago, Promidi said:

Isn't this what a send is?

Similar, but not quite. Send uses a return, not a bus.

That being said, I have used sends for jobs that I might have wanted a second output.

In analog days I would create a mult on the track's output...

No matter. This isn't something badly needed, just a thought.

I would actually prefer they spent the time addressing the zoom issues I regularly complain about! ?

This could be a handy tool and way of working that calls back to analog once again.

How about adding the ability to assign multiple outputs from each track?

...just thinking.

CbB requires authorization roughly every 6 months. It's becoming cleaner with each passing update as we can now manage our updates and authorization from within CbB and not need to open Bandlab Assistant at all. Much cleaner. More "invisible" to the majority of users...

Hope that helps...

I too ran into this and checked periodically for a couple of hours until it finally returned.

I might guess a server or dns crashed somewhere?

Hi Shane...

My heart goes out to you. It is a very hard time to go through. She will be with you in a new way forever. Keep her alive in your heart!

37 minutes ago, Magic Russ said:

 

Rapture Pro is very cool from the perspective of having all of the Rapture and Dimension Pro sounds integrated.

As an editor, though, not so much.  I have long said that I use Rapture for patch creation and import to RP.

Before the bankruptcy, I set up whichever version they were giving away with CM on my kids machines.  I even copied my Magic Russ 30 for 30 patch library over, and it worked fine in RP Lite.  My kids never used it but thought it was cool that I had my own patch set.

I typically know which type of sound I’m looking for and often use sampled instruments very differently than I do synth sounds so one or the other is what’s needed but I often thought about the merger abilities.

45 minutes ago, abacab said:

Maybe selling plugins, and then supporting them, doesn't fit with the current BandLab business model. Which I have the impression is for first getting the Cakewalk DAW as stable and bug-free as possible under the BandLab brand.

Further spreading out the limited technical resources (Noel & his team) would take away from that primary mission. It's obvious that BandLab doesn't need the money, since they are giving the DAW away for free.

Good observation.

It's not always about us!

Very sad for all...

Well, almost all. Many of us do have this excellent model.

I have most, but I’ve wished I bought Rapture Pro when I could. I do have Rapture and Dimension Pro as well as Rapture Pro Lite as they work so well together as a single entity I miss not having full control.

So sad to hear this news Bill. My heart goes out to you.

I hope you get relief quickly. I will be thinking good thoughts for you!

On 2/19/2021 at 6:54 AM, Starship Krupa said:

I spend way too much time dragging the scroll bars around in the Piano Roll just trying to find the notes I want to edit.

It would be great to have a command that would adjust the horizontal and vertical zoom so that all the MIDI note information of the currently selected track were visible (or at least centered) in the window. We have a couple of commands in the Track View that work great for this, I'd like to have something similar for the Piano Roll.

(I know that there is already a command in the PRV menu named "Fit MIDI content." The times I tried it, it seemed to function similarly to the shuffling algorithm in Minesweeper. I don't mind if this command stays for backward compatibility, although I seldom have use for it myself.)

You know I’m on board for all zoom additions. My one biggest issue since the silverlight framework was added.

I spend far too much time fiddling with zoom issues.

some of this got much more fidgety at that time. If at least lasso zoom consistently gave us what we select...

sorry, i digress.

1 hour ago, scook said:

http://www.fxteleport.com/index.html

Cakewalk purchased BitBridge from them.

Thanks scook!

I manage to remember bits and pieces. I worked with fxteleport back then. It was cool being able to move audio around that way but yes. Latency was a battle.

I guess the new solution is Dante or such?

Teleport was doing this years ago. That's not quite the right name and I think it is now somehow related to our 32bit bridging software.

23 minutes ago, murat k. said:

You are not missing something @KeniYou are winning something new! Use Cakefolk™ for the Cakewalk and feel the difference!

OK. What is Cakefolk (real or joke) and if real, where do I find it?

18 minutes ago, murat k. said:

 

I recommend you to use Cakefolk™. Use the Right Click Selection on the Time Ruler with it.

I don’t understand. What am I missing?

I've only installed CS here but it found all my earlier gear and everything is working great right "out of the box"

Just spent my first hour oblivious to the world learning my way around.

I have 3 and 4 and found I usually used 3? Now it will be 5.

Gonna take some getting used to the tuner though... ????

Ok. This fixed it. Very CPU hungry. I normally run with a 2.7 ms latency forced to up that to over 14ms to run clean.

This is a reasonably powerful machine. Mac Pro dual Xeon for a total 16 cores with 64G RAM...?

Interesting. It changes rooms very quickly and clean. My first listens were only for a drum kit so it will require more exploration to test the personal fit. Strange looking interface controls?