Mark Morgon-Shaw

Your brain should have more plasticity for learning new stuff than us oldies then ! It's relatively straightforward...A buss is just another mixer channel that you can send other channels to and it combines them and then routes them to the next bus ( usually the Master...but not necessarily ) If you're already using Folders then you can select the entire Folder and route it to a bus : Click the square space to the left of the Folder icon to select all the tracks inside and then go to the Tracks menu above - Selected Track Outputs ( bottom menu option ) then you should get a popup box - Select Audio Outputs and then the bus of your choice from the dropdown box. Once all the audio in the folder is routed to a bus you can apply any plugins to the whole lot in one go. Here is a screenshot of a Trailer cue I'm just finishing up, there's 45 tracks and they go to 15 buses and most ( but not all ) of the FX are applied at bus level. Some refer to this as 'topdown' mixing where you do most of the heavy lifting of the mix on groups rather than individual tracks. If you need a more thorough explanation I can recommend this YT channel

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I doubt it , a new project is a new project for me - I would never recycle anything

I dunno, 30 years and I've never once wanted to do that.

A folder is an organisational tool..a visual aid...a container...it's not part of the audio path. Audio flows through tracks and buses, not folders. Buses are easy understand if you ever owned a hardware mixer and DAWs follow those signal flow conventions for good reason.

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No it's the full one which is about £400 now. Can't remember what I paid as I stopped upgrading at V.5 some 15yrs ago but they're up to V.10 now. I got my first one cheap as I worked in a store that sold boxed audio software and old versions often got sold off at crazy discounts when the new one came out. So I maybe paid £10 for it originally plus an upgrade or two later on. V.5 still runs on Win 10 You can get the Elements version which does what most will want.

A 22 year old DAW..really ? I think I had to upgrade to a Pentium processor just so I could run it. I am not quite clear on what you're trying to achieve. If you mean you want to play a midi part with both the Coolsoft VMS and en external hardware synth then you would just duplicate the midi to a 2nd track, assign one the VMS and the other to your external midi module and combine the two signals via an external hardware mixer. That's how we rolled back in 1999 anyway, any half decent modern soft synth is going to blow VMS out of the water though so maybe think about getting CBB and some up to date sounds.

Isn't this scenario exactly what Mix Recall was designed for ?

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Best algorithm is getting right at source. 2nd best is probably Melodyne. 3rd best is getting your hands dirty and chopping up the audio manually I tried Audiosnap with 8.5 and a wayward drummer. In the end it was easier to sack the drummer and re-track..never used it since. Or the drummer.

Got the file thanks, I haven't used Cakewalk Instrument Definitions since around 2001 when I sold all my hardware synths What's the best way to make the note names appear in the PRV..do I have to dedicate a channel to it ?

Aha..awesome thanks ..keep up the good work !

It's not something that needs to be generated on every export, just a tick box option when needed ie. final mix. Not sure how the CAES operates but it's still there.

Other DAWs such as PT or Cubase have the option to Export more than one file format of the mix at the same time. This is very handy when delivering final files to Clients when you need a lossy file for emailing etc for approval or edits as well as a full quality lossless version for the master. i.e Client Approval Copy = 320k MP3 Master Copy = 48k 24bit Wav They would be called MyMix.mp3 & MyMix.wav .....Is there any reason these could not be rendered at the same time in Cakewalk ?

Here it is in Pro Tools in 2012

How do the Devs evaluate and decide which if any to implement..i.e this is a useful feature and several of the competition have had it for years, and on the surface it would seem like one of simpler FR although I've not written any code for decades so I could be wrong.

As you can see this has been requested multiple times over many years @scook even replied in 2016 !!

You can do it in Logic , Reaper..and I think my Cubase owning friends have mentioned they can do it too. This would be useful because you can dump any initial midi data , keyswitches etc in bar zero and it also seems that Cakewalk struggles to play/render the first few milliseconds and it's more reliable if it has a little bit of a run up.

Studio One has implemented this now so Cakewalk needs to play catch up

Sounds like you're removing all the human vibe from the music along with the 11 band EQ on the piano. On paper your mixes sound lifeless. Just because you can , doesn't mean you should.

If that's the case I simply wouldn't work with those people. Audiosnap is a poor substitute for musicians who can actually play in time , it's also fairly defunct if you have Melodyne 4 or above.

+1 for DeCoda...very good piece of software

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