Mark Morgon-Shaw

Yeah it's the old marketing tactic of having a really expsensive top tier that you sell realtively few of so the $200 option looks like a bargain in comparison and was likely the most popular.

I think the CbB team have been absoloutely brilliant over the past 5yrs. How anyone can begrudge them transitioning to a paid model after giving us half a decade of pro level software and support FOR FREE goodness only knows. I see the Platinum Lifetime crowd still complaining over on Facebook, as if Bandlab who owe them nothing either legally or morally haven't already done enough already for the user base. Maybe Bandlab can give them a token concession against new Sonar to finally put the matter to rest. I've checked my spreadsheet and since April 2018 I've written and produced over 450 tracks with CbB many of which have aired in various TV shows around the world and continue to do so. That wouldn't be possible if CbB wasn't a high quality stable DAW with professional level features and it's testament to the Dev Team that a slew of fantastically useful features have been added during that 5yrs that are in daily use. Off the top of my head... Arranger Tracks ( This has gotten me out of trouble more times than I care to mention ) Articulation Maps New Export Module ( This has been a game changer for creating deliverables ) Track Folders Ripple Editing ARA 2 That's without accounting for all the bug fixes and small enhancements along the way. So thanks to the CbB team for the last 5yrs, I will be first in line to purchase the new Sonar. I think the last one I bought was Sonar8.5 as an amateur producer before finally calling time on that version and transitioning to CbB as I was starting to get my tracks used professionally. I sincerely hope most will follow and the new products are a great success, I would dearly like my DAW to once again grace the pages of Sound on Sound and be talked about by hardware manufacturers as a popular DAW their products need to be tested with and made compatible.

Spicatto is more aggressive bowing technique ( bouncing the bow off the strings ) so it is more dynamic , has a much shorter attack and yes it's expected to be louder compared to a legato articulaton. It doesn't need correcting. Are you also using the CC controllers as these need to be 'played' as well to get a more life like performance out of orchestral libraries. CC11 is commoly used to control volume dynamically https://spitfireaudio.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013834018-MIDI-CC-Chart-for-Spitfire-Audio-Libraries It depends. The articulation you need is likely not in the free version if you can't get it to sound the way you want. There are more articulations in teh paid versions https://www.spitfireaudio.com/bbc-symphony-orchestra-core#whats-included Some string libraries actually include scale runs as a separate patch which can be triggered and it will do it to the track tempo.

They probably figured nobody used this relic from a bygone era. It harks back to the Win98 era and sounded horrible 20 years ago. I remember buying a Yamaha TG300 so I didn't have to listen to such awful sounds but that has long been sold. TTS1 sounds markedly better and even that is relatively terrible sounding in today's landscape although I guess it has it's uses ( like making click tracks ) There are tons of awesome souding free virtual instruments out there or if you want to stick with naff sounds use TTS1

It's not hard, it just works as expected here Drag one folder in the other and it highlights it like this Result is this Easy Peazy Maybe you have and older version

I don't do any exporting shenanignans as it takes too much time, I just make sure I have enough different ways of referencing at my DAW so I can adjust in real time. From my seat I can switch between several physical options:- 1. Main Nearfields ( APS ) 2. Grotbox Speaker ( Avantone Mixcube - mono ) 3. Old Boombox ( some people use old computer speakers also ) This makes it much easier to triangulate the mix so I know it will translate well for broadcast. There are also plugins you can get that emulate the frequency response of different playback systems such as Micchecker Pro I also have Slate VSX which I got so I can mix late at night without disturbing the family , this does have an iPhone emulation in the latest v4 update but to be honest I didn't find it much help. Some of the other rooms are great though , and their SUV really tells you if you got the subs right. The other thing that makes a lot of difference is having reference tracks, I use Metric A/B so I can compare a level matched version of my mix against commercial mixes or reference tracks sent by the publisher.

Eleven ! F##k me how do you get anything done ?

Did you check the Mod Wheel isn't acting as a volume control and in the down position - Check the Event List of the copied midi data for anything other than note data that may be causing it

Deal of the century really for the past 5+ years

Cool thanks, I have plenty of horses to spare so I'll give it a try

Cool - what value to increase from the default resolution?

Interesting Maybe @msmcleod can enlighten us ?

Envelopes seem to be low resolution , when you record them in with a controller many of the nodes created vanish losing some of the fine control

I always play them in , use Sound on Sound editing mode in the preferences and you can record them over the top of the existing midi data and tweak them in the PRV I agree the resolution is not ideal in the PRV

In the Export Module you can select Track Folders as a source - the below example will create 6 Stems with the correct Naming - Bit Depth - Sample Rate etc as required by the publisher with a couple of clicks. This is a real game changer for those of us that make a lot of deliverables so I was just making the point that currently Folders are not merely for condensing space. They are a huge time saver for some of us.

Those containers are actually pretty handy, they allow you to group intruments that may belong together but don't necessarily all go to the same buss. Take a Drum Folder for example, I use heavy drum bus compression for some styles so most of the tracks go to a drum bus but NYC compression can absoloutely wreck the hi hats and cymbals which are part of the same instrument. So they get routed elsewhere even though they live in the same folder. Then when it's time to send deliverables you can use those folders as a source for your stems regardless of the routing of the tracks inside. Not saying we shouldn't evolve the track folders to do more but to write them off as a mere space saving container is doing them a disservice.

I remember trying an automatic mastering program back in the Windows XP days...it took forever to do it's thing and sounded dreadful. At this point there is no plugin that can create a full mix automatically, as mentioned Izotope Neuron can help as can the Sonible Smart range of plugins but these plugins can't read your mind so they can't really know what you're aiming for and you might not like what they do in any given situation. I'm sure over time things will advance in this area as a byproduct of some of these generative AI models that are springing up but really the best thing is to learn how to mix yourself which only really comes with practice. I can whole heartedly reccommend the book " Mixing Secrets for The Small Studio " by Mike Senior. I worked with Mike when I needed to get my mixes TV ready and after working through the book went on to invest in some pro critique with him. Suffice to say I've had hundreds of my mixes in TV shows now and nobody asked me to change anything but all done from a modest home studio.

Very good VSTi for anyone that wants a wide range of 808 sounds. This is my go to for Trap / Hip Hop

They're not a thing in music for TV. Little to no intro's - no solos, single tempo, no keys changes, no fadeouts and always end on the tonic. But if I did have a solo I would just have it as one long arranger section spanning 12 bars or whatever..not repeating 4 bars x 3....for one thing I wouldn't want the backing track to repeat exactly the same thing 3 times, it would need slight changes every 4 bars at least just to keep it fresh and interesting even if it's just introducing some new percussion or a little drum fill.

I see your screenshot but I don't understand how you are working ? What are the letters for ? Are those labels for chords ? Do you make an Arranger Section for each chord of the song ? That would seem a bit overkill ? No wonder it's going off the screen. I always imagined it was designed for typical song sections - this is one of mine. I was able to try it with and without the Pre-Chorus ( PC ) but in the end the only change I made was adding a little gap at the end of Chorus 1 and the start of Verse 2.

Yes but it's very quick. Just select your section and hit CTRL D to duplicate - You can do this multiple times

Most soft synths I've used don't sound particularly unique but Dune3 has got this big phat but glossy produced kinda sound to it I've not heard elsewhere. Often a favourite in my TV tracks.

Exactly - I was on Sonar 8.5 for a decade delivering music for TV, it was still working fine but CBB was free and had some new features I wanted so I made the jump

Maybe this will be possible with the new vector based grapchics engine of Sonar