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Nomad Factory Blue Tubes or Blue Cat? The Nomad Factory Blue Tubes Bundle is in the Studio Mixing FX Suite under SONAR Platinum in the Cakewalk Command Center. Go to the Blue Cat website for their software.

In April 2017 patent royalties associated with mp3 encoding expired. CbB has always included an mp3 encoder.

By default, CbB sends MIDI data, as is, to the plug-in. Channel is a note property. It is possible to force the channel assignment in all the notes at the track level using the Channel drop down as show in the image above. There are a couple of ways to change the channel assignment for some notes in a track. Here is one, make sure the Channel drop down in the track is set to None select the notes to change set the channel in the Event Inspector

Yes, Dimension Pro and Rapture Classic are separate full installers. Most legacy Cakewalk plug-ins may be installed without installing the DAW, but it is impossible to install all the bundled plug-ins with SONAR without installing Platinum and a version containing V-Vocal. Legacy Cakewalk DAWs and CbB run fine on the same machine at least through Win10. I have not tested Win11. Regardless of the OS, there is nothing in a properly installed series of Cakewalk DAWs and CbB that can affect the stability of CbB . Nothing has changed since

Just like Cakewalk before it, BandLab does not publish their release schedule. A week or so before the official release they post an Early Access version here https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/forum/36-early-access-program/ For a long time now, a rollback installer to the previous production release is provided in the official release threads posted here https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/forum/33-product-release-info/

@OrvilleI am just glad to see someone from Eventide on this forum. The deals forum is https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/forum/34-deals/ AFAIK, every Eventide sale already gets posted in the deals forum. This is the post for the current sale

Presets stored using the Cakewalk Preset Manager are written to the registry. The Cakewalk Plug-in Manager provides tools to import, export and manage these presets.

I do not have the plug-in but every vocoder plug-in I have whether it scans as an FX or synth gets setup the same in CbB. Place the plug-in in the audio FX rack of the track to be modified Verify "Enable MIDI Input" is selected in the VST2/3 drop down above the plug-in UI. In the case of Waves, this should be the VST3 format plug-in. Add a MIDI track with its output set to the vocoder plug-in, its input set to your controller and input echo enabled (this may be disabled when MIDI data is in the track). BTW, to embed youtube videos In youtube, click share click Copy in the share dialog paste into your post And for imgur, click on the image in your account, this opens the view/edit dialog click Copy next to the string for BBCode and paste into your post

Time spent learning AutoHotkey can save a lot of time and keystrokes in the long run.

Inline PRV

This function toggles display of the ProChannel in the console view not the Inspector. CTRL+i toggles PC display in the inspector.

I don't believe so. Not all functions are exposed for (re)mapping. That said, AutoHotkey or something similar is a skill worth picking up. For example, here is the AutoHotkey script that maps the (currently unbound) F2 function key to CTRL+i in CbB (and only CbB) When CbB has focus, press the F2 key and CbB receives CTRL+i.

The short answer is No. There is no way to alter the default track to either preload PC settings or swap it for a track template in CbB. I created a shortcut using AutoHotkey to load a specific track template, in this example, a template for guitar. The script, bound Windows+Space, opens the template import dialog then navigates to my custom template folder then loads the guitar track template.

To clear the Recent File List in CbB (which also clears the Start Screen) from the Windows command line enter reg delete "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Core\Recent File List" /va Store in a bat or cmd file for reuse. Or for those familiar with AutoHotkey, I wrote a simple script with a GUI to perform the same task but never bothered to port it to CbB. The script is in this thread on the old forum. Here is the original code for SONAR Platinum bound to the shortcut Windows+R #r:: ;HKCU path, modify for your version of SONAR recentFileList := "Software\Cakewalk Music Software\SONAR\Platinum\Recent File List" varCount = 0 ; count of registry entries with data totalCount = 1 ; total count of registry entries Gui, New, , SONAR Recently Used List Gui, Add, Text, , Check items to delete then click OK ; loop to create check list of projects from registry Recent File List Loop, Reg, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\%recentFileList%, V { RegRead, value If ErrorLevel { MsgBox, 16, Error, Unable to read %A_LoopRegName% Goto GuiClose } ; only show checkboxes for keys with data if value { Array%A_Index% := value Gui, Add, Checkbox, vFile%A_Index%, %value% varCount += 1 } totalCount += 1 } Gui, Add, Button, w60 default xm Section, OK Gui, Add, Button, x+80 ys w60, &Cancel Gui, Show Return ButtonOK: Gui, Submit Gui, Cancel keyCount = 1 ; used to create registry keys ; loop to write out unchecked projects Loop, %varCount% { variable := File%A_Index% ; checkbox variables element := Array%A_Index% ; registry string values IfEqual, variable, 0 { RegWrite, REG_SZ, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, %recentFileList%, File%keyCount%, %element% keyCount += 1 } } ; loop to delete extra keys While keyCount < totalCount { RegDelete, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, %recentFileList%, File%keyCount% keyCount += 1 } ButtonCancel: GuiClose: GuiEscape: Gui, Destroy ExitApp It looks like this At a minimum, for CbB change recentFileList := "Software\Cakewalk Music Software\SONAR\Platinum\Recent File List" to recentFileList :="Software\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Core\Recent File List"

Most drum synths do not implement the appropriate VST2 opcode to display instrument names. AFAIK, only BFD, Session Drummer 2/3 and Sitala implement this. I built an instrument definition file for SI-Drums see this thread. This may be used to display instrument names in the label pane left of the note pane in the PRV.

Chances are the plug-in UI has cell H selected and the cell below it (the infinity symbol means loop forever) also selected in the Drumkit view. At a minimum, deselect the infinity symbol.

Copy and paste should always work. If the prompts are not in a separate window, click the keyboard in the upper right on the standard header above the plug-in UI.

Try File > Export > Audio and select one of the Tracks presets in the Export Audio dialog then select the track to export from sources and click the export button. This will create and export one consolidated clip from all the clips in the track. Duplicating a track does not consolidate clips. What gets duplicated depends on how the Duplicate Track Settings dialog is configured. To copy clip(s) from one track to another and have the clips land at the same point on the timeline, select the clips then CTRL+SHIFT+drag the clips to the new track or to the empty space below the last track to create a new track with the data copied into it.

This was meant to be in the context of the link It could have been clearer if I wrote: There are only a few hosts that support surround sound plug-ins and CbB is not one of them.

Because this is how surround support is implemented in the DAW. Support for plug-ins in a surround FX rack comes from SurroundBridge. I am not sure there were any VST surround plug-ins available when surround was added to SONAR.

Clear the selection in the track view Then open the Export dialog, select one of the Tracks presets at the top of the dialog, uncheck any Tracks not to export under Sources, click Export. If it will be run multiple times, consider creating a task. For more info about the Export dialog see http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=0x2026A

There are not many manufacturers shipping plug-ins without a preset manager. It appears that plug-ins originally written for UAD and later released as native plug-ins lack a preset manager. I believe this is because UAD has a built-in preset manager that these plug-ins rely upon, and the developers do not bother to add a preset manager to their native plug-ins. This used to be the case with Softube and still is the case with most Plugin Alliance. Plugin Alliance have preset managers for their synths presumably because they are not available as UAD plug-ins. Some developers who sell products through Plugin Alliance have integrated preset managers. I believe those developers do not make UAD plug-ins. Bettermaker VST3 is an interesting case as it seems to display its presets in the CbB plug-in manager automatically just like VST2. They show up in a section between the MRU and User added presets. The path to the presets is stored in the VST inventory. This seems to be unique to this plug-in. There must be something in the VST3 spec that Bettermaker uses to tell CbB about its presets. I do not write plug-ins and don't know much about the spec but there is definitely something different about this plug-in. Update: Bettermaker is not the only one. DearVR Pro and several of the Lindell VST3 plug-ins also automatically load in the CbB preset manager. Last night I played around with a way to automate getting PA VST3 FX plug-in presets into CbB. I came up with an autohotkey script. It's not very pretty and it is not something I would normally share. The script requires some familiarity with autohotkey to adjust xy coordinates based on monitor resolution and font scaling. I run 1920x1080 at 100%. It may also need some tweaking of the wait states. And, if anything goes wrong while adding presets, the fix is a manual process either by removing the presets from the preset manager or blowing the out with regedit. IOW, once the first preset is written, there is no error handling. That said, the final script has worked on about 75 different PA plug-ins without error.

If the plug-in supports VST2 - VST3 migration, the plug-in's current settings in the project will migrate along with it. User created VST2 presets stored on disk do not migrate as part of this process.

You did not say they were frozen tracks. And it would help to know if the frozen tracks originally contained audio or are frozen synths. How did you move the project? Just move the cwp file or move the folder containing the cwp file along with the associated folders? Are you using the default per-project audio layout where a project folder contains the project file and an audio folder (if the project contains audio including frozen tracks)? If the original audio files are available to the project and the frozen clips (which should be in the same folder as the original audio BTW) are not, unfreeze the tracks. If the frozen tracks are synths, try unfreezing them.