Cakewalk 2020.11 Release now available

[Larry Shelby]

Run BLA to update!

Features & Enhancements

Articulation Maps. Articulation maps are a universal way to deal with expressions/key switches/articulations in VST instruments or hardware MIDI instruments

In-app activation. You can now activate Cakewalk directly from within the app, without requiring BandLab Assistant.

ARA/Melodyne algorithm picker (pre-release). When converting audio to MIDI by dragging an audio clip to a MIDI track, or performing tempo extraction by dragging an audio clip to the time ruler, you can now select the desired algorithm. Please note: The algorithm picker is a pre-release feature and will only be visible if you are running Melodyne 5 and higher.

VST instruments can use custom instrument definitions. You can now use any instrument definition with a VSTi from a new drop-down menu in the Patch Browser dialog box (click 'Patch Browser' in the Inspector).

Piano Roll view Note drawing now automatically switches direction as necessary during the gesture (left to right or right to left).

Open Piano Roll view when double-clicking white space on a MIDI or Instrument track.

Updated to VST3 SDK 3.7.0.

Support MIDI CCs via VST3 MIDI output (allows generative MIDI out VST3 plug-ins such as the Reason Rack plug-in to send MIDI CCs to Cakewalk).

Support channel aftertouch sent from VST3 plug-ins.

Enhancements

Application memory footprint has been reduced (dynamic VST Plug-in Buffer sizes).

Cakewalk now supports ASIO devices with a single mono input, such as the iRig Pro.

Relative resizing of selected tracks. SHIFT+drag resizes all selected tracks to the same size. CTRL+drag resizes all selected tracks by the same amount relative to their current size.

Cakewalk supports the latest ARA SDK from Celemony.

Adjust split point on a single Take lane. To move only the split point on a single lane, hold down the ALT key when using the Move Split Point tool.

CTRL-click 'Duplicate Track' button to specify settings.

Allow track FX bin to be bypassed via control surfaces rather than just individual FX.

When installing an update from within Cakewalk, you can now choose to automatically relaunch Cakewalk after the installation completes.

The 'New Project File' dialog box (File > New) now lets you specify folder paths, tempo, meter, bit depth, and sample rate settings for the '-- No Tracks or Buses --' option (previously named '-- Blank Project --').

File Stats improvements. When starting a new project from a project template, the File Stats window in the Notes Browser now start the Editing Time and Revision counters at 0. To reset the file stats, right-click in the File Stats window and select 'Reset File Stats'.

Early Access Notifications. Cakewalk now presents a toast notification when an Early Access build is available. Early Access builds are completely optional, providing access to the next version of Cakewalk before its official release.

Optimizations

Major optimizations to clips view drawing to eliminate redundant drawing of clips.

Projects with tracks containing many Take lanes with muted clips now draw and scroll more than 20x faster.

Scrolling with Display Muted Takes In Parent Track enabled now has almost similar performance to having that option disabled.

Waveform drawing is now optimized for faster drawing.

Drawing and mouse handling in the Bus pane has been optimized to prevent audio glitches and late buffers.

Bug Fixes

Crash on insert of Track Template.

Crash on Delete Hole of project.

Crash closing project after loading track template containing VST3 synth.

Crash when loading project with Melodyne via Play List.

Crash when deleting Vienna Synchron.

User reported crash when looping audio clip.

User Reported Crash with the Play List.

Random crashes with dead pointers when step recording.

Crash when displaying dropout toast message.

Intermittent crashes in Arranger Track.

nullptr crash in Staff view.

Adding ProChannel Track Compressor on surround bus crashes.

CTRL-click 'Duplicate Track' button should bring up 'Duplicate Track(s)' dialog.

Hidden Clips can be edited in Track view.

Mute Tool operates on hidden clips in Track.

Select Tool selecting invisible muted clips when 'Display Muted Clips In Parent Track' is unchecked.

Scrolling view left while dragging note causes PRV to fail to Snap By.

'Center on Now Time with Keyboard Zoom' only works if Mouse Zoom is set to 'Now Time'.

Sluggish Scrolling in project.

Enable/Disable Read Automation shortcut not working.

Replace Synth can fail to rename track.

Unexpected changes to track input when using MIDI transformation synths.

Hiding icons in Synth Rack causes alignment error.

Enabling MIDI Out on some synths causes all synths to appear in MIDI Input picker.

Track view would steal focus back after clicking on an Arranger section.

Disallow Step Record during playback.

Add performance warning when disabling 'Only for Inputs in Project' option in Preferences > Project - Record.

Section Rename can unexpectedly run into Browser.

F2 Rename on Section Headers does not always work.

Section Rename could occasionally hang the application.

Section menus would occasionally not dismiss resulting in multiple menus being displayed.

Setting now time in arranger during playback doesn't respect the 'Set Time During Playback' click behavior.

Clicking away from Rename of section causes Windows 'ping'.

Arranger not automatically fixing overlapping sections in some circumstances.

ALT+mouse wheel zoom unavailable in Arranger track.

Arranger picker fails to open after clicking away from menu.

Arranger menu commands could sometimes fail to execute.

Arranger section move should include data during playback.

Arranger section move is now blocked during record.

Arranger labels now support Unicode characters.

Moving mouse over Bus pane causes audio glitches and late buffers.

ARA projects redundantly saving document controller state for deleted items in undo history.

Projects created using Cyrillic characters in the audio file names, fail to load on a system using a different language pack.

Cannot enter the 'ö' character using a non-English keyboard layout in Lyrics view.

Ripple Paste not always working after cut.

Clip fails to split during existing fade if 'Auto Crossfades' is enabled.

Slow Cakewalk startup time when using MackieControl.dll.

Export Audio doesn't work when exporting from a surround bus.

More Bug Fixes

Improve handling for 'Blank Project' in File > New.

Step Record can glitch with instruments that have long tails when Auto Advance is enabled.

'Allow Arm Changes During Playback/Record' causes wave file creation when adding certain VST3 plug-ins.

Temporary files for 'Allow Arm Changes During Playback/Record' can be created in wrong folder.

'Allow Arm Changes During Playback/Record' causes Instrument track audio to fail to record.

Setting multiple tracks to the same input can cause record to fail if 'Allow Arm Changes during Playback/Record' is enabled.

When Automation lanes are visible in the Bus pane, the drop target for reordering gets interfered with causing misplacement.

BandLab Login can appear on incorrect monitor.

Edited November 10, 2020 by cclarry

[scook]

5 minutes ago, cclarry said:

Run BLA to update!

Starting with 2020.09 CbB has in-app updating. No need to run BA.

[kitekrazy1]

Also downloads in your download folder. No more figuring out where the installer is if you want to archive it.

I love what's going on with Bandlab. I might ditch my pricey DAWs.

[Brian Walton]

First update in the bandlab era that installed properly without fuss (usually BA would need a manual download).  Took BA out of the picture now and update actually went as expected.

Love the progress there.

[Promidi]

These Articulation Maps are a true game changer.....