Using Surround in Cakewalk by Bandlab

[Michael Shor]

Hi all,

 

I have been going to Cakewalk to look at some of my surround sound projects, and the surround features appear to be completely missing.  Were they intentionally removed from Cakewalk, and, if so, at what version?  It's an important feature for me and my primary usage case for Cakewalk at this point.  Could someone let me know the last build that has it?  I'd love to see it return as a feature if it was intentionally removed.

[parboo12]

I have the latest version (2022.06 build 028) and it has it - under Preferences-Project-Surround

[scook]

When a documented feature (such as surround) appears to be missing, review your workspace setting and change the setting to one that supports the feature, create a new workspace setting or set workspaces to None.

[John Vere]

I wonder when the developers will take note of how many post we get like this and change the default workspace to either none or advanced?  
And think of the possible hundreds of new users who don’t understand this and try Cakewalk and abandon it because it’s missing features they wanted?  
All  because they don’t want new users to be overwhelmed by  too many buttons?  

Edited July 6, 2022 by John Vere

[Byron Dickens]

4 minutes ago, John Vere said:

All  because they don’t want new users to be overwhelmed by  too many buttons?  

Or new users who don't want to RTFM.

[scook]

On 7/6/2022 at 3:13 PM, John Vere said:

I wonder when the developers will take note of how many post we get like this and change the default workspace to either none or advanced?  

The actual default workspace is set by the user during the on-boarding process. Of course, this requires the user to pause, read the screen and make a decision before continuing.

I doubt first time users have issues with the Basic workspace. Most, if not all, the questions where workspace is the answer come from users who believe a feature has been removed from CbB.

[Xoo]

But look on other boards (eg. KvR) where an oft-aired complainy about Cakewalk/SONAR is how busy it is...you can't please everyone.

[Terry Kelley]

You have to insert a surround bus for any of the controls to show up. I use it fairly often. However, things like speaker mute don't work.

Edited July 7, 2022 by Terry Kelley

[Toy]

Is it a problem that only stereo connection is currently possible and it does not support surround multi-channel plug-ins?
I would like to use Dolby ATMOS etc ...
Or is it possible now?

[John Vere]

Depends on how many outputs your audio interface has.  If it only has 2 then that’s all that can be used. 

[Michael Shor]

Thanks all.

The "workplaces" thing was definitely the problem.  I agree that having workplaces that can cut things like menu items is pretty confusing, especially if the default cuts out features.  I probably just dismissed that dialog at some point thinking it was a standard "getting started" dialog, versus something that would cut substantial features out of accessibility.

 

Best regards,

Michael