When was the last time you used Cakewalk's X-Ray feature

[jesse g]

Honestly, I have to say that I totally forgot about this feature in Cakewalk until I was going through my preferences.

Check it out, newbies you might be in for a surprise.

 

• To turn on this feature,  go to preferences.
• Look under Customization and click on Display,  and then click on "Enable X-Ray" near the bottom of the window.
• Now open a plugin, or a virtual instrument  and click on it and then hold down Shift and X.

This works on most Plugins and Virtual instruments.

[Grem]

8 hours ago, jesse g said:

totally forgot about this feature in Cakewalk

Yep. So did I. Will have to check it out.

Thanks Jesse

[craigb]

[Grem]

8 hours ago, jesse g said:

and click on it and then hold down Shift and X.

Not the title bar. The plugin itself.

I know you said 'the plugin' but me in my infinite wisdom thought that the title bar would qualify. It don't!

Yeah I forgot about that. It was enabled too. Maybe by default?

[Wibbles]

58 minutes ago, Grem said:

Maybe by default?

Yep.

[Wibbles]

Use the mouse and keyboard to have a ghostly image distorting the view of what's beneath instead of one mouse click to minimise/close the plugin and one to reopen it.

It seems to me like one of those ideas that sounded great in the development meeting, but would be a feature users soon forgot about.

[Guest]

I had no idea that was there, looks very cool and I will definitely use that.

Thanks

Andy

[Jesse Screed]

Learn something new everyday!  Thanks

[Grem]

7 hours ago, Wibbles said:

would be a feature users soon forgot about.

That does seem to be what happened to me!!

[paulo]

The first time I used it.

[msmcleod]

A friend of mine had a V-STUDIO 700, which had the T-Bar for controlling X-Ray. 

It was pretty cool, but always made me wish I had a Raleigh Chopper again...

[rfssongs]

35 minutes ago, paulo said:

The first time I used it.

Me too.

[InstrEd]

Remember too many X-rays are bad for you

[InstrEd]

.......and yes I forgot about this feature. Thanks for reminding me about it.

[Starship Krupa]

I forget about MIDI Magnifier as well.

X-Ray seems to be a thing designed to help with working on single smaller screens than are now standard.

(typing this on 14" laptop)

Edited November 29, 2022 by Starship Krupa

[jesse g]

On 11/28/2022 at 2:17 PM, msmcleod said:

A friend of mine had a V-STUDIO 700, which had the T-Bar for controlling X-Ray. 

 

 

Oh man, were you cool if you got one of these and folks stepped into your project studio.   I was drooling over one of these back in the day, until I got my Mackie Universal Pro.   It is still working !!! 

[Quick Math]

I saw that video many years ago and thought it was a fantastic feature I should use and then I opened the DAW and tried it to see how it works. Amazing. Since then, I never actually used that and even forgot the shortcut.

There are many other features that I thought cool but forgot.