I want to be able to use Bandlab with other DAW Controllers specifically SSL Matrix 1 and Matrix2
 

Automate VST effect ON/OFF!!!

FEATURE REQUEST - Automate color per slice and/or punch in 
(in this case a single track and recording in with guitar)
 
Automate the clip color while recording
Ok Programers of the world this is not meant to amuse, however I'll do mybest to explain!
I don't want to think about clip color, set and forget. Every time you punch out the next color shade/tint will be picked and the next recorded clip will have the next iterated color.
 
Something like this: when there is silence for x-ms then change to the next color.

1. Track 1> REC
   
2. play1> Palm mute rest = color1
3. play2> Palm mute rest = color2
4. play2> Palm mute rest = color3 etc.

as an example you could pick the colors ahead of time (shades of green, orange, blue, etc.  using HEX code)
 
So your track is a solid green manalishi?
When you splet you track you want to AUTOMATE the color to a new shade/tint everytime it's split.
https://s26.postimg.cc/mo...ate_Color_per_Clip.jpg
 

biozel
2. using colors for strips is very nice. but this is only part of the task. second part is to apply that color for clips in that track - but not as a foreground but as a background! it is very hard right now to look at complex project and see different type of tracks by color of (small) midi events in clips.

Oooh.... I like this one.   I would be nice to have the option of applying the "Use Track Colors" setting to either the Foreground (as it does now) or the Background.    Or maybe the option of setting the "Default" color to the Track Color.
 

rodreb
Sorry if this has been suggested before but, I would love to see a dedicated remote app for tablets/phones. That was one thing I really liked about Studio One when I briefly switched over. I have tried other remote apps and had nothing but problems with them.  

I've mentioned this before......a great idea and one that will appeal to the younger generation, which is where the future lies.

Here's my wishlist for future versions of BandLab's Cakewalk, as a long-time Cakewalk (SONAR) user. All of these consider the very latest version number at this time (2018.06, build 14). It's getting better all the time as for the stability and so forth, so I've been really happy.

So, here's my "Christmas wishlist" as an old Cakewalk geezer ... If you want to make a real old-schooler-old-timer "next level happy", here's my "please-please-please-list":

1. In larger multitrack projects, the "General Error" problem upon saving the project still persists every now and then. Since times half-immemorial, the bypass for this error message has been to move the playback cursor to another point in the project, press play, press stop, and re-save. 99,9% of the times it solves the problem, but should you have a crash ... This would be a really great thing to be fixed.

2. I've requested this before, but it's not been made available: the possibility to select both audio/midi tracks section AND mix buses at the same time to copy i.e. the automations and whatnot to another project/sub-project. I've requested this feature before (when Cakewalk was under Gibson Inc., and I think even bfore that) and one of the replies was that "it's probably too close to the core of the source code, and therefor it's probably hard to accomplish." Now, it would be a great feature to have, since then you could copy and paste entire song sections and whatnot from a "master project file" to a separate file. As for now, the lack of this feature stops this.

3. One thing that has gone really awry since Cakewalk SONAR 8.5.3 Producer Edition, starting from X1, and the new workspace layout introduced back then, is the fact that you cannot stretch channel/bus names to as wide as you basically want. This is not a feature request, this is a downright "BOOOOOOOOOOO!". Since you could still do it in 8.5.2 Producer, and later there's been this limitation on how wide the title-description of the track/bus/folder in question can be. And that, simply put, SUCKS. You often have to write long descriptions onto a track name just to keep track on the project details.

4. I would REALLY like to have an option to add track markers in DIFFERENT COLORS, even that would help out a lot. Also, if you could add the possibility to add a separate track marker that would be of a different color by default than just your basic marker; and preferably listed in the upper margin on a different height than your average marker. It'd help a lot in managing larger projects.

5. Speaking of markers -- you could implement additional markers, i.e. "track markers" that'd be visible on the Big Time View (you could see i.e. the 'track marker' number or so), and that there would be a way to skip / jump back between these "main track markers" (or primary markers) -- I've worked as a beta tester for Sony Creative Software back in the day with their Vegas Pro Suite, and one of its best sides is the ability to use different kind of markers (different coloring, different heights in the margins) and whatnot. In a multi-song master project, this would be REALLY useful. You could still have your regular markers to mark out certain punch-in points and parts inside a composition, and the track markers would help you to navigate between songsin a master project that contains multiple songs in it.

6. THE POSSIBILITY TO FREEZE A FOLDER AT ONCE. Yes. This would be one of those "Dear Santa"-requests that would really ease the workflow. Of course, I might have a different workflow than other people do, as I do a lot of mixing via the audio buses (often for automation and balance control, sometimes with a slider surface), and I often have master projects that have multiple songs inside it. I also often group different instruments under the track folders. Sometimes, when the project gets large enough and far enough to be nearly complete, there's really a need for track freezing. Just the possibility of being able to freeze an entire track folder at once, would be a superb feature.

7. The possibility to FREEZE A BUS. Yep, hehe. Now, I don't know what's the thing with me and freezers, or freezing, perhaps it's the northern latitudes or something, but freezing a BUS, now that'd be interesting ... AND, resource-saving! That would of course be a bit of an engineering challenge to figure out as for the routing - i.e. considering fx I/O's, I sometimes have a bus that sends audio to multiple other side-buses, pre or post, but I'd say that'd be a nice way to save processing and hard drive resources.
 
8. Did I already mention my years-old request to read subchannel metadata from S/PDIF / digital input(s) [i.e. track change markers and so forth - very handy feature that's at least found from WaveLab ..] ? .. OK, I think all of these are quite enough.
 
You've already done a really good job so far with the bug squishing and making the software more stable than SONAR Platinum ever was, congratulations on that. But, there's still hill left to climb up! Keep up the good work!
 
Cheers!




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Brandon2000
I would like to see a feature that allows the use of Soundfonts (SF2) as there were and still are so many good realistic ones.

There's a fair few VST soundfont players out there, just some examples:
 
Free:
Plogue sforzando: https://www.plogue.com/products/sforzando.html
DSK SF2 v2: http://www.dskmusic.com/dsk-sf2-v2/
 
and of course Cakewalk's sfz: http://www.cakewalk.com/products/SFZ (note this seems to be unavailable at the moment but you can download the last free version before Cakewalk bought RGC here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070715220351/http://www.rgcaudio.com/downloads/freeware/

 
Paid:
Samplelord: https://www.samplelord.com/ (EUR40 approx 47 USD)
VSTSynthFont: http://www.synthfont.com/Downloads.html (EUR15 approx 18 USD)
 
I personally use Samplelord for most things, and DSK SF2 if I want solo/portamento.
 
 

Thanks mark - are the VST players able to be played through Sonar i.e. the player will play the sf2 so that the sounds can be recorded?
 
TIA

msmcleod

Brandon2000
Thanks mark - are the VST players able to be played through Sonar i.e. the player will play the sf2 so that the sounds can be recorded?
 
TIA

Yes, that's exactly what they do.

Thank you.

I like to hear my mixes on different soundsystems and in different rooms.
So right now I have to mix it down and save it as a file and then I can cast it to my other room to my tv or my chromecast with other boxes..
Then I can make some changes and have to save it again ...........many extra steps, other software.
Is it possible to build that casting function in the mixer?

Feature Request:
Currently it seems as though AUX tracks only let audio pass through if the track audition/monitor button is active. I find this confusing and on more than one occasion I have turned of all audition/monitor in the project, only to discover that nothing directed to an AUX track is playing back.
 
Is there a way this function can be made independent of the normal track audition/monitor mode?

Did I already request this here?
 
I'm sure I've requested it in the past, but it continues to haunt me...
 
Please consider adding user enable/disable to display the promoted clips while Lanes are exposed....
 
More often than not, the track's image confuses my eye as I'm working with clips on the Lanes....
 
It would be very much eaiser if I could turn off the Track's image and see only the Lanes....
 
Please???
 
Thanks!
 
 

I'm still hoping for a chord track.

I'd like to be able to switch my buffers/settings quickly between my lowest for tracking and my "highest" for mixing.  Like an A/B button and I get to set the parameters.
Perhaps that is already doable and I haven't figured it out, yet. LOL
Michael