Playlist still broken

I don't think it was ever fixed in X2. It was eventually fixed in X3, IIRC in one of the later X3 updates.

hi rgx, when you say "cakewalk 5" do you mean sonar, pro audio, or cakewalk? same question for "8.0" - sonar, pro audio or cakewalk? from the "in the 90's" i'll bet a shiny coin that it's pro audio but, you know, just to be clear :-)

rgx
Sorry for not stating, but it was Pro Audio 5 and 8 that I used back in the late 90's .

Me Too!


Those were the days!

The live setup wish list - perhaps Cakewalk will hear our cry!!!
I used to switch up sets in PA5 all the time on the fly but it was 99% midi playback and 1% audio mixed in a few tracks (audio sync was rough back then!). I ran everything automated with MIDI and would like to get back to that while using the soft synth sound sources so Winamp etc. won't cut it. I got spoiled not having to tap dance across lighting controllers, guitar patch changes, and keyboard setups. Excessive time spent programming, but what a Cakewalk playing live was when finished! (I did still have to step on the fog machine! )

I'm using playlist in Platinum and am having the same issues. I need to see my track files to sync up but the project shrinks and the dock covers the track. The concept is perfect, seems a shame to have to go to all the trouble of winamp. It seems like it should be an easy fix to get the songs to appear as they normally would. Hope it's being looked at.

Cactus Music
I guess you have to make stripped down simple projects to use it smoothly.

I reckon that's the key to make the current play list feature work nicely. We've been using it live for about half a year now with X3e and it does exactly what we need it to do: change mixer scenes, change external FX via MIDI, provide up to 8 audio (!) backing tracks routed to different channels on the mixer, plus a count-in using WAV files for 1-2-1-2-3-4 (which is a bit funny but great when the crowd gets noisy!) ... so the set-up is simple - and we do not use any plug-ins at all (all FX is either bounced to tracks or applied via the digitial mixer)

When working on new material we have an additional 24 audio tracks in the project to be able to multi-track new arrangements - but live we go with clean smaller projects i.e. all unused tracks are all archived for the live performance so that they don't interfere.

Anyway, it took us a lot of testing and optimising to arrive at this rather simple project set-up (we built the entire set-up from scratch 4 times, each time simplifying something to get Murphy's law out of the way) ...
 
Plus it requires an SSD to have smooth loading of the next song in the background while on the current song is still on ... but now it enables us to change the playlist on the fly and quickly choose between auto-play (e.g. wait for 5 sec) or wait for key-press ... and handles everything we need automatically ...

Now, improvement can always be made, and I would opt for the following ...
... a better way how opened projects are displayed (currently they open in a funny way which is not the last view it was saved with) - best would be exactly as saved, with an option to open minimized ...
... MIDI keybind start - stop - next (currently this can only be done via keypress on the laptop keyboard)


Ideally, I would like to see it work with the matrix (triggering matrix fields being tied to MIDI commands) for both MIDI and audio clips but we are not there yet ... the functionality is all there, but I will need to invest quite some time in testing (and probably again simplifying) to make that integration safe enough for me to take along live ...
 

That's really the only fix I need, have the projects open the same way you last set them. That doesn't seem like it would be a major task--any hope of getting this added to the next update?

I am confused as to what the problem is here. I have been using the playlist feature for multi track audio backing tracks (between 8 and 24 tracks plus click to in ear monitors) with eq and fx on several of those tracks,  returned to separate tracks on a digital mixer (previously via firewire to a Yamaha 01x, now usb to a Behringer x32) plus midi for external device control and scene change for the past 6 years. I now also run DMXIS on the same computer and internally trigger it using loopbe midi to control a 20 fixture light show. I use an I7 laptop that is not particularly highly speced with an external USB hard drive for audio - and it works perfectly. I can change songs on the fly without issue, have the playlist continue to the next song, wait for keystroke etc without any unexpected behaviors.
 
What do you mean by changes your mix Georgerizzi? The crucial thing with midi is to ensure that your midi output device order stays the same.
 
As far as songs opening on screen as they have previously, you simply need to go through your songs and set the screen how you want it to look (adjusting the size of the arrange arrangement window, and whether you want lyrics view etc), LOCK THE SCREENSET, then save the  song. Next time you open it (whether manually or as part of a playlist) it will look exactly the same. 
 
Playlist is a great feature - hands down the best way to control your live playback. And it works:)
 
 

Happy to help mate:) Well worth sticking with the playlist.