Frank Harvey

Phoen1xPJ
The MIDI people have spoken!

SUCH SWEET WORDS !!!

 

I can't live without MIDI - hardware synths and soft synths account for 75% of my tracks.  I started out syncing Cakewalk MIDI to an 8-track Tascam tape recorder using a PPS-1, moved on to syncing with a DA-88 and then went to heaven when Cakewalk Pro Audio came out. 
 
Don't change one hair for me,
Not if you care for me

BRainbow
I can't live without MIDI - ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,’Abridged’.....
 Don't change one hair for me,
Not if you care for me

My Thoughts Precisely BRainbow ..... Thankyou 🙂

scook

MacFurse
I guess I'm tongue in check suggesting it get dropped.. but the reality is that Cake has not put a lot into the midi side of the software for sometime.

There were quite a few changes to the MIDI side of SONAR last year. Maybe not the changes you wanted but it was receiving development time. Most of the releases from the first half of 2017 highlighted some MIDI development. Check out this page for the info. I am sure there are also entries in the fixes and enhancement sections too.

I think Cakewalk had always had powerful MIDI features and made really nice and obviously unnoticed improvements along the way from day one. Back in the days when I was using and syncing it to Pro Tools simply as a MIDI sequencer running on a Windows computer to replace my Roland MC 500. Pro Tools had zero MIDI editing support, just simple MMC and MTC support.
 The Roland sequencer only had 100,000 MIDI note capacity per song and songs where stored on floppy discs, a Windows computer had unlimited MIDI note capacity per song and songs where stored on a hard drive.
 I stopped using and experimenting with Cubase SX, because I noticed Cakewalk could always do anything Cubase could do, it just does it differently.
 
Believe me, now matter what it is, the BEST DAW in the world is the DAW you are most familiar with. The learning curve involved by switching DAW's could set you back years in productivity.
 And truth be told, SONAR has been awarded the most MEPA awards several years in a row for developing the most feature rich DAW in the world.
 So maybe it could be wiser to explore and learn how to use the features SONAR has that you haven't already before starting from scratch with another DAW.
 
The new MIDI editing features added in the past year are not only a major break through in editing and composition, in my opinion where a great leap forward for the most useful workflow improvements since Cakewalk added an arpeggio module to every MIDI track.
 
 The ability to click and stretch or lasso any section on the timeline and move it any where you want on the timeline combined with SONAR's latest audio take lane comp editing improvements makes composing and arranging a song quick and easy to place verse, chorus, and bridge sections exactly where I want them and shorten or stretch them out is mind blowing easy. Once I practiced a bit and figured it out.

For me, in a nutshell.  if MIDI goes then so do I.  MIDI controllers and sysex is how all of the funky stuff gets done.  I know there's always automation, but you just don't get the granularity that you get with controllers and Sysex.  

On a side side, If the new Bandlab DAW drops Studioware and CAL support - well that would be a show stopper for me going forward.

I checked, its not April 1st, therefore this is a ridiculous thread.
 
 

Creating original music on a DAW without MIDI support would be like trying to write a novel using just cut and paste from other people's writing. (unless you're recording live instruments of course)

Kamikaze
 
Adding midi capabilities is what BandLab users will be wanting really.

BandLab do use Midi for it's Virtual Instruments and do have a Midi editor (at least in their web browser version) They added the Midi editor 2 years ago, heres a link to an article on their blog:
https://blog.bandlab.com/our-new-web-midi-editor-every-note-just-where-you-want-it/
 
It seem like there is a lot of misconception about BandLab floating around at the moment ...
 
Regards Thomas

Thanks for clarifying. Actually I don't know what I was thinking. I had a glance to see if I could see a staff view within their educational package, and noticed n the picture a piano roll and step sequencer.

exitthelemming
Creating original music on a DAW without MIDI support would be like trying to write a novel using just cut and paste from other people's writing. (unless you're recording live instruments of course)

Creating original music on a DAW without MIDI support would be like trying to play an instrument with all my fingers severed at the first knuckle.