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  • Feature Requests + Improvements [New 29/3/2018] (p.67)
2018/10/08 16:44:49
michael diemer
Maybe this has been requested before (I would be surprised if it hasn't): Why are there only major key options listed in Meter/Key View? Music has both major and minor keys. Furthermore, there is a "relative minor" key for every major key. For example, C major has A minor as its relative minor. All the other major keys have a relative minor key associated with them, with the same key signature. Sure, I can consult the chart I made to find the correct major key associated with a minor key, and choose that key signature, but a professional DAW with so many great features should have this by default. 
 
It's an easy addition. All you have to do is something like this:
 
1 #: G Major/E Minor. 
2#:  D Major/B Minor
And so on.
 
Thanks, Mike 
2018/10/09 00:27:00
BlixYZ
i've seen a number of feature requests for things it already does/has.  i want to go in and tell those people but....  no time tonight!   haven't been on these forums in awhile.  glad to see everything is till going strong.  
2018/10/10 00:04:04
j_small005
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2018/10/12 13:04:30
danielvrangsinn
Been a Cakewalk user since back when it was a midi only sequencer. So first of all, thanks for saving my favourite DAW. Very appreciated! Was worried I would have to start learning a new system after all these years.
 
New features is always fun, just don't remove any features. And focus on bug-fixes primarely. As Cakewalk by Bandlab already is less buggy than the last version of Platinum, I have a feeling you already have that part under control 
 
2018/10/17 17:30:01
msmcleod
I've noticed that a few DAW's (e.g. ProTools, Studio One etc) support displaying gain reduction meters alongside the main volume meter on their console views, for tracks that have active compressor plugins.
 
Is this something that CbB could support?
2018/10/17 23:57:00
JoseC.
A nice feature would be that notes in in the piano roll followed clip color, not just track color.
2018/10/18 14:25:21
Nonlinear
I am sure has already been requested but -
 
I would like the option for the simplistic "Tape Mode" algorithm in the Slip Stretch and Audio Transpose functions whereby time and pitch remain interrelated - when you shorten a clip the pitch goes up and vice versa.  ("Tape Mode" is the algorithm used in Loop Construction View and, AFAIK, that's the ONLY place it's used).

The default stretching algorithm in CbB preserves pitch with stretching - which is usually preferred for music - but also creates artifacts as this is an unnatural thing to do.  "Tape mode" simply speeds up or slows down the clip - like a tape recorder - and produces nearly zero artifacts (with the exception of vocal formants, "Mickey Mouse").  Tape Mode is far more transparent than "preserve pitch" when used on percussion and most instrument tracks.

This is a simple option request for the pitch and time tools NOT to be confused with "varispeed" that some are requesting to control an entire project playback rate.
2018/10/18 17:05:18
SandlinJohn
A request for editing and sending "System Common Messages" and "System Real Time Messages" - as an example the Arturia Drum Brute can be sent "System Common Messages" to control front panel settings and "System Real Time Messages" to stop and start sequences. These are defined in the last two sections of Table 1 of the MIDI Spec:  https://www.midi.org/spec...ummary-of-midi-message
2018/10/18 22:20:05
JoseC.
SandlinJohn
A request for editing and sending "System Common Messages" and "System Real Time Messages" - as an example the Arturia Drum Brute can be sent "System Common Messages" to control front panel settings and "System Real Time Messages" to stop and start sequences. These are defined in the last two sections of Table 1 of the MIDI Spec:  https://www.midi.org/spec...ummary-of-midi-message


You actually can do that with this software since, well, forever. System Common Messages are the same as Sysex. If you know the syntax, that should be available in your device's midi documentation, you can send them directly from the Event View, or you can edit them and send them as sysex banks from the Sysex View. The start and stop messages are sent as specified in the Project tab of the Preferences menu.
2018/10/20 06:15:10
SandlinJohn
JoseC.
SandlinJohn
A request for editing and sending "System Common Messages" and "System Real Time Messages" - as an example the Arturia Drum Brute can be sent "System Common Messages" to control front panel settings and "System Real Time Messages" to stop and start sequences. These are defined in the last two sections of Table 1 of the MIDI Spec:  https://www.midi.org/spec...ummary-of-midi-message


You actually can do that with this software since, well, forever. System Common Messages are the same as Sysex. If you know the syntax, that should be available in your device's midi documentation, you can send them directly from the Event View, or you can edit them and send them as sysex banks from the Sysex View. The start and stop messages are sent as specified in the Project tab of the Preferences menu.



So I could send a SysX message like F0 F3 01 F7 to send the Select Song 1? I was thinking the System Common Messages were stand alone messages.
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