CakeTalking 5.2 is a major upgrade over CakeTalking 5.1 and 5.0. If you
already have CT 5, you will want to update as soon as possible as there's
no
cost to do so for you. If you have an earlier version of CakeTalking or
you
have been thinking about taking the plunge, read the following
announcement
closely. You may find that the news below is just what you've been
waiting
for!
By the way, new customers can order SONAR 5 from Dancing Dots and receive
the equivalent edition of SONAR 6 at no extra cost. When CakeTalking for
SONAR 6 is ready, everyone who has a licensed copy of CakeTalking for
SONAR
5 will be eligible for a no-cost upgrade to CakeTalking for SONAR 6.
This new release of CakeTalking for SONAR 5 has numerous new features,
greatly enhanced stability and speed, and a significant update to its
tutorial with scads of new information. For a list of all the new
CakeTalking features, and for a detailed description of them, see
CakeTalking's What's New document which we'll soon make available from our
page at http://www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/CakeTalkingForSONAR.htm .
Some highlights follow. See http://www.dancingdots.com/ct/5.2/ for a
download link for CakeTalking for SONAR version 5.2.
1. The CakeTalking tutorial is updated with loads of new information on
soft
synths, busing, effects, audio recording, freezing tracks, the list goes
on
and on. There's an informative, completely revised lesson on using soft
synthes. We've included a separate edition of the tutorial for MS Word
users in which each lesson title in the Table of Contents is a link.
Press
ENTER on the title of the lesson you wish to read and you're there! As
always, the information is presented in an easy to understand methodical
way
that doesn't leave you mystified and having to search elsewhere for
clarification.
2. Scrubbing in the Clips pane has been implemented. As veteran
CakeTalking
users know, scrubbing in the Clips Pane is a great way to execute detailed
editing of audio. Well, it is even easier in CakeTalking 5. And, for
those
who have hardware control surfaces, CakeTalking gives helpful verbal
feedback to users of the TranzPort and other control surfaces. For
example,
CakeTalking will say the new Measure, Beat and Tick as you rotate the
TranzPort's jog wheel. And CakeTalking announces the name of the current
track when you use TranzPort's buttons to move up and down in the Track
Pane.
3. The VST Sfz soundfont player is supported. This is a dynamite plug in
that allows you to play soundfonts.
4. Reading Meter levels is reliable and has been sped up. Here's what you
can do.
A. Press F2 once, says peak meter level of current track.
B. Press F2 twice quickly, resets the now time to where the peak meter
first
registered its latest peak.
C. Press F2 3 times quickly, nulls the current tracks peak meter, so that
it
can start registering new peak meter levels again.
D. Press SHIFT+F2, and all meters will turn off.
E. Press CONTROL+F2, turns all meters on. This is good for sighted users,
but puts a load on the CPU.
F. Hold CONTROL and press F2 twice quickly, displays just the peak meters
so
that there's no additional load on the CPU.
5. CakeTalking is faster and more reliable than ever before. Navigating,
skipping to columns and tracks, and using many hotkeys in the Track View
is
faster. You'll find this especially true during playback when you're
Muting,
Soloing, Navigating, pressing ENTER on buttons, and skipping to tracks and
columns.
6. The skip to track, and skip to column hotkey scheme has been changed,
simplified and sped up. Here's how it works.
A. To skip to a track, hold CONTROL, and type the track number with the
numpad keys. Then let go of the control key, and press NUMPAD ENTER.
You'll
immediately move to that track. You can type up to track 99. So you can
very quickly jump to any track in your project from 1 to 99!
B. To skip to a column in the track pane, hold SHIFT, and type the column
number using the numpad keys. Then let go of the SHIFT key, press the
ENTER
key on the NumPad and you'll move to that column position.
7. Dozens of Cakewalk effects are supported. Some other non-cakewalk
effects
are supported including the marvelous Lexicon Pantheon Reverb.
8. You can move tracks or buses up or down one row at a time, using
backslash to move down, and shift backslash to move up. This process is
faster than before.
9. In the Track Pane, pressing HOME will focus you on track 1. Pressing
End
will focus you on the last track.
10. When holding CONTROL+SHIFT and pressing enter twice, CakeTalking will
now report on the select state of all the tracks in the project, not just
the tracks on the current page.
11. Hiding tracks and buses is now supported. Hiding tracks may be
desirable
when you have many tracks and want to reduce the confusion of navigating
amongst all of them. More rarely, you may have so many buses that you
want
to simplify navigating in the bus pane. You can hide or unhide tracks and
buses using the Track Manager dialog, CakeTalking will not get confused
when
you have hidden tracks. It will behave normally.
12. There are new options dialogs accessed with F4.
A. Pressing F4 in the System Exclusive view will bring up the SysX Options
dialog for inserting, deleting and editing SysX banks.
B. Pressing F4 in the Bus Pane will open the Bus Pane Options dialog, with
the option to open the Track Manager.
C. In the track pane, when you open the Track Options dialog with F4, you
will find an option to open the Track Manager.
D. In the track pane, when you press CONTROL+I, the Insert Delete, Move
and
Hide Unhide track dialog opens. At the bottom of the list you will find
the
option to open the Track Manager.
E. In the VST Sfz dialog, pressing F4 will open its options dialog that
makes the Sfz dialog completely accessible.
13. If you do a JAWS SayLine, INSERT+UP ARROW, on a folder in the Track
Pane, JAWS will tell you the contents of that folder. That would be the
number of Audio, MIDI, and soft synth tracks in it, as well as if any of
those tracks are hidden.
14. Muting and Unmuting selected clips is supported. When you have
selected
an area of a track, or tracks, you can mute them by pressing the letter Q,
or CONTROL+M. To unmute them, press Q or CONTROL+M again. CakeTalking
can't
tell you if the clips have been muted or unmuted, but you will know when
listening to playback.
15. There are some very useful new User Preferences in the User Preference
dialog. Here they are.
A. Hotkeys that have double or triple key presses to execute different
functions can be sped up. So if you are consistently a very fast typist,
select Faster Multiple Press Hotkeys.
B. During Playback when changing a value, for instance the output volume,
you may not want to have the audio disturbed by JAWS reporting the new
value. The value change hotkeys can now be silenced during playback
C. When pressing the transport hotkeys of Space, CONTROL SPACE, W, R, and
CONTROL SHIFT SPACE, Jaws says what you've done, For instance, play stop
rewind, etc. You can silence JAWS from echoing these transport hotkeys.
D. If you find that after pressing an arrow key to navigate in the track
pane, that JAWS mistakenly reports the column that you were on, rather
than
the one you navigated to, there is a user preference that will slow down
these keys and make them reliable. This may sometimes be necessary on very
slow computers.
16. There have been numerous bug fixes. Here are a few important ones.
A. When navigating in the track and bus panes, JAWS was sometimes
incorrectly reporting that you were wrapping up or down to a track. This
has
been fixed.
B. When in playback, pressing Insert+ num 8 in the track or bus panes was
sometimes reporting incorrect information. This has been fixed.
C. If the Inspector is open when you close Sonar, then the next time Sonar
is opened, the Inspector will be displayed. This caused problems in past
versions of CakeTalking. This has been fixed.
D. When in the Inspector, you can assign different controls to an external
device using the Remote Control dialog. But when closing that dialog,
focus
was not returned to the Inspector. This has been fixed.
Regards,
Bill
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