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Neural DSP Birthday Sale 50% off April 25th to May 7th Kinda on the pricey side.

Now if I can just get someone to take them, especially the piano.... (hopefully someone from one of the places I "know", like this, will want them, as I'd rather do that than complete unknowns like craigslist / etc).

This clown (me) makes fun *with* all this crap.

I can't tell any distortion from the rest of the audio; it's all heavily distorted to my ears; I could only listen to a few seconds around the 15 mark because it is way too much for me to take (I'm autistic and the rapid pounding distorted noise like that is terrifying to me). But if you are getting distortion, the usually problem is input levels that are too high. If your M-Audio is like m Fast Track Duo, it has a clipping light (red) on each channel by the input level knob, and is green when there's signal but no clipping. Any red light seen means there can be distortion in the resulting audio. It can also be levels within the tracks or busses that are too high in total. If you get it primarily when recording along with other existing tracks, and if you mute the other tracks and it goes away, you just have your track levels too high and theere's just too much total audio power for the bus(es) being fed to the master. You'd need to turn all the track outputs down proportionally, which is easy to do in Offset mode (O on my keyboard in my ancient SONAR), then select all the volume controls in a quick group, and decrease them all by however much you need to until the problem goes away. When it is not levels that are too high, it is usually driver latency / buffering. I use the ASIO driver from AVID (since the older M-Audio driver doesn't work in Win10 but the Avid package 1.0.4 one does), and can get as low as 7.3ms using 44100 sample rate and 320sample buffer size in the Fasttrack ASIO control panel, even while running a few dozen FX and multiple instances of Z3TA2+ and other synths, and still record stereo (or dual-mono) audio with input monitoring thru the track and bus FX. The ancient (decade old+) laptop I use is the Lenovo ideapad 300 with only 16gb ram and a spinny HDD (not ssd, though i have one for backups I don't record to it). If you have any other ASIO drivers on the system (like ASIO4All, Steinberg ASIO, etc), they may cause problems and not let you use your real ASIO driver (or cause it to behave incorrectly), so I'd remove all of those and scrub the system of them if you can.

Since you're not using Sonar or Next (nest?), what program are you using? What does it's manual say those codes mean? (we can't look it up because you didn't tell us which program, etc). What audio interface are you using? What driver are you using to run the audio interface? Which driver mode are you using? What latency is the program set to use with that driver? What resolution and bit depth are you recording and playing back at? What effects, if any, are you using on the tracks, in the project, etc? Are you doing input monitoring within the program to hear the recording realtime? Are you playing back other tracks while recording? Do they have effects on them? Do you have any high latency plugins requiring a lot of CPU? Etc.

I won't install a verb plugin nowadays unless I can test it and it knocks my socks off. I've got too many nice verbs and a couple of great ones and way too many OK or not so OK ones that I'll never actually use. I spent about 20 minutes experimenting with Equinox and decided to pass. YMMV - maybe it's the cat's pajamas on your system.

@jesse g I usually pair certain mics. You don't have to have a single group. Like what babu said about room mics... phase alignment kinda defeats the purpose. You could align them together though. This will ensure the snare hit occurs concurrently from both mics. also, I tend to click analyze, then change the button for memory and do it again. Then I compare the two. You can usually hear the difference.

For comparison, this is an *amazing* photo of lightning over the Grand Canyon.

This is the Sonar forum. But it is the General Music Discussion forum. So, what audio interface are you using?

Thank you, @SteveC! Great that there is a dedicated menu for this feature now!

Hello, I'm having trouble using Cakewalk. The audio often gets distorted—sometimes it's only when monitoring, and other times it happens while recording over a drum track. I'm using an M-Audio DuoTrack interface just for guitar, and Bose headphones with a cable. My PC is an Asus Vivobook 14 with 24 GB of RAM and a 12th Gen Core i7. I've tried several things, like using ASIO drivers, changing the latency and buffer size, lowering track volumes, switching cables, and reinstalling both the interface drivers and Cakewalk, also checked the CPU and it doesnt shows full or something, also checked the audio drivers for the PC, I'm also using Amped Roots as a VST. I’ve attached an audio clip—distortion starts around second 15. (Please don’t judge my playing, I’m just learning the song!) Even when I turn off the VST and play clean guitar, it still sounds distorted. I don’t know what else to try, and I’d really appreciate any help. Thanks a lot! face (mp3cut.net).mp3

I haven't tried that yet. Is there a direct link to this plugin? Most important of all, does it have any limitations that I should know about?

you're right, bro, it seems like I'm wasting my time with this stuff - thx for inspiration

I had an issue with them a couple of years ago, they have a forum which if you're lucky and are able to find to voice your issue, you might get a reply from an employee within about 3 weeks. They have exactly 3 plugins that are all about 10 years old and they constantly have coding issues or some problem. I would recommend trying something else for your 808 kick drums, there are a few decent ones. It is definately not Sonar causing your problem.

What could be the issue for audio dropout code 2 and 5 often while recording 2 instruments together? I don't use sonar or nest. It's the Windows one. Configuraion - AMD Rysen 5 6 code 3.6 ***** with vega readon graphics 20 GB ram 120 GB C drive

🤡 that's shurly true, who could know better than me? 💯🤡 The DAW is the circus, plugins are the attractions, audio and MIDI are the audience, and the clown makes fun of all this crap.

I was hoping for a dark mode for these....... as they are now, they burn be retinas...

I use Furman and they have been reliable. Don't waste money buying a new one, get if from Reverb at a discounted price.

Gswitz, I just tried a demo copy of MAutoAlign by Melda, and I have to say it is good and easy to use. It is much easier than my Waves In Phase, I must say. 👍

Great and generous post!

Still, quite pleased with the free 2.0 update for the Augmented series, including all new samples.

forgot what a nightmare installing melda plugins is, trying to install one uninstalls all, I had an awful time previously with a drum machine I bought for £7 took about a day to install the damn thing. Edit, managed to get them going again after about 6 or 7 attempts. I watched a video they have about the installation, they have their bases covered talking about "if there are glitches in installation" do this, just make a video saying our installation software is rubbish and you are likely to have issues, but thanks for buying our plugins. People would have more respect if they did that. they do make great plugins though. grrr.

From what I have seen (including checking out the demo presets through Analog Lab), the LoFi is much better than the LoFi entries in the NI Play series. With NI, they seem like they are just tacking lo fi on the end of things, like "Hey let's take our new piano library and run it through Trash so it has a bunch of distortion and media noise and vibrato" Arturia seems to have more of a vibe like "LoFi? Like the cheap stuff we used when we were starting out and this is the best we could afford at the time? I got an old Casio, you still have your old PortaStudio.. maybe we could get some old Radio Shack mics and one of their old 'reverbs' ..."

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