John Vere

Are you writing original material or just making projects of traditional versions. As said, there are lots of free midi downloads of almost every traditional bluegrass song. It’s well covered in the midi world I have played both progressive and traditional bluegrass as well as I have a lot of original songs in that style. if you are a guitar player then an easy option is play the part on your guitar and then drag that track to a midi track Melodyne will convert to midi. if you need certain songs PM me I probably have it. ps. I hate what Band in. Box puts out. Sounds like a Mall Organ

Easier to do this with a video. Have you watched the tutorials yet?

QL spaces is an East West reverb Did you use this in the template and no longer have it?

This is what quantize does. If none of the settings work then all I can think is your using a none standard time signature To figure out quantize settings take an perfect example of your fill, zoom in and then keep changing the grid settings until you find one that lines up with the notes. Set the grid to triplets and keep going up 1/16. Etc I’d be surprised if it didn’t line up at 1/32 triplets

It’s pretty rare that re installing a DAW will fix audio issues. tell us what is happening and details about your set up. And to answer your question CbB does not trash Sonar. at it’s safe to un install or re install other versions of Cakewalk as each is separate. Your goodies are mostly in the VST folder which is not uninstalled. Most weirdness in audio is caused by the audio driver or a VST’s

Your trying to combine consumer grade gear with pro. Pro gear would have balanced inputs. But the workaround is obvious, Use the headphone jack of the interface.

Just a note about this. I have put the link to my Web Pages in my signature. This way you can easily find this stuff later. This thread will disappear in a few days. And the reason I'm putting the link to One Drive on my Web Page is so I can control the situation better moving forward. I might change the delivery etc. Also I plan on adding more folders so the web page will be a one stop and shop source for all my midi and CWP files. Update: I just added a MIDI file folder with possibly 500 files in it. Sorry about the abbreviation file names but that how we had to work back in the early days. 8 letters per file name. I will honestly try and fix that someday but I think if your going to get stuff for free you have to work for it You might just figure out that HIDOUGH = Blow at High Dough by the Tragically Hip. have fun... Oh and don't expect full tracks from my midi files... Bass and drums mostly badly done on a keyboard. So happy those days are in the past... But the download collections will run the gauntlet from lame to not bad at all. For those who have never played with midi files do this Go to preferences MIDI/Devices and uncheck any output devices. Now just OPEN the midi file and Cakewalk will play it with the TTS-1 WARNING- my Atari files are NOT GM--they will use patch 96 for bass which is like tubular bells I think, It was the Bass patch on my Korg 05/RW

Thank you for the feedback. I made the video because I couldn't actually find one that was up to date. And Cakewalk is just a tiny bit more picky than some other applications that use your sound chip. It is one of the most commonly asked questions from 1st time users. " I can't get any sound!! please help!" In the past most Cakewalk ( Sonar) users always had an Audio interface but now because the program is free there is probably a lot more folks who can't afford real Studio gear but want to try recording. It is amazing that it was not that long ago that any type of recording ( and sequencing) cost a minimum of well over $1,000. Example I now have a FREE VST that replaced my $1,400 Korg Poly 800. Sounds just as good if not better. But as you progress you most certainly will want a good audio interface and studio monitors.

OBS is set up to podcast and recording and it’s easy to add audio tracks with different inputs. You have one set to speakers( desktop) and one set to mike and it will record the sound. Use a small mixer to the mike jack. If you want to use Cakewalk then you will need an interface with loop back like my Motu m4 it think you would need to be in WASAPI shared mode. Not sure what happens if you patch the computer speakers back to the input of you interface

Cubase arms all the tracks when you open a template or insert a new track. Drives me nuts

There’s a 2 page sticky thread about this pretty hard to miss

On Board sound is what we call the computers audio system. WASAPI shared or Exclusive are the driver modes you use with On Board audio. If you have an Audio interface then you defiantly want to use the ASIO driver that comes with it. Your sample sound terrible mostly due to as far as I can tell a either cheesy VST piano or the fact it has way to much reverb on it. This whole thread most of what has been said was irrelevant. What @Will_Kaydo said was closest to the correct answer in the end. This is nothing to do with Export settings or Sound cards. If you don't already have it think about purchasing an audio interface and some good studio monitors. Or some good headphones.

So look at your Latency results and what I see is 11.5 coming in and 5.2 going out. total of 16.7 which is too much to use Sims. You need to get it down below 5ms before you can play along without hearing a delay echo. 7ms max. 256 is a nice safe buffer and what I use all the time. And 17 ms RTL is exactly what I get from my Motu M4 so your device is on par. For using Sims you need to use as low a buffer as possible. start with 32 and see if your system can handle it. It will be up to your computer at this point.

@Jim Fogle Thanks, Working on it. Stupid Google sites. You have to use Google drive which has no way of globally sharing.. can only share with people in your contact folder... so I'll try One drive. Update: I got it working with One Drive. I just found out I can log on as a Guest in Edge that way I can test it like a normal punter. One drive can be a working folder as I update the files. I'll put files in sub folders. There will be 2 main folders CWP files and MIDI files.

https://sites.google.com/view/cactus-studios/home go to the Cakewalk CWP files tab or directly = https://sites.google.com/view/cactus-studios/cakewalk-cwp-files Please go to my web site for further info and updates. Feel free to ask questions here. Due to Covid I have more or less retired from playing at Dances and Parties. I have over 300 CWP backing tracks and 1,000's of midi files just sitting there going to waist and I thought.. Hey, I should share these with the Cakewalk community. So you guys can pick them over and put them to good use. These are a great starting point for new comers looking for simple stuff to learn on. I've put a lot of work into these and most are my own sequences. Some are downloads I worked over. These are "as is" right off my hard drive so most are not really optimized for public use just yet. You'll have to sort out the VST's etc. And a lot of my own midi files are not GM. If you have the older versions of Sonar then you should have everything. On my web page I put links on where to get all the free VST's I use. I have a lot more backing tracks but at this point they contain audio so over time I'll strip that out so the files are small. My retirement project will be to record the vocals and guitar parts to all 300 songs and overwhelm the song forum for a whole year.

A lot of truth in this. Example we have a big chunk of people posting on the forum who don't even anti up for a basic necessity like an Audio interface. They might not even need a simple thing like a microphone because they are just "Makin' Beats" Beets They say 30 million but that does not actually mean " users of Cakewalk" . That would be more accurately stated as " registered users" As I said in my first post they can only gather that information from using the signing up for the account data. How many of those are actually using the software? Could be a low as Half of them . I am "signed up" for Harrison mix bus but I've never used it. I'm signed up for a lot of stuff I don't use. But I'm not trying to be negative at all, I'm am one big fan of what we have become in the last few years. Keep up the good work. I think Cakewalk will be come #1 if you guys stay on this same pathway. I think you'll eventually kill every little bug and even win the war of being stuck with an Audio unfriendly OS.

Adding this Update 9 11 2023. ( just noticed the date) : I was researching the question "How many users does Cakewalk have?" and found this old thread. Lots of interesting comments including from Noel back then. Thought I'd re post it as it's was worth a re visit to me. I don't think this is close to being possible. The only way they can even guess is by counting the people who are now registered in Bandlab log in. But then out of those there are unknown numbers who created an account and never used the software. Actually the same account is also for the Bandlab app so even more complicated.

See the Big red button? or Ctrl +R This will arm or unarm all tracks- I see a few people got this right. Tip of the day- Open the help module and point the mouse at everything in your workspace and take some time to learn what everything does you'll be amazed at how many cool features are right under your nose,,, like the big red button. If you don't have the mix module shown in my screen shot, add it by right clicking the control bar. Modules.

It's sounds OK but the instruments seem too far back in the mix, not very punchy for rock. Possibly need to push the envelope with compression and limiting. And that piano glissando? is 2x louder than anything else it frightened my cat...

I can can remove the link now if you think it's inappropriate to your thread. I just always think of that song when 7/8 time is mentioned.

This is an easy one- You zoomed in, zoom back out. And by the way- Your master was clipping.

OK I think you just want to copy the midi data and the audio tracks from one project to the next? correct? If so just open both projects and copy paste the tracks from one to the other. If the tracks have effects and fancy routing- first save those as track templates and insert in the new project first. Then copy the data to those tracks. With audio you can also drag and drop it from the browser. Just browse to the audio folder of the original project.

Nothing wrong with Steinberg stuff. They are with Yamaha my #1 pick for gear if I can afford it. Our band bought a Yamaha mixer with USB stereo output and I still have the Steinberg driver on my laptop. Worked every time. Not so with the next band we bought a Soundcraft and its driver says Harman. It broke after 1 year I think it's the connector. And why not use older interfaces if they still are supported.

A question not asked yet is are you using on board audio? It would seem you are. If you are using an ASIO interface troubleshooting would be different. The Volume mixer really doesn't tell you anything other than the fact the application is outputting correctly to Windows sound. I posted screenshots of the output settings you should see Device properties/ additional device properties I explain this in the video but just in case you missed it. Notice the sample rate setting. Make sure this is all the same in all settings. Otherwise songs can play back slow.