John Vere

What is your audio interface and what does the device in sync and caching show as. It’s important that you timing is controlled by your interface ASIO driver.

The video I posted has info about trouble shooting audio. Generally USB audio cables are a bad idea for Cakewalk because they don’t have a proper ASIO driver. You’re much better off taking the $12 the cable costs and put it towards a proper audio interface.

If you search there are plenty of threads on the topic of how to install the older versions to grab the goodies. There's even a document that list which versions came with what stuff. For me now it's mostly just run Command center and I have everything ( all the Sonar goodies) already downloaded to a folder I copy to the CCC download folder after I install CCC. Then the install goes very fast as it's not waiting to download anything. I could actually do this off line once CCC is authorized.

I have a Motu M4 and this often happens if my system was not shut down overnight and I think if I was using other audio apps. I just re boot the Motu and it goes away. I was hoping the new driver update would fix this. The Motu is not as stable as my Focusrite when it comes to using other apps that need to share the drivers

The same goes for all the official tutorial videos. They mostly are showing Sonar x2 What I really like is the Help Module. It would be nice if it included more of the little “ Learn More “ buttons. Those take you to the documentation page for each feature. Super friendly way to learn the software

I think it’s something like 1,000,000 of us now. We all switched when Sonar died. CbB is Sonar Platinum with all the bug fixes and updates. Installing it will not erase Splat so you can keep everything as it was and jump right into the new version. Myself I could never go back as there are way too many features I now depend on. And for me it is 100% more stable than ever. There is an offline activation system in place you can look for. Cakewalk will run with out the internet for about 6 months otherwise.

Yep. That’s why I asked for a screen shot. My first guess was Bandlab. You probably already installed the Bandlab assistant so go back to the App tab and download and install Cakewalk

Can you post a screenshot it’s near to impossible not to have preferences. Try pressing P

You said you were having trouble finding information about the Focusrite products. That's why I said I find it odd that you would not simple enter a search for that and that their web site is top of the search. It's all good. You have a perfectly fine interface and now instructions on what to do with it. Get off of here and get to work

No. How many times does this need to be repeated? You install the ASIO driver. In Cakewalk you choose the ASIO driver. WASAPI is for on board audio and interfaces that didn't come with a driver. ( to be avoided)

I put this here because the title of the thread might spark interest in shopping for interfaces. You don't need one and you just need to download the drivers and follow the very clear instructions supplied by Focusrite.

https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb I find it odd that you would not first go to the Focusrite web site where they have a whole page of tutorials as well as top notch support . And here's your driver. https://customer.focusrite.com/en/support/downloads?brand=Focusrite&product_by_type=1365&download_type=all

I'm not sure what your using as an interface but if you read that post I clearly state ASIO mode for all audio interfaces. You don't use WASAPI for any interface that comes with a ASIO driver All audio will be handled by your interface.. And most manufactures of USB / ASIO audio interfaces all have very clear instructions on set up including lots of videos. @SS

Don’t feel so bad I’ve had Cakewalk videos posted for more than 3 years now an I only have about 60 subscriptions. If you look at you stats you can see that a lot of people will not watch a video all the way through. That tells me I didn’t hold their interest. Also it’s all about being the channel that shows up when someone does a search for “Cakewalk how to do x” My website is a Google site but Google can’t even find it. And not many people are coming here to this sub forum. If they were there would be almost nothing posted on Questions and Answers I started making my videos because I got tired of repeating the same answers over and over again on the forum. Now I just post the link and most times I get a positive response. But it good weather now so no time for indoor hobbies now.

You Open midi files. You only import midi clips. Tts1 will automatically load if you have nothing checked in your settings for midi device output min my signature is a link to my tutorials on basic midi set up and using tts1

@In A Week, @User 905133 Not sure why some people are having a problem with this. As I said the Melodyne audio to midi has been built in to Cakewalk for a long time now and is part of the Cakewalk ARA VST system. You don't need a Melodyne license to run this. To verify I opened a project on my Laptop which is my 3rd DAW set up. I don't have anything but CbB on it. No Sonar or it's goodies. I did this so I could verify what a new user would have to work with. It does not have anything unless it was free for the taking from Cakewalk and 3rd party vendors. So therefore no Melodyne license. It is running the latest version of Cakewalk as I just updated it for the test. Had no problem dragging an Audio bass track to a midi track. What I first noticed was I did not get a dialog box asking for any algorithm. This makes sense because I don't have Melodyne 5 on this machine. But it works just fine and I now have a midi clone of my bass track just like I have done a zillion times before. I then opened a vocal clip as a regional effect and the screen shot shows I haven't even activated the demo license and it seems the version is 4. This also makes sense because I originally installed CbB last Summer and 4 would have been the demo. If I click on activate it wants me to create a Melodyne account etc. Even so if I had run the demo into the ground the audio to midi would still work. The monophonic conversion to midi works via ARA and it doesn't matter which version of Melodyne you own or don't own. @Noel Borthwick and @scook have mentioned this in a few threads. I've tagged them here just to confirm my understanding is correct. One thing to check if your having issues, is make sure there is no active regional effects or even automation on the track. It has to be a clean audio track. I noticed I had audio snap on the bass track and I had to disable that first.

Apparently you don’t need BL assistant any more you can log in from within CbB in the help menu

So there’s a thread just started we’re the op is having trouble updating Cakewalk from within BL assistant should I tell them not to bother and to use CbB help menu?

I have used the Ample P Bass lite free VST on all my backing tracks for a few years now. Only issue is it is a 4 string bass so no going below low E. When I need that I just use SI bass on those notes using a separate midi track I find it very accurate and it sits in the mix perfectly. I even fooled my self once thinking it was my real bass. I play all my parts on my Yamaha bass and drag them to a midi track then use that to trigger PBass lite So even though I’m a seasoned veteran on the bass I prefer to use the VST. That way there’s a consistent sound from song to song which is important to both my backing tracks and my albums. Bass is actually a hard instrument to get a good tone and articulation from. For acoustic bass I useDim Pro. It has a wonderful rubber band slide in the upper velocities

Do you still have the track in record standby?

Regarding #1- Did you add anything to the project you are recording to. That's what I mean when I say processing. That implies there could be effects added to the track , bus or master bus that would make the sound different. Regarding #2 - You will need to read the owners manual and see what options are inside the box as far as signal path. You might find more out by posting a question on the Line 6 user forum. This is not really a Cakewalk issue. It's user error in setting up a device or user error in Cakewalk signal chain. We've seen lots of posts with a similar title to this thread only to find out 25 posts later the user had added an effect that was causing all the issues. Because you haven't started with all the information about what your doing it takes a lot longer to get a solution. I did just notice one thing from your first post . Your buffer setting might be to high. Somewhere in the middle like 256 is normal. To high a setting can cause trouble on some systems. But that wouldn't cuase your issue.

#1 rule when purchasing an Audio interface for a Windows System- Check the manufactures web site before you purchase and make sure there is an up to date ASIO driver for it. Class Compliant drivers work fine on a Mac but rarely on a PC. And if all they are offering is Asio4all that is actually worse than nothing at all. Hopefully the device might work under WASAPI but then why does Alesis tell you to use Asio4all? It like they didn't even test the device on windows at all. Oh @Promidi Asio4all is actually a WDM wrapper not WASAPI.

Ok so it seems like your playback system is working properly Then only thing left would be either of two things 1. You have added processing in Cakewalk that alters the sound 2. The monitoring of the sound at the interface is not what is being recorded.