John Vere

I think what’s happening is you have input echo on tracks that you don’t need it to be set for. Shut off input echo for all tracks except for the one that you are wanting

That's the easy way. And yes by containment folder that can be either the Project folder or in my case I use Album folders. But once I copy them to a back up location I always date them. Save as with copy all audio checked as Scook is recommending is how I make back ups as I work. Like Steve I have a folder I call " Album name back up" This is on my quick links. It's on a SSD drive in a portable enclosure that's always plugged in. At any given time I might have 20 back ups of my original material kicking around. Some songs are from 1990's originating from an Atari. My backing tracks also progress over time and I have dozens of back ups of those ( 300 songs) I also have a lot of back ups of client projects ( albums) but once finished there out of my main machine and sitting on a shelf. I only keep the 2 track masters on my local hard drives. I have a shoebox full of hard drives and right now I think I have 7 external drives. In my 4 computers there's another 10. Storage is cheap.

Storage is cheap. My work isn’t. I never delete anything period. I just make back ups and put a new date on the container folder. I have files that go way back. And guess what. Every once in a while I find what I need in those old files.

I totally agree with @Hatstand It won’t be a setting or tweak at this point. Tascam drivers are top notch but you do need to closely follow instructions as you install. If it’s like mine you need to turn on the interface when asked. And there is the possibility that the unit is defective that happens. It could even be the cable I just bought a Motu M4 and had same issues as you and it was because it is only buss powered and needs a USB 3 port with lots of juice. Stupid design. If I’d known this I would have bought the Tascam 4x4 Right away I thought this might be your issue but I see you are smart enough to use the power supply You could try another USB port and cable but try installing the ASIO driver first

Did it not occur to you that those boxes need to be checked ? you don’t need to check the ones you’re not using but I see a lot that should be checked. And ASIO always only shows odd numbers 1- 3-5 etc.for input #2 you choose 1-right

The thing is because it’s free if you loose your login info you just start a new account. My self I have no clue what my log on info is I let my computer do that for me.

The op will not return and no loss. Is it just me or are people getting stupider every year? Even us old farts know that there’s a YouTube for leaning about just about everything from How to kill a Chicken 🐔 to fixing your toilet seat.

Ya that’s not what I look at. It says arranger track? You should be seeing the track inspector and make sure ALL is selected. That view tells me nothing.

This is why my habit is to delete as I work. I found that if all I did was overwrite a bad take, the bad take was saved anyway. It's not clear to me if these get delete when you close so I just delete as I go. I always use overwrite option for recording for this reason too. It's a habit from the days of tape where you had no other choice and it suits me fine.

Actually I had a few records back in the early 60's that were put out that were isolated parts of hit songs from the Ventures they also made these for each part of the band too. Not exactly the drum sound I'd be looking for but you might find that other bands did the same.

Bit's was stolen a few years back. I remember that dark day.

Remember in my first reply I said you need to watch my Video? This explains about loopback testing. But my guess is this issue will not return and was just yet another weirdness specific to one project. That seems to happen from time to time. The solution is to copy the old project to a new one. This is a complicated task involving "save as" bouncing tracks etc but it can be done. Hmm I see my next video taking shape!

Can’t believe that the moderators didn’t move all these questions to the proper forum? There’s actually no real info on “how to ask a question “ other than first post. It actually would have been great to place answers to the op here. Like where you should look first before asking a question etc I can think of lots of useful information that could have been here. And one of those answers would have been to not reply to questions placed in the wrong sub forum so the moderator can move it 😬

Have you assigned different midi channels to each instrument? I’m not familiar with east west but is it able to have multi channel playback? If so this is how you get each instrument to play. I think most of your answers are in the instructions for the player not cakewalk. VST instruments work the same in all DAW’s

This is very cool. In other words why spend money on a hardware controller. Funny Mike doesn’t use Apple so didn’t know that bonjour is needed for IPhones. ive got an old iPad I can use. In the past I’ve used a wireless keyboard as well as a USB foot switch I like the foot switch best if playing guitar

I have the dongle elicencer and my computer is off line. I can only recall once an error where I had to update it to get rid of the nag screen. But my software still worked and I remember it worked for a few months before I finally updated it. So it is my understanding that the elicencer doesn’t need the internet to work. Only if I goes looking for an update.

I’m lazy. I just export my mix. Open the browser and drag and drop onto track pane. I leave the count in so I can line it up with the multi track

Actually it’s a good idea to post your solution so your thread can then be useful to others over time. I Get many answers to my questions about just about anything from old forum posts scattered around the net.

Right on- I knew you had it figured out, just wasn't clear. I really do appreciate the test. I just could not figure out how to get ASIO4all as an input? It shows in Windows and it shows as an option in Cakewalk but when you choose it nothing happens. This was both with on board and with my Scarlett. But your tests sort of confirmed my expectations. I'm just working on my next video which is about using on board sound. I've been screwing around with different set ups and on different computers. My conclusion is for playback there is absolutely no issues at all. But for trying to input audio you are right back to needing an interface. First the better drivers, next the proper connectivity and third there's no easy way to have real time monitoring . Your stuck with turning on input echo and suffering the slap back delay. Fine if your recording Elvis tunes. So I was only hoping that asio4all might be a solution to the timing offset issue and get the RTL down lower. Looks like WDM or WASAPI is the no brainer.

When I make tutorials using OBS I have to switch to WASAPI SHARED driver mode so OSB will capture Cakewalks output as well as my mike. Otherwise you need an external mixer. I end up with 2 input faders in OBS which is great so I can balance the mix between the narration and Cakewalk playback. Only issue is I have not figured out how to monitor this. The other bummer is you cannot demonstrate an ASIO set up in Cakewalk. So for that I use an external mixer. I have 4x4 interfaces but you could get by with a 2x2. I run interface output 3/4 into a stereo channel of the mixer. This will be my Cakewalk playback now.. I also plug the mike into the mixer I connect the mixers output to input 3/4 of interface. and then set inputs 3/4 as desktop audio in OBS. I like the mixer best as now I can also monitor the balance using either the mixer or my interface headphone jack. I can also monitor the signal level more accurately. OBS meters are sort of off the mark.

Cakewalk can be easily set to auto save. And it most certainly always warns you to save if you try to close it. It actually warns you even if you didn’t change anything. It a good habit to open a new project using a template which you can either use the examples or make your own then it will be named and always saved. if you open a midi file you will need to use “save as” and choose “normal “ which will convert it into a CWP File. You should do this before you make any changes to it. in my signature are links to my tutorials on midi

So what I see in @Glenn Stanton tests is on board audio outperforming ASIO4all. Is this correct. Glen do you get a warning when you run the RTL utility with asio4all. With my on board it warns me the information might be out by 50% because of the driver reporting incorrectly to the utility. I'm seeing at the same buffer setting asio4all is 32 ms RTL On board is 10 ms RTL So one again? why use asio4all? I don't see any benefits at all?? Won't your mixer work with WASAPI? In the loopback WDM was the best results. I'm getting 10 to 12 ms late offset with my on board audio on 3 different systems in WASAPI exclusive mode. That is not great but seems way better than the same setting when using any of my audio interfaces where the very lowest was around 58 ms. I will have to test the offset setting and see if I can get them to line up. This is getting interesting. I would still like to know if @paulo has tried a loopback to correct his offset and if it is stable.

So you saved the project as a CWP file. How did you open it this morning? You probably opened the wrong file. The recent list can’t always be trusted. use the file menu and browse to the folder you keep your project in and open it from there. Cakewalk is very stable you just need to take the time to learn. Try watching the tutorials by Creative Sauce first.

You realize this thread is over a year old. 🙄⏰