John Vere

When I see this-- USB audio and MIDI class-compliant - eliminates need for drivers- I run for cover. Probably works fine with Apple but Cakewalk has a long history of only running smoothly using a ASIO driver.

As I was typing Steve beat me to it.

Or just walk out of the room and go for a beer.

Ok got part III copied over.

Thanks Steve I tried that but as said the pages open without pictures but thanks to Larry I moved it over to a free hosting service with Google Pages. I only got Part one done so Far. https://sites.google.com/view/cactus-studios/home

As said your track looks to be recorded at a pretty good level. There are 100's of ways to increase the level once recorded. My standard method is to use the input gain of a compressor/limiter to bring it up. Even the simple compressors in Channel tools will do the trick.

Larry J sent me a PM asking about this. What happened is I used to have a web page and I discontinued it last Summer not wanting to pay the Web Hosting fee which had started at $6 and was now $16 per month. I found the Front Page files and they seem to open on my computer as a web page see if they work for others I made youtube videos as well but only made it half way. EDIT April 11 2020 I managed to copy over the Web page to a new Google Pages site That's to Larry for pointing out a free hosting service that was right under my nose. https://sites.google.com/view/cactus-studios/home

Actually Cakewalk doesn't load anything but the work space when you start. Almost all software works this way. That is not a blank project. You then have to open a project or template. You can make your own templates and select it from the start screen or the start menu. The start screen has 3 tabs to help you navigate. I mostly use the recent projects tab. If I want to start a new project I open the ( duh) New Project tab and pick an appropriate template. The other way is to simply open from the project ( or template) folder by double clicking.

My goodness a highjacked thread... back to the OP Echo - W7 drivers no W10 support---I thought so much-- you really just need to upgrade your interface. Once they stop making drivers for your OS your hooped. It's not that complicated.

It might help other advise you if you listed What your audio interface was. Saying it’s older doesn’t help much. Did it have drivers that are 100% made for windows 10?

You should use a proper audio interface that uses ASIO drivers if you want Cakewalk to run smoothly. On-board cards are for gaming and not optimized to use with a DAW

Does you audio interface have line inputs or combo jacks? There might be either a hardware or software toggle to change impedance for hi or low. Often noted as mike or instrument.

It depends on your workflow. I find using a wave editor speeds mine up as I'm much more efficient at using Wave Lab to do wave editing. There is a way to set up Cakewalk to open a track in your wave editor Scook made a tool to makes this set up easy. I think this is the correct link. http://forum.cakewalk.com/Adding-programs-to-the-SONAR-Utilities-Menu-a-new-tool-Updated-for-CbB-m3237117.aspx Actually that seems broken,, scook hopefully will chime in and post the updated link. I can't find it. Sorry. You can use Calkwalks tools but for me they are slower and involve more dialog boxes. The volume envolope is propably what a lot of folks use. I have also used the SPLIT function to chop up a track and delete parts or apply volume gain to quiet parts. don't worry about that "destructive" editing farce. Digital audio with back ups is very safe from harm. Go ahead, destroy it...

The GR is treated the same way you treat any midi controller. They are all the same in that they transmit midi data. I have a GR 50 looking at the specs for the GR 33 they are similar as far as using a GK PU and using DIN midi as output. Firstly I had always used Atari computers with built in DIN jacks. That always worked. Now I use an audio interface with DIN midi jacks. A MIDI sport should also work. Make sure you have the latest drivers for your OS installed,,, don't let Windows do this, download them from the manufacturers website. Go to the MIDI devices in preferences and make sure the midi sport is checked as an INPUT DEVICE. . Insert a MIDI track to your project and select the Midi sport as the input device OMNI. Now insert a VST instrument and assign the output of the MIDI track to that instrument. You may experience a bit of latency due to your systems capabilities. This is why Roland chose to hard wire the synth into to GR systems. to prevent latency. There is actually no midi involved. The GK drives the synth directly. What I do is use the GR 50 synth sounds for monitoring as I record. The recorded midi data will be in perfect snyc,,, it's just that using a VST to monitor you might have too much latency and it will throw your playing off. It's the same with digital drum kits on some systems. The synth sounds in the GR 33 can be recorded with audio cables via your audio interface.. They do not transfer through midi. midi is just data, not sound. But you know that.. I'm just repeating this as you'd be surprised how many folk don't know this.

What are your computer specs? I can run CbB on a old Sony laptop made in 2008. I do have a SSD drive and a whopping 4 GB of RAM. The processor is 1 core 2.4. It has no problems handling 24 tracks of audio with standard effects and a few VST' instruments. A little slow in the graphics that's all. But I think CJ has your answer-- are you using a proper ASIO audio interface?

There is a known issue with clock rate miss matches and it seems system dependent related to the quality of the audio ASIO driver. Video ( utube) uses 48 and a lot of people like me use 44.1 for all my recordings. I never have disconnect issues when using my Tascam or Focusrite interfaces but I was given a M Audio fast track pro ( ya real old) and it always disconnects. I only use my AUdio interfaces for all system sounds but I think some people solve this issue by setting things to use on board audio for everything other than DAW work. Seems a pita as you would need 2 sets of speakers.

I set up CbB on a second laptop a year ago and took it to my band partners place so he could add his parts to our recordings. He has real bad internet and the Laptop is off line 100%. CbB is still working and he for some reason has never gotten the "demo" mode" pop up. Go figure. My DAw was in storage for 6 months while we moved and the minute I fired it up I got Demo mode.. but then it was on line too. SO might be if you totally stay off line you can use it forever.

The thing here is if this was a bug then there would be general havoc here and a million posts. Example I don't have this issue and I'm sure that most of us are experiencing business as usual. I just updated today and have opened a bunch of songs that all have at least 4 VST instruments. They did make some change to accommodate multi outputs if your using an instrument track... I don't use instrument tracks so possibly this might be the difference. Is everybody that is having this issue using instrument tracks?

And make sure you have selected ASIO mode in Preferences

What you are saying points to Windows is able to use the device possibly using generic drivers. Then you install the ASIO driver and Windows seems to not like this? With drivers installed what do you see when you hover the mouse over speaker icon in the lower right task bar of Windows? You should see a pop out window with something like " Line 1/2 Scarlett or Focusrite USB 100 % " If you left click the speaker icon and expand the dialog it will list the audio devices available. Choose the Scarlett. If it does not show then try reinstalling drivers and make sure you use a USB 2 port, I don't think 1st gen Focusrite supported USB 3.

Yes my line out from my Blackstar is unusable for the same reason. That's why I use a mike. A solution to using a mike when you don't want leakage or disturb the household is to make a little isolation room for the amp. This can be a closet or even a insulated box. As a addition to this problem when I tried the USB output of the amp using WDM mode it had the same hum. Guitar amps are noisy buggers at best. You just need to play loud and drown it out!

The point worth mentioning is that you cannot use 2 ASIO audio interfaces at the same time. If you have an interface that uses ASIO then that's the device your going to be using with Cakewalk. The Marshall is using what are called audio codex generic drivers. They will work fine buy themselves if your not using your audio interface. This is a common fault with Amps that have USB ports. They are next to pointless in a system that already has a interface. Best to use the audio output run to your interface or better yet, a mike.

It's called slip editing. And it works as planned but if you have a automation lane happening it won't work. It's best to trim those tracks before you add automation. What you can do is use the "split" function and then delete the unwanted material. Right click the track to open the menu

Good lord I guess you did't read my post,, Its very simple to highlight the notes,, use the smart tool to drag up or down and the velocity will be changed without making them all the same,, the lowest value will still be the lowest value. What do people have against using the mouse to speed things up? No need for menues or plug ins my goodness that's a lot of work to do the same thing I can do with one combination mouse move..

I see I replied with the same answer in the thread scook posted. But easiest way I know of is highlight the notes and drag the velocity up or down using the smart tool placed in the velocity editing section of one of the notes. Just a couple of mouse moves and the smart tool is all it takes.