John Vere

You have to make the master buss the default. Make sure all you tracks outputs are sent to the master buss they are probably going directly to your interface you can test this by muting the master buss. If you still hear audio then it is being bypassed

There has been plenty of threads about this topic and all will tell you the same. CbB is pretty painless Upgrade. If you already have Sonar then CbB is an upgrade with more stability and improvements. In my opinion only a fool would still be using Sonar. The only objection that I’ve heard is those who still oddly enough want 32 bit

I ported over a few projects back when we were all looking for a new DAW to replace Gibson Sonar. It was possibly an hours work, but I had no issues. Firstly, if your project has a lot of midi then your more than half way there. Just save your CbB song as a midi file. Name the tracks after the synth used and in my case I made sure they were using different midi channels just to be safe. Also have presets saved for each synth. This will open in Cubase and play using the default GM player. Now just re assign the tracks to the synths you used in Cakewalk and load the presets. This should result in the exact same playback as Cakewalk. For audio bounce all audio to create a continuous tracks . Make sure to name them clearly. Drag and drop these from the cakewalk project audio folder to blank Cubase audio tracks. For me it all worked easily but you will be missing any pro channel stuff from the mix.

If there is only one tempo listed in the tempo map, then changing the tempo in the widget is global for the whole song. But if the tempo map has any more than one tempo in the list it will override the widget. You simply delete all but the desired tempo from the list.

Open the Tempo Map view, Alt-shift 5 Or from the Views dropdown, it is one of the Multi docks,

technically because CbB is free your not really doing harm by talking or even raving about other software. My approach to making a album is to first try and use the same ""band" that the instruments and settings are close to the same from song to song. Example, I will use the same bass VST using the exact same settings and signal path. Drums I build a kit and then just like a real drummer I might change the only snare. I make notes and try to record all my guitars and vocals using the same pre amps, mikes etc. All songs will share the same buss set up and plug ins with pre sets or use mix recall to share pre sets. Mix recall can be a powerful tool for sharing a set up from song to song. I then export each song and master in Wave Lab. II make sure each song has the same average RMS level. I listen to this on as many systems as possible and take notes. If one song shines as the best I then see why and copy it's mix recall to other songs. After a few rounds the "album" has good glue and even if the styles are different it sounds more like a concert of a live band. My wife is very critical of when my songs don't sound the same.

The pesky Stienberg generic asio driver does cause problems for many, I deleted it from my system following some obscure instructions. You don't need the driver for any of Stienbergs software if you already have a proper interface. Cubase and Wave Lab still work fine for me without the generic driver. For screen capture it gets tricky with ASIO as many programs don't seem to recognize all the ports. I solved the problem by using a small mixer to loopback my DAW playback to the capture program. I plugged my mike into the mixer and I can easily adjust the DAW playback and the mike levels. That way the DAW is running in proper full ASIO.

Like I said there are always more than 5 ways to do something in Cakewalk. My method is the fastest as you need not open any dialog boxes. Click/drag/click/drag. It works best if you find the note with the lowest velocity. but generally they are close enough to not make any difference to the sound. Not sure if this short video will work? 2019-04-20 20-41-42.flv

If the Midi file was composed to play on a GM VST or MS Wavetable then those will control those parameters. But most VST's are not GM so they ignore the Effects CC. When I download a GM file I immediately go into event list and delete most of the controllers. I don't want the data telling my VST what to do. Even pitch bend can be all wrong.

If you read what I say, I also have no issues with W10,,, I DO have issues with W7 and will leave it behind soon. It's just the 2 old laptops that have W7. One was a Vista vintage so no way to put W10 on it but the second came with W8.0 but being cheap I opted for my W7 crack over paying for a new OS when I changed the HD to a SSD. Aser wanted $ 45 for the recovery disk.

I have the latest CbB on a few different computers, some are just back up versions on the off chance that things go wrong here or? Two are fully loaded with all my VST's activated. One is a desktop W10 17. The other is a Laptop W7 i5. The W7 laptop occasionally crashes on closing a project after saving it. The W10 machine seems 100% stable. As far as I know it's up to date as I leave it alone and it's turned on most of the day. I will disable the LAN if I'm tracking. The W7 Laptop is off line unless I wish otherwise. ( it has a nice little switch for this). But at least 3 times a session ( say 4 hours ) it will crash on exit. I had to do some work on one of the back up computers which is bare bones. It's also W7, It also crashes after saving and trying to close the project. Out of curiosity I fired up another computer that is W10 all up to date and carried on. It never crashed on exit. So I abandoned the W7 machine thinking I should turf it now. So my conclusion is CbB runs better on W10 because that is what Noel said once about the code being optimized for that OS> I guess that can change overnight if W10 is altered from what the Bakers had coded for. What is the W10 version that is not working for some right now? Mine say 1809 - installed Feb 9th. build 17763.437

Being a mouse user I simply highlight all the kick notes using the left side keyboard, then pick a lower velocity note click in the top middle to get the smart tool velocity icon , drag them all up. let go, now drag them all down to the amount I wanted. Takes a few seconds, no menus to fuss with, just mouse editing. As always there are at least 4 ways to do the same task in Cakewalk.

https://bandcamp.com/ Bandcamp is a music site sort of like Sound Cloud. Easy to get confused.

Any driver mode will work for playback and for the first pass of a live recording, but as I said, only ASIO will sync overdubs correctly. Overdubbing audio requires the audio driver to calculate the offset needed to put the track in time with the original material.

I have had many projects that hung up on opening right when the scan said Console Emulation. It was only present as a default in some old template I had used and it was turned off. I make sure it is not present in any of my projects and since have never had a stalled scan. I tried messing with it a few times and it seems to do nothing other than make things distorted if you turn it up, seems counter productive to good sound quality.

It's a good idea to always use the same port, the one you used when you installed the driver. WIth W110 if you swap to another port you stand the risk of Windows downloading and installing the incorrect driver. Always go directly to the manufactures web page and download the latest audio driver and follow instructions. Generally there are very few interfaces that don't like USB 3 if they have a W10 driver.

For me I used to count on a few crashes a night always after I saved and then tried to close. It went away a long time ago after a CbB update. Now I still get this from time to time but only on my W7 laptop.

Are you using an audio interface and ASIO driver? Sounds like a audio driver conflict between Cakewalk and your media player. If I don't have an Audio interface I use WASAPI shared. And are you exporting correctly using the Export audio dialog box? It's one of the Control Bar Modules and might not show so look in the list of optional modules by right clicking the control bar- modules. Make sure you have the correct settings. Mine are Project- Presets-Master Mix- this is set to 44.1/ 16 for me so I can burn a CD. Windows Media player or your on board sound card might have sound enhancements enabled.

Good point, I bet If I had looked the path the audio was still saving to the Portable drive. It's just something that I hadn't seen happen before. I have done "save as" moves in the past and the they always worked 100%. I don't really use it much these day's preferring to just drag and drop files to back up locations. As you mentioned if I was the OP I would have simply re named the containment ( project) folder. Opened the project and save as- renaming it into the same folder as original. Probably wouldn't even delete the original CWP file right at first as well. As I said, I tend to not delete things until it's backed up and 100% safe to do so.

Just a note about the sound quality issue. It is a well know fact that everything will be precieved as sounding better if the volume is turned up. To a point.

The settings in preferences don't seem to have any setting that would change the "per project" saving of audio to the project folder. Those file paths are only for Global audio which hopefully nobody uses anymore. There's also Wave files which are for your exports and then you default project location. Changing any of those should not effect where project audio goes. But there might be a new bug as I myself had this just happen: In the past, "save as" with the "copy audio" box checked more or less did just that, The audio associated with a project is copied and stored inside the project folder in the audio folder. I'm working in collaboration with my partner and we both have the latest CbB and all the bells and whistles on the two computers. So he's adding his parts at his place and I the same. We just got together to update our projects so I'd have his latest and he mine. I plugged my external drive to his machine. To update each file on his computer I normally would just copy them over, but we don't want extra versions cluttering things up. So I thought I'd just OPEN them from the back up drive and then "SAVE AS" to his machine overwriting his versions. ( Note these are songs he had not worked on yet.) I did this for a few songs as we were listening to them. Later I re opened a song from his hard drive that I had "saved as" from mine and there was no audio? I opened each of the songs I had done this way and none of them had the updated audio. The Copy audio was checked. I ended up deleting his versions and copying mine over, those were all fine.

I still open and use MIDI files I made in the mid 1980's on my Atari. I put a lot of work into those and if sometimes will find a song I would like to re -visit. The other day I found "8dayzwek". That's "Eight days a week" in the 8 character naming protocol you had to use for files back then. I still use the same basic foundation for my songs now as I did then. They all open and play using TTS-1 with very little intervention on my behalf.

Just to add, you should always have backups stored to a different drive as well. Never delete ANYTHING that does not have a back up.

Glad you solved it. I was going to say try inserting TTS-1 to play the files as thats a GM player. You can EDIT your OP title and call it solved.

I would not recommend trying to use that set up. It will just end up being a hair pulling experience which requires constant fussing about. If the reason you wish to do this is you don't own proper studio monitors and so therefore use computer speakers for playback then you are better off pugging them into your Audio Interfaces headphone jack. You may need a 1/8" to 1/4" adaptor. When working with audio and a DAW you'll want to use ASIO and a proper audio interface for everything you do. Life will be better that way.