John Vere

First open the event list and look for any CC events. Volume is 7 but there are others that can also change level.

You can also look in PVR and make sure your velocities are all where they belong as well as open the lower event pane and select CC7. . 

Then open the GUI for the VST and look at the volume/ level controls. 

If there are hidden events that change them you will see the knobs or sliders move when the song plays. Example turn up the GUI level and start the song. IF it jumps back to where it was there is a controller hidden somewhere. 

Also open the automation lane for the VST instrument track and look there. 

I have the 6i6, The mix control software is capable of any mix your heart desires. You'll just have to take the time to understand how it works. There are lot's of good videos explaining how to set it up. 

I'm not sure if the convert an Audio track to midi works without Melodyne. I do remember I had installed a free copy of Home Studio to a laptop with no prior versions of Sonar present and this feature worked.

What scook said.  There has always been the potential to make a huge mess when copy pasting. Simply put, it does not work the way one expects it to work. 

 Please consider fixing this in the future. 

But thanks for the new fixes and looking forward to Ara2,  I have avoided Melodyne up until now.

Because I don't need to change the mix of my backing tracks I use Wave files and playback using Winamp. I then have a second laptop for lyrics if I need them. Mostly I have memorized 90% of my material so depending on gig I often don't even bother with the lyrics. The lyric laptop is also a back up if needed.  

I found the Cakewalk playlist was a little too slow to change songs and was harder to jump around if I felt the need to ad lib my set list on the fly.  

I use a USB foot switch ( Stealth) to control playback of Win Amp and another cheap USB foot switch to control Power point for the lyrics.  Been uing this type of set up for over 15 years now and have never had any issues. I only need a very small mixer, set of powered speakers, guitar amp, few pedals and a small laptop ( netbook). I recently added a TC Voice Live box and it has added a nice touch to the vocals. 

I was excited when I bought these nice Sony Bluetooth phones but huge disappointment when I tried them with cakewalk. The latency even made editing hard to do because what you see and what you hear is off time. 

For me it is my saved lens. Even old projects open with the console view on my second monitor.  

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? 

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.

On ‎4‎/‎16‎/‎2019 at 12:15 PM, reginaldStjohn said:

I have had times where a track appears to stop working.  In my particular case it always had to do with a pro channel module. If I turned off the pro-channel my track would sound again.  If I started deleting modules until it sounded again it would usually come down to the console emulation modules or once it was the concrete limiter.  Just a thought.

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.