John Vere

You just leave it alone. Add the effects you want to the bin or Pro Channel and leave them alone. There's no reason these days to "print" effects to a track. This allows for future fine tuning as you move along. 

My 7200 rpm hard drive is 85% full. Could this be it?   

  Yes it could. Go get a back up drive and start cleaning junk out. 

It's actually not a very good way to work with effects. It's known as destructive editing. But I don't think it applies Pro channel. Just the selected effect. Make sure you have an original copy of the audio before you do this. 

Actually all you have to do is set EZ drummer as the output of the midi track. 

Roland possibly uses GM midi mapping? EZ drummer I think has a GM mode. I know AD2 and Session drums do. 

As scook has said all you need to do is when you insert EZ drummer is choose the multi output option. 

Yes I use the demo version as Abacab has mentioned and never have I noticed the missing octaves. I use piano in most of my backing tracks which are standard dance party stuff. I also will use it in my original songs which are sort of folk/country rock and blues style. 

https://sites.google.com/view/cactus-studios/original-songs

I have a very similar system. Off the self HP  i7 12GB RAM etc. I also have  a similar data drive and possibly the biggest difference is my OS in on a 250 ssd.
I haven’t done much to tweak it same as you and I have no issues.  If I do have an issue it’s always a 32 bit plug in.  

I run my projects from the data drive and most of my sample data is in the default location of the C Drive. 120 is just a bit too small for a DAW. I am planning on updating my data drive to a ssd but right now everything is fine so will wait a bit longer. The price keeps going down and the size going up. 

This is yet another post that is pointing out that this interface possibly has a poor  quality ASIO driver. To bad as I was interested in this as an option for a new interface 

If all you want is the  guitar efx then it’s a simple matter of him recording the output of your guitar Track back to an ADAT track with just the wet output of the reverb. That not that complicated. 

I play folk/ bluegrass style in a duo and we use backing tracks for bass. We only need the bass which we run to a bass amp. But I still use a simple drum track which I much prefer over a click track we run this to our monitors.  
To export the track in Cakewalk It’s a very simple matter of setting up 2  busses that feed the Master buss.  One is panned left the other right.  This is commonly called a  Split Track.  So all we need is a stereo wave file.  
 

At the gig I use a little notebook running WinAmp for playback I can use the laptops audio out, an interface or in our case our mixer is a USB interface   All work equally well.   
 

If using the 1/8 audio out I have a special cable that Y’s to the mixer and the bass amp.  With the USB mixer I don’t have the option of splitting the bass so I have to pan the USB channel In the mains to eliminate the Drums. I send both to the floor wedge using the pre fader option of the aux send   But you really only need a stereo wave file for backing tracks 

Who told you to use MME? I have a friend I set up with a Solo and it works 100% with Cakewalk and ASIO driver. Focusrite has a good ASIO driver and if your not using it your tracks will overdub out of sync. It's not a "known issue" to most. Contact Focusrite if you think otherwise. They used to be real good at answering questions. 

MME is the oldest and worst driver you would choose. Latency will be out the window. MME works with MIDI only. 

I'm curious as I was looking at that interface as a possible upgrade to my collection which are getting very outdated. Is the ASIO driver not functioning properly? 

They are sort of new to the game and often companies don't put enough development into the driver resulting in issues. RME, Motu, Focusrite and Tascam seem to be companies that seems to put a lot of development into drivers. 

Yes for sure I most always freeze a track. I found it interesting that this seems to work for playback on the computer that, in my case, does not have authorization for XLN and Air VST's which I use a lot of. The tracks play just fine but you cannot easily edit them on that machine. 

The reason I asked is that for hassle free recording with any DAW an Audio Interface is almost mandatory. 

On Board audio is for watching movies and playing games. 

There's some confusion it what yours saying so I'll just go through the "how to record in stereo." 

You plug the left and right audio cables into Channel 1 and channel 2 of your interface and set the levels. 

In Cakewalk you insert a new audio track and you choose the Solid state Logic  ASIO stereo driver 1 as the input. This combines the Left and right into a stereo track. 

The way some people do this is they insert 2 new audio tracks and choose  Left SSL ASIO Driver 1 for 1 track and the Right SSL ASIO driver 1 for the other. This gives you more options for processing the signals and mixing. Example placing the instrument in the stereo field. 

A huge help is to print off the keyboard shortcuts and hang it on the wall.  Often weird stuff happens because you have punched a wrong key  

This is odd because I hear no latency at all with either the guitar or the bass VST. It might be old information which they fixed with an update. I use the ample bass on most of my backing tracks and it’s very tight 

Wow pretty rare to have threads like this these days. I’ll only say one thing. Disable the internet. This always seems to work for me 

Do you have an audio interface?

Yes there does seem to be a lot of Wasps around right now   
 

once again. The safest way to proof an exportEd file is playback in a wave editor. Or cakewalk. Or burn a CD and play it in your car. 

There are a few reasons other than cpu usage to render a midi track to audio.  
one important reason is you may not have that VST in the future.  
another reason I will freeze or bounce is I only can have two computers authorized for certain VST’s so if I need to use a 3rd computer this solves the problem. 

2- use the W to activate track automation and use the track inspectors pan control.  The TTS-1 is a GM Player so is happy to accept midi system exclusive and cc commands. Most other VST are not. You treat them as any Other audio track  

https://help.cakewalk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360036997613-Keyboard-Shortcuts

Look under Transport shortcuts.   

I don't know what is different in your settings but when I click anywhere during playback the now time jumps there but only backwards.  Doesn't seem to work for ahead.  But then I use CTRL_W to toggle the rewind to  stop in place . I always have one hand on the spacebar and the other on the mouse so if I hit the spacebar the song stops and I can click ahead. Just used to it without even realizing I do it that way. I didn't realize you COULD click ahead using the timeline, thanks for pointing that out,, a new trick. 

https://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio/tascam-us-16x08-usb-audio-interface    

I've had my us1641 for a long long time and it still works great when I need 16 inputs or just 2.  The 16x 08 would seem to be the newer model. Not the most stellar performer but still might be the best bang for the buck when you need a lot of inputs. 

https://customer.focusrite.com/en/getstarted/benefits

It's a bit odd that people come here to complain when it's a simple matter of following very clear instructions.  

Always use ASIO with any audio interface. There is no other option that will give you proper results. 

https://www.long-mcquade.com/95877/Pro-Audio---Recording/Headphones/Apex-Electronics/Apex-Closed-Deluxe-Studio-Headphone.htm

I have the older Apex HP60 but I think they are the same, they must be 20 years old and possibly the only set of phones that survived my active recordings days. That's because I never let clients use them    

But of all the name brands I have and still have these are still the most accurate phones I use. A perfect match to my NMS10's.   

I'm going to grab a set of the HP 70's now you got me thinking about this topic. It would be the same as when my NMS10's die I'll be lost without them and not looking forward to the quest to replace them.