John Vere

Then the next post was someone saying I sould be banned from the form because of this??? I'm not seeing ads myself.

Where is this from? Is this what some are saying? Because the resolution is so bad I cannot see which thread this is from but I most certainly did not post the picture shown? If this is a sign of bad security here I'm afraid I'm not about to hang around and get abuse for having someone change my posts.

Always good to have top quality cables. My cable story was this; I ran a music store for 12 years. One day a guy came in and was looking to buy a new Bass as he said his sounded muddy. I plugged it in using my amp and cable and it sounded fine... he goes what did you do? I looked in his case and he had this Curly cable,,, we hooked that up and his bass was real real muddy. I didn't sell him a $300 bass but I did sell him a $30 cable. The ones I sold and I still have in my own collection were all Beldon wire with Switchcraft ends made by Cabletech ( now called Radial) . 25 years and counting.

What would be helpful is the make and model of the monitors. Possible power surge put them into protection mode?

These stories put me in mind of my old Fender Bassman that had a 2 prong plug. As most of you will remember how "safe" those were. But you usually knew when you had to flip the reverse switch as you most always heard a hum. Otherwise you would be blown across the room when you touched your mike with your lips! But one of the benefits was if I turned the amp up it picked up AM radio and I used to listen to it in my room that way. The other thoughts on this topic is how many people these days are freaked out about RF emissions from Smart meters and cell towers. They talk like this is some sort of new heath issue. Most of those old radio towers blasted out a lot more RF energy than a cell tower. And there also was all the TV station towers which are now gone. Greg- The ferrite choke worked for my friend who had the hum in his 2i4. I hope it works for you. All my USB audio gear now have those type of USB cables. They are a good idea. I even have power supplies ( wall Warts) that came with a choke on the low voltage side. It's a bad on Focusrite's part that they don't include one of these cables as it would seem the right thing to do.

I missed the post above mine, If this is an older home that was not originally wired with a ground circuit and all they did was upgrade the panel. Then if they did not upgrade the wiring you will need to at least run a grounded wire directly to the new panel either with a appropriate extension cord or somehow install at least that one circuit. Hopefully they would have properly grounded the new panel and supplied you with at least one grounded outlet. A GFI is pointless if it is not grounded. You can test outlets with one of these inexpensive testers. I never go anywhere without mine.

Ya, it's a better system for quick posts of certain things, but screenshots are impossible to see the details or read dialog boxes. The only thing I can recommend is to change the template and keep it basic. Then try adding fancy stuff until it goes sideways. Then you'll know what VST is crashing Cakewalk. Does it crash if you just insert that VST by it self into a blank project" IS it a 32 bit VST?

This- Those are USB buss powered and there have been a few threads as well as I helped a friend with this issue once. The hum is probably coming over the USB power so the best solution is to use a USB cable with a Ferrite choke. It's one of the reasons I don't recommend interfaces that ONLY have USB power. It's better if they offer the option of a proper power supply. The other issue they can have is a starved 48 volt phantom power for some LDC mikes.

Not sure if it matters but you should always increase your midi buffer size from the default to something 2x or 4x bigger. Mines set at 1000. And what Jonesey said is what happens to me. Grab the note in PVR and pull it up or down to reveal a hidden dupe. They either stick or cut out.

Sorry but have you used asio4all in the last few years? It actually good software now and works well for most on board sound cards. I used it for a over year on this very laptop I'm typing on. I had it set up at work to mess around with Home Studio and midi files. I would also play with larger projects that had audio as well.. And as a test I then hooked up my Scarlette 6i6 and had no issues using that and it's proper driver. You can also use WASAPI mode for on board audio without issue unless your overdubbing new audio tracks. You will need to adjust your timing offset.

Ya, That's what I was saying,, they are working just fine on W7 but it's worth a shot to see if they work under W10. If it does not work then you will have no choice but to use your on board sound chip.. It's like this: Real ASIO USB audio interface = $ 100- $ infinity Behringers UCA series= $25-$30 ,, ( I got mine free with a $200 Behringer mixerwhich blew up after 1 year) On Board sound = $ Free (but probably that part cost $4.) You can "get by" with on board under WASAPI ( or asio4all) but you will need to perform a loopback test like I did to make sure you have proper sync between overdubbed tracks. And myself I'm not sure how in the world one would plug a SM 58 into that little jack :0

back to the OP. I recommend you physically remove the card, I had to. Disable and uninstall everything that say's creative. Download the ASIO Behringer driver and follow instructions. Only issue is the driver was made for W7 which is what I'm using successfully. You may have different results but it's worth the few minutes to try it. Many W7 drivers work fine under W10.

Hey, thanks for that link, cool. I just downloaded and will test on my beater Sony laptop. I find this interesting in the notes.. 3. IMPORTANT NOTES: ------------------- -> Driver will be installed ONLY on USB port where your hardware is connected while installation! -> After installation ALL other audio drivers are blocked on this USB port! -> For using different drivers: Connect your USB audio hardware to a different USB port. -> Alternative drivers which work fine with the named hardware products: Vista + Windows 7: ASIO4ALL (see providers homepage) OK so all seems to work fine. Had an issue with sharing drivers. Win Amp for some reason wanted WDM and I had to re boot computer to get it to play. But I re opened Cakewalk and projects are playing using ASIO. SO this makes the old Laptop more useful to me now. The Behringer ( mine is a UCA 200) was gather dust. With a small mixer I will have a 100% usable ASIO system. And check this out, rock solid loopback timing. And if I had a better computer hooked up you can set the buffers pretty low and get good RTL.

I know this doesn't answer your question, but I find Cakewalk next to useless for working with video. The video feature is a poorly built afterthought and they should do everyone a favour and remove it. I bought Vegas Movie Studio Platinium 14 on sale for $34 and it's amazing. It even supports most of my Cakewalk plug ins. I can put the BT Brickwall on the audio track. I guess there's an upgrade now to Vegas 16, but 14 is half the price. https://www.amazon.ca/VEGAS-Movie-Studio-14-Platinum/dp/B01NBYOMJD/ref=asc_df_B01NBYOMJD/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=292962816383&hvpos=1o4&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1642523475381333915&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1001901&hvtargid=pla-448691710786&psc=1 I'm using on board graphics without too much of an issue but if you really get into video editing it's just like audio and a dedicated card is a must.

I have one of those that came with a Behringer Mixer. They use USB Codex. So not ASIO, A very small step up from using the 1/8" mini jack. Nothing wrong with the device. I have used mine for live performance playback for years. Always worked. But if your overdubbing audio it will be out of sync. You will need to adjust your timing offset in preferences. You can see by my loopback test that it performs better using it's generic driver than in WASAPI mode. I agree with Krupa, you will need to completely get rid of all traces of the Creative driver. In my case I had to re install W7 to clean my system. Otherwise even if you do get a proper interlace the Creative driver will screw things up.

Yes the OP's issue for sure will most likely be solved with using a proper ASIO audio interface. An Audio interface is the heart of any DAW system. Creative makes cards for Gaming, not DAW's. You can get buy with WASAPI and on board sound chips for doing some basic editing, I do this from time to time, But projects with a lot of VST's often stutter for me in that mode. I had to pull my old Audigy II PCI card from my office computer when I upgraded to W10. It worked fine under W7. I now use a even older PCI card made by Card Deluxe, but they had written W10 drivers which is amazing since the card was made in 2004. It's only duty is play music and watch movies but it's using ASIO drivers and quite capable with Sonar.

Were's CJ when we need him? He'll tell you to take an elevator to the top floor of the tallest building in town and toss the Audigy card off! I speak from personal experiance... I wasted a year trying to get one to work. They just have terrible drivers, thats all. I just opened X3e on my W10 computer and other than it's missing a lot of stuff I now use, it works just fine. But I am using a proper ASIO audio interface so of course it will. My guess is a W10 update really trashed your Creative drivers.

The old "stupid way" was as follows Make sure your song is properly lined up with the measures. Then turn SNAP TO GRIDE Whole measures on. A good idea is to Insert markers at the start point of each part -- Example intro, verse1, chorus 1, bridge, solo, etc. so you don't get lost. Now place cursor at the start of the part you want to copy , lets use Verse 1 as example, and use CTRL A to select all, right click and "SPLIT" Now go to end of Verse 1 and make another split. CTRL A makes sure all track are split. count the measures of verse 1 = lets say 12 measures Now go to the place where you want to insert verse 1 again and make a split. Drag the right hand part of the song to the right 13 measures. this give you room to work. Warning make sure all data to the right is selected before you drag it. Zooming out might help you see this. Now go and copy verse 1 and paste it to the empty space you just made, Now drag the right hand part back to line up with the end of the inserted verse 1 copy. Done Now after you've done this you'll happy to use Ripple editing

We love Off topics Yes I totally know the history and I owned one that also had a "Big Bottom" knob. The trick is to only use them sparingly as it defiantly will over compress / distort at a certain point. My initial problem is I cannot sing into a LDC mike. I've tried a dozen or so and had to sell them all. I sound terrible and you can hear all this unwanted noise I make when singing,,, To many years of live mike technique I guess. I therefore sound the best using a Beta 58. So the Sonic Maximizer brings back the sparkle that is missing with the 58. I also like what it does to acoustic guitar and a little bit on drums too.

In Pro Channel the only ones I have found I like are the PC 76 U type Compressor and the Gloss EQ. The Gloss EQ is more or less the only EQ I use anywhere unless I need one on the Master then I like the Focusrite Red 2 EQ . I don't use a lot of EQ anyhow but I have the Gloss EQ using the Hi Pass filter on every track set at different settings depending on instrument. For analog audio If I don't like the way something sounds I re record it. For VST's instruments I get by with the GUI EQ most times. My latest can't live without it is the BBE Sonic Maximizer I got for Christmas. I'm not even sure what it does but with just the right touch everything just shines and jumps out of the mix. But they are resource hog. If I put one on every buss I need to FX bypass if I'm re tracking anything. I've never had an issue with having the Prochannels on all my tracks.

My understanding is that the more complexed the processing the more CPU it will need. So a simple Plug in with a few settings would therefore not be crunching as many numbers as one that had a zillion settings you changed. Then those look ahead type I would assume use more power.

That was my first reaction. Possibly a old W7 Laptop that was inadvertently updated to W10. And it's still a good investment if you have the spare cash to upgrade the old laptops and keep using them if they don't have any other issues. I have 4 kicking around and find uses for them. I use one just for looking up lyrics and running power point for my live rig.

In Preferances/Midi/ Devices you make sure all boxes are checked. Then those will show as available inputs on any midi track.

The HUGE improvment for me is pictures are now local and not a link. I also like how you can highlight part of a post and just quote that part instead of the whole long winded terst. see...cool

What you could try is to double the RAM to 8GB and swap out the HD for a SSD drive. I did this on a 2008 Sony Laptop that has a 2.4 duo core processor. It is slow, but it seems fine with Cakewalk on most simple work. I have recorded 16 audio tracks of live Band for over 3 hours with out issue. I think that Hard drive speed and RAM are more important than the process speed.