John Vere

Steve's answer is the one to remember and why I said to watch my video. I show both methods. That shortcut becomes a good friend just like R or Spacebar. And with that in mind you now might know why it disappeared in the first place. You inadvertently pressed Shift B Possibly instead of just B which toggles the Browser. Keyboard shortcuts are well worth learning but they are also dangerous because it's easy to toggle something unwanted. When that hppens I often reload my lens to get my screen back the way I like it.

That's good to know, thanks. The only installers I have are 2 series. that are in my CCC back up folders.

In the end you have to make sure any guitars or Basses you use for recording have some sort of Hum cancelling Pups. Or just play REAL LOUD! My Strat has the Fender custom shop hum cancelling Single coils and it works great. The sound is still 100% Strat. My Yamaha bass I swapped the originals for a set of Dimarzio hum cancelling and they are also still a single coil. My problem child is my G&L Astat Tribute Tele. It has these oddball large soapbar single coils that I cannot find good replacements for. I cannot record with it unless I leave the room.

Well it is a Melodyne 4 bug because the first clip I converted was the longest clip ( about 2 min. long ) and it converted normally as in the past in about 30 -40 seconds. It was the second clip that would not go ( about 45 secs. long ) and there was no difference in material. Just a Audio bass track with absolutely no embellishments. Not even pro channel. I just did an experiment and the tracks converted every time IF I first open Melodyne and set the process from "automatic" to "Melodic" . I do believe this glitch is at the heart of the issue. Obviously "automatic" does not work. The audio shows as one pitch until you toggle over to "melodic". Automatic seems the default and returns each time with new projects. And as said, Cakewalk is not crashing, there's no error message, Just the little wheel going round and round forever and a day. Task manager shows Cakewalk as "running" but if you tray and close it, it then shows as "not responding" But I will mark this as solved as I now have a clear understanding so thanks everyone for your insight.

Thanks for the replies and Mark for the links. I remember those threads now. I think it is why I passed on the upgrade offer to Studio. I do have all my old installers but for the few times I will be using it I'll just perform the regional effect trick and see if that works. I might be using the vocal pitch correction as my partner is not exactly a great singer. Has anybody ever dragged the blobs to create a harmony part?

Ya, that's exactly where hidden notes come from. I know real keyboard players don't quantize for this very reason. But my keyboard and drum chops would never be heard in public without the magic of midi cheating like h--l . Long live midi editing and especially quantizing.

Thanks Mark, but the wrong detection logarithm if I understand correctly would result in a conversion l but it would be all one note. I checked and mine was set to "automatic" I guess I could try changing it to melodic but I have a feeling this is not the issue here. My scenario today was Melodyne freezing Cakewalk. It seemed random that it would work. There is a big difference in the 2 versions Below is the one that didn't work therefore my question. The one that did work is the one shown above and is much older going by the version numbers. Therefore my question.. Is the newer version working for everyone?

To add. My main DAW has Melodyne 4 and is fully authorized. My old Laptop does not have Melodyne installed but it shows this version.

I really have never used Melodyne for anything other than converting a real Bass track into midi. A month or so ago I thought I'd bring everything on my main DAW up to date. There was an update for Melodyne as well. Today was the first time I had needed to convert a Bass track since before the updates. The Bass track had 3 parts due to punching in. The first segment which was more than 1/3 of the song converted over no problem. But, the second clip just froze up at the "rendering audio" point and the wheel went round and round forever. I opened Task manager and it showed that Cakewalk was not responding, So I closed it and tried again. I had saved like I always do after any major change so my first conversion was fine. This time the second part worked but when I tried the 3 clip everything froze again. I hadn't saved thinking this was all working now. So back to task manager and re open project. Now no matter what I couldn't get the 2nd or 3rd clips to render, Odd? CPU was showing no action. I copied the folder to my back up drive , opened the song on my old W7 beater which is way out of date and the parts converted without issue. So I got what I wanted. So is this the "new" version of Melodyne not working well with Cakewalk??

Cakewalk has very deep MIDI editing and I'm not sure people realize how deep. After all it started life as a midi editor/sequencer so all those original feature, some of them not even really needed anymore, are still there.

I'm glad this topic was brought up and even happier to see we have the attention of Noel. Something different needs to happen- as here I am, a so called experienced long time user, and for the world I can never get the GUI to stay the way I want it from project to project without some minor adjustments once the project is open. No big deal, but between Lens and Screenset I remain baffled as which one to use. I stopped using Screensets when Lenses came along and for the life of me I couldn't sort out what the difference was? I even read the documents! It seemed to me Lenses did more of what I wanted. And if I dared to open a screenset as I could not go back to my Lens unless I opened another lens and re opened the original. So I have simply avoided screensets since. It left me pondering why they still exist. I have since removed that module from my task bar. But Lens's have a glitch that I always meant to ask about so I will take this opportunity. I have a huge project involving 65 or so songs my partner and I are working on this winter. With 65 songs it's real nice that each project would open and look the same, right. I'm working with 2 monitors but he's on my laptop with only 1 screen. I opened the projects on the Laptop and even though I tried setting a Lens up for the one screen they all open with the Console, PVR and any multi docks full screen. So I have to minimize to the dock and save. This for all 65 projects,,, geezers. Then the other glitch is the browser window won't stay minimized. With one monitor you need all the screen you can get for tracking. The workaround was to slide it almost out of view. But it would be nice to just use the double arrows and keep it minimized. Possibly a Sceenset would solve these issues but I'm reluctant to waste time re learning that system again. At the time it was quicker just to do it the hard way...

Funny Craig pointed it out and beat me too it. And yep I have used that dialog I think since Sonar 6? And for sure it was because of my attempts at recording my Roland GR 50 to make bass parts. It also comes in handy with my Yamaha DTX drums as the hi hat pedal is glitchy. Those pesky hidden notes are always an issue. I get them a lot when I create a midi track from a real bass track with Melodyne. For me the dead giveaway is when a note does not sound or cuts out prematurely. So I grab the dead note and move it up or down to reveal the hidden note. Zooming in helps if they are that small.

Yes, my bad, I didn't fully read everything and all I saw was my re-posting screenshot and that comment. Sorry all. But seriously this is a huge issue if a forum can be hacked as some of us have our Sonar products linked to the forum log on. Good to see they jumped on it.. all is well,,nothing to see here folks...move along...

It's just "standard practice" to wire any serious studio with high quality cables. Even unbalanced cables will benefit in noise rejection if they are of the higher quality and have proper shielding. There's not much point in using balanced cables when the connections are unbalanced. Example an audio interface or powered speakers with RCA jacks are clearly not balanced. And guitar and most hardware synths are never balanced. RF interference is not an normally an issue if the cable runs are short. I have all lengths of cables from 3" to 6' just for this reason. I use no more than needed to make my connections. So always start out with the best cabling in your studio. And add to that proper power conditioning for the A/C ( Mains in your speak) . I use a Furman. The noise you describe is possibly like the one I will get when I use a wireless mouse. I will only hook up my wireless keyboard and mouse when I need remote control while tracking vocals. Otherwise I have eliminated all wireless devices from my studio space. Even my phone is hardwired. And the ferrite chokes are also a great idea especially on you USB cables. There was a thread a few days ago and that person has a Scarlett 2i4 which use buss power. ( EDIT_ I see Mark posted a link above while I was posting) They are documented as making the noise you describe and the ferrite choke is reported to solve that issue. . I have a few A/C power cables that have those chokes on them too.

Part 4 of my tutorials explains most of what you need to know about the buss pane. Including how to find it if it is not showing. http://www.cactusmusic.ca/tutorial-videos Generally they have supplied a few templates for newbies to get started with but most long time users simply make our own templates and use those so we rarely need to do this. There's one case for me as I often OPEN a midi file and those projects won't have any busses. Takes 2 seconds to add them so nothing to gripe about really. Both project templates and track templates will populate your buss pane. Example when I insert my "Guitar" audio track template, it inserts a track set up to record that guitar as well as inserting a Guitar Buss .

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.