CJ Jacobson

You have some tools that you can use. Melodyne and audio snap.

With Melodyne, you can create a tempo map with it. This might make it 90bpm, instead of 89.893 bpm.

With Audio Snap , follow this:

This will  sync an audio clip to the project tempo

1. Select the audio clip or clips that you want to follow the project tempo. 

2. Press 'A' to open the Audio Snap palette.

3. Click and select the 'Clip Follows Project Tempo' button

The clip is synchronized to the project’s tempo map. 

This is just one way, as audio snap has many ways to do things like this

You may have your manual offset set wrong. I would re-profile your audio interface and make sure to try all driver modes to see what works best for you. ASIO driver mode is mostly the best,

Also, it could be a plugin effect, if you are using it for recording, as some have hidden buffers and those are not meant for recording, just mixing and mastering.

MIDI tacks are just data. The MIDI tracks are always associated with an audio track that outputs the sound. Otherwise, you get no sound.

Now if you have been using instrument tracks for your MIDI, mutes would have worked.

For the silent bus, that means that the master bus has not outputs to any active main outs. Is your audio interface profiled in cakewalk. So the master bus needs to be outputted to the main outs 1/2 of your audio interface. 

You may need to define your audio interface first, then hook up your MIDI Keyboard to Cakewalk/sonar/DAW

20 minutes ago, Cactus Music said:

True but if the OP deleted the tracks then saved and closed that would still delete any midi data from the last saved copy.. Auto save would have be the best bet but many people do not use it. ,,,

Auto-save doesn't save instantly. Pressing 's" when its key-binded after every edit would have saved it, not auto save. Autosave doesnt save it instantly.

What he said above 

16 minutes ago, rev nice said:

At the end of that session, I accidentally deleted all the tracks!

You should always save every minute or so when doing anything that changes the project. This is what i do, I key-bind the 'SAVE' feature to the letter 'S' and i press it after i make edits. I never wait until the end of a session to save, unless the session is 10 seconds...

12 hours ago, Stxx said:

I get a pop following the clip during playback.  Its especially noticeable if there is reverb or delay on that track.   I believe I have elastique as my algorithm.  Once I bounce to clip, it goes away.

Its probably using a different algorithm for playback and rendering. A lot of those types of Time-stretching plugins do that. check the internal settings of the Time-stretch plugin.

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 I think the docs tell me that the effects do not modify the actual recorded audio until you select Process Effect.  Is that the way to apply the effect permanently 

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I see you can add an effect in the FX bin for a track, or I think you can also insert an effect on a clip by right-click, Insert Effect.  Are those the 2 ways to do this, or are there other ways? 

Yes those are ways to add effects. also, you can add to buses as well and use the sends from each track to send to a bus with effects on it.  This is useful for when you want more than one track to go to the same effect and for parallel compression..

As far as using the 'Process Effect', I would not use it. Why destruct something when you can leave it as non destructive and still get the same results?

On 1/27/2019 at 1:44 AM, sjoens said:

I have 2 interface outputs. CbB shows 2 MAIN fader strips in CV. Regardless of which output I use, MAIN1 fader's Left side reverts to -8.7 when I hit STOP. Locking L&R reverts both faders to -8.7. Moving it back & saving project doesn't fix.  Also happens to non-Cakewalk VST instrument track faders. 

This affects the last 2 projects I'm working on and every new one I create.

Do you have volume envelopes enabled? Its probably that, unless there is a cake-ghost in your project!

On 1/28/2019 at 10:49 AM, Mark A McDowell said:

I was working on a project over the weekend, and try as I might, I was unable to import .wav files into my project. I tried 1) drag the file to an audio track - no good; 2) Open media browser to direct and drag from there - no good; 3) File > Import > Audio - no good.

Any thoughts?

What are your import settings set to? It needs to be set to change the sample rate to the sample rate of the project, as you cannot have 2 different sample rates in a project.

So maybe that is it, as i'm just guessing as the info is lacking a bit...

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If I want to just turn on my computer and listen to my Cakewalk projects, how do I reset the output to hear it on my computer speakers?

If you want to do that, you have 2 choices. You can get a speaker switcher that switches between your studio monitors and PC speakers, if its external speakers and not laptop speakers. note you will still need to turn your audio interface on. I use the Coleman SPK5+1  switchwer. Its great, i can switch between 5 different pairs of speakers and a sub.

if you want to use your PC's built in sound card, then you need to enable it and disable your audio interface

12 hours ago, Mike Bovee said:

Also, does any of this have anything to do with projects that I send via email to others to listen to?  What do I have to do to send tracs via email or to an on line forum?  No one can hear what I send.

No, speaker choice has nothing to do with sending project via email.  

To send music files, i use hightail.com. i can send up to 2 gigs for a small yearly fee. As far as you posting music to a forum for people to hear, you need to publish it and provide links to it, like soundcloud..

16 minutes ago, synkrotron said:

Yeah, why is CbB free?

Is it just while it is in "development?"

cheers

andy

Nothing is free. You will pay for it one way or another.

Not saying they do this, this is just an example of what can be done: Maybe they are taking your profile info and selling it. 

Don't worry, you'll pay for it . even if you are unaware of it 😉

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What is a good safe level to set maximum output to when mastering for a CD?  I've been setting mine pretty high at -.3 dB in Ozone8 

Does that level work for you? That is your answer.. You can also import a CD in your genre and see  their levels.

10 hours ago, BRainbow said:

but my new interface's meters show sporadic red at that level and the manual says I may be overloading the A?D converter.    

Never do anything by default. The manual knows nothing about your song. If you are red, you are clipping.  Never just do what a manual says without using your ears and eyes. Matter of fact, just use your ears and eyes to determine the correct levels. Its the only way to do it.

On ‎1‎/‎22‎/‎2019 at 9:20 PM, Richard Strickland said:

Should I trust that quantizing will work once the final mixdown has been done despite the fact that freezing the track hasn't given me good results?

Never trust, always verify after the final mixdown. This doesn't just go for quantizing .this goes for everything in music and life...

On ‎1‎/‎29‎/‎2019 at 1:18 AM, Kris Olin said:

but even if I have ticked them Excluded I can still see them in my Plug Ins Panel on the right. Re-scanning the plug in folders did not help. See image attached.

You need to remove them from the vst folder its scanning. if you wan them off your PC, then you need to uninstall them and make sure all paths are uninstalled, including plugin templates.

On ‎1‎/‎23‎/‎2019 at 9:27 PM, Scott said:

When I opened her up, all I see is like a VERY basic screen.  No tracks..no anything I had in Sonar X2 Producer.  What am I missing?  And, I mean this sincerly because its normally because I've overlooked something.

You are not missing nothing.  You can configure it anyway you want. you can choose to have any template loaded or not. You can choose color schemes, or not.  In other words, its all up to you on how you want it to look.