CJ Jacobson

On 5/29/2020 at 8:14 PM, DCMG said:

I would like to know this as well. Is this new behavior discussed somewhere in another thread? Definitely prefer the previous <zoom+center> behavior .

It makes no sense that the zoom doesn't center the timeline anymore with control surfaces. What a backwards downgrade that update was

On 5/15/2020 at 5:26 PM, Morten Saether said:

When zooming with the mouse wheel or CTRL+LEFT/RIGHT ARROW shortcuts, if the Now Time is currently within view, its position will be retained while zooming. If the Now Time is not present in the view, the zoom behavior is unchanged.

How do we disable this? This makes it a pain in the butt to use my wheel for zooming vertically . The old way was more efficient. When you zoom with a wheel like the Advid Artist, its more efficient to have the zoom in the center of the screen, following the time line

14 hours ago, brandon said:

When i tried to record a 2nd audio track in a new audio track using the same settings (i.e. 1st input and 1st output) from the Focusrite  there was just silence. No wav file was recorded.  Is this a feature or a bug?

Have you selected the "1st input" as you call it, for the new track you want to record in? 

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On 5/20/2020 at 4:33 PM, Frank DeFede said:

 

On 5/20/2020 at 4:33 PM, Frank DeFede said:

I thought I had 22 songs recorded, mixed, and ready to release, but I am concerned about the output level.  For some reason, I have gotten into the habit of pushing the level as high as possible without clipping using a Brick Wall compressor.  The mixes sound good, but I brought in  reference tracks of other commercial mixes like Bill Joel, Maroon 5, country artist, etc. and they all seem to be much lower than my mixes.  

I think I may be pushing it too hard.  What is the general acceptable level on the meters?  Most of my mixes are all the way to the top, but without clipping.  Any suggestions are most welcome.  I hate to do it, but I think I may have to remix everything again.

Thanks

 

Frank, a good target to go by is to be between -12 to -14 LUFS and leave about -0.5 to -0.3 Below 0dB for conversion errors.

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I usually leave -3 dB headroom for conversion to mp3 and other formats.  Conversion can redline a 0 dB track.

Alan, 3dB is a little bit of overkill. 0.5 to 0.3dB on your final master  is sufficient for any kind of conversion errors. If you have a track at -3dB PEAK and you convert to another format and your signal reaches 0dB as you stated, then that conversion program is a POS

You need to go into the Preference Menu and select 'Share drivers with other programs"

Adjust your ASIO buffer until it stops doing it.  There are no one setting for all with buffers.

What audio interface are you using?

What driver mode is it set to?

What are the  buffer settings (ASIO) for your audio driver

Most glitches like that are caused by the driver settings. It can also be that your hard drive is not spinning at 7200RPM or higher./ Do you have a dedicated audio drive for audio only?

BUMPS

1 hour ago, David Bracken said:

new to the whole DAW scean, 
I have my focusrite 2i2 connected to cakewalk and its working fine
I am now trying to connect my roland td-50 drum module, which I can see in the preferences/devices/input drivers but cant select. How do I solve this.

The Roland TD  Drum module is not an audio interface. you can hook it up with either of these 3 ways.:

1. You can hook it up with MIDI
2. You can hook it up with audio.
3. You can hook it up both ways to transmit MIDI and audio

For MIDI, you can use the 5 pIn MIDI out into your 5 PIN MIDI in of your audio interface. if it has one. Or you can hook it up via USB.

For audio, you take 2 1/4" cables and connect therm to 2 inputs of your audio interface and set the appropriate levels in your audio interface.

The MIDI connection is to transmit MIDI data. It has no sounds and is used to trigger soft synths in your DAW or hardware synths.

The audio is sound and will transmit thew TD drum sounds into your DAW

CJ

12 hours ago, reginaldStjohn said:

There is also an option to Recycle the plugin windows or open a new one.

That doesn't work, that is why i am having the problem. As far as pining, that doesn't work for my work flow.

These features worked before in past updates, but this recent update messed with something.

8 hours ago, Guitar Flame said:

Hello! I want to recording my guitar over a backing track and i dont know how to do this. Is there any tutorial about it? Thanks.

What gear and audio interface e do you have and how do you plan on recording your guitar?

Are you going to mic your guitar cabinet? Use outboard amp sims? Go in clean and use amp sims? Does your audio interface have H-Z inputs?

All this will help determine the best way forward for you.

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So I didn't change anything in settings and in my audio confing, system etc. but I reinstalled ASIO and Cakewalk recently (clear intallation, I'm sure that there are no any conflicts in system).

Well you actually did change the setting, you changed all of them when you did a install of your audio interface drivers and an new install of Cakewalk. All your settings may have changed.

After you re-installed your audio interface drivers, did you configure the ASIO settings?

What audio interface do you have?

Did you manually set up Cakewalk so that the project data is streamed and stored on a separate hard drive tat sins at least 7200 RPM?

I noticed that when i zoom in and out with my control surface (Advid Artist), it doesn't center ware the timeline is anymore. It used to, but not with this latest update.

The other issue i am seeing is when i open a new effect, it 'sometimes' erases the old one from the screen and 'sometimes' it keeps it. It's not consistent and i think i have the settings so i can display more than one effect at a time, but that would not explain the randomous of it. 

both issues are with every project, not just one project.

6 hours ago, Davydh said:

I want to know will this go away with a fast computer?

I never heard any delays form doing parallel compression or any other kind of effect processing while mixing. So i am sure its your PC and may be even your sound card settings or lack of having a dedicated sound card with good drivers written for DAW's

Why would you think the tuning would change? It wont if you click CTL /Shift at the same time (SPLAT)while dragging the left bottom corner (left or right to speed or slow down) of the clip. you can and the tuning will be the same. In Sonar PLat its CTL/ALT and you drag the bottom right corner.

You are mucho welcomo

Increase your sound card buffers. 

Install the latest drivers for your sound card. 

Make sure you have a dedicated audio interface. Onboard sound chips just do not have enough to drive Cakewalk

6 hours ago, chamlin said:

Sonar Platinum first, then Cakewalk, right?

Yes, if you want to use some features/effects from SONAR Plat

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Where do I find the latest version of SPLAT? Do I download the old Command Center here? 

It should install the latest version of SPLAT

6 hours ago, chamlin said:

2.  Cakewalk should be easy, just log in to my account, install Bandlab and go from there, right?

Yes, after you install SONAR Plat. But nothing is ever easy, right

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3.  Is there an easy way to export a list of settings or do I need to create screenshots of every option and preference page?

Screen shots will work

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Hmm, I probably need to install my Focusrite 18i8 first, right?

Yes, this way when SPLAT installs, it will see it

21 hours ago, Bob Savage said:

I have been trying keep the 18i20 preamps set as low as possible thinking that would keep coloring of the signal by the 18i20 as low as possible.

Interfaces like the one you have and many others will not color the sound. They are mostly very sterile. You need to use all gain stages to dial in the proper gain. 

15 hours ago, Joel Ainsworth said:

Why does the effect send operate normally when I solo an individual track, but seems to not function when I solo a bus with an identical effect send?

If i am understanding you correctly, it is because the solo works for that specific track or bus. when you solo a track, the track has the actual audio on it and when you solo just a bus, the bus just has an effect and no actual audio on it. The audio is coming form the track. That is why..

Are both of the MIDI ins and outs enabled in the MIDI preference menu?

Also, make sure both are turned on and also make sure windows see's them before opening Cakewalk. 

27 minutes ago, david innes said:

been through preferences got to the bit where it says add track and click on the + box  i find in the input setting it just say none 

can anyone help please 

Have you defined your audio interface in Cakewalk. what driver mode is enabled in Cakewalk?  An audio interface is Something like a MOTU or Focusrite or RME.  Lets say you hve a MOTU interface, you would go to MOTU's website and install their latest drivers onto your PC. Then you would run the wave profiler in Cakewalk to set up your audio interface, making sure all the ins and outs are enabled and if you have something like a MOTU, then i using ASIO driver mode. But i do not know what you have, you never stated, so try all and see what works best for your pc and DAW

On 1/2/2020 at 8:28 AM, Dusan Sustarsic said:

Hi to all members,

  I'm new to this forum and use Sonar as my home recording studio.
You have probably already dealt with the problem what I haw in the forum, for which I apologize. Namely, when exporting recordet material like Mp3 or WAV , this file is played in the widows player very quietly.
I do not find a solution to this problem. I use an ASIO driver in Sonar and a Focusritte Scarlet 18i8 USB 1 gen. as a playback and record device.
I ask for advice on how to resolve the issue.
Thank you

You need to mix so you can get it loud enough when you master it.  you need to master it to the proper LUFS levels. You can use RMS, but LUFS is more accurate as those meters usually come with short and long term peak reading and that helps a lot.

If you want to be as loud as everyone else, you need to do what everyone else does

3 hours ago, reza sadeghi said:

Hi guys, I recently upgraded my windows 8.1 to 10. Now I get lots of pops and crackles on lower buffer size .  Even playing a simple YouTube  causes the same problem .  I always record my projects on 96 khz , so I put windows sound setting on 96khz too to prevent any sample rate conflict when I am using sonar and for example playing something on YouTube. I never had this problem with windows 8.1. I already did all the performance setting on my win10 and mobo but still the same.

I have Intel  i7 4770k , Asus sabertooth z87, 24 GB ram and SSD for C drive and my audio device is Orion Studio HD.

I am just wondering if someone has the same experience.

Thanks for any help

A couple things to consider. If the project is big, it will need lots of resources and maybe a lower buffer size is not going to work with your current sound card and its drivers. 

Another thing, If you are using the on-board sound chip, you will not get as good performance, as if you were to use a sound card make for audio recording/production, like form MOTU, RME, Focusrite and so on. On-board sound chips are cheaply made and do not have the drivers written for them to handle such task and that includes the circuitry of the on-board sound chips as well, they are not made for using with a DAW.