CJ Jacobson

3 hours ago, philfranklin said:

I have a new GT-1 Guitar pedal. It shows up as an input Ok in Cakewalk on the track.  When I record, the wave forms look fine on the track as I'm recording, but as soon as I stop recording, the wave forms distort and it completely messes up the sound on playback.

Whats going on?  

 

I used to use Sonar with my old ME-25 unit without issues

 

Is this GT pedal hooked up to your audio interfaces input?  It should be as you do not want to have 2 audio interfaces trying to fight over control, if it snot set up correctly.

What levels does it show in the audio interfaces cue mix and in Cakewlak?

2 hours ago, Mike Hockin said:

Also, this is not a clip with with just one instrument or vocal track; it's an entire mix.  Would this matter?

I have done entire mixes (stereo wav file) from 88bpm to 110bpm whit no artifacts, so it doesnt matter

In the new Cakewalk version, you would hit CTL and Shift and then click the bottom left corner of the clip and drag it out with your mouse.

With SONAR Platinum, i'm pretty sure its you click CTL and ALT and click the bottom right corner of the clip and drag it out with your mouse

3 hours ago, martsave martin s said:

does anyone know of a "pure" sustain plug in?

NO, but a compressor is used all the time to make sound sustain.

Just now, Misha said:

will a single File->Save click will save all VST parameters in all scenes that were changed? Or  I have to pay attention to something particular?

The save function saves for the entire project, not just certain parts or scenes of a project. Its global. 

Just try saving and see if both scenes are saved

18 hours ago, jono grant said:

Thanks. The dropoutmsec setting is set to 250. What would you suggest raising it to?

Try raising it in small increments until it stops, this might help fix it.

As i said,  drop outs are usually cause by your audio interface's drivers and how they are set and how good they are written, so you need to set up your ASIO buffers or WDM slider settings to what ever settings are optimal for you and your project at hand.

There are no best settings, you have to experiment and find what works for you, your sound card drivers and your projects.

On 12/24/2019 at 10:50 PM, jono grant said:

Hey, I'm getting the odd dropout, very quick and  occasionally in Cakewalk.  I'm on a new Win 10 computer using UAD thunderbolt Apollos.

The computer is overclocked, It's a 3.60 GHz but it's been overclocked to 4.73 GHz

Has anyone heard of issues in Cakewalk with overclocked computers?

Overclocking will not cause dropouts in Cakewalk or any other DAW.

Dropouts are caused by the CPU load being too high and the audio cannot be buffered within the  buffer rate you set it to.  This can be because of your audio sound card drivers not being at a setting that is efficient for that specific Cakewalk project you have open at that specific time. In other words, raise your buffers to keep up with the current work-load.

FYI: There is also a setting in the aud.ini file that deals with how Cakewalk dropouts. Its called the 'dropoutmsec' or something close to that. You may want to raise that setting.

2 hours ago, Royarn said:

Anyone here managed to get one of these workink with CbB. looking for instructions Thanks

Roy

What are you having trouble with? hooking it up? Triggering MIDI so a soft synth can make sound or Triggering it through a hardware synth? Controlling Velocity? Triggering loops? Latency?

Your welcome

19 minutes ago, razor7music said:

Thinking of asking for W10 for Christmas. Anyone done an in-place upgrade from 7 to 10 and everything was cool with your CW projects?

CW projects do not have nothing to do with the OS, so it doesn't matter if you are using Win98 or Win10 as long as your PC and all its peripheries (sound card and such) have drivers and support Win 10

CJ

7 hours ago, kday said:

Is there a way to downgrade to a lower OS, the new update is slow acting. The scroll line jumps and skips to the music. I tried editing the latency, but still the same. Didn't do this before the update.

There is or there used to be a CPU option that does exactly what you are describing. Are you sure that option is not enabled? 

Also, what audio interface do you have. When you update your OS, you need to install different drivers for your audio interface in most cases. so it can be 2 of these things

You can cut the pieces of audio ware you want the tempo changed and there is a option to speed up slow the tempo, by hitting the CTL/Shift keys  (I think its CTL/Shift or maybe its ATL/Shift) and right clicking the right bottom corner and stretching it or making the clip smaller will change the tempo.

IIRC ,i think that show you do it

2 hours ago, Leizer said:

have been mixing a christmas song we recorded with our bluegrass band, and the mix was ok, but it is too dynamic (weak in the start/loud in the end). Is there a quick fix for this to even out the mix in the mastering stage and it still sounds nice? I haven't got the time for a re-mix.

That is really not something done in mastering. In the mastering stage, the mix is ready with the mix sounds  the way you wan it to sound, like the levels between the chorus and verse or intro and verse. 

In the mastering stage you either work with a stereo wav file  or 2 split mono file, so you can use volume automation to fix the levels between the different parts of the song (intro, verse, bridge, chorus, outro), but its always best to do those things in the mixing stage.

It seems like it stops 1 to 2 seconds after i hear the first click. Depending on your PC's power and hard drive, it can take a second for it to stop. 

Also, when you click 10 times in 1 seconds, like a machine gun, you can be overloading some things in the PC. Its not good to do that in my opinion.

8 minutes ago, Pascal Auger said:

i also noticed "the vertical white line who follow playback" is now moving steady when tempo change,

Maybe because the tracks themselves  are changing in length.

Also you have audio that looks like the 'groove clipping' has been enabled to it and the other video is MIDI. 2 different things.

MIDI follows project tempo and audio doesn't.

Could it be that the trial version is a limited version that doesn't has all the functions?

This plugin is really not for live vocals. so are you trying to do it with live vocals?

One other thing, Autotune is not a plug and play effect, Its complicated and it can take some time to know how to tune vocals.  you may have to sit with it for a week and watch some videos to learn how to use it to its full extent

9 hours ago, Gerry 1943 said:

I presently have a project with 2 guitar audio tracks and I am thinking of maybe adding however I have a problem.

For one reason or other I can only get the sound to come from the left side. If I try to pan to the right side...silence.

What might I be doing wrong?

 

Thank you in advance for any info.

Regards.

 

Guitar is mono in nature and if you recorded a Mono guitar track onto a Stereo track in Cakewalk, you will have one side that is silent (flat-lined)

Look at the track and is it a stereo track and do  both sides (channels) of that stereo track have a waveform? If one side is flat-lined and one side has the guitar track on it, then when you pan it to the side without the guitar track, no sound will be heard from that side

No, its not possible in Bandlab

On 11/21/2019 at 8:53 AM, Jerry Freese said:

I had always been taught compressor should go first

There are no right or wrong order for and EQ, compressor and any other effect you use. The right order is the order that gives you your desired sound.

Maybe you want the boosted frequencies form an EQ to be compressed, sop you would place the EQ before the compressor. OR maybe you do not want the boosted frequencies compressed, so you would place the EQ after the compressor. Maybe you want the lower frequencies compressed and the higher boosted frequencies not compressed, so you would have an EQ before and after the compressor. 

There are no rules to effect order. You, your ears and your personnel preferences decide the order, not some Joe Blow that says "you have to do this and that." That is BS in my book....

CJ

12 hours ago, SynthManDan said:

I have an older Gateway All in One computer I used to use, and was curious if Cakewalk will run on it.

Install it and see if it works with what you want to do with it. We can guess and tell you the minimum requirements to run this program, but the only way to know for sure is to see for yourself and see if it will run good enough for you , for what you want to do with it. 

There really is no right or wrong way to process a mono track to a stereo or mono bus.

The right way is thew way that sounds best for you and the wrong way is the way it doesn't sound its best in that context of that specific mix. 

The same guitar track may sound better in one mix if you send it to a mono bus with a delay and that same guitar track may sound better in another snog being sent to a stereo bus with a delay. It all depends on ware you want the guitar sound coming form in the 3D mix (sound stage). do you want it coming form the back left corner or from the middle right side of the 3D stereo field.

14 hours ago, jim johnston said:

I have run into the problem of recording multiple instruments and when played back the they are out of sink..so could anyone give me some feedback

on how to resolve this issue?

Assuming you have a dedicated audio interface and assuming you downloaded and installed its latest drivers you probably just need to define those drivers in Cakewalk. Most interfaces do better with ASIO driver mode, but try all of them, except MME to see what works best for you and your DAW.

You are going to be getting a plethora of reasons because of the lack of info you gave. so please list: your audio interface, driver mode, driver settings, pc specs, any plugins you are using and your entire recording signal chain (although this is very much a sound card/interface that has not been set up related issue or lack of having a audio interface))

I'm glad you solved it, it maybe could have been something like a track lane being muted, that you cannot see in the track view, unless you select to view it manually

10 hours ago, Gswitz said:

Do you have more than one interface? Why?

Yes, I have 2 as of now. Why? Because your audio interface, just like everything else, can go at anytime and if you are in the middle of a session, you need to have a back-up ready to go. 

First, go into the tempo map and make sure the tempo is correct.

2nd, Freeze the MIDI and associated audio track that outputs it or Freeze the Instrument track

3rd, highlight the timeline you want to export (Beat 1 measure 1 to measure 2)

4th, There is no 4th, you are done.  FYI, Sometimes you need to start a project that has MIDI on Beat 1 Measure 2 and not beat 1 measure 1.