Jamie Rosen

thanks! I tried it and it seems to work well without dropouts. One issue/question. I'd prefer not to group all the tracks together, because then it's hard for me to drop a track out at the end (I want to substitute my guitar part for the backing track's guitar part, after playing along with all tracks at the reduced speed). So, is there any problem with just skipping the tracks/bounce step and just selecting all tracks and process the length to them as a group? It seems to work well at quick try, but I thought I'd check if there's a better way to do this. thanks!!!

thanks for the input. I checked and all clips are set to musical time. As for overdoing it, I would get dropouts even trying to reduce speed by 10%. As for finding midi file, that won't do, as it's not simple backing track I'm using; it's a multitrack that I disaggegate in the CW DAW, which allows me to not only play over the backing track, but also to swap out my tracks for the original (e.g., I lay down my own rhythm guitar track and mute or pull out the original; I add my own lead track, etc.). So, that's also why I need a multitrack option like CW and not a simple DJ app. Any other clues would be appreciated! thx!

I use Cakewalk to help practice and record guitar over backing tracks from NowYouShred (amazing tracks) and often need to slow down the tracks until I get my chops up. But, I'm having an impossible time figuring out how to successfully do so on CW. I found the option of using audiosnap and "clip follows project," and then adjusting the BPM downward up in the counter area. This works for about 5-10 seconds, until I get a dropout error. It's always #1, which tells me to change change the buffer size, but that has not been successful, even when I move the slider all the way to "safe" (and it creates unworkable latency). I ultimately resorted to trying to slow the tracks before importing to CW using https://audiotrimmer.com/audio-speed-changer/, but that's a real pain. So, does anyone have any genius ideas? I'm surprised this is so hard, since slowing audio while maintaining pitch is such a common tool across so many platforms (youtube, slowdowners, etc.). I have a pretty powerful laptop that I work off of (Dell G7 gaming laptop), so it's hard for me to believe that my computer is too weak/slow. I use the iRigHD as my interface, so I'm not sure if that may be the issue (I could use another interface if needed). Finally, if CW is just not a good fit for this sort of guitar pratice and recording over backing tracks, I'd love to hear other recommendations for a windows laptop. I just need a very simple mutlitrack recorder/DAW (I switched to CW after Cubase was making me crazy). thanks!!!!