Torbjörn Lundberg

20 hours ago, John Vere said:

Your issue is probably  related to how your audio interface ASIO drivers handle switching sample rates and other details.

 

Thank you!

Setting sample rate to 44,1 kHz help. So far anyway

Torbjörn 

31 minutes ago, John Vere said:

Your issue is probably  related to how your audio interface ASIO drivers handle switching sample rates and other details.
Example is my Focusrite interface has always worked no matter what I do it plays the audio from different apps and the internet even with Cakewalk open.

My Motu interface doesn’t like sharing. It seems mostly to do with sample rate. So I have started using only 48 hz and for the most part, I have fewer issues,  but it doesn’t work as smoothly as the Focusrite.
 

Watch tutorial #1 and see if some  of those settings help. 

 

 

Nice! I will sure watch that.

Hope it helps 

Torbjörn 

2 minutes ago, Torbjörn Lundberg said:

Hi

Which post shows mw how to do what I want to do? Let the loaded vst instrument play the midi information that I have?

Is it doable. 

Importing a few midi tracks in a midi file and let them play a vst instrument, set/changed directly in the output. As shown above.

It would be much easier than importing/opening a single vst instrument for each midi track and than copy the midi signals for every track.

Am I thinking in the wrong way here?

 

Torbjörn 

My fault.

Missed it 105! Thank you.

🙂

2 minutes ago, msmcleod said:

Yes, you can do that.  Just insert a new synth, and change the output of the MIDI track to that synth.

Aha! 

That have I tried as step one. Felt natural.

Didn't work.

Strange...

Torbjörn 

1 hour ago, John Vere said:

I updated my post to include the proper link to my tutorials. But because people reposted it a few times I can’t fix those. The tutorial I made that has clear instructions on one way ( the easiest) to do this. It is found in video # 105 Importing Midi. The title was on purposely wrong as it’s actually about Opening a midi file. 

 

Hi

Which post shows mw how to do what I want to do? Let the loaded vst instrument play the midi information that I have?

Is it doable. 

Importing a few midi tracks in a midi file and let them play a vst instrument, set/changed directly in the output. As shown above.

It would be much easier than importing/opening a single vst instrument for each midi track and than copy the midi signals for every track.

Am I thinking in the wrong way here?

Torbjörn 

1 hour ago, msmcleod said:

Yes, you can do that however:

1. It requires knowledge of how MIDI tracks / soft synths are routed, and
2. Most new users just want the track to be an single instrument track, rather than separate MIDI / synth tracks.

Having separate MIDI / synth tracks makes for a more complex project ( up to double the track count ), and can cause confusion for new users. 
 

I only wanted to play the existing MIDI track with an vst instrument.  As with the TTS-1 that is created when importing/opening a midi file.

The easiest way I thought was to change instrument via output.

In what way should that cause any more trouble than if using the TTS-1?

For me it feels natural to have an instrument and than just let the midi signals go via that sound.

Isn't that doable the way I find I natural?

1 hour ago, msmcleod said:

@Torbjörn Lundberg - there are a lot of different ways to do this, as detailed in this thread - but I admit the explanations are a bit daunting for new users.

For new users, I'd recommend doing the following:

1. Create a new Kontakt instrument track for the track you want to change, then move that track so it's underneath the old MIDI track.
2. Select everything in the old MIDI track by clicking on the track number, then hold down SHIFT and drag the MIDI clip selection to your new Kontakt track (holding down SHIFT stops the MIDI clips moving left/right in time when you're dragging).
3. Delete the old MIDI track.

I appreciate there'll be a bunch of users who think "Why, when you could just do X,Y, Z.....",  but this method is simple and easy to understand for new users.

There are definitely more efficient ways of doing this, especially if you're going to be changing all of your tracks to share a single Kontakt instance, but this should at least get you up and running.
 

Thank you @msmcleod

Actually I tested that. It works. 

I was used to Cubase. A few years ago since I did any of this with any software, so I might remember incorrectly. I think in Cubase you can/could assign/connect midi data at the output bus. Obviously this isn't working in CW even though there's a vst instrument able to handle the data.

Probably therefore (naturally for me) I tried this way.

Is there any plans to implement this feature? (As I was trying to do. Maybe it's a crazy idea?)

I might be completely way out walking in my own head, mixing up this. Was it possible in Cubase? I don't know. Been a few years, as said...

I'll guess it's just to get on trying out more with CW.

(Now if anyone could help me with my other issue I would be happy as ever)

Torbjörn 

I've read all this and do not quite understand it.

I made a arrengment in musescore and wanted better sounds than MS could present. Therefore I exported to midi and open it in CW. CW assigns TTS-1 to play the midi. But how can I after inserted a soft synthetic, in this case am instance of Kontakt, route the midi to that instrument? Why isn't it possible to in the output use the Kontakt synth?

I want better trumpet sound than musescore or TTS-1 got.

That means that you can't afterwords can't change instrument/sound on a midi channel this way?

How to assign a midi chanel a new sound/instrument/vst synth the right way?

Hey!
I'm a fairly new user of Cakewalk, but have experience from other DAWs.

I have some problems with the software.
Since I'm new to this, I want to watch video tutorials to learn. I found the setting to drop the priority Cakewalk takes over other programs.
For me, it does not help. There is no sound from e.g. youtube.com, the video does not move either.
Everything stand and buffers.
It doesn't help closing Cakewalk to be able to watch a youtube video. I need to restart my PC.  
If this cant't be solved I probably need to buy me a version of another DAW.  

Is there a solution?
Anyone else  with this issue?
Anything that I've missed?

I have also noticed that the CW in some contexts locks the possibility of starting other programs.
My computer is hopefully fast enough:

Windows 11 (up to date, swedish version) 
Processor Intel (R) Core (TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 3201 Mhz, 6 cores, 12 logic processors
Installed physical memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
25 GB SSD disk
Presonus AudioBox iTwo

Picture 1: Playback and recording from Cakewalk
Picture 2: The buffer symbol indicating nothing is happening: 

Thanks you for helping

Torbjörn