msmcleod

I sounds like Spire is generating MIDI events which are being picked up by the subsequent recording. You've two options: 1. Disable MIDI output on Spire by going to the drop down menu at the top of the synth's dialog; or 2. On the track you're recording on, make sure your MIDI input is only set to your controller keyboard instead of "All Inputs".

If you've got audio clips with automation, and you're changing tempo without stretching those clips to match the tempo, then you need to make sure your automation timebase is set at Absolute. e.g.:

Yeah, I think I'll raise one. Thanks for checking it out though - it's good to know I'm not the only one with the issue.

An analyzer may give you an indication as to where frequencies are dominant (or not), but that's really only any use when you know what you're looking for (i.e. you can hear something bad, but not sure where it might be). It can also be useful if two instruments aren't fitting well together, as you can identify where their common frequencies are. But in all honesty, visual tools can lead you down a rabbit hole where you're cutting/boosting frequencies for no good reason at all, and in the end it just sounds awful. My best advice is... use your ears, not your eyes!

Two jumped out at me right away. PAD Man at the corner LED Birdland

I upgraded and almost immediately reverted back to 2.9.8 as a few of the presets are totally messed up.

Cakewalk attempts to recover from dropouts during playback, depending on the DropoutMSec setting in your configuration file. This isn't the case for recording where dropouts aren't tolerated because you don't want glitches in your recording. Plugin UI's should really be designed to be as lightweight as possible (CPU wise) rather than be focused on maximum eye-candy.

https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=AudioPerformance.24.html

When importing audio, take note of this setting: If it's checked, then the audio will be inserted at the timestamp embedded within the audio. This is useful if you've exported clips from another DAW that all start at different times, so this setting will preserve their start time. If you want the audio to be inserted at drop location, leave this option unchecked. Note that not all waveforms have time-stamps embedded, but if you do drag a wave file into your project and can't see it, it's likely this setting that has caused it to be inserted later on in the project.

Although the (+/=) key will toggle between the last edit filter and the clips, SHIFT + (+/=) will toggle between the clip gain automation and clips. SHIFT + (+/=) doesn't alter the "last edit filter", so you can use it to access clip gain automation regardless of what the non-shift version has set as it's last filter. Typically I use (+/=) to toggle between track volume and clips, and SHIFT + (+/=) to toggle between clip gain automation and clips.

Click on the clip to select it, then press SHIFT + G - the now time will go to the start of the clip.

I'd need to look into the practicalities of this. I'm on vacation at the moment in any case, so it'll have to wait until the new year.

I've gotta go for D minor:

It's worth mentioning however, that CbB can also send out multiple CC's and/or note events for a single articulation, so the problem they're describing in the article isn't actually an issue for CbB. For example, for sustain & legato you have two choices: 1. Create a Sus & Legato articulation that sends out both F0 & A#0; or 2. Create separate Sustain and Legato articulations, but put them in different groups. For Cinematic Studio Strings you can actually do this all in one CC message ( CC#56 by default). However if you do use this method, make sure Chase mode is set to "Full" (this mode was actually created specifically for CSS's CC#56 behaviour).

Yes - I did this for a project using TTS-1. I put the legato strings on Ch 1, pizzicato on Ch 2, and tremolo on Ch 3. I then set up my articulation map as follows: This is only transforming notes however - you'll need to add an additional transform for CC events if you need that too (basically exactly the same, but with "CC" in both "Kind" dropdowns).

The "Out of Memory" error is what Windows reports when a MIDI device is open by another application.

Right click on the track - you'll find it in the context menu: If you're using a workspace, you'll probably have to re-saving your workspace after changing the default height, else it'll revert back to what is stored in the workspace.

The latest public version is 4.65.5.68 which AFAIK was released a month or two ago. I had to update to this after upgrading to Windows 20H2, as the older 4.63 / 4.64 drivers were giving me a BSOD on boot. There is actually a 4.87.4.709 beta release as well, which is VERY new.

@Mark Nicholson - if you're just starting out, to be honest any decent mic will do. @bitflipper mentioned the BBC... a lot of the presenters are doing their interviews etc from home nowadays. I saw one a couple of days ago (forget which show it was, but I think it was the news) and the BBC interviewer was using an Rode NT-1. This is a great general use LDC mic, and will work well with your Model 12. Assuming you've got a half decent mic, you can get about 95% of the way there with a noise gate plugin, a compressor, and some EQ. If you just want to use what's already "in the box", try the following: 1. Put the "Gate" style dial at the top of the ProChannel chain, and adjust it so it removes any background noise while you're not speaking. If the "attack" portion of your voice is being altered, you've turned it up too much. 2. Have the PC-76 compressor next, and start with one of the vocal presets to try to even out your voice. You don't want anything too harsh here. If you've got the PC-2A, or the CA-2A you could try using that instead. Try altering the input until you get the sound you want, remembering to adjust the output to compensate for any drastic drop in volume due to the compression. If you can't quite get what you want here, or you're finding it a bit too harsh, try going back to the preset and adjust the dry/wet control. 3. Have the ProChannel EQ next, and pick the "Vocals - Broadcasting Podcasting Dialog" preset. For this preset, adjust the low frequency gain to taste. In the past I've had great results with the voice-over preset in Nectar Elements - this was an early version though, so I'm not sure if Nectar 3 Elements has the same preset ( I think it has a wizard instead, which is probably better tbh).

Windows gives an "Out of Memory" error message when a MIDI device is already in use by another application.

Yes - left click! sorry !

This is how I do it: 1. I use the keyboard shortcut to toggle to the envelope mode ( e.g. + [or also \ on a UK keyboard] for track volume, or with SHIFT as well for clip-gain automation) 2. I right click/drag at the bottom half to make a selection. 3. I then right click from the top of the clip to drag the selection down.

There's nothing stopping you using something like VNC though. I've got a small nettop I use in the house for various small server tasks (e.g. email, source control etc). It runs VNC server on it. I've found it's actually far easier to connect to a VNC enabled device with an apple device than remote desktop, and for Windows it makes pretty much no difference. A lot of VNC solutions are free, but if you're accessing it remotely (i.e. from a public network, rather than your LAN) you might want to get a paid version for the added encryption. The other thing that you get with Pro is the ability to run VM's using VirtualPC. IIRC VirtualPC won't run on Home edition. Again, Home edition will run Oracle's VirtualBox without issue... and in fact, I prefer VirtualBox because its USB support is far better than VirtualPC.

When using the PC4K S-Type Bus compressor on a track, and enabling the side chain, it appears for me as the following:

Same here - I notice no difference at all between Pro & Home in CbB, performance or otherwise.