badt1mes

Thank you, I will look into it.

19 minutes ago, IgoRr said:

 unless you yourself put a "Marker" at the 3rd minute, and mark it as "end of project".

4 minutes ago, David Baay said:

More commonly, if you have the shorter clip selected when you initiate the export, that selection becomes the default export length. For that and other reasons, it's best to hit Ctrl+Shift+A to de-select all before starting an export of an entire project. Before Start and End Markers were introduced, I generally used a punch or loop region to define the export range.

Aha! That's what I did. I believe I placed an end marker at the end of the shorter track so when I went to export, it cut off the longer one. That would likely leave at least two solutions to my problem, cut all the tracks to the same length or set the end marker to the longer track.

Either way, I already solved my issue. I was just trying to help the OP pinpoint theirs.

Seems like a simple question. I would like to run a DAW computer offline, no internet, anti virus, firewall, etc. Is this possible with ANY of the current Cakewalk products? Or will I always need to have my machine connected?

4 minutes ago, IgoRr said:

This is absolutely impossible, neither Cakewalk nor Sonar have such a setting, unless you yourself put a "Marker" at the 3rd minute, and mark it as "end of project". If you did not perform these actions, then Sonar itself will not implement such a scenario under any circumstances. I always have all tracks of different lengths, and such incidents have never happened in more than 30 years.

You're right, maybe I misunderstood

My bad, post deleted

On 9/11/2024 at 6:08 PM, Base 57 said:

Earlier I said Clip Group. That is incorrect.

1. On the tracks you wish to edit, Set the Edit Filter to "Clip Gain".

2. Set the time range by Click-Dragging across all of the clips, or by dragging across the Timeline, or drag select on one clip then Cntrl-Click the other Track Numbers.

3. Adjust the envelope on one of the selected clips.

 

Okay, I got the Clip Gain envelopes working and reduced the metal clangs back down to quiet squeaks. Thank you so much, I am very satisfied with the results.

The only thing is that while I figured out how to raise or lower the gain on one clip and have all the parallel clips do the same, I tried to place nodes to lower the gain in a very small portion of the wave form but the other clips did not follow suit. No problem though. I just went in a manually added the nodes to each track, one at a time. Worked out great. Thanks again!

4 hours ago, Base 57 said:

Earlier I said Clip Group. That is incorrect.

1. On the tracks you wish to edit, Set the Edit Filter to "Clip Gain".

2. Set the time range by Click-Dragging across all of the clips, or by dragging across the Timeline, or drag select on one clip then Cntrl-Click the other Track Numbers.

3. Adjust the envelope on one of the selected clips.

 

Thank you for the details, I will definitely implement your instruction. I really appreciate you taking the time in light of the weather wherever you are. I hope you guys are safe.

1 minute ago, Base 57 said:

This is a job for Clip Gain Envelopes. 

Very good point, thank you. I've been teetering on the edge of a youtube rabbit hole regarding the subject of eliminating minimizing acoustic guitar finger squeak. Some of them talk about automating EQ or buying a plugin made specifically for this task or clip gain envelopes.

I do have a question about them. Since the squeaks appear on 3 tracks, does CbB have a way to group the tracks together so I only have to place an envelope on one track while the other two adopt the same envelope events?

On 9/10/2024 at 9:04 AM, Helios.G said:

Why don't you just delete the offending sections and fill it in with copy paste from a section without the problem?

Thank you for your idea. At first I thought it might work until I found 5 more squeaks. Unfortunately the vocals, guitar, and banjo were tracked live so the copy/pasta is unpossible. Since the instruments aren't isolated, it poses a problem and when I found 5 more squeaks, the problem got bigger.

On 9/10/2024 at 2:14 AM, Promidi said:

You say that “ duplicated the bass track, set a quick delay on one of them, and hard panned them L and R”

Is this delay’s delay time synced to the DAW's tempo.

Do you have any tempo changes in your track?

With some delays that are synced to the DAW’s tempo, changing tempos while the delay is active can do this.

Thank you for helping troubleshoot this issue. I returned to the original raw recording and the squeaks existed before the bass was overdubbed. And yes, I have begun using plural. When I went back and started reviewing things more closely, I found 5 more squeaks like this one. I've placed a marker at each one.

Hello. I'm mixing a song: vocals, acoustic guitar x2, bass x2, and banjo = 6 tracks. With a little help, I was able to overcome a small obstacle and got the song exported to mp3. Upon reviewing the mp3 I heard a slight quack at 3:31. I thought it seemed a little loud for finger squeak so went back to the project and sho nuff, the quack is even louder and when I loop it, it sounds like John Henry's hammer pounding a railroad spike. What amazes me is that the sound didn't seem to bother me before the QC. I must have chalked it down as guitar finger squeak.

Now that I established there is indeed an unexplainable sound, I started soloing tracks to isolate it. Right at 3:31, the wave forms of all the instruments but the bass show a bump. The song was tracked live except for the bass, which was overdubbed later. So upon listening, the sound clangs on all the instruments but the bass. To spread things out, I duplicated the bass track, set a quick delay on one of them, and hard panned them L and R. The quack loud on both guitars (mic quack is a little louder than line in), not quite as loud on the vocal track, and faint but noticeable on the banjo track (pickup, not miked). I understand mic bleed over but the sound also appears on two lined in tracks, which mystifies me. It's almost as if it is an equipment or software glitch that permeates all the tracks but the ones that were overdubbed.

When I turned to automation volume envelopes, I really dug in. I placed an enveloped on each track the sound appeared on. Eventually I dropped down to -INF a couple seconds before and after the sound. Still coming through. Has anyone ever experienced something like this? Thanks everyone.

5 hours ago, Glenn Stanton said:

check your export settings. you need to include all the tracks that feed the master buss. make sure none are muted. then save it as a task once it's working correctly. then just run the task whenever you need to export.

Thank you. I went in and deleted some muted tracks I no longer needed and exported Entire Mix instead of individually selected option Tracks to Entire Mix. It worked. However, listening to the mp3 helped uncover a bigger problem. New thread to come...

Title pretty much explains it. I have previously been successful exporting mixes to mp3 for review. I record at 48 Hz / 24 bit and dither down to 44.1 Hz / 16 bit upon export. This song has the most tracks I've mixed at 6, most of my others have 2 or 3. I have vocals, banjo, 2x guitar, and 2x bass. When I export to mp3, only the bass comes through on my Windows Media Player. I've exported to WAV with the same results.

If I had to guess, either something is off on my bus inputs or maybe I accidentally clicked a button in some settings somewhere. I'm attaching a screenshot of my console view. Any help?

After more listens, I decided the EQ adjustment worked with all the vocals. Instead of EQing one word here and there, I went ahead and applied it to the whole track because it helps the enunciation of lyrics come through.

Thanks everyone!

This song I am mixing has some words where the 'r' sound is not coming through very well in a few words. Creek sounds like ceek and gray sounds like gay. I was experimenting with a hi/lo pass EQ filter and when I bumped the curve up +6 dB at 2.3 kHz, I could hear the 'r' in creek. So is there a way to punch in an EQ for that one word as opposed to EQing the entire vocal track a certain way just to embellish a single word?

I was thinking of adding an EQ to a bus, sending it to the vocal track, and bumping up the gain with automation envelope at that word (and a couple others). Is this method doable or is there a better way?

Graph below for context.

Thanks everyone!

On 8/16/2024 at 12:53 PM, OutrageProductions said:

Here's the default settings for that particular preset in Breverb.

Why not just adjust to these settings and re-save as default for that preset? (Check Preferences in Breverb to see if you can over write with confirmation).

 

As another alternative per @sjoens you could RMB on this and restore all presets in any desired bank;

On 8/16/2024 at 2:25 PM, sjoens said:

Thanks.  I hadn't gotten to making a screen shot yet.

@badt1mes the banks function is in BREVERB.  Just right click on the bank in question as shown in outrage's screen shot.

Got it back to normal. Thanks!!

On 8/14/2024 at 10:38 PM, OutrageProductions said:

If you don't have a system/file backup on another drive, reinstall is your best bet. 

Hello, thank you. If the BANKS thing doesn't work, I guess a reinstall is in order. So this means uninstalling CbB from my machine and reinstalling? Or is there some way to uninstall/reinstall the individual Cakewalk plugin?

On 8/15/2024 at 2:09 AM, sjoens said:

Try this:

1. Under BANKS, right-click the bank in question
2. Choose Restore from factory bank...
3. Click the corresponding bank
4. Double-click the preset to refresh

Overloud restores the presets from a hidden file called factory-presets.db

Seems there's no real documentation on this.  Manual shows a button in Preferences but the current version omits this

Thank you for replying. I can't seem to find the BANKS function in CbB. Would you kindly be able to point me in the right direction?

Title explains it. I was adjusting the Big Empty Room preset in my BREVERB 2 Cakewalk reverb plugin and hit save instead of save as. Is there any way to recover the original? I tried the undo but it only undoes changes made to the settings, it did not undo my saving over the preset.

I searched around my c-drive and could not find a folder with the presets. Will I need to somehow uninstall then reinstall the BREVERB? Thanks!

Make sure Input Echo is turned on. Each individual track has one, its the little button that looks like a radar signal with 3 tapered curved lines, kinda like this -)))

On 8/7/2024 at 11:22 AM, badt1mes said:

When you talk about recording on one version of Sonar/CW and editing/mixing in another, are you using the CWP project file or exporting to WAV and uploading the WAV tracks into location #2? I've been doing the latter but I also don't know any better. Thanks again!

Sorry for such basic questions. Yes, old CWP files work in CbB.

16 hours ago, msmcleod said:

FWIW,  I've got an old Intel Core Duo Dell Laptop running Windows 7 32 bit, SONAR Platinum connected to a Yamaha 01X, i88x and Behringer ADA8000.

I've no problems recording projects (up to 24 simultaneous tracks) on the laptop and going to either CbB or the new Sonar for mix duties or further editing.

I can even re-open the project in SONAR Platinum for further overdubs, however if I think I might have to do this, I try to avoid using any of the new features missing in SONAR Platinum.  Most features are fine though, with the notable exception of the Arranger - for that I just save the arranger track as an arranger template, so I can re-import it again.

Nested track folders can be tricky too - the folders will get flattened out when opened in SONAR Platinum, but they should keep the hierarchy when loaded back into CbB/Sonar as long as you don't move tracks around.

Obviously the older the version of SONAR, the more features you'll "lose" if you save the project in the older version... and as @Jonathan Sasor says, avoid 32 bit DirectX plugins apart from the Cakewalk stock ones (e.g. Sonitus).

Thank you for your response and the detail. When I first purchased Sonar 7 Studio Edition, I bought a separate book called Sonar 7 Power written by Scott Garrigus. The book is 4-5x thicker than the instruction manual and it really helped me make sense of a lot of stuff. According to Amazon, the last time Garrigus published was in 2014 with Sonar X3. Do you know if such a publication exists today for CbB? A lot of vocabulary used on this forum is still over my head.

When you talk about recording on one version of Sonar/CW and editing/mixing in another, are you using the CWP project file or exporting to WAV and uploading the WAV tracks into location #2? I've been doing the latter but I also don't know any better. Thanks again!

On 8/1/2024 at 12:28 PM, Kurre said:

Only keep an eye on if they're 32bit or 64bit.

If win xp are 32bit you shouldn't (can't?) use 64bit plugins.

If win xp are 64 bit you can use both 32bit and 64bit plugins.

Thank you! The XP is 32 bit so I decided to mix on a different computer with win 10 and is 64 bit.

On 8/1/2024 at 9:09 PM, badt1mes said:

Thank you for the reply, this is good news. Please keep in mind, for the past 15 years of so, I will dust off my computer every couple of years and record. I normally set up mics, hit the R button and go dry, adding all effects later. With the 32 bit plugins, would I be able to record a dry mix using no effects plugins and add the 64 bit plugins later when I'm mixing on the second computer?

Also, in the past when I've opened Sonar 7 without my audio interfaced turned on, the input and output track parameters would say "none" and IIRC the tracks would not play. So I still would like to know, would an audio interface need to be plugged in to use the newer version of Cakewalk or Sonar?

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond.

Disregard. Found the answers myself.

31 minutes ago, Jonathan Sasor said:

You should have no problem opening the projects from SONAR 7 in either the new version of Sonar or Cakewalk by BandLab. The only "gotchas" would be with any plugins with 32-bit on XP, but all the audio and project data will load fine. 

Thank you for the reply, this is good news. Please keep in mind, for the past 15 years of so, I will dust off my computer every couple of years and record. I normally set up mics, hit the R button and go dry, adding all effects later. With the 32 bit plugins, would I be able to record a dry mix using no effects plugins and add the 64 bit plugins later when I'm mixing on the second computer?

Also, in the past when I've opened Sonar 7 without my audio interfaced turned on, the input and output track parameters would say "none" and IIRC the tracks would not play. So I still would like to know, would an audio interface need to be plugged in to use the newer version of Cakewalk or Sonar?

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond.