reginaldStjohn

If there is a keyboard shortcut or menu command to go to the next bar then you should be able to map a midi controller/button etc. to activate that command. You would have to setup a control surface.

https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR X3&language=3&help=ExternalDevices.03.html

There is not stand alone version.  You can use a VST host like https://www.cantabilesoftware.com/free-vst-host.

I use touchdaw Android app as a wireless controller.

I don't know if anyway to "drag" clips from  multiple tracks to one track in one go.  Some ideas that I can think of are the following:

- Use take lanes since that is exactly what they are made for

- Create an aux track, point all the comped tracks to the aux track and then record it.

- Leave them all in their tracks and route them to a bus or aux track. Then hide the tracks?

On 8/15/2019 at 12:57 AM, studiodude1 said:

Promidi - My Nvidia driver is version 431.70

Just as another data point I had an Nvidia Video card that would cause high latency. I tried all the tricks mentioned in this thread and even more. I eventually just got an AMD card (Radeon) and that fixed it. 

I have never used the drag and drop method. I have used Melodyne to convert to midi.  Maybe try that as a work around?

As they say, "A picture is worth a 1000 words."  I wonder how many words a moving picture is worth?

You can't set latency to 0 so I don't know what setting you are talking about. The latency is dependent on your audio buffer size set in your audio interface.  You can access the settings usually in the same place that you set what driver you are using.  

2 hours ago, razor7music said:

Hey All--

Maybe you don't struggle with finding good vocal harmonies like I do, but typically if I can't sing a good harmony over my melody after a couple sessions, I get frustrated and then I know it's not going to end well.

I remembered seeing a training video on creating melodies with Melodyne, and I watched a good one last night, and so I'm going to give it a try. If it sounds good, I'll keep it in the mix. If it sounds like a robot, then I'll just sing over the part and it served its purpose of helping me create a good harmony line.

Anyone used Melodyne this way? What are your thoughts/advice?

Thanks!

I always use Melodyne to create a harmony for me to practice.  I will create a harmony from a lead that I have sung and corrected. Then I make a mixdown and practice as I drive to and from work.  I am not a great singer but after about a week I can generally sing the harmony(ies) good enough. Of course people probably think I am singing to the radio

Any opinions on how these compare to others like JamStix or even EzDrummer etc?

I took a quick listen on my laptop speakers, all I have in front of me right now, so I could be way off here.  However, what I have found useful is to compare, both using my ears and using an analyzer tool, my sounds with those I want to attain.  I have used Melda's MAnalyzer and Izotope Ozone EQ to compare an Isolated guitar track, or the beginning of a guitar intro, to my sound and compare the difference.  This helps me find the frequencies that I am missing or have too much of.  Most of the distorted guitars that I have analyzed in similar genres as you are mentioning are mostly a flat frequency response  between about 100Hz and 4-5KHz.

Just listening quickly to your guitar sound it isn't bad but it seems to lack some in the lower mids (200-800Hz) or have too much in the 1-2K area.  

Hopefully that is helpful.

5 hours ago, Paul G said:

I've tried several different compressors in this scenario and CbB continues to lock up, (it's also locked the computer up as well).  I must be doing something wrong.  I'm placing  the compressor in the verb bus behind the verb plugin.  I'm creating a send from the vox track which outputs to the comps SC input.  It should work.  What am I missing?  Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Paul

Doesn't sound like your doing anything wrong. It could be a corrupt project. Can you try to create a new project and just re-create tracks to reproduce your side chain and see if it still happens?  You can also contact tech support and send them your project to see if they can reproduce it.

2 minutes ago, Zo said:

I like session horns it's pretty convincing ....

Thanks for the suggestion. Do you have the standard or the Pro Version?

I have been looking for a good pop brass section. However this one is a bit too rich for me right now.

Any suggestions on other similar ones at a bit lower price?

I listened to the demos when I saw the email.  I thought they did not sound good. Very synthetic.

2 hours ago, Paul P said:

Everyone seems to have a different experience with Nektar LX controllers and Cakewalk.

I recently got around to setting up my LX88+ and after doing everything Nektar specifies and checking and rechecking (with MidiOX, etc), the controller part just doesn't work at all, only the keyboard.

I gave up and decided to fire up Studio One 4 which I have no experience with just to see  (again following Nektar's instructions) and everything seems to work fine, controllers, buttons and all.

It's going to be hard not to switch over to S1 because of this.

 

I have a LX88+ that I use with Studio one and it did integrate pretty good. However, There are drawbacks to Studio One controller support.  For one there is no indication what console channels you are controlling.  It also only supports absolute position for faders and pan.  So if you switch channels and move a fader it will imediately jump to the fader location and not wait for the fader to reach its current value before moving it.  Those are some things that I have found annoying.

The only suggestion I have is get a AMD (ATI) card. I had latency problems with my NVidia card that I could never get resolved. I installed a Radeon and the latency went away. You can find many video cards sufficient for a DAW for around $100. If you can find a fanless one even better.

Awesome review. Thanks Amicus717

I have been eying since I learned about it some years ago. Can someone explain how Albion One is different then just an orchestra library?  Is it loop based or sample based or both? Is it mostly for film scoring or is it good as a general orchestration tool?

Sorry, I have looked at some of the videos and read the marketing material but I still don't quite grasp what this is?

I don't have the Akai keyboard but a few months ago was comparing keyboards as well.  I think you have to specify what you are going to do with the keyboard/controller. Are you just interested in the keyboard or do you care about the control aspects of it as well.  The Komplete Kontrol series has some neat features if you use Kontakt heavily.  If you are just trying to find a good keyboard for recording midi there are other options such as weighted keys etc. that may fit what you want better.

3 hours ago, 57Gregy said:

Is there some magic formula or EQ preset that will get me started?
Due to some hearing loss, just about everything sounds bassy to me, so I'm not sure I could hear the difference if I applied some EQ or otherwise processed a track.
I recorded the song in SHS 6 XL then imported the .wav into CbB for mp3 mixdown, but I don't know if I have the proper turd-polishing gear.
Advice, links appreciated. I know the topic of equalization has been discussed ad infinitum on these forums, but because of the aforementioned bad hearing, I've pretty much skimmed the posts, thinking I can't do anything about it.
Thanks!

People have given you some good suggestions but I have one that others have maybe not mentioned. Have someone else mix your music or at least listen to it to give you feedback. If you really do have some hearing issues, many of us do, you will need someone else to help you judge any moves you make anyway.

I have often recorded in the same way you mention. However, I have never seen it overwrite a take in a lane. It will start to fill in empty gaps so that you don't get so many take lanes created.

This really sounds like a flakey hardware connection or problem with your interface.  Maybe try to change what port your Quad Capture is plugged into (it is USB right?).

Silent busses mean that they are not routed to an actual hardware output.  When you get this message check your routing and see if your Quad Capture is showing up or if the project has reverted to some other audio output.

I can verify that the nVidia cards tend to have higher DPC latency then the Radeon cards. I swapped my nVidia GT card out with a Radeon and the DPC latency went down quite a bit.

2 hours ago, Dono Lee said:

Thanks for the replies! IDK, the MOTU 1248 is new, I just tweaked a bit and the #1 issue was gone. I think I chalk this up to "DOH!"

I am ecstatic that at least SOMEONE has seen the #2 issue before 🙂 Thanks for sharing, Grem!

Thanks everyone.

Dono

I have had times where a track appears to stop working.  In my particular case it always had to do with a pro channel module. If I turned off the pro-channel my track would sound again.  If I started deleting modules until it sounded again it would usually come down to the console emulation modules or once it was the concrete limiter.  Just a thought.