Larry Jones

I'm not an Apple user, but they (Macs) have Core Audio drivers built in. You may still need a dedicated audio interface, but if it's compatible with the Mac it won't require ASIO drivers. My information is five years old so it's possible that a new Mac has built-in hardware that can handle music production, but if you are using Boot Camp to load Windows and run SONAR, you are basically using a PC and boom! You're back to external audio interface and ASIO drivers.

On 2/10/2019 at 9:03 PM, Cactus Music said:

But youtube seems to do something as the audio is perfect when I play the movies I make. I know all about how to take audio to the max. But once uploaded to b youtube the audio is always at a lower level and distorted.

Hey John - Here's the straight dope right from the horse's mouth. Good luck!

4 minutes ago, abacab said:

here is some related info.

Thanks!

2 hours ago, abacab said:

MS releases the newest release with a "Targeted" designation. This is generally what you will get if you do nothing to defer feature updates. This is the release that business IT teams need to pilot and test with, before they actually begin broad rollouts within their organization.

After a period of time based on business feedback and any necessary bug fixes, MS will designate the update as ready for "Broad" release, and this is when the update is "ready for business".

Where do I look to find out which releases are which, and when a targeted release turns into a broad release?

13 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

Big props and good on ya for running your 8-track studio in Hollywood. I bet you got to work with cooler clients, too, rather than babysitting coked-out has-beens.

We did the original demoes for the "Los Angeles" album by X. The album that was eventually released sounds pretty much exactly like those demoes. We were one of the first places in town to book punk bands. I think a lot of established places didn't want those dangerous troublemakers trashing their studios and raping the receptionist. Turns out they were mostly nice kids who didn't carry knives and cleaned up the studio after themselves.

No comment on the coked-out has-beens.

16 minutes ago, synkrotron said:

Click on the New button and it allows you to drag a selection window of any part of your display and adds it to the clipboard. Then do the same as above which is, Control V into Paint and save to your Pictures folder so that you can drag it into here.

Andy, you really are Old School. If you use the Snipping Tool, you already have cropped it the way you want, and you can "Save As..." right from there into your Pictures folder. No need to two-step it through Paint.

My phone gave me an easy choice whether to read the original post in Spanish or English. I selected English and the translation was decent, and I finished reading it and everything was beautiful. I don't know if the same thing happens on a computer, but with technology like this, why not just let everyone post anything they want in any language they want? Music is international, no?

EDIT: Apparently this is a function of Chrome on Android. Soon it will be ubiquitous.

13 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

You have to enable Group Policy Editor, which ships hidden on Home versions of Windows 10

A few weeks ago I enabled the Group Policy Editor on my Home edition PC (not my DAW) to play with it, but yesterday I got upgraded to 1809 Build 17763.292, and -- surprise! -- it's no longer enabled.

I don't really care, but I believe MS polices this with such rigor because in the profit-based community, if you are a "pro," you simply have to pay more, and if you are an "amateur," you simply get less.  I ran into a version of this when I started my half-inch 8-track studio in the 70s, in the same neighborhood as Gold Star, Sunwest, Wally Heider, etc. With my Tascam 8-track I wasn't paying the price required to be a "pro," so the guys at those places mocked me for using "home" equipment, and wouldn't speak to me at AES shows. At least in that case I got the last laugh, because I was still booking sessions after they all went out of business. Pretty sure none of those schmoes would have been able to tell the difference between the quality they were producing, and mine.

These days I don't have paying clients, so I leave Window Defender running, and a bunch of other background services that I should probably turn off, and I rarely have a glitch in my projects. 

Try making sorting changes in the browser. The browser and the "Insert|Manage Layouts" command are related in some way. There are buttons at the top of the browser to change the sorting, and the changes you make there are reflected in the Plugin Layout Manager (I think).

Whatever recording mode you select from the button in the Control Bar (at the top of the window), it will apply to any subsequent tracks you record -- but you can change it whenever you want. Generally, your default recording mode should be comp. You'll see why, and you'll also find out why you might want to use one of the other modes

Sound on sound mode will record on a track without erasing what's already on that track. Don't use it to record vocals. Use Comp mode to record your vocal. You won't lose anything on any other track as long as you don't arm them for recording.

I don't follow the rest of your post. Maybe you should get started by looking at this tutorial on YouTube, which will tell you what all the buttons and controls do. Part 2 will walk you through your first recording. Good luck.

6 hours ago, Michael Martinez said:

10 hours ago, mettelus said:

It could be a VST, and if the feedback is long enough to try this, hit "E" (Global FX bypass) and see if that kills the feedback immediately. 

Yep. I tried it. It does kill it right away.

So it's one of your plugins. Turn 'em all off (bypass) and then bring them back one at a time. This isn't exactly a "fix," but at least you'll know which plugin to avoid.

If it's just data (for example, project folders) I think you can just copy to wherever you want it. Then in Cakewalk Preferences you can tell the program where everything is. You may still have to "find" missing files when you open a project, but you'd know where they are, and that would only happen the first time you open an old project.

4 hours ago, ARTHUR VERNER said:

Export, Presets, Raw tracks. 

^^This is how you get the files. In the export dialog take note of the format you are exporting. Your collaborator might want to know.

For sending I don't recommend email, because the files are so large. Get a free Dropbox account, or OneDrive, or use a service like WeTransfer.

Maybe you can work around this by creating a symbolic link from where CbB was originally installed to where it is now.

More information here.

13 minutes ago, Rico Belled said:

My uninvited 2 cents:

Most of my Mac buddies with overpriced Pro-Tools setups on their overpriced MacBook Pros never understood why I kept saying that once you go full input-monitoring you can never go back... until we did the sessions for my album XR7. I built a machine specifically for that record; had little money so it was a first gen i3 with 4GB of RAM, MOTU PCI-424 and a 2408 MK3, a 2408 MK2 and a 1224 that I got for less than the cost of a headphone amp...

...I don't wanna drop that kinda cash, because of you know, priorities, but I very much look forward to an even lower latency future.

Sensible position. I also recorded a full rock band (one time only!) with an i3 laptop, a bunch of cobbled together outboard gear and SONAR. In my case it was a live recording and no headphone mixes, so latency didn't come up, but your point is well taken: We dream of better performance, but we can do good work on an extremely tight budget when we have to.

PS: I'm a PC guy, but I won't chime in with you on dissing Apple products. Those guys are relentless in promoting their little 5% market share.😎

I have found it important to write the song first, and know what you're trying to achieve. Once I start messing around with click tracks or MIDI drums it's easy for me to lose sight of my original idea and start working on something at the wrong speed. Then when I want to finish the song, e.g., write a bridge or more verses, the "feel" can be wrong. Some advice I was given that I've tried a couple of times is to play the song all the way through without  drums or click on whatever instrument you play, then use that recording to create a tempo map for the song. Subsequent tracks will follow that map (either automatically, as MIDI, or manually, as you overdub), even as it fluctuates, or "breathes." This won't work for every kind of song, but sometimes it does.

Of course, writing a million songs and recording them will give you the experience to "know" right away when you've got the speed right, but you knew that.

I have no idea how you would do this, nor how to implement it, but thanks. you da man!

Except for the cassette deck I don't think you need the mixer.

• SC-8850 audio out into inputs 3 & 4 on the back of the Scarlett
• MIDI device into the MIDI connector on the back of the Scarlett (or if it's USB only plug it into the PC)
• Microphone into either of the inputs (1 or 2) on the front of the Scarlett
• Speakers into a pair of the line outputs on the back of the Scarlett
• Scarlett to PC via the USB connection (use USB 2 on your PC -- not USB 3)
• Unplug the mic and plug the cassette deck into front panel inputs 1 & 2, if you must. They will take 1/4-inch or XLR plugs. Turn the gain knobs all the way down before you do this, and you might have to activate the pads, which you do through the software.

There are tutorials on YouTube about the internal routing on the Scarlett. 1st generation (Mix Control) is here, 2nd generation (Focusrite Control) is here. I have a 1st gen 6i6 and I am struggling with Mix Control. It will do the job, I'm sure, but it's not intuitive. Good luck!

EDIT: I'm sorry, is the SC-8850 the only sound device you want to attach? I've never used one. I thought you needed to plug it in and a MIDI module. If the SC-8850 outputs audio, then what I said above, and you wouldn't have anything connected to the MIDI port on the Scarlett. Anyway, you have enough inputs (except for that cassette deck).

11 minutes ago, synkrotron said:

Ah,okay, well that is certainly one way of looking at it

thanks,

andy

You were just trying to get to Page 12, weren't you?

Whoever said "I hate you guys" (above somewhere), I'm with you. 😉

Just as an experiment, have you tried "Bounce to Clips?" But before you do that, duplicate the track with all the Melodyne renders in it, and save it somewhere safe.

2 hours ago, Cactus Music said:

This was good advise. I see that the solution to not making a fool of yourself in front of clients/bandmates is to pre meditate a few set ups and save them. 

This is one reason I'm looking for an easier-to-use cue mixer: don't want to be fumbling around while people wait for me to get my shit together.🙃

58 minutes ago, Billy86 said:

Yes, as stated the 2i4 doesn’t have mix control. 

Still interested in whether you get better performance.

I'm not smart enough to solve your issue, but I have to tell you there's no built-in rollback function. The installer deletes itself after the program is installed, and subsequent updates do not include the full installer, just the update. I hope you get this sorted out.

EDITED TO ADD: Maybe run Bandlab Assistant and make sure you are on the latest version. I hear there were several new versions released in rapid succession recently -- you might have missed one.