Larry Jones

As an unreconstructed rock'n'roller I don't generally use more than a handful of tracks. NOTE: Back when I was recording on tape I never had the luxury of using a separate track for every piece of the drum kit, so I do that now, which bumps up the track count. I wouldn't set any kind of artificial limit on tracks, but I believe the song and the performance counts more than the engineering or the production, so if I can't get it done with a couple of guitars and a piano I feel like I need to go back and write a different song.

1 hour ago, Toddskins said:

I'm so stoked now!  With my newly acquired knowledge I know I can accomplish what I asked.

I would just add that Melodyne is not always 100% accurate in its assessment of your tempo, so be prepared to do a little manual editing of the generated tempo map, and don't get discouraged. I kind of like @michheld's idea above, especially if your piano track is not a rockin' four-on-the-floor beat.

@Tezza is right: It's an effect, like any other VST, and if you put it in your FX bin it should process the audio on that track. Note there is a "power switch" for each VST in the FX bin, and probably on the Guitar Rig GUI as well, so make sure those are both turned on. (Turn your speakers down before you hit that switch. 🙃 )

You should be able to insert Guitar Rig into the FX bin of the track where you already have clean guitar already recorded, and by adjusting the settings on GR as the guitar plays back you should hear the effect on the recorded guitar.  Is there a "mix" control on Guitar Rig 5? If so, set it to 100% wet.  If this doesn't work, please describe exactly how you are setting this up. What you are trying to do is completely normal -- it's the way it's supposed to work, so something's wrong.

BTW, Craig's solution above is destructive. If you decide to do it that way, make a copy of the clean track first, in case you find later that you don't want the effect you have used.

Nice, Andy! Good to hear from you again. And sign the kid up -- for someone who"doesn't like what you do" he did a fine job for you. You drone guys need some rhythm!😎 Seriously, this is excellent ambient, with a toe-tappin' bonus. Thanks for sharing!

I often use six or eight BG Vox, and sometimes use the same section on different parts of the timeline. If any individual track has lanes, I comp that track and render it. So I only have to copy and paste tracks, and don't have to worry about moving take lanes. I understand the impulse to keep all options open, but I try to decide as I go if a track is adequate, and if I think it needs more work I do it as soon as I can. (I hope I understood your question.)

https://www.cakewalk.com/Command-Center

On 6/12/2019 at 12:34 PM, jackCA2A said:

Can't believe it's free.

Two years ago it was 500 bucks. It was not developed as a "free" product.

2 hours ago, scook said:

Whether freeze or disconnect take a synth completely out of memory depends on the "Unload Synths on Disconnect" setting. Enabled by default, this setting results in freezing or disconnecting a synth acting just like archive. When disabled, freeze and disconnect act more like mute (IOW, the synth is still in memory but uses less CPU). The setting is in the synth rack menu.

 

Thanks, @scook. I was not aware of that setting. I may never need it as I don't use a lot of soft synths, but good to know.

I'm not a particularly heavy synth user, but when I've got a piano or horn part or something I "don't need" but might want to use later I archive it and use Track Manager to hide it so I don't have to look at it. Once archived it uses zero RAM. I think freezing, bouncing or disconnecting still takes up some system resources.

6 hours ago, SomeGuy said:

I didn't check.  It isn't that big a deal.  You can easily reproduce this by doing it yourself (I just did).  Not sure why you think I think this topic is important enough for me to engage in that type of [blatantly transparent] deception, particularly when the text quoted is completely mundane in nature.  I didn't edit it, because I'm lazy and not really watching this topic... 

Relevant entity has responded, so that discussion is over, as far as I'm concerned... 

Thanks for your response. As you'd know if you read farther, I tested the "quote" function myself, acknowledged my mistake and corrected it in a later post. I assumed you had done this on purpose (although I couldn't figure out why) because you've been trolling this forum for months, and that's the kind of thing trolls do. False attribution is, indeed, "that big a deal," but even if just as a matter of courtesy, you should have fixed the mistake when @Starship Krupa asked you to.

3 hours ago, Bapu said:

Ummmmm, the Cakewalk Command Center did just that. It had the ability to roll back to any version you wanted. I even did it a few times just to be sure I wasn't 'drunk at the time' something went nutzo.

To be fair (and I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong about this) the "rollback feature" in the Cakewalk Command Center was not really a feature at all, but just a side effect of the fact that CCC did not automatically delete the installers after they were run (as Bandlab does), and they were all full versions. So all versions were there to reuse whenever we thought we needed to roll our installations back.

1 hour ago, Toddskins said:

...the liberals kept changing things...

The liberals! Why did it have to be LIBERALS!?

1 minute ago, fogle622 said:

The problem is most people won't know they need this suggestion until they need to roll back.  By then it may be too late.

I'm not a programmer but it would seem that the CbB installer could execute a bat file or something similar to automatically create a backup of the Cakewalk Core folder prior to starting the update.

Since this has come up in this forum so many times, and the staff at Cakewalk reads here, I have to think they have a reason for not wanting us to be able to roll back easily. Probably they'd rather have a shot at fixing problems instead of users simply reverting to an older version and never telling Cakewalk about the issues they have. My opinion only.

1 hour ago, Starship Krupa said:

...all you need to do is make a copy of Cakewalk Core before you let the upgrade do its thing.

This is a fine, fine idea. People who don't do this will no doubt continue to ask how they can roll back, though. 🙃

13 minutes ago, John said:

Sometimes when quoting the quote can drop the context.

Looking further, I see that must be what happened.

3 hours ago, John said:

Starship Krupa never said this.

Thanks for clearing this up, @John. I didn't realize what was happening there, but I see now that @SomeGuy must have edited @Starship Krupa's quoted text to mislead readers.

4 minutes ago, John said:

You have a plugin that is causing  CbB to crash. It is Sektor. 

I don't know if this is supposed to be funny, but it's certainly not helpful. The OP indicates in his first sentence that he knows CbB is crashing, and it's because of unfreezing Sektor.

@paulo, this is the kind of thing you need to send to support@cakewalk.com. They may want you to send the dump file described in the error message. A little more information here.

Best of luck!

19 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

...I encourage you to take a swipe.

I wouldn't presume to edit anything. I can barely remember what I was doing 35 years ago, much less what Cakewalk was up to.

I also don't recall saying anything here about my involvement with X. Last time I saw Exene she was reciting poetry at a coffee house a mile from my home. She looked right through me, so who knows? Maybe I wasn't involved. So much for the band being thrilled. 😎

In any case I'm more comfortable encouraging you to do the hard work. Then I will make a few smart remarks. In this way I have wasted most of my life.

Mark - I don't use any kind of Mackie Control. Don't really even know what it is, but you da man! Thank you for your willingness to contribute.

2 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

Oh, it wasn't all that.

I misunderstood. I thought you were saying the original (accurate) info had been deleted and was irretrievable. As a "registered Wikipedia editor" maybe some day you'll find a use for this interview that I stumbled on recently. A Computer Music article from the SONAR 1 era, and even then they were feeling inferior about the size of their user base compared to "the big German software program."  Note the byline. I thought I'd find a lot of contemporaneous stuff written about Cakewalk/Twelve Tone, but there's not much out there.

1 hour ago, Starship Krupa said:

The most tragic was that someone had trashed the page for the original Cakewalk sequencer by conflating it with Cakewalk by BandLab.

What a shame. There must be someone who was there and knows the early history. The original MIDI sequencer is part of music/tech history. As a guitar player I wasn't there at the beginning (MIDI 😈) but I hope the story can be reconstituted, and not lost.

50 minutes ago, Lord Tim said:

Pfft, you can fix all of that stuff in the master - don't let that "actually playing the song" business hold you up! 😁

Hahaha! I know, there's probably a plugin for that!

6 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

Larry wants to know how you master an album, as in a collection of songs so that they're all listenable together no matter how different they might sound individually. Like Goodbye Yellow Brick Road or  Nevermind or Rumours or Siamese Dream or Disintegration or any number of great rock or pop albums that have harder and softer songs together but still sound coherent.

Right, that was my question. Thanks to everyone for showing me how. I know I'm tilting at windmills, but I thought I'd try an album. The Studio One Project Page seems like the perfect platform to sequence and assemble this, but there's all the preliminary stuff like writing, playing, singing and mixing. I'd best get started. 🙃

Sorry, my previous comment wasn't very helpful. The truth is I gave up on using my Impact LX61+ as a DAW controller -- I just use it as a piano keyboard. But here's a quote by @Tezza from one of the older threads on this topic that might at least get you going in the right direction. Best of luck with this:

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The procedure I used was to register the keyboard (which was secondhand) which created my Nektar account. In my Nektar account, the setup files together with the functionality and instructions were available for all different DAW's. I downloaded and installed all the setup files for each DAW and followed the instructions, It worked ok for all the DAW's I tried it on, I think in Mixcraft, I did have to select the midi ins and outs after installing the file.

Something I think I remember, if you download the setup files from the Nektar website then there wasn't as much info available. You have to have an account and then there was additional information in your account that wasn't available just on the website.