lmu2002

22 hours ago, Ane Atsuko Sobreira Minato said:

Umu2002, 

I think you didn't read it correctly.  I'm not spending my friends money! He chose the pieces, I'm just helping him.  You don't know what are his future plans for his studio so, it'd be better be more polite with your comments.  Thanks anyway.

Ah sorry. And no offence. I thought you were choosing a motherboard for him and asked for an opinion. But anyway, a   $300 motherboard will be great, in audio or any other use.  Good luck installing everything!

That Rog Maximus is a huge overkill just for audio. Motherboards do all the same thing with marginal difference in performance. With just one SSD and one HDD you won't gain much by investing in top of the line mb. Obviously it doesn't hurt anything other than wallet, but I have had great results with  simple basic boards (prime/pro etc) for 1/8 the price.

Just my thoughts of course. If I was spending my friends money, I would use all the info I could get so I wouldn't get crucified later for burning too much cash.

Or alternatively you could adjust the 'mix' knob on your m-audio to find a suitable balance between the playback tracks and your mic input in the  headphones.

Is there a way to avoid my display name getting reseted every time I clean my internet cache?

4k will give you a huge work space compared to 1k. And just by simple maths, a 10cm item on your screen will become 6,25cm thing unless it's scaled to something else in size.  As far as I know, Cakewalk doesn't scale unless whole Windows is scaled.

It hard to comment on the text size but obviously the difference will be very noticeable.

Very good! There's never too much info regarding troubleshooting in our esoteric niche 👍

A few tips I have discovered recently:

- go through Win10 power schemes details and make sure cpu usage is 100% minimum and maximum and make sure your cpu cooling is sufficient

- disable any power saver schemes  in usb ports, not only in power settings details but also in device manager list (must be done manually, no power scheme changes them for you)

- choose UEFI in bios boot details (CSM is apparently often the default), preferably prior installing win10

- if you encounter issues with low latency in CW, try unchecking the plug-in load balancing and see if it helps (yes it will punish the first core but you might be able to record with  a decent latency late in a project when you have already tons of plug-ins running)

Maybe a sticky collection would be in order? I sure there's so much useful  info we could all collect here regarding CW and DAWs in general. To save time and headache when troubleshooting.

I think you'd better  use the console view to see clearly what send goes to which bus. The track view +inspector can be tricky if you are not familiar with CW. Maybe better add an effect on a bus first and name it accordingly, and only then apply the send.

3 hours ago, noynekker said:

I've always done this by simply adding a volume automation on the master bus . . . then  you can choose linear, fast curve or slow curve options.

I don't see any other way if the purpose really is fading the 'whole song' as requested by the OP.

4 hours ago, Noel Borthwick said:

Load balancing is not designed to improve latency. It requires at least 128-256 samples to function.  While tracking at low latency its best to leave it off. Its more intended to use while mixing when you have lots of expensive plugins and don't require about low latency, esp in the case where some tracks or buses have many plugins in series, as is often the case when mastering.

Exactly my thoughts! I think I will now leave it off completely and just adjust buffer size as required. I  believe lighter powered cpus/systems benefits more of this function. Or very heavy projects.

On 10/8/2019 at 8:35 AM, Noel Borthwick said:

@Gswitz in your one track test with lots of plugins you will see much higher CPU loading and thereby faster speed if you turn on plug-in load balancing.
That is our patented load balancing designed to handle cases with tracks containing many plugins by parallelizing the load on the track.

I started looking into this plug-in load balancing and discovered that I can run my soundcard with much lower buffer size (=lower latency) when it's turned off. I run some tests with a full 32 track mix with lots of plugins/vstis. When the balancing is on, I eventually get buzz/peep audio engine errors when going below 128 buffer size. When off, it runs smoothly with 64 but obviously taxing the first cpu core heavily. 32 buffer starts producing audible cracks but it runs anyhow (not printing the cracks on exporting though). With 32 buffer size the export takes 5-6 times longer than with a 512 buffer size but still utilizes the cpu much harder (core #6 running clearly hottest on my cpu). So no gains there for exporting.

As my work flow is such that I mix while still recording and writing, I find unchecking the balance load option very useful at a later stage when the project is heavily laden with plugins already, and I can happily record stuff with a low latency with bells and whistles running. I have always had the plug-in load balancing on and never payed a thought for it. However, I'm not sure how much sound card specific this issue might be. But I think it's worth experimenting and see if you can benefit from this like I do.

Like stated, there's no correct way in this. It's worth experimenting what the order does to the signal, time permitting. Sky is the limit in daw environment. However, as far as eq and comp, I tend to 'compress the corrected' signal, especially if the signal needs heavy eq:ing (like a high pass filter), so the compressor doesn't react to frequencies which will be cut off anyway or cause unwanted or weird gain reduction.

Great video Gswitz! It feels crazy one track or even plugin can throttle the whole process. Thinking of a 5min song where cpu shows 10% when playing it back, but it takes the same 5mins to render . Maybe this gets a proper remedy in the future.

I was wondering this my self too. Why doesn't Cakewalk rendering utilize cpu usage to the max (vs video rendering). It does use all the cores and threads when rendering a full mix (when monitoring with HWmonitor). But only around 50% average usage.

Windows or Cakewalk update? There was a recent update on the both.

Do you mean there really is no pan? Or pan has no effect? Does your master/output bus look also mono with both channels dancing in unison  regardless of track panning ? That would be weird indeed.

Got it! It was a devious win10 update which changed the power scheme for hard drives. Not sure if SSDs ever sleep but I still have a hdd in my system for storage which apparently took a while to wake up. Now all is well 👍

4 hours ago, Notes_Norton said:

When I listen to music I listen to melody and  harmony. How the chords move and how they react to each other.  This is what tickles my ears.

Next comes rhythm, I like rhythm, but if the melody and chord movement doesn't turn me on, then even a great rhythm will get old to me in 16-32 bars. On the other hand I can listen to something totally rubato and if the chords and melody are strong enough, never get tired of it.

Words last -- and in some songs I never get to the words, they just become articulations of the melody. There are songs I love that I never stopped to listen to the words. OK I'm weird that way, but I accept that.

So most rap music is lost on me since there is no chord movement (boring harmony) no melody, lots of rhythm and words I don't care to listen to.

Insights and incites by Notes

But I'm a musician, so the music part comes first to me. Obviously these things are not as important to the people who make West, Minaj and others superstars.

 

I'm sure most musicians are this way. I know I am.

Does the issue persist when using drag copy? I  don't use anything else and never encountered any  problems when copying as long as snap is in desired position.

Works fine on my Cakewalk. Maybe you can try copying the clip to a new project and see how it behaves. I have seen weirder things happen.

Do you hear velocity changes when you play on your keyboard? Have you tried changing the velocity slider on the specific midi track? Have you tried copying the clip(s) to another track? Does the problem follow?

On 8/21/2019 at 7:32 PM, synkrotron said:

I've just bent the headband on my ATH-M50x headphones, on both sides where it connects to the earpieces:-

 

I obviously wouldn't recommend anyone try this at home but my headphones are not quite as tightly clamped around me head now. I now need to wear them for a long-ish session, see how they go.

My ATH-M50x were decorating a football for the first week as a welcome initiation. Not sure how the football liked the sound though. Five years later they are about right size now.

On 8/17/2019 at 1:08 AM, CosmicDolphin said:

Easy

Start Track...Name Track....Work To  Deadline ( i.e. 1 week )...Finish it...Move On To The Next

No folder full of ideas...just finished tracks 

I used to have my folders  full of 'test' and 'newtest' type of  stuff.          Until I just stopped doing that and decided to finish what I start. Now I work with one at a time and get finished products. Works for me.

But titling is a mess. I name a song only when it's near finished. So a working title is always something else. Looking back and trying to remember what was what is an adventure. I never get to deleting the working title and only keeping the actual one. One must have something to stay away from perfection 😀

I've been using the previous Fractal Design Define R5 for some years now. Looks similar, and I can confirm it's also very quiet.

Doesn't the track always activate 'auto-thru' when selecting a track? A click on the icon  activates the  input echo mode which lets you  select multiple tracks/synths for midi input route.    I usually open a new synth with 'simple instrument track' which creates just one track. This reduces the number of visible tracks and keeps my track view plain and simple. I can then access midi and audio properties in track inpector if required. In case of drum kits I usually have one midi track and 4-5 audio tracks (kick-snare-toms-cymbals-percussion) for tailored processing.

As I  haven't used outboard midi gear for ages I haven't touched midi channels or settings as they have always worked fine. Until now. Which makes me wonder what has changed. It took me a good while to find a way around it. I will keep using the 'none' until I find out what's going on there.

Excuse me for borrowing this thread. I just opened a recent project (and couple of other ones to be sure) and get no sound from synths when pressing keyboard keys. Playback works ok however. My keyboard outputs midi just fine and I see midi activity in Cakewalk. Then I inserted a new synth which works fine. I compared the settings and found out that midi inputs must be set to 'none' for correct function. I can't remember I've ever had such an issue. Actually I have never payed any attention for midi input settings as they have always worked without issues. It's not a big thing to switch all inputs to none. But what's going on here?

Water cooling comes with fans too and often they are small. I'm using a Noctua  nh d15 and can warmly recommend it if you want a silent system and if your case allows it (it's huge).  It keeps my CPU below 50C when running Cakewalk.

I had a silent power supply (Corsair) which died in a year due to insufficient cooling (semi passive).  So now I have a Seasonic which is very silent but keeps the fans running at all times.

As far as Ryzens, I switched from Intel to Ryzen 2700x last year and never had any issues with it. Now I'm using 3700x and it's looking good also.