Will.

3 hours ago, Jim Fogle said:

I would like to turn off the SMART Tool cursor feature so when I first open an existing project, or create a new project, the default mouse cursor selection is the Select "I" cursor bar.  Is there a way to turn-off or disable the SMART Tool cursor feature?

Save it as your default template. That's how mine was saved (by accident.) I got so used to shortcuts over the years, that changing tools anywhere in the workflow became muscle memory. 

That "T" Shortcut is golden OR you can use F5 - F6 - F7 - F8  depending what's comfortable for you. I don't think you can turn it off other than deselecting it, BUT - If you want to turn off the "AIM ASSISTANT" just press the letter "X" 

11 hours ago, kyleluciani said:

The main issue, is I do set the audio like that, and found good levels, but it just stops. like I can set it to 14%, and it will work...but then it just goes back to 100 out of nowhere. Seems totally random. 

Good to hear about the mic though, wasn't looking forward to spending several hundred dollars. 

Thanks for the response

Then this is something to do with windows - a setting that does not save properly. If you want a better decent microphone, checkout the Samson C01U (USB) studio Microphone. It's like $89.00 

7 hours ago, kyleluciani said:

Hello! 

I'll make this quick, I'm a classically trained singer but I'm new to doing my own recordings. I've been trying for months to just figure things out on my own, but I'm hitting a few walls and not sure where to ask or what to do. 

Firstly, I have a pretty cheap $100 podcast mic. I'm starting to realize this thing may not be up to the task. What I do is turn the input down to around 5 because the mic peaks like crazy at normal levels (not sure if Peak is the correct term, the soundwave gets massive and it crackles like crazy, ruining takes). This seems to work for most simple verses and when I'm not singing big, BUT, it just constantly and randomly forgets.

So I'll sing a line, and it will be at a super low input, so nothing gets too loud while recording...then I'll hit record again, and all of the sudden the input is back full blast. I can't seem to figure this out, and it's driving me crazy. My mic input just doesnt seem to stay there. Any ideas? This happens with both the windowed version of cakewalk, and the full DAW version. 

The other question I have, the mic will peak even when its input does work at 5, so on screen the sound looks much smaller, but it still seems to peak and crackle, as if the smaller scale can't handle big singing. Is this my mic? I hope that makes sense? 

I've tried standing closer and further away from the mic, but it will still peak even if I'm so far away that you can tell I'm audibly far away from the mic

Anyway, I'm totally new to doing this on my own, and have so many questions but I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask. I greatly appreciate any responses or ideas. I'm not too computer literate and I'm not recording literate at all. 

 

Thanks for any help

Podcast mics are usually decent microphones. 

Assuming you don't have an interface, go into your Windows Settings and turn the levels down to 14% (This setting is usually for USB mics) I'm not entirely sure how it works with those 3.5mm input jacks. 

Experiment with the levels until you find that level that works for you.

9 hours ago, Stewart Cormack said:

Ah okay interesting, thank you very much. So I should lower the reverb and compression, and change the EQ?

From that small intro I've heard, Yes.

How it sounds with all the other elements, is a different story all together. 

43 minutes ago, Nigel Mackay said:

@Will_Kaydo OP specifically states using mouse  wheel.

@LeoSpit This is the default setting for the track pane.

Maybe your Zoom Factor: Horizontal is set much lower than 1.5, so the PRV seems faster?

Yeah, my bad.

It's actually the same here.

Apologies.

35 minutes ago, Nigel Mackay said:

Re-install Cakewalk maybe? Fairly painless operation.

No, it's not a bug or related to such. 

I believe what's in discussion, is that it scrolls aggressively, when using the scrollbar. 

By holding CTRL this action can be controlled. What it can't do is center the notes/information in the PRV. 

1 hour ago, Kevin Perry said:

The nomenclature isn't explicit but the UI wouldn't be that dissimilar since the controls required would be essentially the same.

Just a question:

Wouldn't it lessen the work on the send engines rendering it more stable? I've seen some threads here on dropout on that region of the UI. Personally I had never had problems in that department.

Hence to why is said: Not dedicated. 

I could be wrong. 

18 minutes ago, Kevin Perry said:

Sends do indeed do exactly what you want.

Though this is 100% true, it's not a dedicated fixed routing method. There were times when I also wished multiple channel outputs was a thing in CbB to split a channel. Like the @Keni said in his reply -- it's not a big deal for it. Still would have been nice to have that option too. 

On 3/8/2021 at 12:14 PM, swhuarza said:

I want my autotune to sound good and I want to use the autotune pro. I want to buy the subscription to that but can it be used in cakewalk? Does cakewalk supports autotune pro?

Yes, cakewalk support Autotune pro. It opens up intergrated like melodyne.

To use any pitch correction plugin, you need to know your notes on a keyboard and the singers voice - being able to identify a note instantly, but you can play by ear too. You also need to understand the singers/rappers voice to identifying certain information that are done intentionally. This is the same when running an instrument through it. Other than this, using it is pretty much a no brainer. 

14 minutes ago, Soundwise said:

My favorite headphones for ... basically anything, including mixing. I also have Sennheiser HD650, and use them occasionally, but 712s have more definition and better scene. With plugins like Sonarworks (or Toneboosters' Morphit) and ARStudio 3 one can easily make great sounding mixes.

Yes, you can't go wrong with the 712's. The information in detail it project into the ears, are just crazy.

5 hours ago, RBH said:

I was mixing some drum tracks ( acoustic tracks ) I'm working with "other peoples tracking "  I had a pretty high blead from the snare into the hat mic. I thought I would try an experiment which comprised taking a copy of the snare track and inverting it and mixing back into the hat track to " hopefully " cancel out the snare bleed. Zip  nada - craptastic results.  I did make sure to sample align the snare hits. But It really didn't work!  -   Do you think it should?

Have you tried moving the hat mic a bit closer, and spacing the snare drum further away from the hat? Miking and drum placement is extremely important.

You will always get bleeding and live recording - whether on stage or in studio. The trick is also to EQ out the snare as much as you can. This shouldn't be a problem once your mic placing are in that sweetspot. Having a bit of the hat bleeding into the snare or Visa-Versa / for me: that's always tasty 😅 if I may say so. 

Personally, I wouldn't mix with headphones. If I do (which is very rare) I only use them when I had tame some harshness in the vocal to make sure it's not overly compressed with a multiband. You need a really good pair of sensitive headphones for this. Also, when a percussion burried deep in isolation. 

Otherwise: I don't mix with headphones and there's nothing wrong with mixing on headphones - it's a preference thing. 

There's big hit songs out here that was solely mixed on headphones / and users should not be discouraged to use them or to train their ears with. 

There's some really good decent pair of headphone that is cheaper than most entry level Studio Reference Monitors. 

These brands include:

AKG K52

ROLAND - H5

SAMSON SR850 

SENNHEISER HD 200

Just to name a few . . . I actually own all 4. 

I personally LOVE the AKG 712 pro Studio Reference Monitor Headphones. It's a bit more pricier though.

I only have these 5 pairs. 😅

21 hours ago, Nigel Mackay said:

I suspect you are imagining things.

LOL! No he is not. 😂 

@Stewart Cormack I finally had a listen to the sample and there's definitely too much going on the upper high mid region. There's also a lot of ringing cutting through. When this is compressed it starts to spread over the frequency area it occupies. There's a touch of reverb too much on it. Combine this with fast attack and release and a bit of heavy compression - it becomes messy.

Help me if I'm wrong with this.

The last update has brought many satisfactions to my production. Most importantly witb the new interleave on Instrument tracks, bringing me to using less effects on it when creating depth and space turning a specific instrument to mono that does not have a Mono/Stereo knob on it. 

REQUEST: 

So now, my next request is similar to it, on inserting sample, recording and for visual purpose. 

Is it possible to add an option for dedicated Mono and Stereo tracks in a future update too in conjunction with the track we have now? This isolates the instrument and tracks further for you. This is especially true when boucing the track to audio. 

EXAMPLE for REQUEST: When I switch the interleave to Mono, I always take a stereo plugin effect to further isolate the mono track, by narrowing the mono field more it on both Audio and Instrument. 

So if i'm correct, a dedicated track in it's fixed state (Mono or Stereo) will have a greater effect to this both ways. 

As said above, correct me if I am wrong. (I did do some research on this too.) I might not have correctly understood, what I have read. 

Thanks. 

On 3/4/2021 at 10:23 PM, Stewart Cormack said:

For whatever reason, when I export my song from cakewalk the audio sounds terrible. Not sure what the point was in me spending hours mixing and mastering just for it to sound completely different when I export it. Cakewalk seems to have a mind of it's own half the time ahaha, can anyone solve my problem? Just want to finish my song and finally get it released, but I can't because this is delaying the whole process. Frustrating would be an understatement...

I'm gona say this again. When things sounds "clustered" and messy - that means there no sense of balance in your track and compression on the master track is too heavy - but most importantly probably NO HEADROOM. Forget about the Media Players for now. No seriously! throw that out of the discussion. 

Another mistake new users do in the console, because everyone wants to jump straight to it - is to crank the "Console Emulator Module" way up. The TRIM knob there is to trim the increase in dial effect. So if you set the drive to 2db or 3db, you have to turn the Trim knob to the left side and match the drive volume in (-) negative value.

With this comes compression and limiting mistakes. So now do yourself a favour quick, by doing another test. Turn down all the gain/volume to their default position of 0 = Unity, on your compressors. SET your limiters ceiling to -0.3db and the threshold down on 0db.

Watch your meter peaks on the limiter and console strips! and on your MASTER Track.

This is hardly mixing tips I'm giving / and only for testing what's in discussion here. If your meters are barely reaching that -0.3db reading, export the track and have a listen. Give feedback on this. 

I will reply back. 

6 hours ago, Mark Morgon-Shaw said:

@Will_Kaydo

Actually I've been using CW about 25 years and there's loads of stuff I've never used.  Staff View - Video - Screensets - Markers -  Mix Recall - Ripple Editing - Audiosnap - ReWire - Matrix View - Workspaces - Scale Snap....there's probably others !

You're kidding me, right? 😆 

Only things I don't use is: 

Matrix, The now New Arranger (I just can't see the point in them.) I'm using markers less now too. Used Rewire with Sonar LE for Melodyne 2. Other than that, I use everything else. 

13 minutes ago, Stewart Cormack said:

@Promidi @Hatstand @Will_Kaydo I always export it as a WAV file, and I'm fairly new to this so the technical terms might not be entirely correct, but when exported it sounds much heavier and clustered. The midi piano at the beginning sounds as though someone's banging a drum in time with every chord. Plus the entire mix in general sounds much messier and you can't hear the instrumentals as clearly. I'm listening through studio headphones on the default windows media player so maybe that does have something to do with it but I can't be sure. Any thoughts on what I can do to fix it so it sounds the same as it does in cakewalk?

Oh!

Understandable seeing that you said you're fairly new to this thing. It's a whole new world this, yes. Though once you have the basic knowledge of things under your belt, things will fall into place for you. 

Learn about, compression as a whole / but, focus more on the Attack and Release aspect of the self-taught videos. Wish you all the best.

Good luck on future achievements. 

1 hour ago, Osman Hemidov said:

By the way, for developers, a great example of what many users would like

I will gladly pay that every month for all those feature that has been requested many times before right here on the site, where all you got was negative feedback. 

Are you kidding me? In place Bounce to Audio? It's been requested how many times? 

So, worth it. 

11 hours ago, Stewart Cormack said:

For whatever reason, when I export my song from cakewalk the audio sounds terrible. Not sure what the point was in me spending hours mixing and mastering just for it to sound completely different when I export it. Cakewalk seems to have a mind of it's own half the time ahaha, can anyone solve my problem? Just want to finish my song and finally get it released, but I can't because this is delaying the whole process. Frustrating would be an understatement...

Different in how? 

If you're playing it through a player / or any device with custom presets, it will sound different.

Like @Promidi said: More details are needed to why you say it sounds different. 

So here's a member that has done a pretty awesome job creating a feature add-on-fix app, called "Cakefolk for Cakewalk" that I have been running and testing for over 2hours on my laptop creating a test project (of a nursery rhyme😂) for the test. 

So far . . . Some great features that, I had seen in the feedback section, here on the site, he managed to solve.

Example:

• The dreadfull accidental renaming of things in the Browser.

• Resizing of tracks. 

• Bounce Instrument tracks to Audio in place. Great! (This was something I had personally requested to Cakewalk, over a year ago, but the negativity that came with this. Also, it was constantly called "freeze, Huge difference.") 

This is the kind of stuff you want in your DAW! Easy workflow. 

I do have a few respectfull issues with it, but thats my own personal selfish reasons. Like the icon and name of it.

Otherwise: AWESOME JOB HERE! 

Read and check it out HERE

Step recording and Step sequencer are two different things in Cakewalk and in general. 

I'll send one next time. 

2 minutes ago, Noel Borthwick said:

If you are getting crashes you should be reporting them. Its unlikely to be related to the last update. Most issues have been with people having mismatched installs.

I do have the latest update, no mismatch installations. It's been doing it upon just by loading a sample and sometimes insterting an audio track. 

The reason why I haven't been reporting anything, was because this started happening on Sunday. At first I thought, it's nothing, Played a bit of keyboard, didn't record nor work on anything just a free piano I have over two years. 

Closed off cakewalk switched the system off. Few hours went by, went back to kill some time - same thing happened. Just now again, before posting the previous feedback. Like I'd said: it hasn't been doing this in a long time. 

Can't wait for the new update on bug fixes. I've been extremely pleased the past month with the latest update, especially having the interleave on instrument tracks - but, it seems to be "buggy" and crashes more when it's being used. Haven't had this issue in a long-time. 

44 minutes ago, Jonathan Sasor said:

I just sanity checked this, but the installer definitely warns about Windows 7 every time, regardless of if it's a new install or running the update from Cakewalk or BandLab Assistant. This dialog box appears:

I believe what he meant was, to get this prompt message before the downloading process happens through the B.A app.