Will.

Isn't there a setting under control surfaces in preferences for this? I think cakewalk sets this to default for "surgical" writing purposes. Will have to look into this when I'm at studio again. I don't have a control surface at home.

The "mic fader" you're looking for (assuming you're using a USB mic as described in your post,) is in your windows sound tab. Look it up. Get a volume that you like and keep it there. 14% should be enough if you're on windows 7. Have no idea if windows 10 fixed their issue and it's compatibility with those usb mics.

This is purely a windows issue. I have a friend with basically the same specs (just two gen lower.) Normally what happens is, for some reason when the DAW does crash (which is often caused by a free or old 3rd party plugins) windows keep a copy open. To get rid of this. Ctrl+Alt+Del will bring the task menu, where you'll find Cakewalk to still be open under the progams tab. Make sure your playback and hardware buffer size are sync'd with that of your interface. By default cakewalk sets this to 256ms both playback and hardware. Lastly: Make sure windows is up to date. Follow steps below. Follow step 2 and 4 - especially if you're running Windows 10 build 2004 (Which is also the latest version.) It helps a lot.

Totally hear you Glen. My concern with this is (as I've said in a previous thread on this,) that it does not project the image the same for all forms of devices when using a surround bus in that sense. I've experiment with it before, gave it to a client and certain elements didn't come through on a device she was listen on. That's my issue with using a surround bus, with this idea. Most clients get's their tracks played on radio. Plus, i don't have a surround setup to hear the image in - so i'm a bit cautious and staying away from that buss, after one incident. 😅

The link should be right now.

Should be right now.

I'm going to take another approach on this idea - maybe it'll generate some kind of positive conversation on it. Imagine being able to change the stereo image manually to your desired liking from mono to stereo throughout the entire image field on an Aux or Bus track without the use of a "width/widening" plugin. The ability to move an effect/file source straight on the track itself (mainly effects) from mono to 10% all the way 100% Stereo or "VICE VERSA" in the stereo field - especially on reverbs that don't have a "stereo" function, such as waves Rverb; H-Reverb and free reverbs like, Cloud Seed and the Leslie Sandford Reverb. The channel tool is awesome, so is the Sonitus phase plugin, but I think this will help a lot of producers with processing issues, as the use of these plugins won't be a need if it gets implemented in the DAW self.

Anyone noticing some change in the sound quality of an effect when using the channel tools on it?

It all comes down to one thing everyone is saying ~ "comfortability." Where do you feel most comfortable -- at home right? If you don't feel comfortable with the DAW you're using, it will never become "The Best" DAW. The rest will be second nature. Like Mr @Craig Anderton said, it's like a car. If you over-rev your car, you will damage the piston and valvetrain, and if you don't know how to read your gas/petrol gauge, you will stuck on that freeway, (Being "limited" in your DAW of choice) and telling yourself the product you're using lacks certain qualities. So just like your brand new car, once you've become accustomed to it's features and abilities, certain qualities you haven't noticed upon it's purchased, starts to make their appearances and become enjoyable - even with that slight over steer it possesses, which can easily be controlled and handled, once you get use to it.

Using drum replacer in your projects can be this easy. Turn any sample to drums - even vocals. https://youtu.be/VAK-TjlbZ8o

Thanks Jim. I'll try to narrate and add text to the video next time. There's a lot of content coming soon so stay tuned. Thanks for the support.

https://youtu.be/hdKonOG10DE

Trying to build up my old channel. Sidechain

@InstrEd Two of these next to each other build into my desk, with that main monitor against the wall -- definitely happening as soon as Surface Studio 3 drops. 😢

All I know is, I'm not changing back to Mac ever again, I'm loving my microsoft surface 3 laptop for personal use too much. I've also been sitting heavily on the idea to upgrade my studio machine to the Surface studio 3 - with one main monitor against the wall, when microsoft launch it soon.

😅 Shot myself in the foot with this one. 😂

Yeah. That makes more sense. Like I said, I'm not using this, so I'm not familiar with it - just happen to over heard another team figuring this out, on a visit to a friends label and newly build studio. Perhaps @MediaGary can try this again with one Primary Interface Asio Drivers?

Glad it could help in some way. Try to clear your machine's "registry" from all Asio files too -- including Asio4All. Make sure there's no traces of them and reinstall ODeus Asio link - perhaps that will create some sort of improvement (Usually the case.) I'm curious to know what affect the network speed might have on this? Different locations, different signal. My city had heavy thunder and lighting rain storms 3 days ago, and it interfered with my 5G connection - slowing it down a bit. One of the reasons I'm hesitant trying this out.

Pleading request to highlight only the tracks from which you double click on to the last track/bus. The drag and highlight tracks or bus to mute or solo together is cool and been great for years - double click on any track is even better, and became a favourite in my workflow as it select every track instantly - cool way for easy mute and solo with Ctrl (but the downside is, it selects every track.) So it got me thinking, what if you have 64 tracks, but only want to solo or mute every track from track 12 to 64 - wouldn't it be great to just double click on track 12 to select every track from 12 up to 64 by holding down Ctrl without having to move the window to select ever track/bus and leave every track from 11 down track 1 not selected? That would be a simple but awesome feature to have too.

This right here could be your problem. Everything you install from your second drive get's installed on your OS drive and in return taking space - therefore causing your SSD to run slower/block, when reading your second drive to grab the samples on playback, causing the dropouts (assuming the 1TB is not an SSD as you didn't mention if it is.) My dropouts disappeared since I've copied all my samples on the same drive - keeping the originals on my external. My projects get saved every 1min automatically on my OS driver, but do the necessary manual Ctrl+S to save it on my second drive. I also only increase sample rates when I bounce/render/export the final product on both plugs and CbB. In return NO DROPOUTS for me on 60 + tracks.

1: Choose the interface Asio driver. 2:Than click on the Asio box at the bottom. 3: Set to desired latency. 10ms for 44.1K is the default option that Cakewalk choose self for latency.

Group your tracks to an Aux track.

Not a bad idea, but it's gona take a hack of a coding relationships between CbB and Vst manufactures for this to work.

You sure? Cause the prochannel clip indicator is really that good. If a plugin clips and I mean any plugin (not only the channel modules,) the indicator on the pro channel lights up red.

Curious to know how updates will work on this.