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  1. Heres the thing: We sometimes forget to do oversampling in a plugin or virtual instrument on a track. If im correct here - ive watched a video on the latest release of STone where they said, the DAW does its own oversampling per track under the hood, where as CbB does this per project? 

    The point is - it only takes one plugin to introdue these aliasing artifacts in the bounce/render stage. Sometimes oversampling are not needed, where you can fix this  with Lookahead if the plugin provides it. 

    This can also be a wrong export setting issue, such as wrong buffer size, sample rate and dithering presets. If can also an import sample rate conversion of a sample that was used - even in a track bounce. 

  2. 51 minutes ago, jkoseattle said:

    Yes that is the model. In Audacity, the input and output are set up "Speakers (Focusrite USB Audio)" and that's all I've done. If I try to set Recording to something else from the list, it doesn't work at all.

    But if the Focusrite doesn't have a loopback feature (something I vaguely recall come to think of it), then how might I have been doing it in Cakewalk before??

    Highlight the section you want to loop record, record your information and then drag the wav clips onto its own tracks. Some clips will be greyed out, highlight these clips and press the lettet "K." 

    Do you have your drivers installed to get rid of your clicks and pops. 

  3. Besides pushing faders and checking low end all the time - have you considered that you might be over compressing your individual tracks and Master bus? Compressors are great tools to have in your arsenal, but it can ruin your dynamics in your music.

    If a track doesnt require a compressor, why use it? Have you try swapping a compressor out for a saturator to trim some of your peaks? Why lower the "Gain knob" when its not needed? Are your pannings sitting in their own spaces in your Master sessions? Have you check for excessive stereo information? Why use reverb on every track? Have you tried to swap a reverb for a delay? Are you heavy handed on low pass filters? Why use downward compression when upward compression might be needed? Are you recording at the proper gain stage? Why turn down gain stage volumes when you can move away from the mic, or closer to it to sit well above the noise floor? 

    Well, dear friend you came to the right place! Your questions are well taken care of. This message will self destruct oneday when this forum dont exsist anymore. T&Cs apply.

    Aint that a pickle! 

    Right. 

    Jokes aside. You need to consider all that was mentioned above. HOT TIP! Before you crank those faders, almost everytime when you make a cut, boost, high pass or low pass with an eq your levels rises too with your kicks and bass tracks. This can lead to sum muddiness tricking your brain in thinking your levels are low. Almost always EQ to the key of your track.

    Again: if it is not needed why use it? If you can EQ, Compress, Reverb, Delay within you Midi/Vst Instrument why use a plugin when you've already gotten the polish/desired taste to your sound? Dont over kill your peaks and dynamics. 

    If it aint broke, why fix it? 

    [Soliloquy] Did i drink coffee just now? Oh-well, kitchen here I come. 

  4. 1 hour ago, Glenn Stanton said:

    a simpler solution is use anti-spam filters & rules - new users need to wait 8 hours before posting or read the "rules before posting" sticky and click "like" etc would likely prevent a lot of spamming.

     

    They will spam the forum 8hours later "when they get approved." It has been seen doing on many sites.  You register as a legit user and once you're accepted, you run the algorithm to spam the site with your ads. 

    I still think an option for users to move spams to a "Spam" folder would be a best option. The mods can then com in and do their job by confirming them and delete it. 

  5. 13 hours ago, Rski said:

    I was using Cakewalk since the spread sheet inception of Home Studio ... when the UI appeared horazontal. When Gibson’s packed in the support, I wasn’t worried, other DAW companies offered reduced price packages … so I begun recording with a least likely competitor, loaded Band Lab in your earlier years, stayed with X3e

    But I have quite a collection of music generated on Sonar platform that been my efforts from me or other artist (midi)

    My old Sonar build had its quirks, all DAW do. But my computer is aging, just like me and my next PC will have windows 10 or 11 so I down loaded BandLab’s 2022.11 and give her a try, I’m’ impressed … here is why.

    I installed on win 7 on a six core 2011 PC desktop, opened the program and loaded a file, oh my plug in didn’t migrate .. My plug ins are scattered in several places over a dozen years … taken awhile to sort out, regrouped in folder categories, more organized.

    The overall UI is great to work with, cool features were easily appreciated and the looks are pleasing. My only quirk with the 3Xe was the handling of multiple strips to assign drum synth multiple outputs and I was impressed with the virtual instrument handling, the default of vertical sound meters was an overlooked feature can easily see the track activity.

    I was surprised some song files of yester years, tweaked the mix like the mix down in the lower right corner, nice. The start up past project display is awesome

    Great job guys

    Welcome to CbB. Stay tuned to this forum. We're getting a new DAW soon and an upgrade to Sonar very soon. 

  6. I think the best solution here would be to create a "Spam Folder" in the forum and gove access to users to only "MOVE" these posts to the folder for a mod to come in and confirm its spam and delete it.

    In my Time-Zome I saw spam that was 4hrs old sitting without being removed. 

    This option can be added next to the title of the post under the 3 dots tab next to the post for users to quickly move these posts to the  spam folder for a mod to confirm and delete them.  

  7. On 8/6/2023 at 8:01 PM, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

    I've been running into this issue quite frequently as described by the title. Cakewalk really doesn't seem to be capable of making looped events which are in odd measures.

    For example, here's a measure in 19/8 I'm trying to make a looped pattern of:

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    With it selected as it is and making sure it completes the measure, performing `Ctrl+L` to loop it results in Cakewalk removing the last 8th note of the measure:

    image.png.ef5db9c2390169f84babd26ae8e5b44b.png

    If I try to prevent this behavior by creating the loop by selecting one extra note of the next measure, it will simply ignore that and clip the last 8th note as it that selection didn't exist.

    If I extend the event to include that extra 8th note with the provision it will be clipped once the loop it's made, that empty 8th note space is added as part of the loop. WTF:

    image.png.3aa3a29099c25b5d7167f912d8c1a4c9.png

    If I make that a two bar pattern, it makes the loop normally. WTF #2:

    image.png.a90fc314021310f30e0eff57b0765023.png

    Considering the complication Cakewalk already impinges upon you if you want to deal with multiple time signature changes, why looping a pattern in that format is inconsistent like that? Why does it clip the last note of a measure even when it's not invading the next measure? Why does it add an empty note space when you go over?

    BPM, Project snap settings, Piano roll snap PLUS Piano roll Grid view all work as a team. 

    In order to have your loop running, you have to set your grid view according to your desired snap setting in your PRV and to loop this is highly dependent on your project snap settings. 

  8. Just done some 30 mins test and its working fine here. Did crazy effects with it on Aux/Bus and directly on the tracks. Works fine. 

    Perhaps its doing it on a specific favorable synth you like? Try with different tracks/synths in a new "test" project. 

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  9. 1 hour ago, sadicus said:

    Project Meter Options Playback:  Peak / Hold Peak
    42 db Range (default)

    1) The Track Meter shows a "-3"  and a "0"
    yet the height of the Graph (Track Audio WAV File) is visually showing a spike  at "0"

    2) The Track Meter shows Peak at "-11.6"

    I thought the "Peak" is the tallest part of the Graph (visual spikes in audio)
    Why is the Graph visually showing a peak of "0" and the Meter showing "-11.6"?

     

    cbb_Meters_1.jpg

    By default CbB shows the Peak value and not the RMS value. This can be changed. 

     

    Changing meter options. 

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  10. On 6/11/2023 at 11:38 AM, msmcleod said:

    What we're really looking for here is examples of where it's easier (or perhaps more intuitive) to do a particular task in another DAW compared to doing the same task in CbB. 

    So we're talking about workflow features that CbB already has, and how the workflow could improve.  One example per post would help, describing how it's done in a particular DAW vs the same operation in CbB.

    In that case: VARISPEED. Cakewalk already has the feature. It only need some Automation added to it.  This can be done on two places. 

    I can sent you a video . . . 

  11. I am loving the new mobi look. It has a way more modern look with new information on the page you enter. Pretty sweet. Can do with some improvement on the extra space and bigger logo. 

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  12. 4 minutes ago, Lord Tim said:

    From what I understand, this new scalable interface is like a year's worth of update alone, even if nothing else was added. I know that doesn't sound particularly sexy or groundbreaking to differentiate it from CbB but the ramifications of this going forward is huge. But I'd be super surprised if there wasn't a heap of other stuff being done aside from that too.

    Totally understandable. A scalable interface is what we have requested before and want. Pretty sure there will be one or two extra features added. I wouldnt be unhappy if nothing gets added now. The scalable interface is all thats needed for now, so the bakers can take as much time needed before the launch. 

    I'm just curious on the new facelift and design. 

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