John

Visual Mixer is a lot fun to fool around with.

I'm from Mars.

RX 7 can remove clipping. It may also be done with Spectral Layers 6 from Steinberg. As mentioned Samplitude Pro X4 also can. True one can not unbake a cake. However, we are not talking about baking. Sound has a frequency(s) with all its overtones. These can be isolated and edited. Who thought we could adjust the note pitch with ease via Melodyne of recorded sound. Anyone heard of autotune?

When you say you have tried going through the options in Kontakt what are you doing in detail? Also in Kontakt have you set the MIDI input port and channel correctly? The keyboard needs to be using the same channel. Channel = 1 to 16. In Kontakt there are channel banks i.e. a, b. c, d, and so on. Be sure its on a.

Actually, members have asked for different or added functionality of many of the tools and features in Sonar and Cakewalk over the years. I'm sure once you get used to the way things work it will seem natural.

I have just the opposite setup. Cakewalk is using an ASIO driver for my digital mixer. Windows uses a separate system with a different driver. In the past I used the built in audio for Windows now I use an SB card. This gives me the use of any audio from MP4s (showing vidieos)or MP3s on the Windows system while all my DAWs and audio Editors use the digital mixer. The two never interact with one another. I have been doing it this way for many years without any problems. Plus I don't need to have my serious audio on when I'm not doing anything with it.

I do know what you mean Larry.

Sonar?

To me this is one of there very best deals. I have to admit Neutron 3 Advanced is really interesting. I haven't gotten around to all the other goodies in the bundle. Thanks Larry for posting this.

One of the most common uses of EQ. Good point Jim.

Before. EdIt I was thinking EQ not the compressor. So I think EQ first than compress. Sorry. Think this EQ is there to control tonal balance. That should be first. The compressor is there to control dynamics . That should be on the output and last. However, it really depends on what you want out of those two plugins. They can interact in interesting ways. Or you can use a dynamic EQ. Really we are at a point where you can do just about anything. It is all about the sound.

I have Ozone 8 Advanced and some others from Izotope but I got the crossgrade for $125 I could not resist. Darn it!!!!!! This place is the most dangerous place on the net. Nuts!!!!!!!! Now its installing the Neutron mothership whatever that is. LOL We weak beings are at the deals forum being weak!

I was hoping no one would ask that.😁 For many and they are right an RMS of around -12 dB is often used. However, my view is let it be what it is. I see no reason to adjust it up wards or not because it isn't at a proscribe level. To me if the over sound is good and nothing is close to clipping yet it is fine otherwise why doggedly force something where it really doesn't want to go simply to do what some others do? I think we should view any of the target dBs as guidelines not hard and fast rules.

This is perhaps the most difficult subject to deal with. One can compress to the point any wisp of musical dynamic is gone. One way I think to think of this is putting each instrument in its own dynamic space without letting any other sound over power it. Try to avoid compression at this stage. I think -6 dB to 0 is much too narrow a band for peaks. What about RMS? Where should that be? I have talked about pulling all the faders to zero or infinity to start off mixing. Than bring each one up so it can be heard. Than adjust each so everything is heard well. ( A note on this is if you are doing many instruments of the same sort use a bus for making a section of them. Balance within the section the balance each section to one another.) Don't worry much about making it louder rather make it balanced. Here EQ can carve out frequency space so instruments aren't masking any other instrument. I think once you have things balanced then you can look to the right over all loudness (RMS) then give the peaks lots of room. I think it takes judgement.

Did you try running Cakewalk as an administrator ?

Its funny how some will assert something as being fact with no facts to back it up. I don't know who started adding "in my opinion" IMO or "in my honest opinion" IMHO, what else could it be in. Someones else's opinion? That is imo. LOL

I stopped bouncing when Cakewalk implemented freeze. I like it better.

I think I can make my own thank you. 😄

I do. I'm still downloading it!😀

Yah but its 1.88GB!!!!

I have SpectraLayers Pro 6 and it did not look for or ask for a previous version.

If you have used the zoom ability in the Ruler it will no longer scroll the now time so you and edit at that point . To engage the Now Time scrolling simply click on the Ruler.

The Time ruler The Time ruler appears in the Track view, Tempo view, Staff view and Piano Roll view. It has several functions, including:  Making a time selection. The Time ruler follows the Snap to Grid settings, if enabled.  Changing the Now time  Adding loop, punch, and pitch markers. You can right-click in the Time ruler to add markers.  Zooming and scrolling. Point the mouse pointer at the top half of the Clips pane or Piano Roll view Time Ruler until the mouse pointer looks like , then drag up/down to zoom horizontally, or left/right to scroll. For details, see “Zooming and scrolling in the Time Ruler” on page 162. In the Track view and Piano Roll view, the Time ruler has the following time display options or formats:  Measures, Beats and Ticks (M:B:T)  Hours, Minutes, Seconds and Frames (H:M:S:F—also called SMPTE)  Samples  Milliseconds

I'm not sure what you are talking about. The Now Time is the line that scrolls across the screen showing where the song is at any giving time when you hit play. There is also Aim Assist that helps one line up clips . It is toggled by hitting X.

Did you hit scroll lock by mistake?