John

The Hosts had no personal control over what was uploaded or where it was stored. I'm not sure where you got the idea we had such control. Any host could moderate any forum.

I haven't use my StudioMix for many decades. I bought it way before Sonar and had Cakewalk Professional  which I updated Pro Audio.  It is MIDI only and there was no USB in those days. I'm sure there is a template for it in control surfaces once you tell Cakewalk what ports you are using for it. You need an input MIDI and output MIDI port. 

The deals forum is and has always been optional. You can buy or not. It is OK to express an opinion about the product being posted but as with all other forums here attacking persons is not allowed. We hope and expect civility and respect to all who post. Because this has been off the rails with personal attacks I am locking this thread. 

1 minute ago, InstrEd said:

I don't think he/she was a troll either.  Once you start to use CbB or another similar full featured DAW for a time you can switch pretty easily. It is just the beginning learning is not that easy.    But if you do stick with it the rewards are

Yes it is amazing at what you can do with most modern DAW's.      What my daughters do with video editors blows my mind. I never got into any deep video yet. Photography?  Yep and that took a good amount of time to learn IMHO!

Totally agree.

Craig I agree with the notion that there is work to working with MIDI and audio. No one is born with how to work with it or with a computer.  I go back to my Army basic training when my drill Sargent said " we did it and you will do it too." This was said at the beginning of the day  usually in the dark and after he had told us what we were going to do that day.  Will can be replaced with "can".  He was right, we did do it. It was his and the training cadre's work with us that kept me alive in Vietnam. 

Anything of value requires work.  Cakewalk is an easy program to learn compared to many others but it is for those that want to learn. 

Thee is a manual that you should read. Garageband is a very simple program that comes with Macs. Cakewalk is more like Logic. Cakewalk needs to be on a Windows machine. If you're  running it on a Mac I can imagine you would have problems. 

Excellent thread! I have been computing for as long as there have been PCs. I build my own. I learned stuff from this thread. Thank you. 

This is another reason why the Cakewalk forum is so darn good.

15 hours ago, Bassfaceus said:

yep can do that ...

the way you are suggesting is to take trax that dont really need to be put in busses

1x bass 1 x acoustic guitar 1x electric guitar 1x voc 

which are already on separate trax

just so i can have the benefit of being able to solo  a buss and other random trax

call me intuitive, but it doesnt make sense to me from a work flow POV

Yes.. Buses are cheep. You could have an instrument bus for single instruments. You have a lot of leeway. 

The above from Millzy is the way I do it.  Its a good practice to have a separate bus for each type of instrument.   There is no reason to be stingy with buses. 

2 hours ago, mibby said:

FYI folks,  don't even bother replying to this guy "mlad 72".  "mlad 72" complained about this same gd thing over on KVR for OVER TWO YEARS and never once contacted Melda support about the issue to give them the opportunity to look at his account and fix the problem.   For some reason he doesn't  want Melda looking at his account...  🤔

The thread was eventually shut down because it was going nowhere, and all he did was complain and wouldn't do anything about it. Obviously the same thing is about to happen here, now that he has showed up...

Later.

We don't allow personal attacks. Please don't do this in the future. 

Basically, the faster the better. I found that core speed is more important than the number of cores. SSD is far better than a mechanical drives. More memory  is better than less.   Most important is a good solid audio interface.  

Check your ASIO buffer settings.  It can be too high or too low. Find the sweet spot.

I'm not a fan of the Monkees but just for fun I wondered what I would like to hear of the song. So here is my version.

I'm a Believer 2.mp3

There is another way.  Importing the audio from the audio from the Cakewalk audio folder under the project. Make sure all the audio is set up as full tracks not clips. 

Michael I believe you are satisfied with what you get with the TTS-1. It may be that you have not heard what can be done with MIDI in the modern era. With samples for a single instrument running into multi GB size files for samples the ability to create a fantastic sound is practically unlimited. There are completely free samples and sampler players that are very good indeed.  Heck, Sonar came with Dimension Pro which was a very good sampler. Cakewalk doesn't come with a bunch of  instruments Sonar did. Without having tried what is out there you can't know what you are missing.    

Also the method you outline of creating MIDI with a sound module is unusually difficult. There are simpler ways to get a really good sound from MIDI. 

When you say use the "brute force method" you are using a program change to select the right program to play back.  Is this correct? if so that is the way it should be done. 

Unless you tell the synth or synth module what patch to use it will default to the first patch.  This can be done by inserting a patch change at the proper point in the MIDI track. TTS-1 is a software version of the Roland Sound Canvas and follows the General MIDI protocol as well as some of the Roland GS protocol.  I would invest in better soft synths and samplers. Try Kontakt for example and notice how much better the sound is. 

TTS-1 is OK for auditioning MIDI  or composing but not so good for its sound quality.  Nor is it a substitute for a real hardware Sound Canvas.  You have a massive amount of software VSTi virtual sound modules available that will run rings around the TTS-1.  

I like to think of it as mono source to mono track. Stereo source to stereo track. 

Read the first manual of the first synth. Then go on the the next one. If you are asking about how to use a software synth in Cakewalk that is a simple thing to answer. 

The M32 should also have a user manual with how to connect it to a DAW. 

We have a lot of very good and knowledgeable people here that can answer almost anything but your best bet is to narrow down the question/s to a reasonable size. Be more pointed in the question.   

"Maybe even something we don't know about yet."

Oh great, another piano!🤕

I like the pianos that come with Kontact. I was tipped by our Deals forum about a free piano from Melda called Monastery Grand. This impressed me right off the bat. Its a sampled piano of over 3.1 GB size.

I am very pleased with its sound.  I already have most of the pianos mentioned in this thread.  All of them are very good. This one is very nice, though.  

I have always used Windows Pro. I have Pro on my desktop and my laptop. 

There is also clip FX. That is very useful. A section of audio can be isolated from the track to add FX to it and nothing else.  Very cool feature. Its been there a long time.  

3 hours ago, David Debertin said:

I'm still stumped. can anyone  get a track like the attached file to actually play sounds? And if so how?  

 

Use the Synth Rack to load a synth in this case TTS1 will be best. Make sure the output of the MIDI track/s is/are going to the TTS1 input. You do this as if you are working with audio. Its the same for MIDI except instead of having the MIDI going to an audio out you want it to go to a synth to trigger it for sound. That sound can then be sent to the audio out. 

Remember MIDI has no sound it is data that is sent to a VST synth or to a hardware synth to produce audio. 

32 minutes ago, Cristiano Sadun said:

Mastering has always been the same, putting on any polish that's necessary to make things sound as good as they can. Which with a very good mix means almost  no polish at all.  Bit like photoshop - you pull the contrast a little, increase or decrease the saturation and so on, so your printed photo looks as great as it can be (which with a poor photo, will still be not so much). If the photo is truly great out of the box, you're just Instagramming it  

 

That is simply not true. It is truer in the digital world to a very limited degree but not at all true in the time of vinyl records where the term was first used. 

19 minutes ago, brandon said:

 

Just out of interest does anyone know if mono recordings and early stereo recordings  mastered or simply just 'prepared' for radio/home systems?

 

I'm not sure what you are asking.  If you mean what did DJs play it was often a record that you or I could buy. Other times it was a 12 inch record that was not easy to get for the home.  Nor could we play it.  later cassettes were used.  "Made for radio" has been thrown around for a while. It would depend on whether it was  AM or FM.  Both use compression but they can easily do that at the station.  Some FM stations in the past prided themselves on being HiFi and using only a very little compression. 

I can't say what if anything was done to records for radio play in the mastering process. I really doubt anything special was done. Also each station had its own way of broadcasting with often custom equipment.  

Comments from others would be very useful.