Eric Brad

Hi Jackson - No. Not doing loop recording. But I have found what I think is a workaround. According to the Cakewalk Reference Guide here on this site: "In ASIO mode, the current active ASIO device (remember ASIO can only have one active at a time) reports its “Input Latency.” You can't edit this value. This supposedly accounts for buffer size, A/D Conversion latency, etc. The check box allows you to use this reported value. It is checked by default. In any case, the amount entered into the Manual Offset field will be combined (added to) the reported value if you have it checked" (emphasis is mine) I tried entering the max amount (5000) into the Manual Offset field and that seems to have corrected it so that the latency is no longer noticeable to my ears. Strange, eh?

Hi John Thanks for your input. To address some of your questions: "Hopefully you are using ASIO drivers supplied by Steinberg." Yes I am using the Steinberg provided drivers. Even downloaded the latest available from the Steinberg support website. "This video explains exactly how to set your audio up in Cakewalk." I had actually gone through this video of yours before posting here. It was very helpful in explaining the basics of setup and specifically the ASIO stuff. Thanks for this and all of your videos, many of which I have enjoyed watching! "If you use ASIO you shouldn’t have to adjust timing offset." That was my understanding as well. But I did run into a problem a while back after installing a rival DAW which installed generic ASIO drivers. I searched the forum and found a few posts that suggested checking Preferences. Sure enough the timing master was pointing to the wrong driver. I have changed the setting to my Steinberg interface and deleted the alternate drivers. Any chance there is some residual effect of those drivers somewhere in Preferences or the Registry that might be affecting this? "Note that the visual drawings of the wave form will not be in sync as you perform. Don’t look at that. If you’re looking at anything look at the drum track and mostly use your ears to play in time." Thanks for this observation but it's really the "ear test" this is failing me at this point. I know I'm just not that early that consistently. I can use the Nudge function to move the entire clip forward and everything line up perfectly. So either I'm VERY consistently out of time (slightly early) or something is going on with the latency adjustment. That's what's making me nuts. Again, thanks for taking the time to think about this! Eric

Hi All - This is making me nuts so I hope someone can help. Recorded a bass line and everything seemed to be coming in a hair early. I did some testing in a clean project with only 1 audio track and no effects on the bass. When I record I'm just playing quarter notes and observing the peaks in real time. When I stop recording, the wave is adjusted back by the same small amount every time. I've played with the "Record Latency Adjustment" setting in Preference and it doesn't seem to effect what's happening. I've tried both positive and negative numbers. Matched the reported latency of my Steinberg UR44 as reported (as both positive and negative numbers). I've even tinkered with some of the other settings for Audio but the adjustment seems to go back by the same amount every time so that the notes sound slightly early. If someone can help me understand this I would be grateful. Thanks in advance. Eric

I was thinking about this today - As convenient as the Instruments panel in the browser window is to drag VST instruments over to create new tracks, I have several Track Templates that have split audio or Pro Channel settings baked in so I use Track Templates instead. Wouldn't it be great if we could have the same kind of hierarchical panel for Track Templates as well? That way my most commonly used templates would be available for drag-n-drop rather than having to right-click, insert track template, choose template type, choose template. Thoughts?

Hoping the collected wisdom can help me here. Just got a Maschine Mikro Mk3 and would like to use it to control AD2 and other instruments. I've followed the instructions in this thread but was not successful in getting midi to record. I've also checked out some posts on Native Instruments but none have provided any success. I would really appreciate any guidance here. It's been a frustrating 48 hours and I just feel like I'm missing something really obvious. Thanks in advance. Eric

This is called "Scrubbing" in the DAW world. Here's a link to the docs on how to use the "Scrub" tool. CAUTION! I just tried this and I get a "white screen" fail if the audio engine is running. This has been reported in other threads here. It seems to work for some and not for others. http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Tools.17.html Hope that helps.

Agreed. Completely flawless update even with a project open (but saved).

Thanks for the input John! I did, in fact, have some ReaRoute ASIO drivers installed (but not enabled) in Cakewalk. Not sure how they got on the system but no matter. I removed the drivers and reset the timing master to my Steinberg UR44 and things have improved SIGNIFICANTLY. I'm still getting a few millisecond shift backward after recording (barely noticeable). I'm going to run some loopback tests as suggested in your video. Thanks for this and for the very helpful videos! Eric

Hi All - I'm sure this is a "duh!" kind of problem but here it is: I'm recording bass and guitar parts using ASIO but on playback, the parts are playing back several ticks early. It's an overall timing problem. I can nudge the entire clip to line up on the beat and things work fine from there. Did I mess up some setting or other? Why don't these parts line up after recording? I don't remember ever having to nudge clips before. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks Eric

Hi Nigel - Thanks! They were in fact the actual hardware synths. The piece was written and produced between 1994 and 2002 and went through several iterations. For example, I began writing it on an Ensoniq SQ-1 and Roland D-50 back in the day. The version I posted had some minor tweaks in 2001-2002 and sounds replaced with The Kurz and the Roland JV-2080. I've pretty much moved to all soft synths at this point but I still have the Kurz and JV if I ever want to pull them out. I'm pretty happy with what can be done in soft synths and samplers, especially within CbB.

Resurrected this from 25 years of tinkering on various Cakewalk releases. This is the 2002 version that I finally settled on. Title: "Across the Longest Night" Synths: Kurzweil K2500 and Roland JV-2080 https://www.bandlab.com/ericbrad/across-the-longest-night-11d9fef7?revId=e06d495a-6949-eb11-a607-0050f28a2802 No elves were harmed in the making of this music.

Hey all. I've been fighting with this for a week now. I did an upgrade on Band-in-a-Box 2020 to their October version 734 update and ever since I cannot load the VST3 version of their plugin. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Band-In-A Box as well as CbB. I am running the most current versions of both. The error popup reads: "The following VST plug-in failed to load: (80004002)" and shows the location of the VST3 file." Clicking OK yields another popup that reads: "Failed to insert soft synth. The synth may not be properly installed." Unfortunately I've had no response from PG Music (Band-in-a-Box) and hopefully someone here has some insights to remedy this. By the way, the plugin loads and performs fine in the REAPER DAW. So...I'm out of ideas. Thanks for any help!

Thanks for the link John. Checking out the solutions from there. Much appreciated Eric

Weird issue that started after the 2020.11 update for me. Sometimes when I close my CbB application, the executable cakewalk.exe stays in memory and that prevents me from launching the app again. I can open the Task Manager and kill the process and then everything works just fine. But it's a pain in the butt. Is this normal behaviour or has something messed up with my install? Thanks in advance for any advice!

Is it possible to generate guitar charts/lead sheets in CbB Staff view like the one below? I know you can place chord names or even grids above a staff, but there doesn't seem to be a "slash" option, only various clefs. Thanks in advance, Eric