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6 hours ago, pwalpwal said:

rewire - load live as a rewire client in cw (cw as rewire host)

I think that depends on the version, I think live 11 dropped support for rewire. 

1 hour ago, InstrEd said:

I never got Amplitude as a keyboard player. What use would it have for me as I don't play guitar.  Would I benefit from it. I have most of the other stuff  and for me it would probably be better to sit this group buy out.

I guess you don't play Fender Rhodes? I usually think of them as paired up with Fender Twin amps. Some guitar fx - wah, fuzz, chorus, phaser, and so on. Depends on what kind of music you play. I think of Hammonds paired with Leslies. I'm not a keyboard player; I'm sure there are others.

It's basically right except for the last bit. Input echo echos the input so you hear the fx, but it doesn't stop latency. Use small IO buffers and low latency fx to try and minimize latency.

3 hours ago, tecknot said:

Since Synthmaster is currently on sale, I will swoop on it and keep my eyes on Omnisphere, if it ever goes on sale (that one heavy price tag). 

I got Omnisphere on sale at musicians friend during one of their 15 or 20% sales. I got it years ago. It seems like I may have paid for an upgrade once and I paid for a moog extension, other than that all the updates have been free. I think it was well worth the money, 

The first thing that comes to mind is eq. It's likely you need to eq the guitar for the mix. What sounds good by itself changes in the mix. If it's a lead guitar part - guitarists often boost the mids (around 500 hz). It could also be a problem with dynamics, you can add a compressor to tame the peaks, either before the IF or immediately inside the DAW. If you do it in the DAW then add some make up gain in the compressor and it will raise the level of the track.

14 hours ago, fallenturtle said:

I've been thinking of upgrading my Steinberg UR22 to an Motu M4 to use with Cakewalk. Can you route separately to all 4 outputs? I was thinking it would be cool if I could route a vocal track out of 3 or 4 through an external vocoder while using outputs 1 and 2 for my monitors.

Yes, the M4 has 4 audio in and 4 audio out.

1 hour ago, notato8 said:

As far as MIDI goes, the best options I was able to find for under $200 were the PreSonus AudioBox USB 96, PreSonus AudioBox iTwo, M-Audio Air 192/6,  Behringer UMC204HD, and Motu M4. Are any of these a particularly good/bad choice, and did I miss any other good options? 

I've been using the Motu M4 on my DAW with CbB, Ableton Live and stand alone apps and haven't had any problems with it.

1 hour ago, notato8 said:

What do you mean by "excellent ASIO drivers?" I wasn't aware of the existence of anything other than ASIO4ALL! (which is what I tried using, and had used successfully on my last computer)

ASIO4ALL is an asio driver that uses WDM to access devices so it isn't as fast as devices that have asio drivers developed for them. If you want to minimize latency you want a device that comes with an asio driver.

If you don't have a guitar preamp you'll want an interface for guitar, something like the axe io.

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/axeio/

You'll want one of the inputs to have a 1 MOhm impedance. Many IFs will say hi Z input, but they won't be 1 MOhm. An under powered laptop will have more latency. If your laptop is under powered you may want to consider an amp modeler like the nux mg 30. It will give you amp modeling + fx and an audio IF.

https://www.nuxefx.com/mg-30.html

3 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

It also says included 5 cab impulses so you can go direct to PA.  Uh...without amps included what is the point?

I like an amp that has a light crunch, but you can't use reverb with it and you can't do much with delay except a slap back, if that, so if the reverb and delays take a line level signal you can take a DI from an amp and output the pedal to the PA.

12 minutes ago, Mike Davies said:

Is there an enhancements "suggestions box" for the developers anywhere ? 

It's the Feedback Loop section in these forums.

I think you have it backwards. CbB is audio editing SW. You can import video, but you would compose to the video, not edit the video to the music, you need video editing SW if you want to do that. Video editing SW will let you import still images and manipulate their duration as well as import audio. There may be SW that let's you do both...

19 minutes ago, Keith R. Starkey said:

I'm just a bit unsure as to trying out several DAWs. The work that goes into learning how each works is going to be, perhaps, a bit too much for me, as opposed to finding one and sticking with it for some time. I'm just trying to figure out what will work with my brain, not being a techie and such. We'll see.

It does take time to learn a DAW. I started with cakewalk in 1990 and I'm sure part of the reason I continue to use it is because I'm familiar with it. I also use Ableton Live. HW often comes with lite versions of DAWs and I usually kick the tires, but nothing has compelled me to switch yet. Good luck.

You can start here.

Do you have an audio IF or are you using the onboard HW? If you have an audio IF have you installed its driver?

13 hours ago, Keith R. Starkey said:

Cakewalk used to cost several hundreds of dollars, but it died under its then current developer (Sonar, I believe), and was then picked up by Bandlab. They decided to continue the develpment and, to boot, not charge for it. It's quite the program, as I understand it. 

The last company that owned cakewalk prior to Bandlab was Gibson, prior to that Roland owned it, and it was originally developed as a midi sequencer by Greg Hendershott back in the late 80's and he went on to develop it into a full fledged DAW. His company was Twelve Tone Systems. IIRC the original DAW was Cakewalk and later the name was changed to Sonar so that's a product name. I think it should be fine for your purpose. Each DAW has strong and weak points so it's a good idea to try several.

On 6/20/2021 at 5:00 PM, John Vere said:

The correct name for the classic sound is a Envelope Filter. 
A stomp box like my Mutron or my MXR are not swishy. If the effect is swishy it’s not a Envelope filter. 
A proper Envelope filters are voltage driven. The harder you pick the deeper the filter goes. So it’s like you are in control of the Wha with you hand not your foot. This is why they are a very cool expressive effect      
Because the proper sound is from your interaction with your guitar I would not want to use this effect as a VST  I can’t see getting the correct  reaction  I don’t think it’s possible to have a VST react to voltage  you would just peak your signal level 

The voltage of an audio signal is also called the amplitude as well as volume and that exists in the digital domain.

Note that Millivolts (volts) is the v axis in the picture above. The red line below represents the envelope of the signal displayed. From my experience dsp envelope followers work fine.

Just like with HW you have to adjust the gain of the signal and the gain of the envelope follower.

45 minutes ago, Will_Kaydo said:

Theres a difference between Factory libraries that requires them to be in the same space and Path as the installation and custom libraries. Some are 12GB by factory. 

This is not true for Kontakt. In Native Access you can change the content directory to a different drive. They show that if you look at their help. You can also move the Kontakt sample libraries after they are downloaded. I just upgraded from Komplete Select to Komplete and moved the Kontact libraries to another SSD. You just have to repair the links in Native Access after you move the libraries. FWIW.

I don't know the answer to that. I have 2 buffers chosen in "buffers in playback Que". The various asio drivers I have don't seem to have a safe mode option.

If you want to get greedy you can use higher sample rates. The higher the sampling rate the more samples there are per second so the same number of samples are smaller units of time. Depending on your current sampling rate you could try going up to 96k hz or 192k hz. 

9 hours ago, Kawika said:

Jim, No I was not using headphones.  I have wondered about the zero latency for Goliath, as it is printed on their hardware. So it is when monitoring via headphones (good to know)?

I think I'm good now: just sliding the buffer all the way to fast worked (from  RT 23.3 ms to 3.9 ms).

Zero latency is also called direct monitoring - you hear the input to the audio interface, not the output from the DAW so you wouldn't hear any plugins. Glad that worked.

If the buffer is too small you may get clicks and pops. So you may need to make the buffer a little larger depending on whether or not you've optimized your computer for audio performance. Good luck.

The first place to look is the audio IF. Are you using asio and is your asio buffer as small as possible while still being stable? I normally run at 96 samples, but if I shutdown the lan 64 is stable. Roundtrip latency in CbB is reporting 9.8 msec at 96 samples. Some plugins have more latency than others - linear phase can be pretty bad. Start with no plugins and tune your system and see if it's ok. Then add plugins one by one and see if one is particularly bad. People have different ideas about how much latency is acceptable.

14 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

Interesting. What interface do you have that has an ASIO driver with a shared mode? The ones I've seen only allow one app at a time to use the ASIO driver, although I find I can still run other apps in WASAPI with varying results.

What John said. What I meant was open CbB with asio and CbB setup to share. Although I just checked and I don't have suspend audio engine checked so that isn't necessary. 

FWIW I open biab with asio and create a song and then open CbB with asio setup to share. Click the DAW button in biab in the upper left corner and it shrinks biab and keeps it on top and you can select instruments from below the menu bar and drag and drop into CbB. So far I've just been doing it with audio, I haven't tried that with midi tracks.

14 minutes ago, antler said:

Kontakt Player libraries that you download from within Native Access will install into the Content location, as set in the Native Access preferences. If you want to relocate them, you can do so after they've downloaded. Just remember to re-run NA and 'repair' the libraries, pointing to the new location.

Unfortunately it's just Content location, that's not broken down so you can select a different location just for Kontakt samples. I just upgraded from select to full and copied all the Kontakt libraries to an ssd.

Good to know, thanks for pointing that out.