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On 3/6/2020 at 6:52 AM, sadicus said:

Looking at trying the looping features in Cakewalk for live performance. I'm reading up on this today but looking for advice or tips from anyone that has experience doing this.

Use Ableton Live or a good pedal. I have an EDP, but it's mono so I use Live 9.

2 hours ago, Jim Fogle said:

@Bill Phillips & @User 905133, Again, I apologize.  I understand using an impulse response to recreate a space but I am not familiar with using an IR to recreate the sound of an instrument.  Thank you for your responses.

I'm not a DSP guy; there are people on the forum who know a lot more about audio than I do, but I'll step in anyway. Two digital filters are FIR and IIR which are Finite Impulse Response and Infinite Impulse Response so impulse responses are used in filters. I think speaker IRs are basically filtering (EQing).

6 hours ago, Pragi said:

Thanks for the hind.

Where can I find the reedem code for the I lok registration,

I don´t see it ?

 

It looks like it won't be available until the 14th of Feb. The page that has the download link has an activation code or did when I dl'd it.

Or from the pulsar website

https://pulsar.audio/smasher

15 minutes ago, Tobias Saaby Nielsen said:

Hey everyone.

I'm fairly new to Cakewalk and recording in general, so I do not know if this is a possibility, but I want to use cakewalk as a live looper station. In Garageband they have the feature 'merge recordings' (I think its called), that kinda works like a loop station, but I wonder if Cakewalk has such feature.  I haven't really done any "research" or experimented an awful lot with cakewalk so maybe it's an obvious question. I have a looper station - the Looper RC - 300. But it seems to be much more smooth when using a DAW for looping.

CbB has matrix view which is non-linear. You can try that. I use Live for looping.

1 hour ago, Rick Derer said:

I am recording pretty much at full volume but my final tracks are nowhere near as loud as commercial tracks. Is this where mastering comes in?

Yes. I'm not a recording engineer so I don't know the correct terms, but you need to consider loudness in terms or RMS or an average over time. You can have a peak that goes up to 0 dB, but the average volume over a second might be -12 dB. This is one area where compressors and limiters are used. I use both compressors and limiters when I master.

22 minutes ago, David Baay said:

Define "better".

Exactly.

I updated to win10 at the end of 2019 and after optimizing win10 I don't see much difference. My audio I/F doesn't have win10 drivers, but it's running as well as it did in win7.  In terms of stability, buffer sizes, cpu usage, and so on CbB seems fine under win10.

I use it, it's a lot of fun.

3 hours ago, Tune said:

I downloaded the file, but when I opened it all the links opened new tabs that said, "File not found". I guess they're broken?

It's a zip file, it sounds like you haven't unzipped it.

It may be a long wait. The USB 4 spec says it may, optionally, support Thunderbolt 3. The fact that it was made optional implies there's not much interest in it on the PC side. 

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3435844/thunderbolt-is-optional-in-usb4-usb4-spec-says.html

13 hours ago, Tune said:

If I can't automatically download and install the driver, how do I do so manually?

Go to the link I provided above and download the win10 driver file. It explains possible problems and how to correct them.

Control Surface Plugin for Sonar

https://www.roland.com/global/support/by_product/a-800pro/updates_drivers/

1 hour ago, Zo said:

I tired for real to find something as fast as blackhole for long lush reverbs and it's hard to find or tweak in others ...while isntant or almost with blackhole , same goes for the spring ..... it's not crazy , doesn't have diffrent color of strings ect but enougth to lay a convincing string with no effort ... in a pleasing inteface and solid manufacturer maintenance waranty 

You've sold me. I like spring reverb - I play guitar and have a couple spring reverb plugins, but I looked at the way this a laid out and like it. For the price it's worth trying.

Also you need a software instrument to generate sound.

http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=SoftSynths.08.html

Here's a review of the motu m2. The reviewer does a number of measurements including RTL.

Freq Response: 3:38

Dynamic Range: 4:33

EIN Comparison: 5:40

RTL: 8:45

One of my next toys will be the Boss SY-1000. It's been unveiled, but won't be available until February.

5 hours ago, Syphus said:

I'm thinking of backing up (imaging current disk) and giving 10 a try but I need to understand what is meant by "Deactivating" licenses (as mentioned in previous posts).  Are we talking just ILok or all registered (licensed)  Vst's.

I don't want to fight my system to get things back to normal - thanks for info . . .

Some license deactivate as well as activate. iLok, Waves, and there was a zynaptiq on my system. Deactivating frees up the license so you can activate it on another (or the same) machine or maybe a mobile key. IKM and Omnisphere needed to be reactivated. Cakewalk, Nomad Factory, Camel Audio, Scuffham, Overloud, Korg, Reaktor 6 and its stuff and others didn't care that the OS and SDD changed. Note that I changed both the OS and the SDD. It's common for a license to be locked to an SDD. Some of those listed may not be affected by an OS change.

What's your buffer size?

3 hours ago, spiffo said:

Has anyone installed Windows 10 over the top of Windows 7 and asked it to keep all their Programs, Files and Data, etc..

Did it work correctly for Cakewalk and any VSTs or did everthing stop working and need re-installing?

Just curious as I really think it's about time I ditched Windows 7 but cannot face re-installing everything 😞

I just updated my DAW from win7.1 to win10. I backed up the drive and cloned it to a new larger drive. I had put off getting a larger drive due to all the SW licenses involved. After switching to the new drive I deactivated all the licenses I could - iLok, Waves, and so on. I then updated to win10 and activated the licenses. I had to re-activate IKM licenses and Omnisphere, but I didn't have to reinstall anything. The only problem I have is with iZotope's RX 6 which came with Sound Forge or something. I never use it and haven't tried to straighten that out yet. Good luck.

Happy New Year! AT's been winning me over. Personally I like the EQP-1A with guitar and I also like the Vintage Tube Compressor and White 2A Levelling Amp.

Just an FYI. I updated my computer to win10 and a larger SDD and as part of the process tested all my licensed SW to make sure it all worked. I noticed that Omnisphere created noise inside CbB. (It was a release a few months old.) It is fine in Sonar Platinum, Live 9, and Samplitude. I updated CbB to the current release and the noise is gone. Very strange - it was only Omnisphere. The Korg Legacy synths, Alchemy, Reaktor 6, cakewalk synths & samplers all worked fine. ASIO buffer size is 96 which isn't pushing it on my system and performance meters were really low. 

I use both. I like looping to develop songs. I often develop ideas in Live 9, then move over to cakewalk to record/mix and master. When Gibson dropped Sonar I tried mixing in Ableton, but it didn't seem up to the task. My opinion.

On 12/22/2019 at 9:26 PM, lawajava said:

Me too.  I keep checking.  Nothin' yet...

I tried a couple days ago and finally got an email this morning saying I got it. I haven't had a chance to try it yet.

Here is a link to an article that discusses layering.

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/live-multi-layering-made-simpler

One thing I find interesting is that there doesn't seem to be a noticeable difference in latency between their USB 2 and USB C interfaces. I've been looking at the Ultralite Mk4 and the M4.

Ultralite Mk4 - the UltraLite-mk4 delivers an astonishing round trip latency (RTL) of 1.83 ms (milliseconds) on OS X and 1.84 ms on Windows over USB (at 96 kHz with a 32-sample host buffer)

M4 - thanks to MOTU's expertly engineered USB drivers, which deliver class-leading, ultra-low 2.5 ms Round Trip Latency (at 96 kHz with a 32 sample buffer)