Chaps

One option I have considered to expand my internal drive capacity, which is close to being maxed out with SATA connectors on my MB, is to get a PCIE adapter expansion card that can hold an NVMe M.2 drive, though with PCIE X1  I don't think you could take full advantage of its speed.. One of the reasons I replaced my old MB was so I could use NVMe M.2 drives. My MB only has slots for two NVMe M.2 drives but with a free PCIE X16 slot free I can put in an adapter that can hold four NVMe M.2 drives. Upgrading the motherboard (and RAM) is an option that can have many benefits. You can also get USB adapters that can hold an NVMe M.2 drive. I used one to clone my OS from a 500 GB NVMe M.2 to a 2 TB NVMe M.2 drive. Now I can use the USB NVMe M.2 adapter as external storage If I want to.

5 minutes ago, mick jones said:

its nothing to do with the sound card.  i just need to know how to reduce the reverb on a pre programmed midi track using bandlab and a lap top.

Check the track to see if it has any MIDI CC 91 in it. If it does, delete all MIDI CC 91 events.

2 hours ago, Multi-Sonik said:

I wonder if I am the only one experiencing this...

 

Related to problems with the Steinberg Low-Latency Audio Driver, I use a Steinberg UR24C audio interface that uses a Yamaha Audio Driver that comes with the UR24C Tools app. I never had any problems with ASIO until after installing other Steinberg software that caused my Cakewalk to refuse to allow me to use ASIO. I got a message in Cakewalk that said the Audio driver didn't support low-latency audio (or something like that). I used the free Revo Uninstaller to see what Steinberg software was on my system and saw that the Steinberg Low-Latency Audio Driver was installed. I deleted it and rebooted, reinstalled the Yamaha Audio Driver and the problem was solved. So, even though I was not using the Steinberg driver just having it installed was keeping me from using ASIO in Cakewalk by Bandlab. That's not the only problem I've had with Steinberg software, like VSTs refusing to load because they weren't authorized, even though I had authorized them and had been using them for several weeks. No more Steinberg software for me, other than drivers and firmware for my audio interface.

Might your Windows audio sample rate setting be a factor?

The Augmented Mallets has some pretty nifty sounds. I'm experimenting with using it to double some harp and piano parts in a song I'm working on. Arturia also has a free version of a nice virtual synth there called 'Analog Lab Play' that also has some interesting and useful sounds (4 GB download).

4 hours ago, Andres Medina said:

I didn't find a way to route Windows Audio to Cakewalk...

Is that really possible? because there would be a loop... Windows audio going to Cakewalk and back to windows?

My interface shows up as two sets of input drivers in Cakewalk Audio Devices. Driver 1+2 (Input 1) is what I choose when recording things I plug into my interface's inputs. Driver 3+4 is named 'Streaming' and if I use those inputs I can record anything I hear from my speakers. This is what I use if I want to record audio from YouTube, for example. I have never used it to listen to audio live and tried it just now. You are right, it does cause audio playback problems. I should have checked that first before I before I posted anything. My bad.

What kind of Audio Interface are you using? My Steinberg UR24C can send Windows audio to a Cakewalk input, which would allow me to use plugins on Windows audio.

1 hour ago, sjoens said:

Check Task Manager if CbB never fully closed or is running in Background Processes.  Happens here all the time and I have to log out of Windows or reboot to clear it.

You could also try End Task, but that never works here.

There have been times when I tried to close Cakewalk by Bandlab with the Task Manager (not recently) and End Task in the Processes Tab didn't work, but End Task in the Details Tab did work to close the program. Sometimes Cakewalk Application did not even show in the Processes Tab, but did show in the Details Tab.

When you use the standalone AD2 the audio is going straight to your audio device. The AD2 audio in your Cakewalk is going to the master bus. Try changing the output of your Cakewalk AD2 track to your audio device, not the master bus. All other things being equal they should sound the same, unless the main audio output slider set to 0 dB is attenuating the signal enough to make an audible difference. I do not recommend this as a standard practice but for experimental purposes it might be useful.

1 minute ago, Rickddd said:

Dumb dumb... dumb dumb dumb.... me!   Thanks!!!!!! Works exactly that way.!!

Not dumb. Most of us are still learning all the nuances of the software.

If it's like Cakewalk by Bandlab, and you are referring to track automation, you can select the track (or clip) and then click and drag any automation node and all nodes will move with it, either vertically or horizontally. If you hold down the shift key and then click and drag a node then the nodes will only move in the direction you first move them in.

12 minutes ago, T Boog said:

And I hadnt heard that Fields of Gold cover. Her voice is beautiful. And Stings melodies in that song are almost spiritual. It feels heavenly. I've always loved Fields of Gold.

 

If I had to pick a favorite singer it would be Eva Cassidy. I can listen to her all day. She was a heck of a guitar player, too. She only did covers but she sang, and played, them like they had always been hers. Her YouTube channel is a great place to spend a few hours.

Hard to pick just one (or three). These three are songs that echo in my mind long after the music stops.

Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson

Cliffs of Dover

Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy

Fields of Gold

Orinoco Flow by Enya

Orinoco Flow

I do it all the time with Addictive Drums 2, and have done it with the Kontakt Player.

32 minutes ago, Amberwolf said:

thanks for listening and replying!

what specifically do you mean by brigthening up the vocals?   someone else suggested taking out the low ends whihc i tried but it takes away the character of the vocals when i do that.  so if you can give me specifics things to try i can see how they work with what i've got.

 

the only parts generated by midi in this one are the synth bassline and the three different strings used to back the vocals up and fill them in here and there (they also back / fill the bassline here and there, along with a mutated vocal clip set). 

all the percussion is trimmed from and built out of assorted percussion loops that are not actually meant to go with each other. 

i'm not sure which one is the slap / wood block that you're referring do.  there is a clap in some sections, which seems to have about four different variations within the clip used to create the sections in the percussion track with it.   

if you can tell me which sound it is somehow, or at which times it is a problem, i can alter the sound at those specific times to make them different, either by clip gain envelopes or other gain/cut means, or effecting them to change their sound (such as by splitting those sounds out of the clips into their own, then using various clip properties to stretch or shrink or tune / detune them slightly.   

 

i was going to check out the tracks you've posted but they seem to be deleted / removed from the threads?  

what do you think is not as good about your tracks?

 

I downloaded the song as an MP3 and imported it into Cakewalk by Bandlab. It's hard to isolate the frequencies but I used the PC EQ Low Pass Filter, and SPAN, to see where the vocal frequencies reside. There's a lot going on at 200 Hz and below.  Using the Low Pass Filter I can hear the voices much better and  boosting the freqs at 1,933 Hz and 2 kHz seemed to add a little clarity. Hard to tell how much it would actually help since the boosting/cutting the vocal freqs also boosts/cuts everything else.

The percussion sound I'm referring to is the one playing on the 2 and 4 through much of the song, especially in the beginning starting around 21 seconds into the track.

The songs I had online were done in the 80's using a 4-track cassette deck and were basically recorded for my mother. I just got tired of hearing all the things I wish I had done better, thinking I would just record them  again using Cakewalk and virtual instruments to back my guitar and voice. Health/medical issues got in the way and  I never got around to doing anything. Now that I'm giving it another go I find that years of not playing guitar or singing has really affected my abilities. I can work on my voice but I seriously doubt I'll ever have the ability to play the things I hear in my head on my guitar again. I'm practicing every day, though.

I still have some old things online, but nothing to brag about. The last piece of music I uploaded was an instrumental based on a trip to Bodie, California. It's a great ghost town of an old mining settlement.  

Bodie 1

I still have some of the old songs on Soundcloud, some of which I hope to replace with updated versions when I finally finish something I feel is worth sharing.

Chappel/Javadude54/Casey Jones on Soundcloud.

Pretty impressive. If I were going to nit-pick I would suggest brightening up the vocals a bit. They seem to be buried in the lower frequencies in the mix. Also, that slap/wood block kind of percussion sound is a bit repetitive compared to the other song elements. Is that played by MIDI?  If it is, I would consider using the MIDI FX to randomize the velocity of that instrument to humanize it. But all in all, I it's a very nice piece of music. I wish the stuff I'm working on sounded half that good.

1 hour ago, DeeringAmps said:

I'm not a fan of uninstall, but maybe. Trouble is uninstall never digs down into the registry and so might not solve anything.

I suggest using Revo Uninstaller to uninstall programs. It can also delete the related registry components. I've been using the free version for years and never had any problems with it or its functions.

Revo Uninstaller

Very well done. Orchestration and dynamics are top-notch. I can only imagine how many hours went into this work. Hopefully, when you are done with it you can find a good orchestra to add it to their repertoire.

I have Cakewalk by Bandlab build 29.09.0.120 and I can't reproduce your problem. I have no other cakewalk software. Maybe reinstall the programs?

13 hours ago, greg54 said:

Does anyone have suggestions as to what might be causing it?

 

I've seen pops/spikes like that in a recording when some appliances were turned on but it sounds like you have ruled that out with additional recordings. What I would do would be to look for spikes in tracks and buses by turning on the Playback and Bus Meters' Hold Peaks and Lock Peaks options. Lock Peaks will only work if Hold Peaks is enabled.

In the Track View you can enable them at Options>Meter Options>Playback Meter Options>Hold Peaks. Repeat that and enable Lock Peaks. Do the same with Bus Meter Options.

You can also enable those options by Right-Clicking on the Track Inspector Track and Bus Meters and selecting the relevant Meter Options.

You can also select those options in the Console View at Options>Meters>Playback Meter Options and Bus Meter Options. I would enable them everywhere because I'm not sure how independent they are with respect to each other. Then I would Loop the section with the pop and see if any of the meters were buried in the red where the pop occurs. That might help identify where the pop is occurring.

It does sound like that the 'C' and 'G' chords are a bit out of tune.

I think the lead guitar was buried in the mix. What I heard sounded pretty good so crank that puppy up and let it shine.

21 minutes ago, mettelus said:

Sometimes the "Picture Cache" folder (inside your main Cakewalk Projects folder) causes drawing issues that go away when that folder is purged. Without that data present, it forces Cakewalk to redraw wav forms.

Speaking of that, here is a link to a related post I made a few years ago regarding a Scott Garrigus article explaining how to empty the Cakewalk Pictures Cache automatically.  I followed the instructions and now my Picture Cache is emptied on a weekly schedule. Does it make a difference? I don't know, but it's something I don't have to think or worry about anymore.

Automatically Empty the Cakewalk Picture Cache

Your other audio tracks are behaving normally? Is it possible that the imported audio is being inserted further down the timeline and it isn't visible in the area you can see?

39 minutes ago, tparker24 said:

I really enjoy using CSTranspose.  However, I've run into a little issue.

When I Audition a note (i.e. click on it) in PRV (Piano Roll View) it doesn't seem to transpose.  It does play fine with a regular play (but just not with audition).

I notice the same behavior with the regular Cakewalk Transpose MFX.

Thanks, Tom

I don't have any experience with that MFX but if you want to transpose the playback of an entire MIDI clip you can do it in the MIDI Track Inspector at the bottom where it says Key +. The transposition works when playing and auditioning notes in the PRV. You can drag the slider in half-step increments (which can be a pain in the butt) or use the Keyboard Number Pad. If you click and hold the mouse cursor in the Key + box and press the numbers on the left side of the number pad (1,4,7) it will lower the pitch of the playback in half-step increments. If you click and hold the mouse cursor in the Key + box and press the numbers on the right side of the number pad (3,6,9) it will raise the sound of the track's playback in half-step increments. Clicking and holding the mouse cursor in the Key + box and double-pressing 5 will reset the pitch to 0 (no change in pitch). It's a lot easier and simpler that I'm making it sound.