57Gregy

I heard a line of dialog from a TV show the other week and have been trying to put it in here even though it's not a line from a song. It should be. Pam, talking about her co-worker Cyril, "His ba!!s are made of pu$$y".

See what I mean about ignorant? 😆

I hovered the cursor in the preset box, which brought up the icons for load and save. I saved it under that name (no offense; I'm the ignorant one... about EQ and other aspects of mastering) and it was available for reloading.

In the Playlist GUI is a small 'clock' button at the top. Click that to change playback behavior.

So, we were relaxing in the warmth of the day after Christmas when my roommate Anna decided to do a little cooking. She turned the oven on and went to her room for a few minutes while the oven preheated. She came back and went to put her food in the oven and she said "Greg, why is the oven doing this?" I went to look and where the heating element was mounted to the box of the oven by a thin, steel clip, it was arcing like a welder's torch and smoking like a chimney. Yikes! I tried to pull the stove away from the wall to unplug it, but it was too heavy to do quickly, and the thing was starting to catch fire! The oven knob was turned off, but it was still red hot. I grabbed a dishrag from beside the sink and tried to wet it (the park has been without water since Christmas, but that's another story) and all I got was a dribble. That was enough. I threw the rag on the heating element and even though it was wet, it still caught fire. I yelled at Anna to turn off the breaker for the stove, the box is behind her bedroom door. She cried back, "which one is it?" I didn't know from memory, so I went back there and none of the breakers were marked. There were 2 pairs of breakers ganged together and since I knew it was a 220-volt circuit, I pulled both of those to the off position. That didn't stop the fire, but at least the element began to cool down. I grabbed some oven mitts and tried to get the element out (they're supposed to just pull out) but it wouldn't come out. I twisted and jerked the thing, but now the mitts were catching fire! Holy smoke! or words to that effect. I ran to the door and tossed the gloves into an empty flowerpot on the deck. It had some water and ice in it from previous rains. I went back and started pouring more water on the conflagration, but it was still weldingly hot, white hot, and the water was taking its time flowing from the faucet. Eventually, the fire subsided with enough water and smothering by the rag. I opened the windows (30-something degrees outside) to air out the stench of electrical fire + wet rag, brewed some coffee and life goes on.

I still don't understand what you're trying to do. You want your Cakewalk Arranger arrangement to play while recording to the non-Cakewalk Arranger Track View?

I wonder if the MSoundFactory is starting a standalone synth when you insert the VSTi which is also recording and playing the MIDI. Stranger things have happened.

Was the radio playing in the cab?

It wouldn't be sending anything to an audio track, but to a soft synth you inserted and directed the MIDI to, which is then output to an audio track. Unless that's what you mean by 'audio track'.

These days they're focusing too much on the dancing. "Gotta get these steps right! Autotune will fix the singing."

Meaning, I think, you can have the 2 takes on different tracks, the guitar effected, the voice, not, and the voice track after the guitar track. They don't have to be on the same track. Export or bounce, and you will have 1 continuous track, guitar with FX and the voice without.

I'm still not sure what you want to do. You have a music track. You want to record speaking over the music track, but not hear the music while speaking. Is that close? If so, you could use automated mute on the music track while you're speaking, or a volume envelope to lower the music track sound while you're recording the speaking part.

If I understand what you want now, hover the cursor over where you want to start talking. Right-click, select 'Split'. Drag the right part of the clip to the right 16 measures.

Thanks, Erik, or Superrabbit. Or Alien Drummer. 😄 Discovered how to find the MB info using the command bar, which led me to the MB manufacturer's web site, which showed me that the MB model is printed on the MB which I could see and read through the cooling holes. 😳

PaulCW was last here in June of 2020. It's unlikely he will respond. Did you try clicking on the files?

Mute the instrument tracks? I don't know anything about arranger tracks, but know that works in other views in CbB while recording.

Thanks, found the motherboard info. Looks like it will support only 4GB. Will investigate further.

Yes. How does one do that? 🤔 I see that there is a lot more to selecting RAM than I thought there would be. And I'm a sophomore when it comes to the computer's guts (I've added memory sticks to another computer and a FireWire card and a video card).

Thanks, Jack. I'll look it over.

I should add that I'm not a power player. I don't use a lot of synths or effects. I just want something I can record with reliably without glitches in this 64-bit world. I'll be using a Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 third generation interface.

In my retirement (now semi-) I am not yet able to afford a new computer. I Inherited one which we thought would be newer and faster/better than the off-the-shelf HP I was using that recently died. Turns out, it is about the same age as the dead box. I thought about adding some more memory, but it only has 2 slots(!), each with a 2 GB stick. Even worse, they're DDR2. I see DDR2 is still available in various memory amounts, but wonder if it is even worth trying to drag this machine into the 21st century? It is a NZXT box 9555 GEV, W 10 Pro (22H2) installed this year, Pentium dual-core E5800 3.2/3.2 GHz. I think slamming a couple 4GB sticks in it won't hurt, but what do I know? I'm a salesman. Thanks for any advice.

Just so you know, you're talking to the creator of AZ Controller.

Two jokes for the price of one!

Make sure the interface and CbB are using the same sampling rate. Welcome to the forum.

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