Nigel Mackay

Windows: Right click on speaker icon Select Open Sound Settings Device Properties Additional Device Properties Advanced tab Default format shows you bit-depth and bit rate (sample rate) Cakewalk: Edit -> Preferences Audio -> Driver Settings Default Settings for New Projects Sampling Rate must be the same as that of Windows

You must have a MIDI or Simple Instrument track selected to export MIDI.

MIDI data goes to EZD on 1 MIDI channel. So you only need a single MIDI track. With all the drums on it. EZD has 16 audio channels. Those you can mix and match in the EZD mixer. Useful information. You are currently using 3 audio channels - kick, snare, rest. If you should decide to have the toms on their own channel: Click on the EZD audio track with the highest channel number (In your case rest) Above the track pane do Tracks -> Append Instrument Track. This will add EZD audio channel 4. In the EZD mixer assign the toms to audio out 4. (It also adds a MIDI track, which you can delete.)

The clue is in the page name MFX. MIDI effects. 😀

Have a look at this discussion.

It seems Bandlab Assistant thinks Cakewalk is installed, and so won't download the installer. Have you done a complete uninstall of Cakewalk, as shown here.?

Make sure that bitrate and bit depth match: Windows <=> Cakewalk.

Have a look at SustainFix at this page.

To add EZDrummer: Use the + above the track pane. The dialog defaults to Aio, change it to Instrument. Use the dropdown to choose EZDrummer. Click on Advanced. Select Spl;it Instrument Track. Bottom left, set it to 3 Tracks(s). Click create. You get 3 instrument-audio tracks, channels 1 to 3, and a MIDI track. Put your MIDI in the MIDI track. You only need the one. In EZDrummer, click on Mixer. Just above the drum names is an orange number. That is the audio channel number. Leave Kick at 1, change Snare to 2, change all the others to 3. The 3 instrument-audio tracks will be kick, snare and everything else.

Check your Windows sound settings for the audio out you use for Cakewalk. Maybe Cakewalk goes through a Custom setting and other apps don't.

Hold down Shift while opening a project. It asks about loading VSTs. Leave one at a time out. Repeat for each VST. Choose the project with the fewest VSTs. 😀

Decay is how long it takes before the reverb stops. Take a piece of music. Loop it so it will play for hours. Press one button at a time, turn one knob at a time. Listen to what it does. Take notes. Load a different reverb.Do the same as above. Compare.

Calculations: no 2 reverbs are the same, so you can't. After all, how big is a medium hall? Small rooms sound a bit flat. Large halls are boomy with long reverberation. Medium is half way. Just turn the knobs and push the buttons until it sounds the way you want.

Just created 3 linked clips. Unlinked the middle one. Created a new linked group of 1st and 3rd clip. Copied and pasted as linked repetitions. It maintains the integrity of the links. New middle clips are linked to the original middle clip. "Outer" clips linked to original "outer" clips.

Agree 100% there.

@User 905133 Everybody's system is different, everybody has different experiences, Windows has so many vagaries, the PC hardware varies, the input interfaces all differ, it is very difficult to work out solutions.

Cakewalk wants to hog all resources for itself. Large projects can be pretty intense. I don't have a input device, so I use WASAPI Shared as my Driver Mode with Suspend Audio ... off, and so I can do anything. Having the mp3 in the project is pretty useful because you can get the tempo just right, line things up, use it as a reference when mixing. Start/Stop is in the same interface.

Let's assume you want to convert the MIDI to audio so you can process it and do your mix. To do the snare drum. Select the MIDI track. Ctrl-click on the snare drum instrument audio track to select it as well. Above the tracks, click on Tracks -> Bounce to tracks. The Source Category must be tracks. The name of your Source Track(s) will be different, depends on what you have selected. Click OK. Cakewalk will process the MIDI track and you will end up with the snare drum as audio in a new track. (Track 22 in this case, but will be the neaxt available track number.) Repeat for each drum channel, making sure you always select the MIDI track, and then each instrument-audio track, one by one. You will end up with a set of audio files, each one one of the channels you selected in the mixer in EZDrummer. Do your (multichannel) mix they way you want it.

You want one to follow the original, and you want the others there so you can play with variations, harmonies? Not immediately obvious from wording of the dialog. But makes sense. I would get very mixed up using it if the first copy wasn't linked, but the rest were.

You want background music while recording? Isn't it a bit confusing? Or are you recording along with a piece of music? If that is the case, add the mp3 to your project.

Make a backup. Always make backups. Even if you are not about to reinstall..

Just as a side note - Cakewalk scans recursively. This means that if you add a folder to the scan list, Cakewalk will drill down into every sub-folder, and every sub-folder of sub-folders. So you don't need to have C:\aa\bb\cc and C:\aa\bb\dd. You just need C:\aa\bb. It will do the cc and dd folders automatically. So just have C:\program files (x86) \steam\steamapps\common\cakewalk and it will do all of them. Never have anything except VST stuff in those folders.

Yip. My apologies.

You can't change the audio. You need: MIDI -> EZDrummer -> multiple audio tracks . Insert a new copy of EZDrummer, but with these settings: Copy the edited MIDI data from your original EZDrummer simple instrument tarck and paste it into the new MIDI track. Set EZDrumer for multichannel output - do you know how to do that? Now when you play that MIDI track you will get multichannel to all the inserted instrument-audio tracks. To convert to audio, you will need to bounce to audio.

Use Task Manager to stop all running copies of Bandlab Assistant. Navigate to C:\Users\ yourusername\AppData\Roaming\ Bandlab Assistant\ Downloads. Run the file Cakewalk_by_BandLab_Update_Setup_26.09.0.006.exe