Alan Bachman

Thank you.  I wonder which one I used by default!  Guess I will have to check because it did sound good.

Here is the nice listing of choices in the documentation link you provided above:
 

Offline. This drop-down menu lets you choose the algorithm that is used when you export or freeze stretched audio. The choices in the drop-down menu are as follows:

Radius Mix. Better for clips containing polyphonic, stereo data.

Radius Mix Advanced. Similar to Radius Mix, but exposes Radius Pitch Coherence and Radius Phase Coherence sliders in Edit > Preferences > Audio - Playback and Recording.

Radius Solo. Better for clips containing monophonic, solo instruments.

Radius Solo (Bass). Better for clips containing solo bass instruments.

Radius Solo (Vocal). Better for clips containing solo vocals.

Elastique Pro. Elastique Pro is a general purpose high quality time-stretching engine that fulfills the demands of professional productions and broadcast applications. It minimizes stretching artifacts, offers stable timing, inter-channel phase coherence and sample accurate stretching which allows for sharp transients and crystal clear vocals.

Elastique Efficient. Elastique Efficient gives you similar time-stretching quality as Elastique Pro, but with a lower CPU hit. The algorithm is targeted at complex polyphonic signals like complete mixes and offers the same transient preservation as Elastique Pro.

Same as Online. Uses the same choice as the Online field.

They are working on it.  It will be significant.  It is covered in another thread.

I wonder if I have not phrased the question well.  Otherwise, if someone knows what Cakewalk uses to change the audio when the audio changes to follow a new tempo using the clips follow tempo setting, please let me know.  Thank you!

Greetings:

I arranged to have my clips follow the project.  I changed the tempo of the project a little bit slower.  The clips exhibited the tempo change within very little audio quality loss.

But this worked a lot quicker than when I change duration by applying Elastique Pro, for instance, which ends up changing the tempo by stretching or reducing the clips with that.

So, I am wondering, what does Cakewalk use when the methods of having clips follow the project, changing the tempo map, and the clips exhibit that change?  Is it Elastique or something else?

Thank you!

I received Emotional Cello through them and everything seems good.

rayray - 

Wishing you great success!  As to the bass part that has a problem but not in another section.  Is the tempo identical in both parts?  Are both parts identical except for the bass flaw?  Sometimes the great part can be copied and pasted into the bad part.  There are other variables though that can affect this, including what is before and after the part so it does not stick out as some abrupt action, and there are ways around that too!

Of course if the bass is on a totally separate track, cutting and pasting a good bass note in the song over the bad bass note, works as well.

I usually put in a date with the song name.  For instance, I may have a version from years ago, then maybe some work later, and then some work later than that.

But even if it is not years apart, and just days or weeks, I have found it beneficial for way I do to have a date on the file name.  So for the folder, e.g.:  _______(Song name) 3-11-23.

I know sometimes you can tell the date from the properties information but I find it a lot easier to have the date in the name.

22 hours ago, 57Gregy said:

I've been trying to imagine a scenario where this would need to be done. ...
 

Here is an example that just happened to me:
I had a song recorded.  Then I realized I would like a slow introduction to it and then have it "kick in."
Well I had to insert measures at the begining for that slow introduction.

Cheers!

7 hours ago, sjoens said:

https://www.magix.com/us/music-editing/sound-forge/

$40 -$150

The nice think about Sound Forge Pro, which I recently bought for $99, is that it also includes other plugins that are useful in Cakewalk.   So, even if one does not use the editing in Sound Forge, the plugins I find are worth it.

I would not want a metronome to sound too beautiful so that it stands out from the beautiful music!

If you try the TDR Molot GE, please let me know what you think.  For $10, it is an amazing bargain.

I have the Slick as well, and I agree with you!

I really did not think plugins could really sound like hardware, but the TDR Molot Ge changed that for me.

Nice color.  And easy to use.

It is on sale now for about $10 here: https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/audio-plugins/tokyo-dawn-labs-tdr-molot-ge

I did not list this under deals because this also relates to some threads about limiters and comps.

By the way, the TDR Kotelnikov is also amazing.

Enjoy!

26 minutes ago, Tarrell Freeze said:

I appreciate all the advice guys. Btw, did I mention Im 70% deaf?

Just kidding. Anyway, I'm still pretty new to daw recording so there's surely things I'm overlooking or just unaware of. I'm about to record now, so I'll try to apply all this good advice and let yall know how it works out.

Some friendly advice from an old guy - seriously - don't have levels to loud in headphones or room - or there will likely be hearing loss, let alone tinnitus which is no fun at all.  It is more common than many might think.  Good luck to you and may you enjoy your tracking and final product!

1 hour ago, Craig Anderton said:

These kinds of changes are another reason to render an audio track as a safety. It's not as good as knowing the "raw materials" that went into making a sound, but it's better than nothing when you have to re-visit old projects.

It's not just Kontakt, if a project used AmpliTube 4 and all that's installed later on is AmpliTube 5, I'm pretty sure it won't know what to do with the AmpliTube 4 preset.

I hear you.  I need to do that with my external midi instruments too!  

Oh my.  Hopefully, someone has an answer.  This reminds me to type in the instrument name in the proper track and with enough specificity so I know what sample library and perhaps what preset.  

Yes to above.  I have the Sony Noise Reduction 2.0 which is very good.   I believe it is in the latest Magix Sound Forge Professional version which is $149 along with  iZ's RX Elements, etc.

https://www.magix.com/us/sem/sound-forge-pro/

I have found for removing hiss is that it helps to have a sample of this hiss itself that is the the same hiss that is in the song.  For instance, maybe the same hiss is just before the song starts or at the end.   (Ha - after writing this, I see that Craig basically said this above.) Then I have found some luck with sound forge or Magix noise reduction.   Though I have also found out that sometimes trying to remove all the hiss still affects too much of the other audio.  So, sometimes a lot can be removed, but not all of it.  But I have to say that my experience is fairly limited to sound forge and Magix noise reduction.

As to the hum, you may be lucky to be able to remove it with eq.

I also like the comment above about getting into the original tracks and mixing again.  (And as Craig pointed out below, if you can get access to the tracks.)    If it is a particular track or even couple of tracks, it is a lot easier to fix them than to work on the entire mix.  Though obviously this requires mixing again.   That is where I would start if at all possible.  Of course, this assume that the hiss or hum was not introduced by some equipment in the mixdown (if it was mixed out of the box, for instance), in which case mixing again and finding the culprit equipment used in mixing out of the box, would be important.

You also asked how to add new plugins.  Perhaps someone can direct you to part of the cakewalk manual for that.  You can do a search of this forum, or even a google search, and there are quite a few tutorials/posts on this.

So glad to hear this.  I have been following Noel for a long time.  And Noel is the best that I have seen on quite a few forums.  Always helpful and always a class act.

I hope, Michael, that you really enjoy Cakewalk now!  

34 minutes ago, Steve Moddelmog said:

Thanks for the all the suggestions about using a video editor.  I don't have one of the premium ones, but I have Cyberlink Power Director and it was able to do what I wanted perfectly.

34 minutes ago, Steve Moddelmog said:

Thanks for the all the suggestions about using a video editor.  I don't have one of the premium ones, but I have Cyberlink Power Director and it was able to do what I wanted perfectly.

You are welcome!  To be clear, for me, the use of the time stretch in the video editor had nothing to do with video.  It just so happened to be a great audio tool bundled in the Video Vegas program, presumably from the connection of the company with Video Vegas and Sound Forge.

I do not know if anyone tried this, but the time stretcher that comes with the Video Vegas is very good.  Sometimes I have used that for adjusting the timing (mainly to increase or decrease tempo.)  As to changing the pitch, I defer to others above.

So, if one has Video Vegas loaded, the time stretcher sofware shows up as an option in Cakewalk!

addendum:  the Video Vegas time stretcher may be the same as in Sound Forge, which is noted above.

2 minutes ago, Craig Anderton said:

Or any software: Master Tracks Pro, Studio Vision,  MOTU FreeStyle, Temper,  Project 5, Bars and Pipes, etc. Software has a lifecycle, like everything else.

Personally, I'm not worried about Cakewalk. I'm sure Meng knows that if he wanted to make money with Cakewalk by selling add-ons, VIs, etc. in a Cakewalk store, he could. The fact that he doesn't perhaps implies that making bucks from Cakewalk is not a priority. There are plenty of reasons to keep it going, and few reasons to shut it down. [No inside knowledge, just how it looks to me.]

I actually had to use Master Tracks Pro quite a bit recently to convert some of my old Master Track Pro midi files (mts) to more standard midi files (mid).

Fortunately, actually I started using Cakewalk (mid 90s), every Cakewalk file I have ever done, including bundles, still opens in Cakewalk by Bandlab.

We should all be grateful to Meng Ru Kuok.

The present and future of Cakewalk is solid!

Cakewalk has shown itself to be very resilient and in a wonderful status now with Bandlab.

And Noel is one of the best representatives a company can have on a forum with a long track record of great customer service!

By the way, my post above about "any update on the update" was sort of tongue in cheek as indicated by the smilees.

Any update on the update? 

Maybe Noel will provide an ETA on the next update.  I do not want to rush him or anyone on this, as it is more important that it be a great update!

Excited about another update!