Bill Phillips

In Track View, for audio tracks, selecting the clip and pressing SHFT + PLUS (+) adds a clip gain envelope and switches the edit filter to CLIP CLIP AUTOMATION. Hovering over the automation envelope shows clip gain. The edit filter text looks like it might be a bug. I didn't go any further. The CTRL + Left Click didn't work for me. Did not try the MIDI track option. I don't use MIDI enough to feel comfortable with it.

Thanks. That's amazing. My Win10 PC has a Thunderbolt 3 combo USB C port. I'll have to give that a try.

Thanks. I haven't been able to get back to it to try and duplicate in a new project. BTW, for me the blank windows are white inside the green plugin border.

I think I paid $250 to go from 4 to 5.

Wow! Thanks. I'll go through all your suggestions as I work through this. Thanks again.

Thanks. I saw and replied to a fb post in the iZotope user group, I think, about similar problems. I'm trying to recreate the problem I had in a new project. As for RX 10 Breath Control, It doesn't seem to work in several projects. What was the 'Glitches? I upgraded MPS 4 to 5 in November,

I have experienced very similar problems. See my forum post below. I've also submitted crash dump files to Cakewalk support and a support request to iZotope. This probably rules out you, me and other plugins as the cause of the problem. 🥺

Thanks. I definitely plan to replace the HD with an SSD. I've never done that in a laptop before but I have the Hardware Maintenance Manual. It shows 16 screws in the back cover alone. And it warns that the nylon coated screws will be difficult to remove and shouldn't be reused. But I plan to reuse them. I'll have to make sure to get the right screwdriver. As for the 8 GB SSD. AFAIR the 8 GB SSD was advertised as a SSD buffer for the 500 GB HD improving the performance of the HD. The SSD doesn't show up in the Disk Manager.

Encouraging. Thanks. I don't recall ever seeing a MeLE. And you've got 4 line and 1 SPDIF inputs left to add another 6 inputs.

I'm doing clean W10 install on a LenovoIdeaPad U530 Touch. Just creating the usb media is taking forever. My plan is to put Cakewalk on it for recording and rough mixes with a Focusrite 18i8 gen3. It has a 500 GB 5400 rpm SATA HD + 8 GB SSD and 8GB DDR3L 1600 RAM. I'm hoping that replacing the HD with a 1 TB SSD will improve performance significantly. Looks like it had an optional 256 GB SATA III drive. So maybe it supports SATA III. Am I wasting my time? If not, any suggestions?

I'm having some strange things happen and I'm wondering if anyone else might be seeing similar things. I'm mixing small project with only a few tracks and only a few plugins so far. I recently upgraded to iZotope Music Production Suite 5 and haven't had any problems with it till now. I also bought about a dozen Waves plugins during their recent sale. I mention that because I hear a lot of discussion of problems with Waves plugins mostly related to losing authorization. I've only used a few of the Waves plugins and haven't noticed any problems. So I hadn't noticed any problems with this project until today. First the RX10 Breath Control plugin doesn't respond to a very audible breath. The only other breath control plugins I have are from RX 8 and Nectar 2. They don't work either. I opened an earlier project containing the same vocal. RX 10 Breath Control doesn't respond to the breath there either. I've opened and closed Cakewalk 2022.11 Build 021. I tried a wide range of Targets, Gains and Sensitivities. The Nectar 3, Neutron 4, Insight 2, Visual Mixer plugins seem to be performing normally including Assistants. That was up until the Breath Control problems started. Since then the iZotope plugins still seem to be performing fine but when I open their UIs I'll get a blank screen. The UI doesn't draw. At one point Cakewalk crashed but it hasn't happened since. I plan to send the crash report During troubleshooting I noticed a RX 10 update was available and installed it and then deleted and re-inserted RX 10 Breath Control to be sure it was the latest. That didn't help. RX 10 Breath Control still doesn't work and when I opened the Nectar 3 UI it came up blank.

I usually use separate recording, and mixing/mastering projects. For recording I use a minimum of low CPU/OpenGL impact plugins required for for the musicians' monitoring mixes. The recording and mixing/mastering projects can share an audio folder so that incorporating new recorded tracks into the mix is relatively easy. You'll still need to toggle the buffer size but that can be handled in the Preferences for each project. I'm not sure if having both projects open at the same time will cause a problem but I don't think so.

Thank you @msmcleod. This is news to me, but it's clearly stated in the screenshot I included that the Edit filter is set to "Clips." As is so often the case, the answer to my question is staring me in the face but I don't see it. I think my problem is that automation editing is by far the most common editing I do and the editing tools are so expansive and powerful that I get lost. What I need to do is learn that "Creating and editing automation envelopes" section of the Documentation that I took the screenshot attachment to my last post from.

The "ctrl-click in lower have of clip" way of selecting a clip envelope still isn't working for me in 2022.11. In the attached GIF you can see that the smart tool is selected and the in-clip selections shown are being done using ctrl-click. I move the cursor while holding ctrl-clip to highlight that I'm holding ctrl-clip. No envelope selection is being made. I finally managed to do it I think by multi-clicking a single node.

You should still be able to do that. I Cakewalk preferences select the Focusrite. For all the other applications that play through the Windows sound system, I have a little speaker near the right corner of the tool tray. Clicking that little speaker lets me choose the Windows speaker output. I usually pick the PC sound card SPDIF output which I have routed to the SPDIF Aux input on my monitor controller which allows me to listen to Windows audio through my monitors/headphones. Note your new PC might have several sound cards (on graphics card for example) in addition to the one on the PC motherboard. I try to disable all those leaving me with the PC sound card outputs and the Focusrite output. By the way your Focusrite may have a loop-back feature. Mine's too old for that. But if your's does, you may actually have two Focusrite output options, one for audio output and one for loop-back.

Thanks. I missed that. Looks like I was off topic. Sorry.

You probably can for audio if the interface you want to sync with has an spdif in. I've used a combination of word clock, adat and spdif to sync several audio interfaces. I have no experience syncing midi interfaces.

Follow this link to Bobby Balow's Raytown Productions video on 7 Waves Hidden Gems to find a link to the H-Comp give away valid for 48 hours from the time the video was posted. I know many on this forum don't use Waves plugins but figure some do that might want and not have H-Comp. Happy Holidays.

Out of the blue, If the two PCs have audio interfaces, Can't you just sync the audio interfaces (word clock would be great for this) and sync the two PCs to the audio interfaces. That would be my first choice?

I think if you mute all tracks being mastered except for the one you're currently working on, you can use Exclusive Solo to toggle between the Master Bus and Reference Track to compare them.

Can't you use the Sonitus Delay that's, I believe, included with Cakewalk by Bandlab?

I'm not there yet on the mix I'm working on but I use the iZotope Music Production Suite and just updated it. I wish there was a meter on every track showing CPU and GPU load to help us understand what's going on. I know two big issues are look ahead and over sampling. So using bus and aux tracks for plugins that use either look ahead or over sampling will allow multiple audio tracks to share these resource consuming plugins. It would also be nice if the plugins with the fancy GUIs that are so useful to me had a switch to turn off the GUI (leaving just knobs and sliders) when the GUI's no longer needed.

I can't seem to get satisfactory results using MIDI keyboard entry to select harmonies. See screen shot. I added a MIDI track with my MPK49 as the input. I enabled MIDI in in the Nectar VST3 dropdown I enabled MIDI in the Harmony module. I deleted existing nodes on the Harmony XY grid. I selected Nectar 3.1 as the MIDI output. Once that was done nodes 5-8 apeared on the XY in the Harmony module but they don't seem to respond to keyboard notes played. When I play and hold a note while the song is playing I can hear that note faintly playing behind the song but I don't see any notes being added or moving on the XY grid. I've looked for but can't find any Cakewalk specific help other than a 2015 Cakewalk Forum post that told me about the Enable MIDI In option on the VST3 dropdown. iZotope seems to default to the "?" mark help screens in their videos but that help screen for me opens the iZotope Nectar help page. I did find this for setting up Nectar 2 MIDI control for supported DAWs. Looks pretty much like what I did. Ok. I went back and poked around some more. Nodes 1-4 were hiding under nodes 5 & 6. I'm guessing nodes were added each time I was able to get MIDI working. So I spread them out. I moved the MIDI fader to 127 and selected Voices only in the harmony module to better hear what the MIDI keyboard was doing. Looks like the MIDI notes set the node note values overriding the note values entered in the nodes. The nodes do glow. So it looks like it works more or less. Anybody else using this feature? What's been your experience? Are you getting the same results I am?

I had disregarded gaming models. Thanks for the insights

Thanks Jim. What about USB audio interfaces with a Thunderbolt hub?