Michael Richards

I figured something out about SoundCloud. I cannot be logged into the account and copy the location of that song in SoundCloud. I only gives me the first song location. When noynekker was able to post a song location I figured something was at play. The way to solve this is to use a browser where I am not logged in to SoundCloud. So, here is another instrumental (Final Destination) I wrote with Hugh Curtin. I played all the instruments and did all the recording. Michael

Hi, that is exactly what I do, but it hasn't worked. I'm linking another song and it doesn't look like a link on my end. Here it is for a song called By The Throat: By The Throat by Curtin Richards Project (soundcloud.com)

Hi, the song above is not Carry On. Can somebody please tell me how to link individual songs from Soundcloud. Thank you, Michael

Hello Members, here is a vocal song I wrote originally wrote as an instrumental. Hugh Curtin played it for the singer Artie Hoar and he insisted singing on it. I only wrote partial words. The original title was When A Man but Artie came upon Carry On so I changed the title. I played all the instruments and the recorded it. Michael

Noynekker, thank you very much. I appreciate the feedback. I’m watching Magic Is In The Midrange, now. Can you tell me the name of the song you heard. I was under the impression that I posted my entire SoundCloud page. Maybe that’s a no-no here.

Jack, I posted my SoundCloud page with 11 songs. That’s why I ask. I use Mackie 824 monitors. I’ve had them for 20 years. I also use Sennheiser 598 headphones. I don’t filter the lows on the cymbals. I will from now on.

This has some serious mojo. Won't pull any sales away from Taylor Swift, but could have a cult following. I agree the cymbals are a bit overpowering in the beginning, but I forgot about that as the song moved on. I don't know the original. The octave vocals give it some mystical feeling. This is good.

Thank you, Jack. I will take you up on mixing. 1) Which program do you all use to determine your LUFS level? 2) I work hard on reducing the low-mid clutter that seem to multiply with each added instrument. I try to stop this by reducing the EQ of each instrument in the low-mid range. I have sat through several Bobby Owsinski videos and have 2 of his most recent mixing books. Still, I find that reducing the low-mids seem to reduce the impact on the kick and bass. I am walking a fine line between nice tight bass with clean mids and highs, and a muddy mix. I can hear an improvement in my mixing from 3-5 years ago but feel like I have miles to go. I have tinnitus and hearing loss in both ears. Bobby Owsinski told me that all the older engineers he knows have similar issues but their brains and years of experience compensate. I don't have years of mixing experience. This is a hurdle I need to climb, so I will take all the help and direction I can get. Thank you, Michael PS Which song did you listen to?

Hello, I am a 30 year Cakewalk user and former professional performing musician. I have linked a Soundcloud page with some of the songs my partner and I have recorded. Recording and mixing is still a mystery to me, even though I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure it out. Almost all of the instruments are played by me, Hugh Curtin started half the songs and I have finished all of them. Artie Hoar and Hugh Curtin share vocal duties. We are all originally from Long Island. I cannot arrange songs on Soundcloud but wish I could put them in order of quality. We also have a Christmas album out on Youtube, Spotify, etc. I hope you enjoy them. Michael Richards

That's where I disabled it.

Hi Glenn, I disabled it and when that didn't work I deleted it. So, disabling didn't work for me.

I've done this many times. So, just to be sure I did it again. Clean install with just the driver and PhysX options selected. It then selects my monitor audio (which I have to uninstall) and guess what? In 10 minutes I received this message: NVIDIA audio was disconnected would you like to reroute. I select yes and all is good. Five minutes later the same NVIDIA message appears. Why? It is not installed and I already told it to use my RME drivers.

I thought I would address a few issues, here. Disabling or deleting Realtek or Nvidia audio drivers have done nothing for the past 18 months. They just reappear. I use WASAPI Shared when I control or work with musicians in other states so I can hear their tracks in my speakers, or headphones. Other than that, I always use ASIO and find the RME written drivers are as stable and fast as advertised. I had deleted the Realtek in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ASIO, but it didn't work. Scook mentioned doing so with a graphic and I realized I just wrote delete after the Realtek name where I should have literally deleted it. I did and that one is solved for now. The NVIDIA audio does not appear in regedit. I am sure I let that bad boy in when I installed the NVIDIA video card. I've done this at least 30 times. I have been having dpc latency issues that might be related to this card. I have tried every driver NVIDIA has for the 3060ti and settled on an older one and I have tried to only install the bare necessities. This has been going on for a year so I might have slipped up on the audio driver. Still, I have the audio disabled in the Nvidia control panel to no avail.

It wasn't de-authorized and now, by no action on my own, it is working. I turned the computer on and off 5 or 6 times and now it works. It makes no sense. It never happened before. Thank you all for your inputs.

Thanks Scook, I will do this.

I use IK Multimedia Sampletron 2. It no longer works with my keyboard. If I play the visual keyboard in Sampletron the notes play correctly. If I insert an existing midi file, it plays it correctly. Yet, every other midi instrument plays correctly with my keyboard. The same thing happens with the stand-alone app. I have restarted the computer, turned off the RME Fireface UCX ll. Strange things are happening since the recent Win 11 update. Any ideas?

I need precise instructions on how to completely delete Realtek ASIO Audio HD in regedit. I wiped out many occurrences of this in regedit to no avail. Every 20 minutes, in Cakewalk, I get a message asking if I want to use Realtek. I found several people on the interwebs giving instructions on how to do this, but their instructions are faulty. I did not check to see if somehow loads in the BIOS.

You really can't stop being rude. Sounds pathological.

Looks like people are beginning to ignore you. You seem to be a snarky little fellow. You may be smart, may be creative, but you don’t seem to be very helpful. I have seen people bend over backwards to help people, me included. I believe that is the purpose of a community forum.

JohnnyV, you are correct. As much as I like playing around in regedit, I did not delete the driver. Sadly, I didn't even think of that.

The NVIDIA audio does appear in Win 11 Device Manager in 2 places, Audio Inputs and Outputs, and Sound, video and game controllers. I uninstall it all the time and it always reappears in system restart. I guess I will just live with it. It doesn't seem to bother anything, its just annoying to my brain.

Glenn, happy days. Thank you. The redistributables didn't work but I was easily able to reinstall the RME drivers and that did the trick. I've been using the RME for 18 months and this has never happened before. Do you experts somehow do away with the Realtek audio. You can't kill it. Should I figure how to kill it? Same goes with the NVIDIA Hi Def Audio that also keeps reappearing on system restart.

After a Win 11 update Cakewalk does not recognize my RME UCX ll interface, yet I can hear youtube videos perfectly. I get the error code: There are no audio devices on your system, etc. It says to go to Preferences and choose a different driver model. The only Input Drive is the Realtek ASIO, which is actually uninstalled on my computer. The RME does not show up as an option. Strangely, it does appear as my midi device. I have restarted the computer and still have this problem. I tried to reinstall Cakewalk, as I remember we could always do this, but I don't see this option anymore and all I get is the software is up to date with version 2022.11 Build 021. I'd appreciate any help. I cannot work, as it stands. Also, I would reinstall the RME interface but I am not sure I will lose all my TotalMix settings. Michael

I’m a little confused. Are you saying you want better notation tools in staff view, or are you saying something positive about PRV? I have been using PRV quite a bit in the past year, but it can’t replace what notes do on a staff. They are so beautiful. I wish the new Sonar would have a staff view on steroids. But, I may be outnumbered in this dream.

I try not to listen to other Cakewalk people. I don't want to be influenced, but I had to hear this progressive rock song. Yeah, I like it and it does have some nice bottom end. I used AD2 for years and just couldn't make it work as well as you do. You are also witty and any lover of Peter Gabriel deserves a listen. Good job, I enjoyed your song.