EdwardB

Just now, Chappel said:

Good luck. Manuals are the best source of info for your product, generally. I always try to find a digital manual for every product I buy. If I can't, I scan and save the images in the cloud. better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

I usually do that too, but it's actually my mothers' old piano I'm using right now.

23 minutes ago, Chappel said:

Is that a Yamaha CVP? Here is a page on the Yamaha website where you can search for manuals for their products.

https://usa.yamaha.com/support/manuals/index.html

Oh thank you! I hope I'll find the information in there!

29 minutes ago, scook said:

Could connect the keyboard to the DAW, start recording and see what, if any, data the volume slider sends or hook the keyboard up to MIDIOX

Of course having the docs handy is a good idea.

Thanks for the link, I'll check that out!

1 minute ago, reginaldStjohn said:

Maybe, it depends on if the volume slider produces a MIDI CC message when moved. You could check your digital pianos documentation to see if it sends MIDI or use a midi sniffing utility on your PC to see if it sends anything.

If it does then you could set the CC value it sends to control a VSTi's parameters if supported in the synth

Oh gosh, I hope I'll find that old manual somewhere.

I'll give that a try, thanks!

I've been using Cakewalk for a while now. My digital piano (an old CVP, at least 25 years old) supports MIDI input, so I can use it to record in CbB without issues. However, I was wondering if there is any chance to use the volume slider as a Modulation slider when I play virtual instruments. Is this possible?

8 hours ago, scook said:

Common problems when using the internal PC chip are

• running Windows and CbB at different sample rates (audio devices run at one sample rate at a time)
• using the Realtek ASIO driver (bad driver)
• using small buffer setting (trying to achieve low latency a small buffer setting may cause distortion)

If the Realtek ASIO driver is installed adding ASIO4All can be a problem because there are 2 ASIO "drivers" installed for the same device. If both are installed consider removing one or both of them.

When running Win10 try using the WASAPI driver modes.

 

 

Thanks you for your input!

So I already changed a lot the driver mode to all possibilities (ASIO, MME, WASAPI shared, WASAPI exclusive and WDM/KS) but those didn't seem to work. Today I just restarted Cakewalk again, changed it to WASAPI shared and suddenly it works again!

I'm glad it's working right now, but I don't understand why the sound is fine right now, but a few hours ago, with the same driver mode, it didn't work. Is it something depending on my machine or Cakewalk? (maybe a noobie question, but I'm just trying to learn from this situation  )

Cheers!

58 minutes ago, William W. Saunders, Jr. said:

You always need to tell us at least your computer setup (MOBO, CPU, RAM, OS,) your sound device, etc.  Otherwise no one will have a clue as to how to help you.

BTW: Asio4all is not a recommended option and is likely the cause of your problem but unless you tell us more, no one will be able to help.

Yeah sorry, I was using my other pc to post, here are the specs:

Acer Aspire A717-71G laptop
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU
@ 2.80GHz 2.81 GHz
16 GB RAM
x64 processor
Windows 10 Home
motherboard: Charizard_KLS V1.13
Realtek High Definition Audio(SST)
ASIO4all v2

Hi there!

So I downloaded Cakewalk and I installed the Asio4all driver, but the sound still doesn't work. Sometimes I have no sound at all, sometimes there's a highly distorted sound. The strange thing is that a few hours ago, it suddenly worked perfectly for a few minutes. After getting back on my computer a few hours later and opening Cakewalk, it went back to it's audio problem.

Anyone who has an idea how to solve this? I really hope we can solve this, because Cakewalk seems like the best DAW I'd ever use. If you need more information, just ask me.

Hi Gaz!

UPDATE: I restarted Cakewalk today and suddenly the problem was gone, but after a while, I got no output audio or there was audio with extreme distortion.

I'm also new to Cakewalk and I have a similar problem. When I enter an instrument, I can play it with no problem, but while recording it, every note I play won't sound until a certain moment, and then all the notes play at the same time on that 'time stamp'. This repeats itself for every second or so. There is no 'snap to beat' or something like that selected and the snapping is at very odd moments, completely off beat.

Did you find a solution yet?

Cheers!

Edward

Hi!

I'm quite a newbie to DAWs and completely new to CW. I just solved the no playback problem (yay!), but I have problems with my recording. When put in an instrument, I can play it without any problems, but when recording, every sound I play gets delayed to a certain moment and then all of those notes play at the same time, with the same length. It doesn't sound on an exact time stamp, so I don't think it has to do with something like snapping to the beat or so.

Strangely enough, initially this problem wasn't there when I got the sound working.

Edward