Alan Tubbs

Zeta 2 is pretty good but sure, a new zeta would be great.

Come on people, bandlab gave us 5 years of free updates on a free DAW. That should earn some brownie points after the Gibson fiasco. Before that Cakewalk treated customer pretty good, even with having to pay. it will be interesting to see how having to pay will affect the customer base. We already have a lot of squealing and the new old Sonar company has already addressed some of this. Personally, I could give a monkey’s fornication about customizing the colors or transcription. Bug fixes and features are worth paying for - to me. You might have other ideas but bandlab has to take it all into consideration. Sonar’s Achilles heel for mass adaption is no Mac version. Most music producers are on Mac, so that Gibson had to include 2 light DAWs with their hardware. But for the home producer Windows was great since many already had the computer and PCs are still cheaper. Hopefully they’ll get something going with the Apple world, even if it isn’t Sonar. what I’m looking for is Sonar as a professional DAW and hopefully refurbished synths & Effects. I’d love me a slick Rapture Pro redux and all my old Cake effects bundled and refurbished. Many of those are superb. they just need to bring in a good reverb. As far as company’s integrity, at the beginning of digital age I got a presonus fire station, which was on FireWire but with Yamahas mlan protocol. An update bricked it. Yamaha sent me an i88 to try but couldn’t run the new software on my old computer. Do you think they paid for my presonus? overall, I think Cakewalk has been about upfront about what is going on. Or at least as much as possible.

Sound forge used to have that function - capture a sample of steady state noise and strip it out. Don’t know if the latest Magic iterations kept that function.

Paragraph breaks these days are important. Not a big deal on the net but if I see a big block of text it better be interesting or my eyes will just slide down to the next break. If you are asking for help make it easy for us. and yea, Byron doesn’t have a bedside manner but is knowledgeable. some notes. I had an hp all in one with a 24 inch screen that would go thru 90 degrees to flat and pitch to any angle and hold the position. Only an i5 but I used it to work on songs. Didn’t mix on it since there was no feedback on the faders. It worked fine but died after a few years. I need to see if they can fix it but it might be the screen a d that would junk the thing. heat is a great killer, but as above if you freeze synths and processing you can make laps and tablets work alright.

Sound Forge used to be the audio editor. Cakewalk can work, too.

That too. I have a dual stereo transformer coupled outputs on my RND orbit mixer (the only diff between the two signals is one is wound for -6 dB so one can drive it harder). I’ll often send one or more tracks thru it, and not necessarily with extra hardware on the “mix” buss, but only for the sweetest transformer blooming one can get. So yea, any buss created to add fx is a mix buss, whether it is folded back into the master buss or is the master buss itself. Or the mix buss is the master.

I think mix buss became popularized with all the effects that got latched onto the master out to differentiate it. It is your master buss but you are hearing it with effects so you are mixing thru it. So a mix buss is your master buss. Also, many pro projects were recorded on Neve desks, but mixed on SSLs using their built-in buss compressor, again changing it from a virginal master buss to a mix buss. Most masters beforehand were shipped off to a mastering engineer but now the mix engineer could get the master nice and hot before shipping it off.

Right. And thosefader panels are hard to separate at times.

There is also a chance that phantom power can ruin older ribbons mics. And I don’t know if it has been mentioned but many if not most ribbons t need a lot of gain. If all you have is a 55 dB gain preamp your vocals may be low in vol.

Run away from asio4all. if you are stuck with it upgrade to an interface with real drivers, not a generic wrapper.

A mono track will come out as stereo- once you mix, esp. with FX.

Freeze some of your midi tracks and convolution reverbs.

Glad you found a solution.

ASIO drivers organize the outs in stereo. Just the way it is.

Yes. Change your piano track to track one and recorded in mono. Track two (mono) should be the vocals. Now you can treat the two instruments separately with eq, vol automation, panning etc. OF Course there will be bleed as the piano will overpower the vox at times. Same with your vox over the music. but unless your room is treated your are likely not recording a great signal, which muddies the soundstage. there is a lot to recording, esp acoustic instruments. As said above, it is like learning a new instrument. Keep at it and you will get better. as to the recoding, the vox seems to have much more reverb, while the piano doesn’t. That sounds unnatural. But not bad for an early recording. Stevie Nicks only had to worry about singing in a million dollar room with a million dollar’s worth of equipment and a million dollars with recording talent. Think about it that way.

IKEA used to have a desk that worked for studio desk. You might give them a look and add some floor racks.

Why stereo recording of mono tracks? you should have two tracks of mono WAV files that you MIX together in real-time to a stereo wav file. Then render that mix to whatever spec you need, wav, mp3 etc. you can then append that to video. FYI I don’t work with video in sonar.

Good find.

Never let complexity overwhelm production. Still this next release should be exciting.

I’ve had problems with all three synths, rapture, dimension and rap pro. I’ve had cake staff walk me thru installation, change stuff behind the scenes and those synths still pop up with bad registrations. It is hardly worth it (tho I love them). No doubt I’ll open an old project one day and have to spend the time to get one of them working. so no. The solutions advocated don’t always work. They should but don’t. It is probably because I have a dozen different installs going of the sfz synths and not even cake knows which one works. It took a week working with Joshua to get them working last time. That ain’t right. Bandlab can’t afford to provide such service for dead products.

Try a hardware 1176. They are more expensive but a lot more fun. You get to play guitar and comp at once.

Don’t know what positive grid riff is but as far as drivers go, you get one asio driver only. So Cakewalk will only see its asio driver not two.

Nice song that works. I thought originally the voice should be angrier. But I think the idea of raising the temperature of the voice as the song goes on, esp at the end. Make the vocal different at the end, emotionally and rhythmically. That will help with the feeling the song doesn’t go anywhere. It starts out upset but doesn’t reach a positive outcome. Build up to a real anger. See early John Cale for examples. and yea, the vocals need to come down some but you can bring them up toward the end.

The Audient ID44 has a power switch on the rear, don’t know about the others. But as pointed out above, there are other methods for turning it on/off. That is hardly disqualifying in my mind, but if you need that feature … While real interfaces (as opposed to internal sound cards) aren’t designed for handling many of the video/audio codecs of the internet, I’ve never had problems. Except if I have the audio set loud and some of the windows sounds are too loud. good luck

I would think most any interface meets your 7 wants. The most important thing is money. for 3000$ you can get a racked lynx with all sorts of digital modules or go from 8 to 16 ADA for another grand. No pres, however. on a more affordable scale I think the Audient is a great line. Their new 2x2 unit ought to work fine for you. For about a tenth of the lynx cost. If Motu has worked out the kinks with windows, the motu mk 5 looks like a winner, tho it has a plethora of ins outs for about $600. I almost got a motu mk 5 but wasn’t sure how well that would work on pc. So nice to know about the 4 software, rsinger .