Max Arwood

Yeast is more like unmasking. 

If you bake a cake and it taste really bad, putting icing on it is not gonna help that much. A good cake taste ok even without icing. 

Are you trying to do the whole song or just part of it?

Read about workspaces. They can save and rearrange just about everything when Cakewalk loads.  Top right of screen. It’s a pulldown bar menu. Click the down arrow and look around 

I don’t know how good your mix is, but the mix is  way way way more important than the Mastering. I’m not sure about a $50 master, but usually Mastering improves it to some degree. 

Yes the few old timers are still there.

Bad news about the friend's computer. Is it not fixed. It is stuttering.  We turned off the FX the computer. It's running 1.5 cpu taskmanager on cakewalk. 

He  didn't tell me all the details. It won't even play a song. We reinstalled cakewalk. That didn't help. I will try to do a fresh install (It will be remote - Which make me a little nervous messing with the registry over the internet.  I'll try that tomorrow.

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He has no control surface.

Bad cable. 
Thanks for all the suggestions and help! That is one of the best things about cakewalk. I even check in at the old original newsgroup once in a while. There are still 5-6 people that check in from  time to time. 

We will try the soft synth. 
 

Keyboard no longer communicating with Cakewalk.

PB - Everything off reboot Computer, sound card, keyboard.  Reinstall . 

Bristol - thanks

Where is that complete fresh reinstall link?

I'm trying to help a friend. He went to bed, woke up the next day and his MIDI no longer works. We have done most of the simple things (Reboots, Reinstall). I was trying to find the audio.ini etc. I know this is not much to go on. Scarlett Sound card. Using MIDI form there. The ins and outs are set correctly. The start, stop, setting is correct in setup  Can't find it Auio.ini to try deleting it?? - Any and all suggestions are welcome.

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we tried so many different things you wouldn’t believe. Trying to save some edits to songs done in the last few days. Well, there’s nothing like having a good back up and sometimes that’s the answer.  It certainly was the answer this time. Thanks for all the help guys.  

Go in the bios and disable the Realtek if it is on the motherboard.  

Melodyne can very accurately convert audio to midi. You could look into that.  Once converted it is easy to loop sections. 

Edit added:

Melodyne  has an EQ like scaler EQ built into it

Melodyne can  do compression

Melody can do DeEssing

Melodyne can do artifact noise reduction  

Melodyne can do mouth click noise reduction

Convert a sung melody to midi 

Convert drum tracks to midi

And I don’t even know 1/2 of what it can do lol  

I already have it. Thanks, I'll send it to some friends!

https://discuss.cakewalk.com/profile/233-thesteven/

Steven wrote it. You could ask. I have never heard of version 3.

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7220181#p7220181

It looks like v3 is out! I'll have to look into it, thanks!

REA? Lol.  Is you have installed the plugins properly. You go to edit, preferences, file group -  VST then click scan. This will show cakewalk that you have some plugins. If they are not in a sub of the common folder you should add the folder in  file group “folders” from preferences. 
 

This might be a file thing. I would try Chkdsk first. If that does not work, my next suggestion would be a fresh install. 
let us know if either of these work. 

I can’t think of but one thing. If you create a song with a plugin, then you update the plugin software. Sometimes programmers will use a different name. All plugins have registered names. Not like the ones we see, but like 

My bassfingers

VST ID: 1296453715

if the programmers change this number cakewalk won’t know that that’s the same Plugin.  
Sometimes they do it on purpose for different reasons. Sometimes I just think it’s just an accident. NOT-Lol ! 
 

Sometimes it’s a simple as rebooting your computer and restarting sonar or Cakewalk to correct things  

And “M” is not mute it’s markers. Lol

That’s a lot of garboly goop? There is a forum search that is good too 

It looks like a midi track. A midi track has no sound. It has to make sounds through a soft synth or a keyboard (midi module)

Oh yes to move 1 track click on 1 track. It will also unselect all others. No CTRL   Then go back and select what you need. 

Thank Mark and Glenn. 
I do mix a lot at night after everyone else has gone to sleep. I have been using Arc 3 and sound reference. I tend to screw up my mixes doing this. That is why I was looking into VSX. The waves things were fun at first, but in all actuality, never improved my mixes. I guess a need to go finish measuring my room again for some Glenn fine tuning. 

“More and more I find myself opening projects direct from windows explorer just to make sure I'm opening the last project I was working on and not some earlier version“

I have to keep reminding myself about this! File open and sort by date reverse. It’s sad when you finish touching up v21 and it is sounding so good , but you do a save as to increment the number and you see v23, v24! Lol 

I’ll send you the version of ffmpeg mine uses. You could try it. I’ll try to do it tomorrow. Do you have win 11?

Steps on how to change MP4 to WAV with FFmpeg

1)Download FFmpeg library and install it.

2)Open Terminal / Command Prompt on your computer.

3)Type in the command: ffmpeg -i inputvideoname.mp4 outputaudioname.wav. ... 

4)Press “Enter” to start converting MP4 to WAV.

Does this work?