Michael Fogarty

what it says in the title. I try to open Cakewalk on the new computer and it says to sign in to my Bandlab account. I am there, I see my profile pic. Even open Cakewalk from the Bandlab app. Opens -get the same prompt. (not activated -please sign in to your Bandlab account to activate Cakewalk.) It wasn't like this before -meaning setting up the new computer is an ongoing project and up until now when I opened it was fine.

Lost. Is this a new forum and is Sonar $49.99 a month? I just looked it up online. Can you point me to the already-started discussions on this? I do a lot of pro bono and very low budget productions and the expense would kill me. Thanks

thanks. A bit behind here. Is there an update? Is this really the price? https://legacy.cakewalk.com/Products/SONAR/Buy-Now/SONAR-Platinum

That's what they are called. High Definition Masters. It's new to me. I have asked the Mastering Engineer to get back to me.

hi Max. That's not enough, sorry. I don't think you read clearly what the problem is. I need to know specifically what to do. Open a midi track and set the Korg to what channel? Where does the Waterfall go? I need a play-by-play. I have never done this and can't see it in my minds eye. The Korg is an analog audio instrument. I am using the midi from my MODX.

trying to figure out how to control the rotary toggle in real-time with a pedal or modulation. Sometimes the simplest things just don't compute in my brain. I want to use my Korg CX3 audio out into a stereo channel, yet be able to use midi implementation on the VST UAD Waterfall. How do you do that? I have my MODX connected via midi to facilitate this but how do you route the mod from that to the UAD Waterfall. Of course, if I use the mouse it works, but that is not an option. I want to be able to do it in real time. My Korg CX3 also has midi but I split the keyboard and don't think I can record channel 1 and 2 at the same time in Cakewalk. Edit -just received this from the UAD forum. "because the waterfall has to be loaded as a "midi controlled effect" audio gets into it via the "side chain input" of the plugin. you'll have to check in your daw how you do that. Select your organ audio track as the side chain input and mute the audio track so you don't hear both at the same time." Any takers?

I Just received HD masters from one of my mastering engineers. It's been a while since I have used him. Is this what people do now? Is there any downside? (meaning, they used to just be masters -now they are HD Masters. UPDATE from Mastering Engineer: Hi Michael, I hope all is well. We’re glad you liked the mastering. We sent you HD files because they represent the best quality file you requested. Most digital distributors take HD files nowadays, and we feel this is the best way to judge the mastering. Each project is different, and we use different tools depending on the source materials. As long as you are happy with the sound. Upon approval, we will generate the remaining files. I hope this helps.

thanks, everybody. I am just going with lowering the input gain which was my initial question. I was looking for confirmation, not direction if that makes sense and I got it. The individual tracks all sound fine, and he wants a really hot mix. I am using a clipper on some tracks. The mixes already sound a thousand times better so I am not going to start from scratch. The client is stoked. I also added keys as a bonus. Thank you, and thank you again.

I don't use prochannel.

yes, never considered the output volume. talking about the input gain.

without a limiter it would be bouncing off the ceiling.

rebuild ten songs and over 500 tracks? I considered this hence the post but is it necessary? It seems you and David Baay disagree with each other. Where is truth? Yes, every instrument has been treated with great care. If it were a sensitive soundscape, smooth jazz or heavily acoustic I wouldn't even be asking this question, but its multiple tracks of smashing drums and amped guitars so I thought it worth asking. Thanks for chiming in.

Hi. I've inherited a 10 song project with many playing errors which I have fixed, but my master bus is way too hot. I have everything going through buses -drums, vox, organ, piano, guitars, acoustics, etc. The mix is good now, but when I summed everything it's just too hot. Is the best remedy sonically to lower all the buses by the same amount -lets say .3db, or is it ok to just lower the input of the master bus (it would have to be -.6 to not clip. )What effect does that have? Am I hurting something by doing that? Feels weird to have everything going in their hot and just lower it. Or am I making too big a deal out of it? Should I put a clipper at the top of the master bus? (the genre is alternative and the client wants it to sound a bit tough/dirty so I'm not worried about that PS I know about rolling off the lows of different instruments, etc, but simply across the board on all the songs the master is too hot. Most have over 50 tracks and do restart the whole mix again would be way too tough. It's my fault this happened. I got everything sounding great, but it's just too hot.

I have a client who can't open my exported Cakewalk midi file. Does anyone have any experience? Seems the problem is an Ableton one. Do I have to export the tracks one track at a time? I am exporting one at a time. This works.

hi Charles. Probably at some point you had, or copied something further down the timeline. I have tried Control X, delete but have yet to find a solution other than setting a from, thru point.