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It is possible that the windows update has substituted a device specific driver that would normally be installed via USB on first connection with a new USB audio generic driver. If that were the case I would expect a complete failure to communicate rather than this odd behavior. In any case it might be worth trying to force windows to recognize the device specific driver and install it. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4021854/windows-10-doesn-t-install-specific-drivers-for-usb-audio-devices-on-t https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/audio/usb-2-0-audio-drivers https://www.minitool.com/news/fix-usb-audio-drivers-wont-install-win-10.html https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware-winpc/usb-audio-codec-for-profx8-does-not-work-for/64aed282-141e-484e-adf9-c51b2cb7a3fc

According to the FAQ this unit should send a stereo out (two tracks) from the Main Mix of the board to the computer via USB. Since it is a mixing board, I would assume that microphone inputs would be controlled/turned on/mixed by use of the physical controls on the board. Once however many inputs are mixed to the board's Main Mix that should be what is received by the computer. It does not use an installable driver.

I am certain that someone will be along to either 1) swear on his virgin mother's grave that he can hear the difference in effects applied at a minimally higher sampling rate or B) demonstrate mathematically that it is indubitably possible that the difference would be discernible over a car radio. I, on the other hand, doubt it is worth any effort at all to resample the project.

IO errors that come and go can well indicate problems with the physical connection of the drive. Dirty connectors and the like can work or not depending on the temperature, vibration or the whims of the gods. It is certainly worth cleaning and re-seating the drive data and power connectors, and maybe switching which connectors you use. You can try to find out if there are logical errors using chkdsk, or surface errors using some third party utilities or the disk diagnostic software available for download from the drive manufacturer, but if you continue to have doubts it might be time to convert the disk to a backup disk for non-critical data and order a new drive.

The title seems to indicate that your organs are "vintage"--and therein lies your problem. Organs, once removed from a living or recently deceased host, can only survive for a very limited time. To be able to work properly they must be reconnected to a recipient within a matter of hours, a time that can be extended by transport under refrigeration, and there is promising work being done on extra-corporeal circulation that may provide an even longer window, but in general it is clearly best to work with fresh organs.

To be clear are you saying that Cakewalk program crashes or that you get a "blue screen" aka Windows Stop Error and have to restart Windows?

The batch file issue may be adding an unnecessary complication. It just executes the two commands and the file can be named anything.bat and placed anywhere so long as you can find it and right click it and choose run as administrator to execute. It might be simpler just to open an elevated command prompt and type the two commands one at a time followed by enter to get the same result. https://appuals.com/how-to-open-an-elevated-command-prompt-on-windows-10/

The "administrator" accounts that you set up in Windows are actually accounts that are members of the "administrator group." Members of that group can be granted ownership and permissions as a group, but they can also function as separate accounts with their own permissions. In any case they do not automatically get to do everything on the system. There is a true "administrator"--similar to the godlike account in early versions of the OS, but because it has so much unfettered access to the computer MS decided to make it difficult to access. It will show up if you inadvertently delete every account that is a member of the administrator group so that you can create a new member account of the administrators group. It can also be activated by the user with the caveat that when open, anyone can sign in with root access. Best advice: unless you have a very definite reason to do so--leave it hidden. You can almost always manage ownership/permissions issues without it. https://www.ghacks.net/2014/11/12/how-to-enable-the-hidden-windows-10-administrator-account/ The basic rule is that a program running in Windows gets the same privileges as the account that opened it. So when a program is running it is treated like a user as far as its ability to access resources. Different installers can sometimes put their resources in locations to which other programs do not have permissions, which might make them inaccessible to another program. Running programs or installers as administrator is a kludge to try to get around this issue that sometimes has unwanted consequences. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/access-control/access-control

Uncanny resemblance?

So try to run it as the same user that you normally log in as i.e. do not run as administrator. Cakewalk run as administrator has a different set of permissions than Cakewalk run as an ordinary user. Likely your removable drive is owned by your ordinary user account, as is your desktop so that files there are able to be copied back and forth. When running as administrator you are not running under the same account, and even though the program is running under an account that is an "administrator," that account does not necessarily have access to resources owned or limited to a particular account. If you need to have Cakewalk run as administrator (that is usually only needed if you have some unresolved ownership/permissions issue already) then try changing ownership/permissions on the removable drive to match the owner of Cakewalk when run as administrator. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-change-ownership-of-files-and-folders-in-windows-10/

If you do not need to edit the MIDI data simultaneously with the rest of the project, a simple kludge would be to open a new project in Cakewalk at the native tempo of the MIDI clip, sort out your drum voicing and then render that drum only project to audio. If you import the rendered audio drums into your existing project, it should play at the tempo as it was saved to MIDI. Tempo maps might be useful. Or a MIDI editor (or hex editor if you know how to use it) can be used to change the tempo on the original MIDI file to match the project prior to import. Try https://www.midieditor.org/index.php?category=intro

I am not clear on what you mean by Eurorack modular. That is a brand, but also a sort of standard for connecting feestanding analog devices to each other. In any case it is not an analog synth to my understanding but a group of "modules" that perform typically limited functions--you would need several modules to assemble anything like an analog synth. Unlike a some "modular" or "semimodular" synths that incorporate the various circuits in one cabinet linked by patch cords or switches/knobs these are freestanding units that each typically does only one thing. Very expensive and not very intuitive. Take a look at Voltage Nucleus (currently FREE) to see one software emulation of a Eurorack modular system. I think it is pretty unlikely that you will be able to get a true analog synth of any quality for less than $200 unless you buy used.

Disable the onboard audio in BIOS/UEFI if possible or in Windows device manager if not. Uninstall the Focusrite interface drivers, restart (not shut down) the computer then re-install the latest Focusrite driver (Focusrite Control) for your version of the 2i2

Do you mean flamming? : a drumbeat of two strokes of which the first is a very quick grace note

http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Arranging.64.html#1471881

As the recent spate of closures of meat packing plants has demonstrated there need to be clear and effective guidelines requiring changes to the workplace in many industries. Although most of us are cognizant of the risk of customers becoming infected by a clerk or service worker or by another shopper in a store, the risk of worker to worker transmission in the course of business as usual where customers have no direct contact is serious. The workplace represents a location where employees are often expected to gather in potentially dangerous numbers and proximity. Standard workplace regulations were never intended to deal with an epidemic, few organizations have anyone with the expertise to design effective countermeasures, and regulatory agencies do not have anything like the personnel needed to assure that workplaces are in compliance even with the broad general advice given to the public. It makes little sense to ban people from gathering at restaurants if you force them to get together along a closely packed assembly line. So absent a clear demonstration of effective worker to worker isolation it is absolutely appropriate to avoid having people work together in business activity that is not essential to society. I am eagerly waiting for my order, but I would not want anyone to suffer illness just to get it to me sooner.

Statutory rates apply to compulsory licensing of compositions but not to the phonorecord (master) itself. So if you are recording a cover of a musical composition (words and music) that has already been published as an audio recording you can compel the author of the song to license your use of it in your own original rendition. Unpublished work, and work not yet released as a recording (music in notation or synchronized with a video for example) do not qualify. By definition, sampling a piece of a previously recorded performance is a copying of [a portion of] an audio recording, and is not eligible for compulsory licensing. The owner of the original recording is free to refuse you permission or to charge an exorbitant fee--although some publishers have a mechanism to issue sample licenses through intermediary agencies. In addition the compulsory license only allows you to make and release an audio recording. It will not permit you to use the composition for a performance of a video soundtrack or background music (YouTube) which would require a separate synchronization license that needs to be obtained from the copyright holder at his discretion. A compulsory license also cannot be used to obtain your own copyright in your own arrangement of the composition as a derivative work, and it obviously gives you no right to license the original composition to anyone else. A MIDI file might qualify as an audio recording, since it is a fixed work that can be rendered to audio using the proper equipment, and it might be possible to obtain a compulsory license to create that file and distribute it by paying the statutory royalties, but the creator/performer of the MIDI file has no right to grant you a license to use the composition he licensed from the author in the production of your own work. So your arrangement/instrumentation/rendition of a MIDI file of a cover would need a license from the original author.

This is a bigger question than some might think. Cakewalk itself can be thought of like a musical instrument. Like a Yamaha piano, the music you perform on the instrument does not belong to Yamaha, and can be used more or less any way that music is used as far as Yamaha is concerned. But Cakewalk itself can use a variety of sources: samples, MIDI files, loops, recordings etc. Since these can be obtained from numerous sources, and since the author/publisher of each resource may own the copyright you would have to review the license under which you are authorized to use anything but the most trivial resources that you might incorporate into your project to see if you are permitted to use that resource commercially. Most of the resources you pay for will specifically grant you a license for commercial use--that is after all why their customers buy them--but not necessarily all of them. Things you sample yourself from commercial recordings will almost always be a problem. Some resources are offered as part of a demonstration or educational offering and will specifically say that you cannot use them yourself for any other than the intended use. As I recall there were resources in the demo files of some of the old SONAR distributions that were licensed that way. It can be hella tedious to sort all of this out, requiring you to keep accurate records of the stuff you use in a commercial project including the licensing terms.

Matthew Sorrels post gives the time tested method many of us have used. Unlike a copy/duplicate/paste that method will allow you to play and hear multiple tracks in real time while recording. That may not necessarily be a best practice, but it is a requirement for some players. Colin Nichols post restates a longtime wish that many of us have expressed for years to have a way to do this routing internally in SONAR/Cakewalk. The virtual MIDI cable kludge is much less difficult than most people would think, can be done in most instances with free software, and is so effective that it may have reduced the incentive to do the difficult work of making this a Cakewalk feature.

The fact that a CC is undefined does not mean that it does not function--just that the function has to be defined for each instrument by the designer. You do not say how you are recording the affected tracks. If your keyboard is not sending the CC, then consider that one of your instruments or plugins may be doing so. Some synths have the ability to send as well as receive MIDI messages to coordinate with other instruments or effects. You may be able to check the source of the MIDI messages with MIDIOx. The keyboard will almost certainly show, and an instrument or plug-in might expose itself as a MIDI source as well. Otherwise you might need to do trial and error with plugs on the affected tracks to see if something is sending the unexpected messages.

I can pretty much guarantee that your drive has a lot more than "system files and other stuff that makes the laptop work." Windows should take up less than 20 GB. There may be a bunch of pre-installed bloatware or special features that come with the machine, but most of this stuff can be either deleted or re-located to your external drive by the methods others have noted if not by simply copying. If you are storing files under the pre-defined Windows C:\users locations they can mostly be moved using Windows features. If you upgraded from an earlier version you may have an enormous Windows.old folder that can be deleted or re-located. If you have a large amount of email or stuff in your browser cache you can back it up or move it off C:. btw what version of Windows is this?

That is an exceptionally small boot drive--assuming it is a built in SSD. You do not give any other specs, so it would be worthwhile checking to see if the machine will run Cakewalk even if it could be installed. Running from an external drive may cause you some problems depending on speed and interface, for example. Check the machine manual to see if you can upgrade or replace the SSD with another drive, or add another drive would be my first thought. Another option would be to install windows on and boot from an external drive and install your software on the external.

A single click when making/breaking connections to an audio signal chain is a pretty common event. It is often heard when switching off or on some component. At the end of the chain a speaker is suddenly getting a voltage or losing one and the pop or click can occur as the speaker responds to the switching. Opening or closing a project can have a similar effect. You could investigate whether there is some kind of voltage offset in your system, but if it is only heard and does not get recorded in anything you are interested in you probably do not need to bother with anything.

The StealthPedal seems to have pretty limited input power control. I can not find any mention of a pre-A/D gain control on the input except for a 12dB gain boost that can be accessed via software in the " Windows Control panel" (ASIO driver interface). So the only place in the signal chain that you can control that input level across a wide range into your computer is prior to arrival at the StealthPedal. That leaves the volume knobs on your guitar (probably not the best solution) and the amplifier output. The device was clearly intended to have instruments connected rather than to operate as a flexible audio interface. The ToneBlock manual says that for DAW use you should use the signal out output with the pre/post set to pre then connect that to a line level input on your console. That would be good advice if you are running through a mixer with its own gain control, since it provides a steady input irrelevant to the master output setting of the amp. But with the limits on the StealthPedal, you are probably better off using the SIG OUT with the switch in the post position. That should give you the ability to control the output to the StealthPedal with the Master knob. A complicating factor is that the StealthPedal inputs are auto-switching depending on whether the connection cable is two conductor (unbalanced, instrument) cable or a TRS (balanced connector). So it might make difference what you are using to connect the amp. In any event you will need to control the input power to avoid clipping on the digitization prior to doing anything in Cakewalk.