John Vere

I was having this issue with videos would start playing and the audio was crackling. Then the video would freeze but the audio kept playing. I posted on the Vegas user forum and they said there was issues with the Nvidia driver from January. I rolled back to an earlier drive and it did not fix it. Nothing I did fixed it. i decided it was time for a clean install of Windows anyhow because of all the stupid stuff I'd been installing over the last year in my quest for a new Daw. I did that and my problem totally was gone. Oddly enough it seems Windows installed the very same driver automatically. Nvidia RTX 3060 Version 572.83. Go figure. But overall it was well worth the effort. Vegas is now rendering videos 2x faster. I installed the Daw I now use and then a X3 and Splat. Everything is very responsive. I didn't think I could return to SPlat but I love the fact I have my custom theme again. And no more crashing of my older projects.

I realized one thing I missed is that the effects send is Post Fader. In other words nothing will be send out the effects output is the fader is turned off. And of course that will be required otherwise the click track goes out the mains. I love my Zoom L8 for many reasons they also make the L6 https://zoomcorp.com/en/ca/digital-mixer-multi-track-recorders/digital-mixer-recorder/livetrak-l6-final/ I'm not dead sure about the Zoom L6 but I think it works exactly like my L8 but just has fewer channels and XLR inputs. But it looks like it has the same system so you can make a custom headphone mix for your in ears. And the effects are the same they are by far the best I've ever used in a small mixer. My quest for the perfect little mixer had me using a few Yamaha's similar to yours as well as I owned a Mackie Mix 8 and a Pro FX 8. But all of those had terrible effects. So I started using the TC Voice live harmony pedal. For you possibly the only thing you might not like is the Zoom's are digital mixers. This takes a bit more of a learning curve but the very cool thing is it can do everything a way bigger ( heavier) mixer can do in a very small package. And you can set it up at home and you can save those settings as a Scene. Here's the features I now can't be without. I can play with up to 3 other musicians and we each get 2 Combi inputs. We each can have our own in ear or floor monito mix. It's a first class 12x 4 ASIO audio interface that I love the way every control is right there in front of me and I can leave stuff plugged in. And once again I could use it to record a whole band and have 4 different headphone mixes. There is at least 4 options for connection my Laptop for my backing tracks. 4 channel ASIO USB, 2 Channel USB ASIO, 1/8" jack and 2 x1/4" jacks. If you are using Cakewalk playlist for your tracks you can have a stereo full mix and then send a click track to outputs 3/4 so have total control over that. I keep my phone plugged in to the 1/8 jack and I can flip to that at the push of a button to play background break music. And it has a built in multi track recorder so I record my gigs at the press of a button. It is truly a Swiss army knife of mixers and it is super light and small. It can run off USB power or Batteries. I looked at all the options and this was what I chose. I'm tempted to order a L6 just for my solo gigs as it is even smaller.

Im afraid that mixer is missing a few options that allow what you are trying to do. It doesn’t even have a monitor send on each channel. Then if it did, you would want that to be pre fader which a lot of simple mixers also don’t have. I have a Zoom L8 which allows 3 individual monitor mixes. My Soundcraft has 2. I see one option would be to use the effects send. In the screenshot it doesn’t look like you are using it. I used to own a very similar model and the effects were pretty bad. That’s why I bought my Voice Live pedal. Here’s another option that we used I just thought of. We played a bluegrass gig and drums would be a tabu. I took the backing tracks and split them with bass and a very quiet piano in the left and the drums in the right. I have a 6’ long 1/8” to 2x1/4” split cable so I connected one side to my bass amp and the other to a small powered speaker. But you could do something similar with yours were you don’t plug the click track into that mixer. Do you have a second small mixer? You would use that for your in ears.

The band in a box community is a great place to ask if anyone has a particular midi file as well as I think this is one I have used - free midi org. I have hundreds of midi files I created myself over the last 3 decades. I posted them on my website but I didn’t know if anyone was downloading them so I removed them.

It is actually all in the user guide which is by far your best option. what I do is google each question and it will usually give me the answer as well as a few YouTube’s. if you’re goal is to use midi the tempo map will be crucial. A quick method that works well with drum or bass tracks is to drag them to the timeline. Melodyne will create a tempo map.

If you do watch a lot of YouTube reviews on interfaces each presenter will contradict what the last presentation said. Many will say Focusrite is a low value because it lacks a lot of features others have. My advice is to make a list of possible features and pick the interfaces that have the features that are of importance to you. Example- Direct monitoring levels on the front. A blend control for this. Midi ports, Combi jacks a large volume knob for my monitoring. If you record with other people then having extra headphones is a nice feature . Do you like reverb when recording? Then built in DSP is cool. Even though I don’t shop there I go on the Sweetwater web site and use the filter set to 4x4 USB interfaces priced low to high. They pretty much have them all . I did a video on 2x2 interfaces a year ago

I too have possibly over 1,000 old midi files that I started collecting when they came on floppy’s in the 80’s. Generally the majority of free midi creations were done by very amateur musicians (?) so they are not even close to the original songs. I personally don’t think it’s worth your time to worry about them. I think it’s 1 in 10 that are salvageable for me. And the internet AI normally doesn’t pick up on content of cover songs that are played by a band even if you do a decent job of it. A sparse sounding midi file will be miles away from detection as copy protected content. If you use even a few seconds of the original recording it will. I have posted dozens of You Tubes of either me playing cover songs or in tutorials on making backing tracks and I have only been busted once. Grandma got run over by a Reindeer! Go figure. I have a collection of 500 Beatles songs a friend bought on DVD. They are professionally produced GM midi and because I copied from the DVD they are not named. But because they were made properly the songs are instantly recognizable. So if you find a midi file that when you listen it is not recognizable do your self a favour. Delete it.

The OP is using a proper ASIO interface and is trying to use its driver, correct? It is true that only Cakewalk/ Sonar has issue with Generic drivers being installed. I use other Daw’s now. One of them is Cubase. So yes it installed the Generic driver. Cubase simply asks you what driver you want to use on first run. I choose my Motu ASIO — end of story. It always uses that device. Waveform- Ditto. Mixcraft-Ditto Studio one Ditto. Harrison- Ditto. All once set up stay connected. More than 2 months ran by and I opened Sonar to get at an older project. I had to update and re authorize. and it crashes. I open in safe mode and get my project back and I opened Preferences and find Im in WASAPI mode?? I noticed the Generic driver on the list. I choose Motu ASIO and carry on. Next day on reboot Im in WASAPI mode again. The only solution is to delete the Generic driver in the RegEdit app. I should not have to do that! So the OP is not alone in their complaint. I know of no other Daw that behaves as badly as Sonar when it comes to driver issues. All the other Daw’s happily ignore the Generic driver.

Since day one I think most of us long time fans have had a lot of things that we totally dislike about the new graphics. A whole year has gone by and Im am still forever being tripped up but graphic “ gotcha’s” I totally hate that Im forever having to resize the views of the console so I can see pro channel or EFX bin or Sends!! They become hidden and if I make them bigger then I can’t see the bottom or the top of the strip. if I was using a real mixer I don’t think it would hide stuff! I carefully adjust this and save the workspace but it doesn’t stick if you open older projects. I’ve lost track! I’ve got work to do and now I have to learn how to use Sonar all over again!! Possibly this is not an issue for users with new monitors? Is that the only solution!

The Zoom pedal does have an ASIO driver ( outdated?) but it’s simply the wrong tool. Lots of interfaces have podcast features now. The Zoom L8 is perfect for podcasting. It was designed specifically for that. Then my Motu M4 also works great. My new SSL2 also has loopback. Bottom line is you either have to hobble together a complicated haywire audio system that will leave you using WASAPI shared mode or get an interface that supports Loopback. Trust me, I tried! The only way I could run my Daw’s in ASIO was with the loopback feature. Doing what you want to do became huge during Covid therefore the new interfaces mostly now feature loopback.

I still have the full installation files that I iso copied to my hard drive. There’s I think 3 updates involved but I just run the first one to get Lexicon and True Pianos. Theres 2 items I’d love to see updated and brought back.

@Milton Sica Just a heads up about the new Windows driver ARM. In another thread on this topic Noel informed me that you need a brand new computer that supports this. To me that will place it out of reach for a lot of people for a long time yet. I just built a new computer and it has to last me 10 years. Music computers are very expensive even if you build them yourself. Good to see that you’re still around.

In all fairness the icon is just way too small considering the damage it can do. Just this morning I tried to split and copy a midi clip and my whole project went crazy! I knew from experience exactly what it was and the reason I posted my reply above. But it is easy to forget you tuned it on. Would it be possible to have it shut off as part of screen sets or Workspaces? That way if you forget to turn it off it will be automatically turned off when you open the project again.

Plus one to trying a good quality dynamic Mike. I can’t use Condensers. It brings out the worst in me. Snorting and grunting! My go to is my live Mike too, Shure Beta 58. It’s what I sound like! It also totally eliminates background noise.

Ripple edit?