John Vere

And why I don’t like software mixers. Put the controls on the hardware where it belongs. With software mixers you are adding an extra digital layer to the signal path. Like a plug in. And seems almost nobody tests anything on Sonar.

It’s why nobody is left here. I now have 4 Daw’s that I can use forever until Windows update kills them. And I reverted to Platinum if I need to access old projects. Im happy! But it sad that Bandlab forgot about us.

Go to manufacture web site and download and install the audio driver carefully following instructions. Go to settings/ Sound and check that Evo 1/2 are enabled and the default input and output devices. Disable all other devices listed both input and output. Go into advanced settings and choose your sample rate that you set in the Evo control panel. There’s a test tone you can confirm that everything is working and you have your monitors left and right connected properly. In Sonar preferences audio first select ASIO. Make sure no other devices are listed or checked. You want to only see the Evo on all the audio settings tabs including sync and caching. If there’s any sign of a generic ASIO driver remove them in the RegEdit App. Waveform is a free Daw you can use to test as well.

You can also just drag the drum track to the timeline and Melodyne will create a tempo map. Using ripple edit you drag the project so it starts on a downbeat.

Go to help menu that is where you sign in and activate.

Audience requests are not a problem for me. I have over 300+ popular songs on hand. I now have been making my tracks into videos for this reason. The video guides me through songs I might not be sure of. It’s a lot of preparation work but over time you collect songs and it gets easier.

Thank you @Salvatore Sorice, @Starship Krupaand @57Gregy Just to be clear what happened was last July a moderator blocked me from posting with out any explanation of why? Then as well as I wasn’t allowed to upgrade my Bandlab membership from Monthly to annual at the discount. Needless to say I was very upset so I signed out of the forum and removed all my CbB and Next tutorials from You Tube. That was JohnVere/ Cactus Music account that goes back to about 2006. That is my legacy account. I got the discount deal by logging in under my Sock Monkey account. It wasn’t until the late fall that I started posting on the forum using that name. I PM’d members sometimes to let them know this. I wasn’t trying to hide anything. But a few months ago for reasons once again unknown I opened the forum to find out I no longer existed as Sock Monkey and all those posts now show up as “Guest” ? So not a big deal as I have now uninstalled all Bandlab products and only have 8.5 and Splat installed. I now use 3 other Daw’s. But this forum is a long time part of my music life so I read it still and I don’t mind helping out if the topic is general discussion and not about how to use Bandlab products. I don’t support the brand anymore. Hopefully that moderator will not see this and block me once again. Oh well. It’s sad that we as a user group are now not allowed to criticize the company.

I have a TC Voice live. It sounds just fine when the harmonies are mixed in at a low level live. One day I thought I would try using it to create harmony for a recording. I first tried singing live and recording the stereo output into 2 mono tracks. Even Melodyne could not fix the terrible results. Then I took the lead vocals, copied it and applied maximum correction using Melodyne and fed that to the voice live. So it was getting a perfect pitched normalized input. It still sounded pretty bad. Not usable for recording. So your belief that they have the technology to create perfect pitches/ harmony/Bass line? From a live vocal or instrument track is flawed. As far as I know it is almost impossible to do this from a guitar. Super easy with a keyboard. The problem is the conversion from analog to digital format. It will be jumping all over the place because of the inherent overtones a guitar creates as well as lower frequencies make real time tracking slow. A midi guitar like the Fishman is the closest thing to technology that can make an octave lower bass sound happen when playing. But even then midi guitar tracking of lower frequencies suffers from latency. It can track higher frequencies faster but low frequencies take longer to analyze and create. A Octave pedal isn’t a solution because it lowers all the strings. One might be able to build a very high tech guitar with a separate pick up for the low strings? Midi guitar can separate each string. But you have to actually play the bass line as you chord. So perfect technique is required. It can be done. This is why every one uses backing tracks. Problem solved. Or like a friend of mine uses a Roland Bass floor pedal which is like on a Hammond organ. Or people use loopers but that’s super weird to figure out. Ive use backing tracks since 1986. Now with stem separation and audio to midi I can create new songs in a few hours. There’s a free midi file for just about every popular song made.

So you are saying that it still doesn’t work even when paired with S1 or another Daw? That most certainly implies that the hardware has an issue. There’s a sub forum for Presonus hardware on the user forum. studio one forum. com Might be help available there.

My only realistic suggestion would be to use S1 no more stupid issues. Im afraid Cakewalk has become abandon ware.

There’s an article about this I easily found in. Sound on Sound from 2009. Seems to me the software itself is now outdated anyway so no loss there, the DVD came with thousands of midi loops which are probably pretty easy to copy from the DVD. And it seems there are also lots of samples available as well. So you can probably recoup your losses by grabbing the content.

Yep, that’s exactly what happened. The audio is sitting happily in the 10 GB C drive of that computer. Now if you were me you would still have that hard drive sitting in a shoebox in the woodshed. Whether it will still spin up is another question! And if I could sill find the power adapter for my IDE enclosure as well is a good question! It’s a common problem with all software that saves your work. The default is often hidden deep in the bowels of C drives Roaming app data. Old age teaches you to always go into the options and choose a location you can easily find. And best to use a Data drive for this.

I don’t have Cakewalk anymore but in preferences there’s a page where you can set audio recording bit depth. I have a Zoom L8 and have that option but looking into it, I soon learned it is a total waste of hard drive space. If the choice was floating point that would be different. But it is a fixed amount. Most Daw’s use 32 floating point for internal processing and rendering. But 24 bit has been chosen by even the most high end audio interface manufacturers for good reason. Zoom is just giving you an option to use something that at best will make a .005% difference to your audio quality. Better A/D converters and pre amps would be needed to start taking advantage of that resolution. But even that’s debatable. 48/24 is the industry standard for good reasons. You want better sound? Treat your room and and purchase good quality gear.

And actually Neil posted back when W11 came out how everyone was noticing an improvement in performance. Spyware?? Tin foil hat?

Im facing this same dilemma. Both my monitors are really old and they don’t even match. One is 24 and the other is a 21. And the colours are different. Im looking at the curved ultra wide options and then possibly placing a 2nd monitor above? I’ve always wanted 3 monitors but my video cards 3 rd port is a display port? For the second upper monitor Im thinking of using a 4K 42 TV.