John Vere

There’s a lot of stuff which should be in Command Center. If you Google “ What was included with different Cakewalk/ Sonar versions there’s a spreadsheet available that lists it all.

Cakewalk started life as a midi sequencer and audio multi tracking added later. For traditional music it is perfect with all the features of a million dollar studio at your beck and call. Let’s just politely say that it is all a musician needs to create music. Electronic Music has totally different requirements and programs like FL were designed from the ground up with that in mind. You don’t need to be a musician to create music with software that was designed with non musicians in mind.

You never Delete any software you uninstall it. Otherwise you make a mess of your registry. Look up how to do a clean install of Cakewalk. It’s all over this forum a zillion times

I had already installed x3 studio and Splat and then CbB. True Piano was from my copy of 8.5. So I just ran a very stripped down install and that got me Vvocal and True Pianos. I never noticed any issues with CbB.

What I think I’d do is make a save as copy of the project and start deleting plug ins with an eye on the CPU meters. I think bypassing doesn’t unload them.

And then there’s me who recorded a live band. 14 tracks, last summer with a 2008 Sony Laptop with 4 GB of Ram and a pathetic 2.8 ms duo core without a problem. It does have a SSD drive which I think is what makes it work. I still have a Dell laptop from 2003 running XP and it still works like the day it was made. I was using it for lyrics using power point. Now I made Movies with backing tracks and the lyrics and those I use a 2007 Asus net book with 2 GB Ram and W7 for playback. So it makes me laugh when someone thinks that a 5 year old computer needs replacement.

And a repost from someone who is driving a 1987 Honda Civic

My experience is that it will be a misbehaving plug in. Easy to test if you are only using a few 3rd party plug ins. Remove or swap starting with each until the issue is resolved. And once you find the culprit best to let both Cakewalk and the developers know about the issue.

It depends on the interface I guess because I often switch between my Scarlett 6i6 and my Motu M4 and all I do is close Cakewalk, turn off the interface and then turn the other one then Restart Cakewalk and all is working perfectly as before. Outputs are the same and inputs 1-4 are showing in the tracks. I can also do this with my Tascam 1641 and my Soundcraft mixer but that’s rare. And there’s some big differences as the Motu doesn’t have SPDIF and the Tascam has 14 channels. The Soundcraft is only 2x2. Etc

I have an A 49 which doesn’t have very many knobs but I have often used midi learn on effects and things with out issue. I have to use the correct midi channel however. Omni mode can make a huge mess in there if you used the same knob for something else.

You used to be able to enter a name for the project in notes but that seems to have been broken with an update to the export dialogue. But yes it’s really easy to add or subtract to the export name. Like today I exported a backing track and I first left it in the original key of G. But then I made a second export that I transposed down a step and just add a F to the title.

Have you tried Mix Recall ? That’s what I use. Just the date. Save as new mix. Of course it doesn’t save deleted tracks but it will change all else including effects and instruments including all the settings and automation. I use general folders for holding albums that have names like “CWP originals 2023”. In there are all the project folders, lyrics and folders for finished masters and mp3 files. My songs retain the proper name which I do not change. There are dated backups elsewhere in different locations .

Possibly you didn’t activate it. Even when installed from Command Center the first time you open it it will ask you to enter the serial number. That pop up might have been hidden behind the window you had open. It has a stand alone version you can open and register that. You have to run it as Administrator as well.

You also have to make them FAT enough by increasing the horizontal height. It seems the default height is too small to show them even with the Show Notes toggled.

I just spent the last 4 hours doing this to create a horn section. This is what I do- Solo the track ( tracks) and I have the now time selected to return to where it starts ( CTRL W) I have right hand on mouse, left hand on the spacebar. Using mouse put the cursor at the notes and then hit space bar, listen stop , start, stop etc. the cursor will jump back each time so you can keep play them over and over as you move notes around until is sound the way you wanted...

Check you sync and caching page under audio settings and make sure the Focusrite is the driver for the Recording and Latency adjustment. Often a generic driver, ASIO4all , Magix can take over this setting and they will need to be removed in the Reg Edit app.

At the heart of the issue is a workflow problem. One must ask how one ends up with that many tracks? An orchestra is normally about 100 musicians and many are in sections that are playing the same line. You can create a pretty huge sound using as little as 50 tracks for that. But somehow I have a feeling the music being created by Mr pulsewalk is electronic. I have troub enough getting my normal 12 tracks mixed perfectly and can’t fathom how I would even begin to cope with anything over say 30 tracks!

Actually what we don’t know is what @Brian Mavity is using for an interface. If it is the Real Tek on board system then ASIO would be a bad idea an WASAPI the correct driver. Hopefully he will watch the video and sort that out.

I just looked this up and it’s Guitar sim software so not sure what ASIO interface you are using with it..

Are you using the midi learn inside the VSTs interface? I use Air DB 33 and all the controls have midi learn. You just choose the control, midi learn and wiggle the control or switch on your controller.

As I said it’s the fact that they are not VST which is a supported format. The are based on old unsupported code. We were told that the Cakewalk team has no plans to update them to VST 3 as this is not possible. They are not in the plug in developing business. That’s well covered by plenty. They will break someday. Even VST 2 is going to fade away as it has reached the end of development. Using DX is like staying with Windows 98 coding. Use at your own risk. I personally love what they do and some like the multi band compressors and the delay I have not yet found exactly what I want to replace them. It would cost me money I guess. The free Melda compressor is a perfect replacement for the Sonitus. And I have the LP multi band free from Splat days. But it’s a latency nightmare compared to the Sonitus

So you are saying when you look at the waveform of the exported file it only shows as a single wave and not two?

This! It’s on my wish list as I find my latest acoustic guitar is very responsive and I end up having to play carefully which I don’t enjoy. I either have to set level at about-14 average or I use my Joe Meek 3Q which has a basic optical compressor. Classic guitar would be the opposite where it tends to be very quiet.

@pulsewalk Read carefully what I said about slip editing. Do understand what that is. @Starship Krupa has just explained it as well.