John Vere

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.

Seems simple to me. Turn on Ripple edit. Split the song and drag the right hand part 2 measures. TURN OFF RIPPLE EDIT! Important. Now any audio notes that got chopped off at the split point on the left, you slip edit them to the right until they end. Same with midi notes in PVR. Then go to the split point on the right and slip edit those little leftovers out of the new start point. Of course this would take less than 3 minutes on one of my 12 track songs, If your project has 100 tracks then you have my sympathy. There's always 10 ways to do the same thing in Cakewalk.

What would actually be useful is that things like this are actually somehow stored with your account. Then if your computer blew up, and you needed to re build, your user preferences are stored under your name and account. It could be a simple " Save User preferences to your Account" as well as " Load User Preferences from account" options in the help menu. I'm planning on buying a new computer later once I've saved up enough Gig money and I'm already making a list of things I need to do first. I'll add this. As far as workspaces go I deleted about 12 of them I had made and only kept 2. "One Monitor" and " 2 Monitors" I found I never used the rest. But I have put a bit of work into those 2 and it would be nice to transfer them to the new machine.

Ya, I keep forgetting that you don't see signatures on cell phones which is what I mostly use these days.

The Sonitus suite is still included with Cakewalk. It defiantly gets installed with out issues. I know this for a fact becuase last summer I installed Cakewalk on a Laptop that has none of my old Sonar stuff installed. I have 100's of project that use the EQ, delay and Multi band. But it's days might be numbered as it is DX format and old code that hasn't been updated for a very long time. People are reporting minor issues already. Like TTS-1 is defiantly fading fast. They are great plug ins but your time might be better spent trying some others. I myself have started to replace them with other VST's to avoid future issues. It is predicted it will be a Windows update that will kill them for us. There's lots of great free Compressors I just did a huge project testing over 80 of them. Here's the link to the You Tube. https://youtu.be/PLBxSGozIwo

Ok the OP didn’t mention what interfaces they were using but @rsinger seems to know it is a 2i2. The 2i2 has direct monitoring, learn to use it. It is standard to most good audio interfaces and there is absolutely no reason to suffer a bad mix when tracking. Cakewalk is not where you fuss with this. Focusrite interfaces come with mix control software which is where you can adjust settings including the balance between playback and input. Some interfaces have this as a blend control on the front. Or are you using an amp and mike and that is what you are complaining about being too loud?

Forget it.

It's the same as the CA 2A without side channel.. I think it is a very good choice for acoustic guitars. There's not really a big difference between the better compressors other than the fact that some add color ( harmonics) and some are clean and just compress. The PC 2A is lightly colored because it is modeled after an analog design. It will become more saturated as you turn the right hand dial up. I use the CA 2A pro channel on just about all my audio tracks. For clean the best one out of my testing was Melda's M compressor which is included in the free bundle. Here's links to 2 videos I did about testing 50 free compressors. 50 free compressors- https://youtu.be/PLBxSGozIwo How I tested them- https://youtu.be/REZ5H6GMWZY