John Vere

@Bill Phillips I guess I should have used a smiley face I was just attempting to be funny. Things changed last fall am now Cakewalk no longer includes a free version of Melodyne. It only includes a demo that is good for 1 month I do believe. So drag and drop will no longer work until you purchase Melodyne. It’s on sale right now $99

Melodyne comes as only a demo with Cakewalk now since version 5. They probably haven’t updated the documentation. Version 4 stayed active with the drag and drop audio to midi and tempo extraction but not the editing tools. Good news is it’s on sale right now. You only need The basic version @ $99 . Start with that and see if it’s something you need . Then over time you can purchase upgrades like I’ve done. I personally could not function with out it . I now have the Editor version which does polyphonic detection. One of the features I’ve just recently started to work with is its ability to perfectly time align vocals and even full guitar chords.( Studio and Editor only) As I get older my chops are fading away so Melodyne is my saviour. Cakewalk is a $500 program you got for free. The extra $300 I paid over time for Melodyne is a bargain.

Actually that’s a great idea. I’ll just stop replying, problem solved ?

A work around is to open the MP 3 or Flac file in a wave editor like Audacity and convert it to Wave at the sample rate you are using. I’ve never had issues withMP 3 but makes me think that if both the sample rate and format are different then Cakewalk might choke on the file. MP 3 files also contain a lot of meta data which might cause a conflict.

Whoops !dang I hate it when people high jack old threads. I still say they should be locked after 3 months. People can just add a link to the old thread if they want to continue

If the virtual keyboard triggers the G2 and your Akai controller doesn’t what does that tell you? One thing it does tell you is that Cakewalk is not the problem here. It sounds like you might have assigned that note to a midi function but that is stored in the controller in it’s set up menu. If so that’s were the answer will be.

You drag the audio to the timeline and Melodyne ( if you have a license) will create a tempo map. All midi will now follow that tempo. If you don't have Melodyne then Suffer.....Ha.

One downside I found was every time you re open the project later it will say it’s building transients. That’s because audio snap is still active. If you turn it off the audio goes out of sync. Solution if this bothers you is to re export the audio again and bring it back. I don’t think there’s and degrading if you export at 48/ 32 with dithering off.

What really works for me is a year ago I started working exclusively at 48 . Seems the internet is mostly 48. I even converted older projects to 48 as I re visit them. But possibly part of your issue is the Mackie driver. Not all ASIO drivers are created equal. Example for years I used 44.1 with my Tascam and Focusrite interfaces and never had the conflict issue. The minute I got the Motu I couldn’t open a web page and even go back and play Cakewalk. Because I’m working with multiple apps open including movies and editing software I decided to try 48 globally. It works but with only one pitfall. I can’t record new audio in Cakewalk after any movies or ?? Have been used. The Audio is fluttering. I have to completely re start the computer. I’ve gotten used to this and it’s not a huge deal I just try and start my day with recording audio and move on. If I know the next thing on my list is recording I restart the computer. I understand lots of people just use on board audio for everything other than Cakewalk but ASIO is also the driver for many of the other apps I’m using with Cakewalk running. As long as they are all set to 48 it works other than that one recording issue.

This thread has gotten too long so I missed this which is pretty important info. You need to deal with this. You can’t run any DAW when that is red. It may or may not be at the root of the problem but overall to use a computer for music it needs to run clean an green. I believe you said this is a Dell laptop. If it is this could be issues in the BIOS as I have personal experience about 8 years ago with similar issues. Dell wouldn’t deal with it. We sent it back and they said it wasn’t broken? $1,500 no good for audio. Still have it and it’s fine for all else. Bought a $600 Acer that never had issues with Audio once bloat ware was removed.

To test that it isn't truly your controller, open the Virtual Keyboard. My Akai Synth station has an intermittent dead note right in the middle.

I have a easy to follow tutorial on how to do this. Sorry it's not a slider it's a few steps but once you are set up all you need to do is change the tempo in the Transport and you can try different speeds. Always back up your project before you do these things as it's destructive editing. Make sure the back up has it's own folder and audio folder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0sm8cWrjIw&list=PL7YqVth30eGsdimFV6w1niyBN07M2uhRj&index=19&t=8s

I'm pretty sure the CA 2A , both the VST and pro Channel module were only included with Sonar. But the PC 2A Leveler is identical in all respects other than it does not have side chaining. This is why the OP can't find the CA 2A if they never used Sonar.

@scook The OP is using a Mac so I think they are talking about the Bandlab App which I do believe works on all OS platforms. First thing comes to mind is you can get older PC computers for almost free. I see them in thrift stores for $20 all the time. Cakewalk by Bandlab will run on Windows 7 still. Problem solved. It' the reason many of us keep older systems running. You never know when you might need a time machine. I have a old XP only Epson printer that prints directly to CD's. So I keep this 2003 Laptop someone gave me years ago just for that.

I had bought the Windows 98 for Dummy's in that year. When XP came out I found a copy of XP for dummies in a thrift store for $1. It was exactly the same book with a bit of editing done to update a few obvious features. I later found a copy of Windows 7 for dummies and it was also still the W98 book with yet more editing. The one I liked best was "Window Vista for Fools" I find the mention of this book interesting because I pondered using that for my series. Cakewalk for Dummies. I ruled it out because that's not true. Just because you are a beginner doesn't imply you are a dummy. You are actually smart because you are using Cakewalk and didn't get hoodwinked into paying $500 for a top notch DAW.

I just thought of something that I didn’t see mentioned yet. Run Resplendence Latency Monitor and see what is going on. It is a laptop I do believe. They can be more problematic https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

@Starship KrupaAs I said it was just one track and further investigation was it was right at a point of a split in the track. which was a copy paste of the Harmony track which was also abused by me with Melodyne. I have learned that if you want problems then fill a project with a zillion edits and clips. The solution I find is to export the tracks as 48/32 stems. Then delete the mess and drag the nice fresh track back and now everything is fine. So it was not Wider to blame per say, it was a combination of things that created the dropout or glitch. I have been using Wider for over a year and it’s actually one I trust. This was the first time it was accused of having issues by me. I use a lot of plug ins I got for free and what you say about many of them come from very reputable developers. I always sign up for newsletters and through that have scored many great upgrades and deals. I’ll edit my other post so as not to scare anyone away from Wider.

@Tarrell Freeze That is a great idea. to try a different interface. Troubleshooting 101- swap out components until the issue goes away.

This was the first thing I though of when I saw the thread title earlier. It's always a plug in. Today I was just getting ready to mix a finished song and there was this terrible glitch that always happened in exactly the same place??? Knowing the Gospel of using Cakewalk " IT SHALL BE KNOWN THAT IT IS ALWAYS A PLUG IN" I bypassed my effects and of course the glitch was gone. Took about 2 minutes to find the culprit " Wider " by Polyverse a free plug in. Odd thing is I had it on 3 tracks and only this one track with low harmony caused the issue. I removed it and re inserted it and it still glitched. Edit: further investigation was the glitch was right at a split point on a track that had been copy pasted as well as Melodyne had been used . Solution was to export the untidy track as a stem delete it and import the new track problem solved . My conclusion is my computer is old and Cakewalk has problems when asked to process too much data Editing crests a lot more data to process . That one point in time as example contained more than my system could process. I got caught by the demo mode voodoo a few weeks ago too.

Good call because Presonus does install a Generic ASIO driver when you install the DAW software that comes with the interface. But the statement about WASAPI being louder than ASIO cannot be accurate. That’s not how things work. Hopefully they will watch my Audio set up video which will rule out a dozen or more possibilities. Otherwise threads like this go on for pages of questions and answers.

I wonder if @jesuswill return to the Forum on April 9th?

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True but what most people need is something to get started. The documentation is not really a user manual because it makes no effort to teach step by step. It is a reference guide and more or less has too much information for a new user. New users need to be instructed step by step. And how many of them are we aware of that never even get going because the don't have their audio working yet? My Movie maker software has a built in tutorial that gets you set up and explains the basic layout and features. It sure helped me a lot to get going, and it seemed like something that any software could have built in. Take the tour. You Tube rules for monetization program. After 3 years I'm only half way there. I most certainly never started this with making money in mind. And then once you make that goal, you might not even get very good offers from advertisers. Videos about recording hopefully will get offers from Music Gear and software companies as the whole idea is targeting markets. I pay for You Tube so I never see the ads. I think very successful creators can do pretty good, I'm not sure, It's most certainly a full time job to do a good job of producing quality content. I'll probably never see any money because the new rules are stacked against me now. I don't make those stupid shorts that are a big fad right now. Don't ever try and turn a hobby into something that makes money. It will take all the joy out of it.

Yep. Keyboard short cuts are your friend. The ability to customize is brilliant. One of the hugest time savers for me is to take keys I never use and re assign them to thing I do a lot. My newest is Z opens Melodyn for the clip in focus and X renders it when done. Those 2 moves used to involve digging through a few menus with the mouse. But problem is things like you are doing are not on the shortcut list. Not sure if you can create a Macro for that. But Midi can most certainly control anything that moves or turns on and off in a project. Problem is it's not global. Only per project unless it was part of a template originally.

I was lusting after a video card last winter because I now use video editing software and rendering in real time sucks. It’s like not having a good audio interface. Not sure if this changed but you couldn’t even buy a mid price card. They were sold out everywhere and part of problem was the shortage of chips. There were warnings to wait it out. Prices had doubled etc. I might try again but now my whole computer probably needs replacement because it’s at least 12 years old.