John Vere

You learn something new everyday. I actually didn't think it was possible to copy paste in PVR. Never tried the Windows shortcuts. Works brilliantly. Thanks . Of note is it works just like copy paste in Melodyne. The paste always goes on the original location you cannot point where you want it to go. But after you paste it will make a double layer so you can actually pull those off the original and move them. I see Cakewalk lets you do this for one note but not a chord. But moving the now time places the copy there. I see why you said that now. Therefore you could progress through a song placing chords one after the other and then moving them up or down and change the intervals and, and? and,,, o my, I think I'll stick with playing my keyboard. no matter how much I suck it's still faster..

Si' Lexicon Alpha = Problema malo Controlador de audio intentar WASAPI shared ( probably doesn't support it)

For me it's become second nature to make sure and turn on things like my Yamaha drums if I plan on using them in a session. It's just part of the routine to fire up the studio for the day. And I don't really find it a bother to quickly re check midi device boxes when needed. Takes less than a minute. It is one of the benefits of a simple hardware set up that is only using your audio interfaces midi port. That can be left checked in the midi outputs and midi tracks globally will still find it. Then it's only a matter of the channels used per device. I can't fathom having a midi set up that only used just USB. You would need a couple of USB PCIe cards I guess. But there are some changes slowly happening with Midi 2.0 and it's use of USB C ports. Possibly windows might also incorporate better port management with these changes.

Dim Pro uses 2 authorization codes. A serial Number and a registration code. They have to match. Because I have purchased different variations of Sonar over time I seem to have at least 6 executable Dim pro files in my back up folders for software. The latest is 1.5. It is possible to have more than one set of registration numbers. But If you install from Command center and use the serial and registration shown and carefully copy paste and run as Administrator it will work every time. I have installed Dim pro and Rapture on 5 of my computer I run Cakewalk on. It has never been an issue and running as Administrator has become second nature. I install them from my back up hard drive where I have a Command center's last Download folder stored. I have a Note pad document with all my Cakewalk serial numbers as well. That's all I need. I don't need to run Command center. My most treasured back up is X3e which at one point I thought might be the end of the line for Cakewalk when the servers died. But they didn't. Important tip of the day: I highly recommend people who own Sonar Platinum do what many of us did that dark December before Bandlab came to the rescue. Don't trust that your software will be available through Command Center forever. Run command center and download everything. Copy the Download folder to a safe place a bunch of times. It is found in Program Data/Cakewalk/Command center. Then write down all those serial and registration numbers in a document and store those there too. You can also get older products like X3 from your Cakewalk user account. Download everything and copy those numbers. Access to that account could disappear overnight. This will resolve a zillion future issues like the one the OP is having. That and remembering to run as Admin. Go purchase a couple of cheap thumb drives. Store it on your wife's computer, store it on one drive, store it on every back up drive you have. Rebuilding a new computer? just grab the back up drive and go at it.

I went to purchase the Doctor. In Dave’s article it mentioned $20 which is my budget, but it is now $63 CAN. However I can actually use the demo no problem You just have to close and reopen for each plug in. I played with it for a while and realized I have to read the manual before it will be of use to me. It might be over my head even thought I understand the terminology. The most important reading, the performance meter! might as well be a picture of a stick man waving his arms around! The only one I can make sense of is the Harmonic Analyst as that like using M osilator and Span or M analyzer. if I can eventually figure it out I will buy it, but I’m grateful there’s a useable demo. I’m not sure I have any stuff by Acustica. ? I'll check... OK now I remember, I have Tan, Coral, Titanium and Coffee the Pun. Those are the "bastards" that installed 3 of each just for skins, and then the VST2 and 3 versions. Low points for installation bloat. That might be a good one to see what happens to the meters so I know what a hog looks like. My favorite HOG is the LP multi Band. Put that on the master and forget about editing in real time.

I had a weird one today. I was revisiting an older project and noticed the harmonies were a bit out of key as well as timing issues. I was soloing the track as I fixed stuff in Melodyne but it all of a sudden sounded weird?? Turned out the track had some lanes and two were playing at same time. So I was fixing lane 1 and then lane 2 became noticeable! I hate lanes for this very reason and stopped using them a few years ago so was surprised to have them rear their ugly head again.

I was to understand that if contacted Support they help you get at your account where all your old products are stored? Or does that not exist for people who didn’t create it? I guess if you never bothered the register Sonar then they can’t help you. That is No fault of Cakewalk but negligence on behalf of the consumer.

I’m thinking this post will disappear into oblivion in a day or 2. So I would post this in the instruments sub forum in the Freeware thread which is bumped to the top often.

Could be. Certainly crashes for me. That and any 32 bit plug ins. TTS seems fine if it’s the first thing in a project. I still might use it briefly to open a download midi file to see if I can use it. If I keep it I then delete half the tracks and keep the bass, drums and keyboard parts that sound like a real player made them. I replace Bass with Ample p bass lite, drums with AD2 and keyboards with my arsenal of VST keyboards. If I do keep a guitar part ( rare) I use Ample for acoustic and Strum session for electric. Horns I use Dim Pro or xpand 2. For a live show I would stay far away from anything that has that potential to crash. Besides TTS 1 is pretty sub standard quality compared to most others available now.

Absolutely Software belongs on C drive or you will have nothing but problems.

Funny you mentioned Melda. After testing over 80 compressors the Mcompressor is my new go to trustworthy compressor. It is replacing the Sonitus. If you can’t get what you need out of the Mcompressor you need to take more lessons. It actually has a built in tutorial. And it has the all important meters which most of those wannabe vintage ones don’t have. Between that and the CA 2A I’m covered. That took about 3 months so let’s see how fast I can seek out and find my go to Delay to also replace the Sonitus.

I break my vocals into the lines of the lyrics. Each song is different but that doesn't make it any more work to open a lot of clips. I zoom in so I don't like too many note blobs on my screen. I have just come up with a huge timesaver, Custom Short cuts keys. I had never used these 2 before and they are really easy to reach. Just put the clip in focus before using the keys. Z= open regional effect Melodyne X = Render regional effect. Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you; clip 1 Remember I'll always be true. clip 2 And then while I'm away, I'll write home ev'ry day, clip 3 And I'll send all my loving to you. clip 4

That was a very interesting read. I'm in. Going to purchase it. For testing compressors I had to use things like M Oscillator and that didn't tell you as much as this does. This tool I think is defiantly worth it for people who use free plug ins. We are sort of taking a chance and can only use our ears. People blindly slap those little Tape emulators and one knob dials that promise analog vibe to their mix without really knowing what is actually happening. My personal quest is mostly for plug ins that are Clean.

Actually once you save and close the project undo is not available. So it's good you didn't close it. Or? If what you are saying is you closed it without saving then that is also fine because any work would be lost and the clip should not have the regional effects applied when you re open the project again.

Always work with a copy of the track. Always work with short clips around 4 to 8 measures. Rendering is destructive and it is possible for things to go wrong. Second you might not like the results so it’s easy to re copy that clip and start over. Did you try Undo-render?

Good call I missed that. D drive is not a normal place for program files and VST folders. All of mine are C drive and in either Cakewalk, Stienberg or VST folders. The VST 3 are in the Common folder. So just 4 pathways.

Odd never crashes for me and I know there’s a lot of others use it. And that said when Cakewalk does crash 99% of the time it’s a plug in. This is why I recommend only using very solid dependable VST instruments. Example most of us are finding the TTS-1 can crash Cakewalk so it only used to open midi files and preview. But I hope you have your answers to the original question now and can get you projects saved in proper folders . But I don’t see why you would need to have any audio in the first place. Freezing instruments is only something you do with supper large projects to save CPU. Read the info on my blog I posted in my last reply for details on this. I haven’t added the info about using the playlist yet. One last question. Is there a reason you need multi track playback. Can you not use just a stereo or split mono playback?

As said by @OutrageProductions always use per project folders if there will be any audio in the projects. Never use a global audio folder this seems to always ends up with orphaned tracks.. You can take projects that are using a global audio folder and make them per project folders easily. Open the project and then using “save as” and checking the “ copy audio with project “ box. Save the project in a new location and possibly rename it too. Now the project will be in its own folder and the audio folder will also be inside that folder. But this is not necessary if there is no audio in a project. freezing a midi track only temporary saves the audio. Open the project audio folder. Now freeze the synth. You will see the new audio file created in the audio folder. Now unfreeze the synth and the audio files disappear. Even if you save and close the project that audio file is only there when synth is frozen. I would not freeze the midi any how as CWP projects with no audio are almost bulletproof for me. And they are very small file size. They are similar to a pure midi file but CWP also loads all the other goodies like effects and instruments. I have over 200 backing track CWP files and never had any issues at all for years and years. So I'm not sure why you had issues in the past. My first guess would be there were misbehaving VST instruments used. I was careful about my choice of instruments. I only used ones that seemed CPU friendly and avoid huge samples needing loading. So instead of freezing what might have worked was evaluate why a project caused an issue. If you want samples of my Backing tracks I have shared them freely on my web page https://sites.google.com/view/cactus-studios/cakewalk-backing-tracks Also why are you having to create new versions to create new set lists?? Are you using Cakewalks Playlist? You don't need to have different files to use Playlist. You just choose your files and save each set list you can re order playlists as well and re name. Very quick and easy.

Or use the arranger?

Perhaps this might explain a few things that might help

Actually if you have installed the proper midi driver from Yamaha it should work. I find generic midi drivers can’t be used after Cakewalk is open. But for me my Roland and Yamaha devices both have supplied midi drivers and both can be turned on with Cakewalk running. It just asks me if I want to use the device. I then might have to make sure it is checked in preferences/ midi/ devices It’s not a issue generally because my controller is USB powered and it’s always connected.

I just downloaded 36 free delay based effects from https://plugins4free.com/ There was a bunch I didn't download only because the GUI were just a little bit too simple, which I know is not a valid complaint, but they also got negative reviews. Not that many of the reviews on the site are worth reading either. But I felt these are probably the better ones any how. So now I will install them to my office computer and start testing and making notes. Here's a basic outline of what I will do. Anything I'm missing please do comment. 1. Easy to install 2.Manual 3.Easy to use as basic Delay = Time, Feedback and Wet/dry 4.Sync 5. Readout for time ( ms) if sync is off. 6.Analog toggle, in other words option to choose clean or harmonic content. 7.Midi learn for controls 8.Special features - multi tap, reverse, LFO etc. 9. Hi or lo pass filters 10.CPU hog or friendly , not sure how to test this yet, ideas? And I know there's more out there so I'll keep looking but any input is welcome. The one I did on compressors took me 2 months. https://youtu.be/PLBxSGozIwo Here's what my download folder has. I even re down loaded ones I already have so I can keep an alphabetical list somehow. I think there's a few reverbs I grabbed in here as well for my next project free reverbs.

Possibly in the project where it is not working you have a lot of plug ins active and this might strain your CPU which would result in your graphics not working correctly if the graphics are on the MoBo. Try bypassing all effects while you record.

This is the best insight here: Reading carefully what the OP said is that they are finally being forced to move on from Sonar 2.2. They were trying to install an X3 patch but cannot get at their account. ( You just contact support at the top of the page here) The obvious cognitive mistake here is why bother with x3 then? Cakewalk by Bandlab is essentially X3. It just has a zillion improvements, mostly bug fixes, as well as a few highly useful new features. The OP is asking for a kind of lame update ( I have it on file) that fixed possibly less than 1% of Sonars bugs when they can actually fix 99.7% of them. CbB is the latest update to X3.

Not sure why you are calling it latency? What is important is-- can that computer play a large project at lower buffer settings. If it can't, then you need to increase the buffers which of course increases the latency. A DAW that is stuttering is suffering from either too low a buffer setting or something is running in the background creating DPC issues. run this to check. https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon Other common issues can be a plug in having trouble accessing a library An incompatible Plug in The internet is running something. Graphic card issues. Interface ASIO driver not up to date or user not using ASIO.