John Vere

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

@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.