John Vere

Like USB mikes. The OP has not stated any clue to what gear they are actually using so we are left guessing about the issue

Ya I love Roland gear. It lasts forever and generally never causes issues. I’ll admit they do at least keep old manuals and stuff available on the web site so that’s better than most. But they do have a habit of abandoning everything otherwise, like Cakewalk!

This might be similar to an issue I have using a Motu M4. I’ll get distorted recordings. Not play back ever but sometimes new audio recording is distorted. It only happens when there’s been outside activity like I was using Sony Vegas or You Tube. The only way to get back audio is a total reboot of computer and interface. So next time it happens try that. One other place to look for audio issues is matching sample rates. I explain how to set this in Tutorial #1.

OK, Sorry have no clue about the app. Out of curiosity I followed the instructions and it did seem to do something and like you said it said I had successfully uploaded a project. But it when I clicked on the Blue Toast that said view On Line I got a page with nothing happening other than wanting me to sign up which is odd because I do believe I am? I would suggest you keep trying. There is next to zero info abut how to do this and that info certainly got me no where.

And a very good acoustic bass is found in Dim Pro if you have it. But I’ll toss in another vote for try and replace all 32 bit instruments. If I have a problem it’s mostly been due to 32 bit VST. Or Dx stuff. I even avoid the tts-1 now. I only use it for preview

It depends on material but what works most times is drag and drop the audio track to the timeline. Melodyne option box will open and choose percussive . You can open the tempo map to see what results. The next step to make it musically line up with the measure is turn on Ripple Edit and drag the audio track so it’s lined up with the second measure downbeat. This way the tempo map will follow the audio. Make sure turn off ripple editing when done. I think I demonstrate this in Tutorial #23

Interesting idea. Have you been using this in a live situation to test? For one thing I've have a lot of projects get all messed up because of the arranger. I wrote it off as being a buggy feature and haven't been near it since. And I was only using it as a fancy labeler to show chords and even some lyrics. I run Win Amp on a 2006 Asus Net Book. One core, 1.6 processor and 4 GB RAM. It has an SSD drive and W7. It's the size of a Tablet and I use a Tablet Mike stand holder for it. It will also run on batteries for 10 hours. It runs Sonar X3 Studio just fine and I have used WDM mode for playback when experimenting with the Cakewalk Playlist. It's deadly slow however so that was the issue with Cakewalk. My other collection of Laptops are much more powerful but all have dead batteries and are huge and heavy. I take one of them as a spare player and have used it to display lyrics using Power point and a second foot switch to control that. Now I just have my phone loaded with my tracks for a back up but that's a nightmare to use so I hope it never happens.

I've used Win Amp since I guess 2004 without any issues on it's behalf. And the big reason I stayed with it is it seems the only player that allows you to set it to " Manual Playlist Advance" Someone said Foobar also works but I haven't tried it yet. I do not want to have to press STOP when a song ends. Win Amp has a huge selection of options to customize. Little things like the playlist font size. Those things make a huge difference. Example in pour lighting conditions like outside on a sunny day. Playback is controlled using keyboard shortcut grouping of the lower left row -Z-X-C-V-B Z=back, X =Play and so on. I have my Stealth foot switch programed for these. But for simple set ups it's easy to use these keys. I have them marked. But generally like to perform with my hands on my guitar at all times. ( unless there's a cold one within reach) Win Amp can have just about any type of media files mixed in your playlist. Including Midi. Of course that plays the dreaded MS wavetable synth. I just recently have started adding Video files. And my Backing tracks are a crazy mix of MP3, Wave 44.1 and 48. It doesn't care. I have spent hours researching different software for live performance and it's always missing these key features. Here is my list of what I require and Win Amp does this all except the midi data output and the 2 track limitation. 1- Stop at end of song 2-Drag and drop playlist editing on the fly at the gig. 3-Hot keys for playback control 4-Custom Font Size 5-PLay a mix of file formats including Video 6-GUI is resizable to fit anywhere on screen. 7-Midi output 8-Display lyrics ( can do this with video) 9-play 4 to 6 tracks of audio 10-Save multiple Playlists 11- Print a set list

There’s always multiple ways to do the same things in Cakewalk. If you RIGHT CLICK the mouse on the record button in the transport it will open the recording setting. You might want to try Comping mode. Page 352- https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Reference Guide.pdf The other thing you sound like you might use is take lanes. Look that up too. I explain using take lanes in a few of my videos. try Tutorial #18. If your new to Cakewalk watching the whole series from the start will really speed up the learning curve for you.

Are you attempting to upload a finished song to the Bandlab site? Or is this a project so you can continue working on it using the Bandlab App?

Boy it’s pretty rare to find others who used Mini Disk. I had a Sony player as well as one of the Disk man’s. The disk man had USB and that was a bonus as you could now transfer the songs to disk using the software instead of what I originally had to do which was recorded in real time. It was certainly a good way to get rid of over 100 lbs of gear. The mini disk replaced the Atari and it’s huge monitor. Then I had a GR50, MT32, Korg 05/RW and a rack full of stuff. But I missed the foot controller, the lyrics on file start and midi control of my effects. I used the mini disk for probably 6 years with out issue. I still have about 20 disks, 2 Sony players, 2 Disk mans, as well as a Yamaha MD 8 which I also used as a player and mixing board back then. I actually sold my MD8 10 years ago. Then a few months ago this bass player friend of mine gave me his. Mint condition he never used it. Still in box with a full box of unused Data disks. regular mini disks work but only in stereo. I started using a Laptop in 2004 about when I also started using Cakewalk. But I initially dumped the mini disk tracks into it and converted them to MP3 using the Sony software. When I needed a new track I’d fumble around with Cakewalk. Then I also had all my original midi files and eventually those all have been reworked using better quality sounds. My latest idea is working on a video of each song. I’m finding I get foggy on lyrics these days. So because WinAmp can have videos mixed with audio files in the playlist I make a video with lyrics and even chords and cues. It’s takin me over 20 years to figure that out. Duh! So only thing missing since the Atari days is midi in the playback stream.

One post wonder. Aug 23.

This series will get you sorted out starting with #1 that sets up audio

Tutorials #28 & #29 have details of using the export dialogue. There most definitely is a choice for mono.

Not at my computer but I do believe it’s in the control bar where you choose note duration some where on the left

Not sure what you are doing but I have never had a mono track become stereo when drag and drop from browser to the track pane. I do this a lot. Are you sure you exported as a mono file? And if you cut the end of clip off you can retrieve it by slip editing the end. Just grab the end and drag it to the left. Cakewalk keeps the original audio as one file in the project audio folder. All the editing is just referenced to that track. But if you use save as it will only copy what was present at that time.

Is there a reason you want to use the pro channel ? I always put my compressor in the track effects bin. I prefer to use specific compressors and in the bin they are visible in console view

It’s all about choices. 1- destructive or none destructive editing. 2- methods that alter the sound and methods that won’t. Lately I’ve been using a destructive method -Melodyne. I can deal with not only pitch but timing and amplitude. When done the vocal track is pretty even through out. Then I still push them gently through a compressor to bring them forward.

Good catch. So my answer should have been if you use the New insert dialogue using the + icon that is found in the top / left of the track pane you can choose your input device. This choice will remain in place until you close the project. The other thing that you can do is uncheck all midi input options in preferences except the controller / device you want to use. The down side of this is the new tracks will default to All inputs which generally is fine unless you have instruments with midi output enabled. But otherwise your sole connection will input midi data to the track. I would like to see a change to the way midi input is handled. There’s been lots of issues caused by this. It would make more sense to me that your keyboard controller is set by default in midi preferences. Or at least per project.

Easy troubleshooting tip for midi input: In the tracks input box select the Virtual Keyboard. If that works then select your Keyboard controller. If that doesn’t work then make sure your using Omni. You keyboard controller will be on the list of input options if it’s set up properly. If it isn’t on the list then check in Preferences Midi devices. And so on Tutorial #2 has details

That is very interesting. I’ve never heard of the Virtual Jukebox and now I’m going to see if I can still find it. It seems there was more software written for live performance back in the 90’s and now I guess live performance is a lost art. All the software it’s designed for DJ’s. I own a bunch of different foot switch’s and by far the best quality is the Stealth. https://stealthswitch3.com/ All of them can be programmed to send any keystrokes so example Win amp starts with the B key etc. I have one set up for Cakewalk with Spacebar, R and W.

I guess that’s why a lot of people freeze stuff. I haven’t been doing that much but your issue is example of a good reason for (me and you) starting a habit of freezing at least the special sounds. A piano or bass is easy to replace but one little tweak of a big fat poly synth and its all wrong.

Seems to me to be a plug in I would avoid and move on to ones that work. That’s just me. I have a huge collection of plug ins that gave me issues in the excluded folder now.

Cakewalk uses the VST instrument that is at the top of your synth rack. So always insert that synth first. Sadly you can’t re order the synth rack. You may also have uncheck any midi outputs in preferences unless you’re using hardware synths

I’ve been using backing tracks since midi arrived back in the early 80’s. I found the most bulletproof system has been creating my tracks with midi and good quality VST instruments using Cakewalk and then mixing them to a 44.1/24 wave file. Why use MP3? I sing and play guitar so I only need bass, drums and keyboards on the backing tracks. I have a system of mixing them so they are all exactly the same levels for all the songs. I then use a small very basic laptop and Win Amp as a player. I use Win Amp because it can be set to stop at end of the song. Like @Pathfinder I use a USB foot switch to control playback so my hand never leave my guitar. I have never had any issues with this set up. My band fits in a briefcase. I toyed with using Cakewalk as the playback system but it was just way more work and I found it slow between songs. I also would loose the hands off system I now use. Only advantage of using a Sequencer live is it can then also control lights and effects.