John Vere

You beat me to it I was going to say insert Voxingo Span or a similar spectral analyzer in the effects bin. but the Pro Channel Eq is a great idea as it's built in. As said when ever you need to hear or see any effects while tracking you have to always turn on input echo. You will here a small delay caused by your systems latency. If that bothers you just turn down the tracks fader and use your interfaces direct monitoring system. This is of course for what your doing which is just Looking at a Plug in. If your wishing to hear any effects then the fader needs to be up.

Thanks for your positive feedback I’m glad it worked. I guess in the Sonar days we had books about using Sonar and magazine articles etc. Now everything is a video. I do think Scott R Garrigus is still writing articles I see him posting on Facebook Cakewalk pages I write all my tutorials out as documents first as I research topics. I should clean those up and post them for people to read. I find I babble and waste time if I don’t read a script.

There should still be no interference between the programs but the important thing mentioned above is always have back up copies of your projects. I’ve never had major issues opening real old CWP files in new versions of Cakewalk other than the typical missing plug in stuff. They all show up in the bins and tracks in brackets or something like that and so it’s easy to figure out what they were and replace. But for sure don’t try and open a file saved in new version in something as old as Sonar 7. I still have 8.5 and I can’t open anything but an original very old project or a midi file. There’s no reason to be uninstalling the software. It is recommended you install your oldest version first and then install the newer in sequence of release. I just do 8.5, X3 and then CbB. Then I run Command Center.

You let yourself fall way to far behind with your recording set up so it makes it hard to get help with things that are not really an issue anymore for millions of DAW users. Best advice I can offer is to take a little time to bring your system up to speed. Cakewalk has seen a zillion improvements since Sonar 7. Sounds like all you need to do is replace a few outdated VST instruments with newer ones. We all had to go through that as time moves forward. The transition from 32 bit to 64 bit is still a work in progress. Lots of great plug ins never got upgraded. Tell us what instruments you need and we can offer replacements. There are hundreds of free plug is and instruments available And if you need help re learning Cakewalk go to the Tutorials. I have a complete series that walks you though the features step by step

I have a tutorial on how to transfer projects to another DAW I realize that video is not the best format for you, but I think my narrative covers the whole topic

Often when a feature is missing it is because of the Workspace setting. Change to the advanced workspace

Lots of Free wave editors are available. They all do MP3 conversations. Or why not up grade to the latest Cakewalk which is free? It has everything you want and more.

Forum tip# 205: When a first time poster asks a question let one person reply. Even if the answer doesn’t help much watch and wait. If the poster then actually returns and seems engaged then toss in your 2 cents worth. There’s virtually 100’s of abandoned threads here some of them become 2 pages long.

Yes that’s why I mentioned Ripple edit because if it is on crazy things like this will happen.

I'm wondering why this would be a problem. I have converted 100's of audio tracks to midi since way back when, even using Sonar Home Studio. It's a simple process. Create a new midi track or a simple instrument track. I always first move the tracks so they are next to each other to avoid glitches. Then I just highlight the audio track and drag and drop it onto the midi track. I've never had this not work. Sometimes the results were not usable if the audio in question wasn't something simple like a bass track of single drum track. I've even converted a lot of lead guitar solos into midi to use with a synth instead.

You seems to have set some of your default pathways to specific project folders. This is not normally done. Example I set the first pathway for Project files to the Root of my E drive. I can then choose what I wish to open from there. Most people would only have one Cakewalk project folder but I work with clients as well as I have my own categories like Original songs and Backing tracks. The E drive is only for Cakewalk and Movie studio files. The default for exports at the bottom of the list was a placeholder that would automatically put the export folder inside the project folder. You have removed it and replaced it with a very specific pathway. What I did is set this pathway to a global folder I use called Exports. Inside that folder is different categories for what I'm working on. It is an extra step during export to choose the correct location but worth it for me as I like to be organized that way. And Cakewalk often remembers the location I chose the next time I export that project. They are still fine tuning the export dialogue.

It sounds like you are not selecting just the kick drum audio track. It seems you are selecting the whole project first or Ripple Edit is on?

I think this is it. It's been a feature request for a long time. Mostly it's people who use notation that complain. There's no way to have your measures properly counted out and a pick up in the intro. You can set the metronome to count in but I'm not sure if that solves the other issues with synths waking up and going... " Oh! you want me to make sound? Just hold on a sec and I'll be right with you."

That's good to know as I was only using the PC76 for some reason as the other ones I guess I never really figured out the correct settings. Might give them another try someday.

This is it... it's always sort of having to second guess what might not be set up properly. ? Digital drums are a little tricky and in my case I cannot use a VST while tracking because there will be a tiny bit of delay which drives me nuts. So I have the drum modul connected to inputs 3/4 and use that while tracking. I leave input echo off.

You realize that you won’t hear the drum module sounds unless you connect audio cables. The USB connection is for midi data normally. If it has a driver install it. Don’t depend on a generic driver if the manufacturer supplied proper drivers. A few of my tutorials contain details of connecting midi gear. #2 for sure you might want to watch

I exclusively only use the Pro channel EQ. Compressors I use many different ones as each has a different sound and controls. My most used compressor is called Molotov by Tokyo Labs. It’s free. I used to use the pro channel PC76U type and more or less didn’t change the default settings.

I see a button on the front too that might toggle things The Monitor A/B button. And yes on the back you would assume the Main outs would be controlled by the front control that is marked as such. Is there a software mixer for this?

Way way back in 1984 when I first used an Atari and played midi tracks live we quickly learned to leave that 1 st measure space to avoid stuck notes and let all our hardware set up properly. So all my ancient midi files start on 2nd measure. Prg changes and stuff start on beat 2. Zero is never a good idea with midi and even audio for that matter.

This was sort of what I was seeing when reading other DAW forums where people asked this question. Did you ever give any more thoughts to updating it? I'm personally happy with the way it works now. Just finishing a Tutorial about it and I most certainly learned a lot more about it in the process. I think it's a feature more people would use if they realized some of the options like transferring between projects and selecting what gets recalled. I didn;t know you could do that until ( that's right everyone) I read the complete documentation.

And to add, it wouldn't have mattered anyway because Cakewalk stores all your settings and preferences in it's core folders so you would not have noticed any difference. It's always bee "smart". I've been running the latest versions of Cakewalk on a W7 Laptop for years now and I see no differences in how it works. I only use it for remote recording but otherwise W7/ Cakewalk still works fine.

That explains why I didn't see it. For a long time I couldn't open the images in the documentation. That seems to have been resolved and now I see the images on all devices. This is a huge step forward for me as I often open the documentation. I do have the PDF version on hand but prefer the on line as I can use Google to find things a bit quicker.

People on this forum of who I trust their opinion all have stated that the 64 bit engine will do nothing for you and can possibly do harm.

Not sure My experience is the knob only seems to work with TTS1 But I’ve never tried it with East West. With TTS-1 the control seems to override the control inside of the TTS1 GUI. Just like bank and patch changes do.

Freeze it, Export it, loop it back using audio cables, etc. If it's a Arp pattern generator and you want to get it to play another synth then look up using Arps. I forget how it works but it's not hard to do. I think you send the midi output to the other synth.