John Vere

Are you meaning midi CC 12? Or midi channel 12? I’ll assume you have the pedal connected to a midi keyboard controller. And you don’t mention what the situation is. Is this a fresh project or an old project? Is this a template? A download midi file? Have you made changes to the midi or instruments input filters in the advanced midi settings?

I hate posting before I finish my first coffee thanks

Are you rendering your Melodyne clips before you export? You should always render after editing with Melodyne. Watch video 27 and you might also benefit from watching # 28, 29 and 24 which explains setting up a proper export

If you click in the track header you can choose “ Replace Synth “.

I got a free copy of Home Studio back then. I posted in the old forum to tell everyone about the deal. A while ago I found that thread and you could still click on the links and it would take you all the way to the old Cakewalk site where of course the download link no longer works. But the Magazine link was still available which just shows you how many abandoned web sites get left active out there.

Sorry I missed your reply. I could send it no problem but I made a few major changes including I deleted the original mix recall that caused the crash. So I don't think it would help much. I also overwrote my working back up copy. I have an older backup but it didn't have any Mix recalls saved. So hopefully the crash dump is of some use to you.

Anybody remember the Dr Synth and The Dr Rhythm? They might have been sold under Rolands Boss lable. I used both of those for my Midi Backing tracks for a short while. I didn't like the Dr Rhythm much as it was sort of wierd to program and didn't have a footswitch, The first signs of Roland no longer making stuff for live performers. The Dr Synth had great sounds but a Keyboard player friend of mine talked me into selling it to him. He still uses it. I keep telling him I'll buy it back but he claims it's still the best thing going for Organ and pop synth sounds used in top 40's gigs.

The whole Roland Cloud thing is a big disapointment for me, a long time Roland fan. There's really nothing there that you can't find for free somewhere. And I still have my GR 50 which has some classic Roland sounds. Oh, and my trusty 505 drum machine.

That sound real good but it is so far removed from sounding like a real Martin it's not funny! It makes you realize what the OP is up against. They sort of sound tinny and way to bright. I have Ample and Strum Session and as I say, they have a good "sound" but it's not a really an acoustic guitar sound as we know it from recording the real deal. There's always sort of a Harpsicord attack like the strings were hit with somthing and not picked.

Definatly the mainstay of traditional Bluegrass was the Martin D 28 so you'd be looking at anyone who has sampled that guitar. Sorry I havn't yet dabbled in using guitars as a VST but the day will come as my arthritis gets worse. I sometimes cheat a little and slow the song down to record fast parts and then speed it back up. It would be interesting to do this and use Melodyne to create midi from it.

First, seems there's no such animal as a xv8080 but Roland makes a xv 5080 which a quick trip to their web site tells me it is a 1 Part synth.

Upgrade your laptops hard drive Purchase a new SSD drive 250 is minimum size. Also purchase a USB to SATA adapter cable that will be used to transfer your old files from the original drive later. Go to Microsoft website and follow instructions to create a Windows 10 or 11 media DVD or USB stick. unplug and remove battery for laptop Flip over swap out drive Replace battery and power cord Turn on and follow prompts Always run Windows updates a few time it takes a few reboot etc until it will be done Now you can re install your software and connect the old drive to transfer you files. Don’t leave that drive connected when you boot up .

It wasn’t confusing you did a good job of labeling the pictures it’s just the way people tend to see things differently. As I said you issue is probably deep with in the BIOS of that machine. I sort of doubt little tweaks will change that much. If I was in your situation I would try putting a fresh SDD drive in and re install Windows. The drives are under $100 and even if your not a tech savvy person the process is pretty simple these days.

Best you submit a report to the team

It's seems to be just one project that crashes. I did exact same moves in 2 different projects and I can recall the original mix. Interesting fact is that the Synth I swapped out stays in the project but the effects I had swapped out revert back to originals. I submitted a crash report The crash goes as follows. Make change to the synth and a few settings and save as Mix 2 Save project Click on Mix 1 and it trys to load but after about 5 seconds screen flashes and Cakewalk disapears without any toast messages.

He doesn’t know if his is disabled because there seems to be no access to that menu item. You are looking at the example of what the performance settings should look like he posted. The page on left is his settings

Windows Laptops can be a real issue with audio systems. Some are just unusable because the bios screws important settings up. My son bought a very powerful Dell laptop for live audio Deejay and Latency monitor declared it unusable. He tried to return it but Dell said it wasn’t broken. It was stuff like your experiencing too. He went and bought a cheap Acer that he’s never had an issue with since. Gave the Dell to his daughter

Thanks I’ll see if it does this on a different project. It might just be the one project dong this. but other than muting buses and minor fader changes the only major change was I inserted True Pianos as a simple instrument track. Dragged the midi data to it and deleted AD Piano which was a split instrument track. Possibly if I had just replaced AD piano as a split track it might have been ok. I’ll try that too. I seem to remember Mix Recall works best when nothing changes other than mixing and effect settings. Not sure if you can even swap out effects?

One VST should never be an issue you should definitely see what is going on with the laptop. Turn off wi fi etc. I had one laptop that I had to disable the battery monitor in device manager but that was Windows XP. I have 4 old Laptops kicking around and I still use 3 of them at gigs. A little Asus netbook 1.8 hz 1 core 4 GB RAM been using it for over 14 years. Sony 2.5 hz duo core 4GB RAM about the same vintage those run W7. Both have SSD drives which makes a huge difference. No internet. Im just working on using the 3rd one which is newer(2014) Acer that sports 2 SSD drives and 8 GB RAM but the keyboard is dead. Not a problem as I use a USB foot switch to control. We have a few gigs over the summer so just preparing all my backing tracks. I’m doing a test run of a system that will simplify my need these days for lyrics. In the past the Asus played tracks and Sony laptop ran Power Point. So between songs I had to advance both playlist and lyrics on 2 laptops. Solution- Use Vegas Movie Studio to create Karaoke style cheat sheets. It was easier than I thought. Just plunk the stereo track on the timeline and add text by copy paste from my Notepad sheets. I’m even adding count in clues and chords. I highlight the text blue to remind me to turn on my Voice Live pedal. Lots of great tools to help an aging performer stay on cue. Best thing is these Movies playback in Win Amp which I’ve always used because it is one of the few playback apps that can stop at end of songs and is easily foot switch controlled. I can mix wave files and the movies on same playlist so I don’t need to make these movies for every song. Just the brain fart ones. Haven’t tried it yet using Cakewalks video display but certainly a potential there. As far as needing different mixes I simply export from Cakewalk those as required. I have Export folders called Full Mix ( give to band to learn songs) Full no vox or guitar ( when I’m alone) No Bass ( When I have a bass player) You get the idea.

I use backing tracks. Best to keep them simple and get rid of any unessassary processing. In other words-- commit the tracks-- don't leave them loaded with processors etc. I would freeze all the synths. Even a very underpowered laptop can play lots of audio tracks ( like my 2008 Sony) . But effects processing and a lot of soft synths are CPU hogs. I can play 10 tracks of audio at a 256 buffer setting on that old POS Sony no problem, but I don't have any processing on those tracks as they are all frozen. Actually I export them as Stems and then create new projects that are 100% audio to use with the playlist.

Never had this happen before. Not that I use Mix recall a lot but I'm making backing tracks from my finished originals and so I save mixes that have the Guitars and Vocal buses muted as well as I turn up the Drums and keys a little bit. I think the issue was because on one project I noticed Addictive Keys was off center so I swapped it for True Piano's which is centered properly. I saved the mix exported it and when I tried to return to the Original Master Mix I had saved as Mix 1 it crashed. So is this expected? In other words Mix recall hates any changes to tracks? Like instruments or different effects???

It’s important to state which version you are using when reporting issues like this. Did you just do the update?

Cakewalk needs at least your on board audio enabled ( Realtek ) or it cant run. Tutorial #1 has step by step instructions for using both an Audio interface and On Board Sound card.

Yes the USB foot switch is not midi but depends on the app you’re using they are totally programable for any keystrokes and some even can do sequence of actions including mouse clicks. The OP asked about them and why I answered as I find them very versatile. So even if it doesn’t work out for control of a guitar sim they are a handy gadget to own. I was figuring there’s the virtual keyboard which might work as a go between somehow

You want real cheap there are lots of different programable USB footswictches availlable. I've got a bunch of different brands and styles I use for all sorts of tasks. The one in the picture here used to be around $20 I guess China has raised prices. The best quality is the Stealth https://stealthswitch3.com/ But all can be programed to assign any keystroke to the buttons. Example I have the one shown bellow programed "R" "W" and "Space" for Cakewalk