John Vere

Thanks for the reminder not sure why that was changed as I usually set it on the date. No matter I have nothing to add. Some people get it some people don’t. That’s what makes this world so interesting.

Tutorial # 4 explains how to back up your projects tutorials # 28, 29& 30 are also relevant to this topic

Ok ✅ this is a Zombie thread from 2021 ? and on my phone I see the last post is from 2021 by @usalabs I’ve never seen a weirder posting than this? Is Q&A scrambling posts??

So what exactly are you using for audio equipment, that might narrow it down. Are you using an audio interface or a USB mike etc?? It almost sounded like an ambient recording of traffic in a city? Is there a start and end of a clip at that point?

I have a tutorial that shows you what to do to change the sample rate of a project if you want to revert back to 48. # 104 https://youtu.be/ZVBNf-jyuzI There's very little if none at all benefit to using super high sample rates in a home studio. I'm a big fan of 48hz these days so if I open an older 44.1 project I convert it right away. But that said, if you created the project at 96 all the audio files should be stored with that as their sample rate. It's not possible to have 2 sample rates in any project. When you open a new project it will be set to the rate you chose in Preferences for new projects. Your audio interface will be set to match too. Any audio recorded will be at that rate. If audio is imported into a project will be automatically converted to that rate. If there are any audio files that are not at that sample rate that's an unusual situation that I'm not quite sure how it could happen. I found when researching how to change sample rates that it it is not possible if there are any active audio tracks in a project. All audio tracks have to be removed before you can change sample rates. So in theory it is not possible to have any audio tracks showing in a project that are wrong. Midi tracks and instruments don't care. You can change sample rate of a huge project if it is just Midi. As long as none of the instruments have been frozen. Those are now considered audio tracks so the same rules apply and the project cannot be converted.

Did you check your Master bus? Edit- Just looked a little closer at the screen shot I see the Audio engine is off. Are you using an interface or just the computer sound card?

My old Roland GR50 guitar synth has patches in it that are very convincing lead guitar sounds. I could record them as midi and play them back into the Module and it sounded more or less exactly the same. I think one was called Metalizer

Totally agree If you suck at guitar either compose music that doesn’t use it or by a cheep guitar and make some noise with it and fix it with Melodyne ?

I have it on a W7 laptop. I don't really use it but it most certainly opens and loads projects. I only installed it to do some live recording last Summer. And I'm sure others here are using it on W7 as well. Mostly this will happen for the same reason you have. Outdated hardware. That Laptop is from 2008 and has 4 GB of RAM, so no way it would run W 10. But Honestly unless you are really hurtin for cash, you should replace the M audio interface. It's probably why you have the drop outs. Did you try and increase the buffers to like 512?

Is it reverb or is it an echo? There’s a big difference. And as said without knowing what equipment you’re using we can only guess

That set up is soooo outdated I don’t think you can expect good performance. First Sonar is no longer supported. 8.5 was a pretty good version and I still have it installed to get True Pianos. We have come a million miles since then with Cakewalk. I have a Fast Track pro sitting on a shelf that I seem to remember was the worst interface I ever owned. I replaced it in 2008 with a Tascam. Have you tried using the new Cakewalk which is 100 % supported? It still runs on W7 which is as far as your interface made it with driver updates.

All I can say is if a computer has a C drive that is above 60 % you need to get a bigger drive or do some clean up. Otherwise it will have issues .

Melodyne is amazing software but definitely can make a mess of things if overly used. I alway copy the vocal track first to make a working copy track that gets processed. I chop it up into short clips and remove silence between lines. If I hear any glitches after rendering I simply delete the garbage clip and drag copy with Shift/Alt held down from original track to the working track and try again. And I always work in 32 bit no dithering when creating stem or bouncing tracks.

Cakewalk uses formats like DX and VST for soft synths. There is possibly every imaginable sound available and used by majority of DAWs in the VST format. AU are Mac only. VST are universal. Welcome to the world of PC Digital audio. The sounds you want are easily available and most are free as VST.

To clarify outputs: If the hardware device uses 5 pin Mini connection then make sure your interface is selected in Preferences/ Midi/ Devices as an output. The device itself doesn’t need to be connected only the interface. If it uses USB Midi to connect, then it’s best you leave it connected every time you open that project or you will have issues. And as said above, it’s easy to change the PVR view to the regular keyboard. But I can’t see how one would be able to work with out the track producing sound unless you’re program lights

Yes the video will explain what a few others have said. You need to download and install the proper ASIO drivers or ya you’ll have out of sync issues

For me they are the same. I tried those boxes too and made no difference. There will be a deeply hidden button somewhere

By default they should be the same. You may have unchecked the box in preferences " show Strip Colours" possibly this makes a difference, it doesn't on mine but worth a try. There is also a box in the Colour pallet you can try that says "Follow Bus"

You said it was Track 1. I asked if this was a Midi track because there could be a pan event CC10 which will show on event list for the track

SI Drums has drag and drop loops in its left side of GUI. I grab those all the time if I need a Simple pattern.

Most important missing information is are these Midi or Audio tracks. If it audio it is truly a mystery. If it’s Midi then check the event list.

Depends on how many outputs your audio interface has. If it only has 2 then that’s all that can be used.

They come with software you use to program them with. The quality of the software varies with quality of brand. The cheapest ones the software came on a mini CD! It barely loaded into W7. The stealth has solid up to date software as well as my x key system. The Xkey uses a Record function. You set it in record and make your moves with mouse and keyboard and it saves this and when you press that pedal it repeats exactly what you just did. The are designed to be used by factories and machines connected to computers

To create a per project folder for your audio simply use “Save As “ and check the “copy all audio with project “ box. Then browse to a different location and save. All the audio used in the project will always be in the folder from now on. Global folders should be avoided.

I wonder when the developers will take note of how many post we get like this and change the default workspace to either none or advanced? And think of the possible hundreds of new users who don’t understand this and try Cakewalk and abandon it because it’s missing features they wanted? All because they don’t want new users to be overwhelmed by too many buttons?