John Vere

Watch tutorial # 28 and # 29. You can most certainly name the export in many different ways.

My Daughter is a teacher; See politely calls it a Learning Disability.

I read that thread and all I can do is shake my head and wonder why when presented with the solution in the first answer why it went on and on.

I would be curious to see a screenshot of your Preferences/Audio/ Sync Caching page. What shows as the device? Reason I say this is I noticed you have Voicemeeter installed. I would totally remove that from your system. It’s very possible that it is conflicting with your Focusrite driver. You don’t need it if the 8i6 has loopback.

The quick answer is to use WASAPI shared or exclusive mode. Tutorial #1 goes into details of using on board audio

Midi delay is often caused by the audio system due to certain effects adding latency. Try bypassing your effects.

For sure first save as a track template. You can open the original project and resize it half screen. Open new project , make half screen and now just drag the track from one project to the other. Or use Copy/ Paste between the two projects.

Windows explorer can display different date formats including last modification. This is very accurate for when you wish to compare files. A great way to avoid future confusion is to simply include the date in the titles of “save as” backup copies.

Tutorial # 17 shows how

Basically when using hardware for both sending or receiving Midi data you will need to read the manuals or watch videos made for the hardware. All DAWS are is a way to capture the incoming Data and record it and play it back. Configurations can be very simple or very complicated depending on what you are trying to accomplish. Simple: Any keyboard that has USB or DIN midi output set at the Omni input to a Simple Instrument track. Input echo on and you can play and record the performance from the keyboard controller to that track as midi. Complicated: Keyboard / Controller used for controlling the DAW and down line hardware connected to the DAW midi output. This is way more complicated because there is a zillion variables on what needs to be either passed through the DAW or transmitted, synced, CC events, midi channels. Then the midi routing. If it’s DIN you need a midi interface with stable up to date drivers. USB is a little more useful but then you might run out of ports. Then the playback hardware needs settings and audio connection to via an audio interface.

This is exactly what I was getting at. Not only for the PVR but when I work in Melodyne editor. I like to place the now time just so to listen to the section I’m working on. Once I totally understood the Skylight interface and all the options and shortcut keys I found I could work real fast and smoothly even with one monitor. It’s actually very well designed for flexibility and customized workspaces. And I find that I now use the Alt/Mouse scroll to zoom in and out a lot.

#2 then # 12 and #13 cover everything about midi. Do you have input echo on?

So it’s just not me being an idiot about tack lanes. If I keep things simple they work brilliantly, but as noted you can’t treat them the same as tracks. I’ve made some big messes with lanes and had to delete everything and start over just using a few regular tracks instead. I gave up on them a while ago.

Don’t worry about that. Look in your audio folder and you can see the correct name was used

The audio box is a low end usb audio interface and uses ASIO drivers. It should work just fine. This tutorial might help you set it up properly- watch #20

You got that right Yes I had to turn the master down or the video would blow your computer speakers up! I usually mention this but might have forgot. Yes for sure if something is not cutting through in the mix with my method turn it up. Actually I don’t turn it up I will use a compressor and set the peak at around-3.0 db. Vocals always get this treatment. Acoustic guitar I’ll use EQ and compressors in that order. I have way to many compressors right now and still experimenting to make a solid recommendation

Interesting question and one I’ve not heard before. Lots of discussion about bit depth and dithering but I’ve never given how clock rate might be converted any thoughts. I record at 48/24 and export all my songs as such. I then batch convert to MP3 320 using Gold Wave Editor. For burning a CD I just drag the 48/24 album into Nero and it converts for me. But now you’re got me thinking of this: Does all software use the same quality algorithm to convert clock rate? Not that the CD’s I burn will be noticeably different because these are just for proofing mixes. But this would be important information for a proper production run of real CD’s so a good question to ask the replication people. I think the answer will be to please submit a 44.1/16 master. Which brings us back to your question! Does Cakewalks Export function do the job properly or would Wave Lab or ? be better?

If all your projects were saved as "Pre Project Folders" you only need to copy that entire folder to the new computer. There's no reason to be freezing tracks unless you have some old 32 bit plugs that refuse to install on W10. I can open projects I made 20 years ago.

Yes projects and templates and track templates will all save Pro Channel settings. You can also save pre sets within in the prochannel. Click on the little icon that is in the upper left corner.

FYI Plug ins are also effects. You can always roll back to the last version.

The new release won't likley fix your issue. Have you submitted crash dumps to Cakewalk team? if not, how will they even know there's any issues? Nobody else seems to be having a problem so your's will be system related, not Cakewalk. Possibly we can help you sort that out. List what your using. And to add 99% of the time if Cakewalk crashes it's a plug in that causes it.

Well for me the answer is yes . It's not in sync but I can most certainly see the timeline and the arranger lane if it was there, and the tempo map ect. It really depends on the zoom level of each view. If you managed to set the zoom the same they would be pretty close to in sync.

What is the plug in and why do you need Cakewalk open to register? Is it in focus? Dim pro you need to run Cakewalk as administrator

The colours depend on the theme you are using. They represent VST 2, VST 3, DX and then VST2 32 bit. There's the option in Preferences VST settings / VST3 migration to hide all VST2 options for the same plug in. That said some people have had issues with certain VST3 and have reverted to the VST2 version. So best to sort out which versions you want to use. Myself I use all VST 3 when available without issue so I've hidden the VST2 versions.

I bought my NSM 10’s in the mid 90’s when I had a real studio and music store. So my relationship goes way back. I’ve had those in both properly treated spaces and in my spare bedroom drywall box. Guess what those mixes came out like? I’ve been in less that perfect spaces since I sold the studio 15 years ago and all I can say is it’s extra work to mix in a crappy room. You can do it, but in the old days I would nail a mix first time round. I’m still always very close but I look forward to finishing my new space. The wife sort of wanted a new kitchen, bathroom etc first. But after 2 year those projects are almost done. Just yesterday I was stuffing Roxul insulation in the ceiling joists. It’s in a half finished basement space. I’m going for dead but with lots of soft wooden slats and shapes. Anyhow. My answer to the op is like the others. The right monitors in the right room. Or. Spend a million hours re mixing. Or get lucky ?