John Vere

You can easily show hidden midi devices in the device manager. If the device shows a few times it's because you have changed ports a few times. Windows will install a new driver evertime you change midi ports. I go into details in Tutorial 2. https://youtu.be/AcDcCmjPaWg

Try the metronome settings or what I would do is draw it in the step sequencer and drag it out for the whole song

I wonder how many people today realize where the term Piano Roll came from? A visit to the music instrument museum in north Scottsdale AZ and see all the various different types of automation using air compressors. Whole brass bands all scored on metal disks with holes punched in them.

It should have said ate!!! Stupid iPhones.

I have spent days working with Melodyne over the last few weeks and I’m all up to date using the early release Cakewalk and the last updated Melodyne which for me was over a month ago. It works smoothly and I never have issues at all. First - yes, when you first apply the regional effect and the editor opens, it is blank. I found all I need to do is click in the middle of the clip I’m editing in track view and the editor will now show the blobs. From then on as I render and then re apply to the next clip it opens correctly. I have video about how I use Melodyne. I believe there’s a link to them in my signature

It will be a mid range level interface so most likely gets same performance as most of that price range. Only the high end interfaces like RME get the real low readings. But more importantly ! even if a low reading is available is can you use it? My Motu M4 needs to run at 256 or higher on the same system where my Scarlett runs at 128. The quality of the drivers varies. Motu is a Mac focused product. The windows driver is not very good. Watch video #103.

This is why my new catch phrase is “It’s always a plug in” That or a workspace ate my buttons

Well if it’s user error don’t feel bad. I sort have given up on using take lanes for guitar tracks. Seems every time I tried to use them I’d get all messed up and even loose good takes somehow? What I do is insert 3 identical audio tracks and just use those just like others would use the lanes. I then kept the first track and drag the better parts from the other two using simple cut and drag. When done I delete the other 2 tracks and everything is perfect and nice and tidy. Midi I just wank away in overwrite mode. I like the challenge of playing the part like I’m an actual keyboard player which I am definitely not. But I come as close as I can to creating an “OK” track and then spend some relaxing quality time in PVR. It one of my favourite pastimes in Cakewalk.

Take a screenshot or write down the name of each of the missing files. Open the drive you might have used and use the search in the upper right corner. Often when this happens it’s from the old days when you needed to choose per project folders. The default was to use the global audio folder so dozens of songs would be all moshed together. My guess is if you still have the drive from that time period that’s where the audio is. Good luck and happy hunting!

I guess not many people would use it so it’s a low priority and scooks tool is all that is needed really. Movie Studio comes with Sound Forge included and it’s built in. It always crashes on me when I tried to use it from within Movie Studio . But it was easy to change the default as it simply lets you browse for the execution file and select it. I have a few softwares that work that way. I have Cakewalk set to open in Wave Lab but I haven’t used it that way in years. I find it can screw up and that’s a waste of time. I just open Wave Lab and browse to the Cakewalk audio folder and open and edit it from there. Way more stable this way. And it’s rare I would need to even do this as I have developed better workflows for Cakewalk.

This sounds like correct behaviour to me. The mute will mute any data in the track from playing. Think of it as working the way the faders do. That’s really what it is A quick way to turn a track off with out having to use a fader. Input echo will allow the incoming data to pass through or not. incoming data is not controlled by channel faders.

First thing comes to mind is a mastering plug in in demo mode.

What I see is you have the track inspector channel dialogue set to none. I'm not sure what setting a channel in the avanced midi settings does because you can select more than one channel there. But definatly the track inspector sets the channel for the midi events which will be reflected in the event list and when your save the midi file to share.

You set the channel in the track inspector channel box Watch #12 and #13

I myself have never really used the metronome much. I always start with a basic drum pattern which I have a collection I copied from my Roland 505 drum machine 20 years ago. I imagine the people who want this feature the most are using Cakewalk for live performance and need a click track for the drummer. Or it’s going to a studio somewhere that doesn’t use Cakewalk. But that seem pointless because all DAWs have metronomes.

Vegas( Movie Studio) also uses all my 3rd party effects, compressors, limiters, reverb and so on. So I can create a 48/24 audio track via the exact same audio interface I use for Cakewalk live if I so choose. There’s also the option to open that track in the audio editing software of your choice. Of course it doesn’t do midi but as far as audio goes it’s pretty advanced. It’s based on Sound Forge so it should be.

I fixed the video and added the proper info at the end the original link above has been removed so @nkeelaghan if you do return can you please update the link or just delete it. this is the new link - https://youtu.be/fRkb5cUHs1A Exporting info starts at 3:40

Tutorial #1, 12, 13 and 14 cover all the basics of using Midi tracks in Cakewalk. #1 is just set up but it rules out issues with devices.

Yes this got my curiousity I added WAY more effects thaan anyone should be using to the bin and it just kept growing. If you were crazy enough to need more you can eliminate modules as shown to the left of my screen shot. ANd it does depend on you monitor what you see. This one in my office sucks but my main DAW is finer resolution so I can see everything and then some.

Thanks for reporting this. Something has changed since I made that video. I just tested myself and you are correct there is no way to dirrectly export the sound of the metronome. The method I used in the video used to work, I'm just testing things right now to see what will work. EDIT: OK I found a very simple solution. 1. Add Aux send to Metronome bus to create the aux track in the track pane. 2. set metronome to play during recording 3. arm the Metronome Aux track to record 4. Press record and it will record a stereo track in real time. This will be included in exports and can be panned, level even automated etc. If you export as Stems it will be a track. I'll have to pull my video and re due. Thanks once again for bringing this to my attention.

Reading this that’s the first thing came to mind is what sSteve said above. Back when Gibson dropped the bomb there were lots of threads about how to carry on into the future. Making backup copies of all our included software and Plugins was one of them I have that whole CCC download folder stored in probably 10 locations! It’s worth a lot of money. When I rebuild I just plug in the back drive and first install CCC I then copy all the content from the back up download folder to the new folder that CCC created. Then I don’t need to wait for downloads the software just installs quickly and no need for internet.

First you should always start your own thread instead of hijacking a 2 year old topic. Your issue is that USB mikes are made for podcasts not DAW recording. DAW’s work best with a proper ASIO audio interface and real microphones using XLR cables. And you can’t use Bluetooth either because of the latency. And on all systems including cell phones you can’t use Bluetooth and the built in speakers together. Watch Tutorial #1

You seem like your missing a few key elements in setting up your system correctly. I made these tutorials to help newcomers figure this out quickly without gaps in the information. They are numbered in order of learning Cakewalk from top to bottom. For sure this topic and everything mentioned is covered completly in Tutorial #1. An interesting thing is that message "AC Interface" if you google that it is software to control Air Conditioning and there's no mention anywhere of any Audio or Midi devices that would be called AC. So a question might be if you have any none music software installed?

It’s always a plug in ! Open in safe mode.

This is the forum for Cakewalk. I think Bandlab has a Facebook page for help.