John Vere

Really like this one. That double kick is impressive, Well actually everything is impressive.

Most excellent and great job on the arrangement. And good to hear I'm not the only one who still thinks a DAW is just a fancy 8 track that doesn't need the heads cleaned.

Big thumbs up. Lots of creative stuff and great soundscape. Awsome guitar work too.

What step didn't work? Seems pretty simple. I can think of a few other ways too. 1. Pan the track hard left 2. Export the track as mono using preset tracks/ no effects 3. Repeat by panning hard right 4. Now you have 2 mono tracks in the export folder you drag back to the project.

DID you watch this video- If your new to Cakewalk you will save your self a lot of time and frustration by watching at least the firs 10 in the series

The customer should have done research which would have taken them all of 5 minutes to know exactly what they were buying. If they didn’t, then it is not your problem. Old gear is what it is. I would not feel guilty unless you you purposely misrepresented the item. If you simply sold if as is, it was up to the purchaser to know what they were buying. MP3 encoding has been free for a long time now.

Breverb would have Zero to do with your issue and re installing the software as well. You didn't seem to pay attention to what we were telling you.

By this are you refering to the dialogue in the transport module? The critical fact would be at what bit Depth is a newly recorded track showing? and what Bit Depth are the original recorded tracks from the project. I don't think it's even possible to record at 16 Bit with your interface. All of mine have no way to set that, it is greyed out. So that dialogue really means nothing. Are you using ASIO? You must be if that is greyed out. If I switch to WASAPI shared only then are other Bit Depths available. But if I change to 16 and even close and reopen Cakewalk it will show 16 in preferences, but the transport still shows 24. So 16 is not even an option even in another driver mode. The mystery is why you are even seeing that at all. I even tried changing the Bit Depth in Windows settings to 16 and in ASIO only 24 bit is used.

Your Audio interface sets the driver in ASIO mode. For the last long while this is almost always locked at 24 bit unless you purchase a very low end interface. When you see it greyed out in Preferences Audio Driver bit depth that's because it cant be changed. Also remember that setting is for newly recorded material. Not for anything dragged into a project. If you drop a audio clip into the project that is 16 bit it will stay 16 bit. Cakewalk doesn't bother converting them to 24 or 32 bit because that's a huge waste of drive space for nothing gained. Only Clock rate is converted. Did you check your tracks after you record them to see what they say? Right click the clip and open this dialogue. You can see here that even those my project sample rate is 24 this clip is 16.

Forget it.

there's defiantly a huge difference to live recordings played by top notch musicians and any attempt to duplicate this ITB. when drum machines first came out our first reaction was "Man those sound terrible, and the timing is too perfect so that will give people a headache"! It's why I'm still not a fan of any music style that uses drum machine sounds as a focal point to the music. But real drummers are next to impossible to facilitate in a home studio situation. I have a real set of drums as well as a digital kit but they take up half the room! So I'm lazy and just use AD2.

Addictive drums have been working good for me. It took a long time selecting the kit pieces that sounded the way I'm used to hearing drums but for a few years no I haven't had to muck about much. I'm used to real drum kits being Yamaha, Pearl, Ayotte or Ludwig. If you want examples all my songs are using AD2 This one was played using a Yamaha DX 5 kit- https://soundclick.com/r/s8ktrm Here's the whole collection so far. https://www.soundclick.com/artist/default.cfm?bandID=1420844&content=songs

I had just left the old song forum open and got curious. I see I was almost the last person to post on the old forum there, http://forum.cakewalk.com/Remix-of-a-song-from-2004-m3809572.aspx I bumped at January 16, 19 7:31 PM But looks like @Sent4th was last man out the door January 16, 19 8:24 PM And @Serious_Noize! a close second beat me by 1 minute. The other interesting thing is all these old dead end threads have huge view counts mine got- 2 Replies 5937 Views Stupid thing is most all the links to the songs are now dead ends.

Thanks for listening, Here's a screenshot of the project and the AD kit. I've bought a few goodies over time and pretty sure the rides where one of those upgrades I did. Part of the drum sound I think can be attributed to playing it on a digital kit and not over quantizing. It's all been in a Tupperware tub since I moved and I really do need to set it up again now I had my shoulder replaced. I couldn't play drums or Dreadnought acoustics for a few years now due to a bad shoulder.

I just read that old thread and down the page I found this nice list of Stats about the song- Cactus Music - June 06, 17 8:01 AM I only quantizied some of the drum parts like the kick and hi hat. The rest I manually tweaked a little here and there. I set the grid resolution to 1/8 triplets just as a guide. I didn't touch Steve's parts. And the Audio is mostly all one take, 2 guitars , bass vocals. I did punch in the main guitar solo as I wanted it to jump out using a different PU. Bass is Yamaha via Fender Rumble 100 Guitar - Rythym Strat copy via Fender Princeton - SM 57 Fills my custom Tele , neck humbucker- Green Mile - Fender Princeton SM 57 Lead solo same but Bridge PU and more Green mile ( the green mile is a Tube screamer clone by Mooer) Drums played on Yamaha DX 450 into Stike2 custom pre set The update to this is I swapped out Air drums for Addictive Drums. And I did end up manually quantizing some drum and keyboard parts, reading the above now made me realize why.

Title - Talkin bout my baby- https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14408626 As I go back through my old projects I found this one. I wasn't happy with the mix so I tweaked it a bit as well as re mastering with my new workflow. I also did a little bit of midi editing to fix a few timing issues. It's real bass. This was my first time I did a collaboration with a Forum Member, Lets see If I can conjure him up @SteveC Not sure if this is same person but looks like if it is, then a big thanks once again for adding the Keyboard parts. Made a big difference. Here's the piece of history if you want to time machine back to the old Songs Forum. The link to the original will be long dead. http://forum.cakewalk.com/My-first-collaboration-Song-m3614914.aspx

Sounds like the OP has the note value set to draw Quarter notes. You should really take some time to watch the tutorials on midi. Otherwise you’ll take forever to get anything done.

It’s simple I tested different modes on a few computers including one that was W7 . Not at all official but my guess is accurate enough to come to conclusions. I also had other members here testing because different interfaces only support certain driver modes. And I didn’t want to install Asio4all on my W10 computers so I only had it on a older W7 machine. ASIO is the only driver mode that reported RTL to Cakewalk “ correctly “ All other modes seem to result in being out of sync. Including Asio4all . Asio4all behaves exactly the same as WDM mode which it is based on. This includes not correctly reporting to Cakewalk. If you use W7 and don’t own an audio interface it is still a good choice If you use W10 and don’t have an audio interface WASAPI mode out performs Asio4all with Exclusive mode achieving very low RTL . Using Asio4all on W10 is a step backwards in performance. It’s name should have been different because it has nothing in common with proper ASIO drivers.

I've used ASIO mode with at least 5 different audio interfaces and I've never had a issue with playing movies etc, Only bugaboo is if the sample rate changes but now I use 48hz and I find less issues even there.

Sometimes I think the "new" features are heading towards "non musician" skill sets. They are focused on making it easy to create "music??" without any clue of what it really involves. So I still use the software the way I used an 8 track recorder 30 years ago,,, . And I still sort of like to be competent enough to do that in 2 or 3 takes,,,, not 40 that I keep! But that's just me and I've come to believe I am now truly a dinosaur.

File management is all about using Window the way we have always used Windows since the last century. You put things in folders and you try and keep track of things by having a system that works for you. Everyone is different. Ways to make life easier: Pay attention when installing software. You are often given choices for pathways. Clearly name and even Date folders. Don't store stuff on your desktop. Create Shortcuts to the folders. If you download loops from a vendor they probably will first land in your Downloads folder. Drag those to a different drive and make sure to test them before you delete the original download. Most cases you can re download from the vendor. Everything you delete accidentally will be in your recycle bin. The Clean Audio folder would have nothing to do with deleting loops unless the Project folder was used as a location for them which would be very weird choice.

I'm not a fan of using Lanes when comping a guitar track. I have my reasons. I find for me I still like the way I did it 15 years ago. Insert 3 identical audio tracks and go at it. I use the first track as the target and simply cut and drag "better" parts from the other 2 tracks. It's simple, fast and it never goes weird on me like take lanes always seems to do.

Only way to know for sure is to perform a loopback test.

It's hard to say if this is Cakewalk coding issue. I think it's more of an ASIO coding issue. Only mystery from what you are saying is why the Reltech driver would still return after you delete it in the Reg Edit app. ? In my video I show how you can disable all unwanted audio devices which might do the trick. On my main DAW I only have ever used an Audio interface and the supplied ASIO drivers. I've never had to do anything other than disabling the On Board audio in settings. But I did get the Steinberg Generic driver issue after installing an Upgrade to Cubase once and was where I first learned about deleting in Reg Edit. Your Steinberg driver is not the same as the generic and is a good ASIO driver. I used it for a few years with a Yamaha Mixer. My office computer I have on Realtech board audio and a Scarlett 6i6 interface. I never have issues changing modes to test things ASIO with the Scarlett and WASAPI shared with the Realtech. I haven't notice anything different between the 2 devices using Cakewalk or any other apps that use audio. But I never record audio on that machine.

The information I provide in the video is accurate and is something I was taught years ago by trusted members of the forum. There are known issues when certain 3rd party ASIO driver " invade" the timing offset calculation Device dialogue. The list I am aware of include Steinberg Generic and Asio4all. Possibly the Real Tech ASIO too. I have no personal experience with that being invasive, but I do with the first 2. There will be a a list with connected devices including your Audio interface. But you cannot change it. It will return to the invasive device after you hit Apply. What this is telling you is the shown device in the box is what Cakewalk is using to calculate Latency. Most certainly this will be inaccurate and a loop back test will prove this to be true. People who do not record Audio using an interface will not notice, but the rest will have out of sync overdubs. Some people probably don't care but personally I like to be in perfect sync. The only known method to avoid this is to remove the unwanted and unneeded ASIO drivers using Reg Edit.