John Vere

This video has helped 1,000's of people. Let me know if you have further questions. It is not that hard to properly set up a audio system espesially if you are using a proper ASIO audio interface. On Board audio will work if you are only working ITB but otherwise you need ASIO or your tracks will not sync up. Using a drum module is one of the few situations where ANY latency can through you off so use the Drums Brain while tracking for Pete's sake and it won't matter. 99% of the audio interfaces used these days will be operating at around 10 ms of RTL at a SAFE buffer level. You want less then spend $800+

My self I have a few old Midi sound Modules a Korg 05/RW , a Roland GS 50 which is the same sounds as a D50 and then a Yamaha piano someone just gave me that I think is 15 years old. Anyhow each has an owners manual with all the patches and corresponding bank and PG numbers so I just enter those in Cakewalks Bank and Program boxes. Only catch is the Roland I have to minus the number( I think? ) in other words PG 3 in Cakewalk will play patch 2 on the Roland. I know you can set up instrument definitions but it seems just as easy to look in the manual or at the patches on the modules LED screen for that matter. Been a long time since I bothered because frankly even though I love hardware and some of the sounds are very cool,,, VST instruments are WAY easier to set up and my projects will always sound correct. I can't really think of a sound any of those devices makes that I cannot reproduce on a VST instrument. I even have found VST's for hardware I no longer own and paid $$$$ for all for free now. Hardware takes dedication and a much higher level of technical knowledge to use correctly. Most of what is needed is in the users manual for the hardware. Every device is totally different. My GR 50 user manual is the size of a large towns phone book. ?

I'm game. I'll try a few experiments myself. For me it becomes a problem when I get to the mixing stage and I need to maximize console view space on my second monitor. If I have 12 tracks and 10 busses I run out of room. Problem for me is I only want some of the tracks narrow to gain the needed space, not all of them and defiantly not the busses. I need to be able to see what effects are in both track and buss bins. My workaround has been make them all go narrow using the toggle, and then uncheck the ones I need wide.

Drag one of the drum tracks ( audio ) to the timeline and Melodyne ( if you have it) will create a tempo map that should be in perfect sync. You may have to drag the whole project using ripple edit on to line up with the grid. I demonstrate in this video.

This sentence is confusing because it implies you set the Midi channel in the output dialogue. You do not. I'm sure what Mark was trying to say was different. You have the Input channel set in the input correctly which would record Channel 1 data to Midi track 1. But to clarify, the output dialogue of any midi track is global and will send all channels available from that track. If there is Channel 12 midi data in the track it will be transmitted transmitted. Control of which channels are transmitted can only be controlled by applying data filters at your MIDI interface or the input of the Hardware device. You also have your Bank and Patch set to none, so no program changes will be sent by Cakewalk unless they are imbedded in the midi data. ( Event List ) This would be the correct choice if there is multi channel data in midi track 1 or if you prefer to change sounds manually on the Hardware.

The control bar is very customizable. But you also will need to save everything as a workspace once your happy.

Yes defiantly the minute I started playback my very first reaction was" Oh, Oh timing is way off here" Are you using an audio interface in ASIO mode? The reason I ask is if not that could explain tracks being out of sync. It's kind of hard to tell because the music is so far back in the mix. The Blues is normally Bass and drums up front with lots of guitar etc. If it is the guitar making a mess then try setting the tempo to the same as the project. Normally an auto wha is triggered by the attack on your guitar strings so you can control the envelope just like a foot pedal by playing style. But Sonitus is tempo based so if the tempo is set wrong it sucks.

Did you run Cakewalk as ADMIN as scook has said above? This has always been the way since I remember way back. It's easy to forget. Open Cakewalk using Run as Administrator then insert Dim Pro into a project and use the serial numbers to activate.

Did you try and open the project using the File menu or directly from Windows explorer.

Watch the beginning of this video it shows you where the settings are

Is what you’re saying you played a midi sequencer via midi into Cakewalk and recorded it with out using midi sync? Example I have a drum machine and if I want a pattern from it I connect both midi in and out cables, put the drum machine in midi sync mode, set Cakewalk to transmit midi sync and arm a midi track hit record and Cakewalk starts the drum machine playback at the Cakewalk set tempo and the midi data gets recorded in sync with Cakewalk. If I didn’t use midi sync and simply recorded a pattern played by the drum machine I would have useless data. Might as well have your cat walk on a keyboard.

Plug ins are normally shared by all applications that support them. Applications don’t erase stuff during installing . That is why they are normally stored in specific folders like Stienberg and VST folders. Cakewalk creates its own folders for its stuff. As said after you install Cakewalk you add those folders to the plug in pathways in Preferences or the plug in manager.

You can contact Cakewalk support and they will help you get at your old log on to the original Sonar account page. It would be illegal to give these items away as they are still owned by Cakewalk

Did you try this setting in windows?

I'm glad you added this as I was totally scratching my head on the OP tittle. I might expect a newcomer to ask but not a long time user.

Thanks for listening.

I like the song but I totally agree the out of tune vocals are distracting. 15 years ago I would have said nothing, but now we have software like Melodyne it's not much effort to at least pull them in a bit closer to pitch. I totally avoided this up until about 2 years ago and I finally caved in and purchased the basic version for $100. I watched the videos on the Celemony website and finally figured out how it worked. Well, much better than before, and I think the more I use it the results have been slowly improving and I've become very comfortable now. I'm just working on a basic tutorial on my Workflow for Lead and Harmony. I also might use it on a lead guitar track If I hit a blooper. My version doesn't do chords. The tool that straightens out the wiggly lines is dangerous. If you over do it you sound like a robot. A lot of modern music seems to rely on this effect. So for my lead vocal I use it sparingly, but for harmonies I use it to the max. I can also move notes around both timing and pitch to get great results. You can get away with heavy editing of harmonies but on lead vocals it will trash things pretty quickly. I even had one song where I duplicated the lead vocal and transposed some of it into a 3rd part of a harmony. Anyways, keep up the great work recording music is fun. And half the fun is trying new stuff and experimenting with the toys!

You sound like you would benefit from watching tutorials on recording audio. Duplicating a track is one way but not a common choice for Comping guitar or vocal parts. Most folks will use take lanes or insert a new track. There's also auto punch in, punch on the fly. Learn the software first the information is all here on this forum. The PDF documentation - https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Reference Guide.pdf The tutorial sub forum- https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/forum/35-tutorials/ My step by step guides.

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Funny at no point did anyone mention that the Start Screen can be opened from the File menu at any time. Even with a project open. If the OP had tried that it would have quickly narrowed down what the issue was.

Kinda cool sound, very listenable, Only thing bugged me was the snare roll which became an obvious drum machine loop.

I just did a quick remix https://soundclick.com/r/s8kz1t As suggested by @KurtS I turned up the bass 1db using Boost 11- Don't laugh, It's a good tool if used correctly. As suggested by @Bapu I lowered the reverb send on the snare by 1/3. I added a Low C note on Bass in the into and the bridge to match what I did on a 5 string bass in 1994. I also swapped out the BT stereo imager for the much better Alex Hilton A1 Stereo Control on the Analog synth track. Thanks to @scook for sharing the link to another great freebie. https://a1audio.alexhilton.net/a1stereocontrol This one has a SAFE BASS button which works brilliantly to solve low end phasing issues when using a stereo widener. I had also tried Ozone Imager but it's a CPU hog.

All the keyboard shortcuts are one click away in the help menu. But I guess that's just me who would think to open the help menu when I have a question about software I'm using. No offence intended I only stating this here so that others who read this post will learn to look there first. Everything you need to know about Cakewalk- This is found right above here in the Cake walk by Bandlab Tab. https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Reference Guide.pdf Then there are a lot of great tutorials for those who don't know how too read. https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/forum/35-tutorials/ And generally if you Google your question you will have an answer immediately.

CONTENT COUNT 1 JOINED December 28, 2018 LAST VISITED July 5, 2021 Go ahead and ask him. He Won't hear you. It is always best to start your own thread instead of piggy backing in a Zombie thread.

I'll back up what @scook is saying. ASIO is very limited as far as using multiple devices goes. All sorts of unwanted weirdness can happen if you try and change devices all the time. The majority of us who use MIDI hardware sometimes will have it connected with midi cables either USB or Din, but the audio will be handled by an Audio Interface. I use a small mixer to route 3 hardware synths into inputs 3/4 of my interface. So 4 inputs works fine for me. I have a video about how to choose the correct interface. And I make a point of get what you need for connectivity now and in the future. It's relatively cheaper to get it right the first time.