John Vere

I have a few wideners but be careful. If you use one pay attention to your correlation meters Span has a simple one built in and voxengo make the multi band Correlometer which is what I use. It will quickly tell you if you have overdone low end stereo widening. It's fine to spread out upper frequencies but low end spread =Mud. It's why you don't want reverb on bass frequencies. Read up on Correlation it’s something worth understanding for mastering material that might just be a little too much stereo. . Thanks @scook for that link. This is an amazing tool that is different than others I have due to that one magic button, the Safe Bass. It works. I added widening to a mastered stereo track that the Correlometer showed my low end dropping below the threshold. Push that button and it was back in the top. Good tool. I think this is exactly what the OP was asking for. Hear examples. First no processing Note the Correlometers reading show mostly Mid signal. A simple explanation is readings at top are Good , Middle is OK stereo, Below middle is out of phase Bad. A video of the meters would have showed you more but I'm being Lazy. Next is full stereo widening, Notice meter shows a drop in most frequencies including low end. There's even some out of Phase midrange. Here's with the safe Bass engaged and it seem to fix the issue. The stereo widening was still very audible. I think I'm going to send this dude some money. It's free but sort of a guilt trip when shown the download options.

@BapuNoted and agree. I had just changed the snare in AD and it has more bite than the first one I used so it’s driving the reverb harder. I normally don’t use much but I was going for drama this round. @noynekker Thanks. That transition is a great example of taking multi tracks of both audio and midi and syncing them up. I sort of had that punch on the drums and followed with the guitar. Then I zeroed in on the midi stuff matching the drum hits. I tend to spend a lot of time in PVR syncing parts. This song was tricky because it is 6/8 feel. That means Quantize can be either 1/8, 1/8-triplets and 1/16 - triplets. I had to keep switching grids an snaps

100% first class. We are just at a weekend long music/ art festival in Penticton BC. Listening to your song in the Slumber Lodge after a great day yesterday of musical talent and you would have fit right in big time. They have none stop acts, mostly singer songwriters and folky bands spread among 6 venues, coffee shops and Brew pubs. Of note is all the musicians commented about this being first gig in 2 years and how great it was to be back on the touring circuit

Thanks @KurtS Funny you mentioned the bass track. Because when I listened to the original I realized I must have played it on a 5 string bass. Right in the intro there’s a low C. Bummer is Ample P bass free version is only the 4 string range. I’ll add SI bass just to play that one note. And thanks to all who did listen to the sample of the original version. And yes it was about as good as what I was capable of back then working with very crude gear. Those were the days when there was definitely a huge difference between home studio and real studio gear. The problem is all those old songs sound so radically different from my new stuff and therefore I can’t mix them together in album or playlist format. The goal is to try and make all my songs fit together sonically and quality wise. I’m overall satisfied with the music but I think I’ll look into a better vocal signal path including mike and pre amp. I’m going to try and sell off all my live gear and use the money for studio toys.

Ctrl W toggles spar bar behaviour. It will toggle between space bar stopping where you are at and returning to where you started.

It is probably because you have automation. Open the automation lane and then you can edit the track.

Watch these # 3, 5,6 and 7 and you'll be a Cakewalk Navigation expert. The X is only seen when that tab is open.

I think it depends on lyrics more than the music. Probably a different arrangement of a cover song won't get noticed. A few that come to mind is was busted for All My Lovin ( Beatles) and Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer ( Elmo and Patsy) . Which were both me playing live. Then I posted a version of Blue Rodeo's Tossin and Turning I had recorded when I was in a band. The videos are still posted but if I ever do get monetized those publishes get the ad revenue, not me. Fine. I'll probably never get monetized anyway. As of today I'm at 18,000 views and almost 300 Subscribers. I think it's 100,000 views and 1,000 subscribers. The info is not clear. But Cakewalk is not as popular as " Sleeping Cat" 100K views. Some of my Tutorials have Midi tracks of cover songs being used but very briefly and those have not been busted. I helped a friend make a slide show video for their Moms Memorial and she gave me about 30 songs to use. You Tube sent me a busted list of all 30 songs including 3 that were real obscure Italian folk songs. Some of them did not grant permission ( probably dead) and we couldn't post the video on You Tube. I just shared it in aa Cloud server. You see lots of live band videos playing cover songs too. Your situation sucks because this could happen to anyone who creates original music. Everything we compose has probably been already used before. There are only so many combinations of chords. We can't help it if we borrow from somewhere. I hope a human takes the time to review your song. Not a robot. I think the thing that started all this was the birth of Non Musicians producing content using loops lifted from cover songs.

I have put a few cover tunes on You Tube and I always give the original artist credit in the video splash screen. I get a note saying the Publisher has agreed to let me post the video but that they will get any monetizing.

@DeeringAmps Yep Had to save track 8 for midi time code to drive my Atari. But It was rare I used midi in those days on recordings because of that hassle. It was cool when I got the MD8 which could transmit MMC. I think I would record 5 tracks of drum kit peices and then a guitar in Trk 6 for the arrangement. I'd bounce that to Tracks 7/8 in stereo and then re use the first 6 tracks again. I think I was mixing down to a HI Fi Stereo VCR. Just clicked on your My Reel link hand had a gas listening to your stuff. Lots of fun. I liked reading your Liner Notes. You've inspired me to do the same as most of my songs have a long history as well. Many have been played hundereds of times live using backing tracks or with a real band.

Unwanted 2022 updated April 4th version #5 https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14415473 Edit: April 4th: I added a low C bass note as well as turning up bass and lowering Reverb on snare as per suggestions here. Another old song I originally recorded in around 1994 using a real drummer and a Tascam Cassette 8 track shown below. I've made at least 4 other attempts to re do this song and I even have a Bed track that I used for performance that has the vocals removed. I used that bed track to rebuild using the method I demonstrated in this video - https://youtu.be/HuPc1RjBRbc I've included a link to the original version if your curious to how wonderful Analog Cassette recording really was. I can't beleieve those things actually fetch more than they did back then https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l5gBXT153knsz2iFwJy9ecJt0Oj2YFZ1/view?usp=sharing I first dragged the bed track to the time line to create a tempo map. I played real bass and converted to midi via Ample P Bass. I them played 2 piano parts, True PIanos and Lounge Lizard and an analog synth pad using Ultra Analog . I also found a flute sort of sound in Artura Analog Lab that works perfectly for the lead line. I then deleted the Bed track, set the tempo at a little more than the original and recorded 2 identical guitar parts panned and then a lead part. Then lead and Harmony vocal tracks. This was the heart of the original Cactus Music Studios 1992 until I got the Yamaha MD8. I sold it for $100 to a guy who says he still has it and it still works. . UNWANTED OLD Short.mp3

Hey, can we just let this thread die. Or can a Moderator lock it. The OP is long gone. To me it's a bit frustrating that these threads get way more attention than people asking for help.

It would be helpfull to know what brand the Drums were. Not all use standard GM sounds. And some like the better Roland kits definatly need a drum map to pair up with any VST's. You either use a drum map inside Cakewalk or re assign the triggers in the drum brain. In my Yamaha's set up I can easily re assign triggers. I actually changed my Hi Hat pedal to a COWBELL! The pedal is a bit of a POS so I can't use it anyways, it sends false triggers. I just manually add open Hi Hats in PVR.

It’s all depending on your interface drivers. I have a few different interfaces and each one will behave differently regarding audio sharing between apps. I never have issues other than a sample rate Pop with Focusrite and Tascam ASIO drivers. Nothing crashes or goes weird. But my Motu M4 has trouble and the worst of it is distorted audio for new recordings. I have to completely re boot to carry on. If it didn’t have the loop back feature I needed for screen capture, it would be tossed by now. I get best audio sharing results buy keeping that exclusive mode button unchecked in Windows sound settings. I just wanted confirmation that it still exists. My Audio set up video has over 1.3K views and it’s based on W10. If W11 totally changed the settings I would need to place a warning in the description.

I just did this about 6 times yesterday and it most certainly works. I demonstrate this dozens of times in most of my tutorials. Oh. Are you dragging from the browser? That would explain it. I assumed you were dragging a midi track into another midi track in the track pane.

If you insist on using a midi clip that was obviously composed for a different style then it will only sound correct if you set your project at that tempo. Or something close. Otherwise it will play double speed. Of course it would need to be the first track in the project. To me it make little difference if a project was 80 or 160 other than the metronome. But playing with the time signature might fix that. 8/4? Other super easy method would be to copy the clip note for note into PVR. There’s probably lots of ways to deal with this but there’s the first 2 I would try.

All the above is clearly written in the documentation. It will make life much easier for you if you are going to use that feature a lot to read that section first. The documentation link is found up on the menu bar under help.

The settings to select on board audio devices are in Windows settings not Cakewalk

Hold shift and drag them to the target track. Shift will keep them aligned to the grid.

Thanks Eddie. By the way, turn off those enhancements. And the reason I was asking is that I also always uncheck those Exclusive mode boxes so I can open other music apps with Cakewalk open. Looks like nothing changed in W11.

Not much to go on so a few guesses. Open Task Manager and see if it is running. 2 Monitors? Hidden behind something? Minimized to system tray? Not installed properly- re install Try opening in Safe Mode- hold shift and click on a Project file.

DId you try opening Cakewalk in Safe mode? Hold Shift. Here's a video. https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/31201-how-to-open-projects-in-safe-mode/ This video explains how to properly set up audio in Cakewalk, https://youtu.be/JM8rKHQ9GIo it's for W10 so I'm not sure if this new W11 update changed anything. I've ask this question just now in a new thread. https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/43336-question-audio-system-windows-11-users/ But I caan see in your screen shot your tracks are outputing directly to High Def Audio and not the Master, therefore the message.

I cannot install W11 on any of my computers so I cannot help troubleshoot audio issues for people who do. Lately there's been questions about not being able to share audio with Cakewalk open. In W10 there's a setting that solves this issue for most. See picture. Does this setting still exsist in W11? On W10 it's found System/Sound/Device Proerties/ Additional Device properties/Advanced tab.

I don't think there would be a size limit. I just grabbed a MP3 file and edited it in Gold Wave to a 1.5 second snippet. I saved as a wave to the folder and loaded it as the metronome and it played just fine. How are you making your wave files and how long is it. It should be just a burst at 1 to 2 seconds.