John Vere

Everything is correct, the Focusrite ASIO input 1 is just how a 2 channel device will show up. but possibly you are not choosing the correct input in the track header. In your screen shot looks like you using Stereo instead of choosing the correct mono input. It's a bit confusing at first because of the way they are labeled. Input L is 1 and Input R is 2.

Video #2 has what you need to get it working

If you want to know why I have these tutorials that will definitely help.

Because bouncing creates a new track. I want to bring them back and place them in the tracks they came from so there’s no change to the signal path effects and all that stuff. As always there’s more than one way to do the same things in Cakewalk The OP still didn’t answer my questions.

The above statement doesn't really explain what you are facing . It could imply a few different scenarios. I realize there is possibly a small language barrier here so I have a few questions I need answered clearly so I actually know what has happened. I asked you this question earlier. You answered but you might not have understood the question. I think what you meant was the audio is still in the folder which we understand as you have stated this. But if you read my question you'll see I wanted to actually know what you where seeing when you open the project. Therefore- are you saying that when you opened a project the project opened and all the audio tracks and the audio clips were missing, Or all the tracks were there but just the audio was missing? ( see track #4 below) Or you tried to open a project and a received a warning that there were missing audio files and the project opened but the audio tracks are all blank? By Audio tracks I am asking are there tracks like in the screen shot 1,2 & 3 have audio data, #4 does not have data. FYI saving versions of a project does not make back ups of the audio. It is just a new CWP data container with different information as explained nicely by @David Baay Proper back ups require using "Save As" with the "copy all Audio with projects" checked and then save to a different location. A good way to loose audio from a project would be to use "Save as" and NOT check that box. It will make a new copy of the project but the audio I do believe stays in the original folder. Move something later on and the project looses the audio.

And as @David Baay said it depends on zoom level. Normal view Zoom out Zoom way out to see whole song and more

Most all Plug ins have a "save as preset" built in. I generally name mine after a song I used it in, that way I will know it's suitable for similar projects. I do a lot of re mixing old projects and my workflow has changed a lot over time. It doesn't take that long to bring old projects up to speed. But I defiantly use different effects and instruments now, and using those pre sets I custom made is certainly a big time saver.

Question? are the original audio tracks all there? As in there are tracks for the missing audio but they contain no data. Or are the complete tracks totally missing? If the tracks are still there but empty of data my approach would be to open the audio folder in the browser and using the audio file track names drag them into a lane for that track. Use as many lanes as needed. I would guess that using the numbers assigned and the time stamp as shown in my screen shot would tell me what order they were originally in. Then soloing each lane along with the rest of the music to slowly figure out were they belong in time.

Well Cakewalk would naturally know all that information otherwise the audio would not play in sync. But that information will be imbedded in the CWP files data code as zero's and ones. One would have to somehow read the data inside the CWP files. The scary mess found in an audio folder is one reason I have taken to exporting all my broken up audio tracks as stems and then bring them back in as one whole track that always starts at zero. At first I did this to convert projects from 44.1 to 48hz but then I also found that this was the best way to have audio for doing other things like slowing down or speeding up a song. I use save as to have a fresh copy and when done you look in my audio folder and there is only 1 file per track now.

Not that I'm aware of. Cakewalk seems to use incremental numbering but it's never been very logical. One thing that might help is to open the audio folder and using windows column list choose the dates created or modified column and see if that helps. I will assume you don't have a back up copy of the project?

I’m always curious about 1 post wonders. They did return on the 19th by which time there was a bunch of good replies. So in this case it’s one of the most common where they ask a question, get an answer, but do not respond. My favourite is when the thread goes on for 2 pages, Nobody seems to notice the OP never responded, and someone digs it up 2 years later and asked the 1 post wonder OP if they ever solved the issue.

In my world if the song is say a blues or country shuffle I then will be using the triplets. I often have to use both 1/16 and the 1/16 triplets depending on the part. An example would be a drum part is generally right on the 1/8th but Tom fills are triplets It is actually very precise where notes go on the grid and myself I hear something is wrong if they are not. Not a fan of thinking a song will sound more human if you place notes in the wrong spots. If your song sounds like a machine that’s because it is! You want human, then use one.

The OP is using ASIO. The Yamaha /Steinberg ASIO driver is a good driver. The set up is that you can not only record the Midi from the piano but the audio as well. So an Audio loopback is happening from Cakewalks Master output through the piano and back to the Audio track. I'll assume the OP is using the Piano for monitoring playback and the metronome. Yamaha pianos have Aux inputs that feed the output, I'll also assume the USB audio return can also be patched this way internally. Then the audio gets re sent back to the audio track and therefore mixed in with the pianos audio recording. So that video will explain the workings of the metronome but I now see the correct help would be the OP needs to go into the piano's settings and disable the USB audio input being sent through to the output. This would be essential not only for the metronome but any further overdubbing.

I'll admit in my 25 years of using what I do believe is the same dialogue box I have never touched anything but the note selection. I've never even looked at those other settings so they are the defaults as shown in @sjoens first screenshot. I always play the parts and then I'll change the grid resolution so it matches the closest to what I played and use that as the Quantize setting. Oh and for those who don't know the Shortcut is Q to open the Quantize dialogue you have to select first.

Tutorial # 17 covers this. If your new to using Cakewalk you will want to watch them all. The best way to get something done is first learn how it works.

Someone mentioned notation as a long-standing means of how musicians can communicate. True. My observation is the trend in DAW development is not focusing on musicians but the opposite. The Bandlab App is a good example. Anything that uses loops is made so none musicians can have fun creating music. And even among real musicians the ability to read notation has almost disappeared completely. Music Theory I believe is more important than sight reading and even that gets ignored by many very accomplished musicians. My disappointment with the trend towards looping and button pushing is young kids are now aspiring to do that and not taking up an instrument. And no wonder. Send a kid to piano lessons and the first thing that is taught is notation! Think on that for a minute in the mind of modern day kid.

Are you trying to use 2 ASIO devices? If you are using the Line 6 ASIO driver then for sure it should be the device shown in the sync and caching. It should be the only device showing everywhere including windows. But If your using the Zoom Mixers ASIO driver then that needs to be the only ASIO driver. If the Line 6 driver is interfering with your Zoom driver then you will need to remove it or use it.

I now use Melodyne for moving notes. As long as it's a single note as I don't have the full version. I have also done lots of note moving around using what @sjoens described. Zoom in, split out the note and move it. I will sometimes use the fade in and out to smooth out the transition. Audio snap quantizing has always been a total flop for me.

There are plenty of lower cost audio interfaces that come with midi ports. The cost is minimal when purchased that way.

And people scoff at my 30 year old Yamaha's! To those who didn't hear the clicking you might want to question your monitors ability to hear details ?

Yes its a two part question. 1. How long does it take to learn enough about Cakewalk to record and produce a project? Answer- If you try and figure it out on your own - forever. If you take the time to watch the tutorials and study the documentation then possibly a few day of spare time. 2. How long does it take to completely understand Cakewalk? Once again the process will be sped up 10 fold by watching tutorials and reading the documentation. It’s odd how many choose to just jump in with out taking advantage of the free training. I’ll include myself in that camp so I speak from experience. I’ve been using it since 2002. I think 4 years went by and I couldn’t get it to work so I continued to use my Atari. I joined the forum and started to slowly figure a few things out. First step was learning you needed an Audio Interface. Slowly I learned how to get the basic stuff working and Understanding about 20% of the features.My workflow sucked. 12 years later my workflow still sucked. I self explored the program and picked up tidbits from the forum.This in retrospect was the most painfully slow way to get there. 18 year goes by and I only understood 50% of Cakewalk. Even so, I had over 300 completed projects that were more than satisfactory. The quantum leap was just a few years ago. It started with a need to teach 3 musician friends of mine how to use Cakewalk so they could work at their house instead of coming to the studio. I started looking for videos but a lot seemed really outdated or they had to much self promotion and wasted time babbling. The topics were scattered and hard to find the simple basic stuff. So I thought I’d make my own. At first I just demonstrated using my 60% knowledge but then decided I could do better. So topic by topic I tried to research the details and slowly managing to create the series. They are far from perfect because 1 month after I make one, I find another detail or a better way to do something. I’m still only at 80%.

I have figured the free ride will end someday. Otherwise why do they have the 6 month activation policy. It's pretty clear to me. Make it free. , Pay the old crew to work the bugs out and make it as awesome as possible. Get 4 Million people using it because it's free. Then? Will most of us leave if they ask for money? I doubt it. It makes for good business if you ask me. Sell it for $50 x 2,000,000 = 100,000,000 not bad

Had to read this twice. Seems to me anyone with a SSL as input option would want to use it. Zoom is just consumer grade gear. I would imagine the SSL has far superior pre amps etc.

The OP won’t read this. if you open their profile you will see they only posted twice and have not logged in here since. So you should start your own thread.

Restarting the computer probably.