John Vere

Very good could not hear any flaws other than tiny little bitty vocal stuff that you won't hear unless your wearing headphones. Which is another thing awesome stereo spread well done. by far best thing posted today by miles.

Music seems nicely balanced and clear but the vocals are way over processed and I couldn't understand any of the lyrics?

First, ya great song very enjoyable and as other say even with the kinda jerky motion it works. On that topic I have many live recordings from a band I was in and I manage to tighten them up with a little effort. Now it's not clear but I'm assuming your using real drums? If so then what I do is first drag the snare track to the timeline to create a tempo map. I then will use the grid this creates to align things. First move is drum replacer to turn the Kick and snare into Midi. I then quantize to the created tempo map. Lots of option here with drum replacer. I also can take the bass track and drag that to a midi track and replace with Ample P bass lite. It will need some basic editing but once done I can't hear much of a difference and mostly it will sound much tighter. Guitars can be a little sloppy but if there's a glaring error it's easy just to use split and drag the clip to the grid. I just did an entire song where the banjo was all over the map. I more or less cut and dragged 60% of the notes into short clips sometimes using CTRL drag to time stretch them. Anyhow lots of tricks that work without audio snap being involved. I never have much luck with that rabbit hole. But if your having fun and enjoy what you've made that's more important than seeking perfection.

Another place to look is in Device manager and open "show Hidden Devices" There is a 10 device limit that can get messed up by plugging midi devices into different ports etc. I demonstrate in this video at the beginning. https://youtu.be/AcDcCmjPaWg The other thing to keep in mind is I find that devices that came with Midi drivers from the Manufacture don't behave the same as the ones that use generic drivers. I can unplug my Roland Keyboard and plug it back in with Cakewalks running. I cannot do this with my Akai.

I'll never be done with Cakewalk, I still haven't even started on my collection of probably 60 hours of live gigs multitracked. I took a break today from my original songs and made a tutorial. I found one I made that sucked again. Just like my original songs, sometimes just gotta re do it... Autism I guess. I new when I saw the thread title that you were just trying to start a Bapu Thread.

OH OH, now there's 2 trolls under the bridge. I think I'll go a different way. Best I don't talk to the trolls, that's how they get you...

Funny you mentioned this as I had this happen yesterday as well. I just turned off the PVR snap option and the notes I drew follow the Control bar setting. Bug? I realize I never have used the PVR option in the past.

Funny how trolls get more reply’s than nice people who are asking for help. Just an observation.

There’s no right or wrong way and for reverb I prefer to create a reverb buss and then use sends from tracks to share the same reverb. Long time ago I was taught to use one global reverb to eliminate creating mud in a mix. It puts your music in a “space” like the difference between a concert hall or a small room. The article explained how peoples hearing can become confused if we listen to unnatural sounds. But for guitars I often put shared effects on the guitar bus. Traditionally only Mastering effects should go on the master buss.

Things have changed so much and this as you are well aware of makes it hard trouble shoot computer issues. I myself was a big fan of 8.5 and stayed with it up until x3 was released. It was very stable but one thing worth trying is to have your tech friend help you install The latest Cakewalk and open the same project and see what happens. The effects you mentioned are at end of life but they certainly are still working fine for other users still. Some are DX. I guess a look at Latency Monitor with Sonar closed might give some insight. Troubleshooting is a process of elimination. You swap out parts until you find the one that fails. So on the list is Audio Interface hardware. Audio Drivers Computer Hardware Computer system DAW software and version Plug ins and versions Other things that make projects unstable are Too many edits in a track, or too many heavy CPU effects or instruments. The solution is to bounce and freeze them and use save as to create a clean project. Then with using Regional Effects like Melodyne. I Always render all the short clips and then I export as a stem. I delete the original messy track and drag the fresh continuous track back into the project. You can always go back to the original project. Save as is your friend to clean projects and create backups. I use the current date and make sure to browse outside the original project folder. Make sure to check the copy audio box.

If the Zoom has a ASIO driver that is always the best. What is not working properly?

There's a notepad document but I don't see any screenshots. A quick read of the document shows page faults are 3,282 us which seems excessively high. Example, mine is running at around 80us right now and Cakewalk is open with a simple project loaded. I seems to remember anything over 300us is bad news but don't quote me. The report also points at Sonar as being the highest page fault count. I'm most certainly a novice at reading the reports, it's mostly gibberish to me. It always says the same things are to blame as far as I can tell. But the Sonar Page Faults I've never seen before. Do your projects have a lot of content? Your computer specs seems pretty average and shouldn't have issues with basic projects.

It’s always a plug in. Open in safe mode and get rid of it

This is why you should put certain effects like reverb on the buss. There’s lots of options on how you approach adding effects and stereo imagery in your mix. You just need to grasp the signal flow and understand it completely.

What you can do with any analysis effects is just add one instance to a track effects bin and simply drag it to another track effects bin to use it there. I do this with the MTuner as well. The effect will show a red bar as you drag and drop it.

I do this a lot because I'm converting my projects from 44.1 to 48. I export all audio tracks as "Tracks no effects or automation." They will all be exported starting at zero. FYI, Zero shows as 1:01:00 in M:B:T which is what the export dialogue uses. This video explains the procedure you can ignore the conversion part but it shows the correct settings in export to achieve stems that are continuous tracks so ready to import to any project in any DAW ( as long as the tempo is the same.)

3:01 is the very first tick of measure 3. It is the 1 of 1, 2 ,3,4. The downbeat. That's how M:B:T works. Measure, Beat, Ticks You are thinking of H:M:S:F Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Frames where 3:00 is the start of the 3rd minute.

There's a lot of reasons why it's a bad idea to start playback at zero. It's been a request for years that Cakewalk has a negative measure for pre roll. Starting at measure 2 is wrong for people using sheet music who are used to a pick up measure or what ever it's called. I always start at 3 with measure 2 being where my count in is placed. Midi events on zero will often be ignored. The first not has to be at least 1 tick past zero.

The upload box at the bottom Left of every post says Drag Files here to Attach, or Choose Files. The Choose files is Highlighted and underlined which is a link you could try pressing. In my case this actually opens my Picture folder. So possibly that works better for you. Latency monitor I find doesn't always point you at the cause of the issue. It just lets you know there is one. It always tells you to do a bunch of stuff like CPU throttling which is not true in my case. To optimize I always shut down as many background apps that I can find. Drop Box, One Drive and Google drive are always trying to phone home even with the internet off. Newer faster computers certainly have made this stuff less of a bother and both my machines show a very low DPC readings even with the internet on. And they are very outdated now being more than 8 years old.

Sorry I actually was struggling with the correct term. I'm brain Impaired. Yes to make screenshots use the Windows Key and Print Screen key together. That takes a screenshot and places it in your Pictures folder in a sub folder called Screenshots. It will be named Screenshot and then a number in a bracket that is sequential. If this is your first screenshot it will be one. On the forum here there is a place at the very bottom that says drag files here to attach

Sound Blaster is a bad word around here! If you still have issues run Latency Monitor and sort out optimizing your laptop. https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

This one is my go too. Light load you can put it on every track. https://www.tbproaudio.de/products/mvmeter2

I have no experience with modern PCIe cards so the wrong person to ask. It would sure be worth looking into. Go read the reviews. I think that USB has become just as fast as other connections and the main reason PCI cards died was there's a chance of RF interference when placing audio circuits inside a PC. Is this the one you mean? https://www.rme-audio.de/hdspe-aio-pro.html Way out of my league. Seems you would need a $4,000 console to go with this.

Just so you folks are aware The OP is visually impaired so relies on software that only runs on W7. Therefore staying with 8.5. A good choice. So keep that in mind when even posting links. Another great free reverb is made by Acon digital called Verberate Basic. https://plugins4free.com/plugin/3409/ Can you post a screenshot of Latency Monitor results? I find shutting off the internet solved most issues. I just unplug the cable because for me it’s easy to reach

First you should upgrade your audio interface. If it’s drivers are no longer supported then that might be your issue right now. It’s a shame that PCI audio interfaces faded away. I have one made in 2004 by Card Deluxe that still runs , the driver was last updated in 2015 for W10. How’s that for support! But it only works in my old DAW which still had a PCI slot. RME is definitely the way to go if you have the cash. I made a video about how to look for interfaces