John Vere

Sorry I have to disagree with part of this. First unless you’re scoring a movie sound track, normal projects on a computer with lots of RAM should not be using HD space. You open the project and it is stored in RAM not the HD. I refurbished a older laptop for remote recording. All I had at the time was a 120GB SSD. After I had installed W10 home and CbB and all my free plug in’s it was sitting at about 50%. Mostly some of the sample libraries. It now has over 300 CWP files on it and sitting at about 75 %. It’s definitely slower than my main DAW and it only has 8 GB of RAM. But it runs smoothly with out issues.

FYI, the name Sonar was dropped when Bandlab took over. They chose to use the name Cakewalk so the DAW would be easily identified as the same Software. We call it Cakewalk by Bandlab or CbB for short. Bandlab also has a App which is totally different than Cakewalk. But there's no reason not to always update when offered. I skip the early access versions unless I'm in the mood to be testing the software to add my 2 cents to it's improvments. We have an excelent system happening here because the developers are working closly with the users to make improvments.. Every new release I install I always read the release notes to see if anything will change my workflow. In the last few years I've seen a lot of user requests fullfilled within weeks of asking. I'll guarantee there's no other DAW or software that offers that level of involvment. As a result Cakewalk is quickly becoming one of the more inovative DAW's for Windows, and it's free. The user base is growing at a fast rate and I think at some point Cakewalk will become one of the most widly used DAW's for Windows.

You really need to watch this. I guarantee it will work if you do.

I like @57Gregy idea. It seems the secret is to bounce the tracks. I don’t know why this is but the only time it works is when then the audio has been bounced or exported which is the same as bouncing I guess. But the other 2 ideas from @msmcleod and @sjoens might work too. Those ideas are not easily undone and so you would want to do this to a copy of the track. Greg’s idea keeps the original audio untouched , that appeals to me

I switched to using Simple instrument tracks over a year ago. I often will also add a midi track that is pointed at it. There should be absolutly no difference between this and the old split instrument method. Both are identical with a very small differences. The only difference to me that's of note, is I can reduce my track count by using Simple Instrument tracks because the midi data shares the track. A good example would be insert TTS-1 as a Simple instrument track and place channel 1 midi track there. Then add 15 more midi tracks each on a different channel from CH 2 to CH 16. No problems. The OP has certainly discovered a weird one. I'm not sure if this was asked but if you insert another instrument, like SI bass, what happens?

Thats better to me I can now understand the lyrics better. Sounds like you added delay with tempo sync? And I agree with Mark about back off the delay just a bit. The idea is, you turn it up untill its obvious( like you now have it) and then back it off just so...

As always I look forward to your tunes. Weirdly enough a lot of the chord progresion is exactly like a song I never finished years ago. Same tempo too. I just listened to it yesterday digging through my projects for ideas to work on. I used this big fat analog synth probably a P Floyd influence. Typing as I listen here.. You are the master of the Wha. Mines gathering dust and I cheat and use a Mutron.. Loved that ending...

The snare the best part, the drummer knows his Punk sounds. This brings back memories of the 90's when I had the studio. ALL the bands sounded like this. You get a 10 out of 10 for capturing the essence of Punkizm.

You might benifit from watching the very first video in this tutorial series here.

I think @Promidi has nialed it. There seems to be some issues with that interface reported in other threads here due to the drivers. That set up is more than capable of handling large projects. 256 buffer is all I've ever used for years now.

The box you show in Preferences will set that as the sample rate for new projects. If there is no audio in a project you can change your sample rate in your audio interfaces control panel. You are using on board audio and this is another of the pitfalls of this. Windows will change sample rate depending on what apps you are using. You might have opened a You Tube, which are 48hz, and then opened Cakewalk. Therefore a new project set at 48. Just a guess on that but you can set windows defualt in Audio settings as shown in this first video. 1-Audio Set up https://youtu.be/JM8rKHQ9GIo In this video I demonstrate how to change the sample rate of a project with Audio in it. 104-Changing Sample Rate of Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVBNf-jyuzI Any audio you recorded will be at the sample rate displayed in the Transport.

Another none destructive method would be to export the track using “ track “ and make sure the effects box is checked. Then drag it back to the project in a new track. That will be like a bounce and the effects will be mixed with the vocal. Mute the original. But that said most computers can handle effects with out issue. You just need to increase your buffer until the crackles stop. That should be no more than at 512. If it still crackles then personally I’d not use that effect. Waves plug ins seem to be an issue in Cakewalk

Then the only other reason I can think of is you are using input channels and not Omni.

The Mike gets the OK from reviews with warnings of like Mark said about sound quality. It's a good starting point, better than other options. But the Audio interface is going to be a waste of time as far as seeking professional results. That's a Podcasting set up. Number 1 it does not come with quality pre amps, and number 2 it does not use ASIO drivers which are paramount to acheiving professional recording quality of Audio on a DAW. At least invest in a Focurite Solo. That's about as cheap as you can go and get good results. The mike will perform better with better pre amps involved. I have a whole series of Tutorials if your interested in learning how Cakewalk is works. They go in sequence.

Open the project in Safe Mode and get rid of any 32 plug ins. That looks like an issue with using obsolet 32 bit plug ins.

Well 10% change in tempo should work. Just last week I did this to a project. I have developed arthritis in my right hand so it hurts to hold a pick. ? I went from 95 BPM to 85 BPM and recorded the lead part . The project was mostly midi but there was 2 Rhythm Guitar parts as audio and a scratch vocal. It didn’t work the first time because the Guitar parts were edited so I exported them and the vocals as stems @ 48/32 and brought them back in and applied audio snap clip follows project. Set BPM to 85. No problem. I recorded the lead and reset the project to 95 BPM. No artifacts I can hear. I wonder if you export those tracks like I did? What do they show as when you look at them in Project/ Audio Files ? The other thing comes to mind is buffer settings. I run at 256 on a Motu M4.

You can most certainly do what you are doing with out issues but a few things to think about. 1- Make sure the audio clip is set to Musical time in the clip properties of the inspector 2- Don’t overdue it. It can only take so much of a change or it will barf. 3. Find a midi file of the backing track and you can slow that down to zero. 4. Cakewalk is a multi track Audio recording DAW. It is not a DJ software app those are designed to do what you want.

The only reason I can think of that CbB would not “seem “ to run as well as X3 is user error. I have X3 still installed just to have the stuff that was included. I just opened it after reading this and very quickly saw that I could never go back.

Yes good song but it's very boomy. Open the Gloss EQ on your master bus using the fly out or use Span to see whats going on down there.

This is a forum for Cakewalk. Logic has a forum https://www.logicprohelp.com/ and so does Ez Keys https://www.toontrack.com/forums/forum/ezkeys-line/ezkeys-help/ That was funny as I opened the forum page to grab the web address I see you already posted there. So why are you asking here? We could tell you how this is easy to do in Cakewalk but that's not going to work in Logic.

I have a few USB foot pedals that are fully programable with any one or combination of keyboard and even mouse clicks. You set them in record and make your moves and it saves this and assigns to one of the pedals. They are used initially by people who transcribe recordings to text so they can keep their fingers on the keyboard. They are also used by machine operators and musicians like me for live performance Just Google USB foot switch. They range from $15 to $300. I have both. The one I like the most and use for live performance control of my backing tracks is called Stealth. https://stealthswitch3.com/ I use one of the cheap ones from Amazon to control Cakewalk. I have it set for R, W. and space bar.

My all time highest recommended and that I have used on 100's of songs is the Air DB 33. https://www.pluginboutique.com/meta_product/1-Instruments/64-Virtual-Instrument/2507-DB-33-Crossgrade It works just like the real deal including the Cabinet and mike placement. And you can customize the speed responce of the rotarys. Miles above the rest I tried. And I got it almost for free as part of a package deal Air used to offer. I think I paid $80 for their whole collection of VST instruments and effects. But I see it's $70 from Plug in Boutique at this time. My second favourite I just got free with a seven dollar purchase from Plug in Boutique is included with the Arturia Analog Lab. https://www.pluginboutique.com/products/7149 I would actually have gladly paid the full price for this one I can't beleieve I got it free. Every instrument in it is amazing. And so easy to use. For free there's the humble little Colla B https://plugins4free.com/plugin/3117/ It's very good sounding and has full control of the draw bars. My only gripe is the rotary is very limited and a bit sluggish. SImple installation too. There's also this one AZR-3 but the sampling seems kinda bady done. it's free. https://plugins4free.com/plugin/277/ I wouldn't waste time with any of those old Roland sounds. And Roland actually wants a lot of money for them on some sort of cloud thing. Naw, lots of good stuff is free with no strings attached. Try the Colla B first. It might be all you need.

And to answer your question about replacing it with another instrument It depends on what instruments you require. The TTS-1 is best used as a way to play General Midi files. Most of us find it a bit dull sounding compared to sample based instruments. It can be enhanced with better effects but that gets complicated. So let us know what instruments you were looking for and then we can make recommendations about what’s available for free or dirt cheap. There’s nothing in TTS-1 I would use in a song and I have no trouble replacing parts with better sounds from my collection of soft synths. And those are 90% free. I don’t think I’ve paid more than 20 dollars for a synth.

Open the TTS1 User interface And make sure that the instrument track it is in is fully expanded so all the dialogue boxes show. Then take a screenshot But it does sound like input echo is off. Can you click on the little buttons at the bottom of each channel in the user interface to test it is making sound?