John Vere

I have the Mackie CR4 which look a lot like the ones in your picture. I bought them for when I was away from my studio once and they had the best sound in that price point. I like them but they most certainly don't come close to my NMS10's or my Tannoy P 6.5's. I spent a few hours in a big Music store and if I had had the extra cash at the time I would have grabbed the Yamaha HS5. There seems to be way to many monitors in the under $ 600 price range that hype the bass. Fine if your listening but bad for translating mixes. The Mackie's sound great but mixes just don't translate to other systems. For that I would trust the Yamaha's. But Genelec's are also high on my list of future purchases but they are pricey for the ones used in most pre studios.

Thanks for the positive feedback I have the whole series posted in the Tutorials sub form here and you might enjoy watching a few more as I totally made them for people who are new to Cakewalk.

The master is added when you use any default templates.

Like I said this is nothing new and the same topic title shows up all over the internet including Facebook sites. Pages and pages of good info that @msmcleod just did a great job of explaining in a paragraph. On many of the threads Plug in developers chimed in to clarify what this means to them. DAW developers are not planning on dropping support for something that is a critical part of how users make music and will continue to use for years to come. It is said that Stienberg is actually going to loose a lot of people if Cubase becomes VST 3 only.

How old is the latest driver? There’s a thread somewhere here and the OP ended up reverting to W7 just to use an outdated midi interface. Seems kinda a step backwards to me. But point is that it seems Windows updates can mess with Midi drivers. Long shot, but try unplugging it, uninstalling the driver and re install using a different USB port.

Ya the new export dialogue is brilliant for stuff like this. You have total control over what the files will be including start finish, sample rate, bit depth, stereo, mono, wave , MP3 as well as selecting which tracks and if automation or effects are applied to the export. I have used it over and over converting old projects to 48 as well as to create continuous tracks out of chopped up clips so I can use audio snap

From very first sentence in your first post I could tell what you were doing wrong.

Did you try using a different DAW? That would eliminate that being the problem. It seems Behringer released a buggy driver. Possibly it is still active even though you say you rolled back.

I keep forgetting to check on KVR. Thanks I’m going to try that one. I ended up drawing the notes in PVR and copy pasted them for the short section I needed but I still think Arps are nifty for creating stuff you would not normally play live. https://www.kvraudio.com/product/bluearp-by-oleg-mikheev-aka-graywolf

Yes it's totally built into the Midi track/ Instrument track advanced midi control strip of the inspector. It's only drawback I found was trying to find the pattern you have in your head takes forever. I never did and all I wanted was what I considered a simple chord pattern. So I tried to find a free VST. If you look here https://plugins4free.com/search?term=arpeggiator you'll find a bunch and some from the demo videos did exactly what I was looking for, but either 32 bit or just didn't load into Cakewalk. I came away with nothing. I think you can do this in the step sequencer however but I haven't had a chance to try. Here's my tutorial on Inspectors features- https://youtu.be/cD5z8uWgjeU

First, Workspaces do not involve project content. They only save the "workspace". The size and state of tracks is saved with the project file. How are you hiding the tracks? What do you see when you open the track manager after you hide the tracks? If they are all checked then yes they will re appear when you re open the project next time.

My video shows you how to use the export dialogue to change sample rate of audio

So to test open a project with out those plug ins and see if it closes properly. It’s always a process of elimination to troubleshoot “what or why” Its not Cakewalk itself, it’s almost always a plug in.

Not sure if it’s related but just last night I was creating a tempo map and after I had this created I dragged the whole project to the right so the drum transient lined up with the grid lines. I then used drum replacer on the kick, dragged that to Midi and saw I had dragged to far to the right. I could not drag the project back to the left? I had to disable the regional effect and then it was fine. So just thinking you might have a regional effect active. Also if there’s automation this happens

If you read up on this topic which has on some music sites 20 page threads, you will learn while it might be an issue 20 years from now it’s far from causing any changes to what we use currently. So go find something else to think about and make music.

Hopefully you still have your log on email and password to open your Cakewalk my products page. This is needed to install and run the old Cakewalk Command Center or CCC. Run that first and bring everything up to date including your copy of Sonar. It is best to do that before you install the latest version of Cakewalk or what we call CbB. That will install all the extra stuff that came with Sonar. So you get your paid for stuff back and can continue to use it. I highly recommend you visit the tutorial sub forum and watch some of the up to date videos so you can learn more about what has changed since 2017.

The other option, just so you are aware, is change your projects to 48hz. I’m doing a lot of this right now with old projects. Pretty easy to do.

Try the show excluded Edit. I didn’t look at the picture because I’m on my phone. So ignore my first answer. But the plug in should be there now did you look in all the folders? Often new plug ins end up in the uncatagorized folder

It’s Canada. We don’t ever get rain, just snow. Dry snow here.

In the 90’s I had a real studio that was 1,000 square feet and had 2 isolated rooms with special windows and double doors and a W window between the live room and the control room. In our last house I had 600 square feet of attic with a 12’ angled ceiling that I shared with family storage of random stuff like extra furniture and dog crates. New home I’m in the basement in a standard 12x12 spare room with a 7’ 6” ceiling. The former owner had put a plywood sub floor and the walls are covered with OSB ( chip board). it’s the only room that was sort of finished in the basement. I had to remove the ceiling which was pine planks to complete the renovation of plumbing and wiring upstairs. So right now I have no ceiling. Like you I have way too much stuff for the small room. PA stuff 20 instruments in and out of cases, digital drum kit. Real drums, 88, 49 and 28 keyboards sound modules, 4 old laptops, 3 computers 6 monitors and 6 suitcases full of wires and effects pedals. Extra mixing boards and interfaces, 10 pairs of headphones, A 10’ high stack of CD’s. 20 old hard drives most in enclosures, 3 boxes of computer parts, 12 mike stands, bass amp 3 guitar amps, couple of bags of lighting rig stuff. Then family stuff that still has no place to go from the 600 square foot attic. All my summer shirts are hanging behind me. My extra shoes are here somewhere too. I’ve been renovating the house for 2 years and the upstairs is now finished. But we spent all the cash on that, so my dream studio project needs a new plan. Does anyone need a room full of useless, redundant music gear? I’ll trade you for a new Computer and a Shure SM 7b. I’m hopefully going to get it done over the summer, but I have no where to put all this stuff so I can work on it.

I rarely need to use it in Cakewalk but when I do I turn it on and then off immediately. I never actually understood what it was until I started editing videos in Vegas. It’s turned on most of the time and a huge asset when removing pieces you don’t want. Makes a perfect transition every time.

Amazing! I'm listening as I read your post. If you had not said so, I would have been 100% convinced this was done mostly on real instruments. And I'm hard to fool. I have a long history of playing and recording acoustic music. Great job on the recording and the arrangement too. Thanks for the detailed explanation of your process. This is wonderful information for anyone who is planning on using VST instruments in acoustic, folk music. As my arthritis gets worse I have been slowly "cheating" and using more and more VST instruments. I am a big fan of Ample's collection and always waiting for a sale that never happens. Now you have given me a bad case of VST GAS.