John Vere

Be careful with timing randomizing. Actually good musicians have very perfect timing. So there is nothing inhuman about placing notes where they belong. But it's more about the "feel" which is all about how the instrument responds to velocity and after touch.

@msmcleod You might be onto something. I switched over to using a Motu M4 over a year ago. I’ve been working on about 15 original songs. Most the vocals were recorded via a Scarlett 6i6. I hear little mistakes so I redo them which requires using the Motu. The sound quality is noticeably different, grainy and sort of? Well I’m not happy. Is my voice changing? Is my Beta 58 crapping out? Or is this the Motu pre amps? Long story but here’s my favourite pre amp experience. When I used a Yamaha MD 8 as my studio I fried one of the pre amps by using a 1/4 input when the phantom power was on. I was a Yamaha dealer at that time and had direct access to the repair guy in Ontario. He told me to send it in and he would replace the 2 pre amps with the ones out of their flagship mixers. He explained they had 3 quality’s of pre amps. The MD8 used the cheapest ones. He explained this is by design if you are trying to produce a product at a certain price point. The $15 -$30 ? difference adds up on a 24 channel board. I still have tracks from that machine and I’ve never had that quality since. My OV1 apparently has the mid grade pre amps even though it was a $2,500 board. I think most people are aware of the proverb “ You get what you pay for”. And for the most part this applies to audio equipment. I would expect my Motu has cheapest pre amps they could score to keep the price competitive.

Great mix and groove. Love that fretless( is it real? ) and the unison parts.

Totally not a style of music I ever listen to but I just had to so I could listen to Bit's keyboard playing! ?

Wow, that's exactly what I've been trying to get my Grandson doing. He's been making comic books since he was 6. Wild Willy. He made a comic for my Video Mr Clam. I struggled with trying to animate his drawings. Anyhow great job! It's not often I listen to a whole song but that's why using a great video is the ticket! Oh, and I actually enjoyed the song too.

All the above ? Refreshingly pleasing. Far from simple arrangement.

Big thumbs up from me. Great guitar solo! Only comment, and it just might my Mackie Monitors but there's a lot of low end. Like the Kick is massive ( not a bad thing) and the Toms Rumble ( also might have been the goal) Otherwise you totally captured the Country Rock vibe.

Seems you solved this but just to follow up on my post I had no problem freezing my Arturia synth. It seems to be a heavy load as the project I put in on is sluggish.

I agree best you do a little learning first these things are basic and easy to get help with

The interfaces under $100 are a waste of money. Most I’m aware of don’t come with proper ASIO drivers. This guy did a shoot out of low cost interfaces and the Prosonus had the most features for the money the Scarlett solo came in second

You don't require input echo for playback. Only recording to the track. Best way to trouble shoot is open the GUI for the drum VST and play the kit with the mouse. If you can hear it then it's working fine. You don't have much midi data there but it should play that short clip. Also make sure all volume controls are set. Here's a whole series of tutorials on how to set up Cakewalk.

Mabey Cakewalk does not like the pathway for some reason. Possibly you entered it manually by typing? If you get it wrong Cakewalk will just default back to original location. To select the pathway are you using the icon my arrow is pointing at? I have mine set to the root of my Data drive because I have about 6 Cakewalk containment folders there. I have different Albums, Bands and Clients in each. You can also see I have a folder there for exports.

I’m not sure if I’m following the issue properly here so ignore this if it’s wrong info. I have always stored my Cakewalk projects on a second data drive. It’s as simple as setting that up in Preferences/ folders There is a default folder on C drive but it’s obviously empty and that’s after 5 years of almost daily use of Cakewalk There’s no need for and complicated junctions etc. Ive never lost or miss placed a project ever.

Audio interface has nothing to do with the audio process ITB. You would get same results with a Real Tech chip. I have their Analog Lab I just scored free after I bought Izotope Phoenix’ verb for $7 from Plug in Boutique. How’s that for a deal! I see if I can freeze it. I spent 3 hours playing with my new toy last night. Pretty impressed for free. And just now I get an Email from Plug in Alliance with a $25 voucher for customer loyalty! I don’t think I’ve actually bought anything from them ?Only grabbed freebies.

Are you using an audio interface in ASIO mode? Do you have any heavy use effects running?

The foot switch should come with software you install to get the drivers and set up what each switch does. I’ve never used a Behringer but I have 3 types of USB foot switches and even the one I paid $25 for came with software. It will also hopefully have a manual to explain all this.

The beauty of track templates is they not only add the track they also create the associated bus if it’s not there yet. They are pretty simple to create. What I’ve done is if I have a song that I really like how it turned out I save those tracks as templates and I leave myself a little clue about the song. Example “AD drums Song 1 “ If I’m starting a similar song I can quickly recreate the sound of the original song. And yes drums take forever to get them right so this is a huge time saver. I found if I tried that with a project template I’d end up with a bunch of tracks I didn’t need.

+ 1 I was going to ask the OP where the faders were. The other place I check is the GUI of the instrument. Some of them the Volume seems disconnected from the track fader. I've run into hidden volume changes in the past with downloaded midi files that I could not find. Dragging the midi data to a new track and Changing the midi channel always solved the problem. Don't know why.

Instead of project template I only use track templates. I found I never use the same project template twice. So I can just open a blank project and use track templates to create what I need.

What’s important here is you’re happy with your creation. If your goal is to make yourself happy then you've achieved that goal. That's awesome. We all have a standard of quality for what we create. That standard is based on our expectations of what we want to compare ourselves to and our ability to achieve that goal. It also gets higher and higher as our abilities to create improve. Recording music can have a very high standard if we wish to sound like a hit record. For many of us this has been our lifelong goal. I want my songs to play side by side with commercially made material. I most certainly realize most of those recordings where produced by some of the worlds most talented musicians and studio engineers. How can I even begin to think I can achieve this? Is that too high a standard for a small town guy in a Home Studio with a Cheap guitar and a computer? I'm a Capricorn, my standards are going to be a lot higher than others and I'm up for that challenge. Bottom line is, each individual will set their own standards and be happy if they have the ability to achieve that goal. Your song is so far below my standards that I dare not comment, that is not fair, I have a lot of trouble keeping my mouth shut on the song forum. I need to remind myself of what I have stated above. I truly love this hobby and want others to join in and enjoy it too. I would rather offer encouragement-- that you too can raise your standards if you keep at it. Take this song and file it away, keep creating more songs. Crank them out and keep studying the art of recording ( and singing) . A few year's from now your talent and abilities will greatly improve and you can come back to this song and re do it to your new higher standards. Don't obsess too much over your first creations you'll get discouraged and quit. Just keep at it.

@charles kasler It looks like you are correctly using it as a bus with a send from a vocal track. When using effects buses you need to set the wet level to 100%. In your screen shot you have the wet level at 21.5%.. That would be a correct setting if it was in a tracks effects bin.

He's my favorite Plug in for smoothing my vocals on a day when I'm struggling. There is a lot to be said for a bit of vocal training. I sang for years without it and sucked. Good thing in those day's so did PA systems so nobody really noticed. But then there was the eye opening day I wrote an original song and tried to record it! This is in the days of tape so no digital turd polishers to be found. I went to a local piano teacher friend of mine and in a very short period of time she had me on track. I would assume there are lot's of tutorials available on You Tube that teach the basics for free. A note about Melodyne- It can most certainly correct minor and even major pitch issues and if you get good at it you can do all sorts of wonderful things like split notes, fade in's etc. But you have to have a light touch with those tools or your track will start to sound like it's been through a meat grinder. It's taken me 2 years and 100 hours to start to understand how to use it properly ( I'm hoping) But absolutely the best approach I find is if I'm fighting a phrase or line it's best to grab the Glenfiddich VST and re do it.

The safest way to handle weirdness is to use "save as" with the "copy Audio" box checked to a new location and re name the project with todays date. Everything will be in the new project folder.

I get this from time to time. You hit the space bar and it takes 2 seconds for playback to start. I find 2 things that can cause this. Certain "look ahead" mastering plug ins, like the Adaptive limiter as example, and DPC issues from background processing. First I'll toggle the Global effects bypass on the transport and if that corrects the issue, problem solved. Then it might be a DPC issue. Then shutting off the internet might solve the issue, If not, further digging with Latency Monitor might be required. https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon