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John Vere

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  1. The master is added when you use any default templates.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 There’s a thread somewhere here and the OP ended up reverting to W7 just to use an outdated midi interface.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.
  4. 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
  5. From very first sentence in your first post I could tell what you were doing wrong.
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. My video shows you how to use the export dialogue to change sample rate of audio
  11. 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.
  12. 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
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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
  17. It’s Canada. We don’t ever get rain, just snow. Dry snow here.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. I just used the drag and drop tempo detection last night on a live recording. I want to add keyboard and also drum replacer and convert the bass track to Midi. I need the tempo map to get all that tightened up. I have 5 drum tracks and first I used the hi hat. Was a mess. But the snare track resulted in a perfect tempo map which floats around 132 bpm. I highlight all and drag the whole project so the kick was on the grid. Looking along the time line it stays almost exactly correct. I used drum replacer on the kick and snare tracks and drag to AD drums. I then Quantize to 1/16th and already things are sounding way better than the original. Today I’ll convert the bass and add the keyboard parts. Anyway this is one of many times I’ve successfully used the drag and drop tempo detection with out issue . Not only drums but I’ve also had success with acoustic guitars
  22. Actually I found it fussy to work with compared to using an properly designed interface. The minute I engaged input echo on a midi track it started a feedback loop happening ?? That was weird! Then it stopped and never happened again. There were no Audio tracks set in record. I thought I’d see if I could record a guitar track and it was all fine but it’s tricky to get a cue mix balanced between the input and playback but I did eventually get that working. So makes you realize how important that blend control on a proper interface is. Sound quality is normal. The buffer seems stable at down to 256. Round trip latency was hi at 23 ms. My Motu at that setting is 10 ms. So this is not a good interface for users who need low RTL for Guitar Sims. The deal breaker was I opened an old project that was recorded at 44.1 and when I was going though the process of converting it to 48hz I couldn’t manually change the setting in the devices control panel. It is only automatically set. This is part of how the driver is written. So even though it does have an ASIO driver, it’s not of very good quality compared to brands like Motu, Focusrite and especially RME. So as interfaces go it’s missing too many features to work for me. It will work fine as a very basic 2x2 audio interface. It’s strong point is if you have a studio full of hardware synths this makes for a nice way to keep them all plugged in. And the built in effects are a good option which can be used to print to tape or just for adding to a singer’s headphones when tracking It’s back in the road case. Hopefully we will get back to live performances this Summer.
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