John Vere

Good advice but my guess it's very few people would have that set up happening, and if they did they would be probably be someone who either totally understands signal paths. . or their audio interface uses a software mixer that they have not figured out yet. But generally speaking huge majority of people only have the Master bus feeding outputs 1/2 of the interface. Most people using Cakewalk now are reported to be using on board audio these days. My method for Cue mixes is to use Outputs 3/4 of my interface. Outputs 1/2 are to the Studio Monitors and interfaces Headphones. AND my advice and something I've repeated a million times is " Always mute your master bus with the song playing to check if anything is bypassing it and going directly to your Hardware outs" This eliminates any weirdness in your export when using Entire mix and Hardware as the source.

I demonstrate proper use of the export dialogue in the end of this video

You only use TRACKS or BUSES when you want stems. You use Entire mix to export "what you hear" from your project. In Gregs screenshot the export will result in the other buses actually bypassing the Master and you get 5 stereo stems. The Audio interface should ultimately be the source. I use Entire Mix CD for CD's and Entire Mix MP3 for MP3 for proofing mixes. This setting in the screen shot I will change the sample rate to 48 and Bit Depth to 32 for final mastering.

So what you are saying is your input is muted until the recording started? That’s telling me you’re not using the direct monitoring system of your interface.

I know exactly what you’re trying to do and Cakewalk could do this if you’re an advanced user and with a lot of fuss. It’s up to you. My first move would be if you can do this with your DJ software, then use it! Then record your set into Audacity. You could even edit mistakes there. You could even use Audacity for the whole thing but just like Cakewalk you will need to dig deeper into advanced features. Use the software that works and was designed for the task. It’s only fault is it might not have a “Export set” function. Possibly there is a DJ program that does this you can look into if your doing this for money it will be worth the investment. Ask the question on a DJ forum.

Seems all you need to do is drag each song into cakewalk and drag them so the end of one overlaps and will automatically cross fades with the start of the next.

This forum needs a thread time out that automatically locks threads after at least a year. 6 months would be even better. I end up reading these with out checking the date. Big waste of time and frustrating. If there something in an old thread you wanted then you can simply post the link to the original thread in your OP. Just like if you post links to the old forum.

I have Dim Pro on a lot of projects. I love the Acoustic Bass and I also use lots of those weird things you find when digging around for ideas. I’ve never had any problem installing it using CCC.

I’m curious. Did you happen to watch my series? If the tutorials I made didn’t answer your questions then I would like to know so I can improve on them. Seriously. My Channel is in my signature but they are all listed in the tutorials sub forum near the top.

They probably like a majority of users have never seen this forum. Seems more people using Facebook and other social media type sites than user forums now. It's a bit of a shame because the help you get on facebook is not the same quality as you will get here. On one post I read about 25 real bad answers to the persons issue. No wonder so many new users end up all screwed up. But that said I post my videos to about 4 different Facebook Cakewalk groups and that is where my view count comes fromm, not from here. I only post here because I'm a die hard fan of our forum and I find it's much easier to post a video than type out 6 paragrphs of what was probably already written in the documentation, right! . So I can see why people who make Cakewalk tutorials might not bother posting here. No traffic. A critique of the videos- The first with the lady was of the type that drives me bonkers. Takes 15 minutes to teach a 3 minute lesson because they are trying too hard to be interesting people and not teachers. I liked the second guy he was to the point more or less.

This looks like that USB driver limit of 10 issue. Watch this video to resolve issue.

So Ok. You fired up Cakewalk without first watching tutorials or reading the documentation and it doesn’t work like YOU think it should work. Every DAW is about the same as far as learning curve goes. Cakewalk is a top quality DAW used buy many of us for a long , long time. We used to gladly pay the $500 for it only a few years ago. Don’t let the price tag fool you. You are more than welcome to go pay $500 for Pro Tools the so called industry standard and report back to us about how easy it was to use ? Go to the tutorials sub forum and start watching and feel free to ask more questions if something isn’t working properly for you.

Well the best method would be to figure out how many Milliseconds the new audio is late, or sometimes early, To do this set the time line on milliseconds. In my first screen shot which is demonstrating Midi latency, you can see the frozen audio track is about 400 ms late of the Midi note but below that is the Loopback using ASIO mode and that track is right on to the Audio loopback. So then you enter 400 ms in the adjustment box under sync and cashing( I think it's a negative number so might have to try both - and +. and then re do the loopback test to see if it is now close enough. A little bit is not noticeable but 400 ms is a lot. Once this set you should be good to go and not have to think about it. This shows testing my Tascam interface. Not all modes are supported by some drivers.

Glad to hear it’s all going well. If you’re curious about how well your system is syncing you can try a loop back test Its tricky with a mike because there’s not direct audio route. Take a Midi drum track and freeze the instrument to create an audio track. You want a nice obvious transient spike Now create a new audio track and set the mike as input and set in record standby DONOT turn on input echo or you will get feedback place the mike 6” from the speaker and play the drum track testing the level Now record a measure Place the now time right on the original transient and zoom way in and take note of where the newly recorded tracks transient is . For my tests I used a buffer setting of 256. A lower setting will give you better results but my system can’t handle lower settings on a day to day basis. Every system will be different. The tests always came out with ASIO being right on but all other drivers were late by various degrees with MME being the worst and WASAPI exclusive the closest but still off by 1/32 So if you can work at lower buffer settings the amount of off set might not even be noticed. And you can adjust for this in the sync and cashing options

I’d be also interested as I have a Korg 05R/w and if I use it as a hardware device that Mode thing always needs to be changed and sometimes I forget what mode I was using when calling up projects from 10 years ago.

So therefore you will have sync issues. WASAPI mode is just fine for those who only use loops and Midi but any one who needs to add vocals or live instruments needs an ASIO audio interface or they are hooped

This is probably just a sample rate conflict. If your Windows default is 44.1 and you open Cakewalk and load a 48hz project you will hear the pop. This is why I recommend you pick a sample rate and make sure all your settings are the same. 1-Audio Set up

CTRL drag. 11-Audio Tracks

Be warned, overdubbing audio using generic audio drivers will result in a timing offset of up to 1/16 note. USB mikes are gereally for Podcasting and not recomended for serious audio production where timing and sync is critical. 1-Audio Set up 106-Why ASIO is important

To delete the data in PVR, To select all zoom out until you see the whole song. you can also delete it in the events list but that's slower. https://www.veed.io/view/6dccb5ac-2150-4ce4-9509-d18077e09ddb

Ya. In my video on Shopping for an interface I thought I’d covered just about every possible feature but that’s one I missed because I’ve never heard of it before. But I do recommend the on/ off switch. Anyhow at this point re reading the thread my conclusion is. This interface is probably as good as any in its price range. With that comes higher RTL (round trip latency.) My guess is in the 20 ms range at a safe buffer of 256ms. RTL does not matter if you use direct monitoring. It only is noticeable when you turn on Input Echo on an audio track while recording. Solution is Turn off input echo and use direct monitoring. In the OP there’s also a mention of Midi latency which is common if your latency gets increased by using certain effects. Solution bypass the effects while recording. If your interested in a little educational material on these topics here are some of my videos that explain clearly how to set up and record both audio an midi.

As I said 10 ways to do anything in Cakewalk. My routine is select all CTRL A. Go to “tracks” menu and selected tracks output and choose the Master buss

You are obviously using a old version of Cakewalk. The new dialogue is much easier to use.

If you just delete the lane the data is still there you need to delete the data.

Huge difference. But it’s sort of you want that for your OS drive and your data drive too if that’s where you put your projects. Nothing terribly wrong with using old school drives for storage if they are at least 7200 RPM. But SSD drives are dirt cheap so for an upgrade to your machine you can’t loose. If you do buy a new computer down the road you can swap them over. And yes you need at least 12 GB of RAM these days.