John Vere

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.

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

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.

If Cakewalk is installed on a computer that is not connected to the internet, you can use offline activation as long as you have access to another computer that is connected to the internet. To use offline activation, follow these steps: In Cakewalk, go to Help > Offline Activation > Export Activation Request to open the Save activation request dialog box. Select the folder you want to save the activation request file to, then click Save. Cakewalk saves an Activation request.crq file. This file is encrypted and machine-specific and can only be used to activate Cakewalk on the machine originally used to create the Activation request.crq file. Copy the Activation request.crq file to removable media such as a USB flash drive that you can transfer to another computer with an active internet connection. Using an online computer, open BandLab Assistant and sign in with your BandLab username and password. Click the Apps tab. Under Cakewalk by BandLab, click the drop-down arrow next to the Open button, then click Process Offline Activation Request. If activation is granted, BandLab Assistant generates an Activation response.dat file. Copy the Activation response.dat file to removable media that you can transfer back to your offline Cakewalk computer. In Cakewalk, go to Help > Offline Activation > Import Activation Response to open the Import activation response dialog box. Select the Activation response.dat file and click Open. If the response file is valid, the program will be activated.

I just re read your post and a concern came up. You will want to use the ASIO driver mode for best results. But you won't need or use the Real Tech audio with it. If all you have is computer speakers then plug them into either the headphone jack or main outputs of the Mixer. You will need an adaptor. You cannot use on board audio system and output jacks when you use ASIO mode. Your mixer will be all you need for listening to any audio playback from your computer now.

I have the Signature 10 which uses the same ASIO driver V 3.20 Last Updated: Mar 25, 2019 I use it without issues on a W 7 Laptop. Update: I just downloaded and installed the ASIO driver and tested it with latest version Cakewalk and W10. Works great. I set it at a buffer of 512, I was also pleased to find it supported 48 hz. So to answer your question, your device is not obsolete. It's actually a pretty decent 2x2 audio interface. I think I leave it hooked up and do some recording with it. Thanks for making me dust it off, been in the road case for 2 years.

I think you might get the same results by simply bouncing all the fragmented tracks into clean fresh continuous tracks. Midi of course doesn’t factor, only audio. Probably the issue arises when what was originally a continuous track gets chopped into dozens or even hundreds of clips that Cakewalk now has to compute in real time as you play the song. I recently wanted to speed up a song and the only way Cakewalk would allow this using Audio Snap was to bounce all the audio to new tracks and delete the originals. As well as bundle I think using save as to a new location with copy all audio checked will also clean stuff up. I’ll have to try this later.

He got all that way back when in from watching my video. But then the OP used a 3rd party clean up tool as well. But I'm not sure that was actually nessassary. I think this type of stuff is why I like to install a new OS drive every 4 or 5 years and start fresh.

Not sure what your Montage is plays. But creating midi files for playback on most systems is normally done using the GM ( general Midi) standard and you would use a different channel for each instrument. The song will play exactly like it does in Cakewalk using the TTS-1 as example. If you are only trying to create a drum track then there would be no volume involved for each drum part. Volume only controls one intrument at a time. Look in the event list to see if you inadvertently added a volume event cc 7 or ? You use Velocity to balance those parts if all are using the same channel. The default GM drum channel is 10.

I always choose my controller as the track input. Takes 2 seconds I always thought this should have a saved preferences option. The add tracks dialogue will maintain the choice until you close the project. You can also use track templates.

Absolutely a new one for me. Why on earth would you want this? I’m curious ? My discovery is if you click on a track number it highlights all the data in the track even if it’s busted up in little pieces. Now delete or copy or ?

You should be publishing using the proper You Tube Control panel. It’s part of your Google account. There’s a lot of steps involved.

First thing comes to mind is your sample rate somehow got changed. In this video I show how to prevent this from happening

I sort of quickly read most of this to make sure no one else had said it but right at the end @User 905133 has and this was immediately what I was thinking after reading first post. You have exceeded a device limit for the USB port. I cover it in the beginning of this video https://youtu.be/AcDcCmjPaWg

Ya I have a USB connection from my Blackstar amp. It has a loud hiss. So I just use a mike into my interface. My friend has a Fender Mustang that also doesn’t work with USB. But let’s just see, Maybe this one is better. One thing is it’s not actually saying the driver is ASIO on the web site.

And just a thought. You don’t mention setting your input levels? That clip sounds like a way to hot signal. How do you monitor Cakewalks playback and the incoming signal? You’ll need to be able to monitor what it sounds like before you record.