John Vere

I think you nailed it Greg. The op is expecting audio. The usb midi seems to be working as the op reports it as showing in all the correct places.

What’s bugging me right now is on 3 computers using 3 different browsers the Documentation pictures are just icons. And ya, ya I set Cakewalk web site to be allowed cookies. It only works on my cell phone. So I’m sure I’m not the only one who finds the Documentation frustrating

It's the same as it was in Sonar in Preferences as noted above. The new default is interesting as it puts your export in a new folder inside your project folder. In a way a good idea for those who loose stuff, but not great for making albums as you would have to open every project folder in turn to retrieve your songs. I've always set mine in preferences to the root of my Data drive. There on the list are different album folders I might want to use so just one more click. In the past Cakewalk would remember my choice but the new dialog defaults back to my Preference setting for each new project even if I didn't close Cakewalk.

I use Tungsten and they made that black. I guess it goes with how all apps are dark these days. Just open up Sonar 8.5 and see how cheerful it looks compared to what I guess started with the skylight interface.

Ok sorry I didn’t read your post carefully enough but re reading it I now follow what you were doing. So forget what I said. Myself over time have had weird issues with templates and especially old ones made in Sonar. Possibly like other things reported they break tiny little details that don’t get reported. So a few things come to mind. Are these brand new templates or older? What happens if you make a template as a split instrument track? Does it also loose the connection?

Exactly I followed some sort of directions posted here somewhere and some how got it to work. But heaven help me if I had to repeat it. All I wanted was a white background for the PVR I then did save that as a customized theme and transferred it to my other 2 computers. I hope I’m good for life as long as they leave things alone now. ?

Some things you are saying are contrary to how Cakewalk works so possibly this is the issue. A split instrument track contains a instrument track with a VST or Dx instrument and a associated midi track. The Instrument track is an audio track and it’s output should be assigned to a sub buss or the master bus, not your sound card. Use a factory template first to avoid this happening The midi track will be output to the instrument track. I should be releasing my tutorial on midi tracks tonight but this one touches on the topic a bit

Your audio interface is where all levels are adjusted for recording. Cakewalk only controls audio after it is recorded. You should also watch most of these videos if you’re new to Cakewalk. Start with #1 which is about setting up your system audio This one explains using audio tracks My channel and web site are in my signature

Good thing nobody told the op about the TTS-1. ? And anyway this is a Zombie Thread. The OP never returned, big waist of time etc.

Ok I got it. Yes that’s seems to be an issue because as you say with Melodyne you have to close it when finished. So you re open it and it’s not where you last left it. It also always seems blank and I sometimes have to re open it to see the blobs. Not sure if Cakewalk could have control over this?

This is obvious but I’ll ask anyway. There are no patches entered in the track header dialogue boxes? Track header entry rules over patches selected in a synth properties GUI for most instruments. But for those to be there you would have had to enter them or be using a template

Just a thought. Are these midi tracks created using comping mode? I have had lots of weird things happen only to find out I had started a project from a template that had comping mode on. I have always used overdub for this very reason. I prefer that parts I screwed up are totally eliminated. So not sure how comping mode handles midi cc events. But there could be hidden data?

Oh by the way, Mr. Seattle said goodbye to us about a week or so ago. It was a nice polite goodbye post, one of the better ones I've seen, I think they moved to Studio 1.

Probably a none issues as must be a rare occasion that anyone would use Sonar and even rarer that they would be using customized themes. But yes it’s true. I don’t even know what I did to get my Sonar theme working in CbB. It was a fluke.

I was told once that modern surround sound puts the dialogue in the Center channel speaker. So if you don’t have a Center channel speaker all you mostly hear is music and sound effects. Our small town is blessed with a movie theatre built in the 1940’s. About 15 years ago they added surround sound. It never seemed to work right. A few years ago our downtown flooded and they had to rebuild the theatre. I knew the tech who had to replace the system. He said there was only one stereo power amp? They had everything hooked up to that.

Obviously a good topic to cover if Google can’t find it. I’ll keep it in mind. I’ve never used Cakewalk for videos I use Vegas. But I think you can import a video and then use Cakewalk to score the soundtrack. The video needs to be a certain format. You don’t edit the video in Cakewalk just the audio. But Vegas can have multiple audio tracks as well as it uses most of my VST effects. So it depends on what you’re trying to do

You don’t mention what audio interfaces you’re using. ASIO drivers do make a difference and not all are the same and not all play nice on all systems. You should never have to go above 256 for simple projects. But There’s a zillion things can be wrong and as said Latency Monitor is a good place to start. Ignore the generic warning it always tosses at you. I think it must be a default. And it never applied to my computers. They also have another app called WhySoSlow. It also helped me figure some stuff out. Here’s my list of things to watch. 1. Use nothing but SSD drives for OS and Project files and don’t go past 60% capacity 2. don’t start adding effects if you’re still recording tracks. Wait until mixing to go crazy 3. Open Task manager and see what’s going on. 4.Kill stupid apps that need to die! 5. Pay attention to certain plug ins that might zap your system. 6. Don’t expect outdated drivers and audio interfaces to perform properly on a updated Windows system. 7. You can never have too much Memory

@msmcleod Have you ever tried the Beta? It’s very close to the SM58 but with this nice crispy sound. It’s not as muddy as the SM. I have 4 SM 58’s and 4 SM 57 for live sound. Must be 30 years old now and all in great shape. I keep wind socks on them. But they’ve all been dropped and abused many times. That’s why I use them. I don’t let anyone else use the Beta.

Your answer made me laugh because i remember an event at our local auditorium and the lady next to me was struggling with a video camera. She ask me if I knew anything and I immediately pointed to a 12 year old boy on the other side of her. In 10 seconds he had it working. Truth ?

Welcome back. Make sure to bring everything up to date including Cakewalk and your audio interface drivers. Lot can change in 5 years. Actually did we even have CbB then? I think It was December 2017 that Gibson dropped the bomb on us.

If you read the thread nobody gave me a serious answer. I don’t understand why?

I’ve tried a zillion mikes in my lifetime and what I’ve also learned is there is the perfect mike for each person just like the perfect spouse or partner. And they are just as allusive to find. I finally found the love of my life. My wife when I was 17 and my Shure Beta 58 when I was about 50. I learned that I can’t use a LDC I’m too noisy. I snort and breathe and grunt. To many year screaming into underpowered PA systems with no monitoring.

I just accidentally hit the button that takes you to the last page here and the very first post. I found this thread that I started and the whole gang checked in. A moment in Cakewalk history and we were there. I forgot I was the very first person to start a thread. Check out the date too. I guess we had the old forum for a whole year. So 4 years and still improving. The ultimate Zombie thread. Can’t get older than this one.

I still don’t understand the issue so sorry but I myself find it very fast to switch views using the tabs. And I guess I can’t think of a reason I would need more than one view open at any given time. Might be different if you have reasons to need multi views open but for that I agree with @Mark MoreThan-Shaw I have always wanted a 3rd monitor to keep plugins open. I would mount it above

I missed the bit about the pre amp. Normally you run a mike pre amp into a line level input. Otherwise you are still using the Focusrite mike pre amp. So it defeats the reason for using a different pre amp. And as Mr Dickens pointed out inputs show as Left 1 = input 1 Right 1 = input 2 Stereo 1 = is when you use both and will create a stereo track in cakewalk so you don’t use that unless your inputting a stereo device. But your interface line inputs are properly on the back.