John Vere

Here’s a good start.  I have lots of Midi tutorials. 

I see. This is like in Wave lab a feature I use a lot. You use either Shift/ Home to highlight to the left. Or Shift /End to highlight to the right.  I dislike the slow way Cakewalk does this after a Split. You have to change it in preferences each move. 

Once again always more than one way to do things in Cakewalk.
I click on the track header / track number. This seems to always select everything in the track. Discovered it by accident one day. 

Glad to help. There are lots of tutorials in the tutorial sub forum here. A great way to get better at Cakewalk is spend 20 minutes a day  watching a few. 
Id say for me I’ve learned a lot just reading this forum every day. But videos seem to be the popular choice for learning these days. Just be aware that there can also be outdated and misleading info in some. Try and watch the newest ones. 

You just used the word sound card? By this do you mean your 4i2 interface or your computer sound card?  
Your monitors should be connected to the output of the Scarlett. I can see you would have issues if you are using your on board audio at the same time as your interface. 
Your Yamaha’s audio  would be connected to the 3/4 inputs of the Scarlett. You would hear the audio via the direct monitoring system. 
 

Not sure why you would need an audio track in Cakewalk to hear the Yamaha audio output. It should be heard directly though your monitoring system which I assume you have connected to your audio interface. 
You are using ASIO driver mode? 
Here’s two of my tutorials that might help 

You are not being clear on where you’re hearing the latency?  
Is the Yamaha playing late?  How are you monitoring it while Cakewalk is playing the project? 

Good to know,  I learned 2 new ways to adjust level. 

So you have 30 audio clips in a track you would then need to add a plug in to each?  I was thinking the OP hadn’t tried using the clip gain properly. If you do then it certainly works brilliantly and takes no time at all to run through multiple clips in a track and adjust each. Nothing wrong with what ever method one chooses as long as it’s fast and simple. As you know there’s always 10 ways to do the same things in Cakewalk. 
I’m going to try @Andres Medina  trick I didn’t know about that one seems exactly what the OP was after. See 11 ways to do the same thing. 

4 hours ago, John Bradley said:

FWIW, I noticed that certain plugins (?) apparently didn't like the default "200ms" bounce buffer size in the Export dialog. I'd get weird glitching in the output file (both wav and mp3), in a non-repeatable manner. Not crackling per se, more of a stutter effect.

Bumping the Export bounce buffer down to 60ms cleared that up for me.

Note: This was in 2012.11. Haven't tried pushing the buffer back to 200ms in 2012.12 – why look for trouble.

 

Not sure this is correct. My understanding is the bigger the buffer the safer it will be for rendering the data. Would be interested to understand this better. 

At around 10 minutes I show how to use clip gain. Once you have it set up it’s super easy to edit the whole track. Way faster than treating each clip with a CPU hungry plug in.  And it’s non destructive 

Buffer settings have zero to do with export. Is this an ASIO interface or On Board system audio?

I guess the default is the box is unchecked as here in my screenshot.  I have never used these settings on this computer. 

All this is easy to fix with any audio interfaces that have midi jacks built in. Even a used one. Or a midi interface with up to date drivers. Did you contact the company and ask if they were planning on updating the drivers? Worth a shot. 

You always install from oldest to newest to avoid overwriting certain system files with outdated code. 
There’s hundreds of threads here on best practices for new installs. 
 

It’s always a lot of work. A time saver for me is to copy the CCC download folder from the old drive. 
 

FYI. If I want to duplicate a midi track I either insert a new instrument track or a new midi track. I highlight the original and hold down CTRL to drag the data to the new track. This copies the midi without fuss. 

You probably know most of this but it will rule out an issue with your settings. You don’t use input echo on audio tracks. Use the direct monitoring system. Also open Mix Control and reset to the default set up to make sure that is correct 

You either know how to write songs or you want a computer to write your songs. 

1 hour ago, lapasoa said:

That kind of audio interface is very cheap.

This !  Behringer designed this one for the lowest price point. No ASIO driver, end of story. 

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