John Vere

I agree. Seems easy to collapse but I spent a long time determined to find a way to return tracks to that magic height where you can see all the dialogue boxes. I did find a few other comprised ways that speed things up. 1st is the F key will maximize all tracks ( or busses ) equally 2nd is under View ( the track pane one) select "auto track zoom" it's kinda weird to get used to but it can instantly resize all tracks depending on were you grab them sometimes. 3rd is very clunky but I used to do this before I found the others, Drag the track pane/ clips Pane devider right until you can see all the dialog boxes.

Most people would simply put those notes in a separate midi track and assign the appropriate channel, bank and patch. Your doing it the hard way like we did in 1984. ?

You should have started your own thread as your question is about general use of midi editing. The information you need will be in the documentation under midi editing. There are also dozens of videos on the topic found in the Tutorials sub forum here. But a quick lesson is in the Piano Roll View grab the end of the note and drag it to the right.

The funny thing is the export dialogue is one of the few that they totally updated and deleted the old dialogue. And yes, immediately someone complained. I really like the new dialogue and they fixed one issue right away that I’ll be testing shortly here, the export tracks through mix track length

I’m just curious, I can’t think of a situation where I would need a instrument track with out a associate midi track? If I want to change instruments I use the replace option. Pretty quick operation that lets me try different instruments until I find the one that works. The beauty of this is you don’t have to delete the one you don’t want it’s gone. I have learned to like the new add track menu as it automatically adds a bunch of stuff like input devices and output so saves me time. The other habit I changed is I now find myself using simple instrument tracks something I never thought I’d do. Which is definitely an option for you. You can still have associated midi tracks that point to a simple instrument track If you compare an instrument track with a simple instrument track the difference is small. Instrument track is just audio. There are no midi dialogue boxes and if you record it creates a audio clip of the instrument A Simple instrument track has the all the audio stuff as well as midi dialogue boxes. If you record you get midi data. What I really like is for most parts I only need that one track. And then it works real well for instruments that use multiple outputs

I surprised nobody point this out. Peak level and LUFS/RMS are completely different things. Peak level can be controlled with simple attenuation or volume/ level controls. This is none destructive. Normalize takes the level to a pre set peak value and destructively renders the audio. But one tiny transient in a clip or file means the whole thing is only normalized to that one peak. LUFS / RMS are effected by peak level up to that max peak. You can turn up the audio until it’s maxed out at -.01 db and that’s as loud as it can go. Beyond that you have to apply compression/limiting. Which is none destructive. What you’re asking for is a Compressor/Limiters that is destructive. ? Mastering is an art form. It is one of the highest regarded fields in the audio industry. It’s getting easier to DIY but for best results I still highly recommend studying the topic and understanding your tools that have now been handed to the masses free. ?

I think the problem is buffer settings are made in the ASIO control panel of your audio interface. Not Cakewalk. So if you add the short cut for the ASIO control panel to the bottom systems tray this will be what you wanted. One click away.

Ya but I got ragged on by a few people who tried to follow my insert instruments tutorial saying it was”overwhelming “. Please show us one way. “ As most of us long time users know we each will learn a certain way to perform a task and for the most part ignore all the other options. Sometimes sticking with a workflow we created in Sonar 6. Lately the developers have been adding a lot of “new ways “. The new dialogues need some work to 100% replace the old ones for sure. But why not follow thru with this plan? So to make a tutorial for a new user I have had to go past “my way” and explore the options. It’s been a huge learning curve for me and I’m slowly becoming almost at the level of totally understand the parts of Cakewalk I never bothered with in the past. It has totally changed my workflow when I create and work on a new project now. You can’t just show new users your workflow to do something. Then you’re in trouble if you try to explain the complications of the 9 other ways you could also do this. Yesterday I was writing out my narrative for the control bar. I think I discovered 20 + things I didn’t know existed before. I also found yet more duplicated menus. My favourite is the Export module sits right underneath the File menu that also has the same function.

I think all the Wave editors might do this. But for sure I can burn a CD with Nero and my Album and song names shows on my car stereo and one of my ghetto blasters. Cakewalk isn’t much of a mastering software but it’s slowly getting there.

It looks like you didn’t select a preset. Try the clips or the tracks options and choose the track you want. It should export that track using the name shown on the checklist

The fastest way if a midi track is wrong is to select the track and use the Transpose function. Just set it to 12 or ? You can do a whole midi project by highlighting all the tracks. Of course you don’t want to do this to drum tracks. As said those are mostly universal in GM mode.

Ya I got the joke, one of my favorite movies. A band I was in once covered Big Bottom. But the peak read outs do stay at the highest reading after playback until you re start so I was assuming that something put them up there! But what I see is the first 3 clips are greyed out and then the last 4 are coloured. Are you using Comping mode? Open the Lanes view. It seems you have a lane that might be muted.

This is a sure sign of DPC latency due to other process hogging resources. The minute this happens again, open task manager and see what is at the top of the CPU list. I will also fire up Latency Monitor and see what it is saying.

I’m not sure then if you are aware that digital clipping is not a desirable outcome for audio. It will happen when you hit 0 db. The hottest you want a track is -1 db because super fast transients might not even be registered by your meter. My target is -8db. Many would say that is even too hot. If you want louder turn up your monitors. Any meters showing red means your recording is trashed. Tube amp distortion = very good Transistor distortion = OK Digital distortion = very bad.

That’s odd for sure. Did you try going back past that undo? What I recommend is only apply destructive effects to a copy of the original track. If a whole track is quiet then you can use the gain control If it’s only a clip in the track then try clip gain. Both of these are limited in how much you can apply. If so then I use Normalization because I can set the limit to match the other clips. As well as if there’s a bunch of quiet clips and each is a little different then this speed things up. I set up a hot key for this.

I hope that those tracks don’t normally output at +9 db!

I’m in the process of selling stuff I don’t need anymore to buy exactly that interface. I think Motu is Good for Mac’s.

This is very true for me. I’m not very happy with my Motu M4. It’s driver doesn’t seem to share very well. As a result I’m getting recordings that have that garbled sound from time to time. I have to completely re boot to get rid of it.

Possibly your computer was busy updating or running something that was using a lot of resources. Its my first move if I’m having weird issues. Disable internet

Yes it’s worth updating for

Exactly so not sure why the gripe here.

@sjoens I would do a little review reading as well as go to the Soundcraft user forum first I lost my usb connection a year ago. We were using it for live playback only. But back when I bought it about 4 years ago I thought I’d try it as an interface. I remember the driver was weird to install and it was never clear at what point you would connect the device. Was not impressed about that But once I got it installed the board worked great with Cakewalk and I think I used it all Winter on my W7 laptop system without issue. We used it last over the Summer of 2019 and it went back in a road case . But of course live performance ended that spring 2 so the board was gathering dust. Just this Summer I thought I’d hook it up and use it. I had redone the W7 laptop with a new SSD HD and W10 So I re installed the driver and after 10 tries I thought I must be screwed up. The manual just tells you to plug it in and follow the prompts. I logged on to the Soundcraft user forum and this is we’re I found a lot of posts were people were having similar issues but nothing about my Signature 10. They were all about the Signature 22. I emailed support and never got an answer. My conclusion was the USB port on the board has a bad connection, cold solder. So they are on my ——- list Otherwise the mixer is very nice with not bad effects. But it become a door stop. Funny the only other mixer I ever had issues with was a Behringer. My Yamaha o1v is from 1998 and is still working 100%.

It is common to freeze synths when projects get large.

FYI. The new export dialogue has very precise control over the song’s end now. Check out the Range dialogue

Yes this is the key issue, But there was just a post similar to this one and they didn't get the old dialogue box because at some point had inadvertently unchecked "ask Every Time" and were complaining there was no options anymore when inserting a synth. The new dialogue is, to me, a better interface but for some weird reason the developers kept the old one which still loads when you use the synth rack, drag and drop and a few other common methods of inserting instruments. This is a major design flaw to me. It just creates more complications to an already complicated DAW. How many Programs do you use that have 10 way to do the same thing? Yes there are 10 and probably more ways to insert Soft Synths in Cakewalk as well as 2 almost identical dialogues to use. Is it the developers don't want long time users complaining that they like the old one better?? Everything in the OP's list is simply not taking the time to learn the software. But because of it's complications that's not going to be easy.