John Vere

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.

He was saying VSTi = Instruments. Instruments most certainly don't belong in the effects bin. It's of note that a lot of VST effects actually have both bypass and sometimes Mute. But it rare.

Just did a Delay shootout of the collection I had. Top pick is Voxengos Tempo delay. Tempo sync with a readout and multiplier ( important) , VST 3, Easy to set even though it's a bit complicated to look at. Runners up Sanford Delay VST2 Has a good tempo sync using note values and like the sonitus you can set them different left and right. Small volume drop on insert. Hard to smooth it out it sort of choppy but that can be what you want sometimes. Cakewalks Tempo Delay, its DX! but it has tempo sync with only note values Volume drops on inserting. Can sort of get close to what you want but limited. Sphere delay by WA Productions. VST 3, Tempo Sync but no readout or adjustments. It does sound good even though it is limited in tweaking. This is not normally free but I got is as a freebie of the week from Plug in Boutique, glad I didn't buy it. La Grange by Ursa DSP VST 3 Tempo sync but no adjustments a fun delay with bizarre results well worth collecting.

OK that is what we call midi delay which is normally caused by having certain plug ins in a project. Bypass your effects and see if it goes away. Midi itself has negligible latency but the midi is triggering a VST soft synth which is audio. The audio output of your DAW is then delayed by system latency before you hear the instrument. Adding certain effects increases the system latency.

The question then is does this plug in have multi channel outputs. Most don't.

The new Export Dialogue lets you select the song ending. Its very well done now as this was a huge complaint for years. Use the time selection

The new Add Track dialogue allows you to select the output for both audio and instrument tracks. But I like your trick too. Never thought of doing that. And like all things Cakewalk there’s more! you can also select the tracks , go to the Tracks tab and use Selected Tracks output.

By plug ins do you mean VST instruments? Are they now out of sync with the audio tracks?