John Vere

I would argue that a new workflow once learned is going to be much quicker and easier Select the section of notes and holding shift drag to blank space of clips pane This Inserts a new midi track Set the output to the instrument Enter the channel, bank and patch in the dialogue boxes That just took me 30 seconds

Not as much a problem now but back when my Atari used 1.4 MB floppy disks it sure was.

Other than hardware midi guitars the Midi Guitar software seems the only one out there. Seems to work fine but the demo version is annoying so never got to far into it. As said by others easier to use Melodyne which I already paid for. I also have a Godin guitar with hex pu built in and the Roland GR50. To lazy to hook it up. But when I do it’s a lot of fun. But even though it tracks nicely and sounds very cool and retro, the recording of the midi needs way to much editing . Probably 3x that of a Melodyne audio to midi track. If I use it I record the stereo audio of the synth as well as a separate track for the guitar. I drag and drop that to a midi track. Lots of possibilities

+1 to Latency Monitor While you’re on their web site also download WhySo Slow. I just did this and wow it really shows you what’s happening under the hood on your system. I was having distorted audio and stuff taking forever to open on my laptop and its conclusion was my lousy 8 GB of RAM and the duo core 2.5 hz processor. Everything else got a green light. It was nice to have all that info with in a minute.

Got that right. Storage is cheap. I have literally 100’s of CWP files and some go back to Guitar Studio 2005. They all open all the time with only a warning about missing plug ins. Here’s my tutorial on how to back up your files

There are dozens and dozens of posts same issue and same answer “ Use the Web installer “ How is anyone supposed to figure that out on their own? It would be nice if they actually get this sorted out. I believe it started in mid August. There are dozens of tutorials on installing Cakewalk and all use the obviously broken Assistant. Cakewalks web site also directs you to use the Assistant. I wonder how many people who thought they would try Cakewalk have given up and moved on? I know I would. If software is funky to install I normally assume it must be funky to use and leave it be. I sure hope they get this Web Installer going and PUT IT ON THE WEB SITE!

@Starship Krupa just brought this up in a similar topic, but I thought a fresh thread requesting a few changes to the new Insert Instrument dialogue might be the best solution. Hopefully we get the attention of developers here. This is were we do that , right? On making a tutorial about adding VST instruments to projects I explored the different ways you could insert a soft synth and found a total of 10. ? The worst issue, to me, is there are now 2 very similar dialogue boxes as seen in my screen shots below. Most common methods of inserting still bring up the old dialogue and only the Add track and right clicking a blank space in the track pane open the new one. Then there's the issue with old one that people might have un checked the "ask every time" and forget it even existed. The location of the button to push to get it back is in the synth rack and many people never have that open. Only a very experience user, or a newbie who actually reads the documentation would know it existed. So A request for a control bar module that opens the old dialogue makes sense from that perspective. I'm guilty of having the box uncheck because in the past I always used one setting so it does speed thing up. Anyhow the proposal here is why why not add all the functions that are missing to the new dialog and scrap the old one? And possibly leave the "ask every time" with the option of when I insert using the Add track button only. It seems however the new dialogue forgets your preferences once you close a project. This is another reason people liked the old one. You could set it up and uncheck the box and then drag and drop was super fast. Seem there's very few options missing from the new dialogue and those must be a ten minute job to add by the developing team. But the retaining of settings function I'm not sure if that is as easy to accomplish.

That must be that revision number. I see mine said 4 which seems correct. It's one of those older problem child projects that I finish, listen to, hate it, leave the original as a back up and save as under a new name and go at it again, and again,,. So ya, might keep track of that and then the 77 hours makes sense.

There are at least 4 inserting methods that open the old dialogue box which has the check box for the add the associated midi track. The synth rack, drag and drop, double clicking instrument in browser and the insert menu. This is the one box missing from the new insert instrument dialog but they could easily add it, right? The other way to work is have track templates saved for each "go to" synths you commonly use. I have one for the Acoustic bass in Dim pro as example. Templates can be saved for any of the combinations of instrument and midi tracks.

Same here seems dead accurate. 70 hours of editing! I guess I wander off a lot and leave stuff running. But your post just made me discover something they have trashed. I don't think many people use the notes but I always have. And a long time ago I discovered a cool little trick. What ever I named my Song in the title in the notes dialogue was what Export called my Song by default. This is now not working, ☹️ Guess the new export feature killed this. It was a feature probably only I will miss. I often have weird project names that don't match the actual name of the song. Like when you revise a song and re name the CWP "Dog Fart with cowbell " . or "Dog Fart with Banjo" the note pad would retain your correct title.

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.