John Vere

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 

On 11/13/2021 at 11:25 AM, paulo said:

Dragging whatever VST you want from the Browser to the track view *or Adding from Synth Rack brings) up the dialogue window and once you've selected the options you want it's all done for you. The synth UI opens whenever you want it by clicking on the relevant track symbol (little midi symbol or keyboard symbol if using instrument track). Not sure how it could be much easier TBH.

 

 

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. 

20 hours ago, sjoens said:

Would be nice to have one but you can use the plugin's "bypass" ON/OFF button in the FX bin.

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? 
 

On the topic of DX. I just found 30 I didn’t know I had ! 

I downloaded those delays posted above to my “testing “ computer in the office.
First I got sidetracked by Cakewalk update, then after I installed them I got hugely distracted by organizing my plug ins. I test everything on this machine before committing to my main DAW so it gets messy. 
There was a lot of stuff in the un categorized file. Lots of doubles and then I started noticing a lot of DX with very plain names like Reverb. 

Looks like Sony Vegas ( Movie Studio Plat ) dumped about 30 of these into one of my VST folders. Talk about un glamorous GUI interfaces. Most are 2 sliders on a grey background. 

I opened the Plug in Manager and Excluded them all. 
 

Then I spent the evening trying all the plug ins I wasn’t sure about and one by one excluding most of  those too. I then put what was left in the proper category folder. So now I’m a tidy hoarder. Not one of those who parks their car outside because their garage is full of junk. 

 

Thanks Bill. I had already tried most of those. But The Sanford stuff looks interesting I downloaded 4 things from there, I also didn't have the La Grange. The Boz delay seems to be $ 30 can.      The hard to find feature is the sync to host. Sure most you can set the tempo, but if the song has a tempo map with changes things get ugly.  

Ya that used to catch me too. Just open the Automation lane and you will be able to edit the track. You just can't edit while the automation is superimposed on top of the track. 

How many Mute buttons do you need. There's one in the Track Pane, the Inspector and the Console view of each instrument plus the midi track if it's split. It would actually be a real bad idea to have one on the actual VST GUI as those are most time hidden and there would be a 100 posts from people wondering why they have no sound. 

I use regional effects too and it’s no problem at all. I use the Render option the minute I’m done. 
The rules are 

1. work with short clips. 

2. Work with a copy of the original 

3. Render right away when done with the clip to release Melodyne 

4. Save the project often as you work

If you find you need to redo a clip just delete that clip and use Ctrl drag to pull it from the original as a copy. Keep the original copy above the working copy but muted.  This makes it easy to drag copy. 

Both the old dialogue and the new give you an option to choose how many instrument or midi tracks are generated. 
The default is the max and if you choose mono that doubles them. 
But all I do is this after I’ve inserted multiple outputs and I only say want 4 of them 

Hit F. This will spread them evenly so you can see them all

Starting with the first track I don’t want point the mouse at the track number holding Ctrl. It will turn orange 

Drag the mouse down the track numbers to select the unwanted tracks. Delete 

The tracks are created based on output order for most synths. The exception is VST like Addictive Drums which outputs seem pre assigned to kit pieces so hard to delete tracks. 

Why are you double posting? 

Delete : OP seems to have started new thread same question