John Vere

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Yet probably another of those Basic Workspace issues. They say it’s to not overwhelm new users but if they insist on hiding half of Cakewalks features how’s is anyone going to know they even exist. That right hand mini track view has always been there for me but I realize it’s not part of the basic workspace.

This is a Simple instrument track. An Instrument track is just audio and needs a separate midi track. If you try to record to an Instrument track it records Audio. If you record to a Simple instrument track you get midi. What to me is wrong is the icons seems ***** backwards to what they should be.

Everyone is different. I think the downside of all this free powerful software is it leads to folks making things way more complicated than they need to be. A great song can be 1 track with no effects. There’s a million examples of this from the past. Myself I was happy with an 8 track and a compressor and reverb in the rack. Running a small studio taught me that it’s all about the talent and performance not the gear. I used the same set up for dozens and dozens of recording sessions using the same room, mikes and gear. There’s a huge difference between all those recording that is only due to what was on the other side of the glass. Ah but there we go again, old farts complaining about how these youngsters not having a clue about the art of recording . Apologies to the OP this has nothing to do with your issue.

At this point I would un install all the software that came with the Nektar and see if the problem goes away. Also make sure the sample rate is set correctly in all locations. Windows, Cakewalk and the ASIO panel for the interface.

I just figured out that the side bar on the right , if you’re not seeing it you can drag it from the right, is actually called the track view. It’s a mini view of the track pane. I’ve used it for years without knowing what it was called . Difference is you can just show midi tracks. If you select auto lock mode you can hold Ctrl and select multiple tracks. Note the pencil or the lock. As it is, it takes 1/2 second to view the track or tracks you need from within the PVR so no need to do that in the TV.

That’s a very small list of VST’s compared to the majority of users. Someone just posted about their collection of 1,600 VST’s. I never have to freeze tracks. But I’m not doing movie scores either. Just pop songs. Those are at the most 16 -24 tracks. Everybody is different. And I also don’t use more than about 12 different VST instruments or 12 different effects. I have about 6x that installed but I stick with my favourites. So I’m not overly concerned about retrieving sounds in the future. I have old projects I’ll open and I never use what I had originally used anyway. I move on to newer stuff. It’s always better. So what you might want to do is use the track note pad and write out what that track used and the settings etc. it’s found in the inspector.

Good question but for most of us we install Splat and leave it there because it takes up very little room. I think there’s some sort of danger in uninstalling it because of shared resources. @scook will know for sure.

So what you just did would add method # 10 for inserting instruments ? FYI if you just insert a new midi track and point it at the VST you wish to use this would be the typical users choice. This works for both instruments set up with multiple outputs and not. Don’t get channels and outputs mixed up.

In my navigation video I show you how to manipulate the workspace and save it. Or simply hide the views you don’t want using the shortcuts. Once you learn Cakewalk you will definitely want all the options. Im glad the video helped. I hope you take the time to watch them all. They are made to be watched in sequential order.

What many do like me is record the wet live signal with the effects and split it ( at my Boss tuner). And record a second track dry at the same time. Best of both worlds. But I almost always use the wet track. Myself I need to “play” the effects especially delay.

Splat only had a serial number. This was the change from X3. Prior to Splat you used the serial to run the install and then activate with the second number provided. With Splat the activation was automatically done but you need to be on line . Look in Help for Activate . Note the off line activation no longer is available as that server is read only now. Been a long time so I forget why you used to get demo mode That would not bother me because I see no point in using it anyway . Why use a buggy outdated version when there’s a much improvement version that works with out fuss ?

You can hold down Crtl and drag the clip anywhere you want and it will be copied. Works both midi and audio . Just don't let go until it's were you want it. And helps to turn snap on to the appropriate value. I use 1/8th note often.

Cakewalk is free. Why don't you download it and install it. You have nothing to loose and a lot to gain. The automatic tempo extraction is just one example of many new features your missing out on. And Not to mention the zillion bug fixes.

There have been Zillion bug fixesThere are a dozen or more excellent features added. The program is identical otherwise so there’s a very small learning curve. Just download and install it and try it out Each version is its own install and you can have them side by side. Platinum uses The Command Center or CCC to download and activate. The CCC should be in your my product folders when you log on. Download and install. Then run it. That will give you all your goodies. The server is still working but if it is shut down then that’s the end of Splat and all those goodies. So to me only a fool would not have all of that downloaded and stored in a safe place. There’s well over $1,000 worth of software sitting there in my case. We are told it is best to install the older versions first and CbC last. Good luck.

Once you have a tempo map the metronome will play in time to the audio. But if all you need is one click on the downbeat of each measure then a drum VST and a midi note assigned to the hi hat or a side stick placed on that downbeat will do the trick.

It will be before the amp if you plug your guitar into it and plug the pedals output into your interface. This is what I was trying to say. Sorry if you thought I was saying you still had to use a real amp. As I said in my first reply I sometimes go directly from my Zoom pedal into my interface. As long as your interface has the correct input impedance it should work fine.

I just did a similar project we’re I had narration for a full 12 minute track. I needed to break it into around 1 minute each. What I did was insert 12 new audio tracks. go to the one minute mark of the original and S to split. Now turn on ripple editing drag the remaining part down to the empty track and let go it will fly back to start Now repeat the process until you have your 1 minute or ? Tracks all in their own track Now go to export and select it as clips and it will create separate wave ( mp3) files for each track I had to use the Tracks Trough entire mix so it would go through the master bus The clips option should result in the export files being the correct length The way I do it with tracks they are all the same length matching the longest file Staff is aware of this and said they would look into fixing it

So why don’t you do like I do and plug your guitar into the pedal and record it. As I said I will mostly record this way. Amp sims come in handy but they are not a replacement for the real thing. Even if you bought the re amp device it might sound horrible and that would suck.

The easy way out is just use a delay pedal in the box. Which amp sim are you using? There are lots of options. Problem solved. There's nothing special about the boss delay pedal. I find it a bit grainy compared to the Mooer.

I have the distortion pedal in my pedal board for using as a boost. I actually get my overdrive from my amp, It is a Blackstar and has a ton of effects built in so I have that option as well. I also Have a Boss Digital Delay pedal as well as one made by Mooer. If buy amp you are meaning the Amp sim then yes it seems you would need a re amp box. But did you just try connecting it to your interface and back in without? If your interface has 3/4 output then use one of those and then try different levels using the faders found in console view to the right of the buss pane. Its often hidden off screen.

What Greg said. Saving a project as a midi file is 100% future proof. Example I still can open midi files I made on an Atari in 1985. With very little fuss I can add instruments and it’s good to go. With pure midi projects most of your work is in that midi data. I also take all my projects even if they have audio and use “Save As “. And uncheck the Copy Audio box and save them to OneDrive. This gives me my midi backing tracks complete with instruments and effects and leaving the audio tracks blank but all ready to go to lay down new material. This works especially well for midi only projects. I have over 200 CWP files stored on OneDrive and they take up very little space.

Sorry if I came across wrong, my wife always has to warn me ! And I actually appreciate feedback about the videos. If they are not clear enough then I need to see what I can do to change that. And right away before they get spread across the net. I totally deleted my last series last July because I wasn’t happy with them. They represented 2 years of work. My entire reason for this new series is that anyone who watches will learn how to use Cakewalk 2021. Not Sonar like most of the other tutorials. And I’m trying to be as precise as possible. What makes it so hard to teach is the fact there’s more options and menus than should be required for any one task. They seem to not remove old pieces of the program. I guess my fault seems I wanted to demonstrate all the options instead I should just go “This is how you do this”. And screw the other 6 ways you could also do it.

Well the TTS1 has certainly become unstable. Just yesterday for the first time in a long while. It did the sudden disappearance act. It was a midi file I opened with it loaded, only 5 tracks. I had had it open like this a few times as I’m using it to demonstrate replacement of TTS1 tracks with other instruments. With no warning Cakewalk closed and that was it. No dialogue to say why. I reloaded it at it never did it again so this almost seems random.