John Vere

Bottom line is there’s always more than one way to do the same things in Cakewalk. And the choice of what view you use too. We have as above found you can use the PVR, Event list and Track View. I would imagine you can also use the Notation view as well ?

If your end goal is mixing for games then you would want a few of those commonly used systems to proof on. No point proofing a gaming soundtrack on a car stereo ? As it is a set of gaming headphones might be perfect. And might as well turn those awful enhancements on because guess what they were made for!

Most of us have invested in good studio monitors that we "learn" how they sound. I have a set of Yamaha NSM10's that you used to find in every studio in the world almost. They are arguably the most used "proofing the mix" monitors ever. But they are actually not very interesting speakers to listen to recorded music on because they are a bit boring. Go figure. They are a fluke I guess. But I have use these for 25 years so I can listen and know within 98% of how my music will sound in the real world on all sorts of systems. This is called Translating to other systems and they certainly do this well. So you will have to invest in the same type of system if you can. Otherwise you are faced with the option of listening to your music on as many systems as possible and taking notes. This is a HUGE task but it can work. I still proof my mixes on a kitchen getto blaster and my Trucks CD player driving at 110 K. I also now upload the songs to Sound/click/cloud and listen on my iPhone's speaker- this is probably 90% of where it will go. But because I have "learned" my monitors I rarely need to re mix for balance and quality. Bass can be the biggest issue for new comers. Use Span so "look" at your spectrum. Enhancers most often boost bass and if there's already too much you just get distortion.

I don't think I've used a recovery version but I will assume it will have saved the exact state of the project at the time of the crash. Probably not the last edit you did and if you haven't been rendering the Melodyne tracks then all of it would be lost. What happens is you can overload your computers memory I do do believe. If your saying it "looks" different then possibly you have a different workspace loaded? The good news is the original is still just fine and if you only lost the work you did in that session then as I said, lesson learned. We only do that once( hopefully

Lesson learned. It's been talked about a lot here and most of use have learned that when working with Melodyne your need to do 3 things. 1- Work with a copy of the original vocal track so you can always go back. 2- Work with short clips, no more than 2 measures. The shorter the better. 3- Always render the clip when you are finished editing. If you change your mind latter you can copy from the original back up. I break mine into lines between breaths where there's always a visible break. This also serves to clean up the noises between as well. And Always save as you work after you have spent any amount of time you don't want to loose with any editing or recording. And you can always activate auto save but myself that creates clutter in my project folder I don't want. As far as your missing back up. Did you look in the project folder? It will be there and be marked as such.

You can use the event list. That's always been my Go to. Under Views uncheck the Notes and that should only leave weird stuff you might not want and delete it.

Good to know, There's a few threads scattered about on this topic.

The TH3 has a lot of very clean sounds for Jazz and Country, I even use it for Folk stuff on acoustic guitar. . They give you standard amps that have been used in Country music for decades. Try one of the Fenders like the Bass Face or , Dark Face or Tweed with the 12' Tweed Cabinet and adjust it just like you would for a real amp. I actually often don't bother with the amps and just use the pedals. That's even cleaner that way. I have already recorded using an amp. But sometimes I use my Tone Bone DI box. The Compressor, Phasor and Chorus I use a lot. I think the Overload TH3 is all I'll ever need. That and I like to use the Sonitus Delay.

You should watch the tutorials as what you’re trying to do has many new features that will improve your workflow. Like take lanes and the arranger as well as ripple editing.

This might be the current issue with SI instruments not installing there’s at least a couple of threads about this

You should start your own thread. Your issues are totally different than the topic of this thread.

It’s nice to have more than one computer, audio interface etc when troubleshooting. I often fire up my laptop to see what people who never had Sonar see with CbC . It is Fresh install W10 OS and only free music software. I still have that old 2008 Sony laptop with windows 7 and it must have a pretty old version of CbB by now. Still working fine.

None of my VST2 go to the Program file/common folder. Only VST3 I only ever check the 64 bit VST and or VST 3 options. The VST 2 either go to Program files VST folder or I have Steinberg VST folder . Pay attention during install to the pathway offered. Most free VST’s are dead simple and you just open the zip file and drag and drop the .dll into the VST folder. VST’s with samples use an installer and usually give you options for where they go If you purchase a license they either use an on line manager like the band lab assistant or you enter the serial numbers on first use Only VST I’ve ever had issues with installation is Air products.

I do a lot of editing and mixing on my office computer which is in a spare bedroom right of the main living area. I have a nice small set of Mackie CR4 powered monitors and I’m certainly not bothering my family even with the door open. I shut the door and I’m making less noise than the fridge. I put the headphones on for loud. It’s an age old engineering trick to turn down as low as possible and see what you are still hearing. Good monitoring both speakers and phones are paramount to mixing. Room treatment is also critical but is not as important at lower levels. You can also use your eyes to analyze a mix. I use Span, You lean loudness meter and the pro channels fly out of the Quadcurve EQ. You can “see” which frequencies are miss behaving Drop a reference track into a project and solo it. Compare what it “looks” like to your music. But regardless a audio interface is a good investment for audio playback as it will give you the proper connectivity for your audio devices. And level control of headphones and speakers if you get some.

Copy the lower level track to a new audio track and see if it now sounds correct. Might be you have toggled pro channel or ? Lots of things come to mind but a fresh audio track should be normal sound by default.

I drag and drop my entire folders which may contain 10 to 25 projects into backup drives both internal and external. I date them as such. “ Originals October 2021 backup “. Those are albums I’m working on for myself or clients. I also copy those to my second computer. There is a minimum of 4 copies available and often many more dates. Storage is cheap . My favourite method is for my backing tracks which I have slowly eliminated all audio tracks by converting them to midi. Those I save to one drive as CWP files. I have over 200 of them but if there’s no audio the files are small. They are then stored in multi locations at once. I also saved them as midi files. Midi is future proof and definitely what I have spent the majority of my time on. So I think everyone should save their projects as midi if they contain a lot of midi tracks

Best Acoustic bass I've found is Dim Pro. You would need to have Sonar to have Dim Pro. Free and included with Cakewalk is the patch in the TTS_1 which can be tweaked with pro channel to work too.

I’d be curious too. My workflow for recording live bands was to create a template with all the inputs, busses, pro channel set up, colours, effects etc and the use save as and name each project using the provided set list. I would open the whole set and minimize to the bottom. So there’s 12-15 projects open. This was on a laptop with 8 GB of ram. Always worked smoothly for me.

This is a timely topic for me. I just finished a tutorial on midi set up. I realized after reading this I should add the information about the 2 driver modes as well as look into this 10 port limit issue. Does anyone know where Windows would keep the list of assigned ports? Registry? The OP’s link takes you to the Korg midi driver download which seems includes a midi driver removal tool. But often these things are easier to do in Windows directly if you know we’re to look.

I would choose a proper set of headphones that have the correct impedance. So now your spending another $ 100 on a headphone amp?? seems like penny wise pound foolish to me. Lots of great headphones available on Amazon and most are not that expensive if you do a little reading of reviews.

You can store your projects on any cloud server and open them on a different machine. I use One Drive. Of course there's a size limit with most. If the projects don't have Audio they are real small.

I gave him that link yesterday as well as explained why. You probably missed that after he filled 2 pages with rants? I think what Roland and Yamaha have done is a good thing. People were to lazy to download the proper drivers so they handed them over to Microsoft and said, here use these instead of yours for our products. The driver says Roland in device manager so thats all you need to know. If it was generic it would say Microsoft. My A49 uses the same drivers after checking that out. They are from 2015. But they are solid and it’s the best midi driver on my machine. I think the OP is blaming the midi drivers with using the controller as a control surface. I don’t think that has anything to do with the midi driver. That is a different system that is out side my realm of experience. That requires a bit of research and fussing about are far as I can tell. There’s been no shortage of threads on the topic of using a control surface with Cakewalk. To the op. If you want to notify a member do this @azslow3 Now they will get a notification and hopefully respond. He’s very good at this stuff.

@Andrew Easterling You probably have not set your audio up properly. Watch my tutorial and I guarantee you'll have audio. As far as this OT goes there seems to be an issue right now as they introduce the new Cakewalk installer. So in the mean time go to the Free Instrument thread in this sub forum and try some of the many free alternatives available. I like the SI instruments but I don't really use them. Plug in Boutique is a great place to start with no hassle downloads. Just sign in. https://www.pluginboutique.com/ This is another no hassle site I use. https://plugins4free.com/ For Bass I use the Ample P bass lite. For drums I use Addictive Drums which has a free demo version which doesn't expire, they are just missing the Toms so you just use TTS-1 or MT power kit for toms. https://www.xlnaudio.com/demos There is also the AD Keys Piano demo which is my main piano. It's only missing the lowest and highest octaves which you don't really need for most music. There it also the MT Power Kit. SI piano- there are dozens of great free electric pianos. I use Mr Tramp for Wurly. I have at least 50 free vst instruments that are as good as any I purchased.

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