John Vere

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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No what it seems has happened is Roland has handled over the driver to Microsoft so all you need to do is connect the keyboard to the USB ports and Windows will automatically download and install the Roland driver. This has become the norm now. The CD will be an older driver for older OS. Looks like W8.5. Once you do this open the Device Manager go to Sound and Game Controllers and check your A 300 is installed and open the Properties dialogue and see what the driver tab says.

My take is that they have abandoned screen sets and workspace has replaced them. I haven’t used a screen set in a long time since I set up my workspaces. I also use the show hid toggles. I= inspector B= Browser C= Control bar D = Multi Dock. I can pretty quickly have the screen the way I want it. You won’t see the help module if you close it before saving your workspace.

Go to the Roland web site and download it from there https://www.roland.com/ca/support/by_product/a-300pro/

Great glad you got it sorted, You should vote my answer up so people searching with this issue find the answer.

I have the A 49 which is the simplest A series model. But it looks like they share a similar layout and design. It replaced a Roland P 200 I had had since 1990. It was made in Italy so I think the Bontempi factory. It was still working but pretty beat up so I had keyboard GAS. I’m a fan of using music stores as much as possible for important stuff. So I went to Tom Lee and tried them all out including 88 key models. What I found was a lot of cheap plastic feeling keys in the small controller models. I think feel is often overlooked by none keyboard players. Would you by a guitar with a sh—y neck? No To my surprise they still made my P 200 now the A 49. Same shape and size with a few more features. It was definitely the nicest feel of them all unless you tried a large $$$ piano. Best of all it has both midi and USB connection and USB powered or wall wart option. It also has a proper midi driver which makes life easier. It is the only midi device I have that I can connect with Cakewalk open and it will work with out reboot. So I do believe you made a excellent decision to go with Roland.

What I like is in the true habit of all cakewalks new gizmos they seem to leave the old ones intact! I found nothing of interest in the new dialogue I’ll use but was happy to find the Export widget in the controller bar is still unscathed and works as always. It’s like the insert track dialogue for instruments which has some nifty features. But the old insert synth dialogue is still there too. Anther is the Plug in management is now in 2 different dialogues. This is fine for long time users but the duplicates of functions must be confusing to new users. I counted 8 ways I can insert a soft synth.

I think the difference for some seems to be they want to work in track view and not console view. I guess if you don’t have 2 monitors that could explain it. I live in console view once I’m done tracking and editing. If you only have one monitor use the D key and make the console view full screen. I played around with auxiliary tracks when they first came out but have never found a reason for using them since. One thing about track templates is they can remember a lot of extra stuff that saves time. When I insert my guitar amp template it chooses the correct input, it puts TH 5 in the bin, pro channel is good to go. And it automatically inserts a guitar buss with delay inserted. It’s also the right colour which is most important ?

Are you saying that track A is a midi track and track B is an audio track. You update the audio track B by deleting the original audio and drag and drop new audio to this track(B) and the midi track A the data disappeared? Is it further down the timeline or just gone? is ripple editing on?