John Vere

80 track! . I would guess this is an album of 10 songs ? Yep. Sometimes it’s a lot of boring tasks to do the job right. Hey. I just actually thought of something I use Gold Wave to batch process wave files to MP3. I think it could also convert stereo to mono. I’ll go look

Glen and I seem to share a lot of common workflow habits. I was going to say more of less the same things. Wave editors have better tools and for me do a much faster and better job when working with wave files. For sure when ever someone hands me anything in wave format it’s going to be looked at in Wave Lab first. That way I can check for things like artifacts, peak level and overs. And in this case I would also save as mono all tracks heading for a multi track DAW. Even the overheads I would save the left and right separately. I find it very odd that engineer would think anyone would want to work with mono sourced tracks that have been exported to stereo. Everyone I know exports mono stems.

Akai does not supply drivers as far as I can tell. I have a little Akai Synth Station 25 which looks like it is very similar in design. Yours just has more knobs. I bought it for travel. It doesn’t have a midi driver it uses a class compliant windows driver. Generally it works fine. But the biggest problem is Cakewalk won’t register it unless it’s all plugged in and running before you boot up windows and cakewalk. The keyboard and joystick part works but I’ve never gotten the pads or even the volume to work with Cakewalk. My Roland A series came with a midi driver and I can plug it in with a project open and Cakewalk recognizes it right away. So to me, any midi device that uses class compliant drivers is going to cause problems from time to time. Best to check before you buy on a manufacturer web site and see if the device your going to get comes with midi drivers. I think the issue is class compliant drivers both midi and audio, work perfectly fine on a Mac. So manufacturers cheap out and don’t put any money on development of proper drivers. Would I buy another Akai- no.

That explains why then as I would have used command Center to install SI instruments and Melodyne is from using the installers supplied by Celemony web site. Thanks.

I am in the habit of always saving a mix scene and name it with the date after I export a mix. Because it might be a few months before I get back to work on it again it Helps me confirm that the CD with the same date is that version. That way if I carry on and make a mess of the nex mix it’s easy to return to ground zero. Very useful feature that I’m not sure other Daws have.

Funny that if I open Bandlab Assistant it has all the add ons available for download. I just was there because I realized I hadn’t installed the Theme Editor. But Melodyne and Studio Instruments were also available even though they are installed already.

Did you check your master bus output?

You would have been better to start a new thread but not sure what you issue is because generally if you have The older Sonar version installed all of the goodies work in CbB including vvocal. But I think you need x3 or earlier. Read back in this thread and that is covered

You totally lost me on that one. If it what I think you mean then you computer needs a tune up.

There's a lot more people struggling with this issue now that Cakewalk is free. Lets face it in the old days you had to fork over near to $500 for the same quality software. Even way back a 4 track cassette studio would put you back well over $1,000 and that's probably $3,000 in todays economy. So because it's free we find a different user base growing. The OP wasted $$ on a device that obviously is not going to do the job. I always say your better off to put that money aside and save up for something that will. You can get by just fine with using the FREE software and the FREE on board audio. I can thing of dozens of almost free ways to plug a guitar into a 1/8" jack.

With the smart tool when you hold and point in middle/ top of note the velocity tool will activate and you drag it up or down

I would do like Glen said and just open the file in Wave Lab delete the left side and save as a mono file with a little M in the file name. Takes a few minutes. I would listen to the overheads with headphones on you'll soon hear if it's mono or stereo. If I wasn't planning on panning a track,, like snare and kick. I might just leave them alone as it wouldn't matter. But panning stereo tracks is a PITA.

If the Abelton instruments are VST then they will be in a folder. Find that folder at set Cakewalk VST settings to scan it

No I understand what your saying. That's a tough one though. Only thing I could think of is to record all those takes as a stereo track with the DI in the left and the Amp on the right. Then once you have completed all the editing you could separate them into two mono tracks. There a way to link tracks but only if you clone the same track.

You say you unplugged the keyboard. Long shot but did you plug it into the same USB port again? And if the Keyboard has a midi driver go to the manufactures web site and download and try installing that. I had mine disappear once because I plugged it into a different port and Windows installed a generic driver. I re installed the driver and it has worked since. Not all keyboards come with drivers but its worth a shot if yours is a name brand like Roland or Yamaha. And you did check in Preferences/Midi/Devices that the keyboard is not there or else possibly there but not checked?

10 gb

We all spent quality time with 8.5 and many like me refused to update to the X series at the time. I waited it out until the dust settled on the forum and people were now reporting a more stable version with X3e..... And Cakewalk sent me an offer to upgrade from X1 LE I got for free to X3 Studio for only $99. only took me a day or 2 with X3 to never want to go back again. I still have 8.5 installed and sometimes I open it and find myself looking at what now appears to be a very basic stripped down DAW. Where did all the features go? Bottom line is you can only run old software for so long until OS updates will kill it dead. So the longer you put off the inevitable the longer your stuck using a very downgraded version of one of the best DAW's out there. And did we mention it's free..

If you have the Pro version as you say , you just drag and drop the audio track directly from the Track Pane into the GUI. You can drag and drop just about anything that has audio including movies. I put the YL meter on my Master bus and then if I open the YL meter GUI , I can drag tracks or clips to that. I also just drag the effect from track bin to track bin as I need it. No point opening more than one instance. The drag and drop feature was the main reason for my purchase. I don't think any of the others do this. Also the ability to set custom targets is another feature unlocked by Pro. I do use the Cakewalk Level meter on real short clips as that is faster just to play a 2-12 second clip and see where it's at. To do midi tracks you do have to freeze them first. To analyze a bunch of songs I just open my Wave Export folder where my masters are in the Cakewalk Browser. Then I just drag and drop from there. You can also use the stand alone version for this.

You would have to play the whole track to get a reading. An analyzer does this in 3 seconds. My solution now is the You Lean loudness meter and you drag and drop the clip or track for instant analysis By clip I’m referring to working with short clips. Not clipping the signal

I found Cakewalks Normalization feature totally lacking many features I had learned to use in Wave lab. First there is no analyzing tool to tell you what the peak level of the track is. Second if your working clip by clip the dialogue closes after you render one clip. In Wave lab you can use the “ find peak level “ tool. The gain tool also has this. So you’re not guessing. And the tools stay open while you work on the track. Huge time saver. I used to tool copy into Wave Lab to work on Tracks but now I have a few work arounds in Cakewalk I use like clip gain. Only time I will use normalization is on a live recording when a track is way to low in level to work with. Once it’s up around-12 I can use none destructive tools. Not that I’m too concerned about the destructive thing. There’s always a back up but I’ve never heard anything go wrong when using normalization in any audio software.

I used to be normal but now I’m into gain. Trouble with thinking that peak level is going to make your tracks all the same “ loudness “ is it doesn’t always work that way. It’s certainly a starting point but as said LUFS is way more important.

You should be using CWP files not CWB. CWB have random issues. There are many reports of real tech ASIO drivers being installed during windows update and causing issues check your sync and caching dialogue and make sure your audio interface is in the box at the bottom. Other thing comes to mind is VST plug ins that get screwed up by updates.

I guess I assumed the OP was using an audio interface based on the fact they owned 8 mikes!! You could watch my video on using on board sound it has tips for optimizing. You will need to pay special attention to your timing offset if your trying to record audio using on board sound. It will otherwise be out of sync. In the end an audio interface is what you need to have trouble free audio recording with any DAW. The second video is all about audio interfaces. https://youtu.be/iAeqy0nW5uY https://youtu.be/ZWuzhOUM9IQ

The fast answer is -don’t use them -use a VST that has a sound you like. There are a lot of free VST’s and somewhere below this thread is a thread that lists just about all of them. The long answer is you can send the tts-1 to 4 outputs and then use the Pro Channel effects to improve the quality of the sound.

The input level is controlled by your Audio Interface. Set that so the peak light is as per instructions with your interface. You did read the instructions didn’t you?