John Vere

You cannot expect to use Cakewalk for the first time and have it work the way you think it should. It’s complicated and you really need to watch the tutorials first just to get started There is a sub forum here. So go spend a day or two watching videos and you’ll be up and running in no time. https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/forum/35-tutorials/

I just love it when I see this: Notice anything missing? Supported Hosts: Ableton Live 9 - 10, Cubase 9.5, Digital Performer 9, FL Studio 12, Logic Pro X, Nuendo 8, Pro Tools 10 - 12, Reaper 5, Reason 10, Studio One 3 - 4

The Dynameter does look like a great tool. It makes a complicated task a lot easier. I will pass on the $125 Can price tag as my music seems fine without it but I would defiantly think about it if it was more like $30-$40. I think that's what the You Lean meter was and it has more than paid for itself. I think the reason I don't have an issue is the way I use compression and limiting. I always set them so there is very little activity on the meter. Even my Multi band. If a certain frequency is showing too much compression I go back to the mix and seek out the offending instrument. This is were sub busses come in handy. Just mute a sub buss and if the issue goes away you have narrowed down your search. I tend to push most instruments to the wall and then back them off a bit. The limiter/compressors are only used to catch peaks not to squash. I find -12 to -14 LUFS just fine.

No. I have an M4. You have made a good investment but the next purchase should be proper studio monitors that will bring your home studio up to standard. The solution in the mean time is to use headphones or plug the computer speakers into the Motu's headphone jack with an adaptor. You could also use the 1/2 RCA outputs with yet another type of adaptor cable. I have a few of those myself. You defiantly want to stay with ASIO mode and use the audio interface ins and out's for using Cakewalk.

I thought you had the youlean loudness meter?

Because my first keyboard was a Korg Poly 800 I love the fact that it is a free VST plug in. That’s my go to when I need big fat pads And because I spent 3 quality years with it all the perimeters make sense to me. I have also squeezed some good stuff out of the Roland groove synth and the Juno emulation

This is exactly why cakewalk doesn’t delete previous audio files like was brought up just recently in another thread. You can almost be sloppy about the new punch in and then just drag stuff around until it sounds correct. The original audio is underneath the new take so finding the sweet spot is easy.

Here’s a trick I used to minimize the delay you hear due to round trip latency. I always have a sub bus for my vocal effects. The vocal track will have a send. Set your interface direct monitoring so the singer hears a good balance of the playback and their direct signal of their vocal. Arm the track and activate input echo Now change the effects send from post to pre fader. Turn the channel fader way down or off. Now turn the effects send up until you get the desired amount of reverb coming from the back end. The delay will still be in there but not as noticeable as when the track fader is up.

Ya I was going to mention that the few times that I tried the clone track and messed around, it just never came close to what I get by playing a second track. To me it’s a different effect. The time shift just sounds like what I could do with one track and a delay without a second track. The clone track is sort of like when we only had one guitar track because of 8 track tape. I would run the recorded guitar track out to an amp ( that’s right, re amping in 1992). And then stick 4 mikes around the room all at different distances from the amp. One was 20’ away. This was brought back to the mix down board and these channels were panned and mixed in to the final master. Was cool sound but not like the double take method . DAW’s take all the fun out recording

Probably no answer because I don't think people use screen sets anymore. Myself I looked at this thread yesterday and realized I forget how to even use them because it's been a long time. I use workspaces. Just set things up the way you like , and save as a new workspace. I have about 6 of them and that seems to cover most situations I need. If you really need to use them then I'm sure the answer is in the documentation. Just Google Cakewalk-Screensets.

Back in the analogue days we often recorded the rhythm guitar part twice but immediately after the first good take. The player would usually play it pretty much bang on. This could be an acoustic guitar or heavy distortion. The 2 tracks got panned hard and not much would be different as far as eq or effects. I still use this a lot. It’s definitely good headphone listening material

If you haven’t emptied your download folder the older installers might still be there. I leave them there and I can go back over a year But I’m sure they also have them available on this web site.

Offset mode?

But that doesn’t work because on most systems at a safe buffer you’re going to have a delay of 10 to 30 ms. The whole idea behind direct monitoring is to eliminate this by not monitoring your input after it has suffered you systems round trip latency. My rule is do not use input echo on audio tracks unless you are using a guitar sim. The other solution is a small mixer set up. But for that to work smoothly you need a 4x4 interface But there is a way to rig up a 2x2 as well

I wasn’t poking fun at anyone. I just can’t resist the turd polish VST. It’s saved my life many times. ✌️Marcelo is coming along nicely and as I said in the other thread I think he’ll probably get good at this someday. He’s asking good questions and getting good answers. Making your own recording requires you wear many hats. Musician, recording engineer, tape op, mixing engineer, mastering engineer and finally delivering the final product to market or record label.

This is a issue with these interfaces and a few others. As the Op has said there’s no blend control to mix input direct signal with the DAW playback. There is only an on /off switch. This I guess was to save $10 in cost. And to rub salt in the wound I don’t think the 2i2 comes with the software mixer like the upper models do. At least the first generation doesn’t. This leaves you no choice but to lower the master level while tracking. You can do this with the master buss or use the Interface strips found hidden on the far right in console view. By the way. The Cakewalk level controls have no bearing on the record level. Only the interface can adjust level.

Yes I think you are going to get it someday for sure it’s a life long project for me. Best thing I ever did when I started was read a couple of books. One was https://bgaudioclub.org/uploads/docs/Yamaha_Sound_Reinforcement_Handbook_2nd_Edition_Gary_Davis_Ralph_Jones.pdf The other was http://index-of.es/Varios-2/Handbook for Sound Engineers.pdf

Did you watch my video. On board sound works perfectly fine for me on my office computer. I only use it for listening and midi editing. But Laptops can be all different and some have been found to have issues built into the BIOS which make them bad news for audio. The difference I think is they try to optimize laptops for battery performance.

I think it was dumb that they put these as defaults and in the end many people probably end up using them when they have no clue what they do or how to use them properly. I always delete them first thing as they take up space in my pro channel. Each to there own but I can never figure out why you would want to take all that hard work and money you put into getting a nice clean, distortion free recording and then try to somehow distort it. I don't remember how many times I tried these gizmos just to end up deleting them later because to me they add absolutely nothing unless I turn them up to the point that they trash the sound. So that tells me if I turn them down they are still trashing the sound but you can't hear it? Shoot me but I don't get it.

The OP has started a whole new thread on same topic. Have any of you downloaded and listened and looked at the song in question. If you do you'll see and hear what is wrong. This goes way back to a thread by Marcello a while back about panning guitars where he was struggling with that issue. There is a lot of real good tips and advice in all of these threads due to answers from a lot of very knowledgeable forum members. He's super lucky to have top quality answers as this is not always the case on the internet. I'm not too sure he has followed through with much of what has been said or he wouldn't need to start another thread. Here is my observations of this project. He is using a reference track that is defiantly a casualty of the loudness wars. If you want to join the loudness wars then you better be an experienced fighter. The guitars are hard panned and at the 2/3 mark are drowning out all other instruments. It's a tricky composition because it has a wide dynamic range over the length of the song. It has a quiet intro and it builds. Bit said way back at the beginning that this was an issue. His solution seems to be to keep trying to turn things up instead of ,, ya, we all know this answer all to well.

I just close Cakewalk. Lots of other software I use won’t work when Cakewalk is open. Like Movie Studio ( Vegas) but then just about everything else does work when it’s closed. No big deal. There’s a suspend audio engine when cakewalk is not in focus in preferences you could try

Bull. There’s only 51,000 don’t exaggerate ?

That’s normal to not be able to do both at same time. It’s sort of the down side to ASIO

Don’t need the assistant to update. You do it from inside Cakewalk. There’s lots of threads on the topic