John Vere

Great Idea, Ya, My Roland has a few assignable buttons and I keep meaning to get that working. But the footswitch is awesome for guitar playing as I can keep my hands on the guitar. I also use it for tracking vocals because I can stand a ways from that dang noisy computer.

@Luke Wells just to make sure that all traces of Asio4all are gone go and check your reg edit app and look there. look at my screen shot to follow the pathway. You should only see your Soundcraft driver which you see I have installed along with my other 3 interfaces. Asio4all can still lurk in the background along with another one called Generic asio driver from Steinberg. In my case they would show up under sync sand caching so check there as well and make sure your Soundcraft driver is the only one in all dialog boxes under audio settings.

Not sure why you have 2 instances of TTS-1. I notice your Bass seems to be outputting to the TTS-1 -2 so it will be the second one in the synth rack. TTS-1 supports up to 16 midi channels. I see your bass patch is 4TTS-1-2 so that should show as channel 4. I would delete the unneeded instance of the TTS-1 unless your planning on having 32 midi channels.. As @Promidi has said it would be wise to set the channel in the inspector just to make sure. Have you tried the SI bass ? it blows away the TTS-1 and its included. I see you are using the SI drums so it must be installed. And when ever you have issues open the instruments GUI and use the pre view buttons to make sure the TTS-1 ( or any VST instrument) is working correctly.

Mix recall can sort of do this and I have made it work.. BUT, the songs have to be identical in layout and tracks. So it works great for multiple live recordings which will be all the same. As far as a bunch of songs that are different I will use pre sets in my VST's. Both instruments and Plug in effects. I make sure I always set the VST instrument level the same. The pre sets don't always do that. I then I have a system of making sure all my audio tracks peak levels are very close target level. Then will use sub busses and try to carefully match levels. Example I want my Bass sub buss at -4 and my drum buss at - 3 etc. I use the You Lean loudness meter to determine all levels and LUFS. I also use SPAN to keep an eye on the frequencies.

A USB footswitch programed for "R" That's how I do it. Sometimes I will have one hand playing the keyboard controller and the other hand on the computer keyboard. How many of you remember that was how we did things with Tape. At least both my Yamaha MT 100 and later the MD 8 had a punch in footswitch option. So does Cakewalk and it will work for midi or audio. The "take lanes" approach works too. In the old midi days I always had 2 tracks for recording. I would record until I made a mistake. Delete the bad notes. Then arm track 2, pre roll, start recording from the last good note of take 1 and go until I made the next mistake etc. When done merge the 2 tracks.

You need to start your own thread this is called Hi-jacking when you post in someone elses thread. And when you do supply as much information as you can about what your trying to do and what your set up is, the more details the faster the correct answer.

No. But if you’re working with drum machines you should use midi sync. You can set most drum machines and external sequencers to start and stop when you hit play or record in your DAW. This way Cakewalks tempo drives the hardware devices and when you record either the midi or the audio output from them it will be in sync.

Here what you need to understand. As said the keyboard controller sends digital midi data to your computer. There is no audio involved so there’s no need to think about quality. The cheapest controller sends the same quality data as the most expensive. Once that midi data is in your Daw then you can generate audio of the highest quality if you so choose. You can go crazy high @192/32 which is well beyond what humans are capable of hearing any differences Then it’s a matter of how you deliver it to be played on other systems. That crazy high sample rate might make a .01% difference on a cell phone speaker If you burn a CD you have created a digital copy of the DAW version but at a quality level 44.1/16 which is still high quality to most of the world If your audio interface has a SPDIF output and your studio monitors also have that connection you have almost avoided analog for your audio playback system if you export it to a MP3 and upload to a web site you have also stayed digital but the conversation will have compromised your audio quality.

If you want to prove the card is as good as you believe it is, then perform the loopback test as recommended by @azslow3 This is a real good test and sometimes an eye opener. I started life with an SB Audigy II card. I still have it. It was cool to have the 1/4" jacks right on the front of the computer. But the ASIO drivers ,as said, were terrible. My tracks were always randomly out of sync. It took a long time to figure this out. My recordings sounded so bad I went back to using a Yamaha MD 8 for another 4 years. I switched to an M Audio Fast track pro and most of my timing issues vanished. But the M Audio would disconnect all the time, so then onward ho to a Tascam which also had bad drivers for about 4 years. They eventually put out a solid driver. But before that happened I bought a Focusrite which I will say has never let me down, Now I have a Motu which is also rock solid. With any of these 3 interfaces I can work on just about anything at 256 buffer and its not something I have to think about. That's why I find this thread a mystery to begin with.

I used to fall under the “ gotta have two monitors” camp because how else could I have the console and PVR views full screen? Making the tutorials I had to stick with one monitor and that forced me to learn the easy shortcuts that allow the multi dock to quickly go full screen and back to its tabs.

Glad you got it figured but in your screen shot you have the input set to none. It should be set to the interface midi. Also you don’t seem to have an instrument track. You are sending it back out to the piano. guess you figured that out

Actually listening to the Ozone mix I can't even hear the drums when you get to that loud part as they are downed out buy the excessively loud guitars. And I'm not sure what the reference songs are but I had to actually turn your song down when it got to that end part,,. I had been watching a You Tube prior to that and I had my system level at 12'0 clock which is 90% of where it should be. Possibly the song is out of whack because of the long intro part which is defiantly not as loud as that last part. You're ( hopefully) learning. Just keep at it and try different mixes. You can use Mix Recall to do this easily. That's what it's for. Nobody became a Mastering Engineer overnight. I'm still learning after 30+ years. I wouldn't advise trying to match your composition with any commercial releases out of the starting gate. It's a great idea to compare but your using a very basic set of tools. Those guys have $$$$ worth of tools as well as years of experience using them. Be happy with what you create and move along to the next song. You will keep learning and you can always come back in 3 years and fix what you didn't like.

Here's one a lot of people use. https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/samplers/kontakt-6-player/ Your midi file looks like it is associated with Cakewalk which is correct. So you can double click and it will open and play in Cakewalk using the TTS-1 VST instrument. If it doesn't automatically load the TTS-1 then make sure there are no outputs selected in Preferences/Midi/ Devices. If you just drag and drop a midi file to a blank project the midi data will create a midi track. But a midi track doesn't make any sound. It has to be output to a VST instrument. If you don't understand these basic things it would be a good idea to start watching the many tutorial videos before wasting a lot time guessing how things might work.

What sample player are you using? Samples need to load into a player VST instrument.

Same thing. Workspaces save your settings. The issue I have with the system is cakewalk defaults to a basic set up. They say this is so new users are not confused by all the features. This has the opposite effect in my opinion because new users can’t find the stuff that shows in the tutorials and if we show screen shots. I always advise to select the Advanced workspace.

Cakewalk comes with enough VST instruments and plug ins to keep you busy for a long time. Make sure to install the Studio instrument collection. You should spend some time watching the tutorials as Cakewalk is not something you can use by fumbling around blind

I just installed Cakewalk on my daughters brand new HP laptop. Whole process from web site to opening Cakewalk might have taken less than 10 minutes. I was busy on the other computer so I let her do it herself. I just told her the web site name and instructions to download the assistant etc. I would assume this is exactly what 99% of the people experience. So blaming the installers seems out of line to me. The op has weird stuff happening in their computer. Can be no other explanation

My cheap one broke right away. Just one switch doesn’t work. Could probably take it apart and solder something. But since then it’s worked great. I use it to scroll up and down a PowerPoint presentation that has my lyrics. It’s on a second laptop that is also my back up player and I play background music from it. That way I’m not changing the levels on my main playback during breaks. All this has not seen use since New year 2020.

This is obvious, but did you select the UMC404HD as the midi input for the track? You didn't really say. If your using a Simple instrument track ( combination of midi and instrument ) it will be that input. If your using a midi track pointed at an Instrument track then select it in the midi track, The input echo should come on by default when you click on the midi or simple instrument track to put in focus.

This system has saved butt many times so I won't complain. An example would be to comp a single guitar track out of a dozen lanes. You "think" you're happy so to clean stuff up you bounce this to a fresh track and delete all the originals. Of course best practices would dictate a back up project on a separate drive, but sometimes that doesn't happen. During mixdown you discover a nasty guitar mistake! You know that this would have been easily fixed if you still had those lanes, right. Ah! they are still there in the audio folder so no problem. It would have totally sucked if Cakewalk had deleted them just to save 50 MB on your 4 TB hard drive. I stopped worrying about unwanted audio files the day they invented the external hard drive. Sure a Laptop with a 240 GB drive as your only storage sucks, but that's were external drives or a large internal data drive(s) shine.

That's great news. Which footswitch did you end up getting?

Did you open the event list? That’s where you can see what is going on an even edit stuff. But you can also use the PVR. I like the event list for troubleshooting

Probably they removed it in the registry It takes over your timing master sometimes so not a good one to have if you don’t need it

This seems dumb but you are saving the change before you leave preferences?

If this is the same track as in your other post this is most likely because you have hard panned the guitars. So as each of these parts changes level so will the balance. To test just mute your guitar buss and see what happens.