John Vere

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

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.