John Vere

All I can say is MP3 need to be mastered a little lower than WAV. Do you use any mastering plug ins that shows your true peak and LUFS? Like the youlean loudness meter or Span. I don’t use cakewalks MP3 converter I always export audio as a wave and then convert to MP3 in Gold Wave

You are probably clipping your output and it will be more evident in the MP3.

Are you using ASIO? That list looks wrong to me.

Yes I made a video because there’s lots of settings you need to set for on board audio to work correctly. And if you don’t know about important stuff like master buss I highly recommend you spend some time watching the videos to help you get started. Go to the tutorials sub forum

I m not sure The Assistant supports W7. CbB is more or less W10 oriented. You choose not to keep your computer up to date then you are on shaky ground. @T-Bone Hood you don’t need to use the assistant anymore. You update Cakewalk from the program now.

Your master buss is probably set to wrong output

In the old midi days I would have used the cc events but now I do as bitflipper and I treat midi as audio. Best to draw the automation on the instrument (audio) track. Unless you only desire 1 midi track out of others using the same instrument to be changed, then you can draw it on the midi track. Another method to swell a midi track is to draw a velocity from 0 to ? In PVR controller pane

There got to be a bunch threads right now with same question, did you read those?

Did you read the manual? https://www.applied-acoustics.com/strum-session-2/manual/ Just a guess but you probably sync to host and set Cakewalk on 3/4 time. Or you find 3/4 loops.

You should use Reaper because Cakewalk doesn’t work like Reaper judging by your complaining in 3 other threads. If you don’t take the time to watch a few videos on the basics or better yet open the documentation using the built in Help module your going to struggle. So far all your complaints are user inexperience related. Cakewalk is complicated and 3 x more powerful than Reaper. It takes time so relax , start watching the tutorials and you’ll be cruising along in a week or so

Are the loops Wave format? Make sure your not trying to use the Apple loops

You sure your not trying to activate Sonar? Cakewalk Bandlab automatically inserts your serial number. You do need to reactivate every 6 months. There have been a million updates in the last year so log in to the Assistant and download and install the latest version.

This is a old tread and the op never responded I don’t think Michael has his notifications turned on

Re reading what the op is saying I come to the conclusion that this is a project that does not follow the tempo map. A live free time recording. The op might be in aware that they can - 1-copy paste the clip and then drag it to the correct location 2- drag the audio to the timeline and Melodyne will create a tempo map. And if the song was off the grid a pasted clip will not sync up if the tempo is drifting

The only difference between a computer that is used for recording and a computer that is used for editing and playback is zero. But you don’t need an audio interface for editing and playback. All the rules still apply as far as system set up including multiple drives, lots of RAM , fast multi core CPU , silent operation, large power supply. Lots of USB port ports and on and on

Yes that is how I delete the notes.

Your best way is to purchase an audio interface that has a loopback feature. They are not expensive and its a standard feature of most of the new interfaces. The Loopback channel becomes an Audio Source in OBS. It gives me 2 level meters and controls so I can adjust Cakewalks playback level with my Narration mike. The problem with all the Hacks like the one above is Cakewalk needs to run in a proper ASIO mode or you'll have issues, believe me I tried them all. With the Loopback both Cakewalk and OBS are happy campers and run smoothly using the good driver. I can fire up OBS studio anytime I want and I'm not having to compromise my Cakewalk audio set up.

This! Only drum vst I might use that doesn't have multi outputs is SI Drums. And in the past if I wanted to create separate tracks from a full drum track, I would simply copy the track say 4-6 times and then delete unwanted notes from each track in PVR leaving me with 4-6 drum tracks which each contained the parts I wanted. I can do this real fast.

All the tutorials are found on the Tutorials sub forum. https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/forum/35-tutorials/ But Google is the fastest way to get answers. Example " Cakewalk copy and past clips" Some results= https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR X3&language=3&help=Arranging.17.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1EKnepfyXE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGtfz2YB4sA

Hey, I wonder if it's this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Khoroshev Say's he lived in Boston! Say's he worked with Mike Plotnikoff he was born here.

Worst comes to worst just create a new Bandlab account using an alternate email. I just did this on a laptop I'm setting up for my Daughter to record audio books with. I didn't want all my info jumbled with hers so I uninstalled the Assistant, re installed and logged in with a new account I created for her. I then updated Cakewalk and had to re log in using that same new account. So now everything is working but under her name. And I showed her she can also log on to this forum to ask questions. The beauty of free software.

Glad you solved it. I was going to say it's almost always a bad plug in. And I seem to remember trying that one myself and it was a bomb. That's why I test all 3rd party( free) plug ins on my office computer first. Keeps my main DAW garbage free. And thanks for posting the solution as this will help others in the future.

Actually what I do is always just export my mix and then I top and tail ( add fade out) in a proper wave editor. That way it's perfect every time. Cakewalk never gets it right. Sure it's an extra step but if you take your mastering seriously it's pretty easy to do this properly.