John Vere

Thanks for your in-depth explanation of the music licensing system. I forgot all about the piano roll and how that term must have come from the similarities between midi and a punchcard piano roll system. I’ve seen displays of mechanical air driven devices that played a whole band. The Music museum in Scottsdale Az has some of them. it was the mechanical version of midi. Amazing stuff.

I had an idea a while back when this topic was brought up again. If the Arranger Track had a END module that had code built in to stop the song where it was placed. Verse/Chorus/Bridge/Chorus/End

I was thinking because it’s midi and you are using totally different instruments and the vocal and guitar by the time it’s a full song it might be far removed from the midi file to the point of not being something that would be recognizable by the owner. Well bottom line is as long as you don’t try and make money with it. The Op could try and contact the author and ask permission to use it.

Exactly! There's no correct answer to this question. Everybody has a different workflow and Cakewalk gives you a lot of options when it comes to creative routing. You try different options until you find the combination that works best for you.

I'm not sure what your problem is because you most certainly can use 32 bit plug ins with Cakewalk. And my version of 8.5 came with both 32 and 64 bit option when installing. You can install the 64 bit version and still use 32 bit plug ins. They just have to run under the Bit Bridge ( or J Bridge ) wrapper. The only exception was some DX plug ins. Most all of us slowly got rid of our 32 bit plug ins years ago and most all have easily been replaced by something new and better. There are literally 100's of great free VST plug ins. And CbB comes with a lot too. It even comes with a Tape Emulator in the pro channel. I just looked and I now only have 2 32 bit VST's, Drop Zone and Mr Tramp. I use Mr Tramp a lot and it works just fine. You simply install your full version of 8.5 64 bit and all your plug in will be put in the VST folder. Then install CbB and it will find them and use them when it scans. 32 bit plug ins will be colour coded. Cakewalk will automatically use a 64 bit version if available. All your 8.5 project will open in CbB and should load up with the correct plug ins. I do this all the time. I even have Sonar 6 projects. If a plug in is missing Cakewalk will warn you and you can they will be in Brackets in the Synth rack or effects bins. it's usually a old 32 bit 3rd party plug in that I can easily replace. I've only had one that was so old the web site was gone. As I said don't bother cloning, you'll just bring old messes and a zillion issue with you to a new system. Your performance will suck. A nice new clean install to a SSD drive is a huge improvement to older machines. I'm always amazed each time I do this at how fast that computer becomes. You hook the old C drive up with that cable I showed you and once your new system is up and running you just copy stuff to the new drive as you need it.

I would be pretty certain that you are not breaking any copywrite by using that midi clip. Midi clips are not easily copywrite protected anyways because it's just data, it's not really a recording or anything. They made the clip hoping people like you would use it to create something while learning the software.

Looks like you need to install Dim Pro. When they are in brackets that tells you they are not available.

Use velocity If you grab a note blob on the top in the middle it will drag the velocity up or down

It would be crazy to not purchase a new SSD drive to use for your upgrade C drive. Simply pull the old drive and put it aside. What I did was purchased a USB to SATA cable so my original C drive becomes an external drive. I have also used this more than once on laptops where I needed my old OS to use an older Printer. Takes a few minutes to swap them back over. Windows 10 uses a Machine ID system now to authorize. Just don't check "I have a serial number" during install. I upgraded a W7 laptop this way last summer totally free. And I have Sonar 8.5 / 64 installed on my DAW. I just install the bare bones and grab the goodies I wanted. Everything that ever worked with Sonar runs just fine in CbB.

There's no 16 track limit. The limit is ony set buy your systems capabilities. The TTS-1 can use all 16 tracks but you can keep adding TTS_1 's as many times as your system can handle. And there are plenty of dedicated VST instruments. Each instance of a VST instrument can use the same channels other VST instruments are using. It is only when you use a multi channel instrument like the TTS-1 that channels matter. You should really spend some time watching the tutorial videos and learn how this all works. You won't get far by just fiddling around without knowledge of Cakewalks MIDI structure.

That totally sucks that those models use ASIO4all, Generally it is not recommended to use anything but a proper ASIO driver with Cakewalk.Asio4 all is NOT a real asio driver. It is a wrapper. If your using on board you can use WASAPI. But the real issue is you will not have proper synchronization because asio4all is just like all none ASIO drivers and it cannot properly report the round trip latency to Cakewalk. So the timing offset needs to be adjusted to make up for this. You will need to perform a loopback test to find out what your actual Round trip latency is first. Or better yet take that one back and get the next model up that comes with a proper ASIO driver.

These threads go the same route as the ones about interfaces. What Steve said about there’s no point in telling someone what they need without knowing what they are doing with it is so true. Like all this taking about having a zillion GB of data or 64 GB of Ram. This is overkill for many home studio set ups. Example. I don’t use loops and I don’t score movies. I think if I looked my instrument sample libraries use under 60 GB of storage. And I have 4 machines all set up for music and because I don’t store anything on my C drive they all only have well under 100 GB of space used. So why would I need a huge OS drive? Not everyone uses sample libraries or even a lot of effects. You build the machine that meets or exceeds your needs going with quality not quantity. Quiet operation is 1st priority. Lots of USB ports. On board graphics that support extra monitors. Power supplies are also really important for both noise and quality. there’s lot you need to think about.

You have not provided enough information to even guess what is wrong. The more details you provide the faster the correct answers will be delivered example Version of Cakewalk Hardware used Driver mode Is this an audio or midi piano If midi what VST instrument are you using Did you optimize your pc is it up to date

https://www.amazon.ca/Samsung-Internal-MZ-77E500B-AM-Version/dp/B08QBMD6P4/ref=asc_df_B08QBMD6P4/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=459592838100&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2550236935566703888&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1001901&hvtargid=pla-1148927274600&psc=1 A 500 GB SSD drive is well under $100 these days. All you need is a small screw driver. Swapping out the drive is pretty easy. The $500 must have included complete back up and cloning etc.

Sorry. I spent some time last night reviewing my Tutorials and found way too many errors. But I think judging by your screen shot you need to understand the way the left hand side bar Track strip view works. It shows the focused track on the left and on the right it will show the focused tracks output destination. If it is a midi track as in your screen shot, it shows advanced midi settings, if it is a Audio track or an instrument track it will show the output destination Buss. If your using a sub bus then that will show. Otherwise the Master bus will show on the right. In my Tutorials I always show the Buss Pane can be shown/ hide with SHIFT B or drag it up. It is by default hidden.

I know this is sort of obvious but I have done this myself-- Make sure to empty your recycle bin. Until you do you don't gain any space. My Wife's laptop has a 120 GB drive and we are forever moving stuff, in her case it's always pictures and movies. You really get a performance hit if your maxing out capacity. You want a 120 GB drive at below 80 GB , 60 would be ideal. Cakewalk software doesn't take up much room. But if the sample libraries end up in C drive they are the biggest part of the storage. I just checked and my Cakewalk Content folder is 4.4 GB mostly this looks like it's Rapture Pro which I never got around to moving. I would consider getting a bigger drive put in there for sure. You can even do this yourself and start a thread here in the computer sub forum and we can guide you through the steps. It's actually easy to do on a laptop. The time consuming part is re installing software but if you don't have a lot of apps this is no big deal. I rebuilt 3 computer over the last year or so. What's cool now is Windows 10 uses a computer ID system so you don't even need a windows key anymore. It automatically activates on it's own.

I already suggested this and the op tried it and reported the issue did go away. So it is possibly just how this VST manages its samples and memory usage as reported by @bitflipper

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If it were me I would simply reinstall Cakewalk to your C drive which is were it belongs. Once you have that sorted make sure you store your projects on the other drive. You should be fine as long as you don’t store any data to the C drive. Just use it for the Software.

For sure 2 SSD Drives. I have 2 x 240 GB SSD and then a 1TB DATA drive for back ups. I also have a bunch of external drives for data backup. My C drive has never gone over 50% and I use mostly default paths for installing. The second SSD drive is my working drive for projects and it’s only at 40% right now. But I only keep recent projects there. All else is stored on the backup drives. Lots of treads on rebuilding. My advice is to copy the Command Center download folder from your old computer and copy the installers to the new system CC download folder. This eliminates re downloading

If your audio interface has a loop back feature this is easy. I use OBS for screen capture but it also streams.

The correct name for the classic sound is a Envelope Filter. A stomp box like my Mutron or my MXR are not swishy. If the effect is swishy it’s not a Envelope filter. A proper Envelope filters are voltage driven. The harder you pick the deeper the filter goes. So it’s like you are in control of the Wha with you hand not your foot. This is why they are a very cool expressive effect Because the proper sound is from your interaction with your guitar I would not want to use this effect as a VST I can’t see getting the correct reaction I don’t think it’s possible to have a VST react to voltage you would just peak your signal level Of course you could automate a wha VST and possibly use your joystick controller to manipulate a guitar track You want to hear killer wha tracks check out @batsbrew in the song forum. In this song I'm using my Mutron

When I see someone having issues with SI instruments install, all I can think is what did they do to cause this issue. SI Instruments have got to be the easiest thing to install and use out of all my collection of VST’s.

So what happens if you “replace” the synth with something else like Strum Session Just trying to use trouble shooting 101. Process of elimination

I think I’ve seen other posts about this. First CbB is 100% 64 bit and therefore doesn’t support some older VST formats. Don’t quote me on that but it’s more than likely the issue with Groove Synth. And just the other day was a solution to when SI instruments don’t run. So Google these issues for answers. @scookwill know the answers