John Vere

@Eric Bohlke are you aware that the latest version of Cakewalk is available free? You need to upgrade and then you'll have support. There have been a zillion bug fixes and improvements since Sonar 6. The skylight interface is a bit different but a lot of the basic stuff is familiar.

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Using MP3 is a loss of sound quality as said above. It’s called lossy because data is always lost to achieve the smaller size. Don’t get bit rate mixed up with bit depth The 16 bit depth or word length is the same as a CD. You can increase the quality by choosing a higher bit rate like 190 or even 320 https://soundbridge.io/audio-formats-file-types/

Before Cakewalk can see it Windows has to see it. Go into Windows Sound Settings and make sure that is set as the default. If not then you need to check your drivers to make sure they were installed properly.

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I think Noel is on to it. Go into midi devices and disable all inputs. That will rule out control weirdness. The loop back is audio so that Couldn’t take control of cakewalk only midi.

Yes, You make a video using other software then import that to Cakewalk to compose music that follows the video. That's called scoring For making a video of finished songs it's the other way around. You drop your mastered wave file into the Movie editor and then you can add stills, GIF's and videos to match the recorded song. This is how I make all my videos. Here's an example. This was a song I recorded years ago on an 8 track. I dropped it into Movie Studio Platinum 17 and then just grabbed stuff off the internet to create a video.

Watch for sales on Movie Maker formerly called Vegas. I bought it for -$35 few years ago. Not only is it good at movies and everything else it integrates with Sound Forge. You can have a lot of audio tracks too.

Ya. No point adding a lot of sub bass which very few people have the equipment to hear it. On the phone and then in the car via Bluetooth is about it these days. We just sold our 95 Bmw that had a cassette player. The “new” 2015 Hyundai has Some fancy stereo I have to read the manual for but it probably can play from my iphone.

I have used Strum Sessions a lot over the years but only to play parts in download files. When I first say this question I opened it up and started playing with it and saw immediately what the op was up against. The factory pattern collection doesn’t have much variety. That when I figured I will have to read the manual. My conclusion was you would need to look for guitar midi loops that play the pattern you need or nothing will happen. Looking for loops is a huge task that can take forever and why I’m glad I don’t use them ?

?? Refreshingly good rock song nice arrangement

Sounds excellent on my phone which sadly enough counts for a lot these days. Good stuff.

You just used up your quota for vocal track ink. Just delete a few of the ones that you didn’t think were good ?

What I like about Gold Wave is it has the batch conversation so I can produce an album as wave, then I can top and tail add fade out etc Using Gold Wave or Wave Lab. I have the paid version of Youlean loudness meter so I can drag and drop the tracks to check their peak and LUFS. THEN I batch process to 160 or higher MP3. Never had an issue in the years I’ve worked this way. I master to -0.8 true peak and -14 LUFS

You shouldn’t be seeing that if you’re using ASIO mode. Another place I disable those options is in Windows Sound settings under the device tab.

You can’t use ASIO with on board audio. It has many known issues. Always use WASAPI with on board. But to not have issues with round trip latency you need to use a proper audio interface with ASIO drivers.

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?