John Vere

A few thoughts. I have to agree with @S Roy Choudhury about the lack of any up to date tutorials. I spent an evening a few weeks ago watching a lot of them. The collection of official Tutorials regarding Cakewalk is actually all about Sonar. And even some my popular series like- Making a midi backing track was done on Home Studio so has become dated. And it's easy for an experienced user to say that they should be fine because Cakewalk is based on Sonar but I think that for most newcomer it would be confusing just to even look at the screenshots. A LOT has changed in the workspace since X2 and even the last release of Sonar. A lot of the new features make workflow faster so why teach a new dogs old tricks. But it's a very time consuming process to make tutorials. For me to re do my Backing Track Series would take weeks. You have to make sure every little move you make is easy to understand as well as conform to best practices. I usually have to re do my videos 3 or more times before they pass the proof watching stage. And then to make a professional presentation you need to be advanced in your knowledge of Video editing.. another complicated piece of software to learn. I gave up on that part and just keep to basics. Most of the latest tutorials, including mine, are task or subject oriented. The reason being that's how people seem to learn these days'. They get stumped on a process and they use Google to search a topic _ example" Cakewalk- how to add reverb" This will bring up a dozen or more videos you can sort through and find the "best" one that suits your learning abilities. If you liked that persons video you subscribe. That person, if they get enough subscribers, might see a little cash flow someday for their efforts which encourages them to keep making videos. It's all about knowing how to look for stuff using Google in this day and age. You won't find mine when you search because I only have a very small subscription count. So for a professionally produced, linear course on Cakewalk to happen someone would need to pay someone to do this or promote the independent creators so they get the paid level of subscription count. . Cakewalk is free, so Bandlab has no real incentive to spend money on tutorials like Roland or Gibson did in the old days. They leave that up to the volunteers and the user group. There seem to be a lot of tutorials. You just have to find the right series.

Best practices before a live session Test that everything is working. All mikes, cables, mixers, interfaces and that the laptop is fully updated and the software will run. I usually spend the day before creating the blank projects and testing stuff. I charge 2 hours prep time as part of the session. Another best practices is always have a back up of as much as possible even if you leave it in you vehicle. Technology has never been 100% road worthy only Shure SM mikes?

I just used it in my last tutorial and it’s working fine. You need to use it first in projects. If you add it later on it goes weird. It’s only use to most of us is to preview midi files. As a sound source it’s a bit dated

Go to the tutorials sub forum and I just released a tutorial that explains how to do this. So it’s at the top

Our School district started with Macs because they got some sort of educational deal on them, those little iMacs. They where 100% Mac for 2 decades even the servers. But buy the mid 2000's the IT crew started recommending they move away because in the real world of business nobody uses Macs. It was getting hard to service them and real expensive to replace. I took on the task of destroying or wiping the hard drives on about 200 of these puppys. The deal was I could do what every I wanted but all data must be destroyed. There was also over100 Compact towers all running W98 with these huge 10 GB hard drives, Anyhow they now use nothing but PC's with the exception of the teachers still have Mac Books. The little iMacs all had the same RAM and Hard drives etc you find in a PC. I guess only the MObo is different. But I learned a lot about them in those days and had a few set up including I re imaged one of the Servers which was a smoking studio computer. I made about $2,000 on ebay selling for parts,, mostly selling RAM. But I never felt there was any advantage to the OS or the machines. Huge issue is there's very little free stuff for Macs.

I had issues with 4 and I'm glad I updated to 5 because for the first time in years everything is now working the way I would think it should. I think Melodyne 4 was a bit buggy. But one thing does come to mind is that if the clip is long it uses that much more CPU to render as you work. So I still use real short clips. Most are only 1 measure. Open Task manager performance monitor while you're working and see what's going on in the background.

When I saw the title and then the date of the OP I right away thought- Oh I bet the new tempo track will do this.

Pro Studios will have both PC and Mac machines. They also have to keep the machines loaded with most of the popular Daw's including Cakewalk. Sure the mega studios are different but who really cares what they are doing, that's another world outside most peoples dreams. I'm taking about the 1,000's of working studios which are trying to survive in this DIY market. Lately I've run across more interviews with the people running these studios and they do mention using Cakewalk from time to time. Of course Studio 1 has become sort of the standard, and most people might use Pro Tools but it's rare you'll hear them say it's there favorite DAW. Musicians are starting albums at home and then they pay the studio for certain parts like drum tracking or vocals or mix down. Gone are the days of albums being recorded live in a proper studio. Very few will be done that way these days. These musicians are just like us and they eventually try all the daws and some might settle on Cakewalk. It's not much talked about in interviews with the bands because why would the fans care. And you still will see lists of the 10 most popular DAW's and Cakewalk isn't on that list but the internet has more way more false information than it has facts. And ya Cakewalk is free and therefor has no advertising budget and therefor you won't see it reviewed by the magazines.

I’ve always had mixed results on this topic. The 2 choices for creating a tempo map of a live recording are Audio Snap or drag to the timeline and see if Melodyne can sort it out. Audio Snap can take 4 -8 hours per song so not an option for 30 or more songs In the end it’s just fine to work with out having the tempo and the grid matching the songs. No difference then back before we had a DAW. I have to have a solid reason for the map before I spend that much time making it work. But to answer your question it seems to make less of a mess if you use the Musical Time for live clips. But as I say, I get mixed results. Someday I will figure this out and I bet I can get it to work once I do that.

I just checked.. I have never touched the configuration settings because I have no clue what any of that is for.. both my machines are set to 2. I defiantly didn't do this. Cakewalk must figure it all out somehow.

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And if you’re talking about midi notes then those you use Quantization in Piano Roll View. Watch the tutorials on editing midi.

Just so others reading this don’t get wrong ideas. You can absolutely use on board audio as long as you are aware of it’s in ability to sync overdubs properly. And for sure Cakewalk and Windows like WASAPI modes best I use on board audio with out issues on my office computer. You can do a lot of stuff like editing and midi. But if you’re future plans are to record audio you need an audio interface with ASIO drivers or you will have sync issues.

You should watch the tutorials on the subject of working with audio clips. There’s a lot of them.

This is the second time that the forum has moved my post up the page?? It belongs as the last post. Is this only on this Question and Answer forum? Weird

Myself if I start an export of a 3 min song and the progress bar isn’t trotting along at the expected speed I stop the process and investigate what’s wrong. I know that’s not much help but it has happened many times to me that a 3 min song has extra info past the end and yep 99% of the time it is due to a volume envelope. A big huge marker that says “ End” would be a nice feature.

Yes that's pretty important. Why on earth would they update to a broken driver? And how would any body know that as like @Larry Jones I can't find that info. And is this for your device only or for all in the series? But it might explain the OP's issue if they are using a bad version of the driver. Behringers drivers have always been a bit of a quandary. Like they even are recommending ASIo4all which is totally not needed any more because Windows uses WASAPI. Are they that out of touch with Windows? It would be a shame if they can't supply a good ASIO driver because the Hardware seems to offer the best bang for the buck in features.

Did you install the ASIO driver from the Behringer's support page under downloads? Sometimes it helps if you read the instructions or watch the video supplied with the products. Even the Sweetwater page has a ton of information about this interface. https://www.behringer.com/downloads.html

I missed that line.. But then I also missed that they have So while your waiting for Cakewalk people to help you could try looking in your Passwords in Google Chrome if you have it and it will have saved the correct password. Here you see the Cakewalk.com is the one you need.

Out of curiosity- Did you try logging on to Command Center? That's what works for me. It's not your Bandlab password, its what every you used as your Sonar Sign on for the forum etc. I think it was called Single Sign In. I Install Command Center and before I run it, I copy all my files from my CCC Download folder backup to the new Download folder. This way CCC installs everything real fast.

That's a good idea. One trick that I also tried and it worked was use drum replacer. That will filter out all the mike bleed because now you can use a midi VST instrument for the source. Freeze the synth and then use that. Problem is all of this is time consuming so you really need to want that song to make that sort of time commitment.

What is the make and model? If the drum machine is like one my son owns it is an audio interface as well. So the USB is not only midi, but audio too. If you are trying to record it to an audio track and have input echo on, shut it off. This might cause a feedback loop. Otherwise if you are only using midi tracks it is possible to also create a midi loopback so same thing, disable input echo.

I have a lot of older live band recordings I'll mess around with when I have time. And always dreamed of a tempo match up so I can edit and add midi parts. It's funny how the Melodyne trick either works or it creates a mess. I did find it seems to work if you have a hi hat track. It must like that frequency and the patterns. But this is only with a standard boring rock and roll pattern. It certainly makes a mess of anything different like 6/8 time or blues shuffles. I even tried to create a midi click track playing along with the song as close to time as I could and use that... nope always screws the audio up. The audio snap method might be the only solid solution but the time involved is not worth it for this sort of material. So I just add the midi parts like any real musician would and try to actually play in the pocket. And the the shift key was a new one for me so thanks @Kevin Perry for that. I used to just zoom way in.

I wished I had stayed with 48 back when. Now I'm working with video the 44.1 is a PITA. I had to use 44.1 because that's all my Yamaha 01V mixer supports and I was using it for the digital connection. 44.1 also made sense in the making a CD era too. But now everything I do is either a MP4 or a MP3. I still burn CD's for proofing in the car but it's pretty easy to just change Cakewalks export to 44.1 / 16. Anyhow, glad it worked for you.

I think it's more to do with the drivers for your audio interface than Cakewalk. Example I have no issues when using my much older Scarlet interface. I can leave Cakewalk open and go watch a movie. It supports all diver modes etc. But my brand new Motu M4 behaves terribly with sharing. And it only supports ASIO and WASAPI. I have to shut down Cakewalk now before opening Movie Maker or watching some videos. I imagine this is due to sample rates. In other words, Cakewalk is running at 44.1 and you can't do anything else that is running at 48. But I have no Idea why this is not a problem for my Focusrite. You do hear a little click when it switches.