John Vere

Ok you just found out why it was free. I have tried 100’s of freebies and generally only 1 in 30 are any good. Some are so bad you have to wonder why they even exist

What's so hard about dragging to the timeline? takes 2 seconds for a short clip. I see it's top of Marks list too. I usually do this with live recordings to see what the closest tempos was in general. But it does depend on which track I use to do this, that's why I said it depends on what the audio clip is from. Obviously sustained sounds won't work.

I remembered the thread because I was going to warn them about penalty's for over use of Smiley faces which is against the forums rules oops a smiley face , I didn't do that, must be the software...

Probably a rotten plug in your using

Older thread but I just found this while looking at all the tutorials I discovered a similar trick one day when a client asked if I could add a little bit of reverb while they tracked. I had just changed my set u and didn’t want to re patch everything so I simply put input echo on, set the send to the reverb bus on pre fader and turned down the track fader. The reverb came through the back end with the tiny bit of slap back delay which actually sounded good.

I think if you drag it to the timeline Melodyne should show the tempo but depends on material. Then undo the change. or try opening in Melodyne Some delay effects have tempo detection

The OP is trying to use not one, but two third party audio drivers. Both are totally unnecessary.

Your only making life complicated by using that app. It doesn’t do anything you can’t already do with your on board audio settings. in my signature is a link to my tutorials Watch the one on on board sound and follow the instructions and you will have sound

Are you making a GM compatible file to share on line? As far as I remember any of the Settings like reverb and chorus need be added to the event list. I don’t think TTs 1 settings are saved in a midi file. Pretty sure it’s always been like that

I watched some of those and as I said, some are outdated, the screen looks totally different in most as I guess they are from Sonar Plat. They are a good starting point but I also understand by watching some of them why people will say they watched the videos and still don't get it. Example watch the one on setting up midi and it's real good and too the point but it ends without explaining about how to connect that track to a soft synth. I then couldn't find the follow up. I plan on watching all of the videos just to make notes.

Yet another drive by posting.

This is exactly it. I'm not sure how many new comers are aware of the tutorial sub forum. And now the problem is a lot of good stuff has fallen off the first page. It's almost like we need a sticky at the top with all available videos listed buy topic with links. I'm not sure who the moderators are these days it would require a little time to do this, I'd gladly create the post, it would be a huge time saver for helping on the forum. New releases could be added as time goes by. Another thing comes to mind is that the videos are checked for accuracy and quality. I've watched a few that are not exactly correct or just outdated.

So from what I understand you have a multi track recording and there are multiple songs along the time line- correct? The first thing you need to do is cut each song into individual projects. Then you wouldn't have your issue.

If it doesn’t work like a video game it’s not user friendly ? But I think you just hit the nail on the head. Cakewalk was not designed with amateur engineers in mind. It started with midi sequencing which hasn’t really evolved much since. But then the audio part was originally designed to replace a multi track recording studio set up. Over time more and more professional features have been added and the GUI has grown into the equivalent of a million dollar studio rig. I kept Resolve installed because it looks like it might be worth the effort to learn. As I get more into making videos I’m sure to need some features that Vegas doesn’t have at my versions level. Oh and talk about not user friendly DAW’s. I just got an offer to update Cubase $440 can. So there you go if you were not a Cakewalk fan you would have to fork over more cash just to get a few updates. I read the update list and some of the stuff Cakewalk had years ago

When I see your short video and how many moves it takes to just get to the tools I think of how Wave lab keeps the dialogue box open until you close it I guess you can do as @Tom B has done but it would be better if you could just pin the dialogue box like you do with VST’s GUI boxes

Your clock rate has changed. This happens when you play a video or any media that uses a different rate You are probably using on board sound. In my signature is a link to my tutorials watch the video about on board sound and it will show you how to fix this Oh and how do you set a tempo for a track? I didn’t know you could do that

I used Resolve as an example of software that is complicated and has no built in tutorials. I guess it is not what you call user friendly. As a result I moved on. I’m sure there are long time Cakewalk users who if given Cubase would not make much progress in a day as it too is not what you call user friendly Actually I think it’s pretty rare for powerful software to be user friendly. My first Daw was Cakewalk Guitar Studio. Before that I was Atari and DrT KCS which was only midi. It didn’t take long for me to find my way around Cakewalk and yes I had a manual. The piano roll midi was my steepest learning curve for me. I continued to use my hardware synth rack because I had no clue what a VST was for probably 4 year went by before I figured that out . And because I had a crummy Creative sound card, audio took a long time to get working . That’s the day I joined the old forum in 2004 . I did all the wrong things for a long time and this is why to this day I sympathize with new comers

I have always used 2 monitors and keep the multi dock there as I will use the PVR a lot while recording and then the Console view for mixing. I made a Workspace that most times will set all this up for me nicely. Workspaces are your friend. One click and what used to take 30+ moves is there. What I always tell newbies is to open the Help module and cruise around the workspace. The help module will tell you what everything is. Which brings me to this: Here is a solution to 99% of the dumb question we get from newcomers: Don't know how hard this is to produce,, But example I'm new to the world of Video. The first time you open Movie Studio ( Vegas) there's a short on screen animated navigation tutorial you can go though. Talk about a time saver for me. Movie Studio is equally as complicated as Cakewalk. I had the software figured out in a very short time because of that tutorial. And there is a legacy of help Tutorials on any given task. Most are well done. But the--- I was told to not waste my money on Movie studio and try the Free Resolve video editor. I spent a good 3 hours before finally giving up. I couldn't get anywhere and I watched tutorials which were not ever about what I wanted to do.. and tried the help files. I could not add new tracks , add texts edit anything. All things I did in Movie Studio right away or easily found info about. That experience might be the same experience a newbie would find with Cakewalk. Complicated Software and scattered information. Including a lot of very outdated stuff. We can't tell everyone to RTFM and most even need help finding the correct version-- and pointing people at tutorials is almost as complicated because most of them look to me to be like the ones I found for Resolve. Over my head, outdated and assuming I know the language. Probably because Cakewalk is free it has changed the dynamics of who the new users are. You can tell most have no money to spend on proper studio gear. SO it's all USB mikes and On board sound now. Its a big reason I thought I'd give a shot at making some simple tutorials as I get pretty tired of trying to solve the same issue over and over. # 1 Question " I can't hear any sound from Cakewalk" There are actually very few people helping answer question and it most likely because it's pretty boring stuff for experienced users.

This is it, it's not really up to the DAW, it's the controller that has settings to adjust the velocity. My Roland I choose the Velocity paremeter and then use the universal slider to go from full to none. It results in a midi velocity of 64 at none. But I only use that for Organ. Drums I defiantly want the velocity. I just edit it in PVR if it's too much. This depends on the type of music and if you want real drums or a drum machine sound.

OK just wanted you to be aware that you don't put Melodyne in an effects rack. It is used as a regional effect. And it would be odd to pitch correct a VST instrument anyhow. There's no need to buy sound cards these days. On Board audio is very good for just about everything. You can even do a lot in Cakewalk with on board audio. Only thing that is difficult is recording because computers don't have proper connections and without ASIO your tracks won't sync. I cover all this in the videos. The Claretts are top quality interfaces, a lot more price wise for the better pre amps than the Scarlett line. I like Focusrite product so you got my thumbs up on that move. And you can actually use your Audio interface to play anything. I only use my interface on my main daw and I can play movies etc.

OK fair enough. My issue was with a product from 2002 and I would hope they made improvements. But over and over on the forum for as long as I've been a member there have been a lot of threads with driver issues related to Creative. I don't think any serious studio rigs would include a Sound Blaster. They have always been avoided by studio musicians. My favorite all time post here was from @CJ Jacobson who's sage advice to a Sound Blaster user was to take it to the tallest building in town and toss it off. So I'm not alone in my quest to rid this world of those cards. I only have limited data in my brain on the subject and all of it has been negative. You are actually the first person I have heard a positive review from. I actually still have the Audigy in a box somewhere. It's issue was the sync would drift around in any mode. Every loop back test came back different. Basically the clock and the driver sucked. I returned to using my Yamaha MD8 deck and only using Cakewalk for Midi. Later on the second attempt bought a M Audio fast track pro ( I still have it) and generally never looked back. It worked without issues and I could finally use ASIO properly. You can understand why when I see someone having issues and they are using a Creative card why I will recommend they purchase a proper audio interface made for recording.

In my signature is a link to my tutorials Watch the one on ASIO. You might want to do the loop back test I explain in the video. This will troubleshoot if the driver is not reporting the RTL correctly But 2 things make sure you have bypassed effects. Some effects are known to increase latency that ASIO driver does not calculate Check in sync and cashing and make sure your audio interface is the device for timing.

I have a SSD drive in a USB enclosure. I just move it between my computers. Just open the project from the drive. Never noticed any problem with this system.

May I ask why you have Melodyne in the effects rack of a VST instrument track? My first sound card was a Creative SB Audigy It never worked for recording. Was great for playback and games. The problem is Creative has the worst audio driver on the planet. I guess that has never changed All I can say is you will be chasing your tail until you get a interface with a ASIO driver. If I remember correctly I found out Creative doesn’t use ASIO but a wrapper for WDM mode. Like ASIO4ALL. that was 10 year ago so things might have changed

Thanks Steve, good eyes. I was having trouble with the different markings due to the Language. That's a weird interface you defiantly would need a manual to figure it out. Sorry I don't have time to go that far today. But at least I see it has an ASIO driver and for W10 so that's good. So make sure you are using ASIO mode and that all your inputs are checked. I can at least now see that you do have Midi in /out on both devices. and also assume those are connected to the Edrol And I see the Edrol has a optical input but I see the Korg does not have digital outputs. You must be meaning it is hooked up with Midi. Then it looks like the Edrol has both RCA inputs and a Guitar and Mikes Input but they are calling it a 2 channel interface. This might be what is happening. You have connected the Korg to the RCA jacks and they share the input with the guitar. So you are playing the midi track to trigger the Korg and that comes back with the RCA cables so you can hear it but it will also get recorded. You need a 4 channel interface or a small mixer.