John Vere

In my tutorials I always mention opening the Help module which you can find in Views. Then when you point the mouse at any place on the screen it will tell you what it is and what it does Super helpful for newbies and then when you ask for help you could say with confidence “The track strips on the left”.

I guess I’m in the habit of closing all open software before I install anything so hadn’t noticed this. But it does sound like a issue that could be easily resolved @Noel Borthwick that will give him a notification about this thread

One tool that has worked for me is BBE sonic maximizer It brings out harmonic overtones sort of like tube overdrive does. I’ve never used it on a finished song but it certainly works with badly recorded drums or bass to get that mud out. I read once were someone took a dull recording and copied it to 6 tracks and then processed each to highlight parts and then used these to remix. I think it might work but would be careful about phase issues

You have zoomed in too far it will be a matter of zooming out until you see as much of the timeline as you’re needing

I use a few different USB foot switch’s all will do what you need. They are all programable with any combinations of keystrokes. They also retain the programs in static memory so once programed you can move them around. The best of them is the Stealth because you can use up to 5 standard foot pedals the kind used for keyboards. I got those from Amazon for $12 each. The other bonus is it has the most together software as well. https://stealthswitch3.com/stealthswitch-3/ I have that programmed to control playback of Win Amp for my now defunct live performances. For Cakewalk I’ve been using a cheap Chinese model I got on Amazon. It has 3 pedals. I have it programmed R W Spacebar This one below was my first I used for almost 15 years. Built like a tank and the company sent me 3 new internal micro switches when one started to fail. I only got the stealth because I needed 4 switches. https://xkeys.com/xkeys/footpedals.html

Open the tempo view. Read the documentation for it

Drum VST instruments have their own stereo mixer and a lot of them allow multi channel output. Therefore midi instruments are not generally considered mono or stereo. It’s the VST interface That outputs however many tracks that you desire. Guitar is normally a mono track unless you recorded using a guitar multi effects box.

Are you in the States? Go on the Sweetwater sight. That gives you a good idea of pricing. I would think you could get a Focusrite Solo and a Mike and cable for that price. They sometimes have packaged deals were you get everything

Toss that POS in the garbage and by a proper Mike and Audio interface. Those are for Podcasting not serious audio recording. The software is free but building a properly functioning recording system is not.

If your curious do a search of your C drive and it will show you all the folders. The short list is a search for Melodyne in Program Files. The other is all of C drive using Celemony.

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As always great stuff. My kinda guitar tone. Who needs a singer. Guitars can sing just fine.

It’s a challenge being the lead guitar player, The sound guy and recording engineer. The recording took 3rd place. That’s why I chose only 8 tracks. I really didn’t have the time to set up and monitor any more. I later started to record 16 tracks but truthfully they didn’t turn out any better. There’s just all that leakage to deal with. You make a bass of guitar boner and it’s on 10 tracks. Not just one . You should hear what Melodyne does to bad notes with leakage. Not pretty.

The trouble is that USB mikes use weird drivers and Cakewalk just hates them. Those mikes work great for podcasts but there’s a million post with people that have issues when using USB mikes

Like I said, now a 2 page thread that only needed one answer "yes" But once again it brings up a topic that many are still confused by. And as I also said RTL doesn't come into play unless your recording overdubs and using real time effects like a Guitar Sim. So therefor one should not even be hearing latency if all they are doing is editing. If you are recording with on board audio, you need to perform a loopback test and adjust your timing offset.

This is weird as obviously Windows sound can change it's mind. I had tested on this machine a few times and the results were always the same, Now I'm getting this even lower RTL with WASAPI shared. I work on this machine a lot, it is my office computer and in a nice sunny room compared to the dudgeon my studio is in. I test new VST downloads and software on it as well as dig though old projects to see what I have. I also do all my video editing here. I used to have my Focusrite 6i6 hooked up but now I just use the on Board because it works great. This works very well as a Studio B and the only thing that actually cost any money in the $200 Mackie powered monitors.

There's a big difference when using WASAPI modes with on board and using them with an ASIO interface. The performance is surprisingly real good with on board sound but terrible if you try and use them with a proper audio interface, This is the heart of why I made the 2 videos. During my tests for making this video, I stumbled across the performance difference and investigated it further. A lot of new people to Cakewalk don't have audio interfaces but have trouble just getting sound from On Board.

@Jonathan Sasor On my tests WASAPI EXCLUSIVE was only 13ms RTL @ 256 buffer ( safe) on a Real Tech card on 3 different machines. I mostly use WASAPI Shared for the reasons you stated, and for using OBS studio and Movie Maker with Cakewalk open, but Shared is more like 21ms RTL which of course doesn't matter when your editing and even recording or working with midi. In my video I explain the common issues people run into like Sample rate miss match and Master Bus defaulting to Digital etc. I did a lot of testing and my conclusion is for a lot of work you can perform in a DAW you actually don't need an ASIO interface.

This turned into an long post that only needed a “ Yes absolutely you can”. I made a video about optimize for on board audio. You should use WASAPI EXCLUSIVE. My guess is that you didn’t set your master output properly. There is zero difference and you don't need an audio interface for almost anything you do in Cakewalk other than overdubbing new audio. And the only reason for that is the latency offset that requires ASIO ( see my other video).

Hah! I even fooled a musician ?The video was from a different gig and a different song. It’s all I had to work with. I tried to avoid close ups of singing. But I did want the video as it shows the stage energy we had going.

The 8i6 is top of my list if I give up on the Motu. My Scarlett never had issues with crackles and pops. My system pops every time I change focus between apps. And I’m having to be careful of how many plug ins I’m using at 256 setting. Scarlett is just fine so it’s definitely a crappie driver for the Motu.

What driver mode are you using.? This sounds like an audio driver issue. Try a different USB cable or port.

Thanks. Like the video cover screen says,, Blue Rodeo ,, Covered by the Undercover band. Possibly outside of Canada Blue Rodeo is not well known They are huge here. Starting out in 1989 over 15 albums etc. My son has played bass for Jim Cuddy a few times . I have about 20 hours of this material. Project lengths are around 50 minutes with dozen songs each . So first I have to edit into individual songs and then the editing . Once I have one song like this one I can use it as a template for the rest .

What Kalle said. 99% of the time this happens there's a auto punch set way down the timeline.