John Vere

Take it back and get an interface with midi ports. But that said- Most keyboard have a USB midi connection. The 2i2 The 4i4 Or this.

Please go to the tutorials and spend some time with them your are asking about very basic stuff that is well documented in the help files and tutorials

I’m pretty new to using it just started back in November when I got M5 update. I spent a good full evening watching videos and reading first. In the past I could not make sense of it and always gave up and use V Vocal. I’m glad I spent the time learning about it first and have had no issues as a result But from advice given here and in the videos I chop my vocals into short clips. No more than 4 bars and most shorter. Once I’ve finished editing I use the Render function as advised and save the project before moving to the next clip. So far no issues at all. I like that when I return to the project the clips I’ve done are marked as Melodyne

It should be as simple as disconnecting your interface and windows sound should automatically become active. Just click the speaker icon in the tray and open sound settings and check all is working Then in Cakewalk change to WASAPI shared which is a good driver for editing. I do this all the time. You can’t use ASIO with out the interface so WASAPI is best.

Are you aware that the mixer should be plugged into line level inputs and not into pre amps? It is not a good idea to double up on mike pre amps. It's not needed and can raise the noise floor. A mixer is a great idea for front end and can handle just about any input and boost it to line level. Once again.. basic audio engineering 101. So if your audio interface has a line level inputs, usually on the back as 3/4, use that and not the front panel inputs. Unless those can by pass the pre amps which some do with switches.

You should have said that to begin with. Read your topic title and what’s the first thing you’ll think the question is about ? Turn your monitors down when you start and stop the audio engine or make any changes for that matter. Your going to damage them. It’s the equivalent of the bass player unplugged his cable dropping it and walking off the stage without asking the sound crew if he was muted yet. Yes that’s right. Sound equipment can’t automatically know what you are doing , you have to operate it.

I think what Noel said about some of us never run into issues is hugely true. I’m one I read about the complaints and I scratch my head thinking “ WT heck is that dude trying to do anyway. It’s like people think software should conform to their way of thinking and if it doesn’t work that way they cry bugs I spent hours and hours working with midi and audio adding effects and what not , nothing hugely complicated , and months go by and everything works as planned day in day out. Cakewalk can be quirky but all software is such. I just upgraded from Movie Studio 14 to 17. Now that’s bugs. I returned to 14 and it is stable. At least Cakewalk has gone in the right direction and for me it is 99.9 % stable as a rock.

This I exactly my thoughts too. Judging by forum activity Cakewalk has not truly expanded its user base. They must have lost a ton of serious users during the transition who never came back once they got going on other DAWs Once burned I was one of the few who refused to leave figuring worst case scenario was X3 for the rest of my days. I don’t think I could ever go back now. I sure hope if they do pull the plug that they unlock it and leave the door open I think if tomorrow they announced that Cakewalk now requires a paid license most of us would gladly anti-up the cash. It’s still weird that they kept it free and are paying staff to further development it.

Please start your own thread. It's confusing and people have to read 2 pages of junk to find your question. This was a totally dead thread were the OP never even answered. Updated note link in above post is now dead use this

You say you’re not rendering I was told that it’s best to render each clip when finished. if your not sure your finished you can always go back to a safety copy or just re open the clip

My original involvement with the Cakewalk forum was to ask questions as I was learning. At some point you become smart enough to answer questions. I owe 99% of my proficiency at Cake to reading the old form. Not so much of that happens here anymore

Don't worry, I only go there with Popcorn already made.

Oh well. Thought this might be the case. There's always Gear Slutz if you can handle the abuse.

Yes this is just like Bandlab app as compared to Cakewalk.. Totally different market. In my family there are a few young teenagers just discovering music creation using these "APPS" one could argue that they are just creating more of the same stuff that seems to have flooded the world of music. They use pre created loops and then for the most part RAPP over this into their cell phones and then lord help us, they post it to you tube. A friend just stopped by yesterday ( one of the few who is allowed) and was all excited because her grandson and friend had posted one of these you tubes. It was terrible in every way a home made video could be terrible. But to her the grandson might as well have been a super star. The artistic equivalent of Googling a picture, printing it, and telling everyone this is your picture you "made". Anyhow as long as they stay away from my DAW all is good.

I don't often wander around the forum site but the main pages are real boring now. Same stupid questions over and over. It's great to help people who are truly stuck, but most of these people seem to think for themselves. 99% of the questions are easily Googled. One thing I just noticed as I answered a post here about a dead laptop, is we no longer have a Hardware Forum? That was one of my favorites on the old site. Any of you old Hosts, I know that you are all hiding down here-- have any pull around here and can see if we could bring back the Hardware sub forum?

Don't toss out a perfectly good laptop. This is super easy to fix with minimal tech skills. If it's the SSD drive. Just open the back and swap out for a new one. Go to here https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10 Use the tool to create a USB flash drive on a different computer and use it to install Windows on the laptop. It should automatically start the install when you turn the laptop on with the blank SSD drive and the usb plugged in. When it askes for a License say you don't have one. This is important. Then MS will use the original license that came with the laptop even if that was W7 still. I just did this a few weeks ago. Regarding the old drive and the data, if you order one of these- https://www.amazon.ca/CableCreation-22pin-Power-Adapter-Driver/dp/B01ESJS36Q/ref=asc_df_B01ESJS36Q/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=335024094888&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14340770628949613721&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1001901&hvtargid=pla-611589196453&psc=1 You might get lucky and the data on the disk is still retrievable. I sure hope you have back ups of your important stuff.

That was in my first reply in the duplicate thread that you posted. You should carefully read what people say in reply’s as that was a few days ago.

What he said. You should only have 3 or 4 scan paths so just go to them and look and delete it

Working with live audio for 2 decades doesn’t always qualify a person for pro sound. I’ve seen this a lot in places like churches where some pour dude got stuck with the sound system because he new how to plug stuff in. The musicians would be complaining about how horrible the sound was in the church and ask me to come and troubleshoot. Things were all wrong from top to bottom. They had been buying things like 32 band EQ because the guy at the music store told them they needed this. Worse is the were sold a feedback destroyer. All stuff the pour volunteers had no clue about. Their education in audio was passed down from untrained volunteer to untrained volunteer And some had been doing it (wrong) for Yes. two decades. Anyone with any proper audio training who had never set up a computer and audio interface before would have correctly set the recording level instantly. They probably Read The Instructions cause that’s what proper training teaches you

I tried the demos of all of them and ended up making my own and use Session Drummer to play them. As said all of the samples were hits and I wanted drags and swish. The best brush hit is found in the lowly TTS-1

Delete post. I see you talking about VST’s not Audio

I think what you are experiencing is a badly written ASIO driver. Did you look this up on user forums like Gear Slutz? Some of the historically worst drivers have been the ones that come with certain brands of mixers. For good performance best to use a well know popular audio interface like Focusrite, Tascam, Steinberg, Motu etc. Most of us have buffers set at the most at 128 or 256 and RTL around 7 -11 ms. You really should not use WDM mode if your overdubbing if you want tracks in sync.

Mix recall can be used if both projects are identical in structure. Like as in a bunch of live band recordings. I did this a long time ago and it worked. it involves copying the mix recall file from the first song folder by opening it in the browser and I think you just drag and drop into the second song. If the project is different then your best course of action is using track templates.

Best you start your own thread People waist time might not realize that this is an old thread

Nobody else has your problem. We do all this using the smart tool one handed. The other hand is needed to hold the beer mug