John Vere

Seems there's been a few reports of these plug ins not playing well. Personally I tried them after I got them free from a purchase at Plugin Boutique and found they didn't do anything I hadn't already achieved with plug ins I have. They are also considered heavy CPU users and on my Motu system I had to bump my buffers way up to stop the crackling. I have turfed them. No plug in is worth compromising your system. I doubt if real audio engineers would use them.

In your screen shot track 3 seems to change to something other than what looks like vocals to me. Are you rendering the clips after altering them?

Right click on the keyboard lots of choices there.

Only thing that I can think of if the track has been automated. Either mute or volume At first I was thinking you couldn’t record which is usually caused by having a punch in set

Check your master bus output

And there’s no pre amp to guitar amp. A guitar amp has a pre amp A guitar amp with a mike on it is the most common and popular way to record rock and country music since they invented the electric guitar. There are possibly 1 million ways to record guitar.

Good audio playback with any DAW is a combination of the computer being properly optimized and a good audio interface that uses ASIO drivers. Try running Latency Monitor If you don’t have an audio interface - get one

I actually don't think there is any difference between using DIN and USB midi. I can use both with my controller ( Roland A49) and it's one reason I bought it. It has both USB and DIN outputs. I certainly don't notice a difference when I use either. But boy do I notice a difference if a W10 update overwrites my driver. Using the USB directly to you computer would seem the most efficient because it's only one connection. But it's not that simple. Where the latency comes into play is what technology was used to create that data in the first place, and how your USB system poles that data. This is why the midi driver is important and why class compliant drivers are usually inferior. A DIN midi set up from a quality controller running through a quality midi interface using a manufactures midi driver can theoretically have lower latency than a budget USB set up that uses Windows midi drivers. Another point about class compliant midi is those are the controllers that CbB will usually ignore if you turn it on with a project open. A controller using a midi driver will most times be recognized and CbB will ask you if you want to use it. https://www.midi.org/forum/3502-midi-latency-in-2018 https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-018-1042-7

My advice is to purchase a controller that 1- you like the action and feel 2- comes with a midi driver 3 - has the correct amount of keys you need 4-fits on your workspace A lot of the off brand controllers use cheap plastic keys that are the equivalent of playing a guitar with bad action.

Generally electric guitars need a pre amp that was designed just for them. Example a guitar amp. Myself I use amps and sometimes my Zoom multi effects box. Depends on the sound I want. But definitely a tube amp if you have one gives you smooth overdrive

If this happened to me I would immediately open the file in a Wave editor and diagnose the track. It would also tell you as stated above details like sample rate. Always have a safe copy first If the sample rate is different than your project convert it in the Wave editor and run the diagnostic again. If it peaks then undo the conversion, lower the gain, and re convert it. I would make sure when you share tracks that you both work with the same sample rate. And if that isn’t the case, then tell them to back off on the level at their end. With digital tracks there’s no reason to push to the max.

No problem. It's just sometimes we get people posting things like... "I started a project and the computer didn't automatically make me sound good" That's right folks.. sometimes a little WORK goes a long way. Just be happy your not using Tape.....

No. How hard is it to simply use the template? You make it sound like a huge deal. I can populate a project with templates in less than a minute.

Good, now your rockin! I was going to recommend that but you said you had tried everything Get that going and then lets help you clean up your song. Your not that far away from achieving a good mix. By the way, what are you using for monitoring?

This! I would rather use 8.5 than X1. They had things working pretty good by X3e.

Absolutly Use Track Templates. Create your track including, effexts send, input settings, colours, which busses it send to and save as a Track Template. I use this exclusively for new tracks.

SI Bass is part of the Studio Instrument package which goes a long way back. But it is still included with CbB. Open the assistant and go to Apps and choose the Install add ons

Often when Cakewalk crashes it is due to a faulty plug in. First thing I would try is remove the Garritan from the VST folder. Just put it somewhere else for now. Cakewalk is probably crashing on the VST scan. For the Roland keyboard make sure you download the latest midi driver for it. https://www.roland.com/ca/support/by_product/a-800pro/updates_drivers/

Probably one of the many major bugs that X1 was famous for. The Master Bus gobbler bug. Just insert a new one.

Fiber Optic here We used to live rural and had Satellite which sucked. There was 80GB max we paid $130 a month for the stupid satellite now we pay $70 for unlimited. Get different results with different test sites. I have always used one drive to store projects but only my backing tracks which have no audio. That way I can open them on both computers and they are up to date. Also this gives my 3 safe copies. The 2 local folders and the cloud. I guess I could store album projects on the cloud. I just checked and last album which has 18 songs is 10 GB. But I'm a ruthless deleter! I know people keep way too many tracks that are sub par, I don't. If it sucks, even a little, it's in the dust bin.

Yes always OPEN a midi file. This is true for me not only Cakewalk, but with Cubase and Harrison Mix bus. I'm sure it's universal to all DAW's. Importing is not for whole songs but for when you want a midi clip added too a project.

It’s obviously hung up. Kill the process and try again. I would have done that after 10 minutes

On a normal connection it takes a few minutes.

A DAW has no control over what happens inside a GUI for a plug in. There would need to be a universal feature that the manufactures added.

So your tracks look like they all might be midi. The answer to the problem might be there is somehow a global volume CC coming in. Try turning off all midi inputs.