John Vere

Well weirdly enough that didn't work. I opened the original midi file again, and when I hit play Cakewalk crashed!! I haven't seen that for ages. I got the Fatal Error box and before I could read it Cakewalk closed with a bang. I've heard this about the TTS-1 but never had it happen before. So I tried again and its fine?

Thanks as well, Downloading now. Will give it a try as one thing about Vegas is your only licensed for 2 machines and I would like it on a 3rd. This might solve the problem.

On my web site are a bunch of tutorials that explain how to set up MIDI. First two parts are about using a downloaded file to learn how things work and then I get into recording your own parts in part III https://sites.google.com/view/cactus-studios/home

Mine is at 163 same as the downloaded file I guess. Good job on the TTS-1 Version @abacab Still sounds like the TTS-1 but a most passable mix for sure. I see you kept that B2 snare, I could never figure what that sound was for, electro snare for Disco? In a way it's too bad the TTS-1 does not have the full 16 channel output. You could then put the drum kit using channels 10 through 16 assign kit pieces each of those channels and process the sounds a bit that way. I wonder if Michael is following our total side track of his thread? Hope we didn't scare your off. I think our intentions are all for the betterment of mankind and music I guess the OT was the TTS_1 and you got some of us messing around with it now. I think I'll try a TTS-1 makeover version too. Been a long time since I opened those "other" GUI windows were you can edit stuff. I'm going to stick to TTS-1 and only use the Pro Channel see what I can do.

Yes it was Glens I noticed slower. I’m on my phone I’ll listen to your tts1 version later when I can sneak into the studio

Air products are always on sale. I have everything as a result. Most are top notch VST’s and certainly worth it. But they really need to do something about the installers. I just re did 2 computers and Air was the only product that sucks up way to much of your time. First the iLok. Then they never seem to find their libraries. Do not even attempt to relocate them or you’ll have a nightmare on your hands I leave them at the default and they still are lost.

Pro Channel module so absolutely free

Is you keyboard showing and checked in Preferences/ midi/ devices / input I know you mentioned this but just double checking

Yes we cooked the old gobbler and everything there. Still puttering with some finishing touches.

Good job. I realized I removed the fake vocal and the guitar lik because I use this as a backing track. Yours seems like it’s playing slow? The Combi F is totally the correct instrument

Good idea for a topic. I'm always evolving. Right now my go to stuff is Pro channels on most tracks with the EQ very minor tweaks like Lo pass. Also the PC76 Compressor Guitar Acoustic and electric I always use TH3 with at least the stomp box compressor and sometimes the Chorus or Flanger. For global reverb I use Acon Digital Verberate Basic 2 For delay I use something different every time but most used is the Sonitus Delay On my master bus my chain right now is-LP 64 Multiband- BT Brickwall- Span and Youlean meters. I sometimes use BBE Sonic maximizer on live recordings of drums. I missed the question about your looking for vocals, My secrete weapon is this Find the right mike for your voice. Don't just go by what others are using and popularity. It took 20 years but I have settled on a plain old Shure Beta 58 with a good pop filter. I also use a Joe Meek 3Q pre amp so I can avoid using my interface pre's. This set up nets me a solid vocal track that sounds the way I want it to song after song. So in the end I don't really need to process my vocals other than the very light touch of the PC 76 and then the standard bits of reverb and delay. In other word don't just record thinking you can fix this later. Only record thinking this is it, this is a good sounding track without processing.

My experience is my Roland keyboard and my Yamaha midi drums both came with a midi/USB driver. They always reconnect with Cakewalk but I do have to go into preferences and re check the midi input box. My Akai synth station doesn’t have a midi driver and does not show in preferences until I restart Cakewalk

I use Movie Maker ( Vegas) now distributed by Magix. I paid about $30 on sale and it’s a bargain. Even I figured it out in a few hours I tried Cakewalks video option and it’s just way to convoluted. I think it’s meant for scoring movies using multi tracks for music, dialogue and sound effects. Movie maker uses ASIO and your audio interface as well as it has unlimited audio and video tracks. Add text pictures etc and you can output to any format And a big bonus is it can use all your VST audio plug ins. It also comes with Sound Forge wave editor which is on it own worth the price. You can open any audio track directly to SF from within Movie Maker. Great for live videos with bad sound There’s lots of free video editing software around but this is Cakewalks video equivalent

What you are up against is your workflow was 20 years ago. Modern DAWS ( not called VST’s. A VST is a virtual instrument ). Do all the fiddling around for you. Nobody really needs to use CC events any more unless your working with old school GM. All the parameters are easily dialled in within each VST using their GUI interfaces And volume panning and effects all can be automated. But if your dead set on doing some things the slow and painful way you can enter data into the Event list. Just like in 1985 on my Atari ?

I absolutely love Melodyne 5 Assistant. I grabbed the upgrade for only $99 Black Friday deal. It's actually the first time I've used the editor because in the past every time I tried to use it it would freeze up Cakewalk or warn me that my Memory was full? So now for me the opposite is true. Things are working smooth a silk and I have probably spent a few days worth of time using it and never a crash or a glitch. I work with short clips and then immediately render them. Always keep a copy of your original in a safe place.

Did you change the tab? The default is to Recent Projects and you might just be missing that you need to click on New Project.

I think it was a long way back in this thread that that was my conclusion. Because nothing else made sense. I sure hope this works as normally it's not this much of a hassle to set up a DAW.

Most people avoid Bundle files due to weirdness happening.

@scook Yes, That's what I would have thought. It was actually the way a few people answered the OP that I made the assumption that Simple instrument tracks couldn't use audio effects. I've never used one so have no first hand experience. The correct first answer might have been " Insert the audio effects in the instrument tracks Effects bin or the Pro Channel FX Chain." I used to be in the habit of just trying things myself before answering. Using a phone results in me being incorrect too many times because I can not test. I have to abstain from answering with my phone ?

Funny I didn’t know that you cannot add audio effects to a simple instrument track. I guess that’s why I have never used them.

I think as well you can just sign in to you old Cakewalk My Account which was on top of the legacy Forum page. FYI. CbB is Splat. There is no reason to use the older version. All your goodies should work the same in CbB

Why are you using ASIO4all?? Steinberg has a top quality asio drivers and your using a iffy driver?? I think this comes up because people are having sound issues and there are WAY to many idiots out there who advice trying Asio4all. It used to be a solution a long time ago. We totally don't need it now as we have WASAPI which for most folks will work the best for on board sound cards. If you have an Audio interface it will come with a proper ASIO driver- USE IT.

Yes as he said best to use a cloud storage that you share. See which one allows larger files. I use One Drive to share between my computers at home. What's cool about a shared folder is the version stays updated as you both add parts. One way to conserve file size is to take finished audio tracks and bounce them to a single track, Then use SAVE AS to make a new file. When I once did an online collaboration I converted the bass part to midi using Melodyne. Then I sub mixed the vocal and guitar to one track. Midi is real small. When he sent the project back he had added piano and organ which were midi. I then just opened the original full project and dropped his parts into it. You can do the same with audio. Just have a working copy and keep the full version in a different folder.

It should looks like this only less inputs SO for my second mike input I use the Right Focusrite USB ASIO Mic1 If your list doesn't look like mine make sure your using ASIO and your preferences look something like this And I'm going to assume you turned the input gain knob up until the peak light goes red and backed off a hair.