John Vere

In aWave editing app like Sound forge the workflow is probably more simple. It’s what wave editor are for. load the file ( make sure you have a second back up in case you screw up ) Step 1- find the end of first song and using the keystrokes highlight to the end of the whole track and delete. In Wave Lab this is Shift/End/Delete. Not sure about SF. now you have just the first song so using Save As renaming it to that song and I would put 1- in front of it. In Wave Lab I can now hit Undo and this brings the whole track back. If not just re load the original Step 2 - My cursor should still be at the end of the first song and using Shift/Home /Delete which will highlight from this spot to the beginning and deletes first song. This leaves from song 2 until the end of the track. Now go to the end of the second song and replete step 1. Now you have only song 2. Save as 2- Name of song Hit undo once to undo last delete and now replete step 2 and so on InWave lab I can do what you want in about 5 minutes. I would also be removing between song junk unless you actually want it. I always just do a quick fade on the applause 3 seconds gets the point across. My live recording was done mostly off the board to some sort of high quality recording device like Dat I used them to critique my mixing skills about all that was needed was to Normalize which I tended to just do after I edited each track and made sure the applause was not the loudest level this can happen with quieter folk or classical performances Done thousands of these as when I was doing sound I always recorded the shows. I always let the performers know and offer the recording for a small fee. I have never abused the unspoken rule that these tracks belong to the artist and are never to be used in any way without their permission

This has nothing to do with Cakewalk. Your controller is sending midi data. Cakewalk receives the data and sends it to the VST. So if the controller is sending note number 48 you’ll hear a crash or whatever that note is. If it sends a 35 you’ll hear a kick. You can do 3 things. 1-Change the pad assignment 2-Use a drum map to convert it This would be the only time Cakewalks software is involved 3-Re assign the notes in the VST’s mapping if it has this option. SI drums doesn’t. As said. It is. simple GM kit AD2 does So assign the pads is the easiest solution—but— It would not surprise me if Akai has not supplied a good quality editor that works. I have an Akai Synthstation 25 and it’s super buggy. Half the controls do nothing and when I looked into it I was not alone. Support doesn’t respond and the user forum takes 3 months for a reply. I love my Roland , solid drivers and everything works. And guess who wrote the book on GM. So nobody here can really help other than possibly the drum map option. Your best bet is google about using the editor and see if others have got it to work.

In the check out bin it was $140 Can. What Guitar VST are you using? All the ones I've tried sound like Harpsicords. There not even close to sounding like what I can get using a simple condenser mike in a normal untreated room. I also mix in my PU often recording 3 tracks. 2 mikes and the PU. I have tried Strum Session, Ample Guitar M lite and DSK acoustic.

Yes Velocity. Piano sound best with a good variation in velocity but keep in mind going over 115 can sound too harsh with some VST's. The velocity has bearing on the timber of the sound just like a real piano being played soft or hard. So don't think of velocity for Volume but timber and dynamics. AD Keys is a very loud piano that I use because of it's ability to cut through when mixed with blues or rock guitars. If the meter for the piano VST audio track is showing a healthy level then there should be no difference in the mix than your other instruments. Make sure it's outputting to your master bus.

@scook The demo allowed me to use it as a VST audio plug in. And I used a acoustic guitar to try and see if what the OP was asking would work. As long as the input is hot it will track properly. Soft playing is very glitchy. But midi does not lend it self well to the complications of what an actual guitar sounds like so the end reslut is more piano like than guitar. The last thing I would use this and midi for is emulating a guitar. If you think about it what's the point? But it has many uses as a way to create midi to be used for other instruments. Possibly you might struggle with using a keyboard to input your data if your not a good keyboard player. And this with some tweaking can track cool things like pitch bends and vibrato something a keyboard would not do well. For me the guitar to midi option gives me a third 3 way to create midi tracks. Keyboards controllers and digital drum kits most of us own, but a guitar controller is rare. @abacabThe bass I have been using Melodyne drag and drop for a few years now so that does not require any additional hardware or software. I would not use this app for Bass. Much easier to use a real bass and Melodyne. The tracking errors are very few with Melodyne but this app would require twice as much editing I would think. But as said the demo is free to try. I'm going to keep an eye for a out for a sale price. You can actually get stuff done even with the interruptions and I do have my Godin, I just never have it hooked up these days, but it would work equally as well. What I like about this is the option to take any guitar part and create a parallel midi track. Think about layering possibility's for background.. big fat Polysynths ya! I logged on to the site and will get emails They have a Forum and as said above there are a few people from Cakewalk active there. I saw mr Fogle there.

General MIDI Standard Percussion Set Key Map.pdf I could not say with out reading the user manual for the editor app. But that would seem to be how you re assign pads. I Googled the list of GM drum note assignments SI drums uses GM ( general midi ) Kick is note 35General MIDI Standard Percussion Set Key Map.pdf

The thing with finding the right VST's is you need to try the expensive ones first. Out of the hundreds of freebies I have downloaded I have only kept a few. Most are buggy or just plain sound like POOOH . There are tones of recommendations on this forum and a lot of us agree on a lot of our favourites. Most of mine came with older Sonars. But included with CbB is the studio intrument collection. This to me is a huge step up from TTS-1. If you only made one change it would be to swap out your Bass, Drums, strings and even electric piano to the SI instruments. Export a file with TTS_1. Then swap ot for the SI collection and export that. If it doesn't sound better to you then that I will stop bugging you

@abacab Yes you get both versions for $100 US The demo is free to try. Real easy to download and install. I like companies like this, Didn't even have to hand out my email , no log on,, no strings attached . The demo interrupts playback at random,, seems like 2 minutes or more. But I think everything functions. First the stand alone version: It seems well designed and you certainly get a lot of features that are advanced. Like it scans your existing plug ins and you can use them?? I couldn't get that to work , just kept getting errors this might be a demo thing. It plays the demo piano patch sort of OK with massive delay even at 32 buffer setting. I'm hearing at least a 20 ms delay. And the CPU icon was flashing a yellow warning. If I set my buffer back to 128 the warning stopped but now you can play a note and go get a coffee and come back before it plays. Mabey my systems sucks so would be interesting to see if others can make this thing play in stand alone. I didn't totally a failure. As a VST inside Cakewalk: Well weirdly enough the latency is OK when you stick this in a Audio tracks effects bin. If you set the mixer to wet you get a recording of what ever instrument you were triggering and it's just a hair bit late but that could be fixed.. I recorded an audio track of the electric piano patch and its glitchy but this is not what I would be doing anyhow. So what you need to do is enable it's midi output. This works as planned. I then can choose the MG2 as a input to a midi track or instrument track and record the audio as midi. This is of course pointless if you have Melodyne Studio or better but I only have Assistant so can do polyphonic So I either put my $100 towards upgrading Melodyne or buy this. It's certainly a fun toy. But disappointing about the stand alone which would make it more useful.

https://godinguitars.com/product/xtsa-lightburst-flame The XTsa I also have the Godin 5 string Bass. They actually belong to my son but spend more time at my place than his. We both have way to many guitars and we're not done yet. I just downloaded the Jam Origin MIDI guitar and give it a try tonight.

Basically it cost money to do it right. The Fishman triple play etc. I have a Godin guitar with the built in HEX pick up system and can send midi via my Roland GR 50 guitar synth module. But that system new would be well over $2,000. Anyhow, It still doesn't result in a "guitar strumming" midi track much better than just using the built in strums found on Strum Session. Midi is just not THAT organic. Requires heavy editing to fix all the glitches. The trouble with guitar to midi no matter what the system is you have to play very, very precisely and clean with perfect pitch and picking attack . The pitch to midi conversion in real time demands a lot of processing power. It works like a guitar tuner. You probably have one and realize that you need to feed most of them a clean note for them to work. Especially the cheap ones. I find it works best for simple one note melodies, but Melodyne will do this for free. But you need the Studio version to edit chords and it's not cheap.

This is not the solution at all. You definitely need both outputs. That's not what @Hatstand was getting at. It was a test to see what happens. Have you followed any of the tutorials? I think as Noel is saying you have set up a seriously wrong signal path from end to end. Try the videos from Creative Sauce. He’s excellent and easy to follow.

So might be all along it's those old drives causing issues. I haven't had an active ATA drive since ?? You should see what happens if you disconnect them as part of this trouble shooting adventure. I pulled the graphic card and now the DPC is under control. This computer has always had weird graphic issues anyways and I should have done this a long time ago. The on board graphics actually seem cleaner and brighter. You got me going on all this upgrading and I just dumped W10 into my W7 Acer Laptop. Weird I used the same windows 10 key I used for my old Silverstone. It was a piad for license so if I have an issue I think I can deal with it in my account. But so far there are no weird messages about authorizing. I find it interesting you put the W10 download on a DVD. I couldn't do that because it was a couple 100 MB over the DVD limit. Did you use a dual layer DVD? I had to use an old SATA laptop drive. I just used it again to put windows on the Acer. Now I'm going to put W7 on the Silverstone because it's not happy with W10. I want at least 1 W7 machine running anyhow.

I found this: https://audioassemble.com/best-midi-controllers-for-cakewalk/ And this- @azslow3 is your man when it comes to this question. I just baited him with the old @ trick From my experience it should come with a dedicated driver and not use a Windows generic driver. So before you by go to the product page and look for downloads or some documentation about midi drivers. If it says "plug and play no drivers needed" I myself would move on.

Ya I opened my W7 laptop and didn't see it there but then that laptop came with W8. The people killed the hardrive by overfilling it, system wouldn't boot. They gave it to me. Acer 2016? i5 TWO hard drive bays and DVD. Anyhow all I had was my W7 Premium install , W10 would have cost money. Slapped a SSD drive and cleaned to original drive and put in bay 2. I should really upgrade it as it's sort of not 100% happy driver wise. The camera and card reader as example. But here's an example of looking at what the issue is and taking action. As I posted above my office machine was High DPC. So I removed the offending Graphic card and now its well within the safe zone. This is only 30 sec but I had ran it for a good 30 minutes and it only went about twice this amount probably because I was on the internet and stuff. Here's the WITH graphic card

I can't remember why I installed a Graphic card, I just looked and the MoBo has the typical 3 ports same as the card. I think it was when I wanted to run the TV screen as a monitor. I guess I should pull mine too. It would be a shame to kill your DVD drive. I use mine a lot to burn CD's to proof mixes. Modern drives are SATA however yours is possibly ATA.

Looking at the 3rd screen shot I see the #1 spot is ataport.sys. I googled this and there sure is a lot of issues with audio ( on board) and hi DPC due too this driver. Not sure what is actually does there's not much about that part. But when I run Latency monitor on 3 of my computers I don't have that. But I did get interesting results on each. my main DAW no surprise it stays in the low green even with the wireless internet on. I fired up the old Silverstone which I'm just in the process of adding software. It is only fresh out of the box and it's looking pretty bad. This is vintage 2008? and all the hardware was top notch in it's day but W10 struggled with some of the drivers. This is a fresh install of W10. I'm not even sure how far we should trust Latency monitor as far as it's report and what to do. It always say's the same thing about CPU throttling and when I check it's always disabled by default ( I certainly didn't do it) I also ran Latency Monitor on my Laptop I use for remote recording. Its W7 , i5 8GB RAM and works great. But It also showed a hi DPC count due to yet another system driver. Sorry no screen shot it's off line and doesn't have one drive or drop box. But the point I guess it makes is if it's showing nasty DPC count and your having drop outs then at least you sort of know why. This ones my Office computer I just re built with a new SSD drive and a fresh install of W10. Seems we share a common ground here with the NVIDA driver wining the DPC race to the front.

If you are after your original Sonar Command center files you need to log on to COMMAND center or your "My Account" in the old , now in limbo, Gibson/Cakewalk site. If you have lost your log in info you won't get in as the contact connection are all dead ends now. You'll have to contact via Bandlab staff and see if they can recover your password etc. And once you get this going BACK IT UP> that software is worth a lot of money and some cannot even be purchased.

+1 to that. Michael I think you need to review your workflow. No wonder that is causing issues! It's very simple to just have a track for each instrument. It doesn't matter how many and it doesn't matter if it only plays for one measure or the whole song. And it doesn't matter which VST instrument you assign that track to it will always work. And if you get away from the TTS=1 and use individual VST instruments that are designed for the different sound, example a Piano, drum or bass VST then there's absolutely no need for even using channels or patch changes. You set the VST to the best sound you like and leave it alone forever. Not many people here would choose the TTs-1 for a finished product. Sample based VST instruments are the way to go. And they don't even cost anything if you know where to look. I'm just building a 3rd workstation just for fun where I'm only using CbB and free VST's. I just installed the XLN demo's.

And I repeat- The blend knob has nothing to do with playback mixing of tracks. It is the output from the computer blended with your LIVE input. the track balance is adjusted with track faders. You originally led me to believe you couldn't hear your mike in the headphones saying the control turned everything up or down. The questions I have for you, and it's important because your interface is probably not defective 1. You set the blend knob to the middle. You set the headphone level at about 1 o clock and the main output volume around 10 o clock. 2. When you play a track from Cakewalk you can hear the playback of the track in your headphones and/or monitors. 3. You plug your mike into input 1 and set the gain up until the level is just below cliping and you can also hear that in your headphones. 4. You can adjust the balance between your mike and playback by moving the blend control left or right. If this is all working then there is nothing wrong with your mike or interface. If you could post a sample of these wave files your using as backing tracks that might help trouble shoot. Use the insert other media or post a link to the web site you downloaded from.

You might have dragged a track to the timeline and Melodyne extracted the tempo. As above is a easy way the other place is open Tempo view and delete all but the first event.

When I run Latency monitor with the internet on it goes over and always say's I need to disable speed step even though it is already disabled. So take what it reports with a grain of salt. It also always shows my NVidia card as using the most CPU?? I find this odd as I always thought the whole idea of a video card was to take the the processing load off the CPU and the card does the work. But video cards seem to come with a lot of bloatware etc. The SIlverstone has an older card in it that W10 seems stuck on the drivers so I'll have to pull it out so I can read the label. But I bet it is not supported. I have friends with boxes full of parts so might go on the mooch. Right now the graphics are terrible. But I totally agree with Abacabs approach to troubleshooting It's a process of elimination. Step by step. Example the last thing on my mind was a power supply and USB system causing audio to crackle but it seems to have solve the issue.

Sorry I missed that. Well that does narrow down the issue but seems strange to me. The audio interface is normally the heart of the audio, not the computer. So I guess next step is to figure out why the computer is causing havoc and swapping out the hard drive and a fresh install of W7 ( or 10) would be my first approach. A lot of garbage gets into a system and I myself find it much faster to just go clean and start over than monkey wrench the system to death. As I said I just did this with 2 different computers and they both are 100% now. The old Silverstone is definitely way slower but still running fine. I'm just installing a bare bones CbB set up using only CbB and free plug ins. I'm curious as to how powerful a DAW I can build for absolutely free.

Lots of old threads about pops and crackles on Delta 66. Just a few there were 1,000 more ha ha.. http://forum.cakewalk.com/Clicks-and-pops-in-Sonar-Pro-with-legacy-audio-card-MAudio-Delta-66-m3638625.aspx http://forum.cakewalk.com/Delta-66-and-cracklesizzle-Producer-85X-m1998799.aspx http://forum.cakewalk.com/The-dreaded-quotcrackle-and-popquot-on-a-beefy-system-yes-another-one-of-these-m2228016.aspx http://forum.cakewalk.com/Popping-m3042287.aspx

I have a new appreciation for Focusrite. I think I bought my 6i6 in 2014. It had some minor issues with the drivers at first but they soon fixed them with updates. It's been a very reliable interface and I can't think of any time it didn't run smoothly. It has exactly the features I needed. Then they go and update the drivers which was totally un expected. Tascam did the same with my us1641. it was over 8 years old and they updated the driver. Now those are good companies. I am regretting buying the Motu M4. It is nothing special at all and basically not much of an upgrade from my Scarlett 1st gen. I should have bought the 8i6. But I do like these meters on the front and so far it's behaving itself after I bought a PCIe USB 3 card and a better power supply just to power it up properly. So anybody looking at interfaces be warned- demand that it comes with the option to use a proper power supply. Especially if your using Phantom powered mikes. Either that or make sure your computer has USB 3 ports and a good power supply.