John Vere

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.

So there you go. I think that might be a simple plan. Pull that old drive and install new SSD. I just paid less than $100 for a 480 Install a fresh copy of windows 7 and see if all the issues go away. It is nice to keep those old pci cards alive but I noticed over time on the forum people reported that they can go south on you.

http://www.goldwave.ca/goldwave.php Lifetime membership for only $70 Can. I bought it a long time ago it was $50. I was worried about the Lifetime being short lived but they are still going strong. It's a Canadian company as well so of course I'm patriotic about that. I use it for MP3 batch conversion too. My wife uses it to record just the audio from some of her on line seminars. The user interface is dead simple to understand with those nice big cheerful icons. https://www.magix.com/ca/free-download/sound-forge-pro/ I like Sound forge tools for cleaning up old recordings on cassette or vinyl. It come free with Sony turntables and I got the updated version when I bought Movie Studio. Sony used to own Vegas and SoundForge but it is now Magix. I think it's also around $70. But Wave Lab has some features I also need that the others don't have. And it's workflow is faster. It's stupid crazy to learn and a lot of good features are hard to find.

+1 to toping and tailing in a wave editor. This takes me all of a minute to prepare a wave file. I even leave fade outs to do there as I can get it perfect. Gold Wave is free to try. Wave Lab is only $99. I gave up on trying to get Cakewalk to export a "perfect" wave file. Take to long and especially for a whole album.

And better yet install a SSD drive for the OS!

it was just my second workstation my main DAW has vvocal installed. I had just updated everything and my hard drive started to act up. So I had to build it back up again. Was well worth the bother as it’s performing 100 % better due to the SSD OS drive now.

From day 1 Noel has said that CbB is optimized for W10. So there probably isn't a version of CbB that runs perfectly on W7. That said I have logged hours and days using CbB and W7 and a Tascam us1641 ( very old hardware) but this is only recording live bands. I don't do any VST work on that computer anymore. Just audio. I guess I could try it I haven't updated CbB since last June on that machine. So Michael you say it isn't the Hardware but it most defiantly is because that hardware is not going to run CbB the way it would with a new interface and W10 installed. You can most certainly run W10 on that machine unless there are unsupported components like Video cards. As @abacab has said your other option is to go back in time a few years and use software that supported W7 and the Delta driver.

Good to know. I guess I normally use 8.5 Producer. I only have X1LE and the next is X3e Studio. I haven't tried to load VVocal so didn't notice it didn't work. I doubt I'll need VVocal but it pops up on older projects which at this point I think I've mostly updated.

You won't loose anything as Scook has said. I just did a re build and I installed X1LE first to grab VVocal. In my opinion it was the worst version of Cakewalk ever released. You really do need to move forward. You can still go back to X1 as you are learning CbB but you will never go back once you see the 1,000 of improvements made since then. X1LE was a bare bones version. CbB is the top of the line Cakewalk based on Platinum. And as Steve said X1LE is only 32 bit. Nobody should be using 32 bit plug ins anymore unless it's an old favorite that never got upgraded. If I get a crash it will always be an old project with a 32 bit VST. I have removed them from my folders and put them out of the way. Here is a screen shot of X1LE plug in manager. If I opened this in any later versions there is actually more than a full page of effects but they are all VST 64 bit so don't show in X1LE.