John Vere

So out of curiosity I took a finished song and rendered it from 155 BPM up to 170 in Wave Lab and save as " Song 170 BPM " I opened the original Project and dragged this to a new track. This way I could listen to both and also see the ending point change. I then dragged the unaltered version to a second track and rendered it with Cakewalks Default algorithm. Cakewalks interface is sort of crude compared to Wave Lab so it only offered a percentage, not a Tempo. I went back to Wave lab and it showed tempo and a percentage of 91.17 % So I used 91 % . A very tiny bit of sibilance on vocals in the Cakewalk version, not sure why and it only noticeable to me because I just spent 40 hours working on this song!! But it works fine. I will still use the Wave Lab version because I'd rather think in terms of tempo than a percentage. Under a microscope I think it does less damage. But the Cakewalk time stretch is right there ready to use, so nothing lost by trying. Not sure what happens if you highlight all the audio in a big project and render and not about to try I do have a song with only a few audio tracks so might try it track by track and see if everything stays synced. But I see right away the big issue is because it doesn't use a tempo I will have to guess at what to change the midi tracks tempo to.. I guess can open wave lab and it will tell me, right.

I just watched a video a few days ago that showed this

Laptops are a pita because of the way they optimize them for power. I always have upgraded the HD and fresh install of windows. This has become tricky because the laptop comes with the OME software on the recovery drive and if you use it you right back in do do land. so your almost forced to use a cracked version or go pay for the real thing from MS. my laptops are still W7 for this reason. I had bought an actual disk copy and mine all have stickers with serial numbers that work. I’d hate to think what happens now with W10.

Yes well worth owning but time stretching is not available in elements for $30. Only in Standard and Advanced $300 plus

In my signature is a link to my tutorials. They are real easy to follow and take you through the basics of using midi. It easier than you think.

So that more or less answers your questions. But do you understand what they are saying?

What driver mode and audio interface are you using?

The foot switch I use cost about $30. It’s dead simple to program. it’s cheap plastic but so far held up for a few years. For my live gigs I have a Stealth Switch 3. It’s just a box with USB and five 1/4” jacks that you can use any sustain type pedal with Anyhow look up USB foot switch you’ll see dozens of options. the software lets you record and store any keystrokes. The software for the cheap ones is crummy but works. The stealth has really good software. The thing is you don’t need to use midi or act or nothing. If you program for a space bar that will work in all software. I’m forever typing a R or W into my lyrics cause I stepped on the pedal

I have been a big fan of Wave Lab since version 3. I have logged thousands of hours mastering and editing everything from songs to funeral services with it. I forgot about the time stretch function so out of curiosity I just fired it up. I think last time I used it was on Wave Lab 4 and Windows XP with a Celeron and 500MB of RAM and it was glitchy so haven't tried since. Anyhow I took a song from 120 BPM all the way to 140 BPM expecting artifacts. Could hear ( or see) nothing. It seems to work perfectly. I have Wave Lab 7 elements it cost only $100 Can. There is now Wave Lab 10 which I imagine is even better. I think the Pro version can do a even higher quality render, as you see mine only goes to Standard. It especially endear itself to me a week or so ago when I found out it also can create DDP files for mastering CD's. Of note is you can set Cakewalks tool menu to include any WaveEditor like wave Lab. So this just got me thinking of the few songs I've had that I played great guitar parts on and wanted to speed it up just like the OP. What I can do is tool copy the 4 or 5 audio tracks one at a time and re set the tempo. Will be interesting to see if they all sync up. My songs are more Midi than Audio so it is a good option. Thanks for bringing this up this made my day!

My observation is that generally a well behaved DAW will go hand in hand with the Quality of the ASIO driver supplied by manufacturers of interfaces. 10 year ago USB ASIO drivers seemed to suck if you had a lower price interface. And PC specs used to also matter. Notice that there’s no point asking “ What are your computer specs?” anymore when troubleshooting someone’s issues. It will be rare to find someone with an under powered machine these days. And generally you can get away with breaking the rules we had 10 years ago like shut down the internet as it seems to make little difference with modern systems Seems most mainstream audio interfaces have good drivers now. And I’m impressed by company’s like Focusrite who upgrade drivers for their older units. Seems very few people have issues anymore and when we do they are that much harder to pin down

Somebody else was recently having issues and turned out the USB cable supplied with the interface was the cause. My main DAW is a HP and yes they come with bloatware like all off the shelf computers so it's always the first thing anyone should do is go into the Apps tab in settings and start uninstalling as much as you can. But that said when I first used the computer it worked perfectly without tweaking but that's a desktop, laptops seem worse for using as a DAW. It's sometimes in the BIOS where the problems hide. My son bought a Dell laptop and it was just unusable for recording. It was the BIOS.

There is a toggle for now position behaviour. CTRL W this toggles between stop in place and rewind for the spacebar. I use a cheap Chinese 3 pedal foot switch and you cannot program that toggling unless you waste a switch that would macro ctrl W it’s no big deal to set it by hand and then the foot switch behaves correctly while recording.

You should not need to check ms wavetable. in my signature is a link to my web page and I have both video and text based tutorials on using midi. You don’t list an audio interface which is the most important piece of gear for anyone who wants to record audio to a DAW.

Another reason might be the midi clip created could get nudged out of time. Just quantize the midi track when done and it will line up

Put a ampersand in front of his name and he’ll get a notification @Daniel Bautista

You’ll need to load the clip into a Sample player VST which has a pitch bend option. There might be an audio version VST google it

Well geeze, I just turned the Scarlett down to 32 and the stupid thing won't glitch when I playback a song with 6 VST instruments all sample based, 5 audio tracks and dozens of effects all over the place. I have 4 instances of the LP Multi band and EQ, The BT brickwall, Bunch of Pro channel etc. What did they do to that last driver release? This is a 6i6 1st gen. It says 5.2 ms RTL? In the 6 years I've owned this I could never use it at even 128.

I’ve been swapping between my Scarlett and Motu interfaces and one thing I noticed was when using the Motu, the Mixing Latency slider is greyed out in Audio / Driver settings . I see why after reading another thread about this. This feature is not always supported in ASIO drivers So it seems to work with the Scarlett but here's the question. It doesn't seem to control the Scarlett's buffers when I open the ASIO control panel. They stay at 256 even when this slider is pushed to max. Does this actually change the buffers? But just for playback? If I hear a glitch can I use this instead of opening the ASIO settings in Mix Control? I thought it was for none ASIO driver modes so have never used it with my interface

Never mind I'll start a new thread, I didn't realize this was in Q&A

I’m not sure anyone could possibly wade through all that and make sense. I tried scrolling to the bottom on my phone and never did find it!

There are lots of tutorials in my signature is a link to my midi tutorials. The first parts are about working with a download file and later on I cover using you keyboards to create your own

It depends on how it installs. If it only requires a dll. then what you did should work. But if it depends on a licensing app, as in XLN, I don't think moving the dll. works. It will be tied to the original location. Re install the plug in and pay attention to all pathways if this is the case.

What @lapasoa said is what I’ve done for years. I finish playing the part until I can nail it in one take and the immediately record a second take. This is not a lead part just the chords So shouldn’t be hard to do.

That might have been me in another thread advising about not having separate reverb on each track. I think I did say that of course that depends on style and music. Also I probably said things like drums and guitars are traditionally recoded in rooms and we are often trying to duplicate that room with artificial space. I also think I said electric guitars traditionally had amp reverb also depending on style how much is used. the mud is perfectly described by Dave above. Those tails are the equivalent of playing the piano with the sustain pedal on. as I said it’s up to you what you think sounds right and the main thing is to set your routing so you have control of the mix at you fingertips

When you get a chance log on to Command Center and check everything is up to date. Even Platinum. Then for sure make a back up copy of the command centre download folder. It will have all your irreplaceable installers stored there. Also go to your my products page( I think that’s what it is called) and copy paste all you serial numbers to a word document kept this safe it’s worth a lot of money and if they ever do shut down the server it will be lost. just to add I have installed the Bandlab Cakewalk on at least 6 systems that all had old versions installed. Everything still works.