John Vere

The Poly 800 was my first "Bass Player" I still have my Roland 505 and those where my first midi driven band. Man was it hard to squeeze a real bass sound out of that thing, Who would have known that those bass sounds would eventually been seen as cool. But back then it was kind out there. One day, hooking stuff up, I accidentally plugged the wrong power supply into the Korg and fried it. The tech who tried to fix it said it was a bad design to not have at least some diodes protecting the MOBO. To make that story more painfull, I had traded a 68 Fender Twin for it. That guy still has my Twin and I now have the Poly 800 again as a VST. https://vst4free.com/plugin/3134/ so I don't feel so bad. And I had the DW 8000 up until a year ago when it just stopped working. I was going to fix it but gave it away.

To start with the SI Drum kit has a bunch built right in. Pretty limiting but I have found some of them worked well for a starting point when looking for a drum machine groove to start a song going. I then replace everything in real time using a controller track by track. Open the SI Drum GUI, look on the list and open say the Jazz& Blues, Now grab the 12 bar and drop it into a empty midi track. These are groove loops so you can drag them out for the length of the song. Tip: zoom out so the 3 minutes shows as you whole screen. The problem with using loops is there are literally millions of them. To me it's just way faster to make my own drum patterns than spend hours digging through all that listening to them all.

The only issue we had with Atari's was the power would go out and it took a good 10 minutes to get things up and running again. Was the Alesis a Midi player like the Roland Sound Brush? My partner had that and the Sound Canvas as his gigging rig for a long time. My self at that time 1992-3 I transferred ( in real time) all my backing tracks to a Sony Mini disk. Goodbye Atari. It was small and sounded great but I lost all that midi driven patch change stuff. I also lost my foot controller that started and advanced songs. Since then I have had to manually select my Reverbs But I did get my foot controller back when I started using a laptop. And I could certainly return to using midi do control lights and hardware. This would involve the Cakewalk playlist. I'm to old to change again! There are virtually no gigs now anyhow.

I'm not knocking the mike, They are perfect for use with a lot of software and podcasting, It's just that USB mikes are just a PITA with DAW software there's a million posts on the topic. Did you try WASAPI mode? Try the different driver modes until you find one that works. Last resort is asio4all.

When I open my old midi files I made in the 80's there's a PG change for every midi channel. I dreamed of 24 midi channels! 1 - Bass GR50 2- Alesis Micro Verb 3-10 - Korg 05/rw ( the band) 11- Drums GR50 12- Piano GR50 13- Roland A 880 Midi Patch bay 14- GR50 Patch Change 15-16 Yorkville DMX lighting. Lugging around an Atari 1040 with a huge old school monitor with all the above in a 4' tall box I built. No wonder I have a bad back!

Change to WASAPI, if it's not on the audio devices list take it back and buy a proper XLR mike.

He said it played on his iPhone, that was the big clue to playback. iPhones will play just about anything. My car stereo for example doesn't like 320 kbps Mp3. I seem to only be able to use 160kbps. Seems weird.

The screen shot is from my this, my office computer and I mostly use it for testing stuff before committing to my main DAW computer. It has X1- X3, Platinum , Home Studio and CBB as well as a bunch of other DAW's I was trying out. The reason you see that additional path is that worked for me. Like the OP I couldn't get CbB to grab SD3. SO When I found the dll in that child folder I simply added it to the paths and it worked. Thanks for pointing out that check box. Just forgot to shut it off after the last quest for a missing plug. @AndyLeF you most certainly don't want to have to use the 32 bit version. Follow the advise given in the other posts here and install the 64 bit version.

Yes, I still use Session Drummer just for that very reason. I even sampled my own real drum kit. It's totally cool to have a midi track play my drums. And this way I can record the real drums as audio and supplement with the SD samples. It's still a very good solid as a rock VST drummer. You can sample just about anything and drop it into the SD interface. I have al sorts of weird stuff I've used like a railroad spike being struck with a hammer. Anyhow I just looked and it's as I thought , you actually have to have the plug in scan path go directly to the SD folder it won't find the dll outside that folder.

Hilarious to dig up an old post, the OP never responded. We are giving advice to the air in other words, and then some one with a post count of 8 decides this topic has been poorly answered and the topic is sort of redundant in this day and age. I've used midi since 1984 and I like Dave have not used a PG since ?? bet its 12 years. I use a lot of midi and I'm not lazy. The only use I can think of is to control outboard synths. It's actually the first thing I do if I open one of my own midi files or a download is delete the PG and Bank info so it doesn't screw up my plans.

But I think the OP output in the master is defaulting to the Digital out which is what mine does. It one of the most common causes of no audio. Master output is None. Or Digital

Wow, Amazing. Cakewalk is deep! This will sound stupid, but it's true! It's probably because when I used to hear the word "clip" I associated that with "loops". I'm not a loop user needless to say. As a result I avoided any feature that said "clip" But, I figured out a few years ago that a clip was not a loop, A loop could be a clip but any audio in a track is actually a clip. I think of clips as being very short as in 1 or two measures. A three minute guitar track to me was not a clip, but of course it really is. So any feature that said "clip" was avoided by the old me. Therefore a misinterpretation of a term ended up in me never clicking that tiny wee little icon. I will play closer attention to "clips" and embrace them from now on>

First I had no clue what this "Clip gain Automation " was. Is this a fairly new feature? It took me 10 minutes of Googling and poking around the track inspector. Geeze, talk about adding a feature that even a seasoned user like me cannot find!! But I did find it, and as for the rest of you, it's a secret and I'm not telling. Yes that would certainly speed things up and only involves splitting your tracks into short clips which I do most times anyhow. So I just learned yet another feature ,, when will this all end!

What happened and it might not happen to others is the Magix driver took over Cakewalk and refused to yield. Make sure and check your "Record Latency Adjustment " A lot of folks don't know to look there, but that needs to be your interface, not a generic device. Otherwise who knows what your latency adjustment would actually be. Therefore if your computer is mostly used for your DAW and you have one or 2 ASIO audio interfaces, make sure those are the only ASIO devices or you "might" have issues you don't want. It's a long standing problem with audio and PC computers. The 2 just barley get along. Might be better in the Apple world, but certainly Windows will screw things up if it gets a chance. I try and do all my weird stuff with video etc on my office computer. I don't care if the drivers go wonkey on that machine. But my DAW is sacred ground and I try to stay off the internet and I don't use apps that will conflict with my Audio set up.

Most of the tutorials all assume you will have an audio interface because that is best practices. Trying to get on board audio working smoothly is a bit more work because Cakewalk and most DAW's are designed to work with ASIO driver support. Audio interfaces start at only $50. Recording equipment used to cost $$$$ $50 and a free DAW is pretty cheap.

If you read my first post you will see this was the first place I looked. I did just say programs list but that was what I was referring to. @Maestro because we now have WASAPI driver there's no need for any 3rd party generic drivers. I certainly won't be installing Sound Forge on my main DAW. I don't need it I use Wave Lab which is very happy working with Cakewalk. I can have both open. I am going to fire a email off to Magix and complain. All they need to do is offer the driver as an option as well as build it properly with an uninstaller like 99% of the software in the world has. To bad Sony sold the software to them. I'm finding the new version of Vegas 17 buggy as hell, What a waist of $50 I probably go back to version 14. And one of the stupid reasons I bought it was it says "ASIO support" Overall so far I havn't found one new feature. They changed the GUI, big deal. This reminds me of when I bought Sonar X1.

Not ssure, long shot but is the sample rate higher than 44.1?

Just got the M4 and fired it up. Certainly better RTL specs, nothing huge but down to 16ms from 27 I got with the scarlett. thats a setting of 256 Buffer and using lowly 44.1. It goes down to 6 ms at 64 buffer but playback was distorted. Seem OK at 128 but I always run at 256 to avoid issues. And the loopback is as I reported. I inserted a new audio track, set the input to Motu M series Loopback 1 and when I engage record I get the signal sent from my master. I then opened Wave Lab and played a wave file, returned to Cakewalk and that audio was also coming into the track. It obviously captures output 1/2 and as said loops it back. So don't see why a stand alone synth or? would not work, The trick will be making sure everything is using the same sample rate and therefore can share the driver.

Good tip, But I never choose anything that says 32 bit during installs. I just looked in my main DAW and there's nothing there. But I found 3 unwanted drivers from old interfaces plus that pesky Steinberg driver was still there in the main ASIO location. Just got my Motu M4 so now that drivers on my list of just 4 ASIO drivers. Tascam, Focusrite, Soundcraft and Motu.

I feel real dumb-- I was trying to use the REG EDIT command,, this has been replaced with the registry app. Shows you how often I go there! Once I got that open I followed Steve's path and problem solved. Thanks for both your answers. I will follow @slartabartfast instruction anyhow as I think you are right and there are some ghosts when I log on. Still don't know why cccleaner wouldn't install,, I also tried it on my other computer and same thing so it's just a buggy app I don't need. Seems people us Bleachbit now anyhow. Wouldn't mine cleaning this computer up a bit. I use it to test all my downloads before installing to my main DAW. So, probably lots of garbage in there.

To me that sounds impossible. I think you need Cakewalk support on this one. This sounds like corruption.

I fell for another upgrade sale and upgraded Vegas Plat 14 to 17 last night. It also includes an upgrade to Sound Forge 14. But I forgot this and just like Steinberg , Magix installs a crappy ASIO driver that completely takes over your audio system. Apparently the Magix driver is based on asio4all so we all know how it is also invasive. Good thing this is on my Office computer and not my main DAW. I looked this up by googling "How to uninstall Magix ASIO driver" and documents go way back to 2009 etc. This issue has been around forever. There is no uninstaller for this driver which is real stupid seeing how much havoc it has caused over time judging by the comments on many audio forums. There's even a few on the Cakewalk forum. But there's no solution that worked for me. It is not found anywhere. It is not on program lists, not in device manager and here's were I need help. Then I tried to download and install CCcleaner which was another recommendation but Windows gives me the warning posted in the screen shot. I used to have a dual log on to this computer but I removed all that. I think. I never seem to have issues with anything else. Is there an alterative to CCcleaner?

Did you download the driver and make sure your firmware is up to date? https://www.arturia.com/minilab-mkii/resources

I know exactly what you are trying to do. You record vocals and now you have possibly dozens of different clips and because they were done a little bit differently the levels of each track are all over the map. It's not always just levels, however, if the singer moves even a little bit around you might have a completely different tone due to proximity effect. That also has a bearing on the loudness and as the Sailor said this is not about peaks, it's about loudness RMS or LUFs. Bottom line is, because this happened you have a lot of work to do, if you want it perfect! Also like everything you do in a DAW, there's dozens of ways to accomplish this "repair" Best to download a LUFS meter, I highly recommend Youlean https://youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter/ Basic version is free and I highly recommend buying the full version if you are doing any of your own mastering. Use a Vocal Bus and send all the clips to this bus. Put the Youlean meter in the effects bin of the vocal track and keep it open on a second screen. Do not have any effects or compression active at this point. You want the raw audio. The trouble with normalizing is it will bring all those clips up to a very similar level but it does not address loudness, only the peak level. One little 'plosive P in there and your screwed. That becomes the peak. Therefore one method would be to look for peaks in the clip and bring them under control. I do this by "tool copy" into Wave lab and I apply hi pass EQ to all plosives. I would also do all my leveling there because the tools are always open. You can do the same in Cakewalk but the workflow is a PITA because you need to re open the EQ and gain tool over and over. You can also use the volume envelope which is none destructive.

The Master Bus is in the bus pane which might be hidden at bottom. Use shift B to unhide bus pane. It might be best the OP watch a few of the tutorial videos as it will be a lot of repeating information already easily accessible. They are just struggling with the very basic set up procedure. https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/forum/35-tutorials/ These are the ones supplied by Cakewalk. Then I have a series as well https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7YqVth30eGsURWrKGeu-fFyg3ETjF-Ox&si=Re3ESH2b1Cl9zlSL