John Vere

Don't go for the sound blaster!! Realtek is 100% better. as far as on board audio goes. 100's of posts about issues with Creative audio drivers. You can get by just fine with on board for listening , using audio that is already recorded ( loops) and midi with VST instruments. No problem, but you cannot record audio very well if at all , it will be out of sync and kind of hard to plug anything professional into that little pink jack.

Didn't you read the information on scooks posts. That tells you what to do as far as I can tell. Basically you are probably missing a CC+. I remember that from back then because I have X3 Studio.

Thanks. Yes it took me 15 years!

Did I waist my time making the tutorial? I made it just for you. And you need a master bus,99% of users do it that way. Yes you can go directly to your sound card but there are good reasons to use the master bus. One is once you have a dozen tracks playing you will have no idea of how loud the combined tracks have become. The video I made you covers all this. There are plenty of good tutorial videos. Just google your question and include Cakewalk in that.

Watch the video I made for him, I demonstrate how to set up for on board. I figured that was his issue. https://youtu.be/opDwsC4_llg?si=RKoGXyA1jQxkeEzr

One thing I just had happen because I was working on videos and using 48hz, Cakewalk would drop out when switch back to 44.1 or I loaded a 44.1 project. So is it possible your interface is having to change sample rates? This shouldn't happen but it is a possibility. If your projects are 48 and your exporting to 44.1. But as said this is off line and shouldn't matter. But it might explain the drop out and why the export is unaffected. I don't think the export uses your ASIO driver or the audio engine. But if it's converting??

If the OP, if they ever come back, did not download the " instal add ons" found in the drop down of the Bandlab assistant, they might not have much to work with. I'm not sure what originally is included and I'm sure it's easy to look up. But what comes to mind is they are using the "insert instrument" dialog and the TTS-1 is the default. They have not clicked on the drop down menu to reveal the other instruments. OP-If you ever return, you can use the Synth Rack in the browser as well as the browser has instruments and effects listed if you take the time to look.

I just found this thread. Didn't have time to read every page so I might be repeating. I have grabbed a free good ones from here https://www.pluginboutique.com/categories/1-Instruments?free=true You just sign up and everything you purchase and all your chosen freebies are stored in your stash. It's handy if you have more than one computer and all of a sudden want the VST. Ones I'm using are the Ample Bass and Guitar which everyone here must be aware of by now, The Yojo banjo is excellent for none bluegrass applications. Its a convincing 4 string sound. The DSK guitar is OK but I generally don't use those ( I'm a guitar player why would I?) The only other freebie I use is the Verberate reverb. ( I know its an effect) I'm finding I use it more and more.. simple but it sounds smooth. https://www.kvraudio.com/product/fretless-zither-by-versilian-studios I was looking for a sitar sound for the lik in Mothers little helper and this was perfect. https://vst4free.com/plugin/275/ Mr Tramp only bummer is only 32 bit, but I have it on dozens of songs and have never had an issue. It's still the best true to form Wurly I know of. And I've tried them all. I even just paid a whole $4 for Model T and it's a lame duck compared to Mr Tramp. But I got izotope Nectar for free out of that purchase ( Plug in Boutique) I have a 32 bit Poly 800 VST I also used a lot but just yesterday stumbled across this 64 bit version https://vst4free.com/plugin/3134/ Its called the Fury 800 and being someone who owned a real version this is very well done. It's better than the original. Also already mentioned that I use are the Combo V and F organs.

I think the point us old farts are making is we sort of just have to laugh when someone complains about the "new lazy" approach to making music and wondering why some VST instruments don't use patch changes. If you think the old days were better? It would be fun to send you back there with $100 in your pocket and see how far you would get. Spoiled rotten I say. Everything is free now. With the Poly 800 as an example - I certainly would not be able to afford to replace it with the real thing I doubt there is even one for sale. The VST is actually better in many ways than the original and it's free. I love it! Bring it on. patch changes?? . Oh, looks like this one does, if you open the Patch in the Midi track strip ( or ) the list if patches shows. I would have never know if this topic had not come to light because I always just use the GUI. Nice to have choices.

What I'm seeing is your hard drive is almost full. At least that's what I always thought that icon is for. The other one below is how much memory your using. You need to remove stuff to a back up drive and delete junk your not using. To check disk usage just open the my Computer -- This PC icon.

Do you guys realize this is an old thread suddenly dug up by a 1 post wonder- Mister- just to tell us they don't need CbB because they have X2 and X3?? kind of sad actually. Choosing software just because you don't need the internet is sort of like buying a coal fired stove because you don't need natural gas.

I mentioned SI drums because if you have Cakewalk you have it. Myself I use both Session Drummer and Addictive drums both which came with Sonar versions. back when. SI Drums is very basic but at least better than using TTS_1 drums.

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!