John Vere

https://www.scribd.com/document/425712754/Johns-Audio-Interface-Blurb I made a list of things to think about when shopping for an interface. Funny I couldn't find the document on my computer but I've posted it so many times it shows up in a Google search now, cool. As far as mikles go, everybody's voice will record differently to different mikes. I use a Shure Beta 58 because of over 20 mikes I own( owned) it works the best for me. So buying a mike is a crap shoot. When people recommend a mike they are most likely recommending the mike that works well for them and there's a high probability it won't work the best for you. That's why recording studios have mike lockers with dozens of different mikes. If you show up to sing they will try a buch. We don't have much choice in a home studio so we take a chance and order what we hope will be the right mike. Over time you end up with a lot of mikes!! And cost means nothing these days. You are smart to shop the entry level stuff as it is mostly very good quality these days. Sites like Sweetwater have reviews and they tend to only list products that are popular for good reasons.

Ah Ya not sure it has that I use the Jazz bass and tweak it. there are free bass vst’s out there you might try KVR and see. Fret less is a completely different sample set. If you have Dim Pro the acoustic bass is very good and you could jam it up with effects. It has that nice fret less rubber band at higher velocities. tts1 the bass sounds are like tuned farts. I use the Ample P bass lite for most songs

And just to be clear here folks you can most certainly run some 32 bit plug ins in CbB. It's just not always stable depending on the plug in. I have a couple of 32 bit VST's that I use a lot and they never cause issues. But I have not always had success. Example is the Edrol Orchestral. It's a cool old 16 channel VST sort of like the tts-1 but will definitely freeze up a project if used. I have never had a problem fetching the Lexicon from Sonar 8.5. As said I just run the install of 8.5 64bit, and uncheck most of the stuff there. I think I keep Lexicon, true Pianos and V Vocal. It is best to do this before you install CbB but I've done it after the fact as well and no harm was done.

If your Safire has 4 outputs then send your master bus to 1/2 and the loop back track to 3/4. Don’t send the master to 3/4.

Before you go to all that trouble did you know you can customize the SI Bass and dial in better sound than the default. I find the SI bass sonicly miles ahead of tts1

A better way for editing is highlight track and use the transpose found in process Otherwise you notes in PVR will be wrong

Mute the master. If you still hear sound then your routing is wrong. You might have a hidden master bus. Check the Track Manager

Try bypass all effects. Drop outs are caused by you system bogging down. Make sure you have optimized your computer google optimizing for audio. Set the Scarletts buffer for 256. That is a very safe setting look for a possible VST plug in that is crapping out

Ok that look like the effects bin of the track. But I see you track is going to your on board sound card speakers. this might cause the issue if you’re export is not using the same output this is one reason why I would recommend a dedicated audio interface and a proper mike and cable. It would be dead quiet and the system is designed for professional results. USB mikes are meant for podcasts and as you are finding out pour quality audio. try this. Change to WASAPI audio mode. Send the track to the master bus and make sure the master bus is the source in the export dialogue

Is the gate in the effect bin of the track or the master bus? Normally you would use a EQ with a narrow Q to get rid of hiss. That or melodynes d esser

In the old days we finished songs in a few days tops. All depended on side players coming by to play or sing parts. Now we can call on just about anybody in the world to collaborate with but it's not the same somehow. The 90's to me were my golden years of recording. I have never really gotten anything to really sound 'better' since then? And that was 8 tracks and an Atari for midi when needed. You got that right. Now people seem to have hard drives overflowing with musical dribble that if it ever sees the light of day.. oh well. I'll say one thing is I entirely love spending time in the studio puttering about with my stupid old songs and for the most part I'm trying to recreate what I did 30 years ago. I can barley play a C chord now , my thumb has arthritis. But there are legal ways to kill pain now and I've got all day!

You can choose where the file is stored. Go to preferences Folder location / Wave files and set a path. If you look there it will show you the default pathway where your exports have been going. Otherwise just use the standard windows browser in the export dialog.

I use the Master mix default originally but changed the bit depth to 16 for CD burning. If you go to FILE / Export it will open a dialog box. The default works perfectly for me ( other than bit depth) as far as duplicating what I was hearing in Cakewalk. Notice it says "entire mix" and all mix enables are checked. .

Ya Scarletts were on my list for sure. It's kinda weird . I always have checked for the latest drivers for my interface. The Tascam us1641 was a long time ago 2014, It is still an awesome interface for recording 16 tracks live . I can work on just about anything and it is solid as a rock- but the RTL is very high. For $199 bucks I certainly got my money's worth and then some. It must be well over 10 years old. I will keep it as a piece of vintage gear. Then my Scarlett 1st gen sat without an update for a long time so I gave up. Today I checked and lo and behold there was a new driver from 2019? I guess I missed that one. Anyhow I installed it along with the updated mix control and WTF, I went from 27 ms RTL down to 9ms wow. That's using 44.1 Hz. Looks like Focusrite has come a long way and is now among the good guys in driver improvements. They certainly didn't start that way when I bought mine I had many driver issues. I dislike the pre amps and stupid peak level system on mine. I have to use the 3/4 inputs and other pre amps. This is another reason to give the Motu a try, better A/D and pre amps ( I hope) The Motu 4x4 was a better bang for the buck than the Focusrite 4i4. The Scarlett 4i4 is $ 339 can. And the Motu $290. So $49 dif. The motu has a few better features like the 4 real meters ( Yeah) And tandem RCA outputs, and small things like switches for 48 volt for each channel . The only thing missing from both is no SPDIF. But then I have the Tascam if I need that ( Yamaha 01V ) Also my 6i6 has 2 headphone outs sand I'll miss that too, Hmm, Mabey I just keep it M Audio Fast track Pro- Only good with W7 terrible drivers. Boy is it old but still kinda works OK. Gathering dust. Tascam us1641- 6 year old drivers and huge RTL but will keep forever for multi channel live recording. Scarlett 6i6- Still good I guess, but not happy with pre amps. Keep or sell? Motu 4x4 - well see how much better it really is than the Scarlett. Soundcraft Signature 10 - Handy USB mixer with very good ASIO drivers. But takes up a lot of room. Our live mixer now gathering dust due to Covid.

You got that right , RME was my first choice until I looked at the price! I don't even own a guitar worth that much. Motu seems to be high on a lot of peoples lists of brands with good drivers. I also like the metering on the front. Something both my currant interfaces lack. Friggin blinking little tiny itsy bitsy light?? I just ordered it last night and it's on it's way. I freaked out at first because all the Canadian suppliers were showing out of stock. I found one at Long and Mcquade in Victoria were my son just happens to live. So now I'll see if someone want's my Scarlett 6i6 1st gen around here. Certainly nothing wrong with it but I've always lusted after a better interface.

Sorry about that , No I was confused by the actual OP not responding and was wondering if you were the OP or a user with the same issue? That happens sometimes. And then trying to follow the thread had me totally lost. No big deal. Please don't let me turn away your offer to help. That would suck.

The driver from M audio is from 2015. That's getting old. I wouldn't rule that out. Do you have a second interface you can try? Music stores will let you demo some models. I just upgraded to a new Motu 4x4. Mostly because I needed the better up to date drivers, both my old interfaces are just fine feature wise but performance is not great. You can only get so many years out of hardware and if the company doesn't update drivers audio interfaces quickly become paperweights.

I guess with the TTS-1 you would have to have it set to output all 16 tracks to automate the audio. But Seems Dave figured out why the midi didn't work. Good to know as I never have used 11.

You set the note duration in the menu bar. Pretty visible on my screen. Look up, see the notes? The smart tool draws notes no need to change to the pencil. For me when I hoover the PVR the pencil tool is what I see. Left click and it enters a note of the duration I set and will snap to grid if that is also set. I use only the smart tool for everything. Look it up and learn it's different functions , you'll need this to get anything done.

This thread is Confusing, The OP never responded but Mr Frazee is responding like they were the OP?? Hard to troubleshoot issues with old OS and old versions because of the many stability upgrades that have happened since to both Windows and Cakewalk. You say if it ain't broke? For most of us it was, and now it ain't.

This is the funny thing about coming from the old 8 track days as I still tend to think of my projects as only needing very few tracks to sound good. It scares me to death to read about folks who have 120 tracks on a rock and roll song! At most I think my highest track counts are 20 and a lot of that is midi most times. If it's real drums that adds 6 tracks right there, but most of those are still well under 20. I'm big on not keeping bad takes. I delete whole tracks if I make more than a few mistakes. I tend to play through the song, delete, re take, delete and over and over until the entire track is right. You play the track better and better each time anyways. If I suck that bad I give up and leave it for a better day or come up with a part I can actually play I do this for everything including midi parts. There's no bad takes lurking in my audio folders.. About the only thing I use a extra tracks on is guitar. Bass is always 1. Vocals will have 1 lead track and then 1 harmony track. I use take lanes sometimes but mostly I do the big delete as I work my way through in segments. I like my vocals to be in sort clips. This is also handy if you find a clunker and resort to Melodyne. Melodyne loves short clips. I like to have about 5 or 6 busses, Drums, Bass, Guitars, Keyboards and midi, and Vocals. Then usually 2 effects busses. Reverb, Delay.

You probably just nailed the reason why the OP is asking the question.

I just purchased the upgrade to M Assistant 5 and the process was more involved than you are doing. See if your experience differed from mine. I received an Email baiting me with a discounted upgrade from Essentials 4 to Assistant 5. The link in the e Mail took me to the Celemony site where I logged on to my account. After I paid for it they sent me an Email with the new serial number and the link to the download file. I downloaded and installed the update and I don't have iLock account with them but seemed to work without. I installed it to the default pathways which I think is the same as you are listing, I'll check later. I checked and my pathway is not in Cakewalk folder, the VST3 folder is under C/Programs files/ Common Files/VST3. I have no VST3 folder inside of Cakewalk VST folder. Did you try to re install M5 and keep default pathways? I then opened Cakewalk and grabbed a small clip and applied melodyne. When it opened it asked for the new serial number and away we go.

It's driving me nuts! Anyhow I deleted the Squirrel and all it's nuts and even the tree they were in ( containment folder) . I then went to Bandlab Web site and, as reported above, I downloaded the version posted there and it opened and said there's a update , so I did that and then logged on and then I updated Cakewalk and then I checked in Windows Apps and now there is only one version and it is the correct 6.3.0 so thanks to the squirrel I now for once have a clean running Bandlab thing happening. Let's see how the next 6 months unfold.

Another buggy issue is, and I just did this myself to check, When you look under Windows settings Apps, there is 2 versions of Bandlab Assistant installed. One says version 5 and the other versions 6. When I clicked on version 5 to uninstall it unistalled versions 6?? When I try to delete version 5 you get an error When you look in that location this is all there is When you click on the "updater.exe you get this and nothing else . Squirrel??