John Vere

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

What happens if you insert a new bus, Can you change the track output to that?

There should be no latency while recording when you use the direct monitoring of your audio interface.

I was going to add after I noticed that Cakewalk did not automatically insert TTS-1 that all you would need to do is open the file and then "save as" to a midi filer and then open that and TTS_1 would automatically load, But then it was faster to just insert it. Why are you using mp3? Why not use wave? There is a Yamaha drum map somewhere in the cakewalk stuff.

Ya worked fine for me too, only difference between it and a regular midi file is it doesn't automatically insert the TTS-1 so as said, just insert the tts-1 and the file seems to play normally. Just double check each track is outputting to tts-1 It did this automatically for me but it might not always do this.

Do you have an audio interface or are you using Windows sound? Are these old projects you are opening? You normally won't get that message unless you change output devices. If I turned off my audio interface I get that warning. Cakewalk is looking for my interface. Go to your master Bus and see what it's output is set for. If you do have an interface then you need to install the drivers and make sure it is working by checking windows audio settings. If not then do as Scook says and use WASAPI and make sure to click APPLY

If you’re using an audio interface all levels are set by its controls Cakewalk meter is just showing you the incoming signal The meter on you audio interface is the best place to set levels. But most interfaces don’t have meters for line level inputs. Without knowing what you interface is it’s hard to say. But you may need to change the input pad or go into the software mixer.

If you computer has a large capacity ssd drive then one drive is fine. But for desktop systems having you data on a second ssd or 7400 HD works great. Right now I’m stashing this album I’m working on an external ssd drive because I’m moving between 2 machines. Don’t really see a difference in performance with the internal drive. It’s on USB 3 ports as said large sample libraries are often stored to a 3 rd drive. For me some ended up on the C drive because there was no choice during installing. The rest I point to my data drive because it is 1TB I use the 3rd drive as a backup drive plus external drives are back ups too

Are the drivers said to be for W10? like how old is the RME etc.?

Maybe what Lynn was saying is he was going to the file menu and browse to the folder, not the quick list. This would explain the syncing issue. I only use the quick list under the file menu, I disabled the start page. To me it's just a flashy looking quick start list.

Peak level is only part of the issue. Unless it's a sustained note it doesn't tell you how "loud" something really is. You need to know the RMS average or LUFS. What I'm using now with very good results is the Youlean meter. The paid version allows you to select an output format and reports when you go over that limit. It also allows drag and drop analyzing. The basic version is free but I highly recommend paying as it's a very good investment if you are mastering your own songs. https://youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter/ Span is also free and is useful. https://www.voxengo.com/product/span/ And for Mp3 conversion I use Gold Wave which is free to use but will ask for payment and is well worth the $50. http://www.goldwave.ca/

All I do is not worry and then quantize the whole track if you have snap set up the new notes you draw will snap. But existing notes can be dragged anywhere and as far as I know they don’t snap. So I quantize

There are no Demos on my start screen. I think those were part of the old Sonar. I always unchecked that box during install anyhoo. If you have those (and the OP ever responds back) you can just post the CWP for them. Not sure but if they contain audio you would then need the audio folder too.

I have had this happen that the last project I opened and saved is not on the list. This is often when I have pulled a file from a back up drive and then save as to my working disk. Otherwise if I use my working drive the songs always seem to stay on the list. Interesting thought about the 32 bit plug in issue Steve, I'll have to pay attention to that as a lot of these older projects will contain 32 bit plug ins.

That's my point- There are 1,000 of technical ways to get there and not one of them is to be agreed upon by all. Mastering for me has been a life longquest and learning curve. I'm just faster at getting my mixes as close to correct than I used to be before finding the right plug ins. I could listen to my very first albums ( clients) and go, that still sounds great. For those as far as mastering goes all I had was the meters on the 2 track deck. Turns out tape is forgiving. The tapes were made in real time directly from a mixing console and I only owned 1 stereo compressor. There was no true mastering step other than splicing and adding bits of special leader tape. You had to organize the songs to fit evenly on the 2 sides of a cassette. In the mid 90's I had had my Yamaha 01v so now I had lots of compressors, eq, effects and best of all automation. This was driven by an Atari which also handled midi. I mastered to Sony DAT's, Mini Disk and later had a Philips CD recorder. These and the 01v has SPDIF so analog ended at the input of the mixer. I'm almost INB. It took me until 2004 to finally by a PC and start using Cakewalk to record audio, up until then it was Yamaha MD8. I also had Wave lab 4 and that immediately became my mastering ( and re mastering ) tool. I still use it. Over the last 16 years I've had to experiment with different mastering chains but for the most part I would manually edit out all the spikes in the track and didn't really have a grasp on limiting and master bus compression. That's only been the last 4 years that I found the right limiter ( BT Brickwall) and multiband Compressor ( LP Multiband) to give we the transparent results I was looking for. . Another huge improvement and time saver I just started to use. Youlean meter. I have always used Wave Lab to master using the Analyzer to set my RMS levels and the peak tool to look for overs and the spectral analyzer too . Now I'm loving the Youlean meter so I can now analyze a song in real time or with drag and drop. So I get there quicker. I record my originals strictly for my own enjoyment. I want them to sound great in my Truck and in my living room. Beyond that I'm not that concerned. I master for CD not MP3. I batch convert to Mp3 and post stuff on soundcloud, etc and they seem to be ok But because I am not planning on selling them I'm not mastering for that format. I'm hoping to have all my songs done to video and thats even another mastering challenge.

Ya that's the problem, I've got lots of projects and almost all of mine are like what the OP is after,,but, they don't use what's available in CbB. Also it's not easy to upload a 600MB project with all the audio. I guess you could zip it but I've never done that.