John Vere

Yes he covers every thing and it's great he points you at some good free software. I guess the only thing I disagreed with is using those saturation and console emulators plug ins. He does stress that these are optional so forgiven. Span is OK but I'm really liking the free iK Multimedia Meter you recommended earlier in this thread, thanks for pointing that out. It's seems just a hair more user friendly than the free Youlearn one I was using, I ran both side by side and the results were both identical. I then tried the iK Brickwall limiter and was also impressed how easy it was to set my loudness, in his video he uses the free Loud Max plug in. I just downloaded that and will try it. I was using the BT Brickwall but the Meter plug ins showed I was hitting above the threshold I set of -.4db. If I set the iK Brickwall at -.4 that's what the meter will show.

You want to solve this issue then you need a good brick wall limiter on the master buss. I just am trying the ik multimedia brick wall available via the T-racks bundle The meter is free the brick wall is a nine day trial. This is the best I’ve used so far and will purchase the limiter but waiting for a sale. I was using the BT brick wall but it was letting overs past.

Last time this happened was the day I finally bought a new controller. Problem solved

The old forum had a dedicated sub forum for computers. But back then there was more to know. Now computers are sort of beyond talking about. Glad those days are over. I did notice the price of Laptops has certainly not gone down! Yicks. I was going to buy a new one and quickly changed my mind.

Well it would have cost exactly $100 more but to bad you didn't get the 4i4. That way you could hook up all your gear and not have to swap cables. No big deal and I actually prefer using a small mixer for this anyhow.

The out of sync issue goes way back to when I first started using Cakewalk in 2004. Coming from an Atari system which has rock solid midi timing I was disappointed with my change over to a PC. I had it built for me by a tech and they recommended a spiffy Soundblaster/ Creative Labs Audigy II PCI card. It had proper 1/4" jacks and Midi ports. I fought that thing for over 3 years and all my recordings sounded out of sync, both midi and audio. It was later on the old Sonar forum that it was recommended to ditch the badly written Creative ASIO driver and purchase a proper interface. I bought an M Audio fast track pro which we still have and it still works. After that I never had syncing issues. Everything sounded way better. Some poeple might not even be aware they have timing issues but I'm ultra sensitive to this. At that time I didn't understand the "why" all I knew was problem solved. A few years ago because of questions like this one we had a thread going where we had everyone testing different interfaces and different driver modes including on board sound and generic codex. We used a simple loop back test where you take a midi kick drum, bounce it to an audio track and now using a short cable run your interfaces output back to a input and record this to a new audio channel. It's easy to then zoom in on the transients to see if they line up. Fact- Cakewalk uses the latency reported to it by the audio driver to adjust the timing offset so that the new tracks you are recording will be played in sync with the originals. If the driver reports inaccurately it is not Cakewalks fault, it is just doing what it was told by the driver. The findings were always the same across dozens of random systems. 1- ASIO ( properly written for a device not generic) was always near to perfect. No sync issues. 2- WDM - same interface generally alway late. Usable but not if your picky. 3- MME - Real late, unusable 4-WASAPI about the same as WDM On some systems the offset was early? And most annoying was sync would drift over time.

I was sceptical when I bought a Sony USB turntable and it came with Sound Forge claiming automatic clean up of vinyl and Tape. It works. I have no clue how but it seems to do a better job than I can do with a million fussy VST's

So that cable I have plugged in now is only giving me either the right or left channel depending on which one I have it plugged into? Yes this is correct. If I want to record with a mic I can just plug it into 1 or 2 on the front correct with the two cables plugged into the back giving me a right or left mono channel correct? Correct. The way it works is the back outputs are going to receive the stereo output of your DAW and this is mixed with the input using the front control options. The DAW output is controlled by how you have your Master buss set. In other words, if you pan your master bus left you'll only hear the left speaker playing the DAW material. When you plug a mike into channel 1( or 2 )and engage input direct monitoring that signal will be mono and heard in both left and right sides of headphones and speakers. Every interface is a little different and it is best to read this section of your owners manual to make sure your using the option correctly. As example without reading your manual for you I'm not sure what the 2 symbols mean on your direct monitor swicth. All of my interfaces have a balance control that allows you to blend the DAW output with the inputs in variable amounts.

Awsome! And so true! Mix sounds perfect on my system. Hey are you in Vancouver? Your picture looks like the Science world.

It say's this on the Roland information for the DS61 " USB audio/MIDI and DAW Control mode" So it would seem you should download the driver for this and you can use the USB to record midi and possibly audio? You don't need to be using the 5 pin midi if it has USB midi. Most of us will record the midi output , then we can edit the data and then send this back via midi and record the audio output. But this synth might allow you to stay digital. Best to read as much in the manual as possible about the features. There seems to be a few videos too.

Sounds like your almost there, Just 2 things. There are 2 output jacks because your going to need them both to have left and right sound to the amp. For your set up this takes two 1/4" to RCA cables. You did the right thing using Tape monitor as that's a good impedance match for the Scarlett. And having the option to swicth back to the computer is a great idea. I used to do exactly this set up but now I don't use my on board sound at all, just the interface which seems to work for everything. I know some people have issues with this but I never have. And the direct monitor only matters for recording new parts. It allows you to hear what ever is plugged in directly which avoids system latency. It does not change the output.

Thanks everyone,, It's a fun guitar part. I've never played the song live but it was always part of my couch collection. My mission is to record every song I know.. well ,, hummm,, let me change that to every song I know and LIKE!

Is this what your trying to get to work with a DAW?? Good luck. If it doesn't come with a proper ASIO driver your bound to have issues. It might work if you try WASAPI mode and not asio4all. But this depends on your line 6 which I think is also a device that has weak ASIO support.

On the back are the 1/4" TRS outputs that connect to either your powered studio monitors or in my case a Stereo Amp which drives my passive monitors. The big knob on the front controls the studio monitors level If you don't have a set of studio monitors put that high on your wish list You can use computer speakers in a pinch but you would need to plug them into the headphone jack of the Scarlett or purchase a special Y splitter cable. Just so you know, you cannot use your computers sound card at the same time as the Interface, all audio will come through the 2i2. Make sure to use the direct monitoring feature so you will hear your input without latency.

Thanks for listening and enjoying.

A follow up= Was playing with the Steven Slate drums last night and had to give up on it as it just doesn't cut through. I'll have the VST level meter in the red and the level is way below other drum VST's. I tried turning all the parts and the faders for the Room and Overhead but it seems to make no difference and just made the output level redder. Used the Replace synth feature to return to Addictive drums and there was a huge difference. Loud and level meter is within the safe levels.. So much for that.

Oh details.. It's only a 7 track song. 1.Yamaha bass via Fender rumble/ Tone Bone DI 2.Addictive drums heavily edited and Compressed to death. Played on my keyboards. 3 and 4 - Vocals only have the Pro Channel Compressor and a delay and Reverb send. 5 Guitar is my Blackstar via SM 57 6 Then I added the DB33 (Air) organ 7 And my good old standby the Mr Tramp Wurly. I dream of this becoming 64 bit someday. On the master I'm trying out and impressed by the ik media Brick wall limiter. |I'm also using their Meters and the limiter does it's job perfectly, I found out that my standby the BT Brickwall does not actually put out what it is set to do,, bummer.

https://soundclick.com/r/s8eyef I always would return to this song when in the mood for noodling a lick. I think the album was 1968. Anyways I' did this from memory as far as the arrangement goes, I don't think it's even close and as I refuse to listen to the original as it might spoil all my fun.

All he wants to do is to import my stereo music track and record a few vocals. So therefore my original answer was a simple no. I have a lot of audio equipment and cables kicking around but other than using some sort of audio interface ( and ya I guess a USB mike will sort of qualify) I don't see an easy way to take any mike I own and plug it into a 1/8" jack?? Come on now guys, under $50 and problem is solved. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/UM2usb--behringer-u-phoria-um2-usb-audio-interface And at no point did I say you cannot do a lot with on board sound, Just overdubbing vocals, guitar etc is not going to work well without ASIO drivers and a proper connecting device.

Sorry if you somehow can read into text a condescending tone?? that's pretty intuitive. Didn't intend that as that's rude and I am not a rude person. Did you try changing the smart tool to an eraser tool? That most certainly will erase parts of tracks. I just tried this to confirm it works. I don't think the multipurpose smart tool becomes an eraser in track view. I cannot get that to happen. It works in PVR. But if I click on the eraser icon it works as expected.

OK that would be cool because it's often months before I get around to trying demos. So sounds like If I don't open them they will still work later on for the 9 day period> Then you wait around for deals on the ones you like. I'm still exploring better ways to master from within Cakewalk. I still depend on Wavelab because I can work faster and more precisely.

Got this T-racks installed, was a lot of hoops and 1.7 GB?? oh well but the meter seems to work great the rest of the stuff is a 9 day demo? Not clear what you get for free at this point but will dig around.

Thanks for the tip about T-Racks, Just downloading now. Seems like a good Mastering tool.

OK so you all heard it right here , No need to waist money on a Audio interface anymore folks. We just go buy a $5 adaptor that plugs into the 1/8" mike jack on the laptop and the quality will be as good as any snobby Neve pre amp, We can use all the free VST stuff to polish that ol' turd up nice. Sure if your dead broke and just want to have some fun making some music there's no limit on what you can do for free. I guess we all have our standards on what we consider basic gear and to me an audio interface is just that, basic gear.

My approach would be insert a new midi track set the output to a desired VST, and record the mod wheel Now simply duplicate that track as many times as needed and set each new tracks output to the other VST's.