John Vere

At the top of the track pane on the left are some drop down menus. One say's Tracks. click on that and then bounce to tracks. Make sure the dialog box is checked for the options you want. It defaults to what always works for me. This is a great way to clean up untidy tracks that are cut up in a million pieces. Make sure the whole track is highlighted first. Use the magnifying tool to shrink your view to see the whole song.

Don't confuse the OP talking about midi cables. The TD25 uses USB, not midi cables. Midi latency can happen if your project contains a bunch of CPU intensive VST effects plug ins. Always bypass all FX while tracking. Yes a low buffer will cause dropouts depending on your system - audio interfaces build quality, drivers and CPU all contribute. Yes a good quality interface like Moto or RME interface will probably solve the audio latency issue. No you do not need an interface with midi. You have the midi via USB which is just as good if not better. I use a plain midi track to record my drums. I like my drums to all be in one track so as to make editing easier in PVR. And I have my own reasons for not cluttering that up with a simple instrument track. Midi in a track(s), VST in a track(s) You can start with just using the mixer built into the VST GUI. Later you can learn how to insert a VST with multiple audio outputs. Myself it's rare I need to do this unless I need a better effects or processing than the VST supplies. I don't have EzDrummer but Addictive drums seems to have pretty good EQ, reverb and compression. I used to always track the drums using the sounds from the Brain. I found I played tighter to the tracks. I used a small mixer to blend the computer playback with the brian output. So I leave input echo off during tracking. Otherwise there is always just a tiny echo. On rare occasions I might use part of the brain sounds I they worked for the song. Example the cymbals and hi hats works better from the brain. They don't sound better than the VST but they respond correctly to CC.

As said it works 100% to just simply copy all your folders to the new machine and open them there. I do this a lot. Never had an issue. I use a custom workspace on the new machine to convert the Laptops 1 screen setting over to my main DAW's dual screens. As long as both have all the same VST's installed I've never had a project not play properly. I have always used pre project folders. Each song has it's own folder.

I tried it a few times as well and found it way off the mark for my likes. I do own a GR 50 which works way better but never really translated to bass lines properly either. Way to much midi editing involved... The best results so far is to play them on a real bass and drag the audio track to a midi track. Which is Melodyne. This works brilliantly. There will still be some editing needed but very little compared to the guitar synth method. When done and using Ample Bass it can even fool me as to which I'm hearing live or memorex! OK so you do need a real bass, but it can be a very cheap bass as long as it's playable. I have never tried doing this with a bass line played on a guitar which also might work but that would throw my playing off. Guess you record an octave higher and then just drop it down once it's midi.

This thread confuses me a bit. In my world if I make a mix in Cakewalk and export it to a wave file it is exactly the way It played in Cakewalk. I proof my wave files in a wave editor which are NOT going to screw with your settings. There I can also check the peak and RMS level, top and tail , add a fade out etc. When I'm done I then convert to an MP3 and upload to Sound Cloud, Click or Reverbnation. They always sound exactly the way they should. Wave editors are a must have for me in studio production. I mostly use Wavelab Elements ( $100) but I have many others that I also like to use for different things. For Batch converting to MP3 I like Gold Wave - free to try forever but I bought it anyhow. $50 http://www.goldwave.ca/ Sony Sound Forge- This is part of my Vegas Movie studio set up and is a great editor. it comes free with lost of stuff. There's also Waveosaur https://www.wavosaur.com/ free Audacity https://www.audacityteam.org/ free Acoustica https://acoustica.com/mixcraft version 6 used to be free. I really like this one a lot and will switch when I finally get fed up with Steinberg's elicence.

This feature works brilliantly for replacing boners in tracks. Especially live recordings were ,say, the bass player plays a wrong note. Just find that note somewhere else and copy and then paste it over the boner. Now you can drag the edges of the paste and the original until there are no artifacts. I often will split out/ delete the boner first and then drop the good clip in the space.

One thing that seems to hang it up for me is I had opened it and then tried to update the app from within the app. I find it only works if I make sure the Assistant is closed . Check your system tray in the lower right. Then I go to the website and download and install the app directly. Then update Cakewalk.

RBH that's odd your 1960's house is not grounded. Grounding was brought in in the 50's. My fixer upper had all that old paper coated stuff and some was pretty frazzled looking. Looked like a fire hazard waiting to happen to me. All the outlets were falling apart and brown. If your basement is unfinished you can do a lot to replace stuff. And in our case we had to open up a lot of main floor walls to get rid of the funky stuff and old insulation ( 2") . Only wires I left alone run to ceiling lights. Someday I brave the attic and replace those too. If you do it yourself it only cost me around $2,000 so far including new LED fixtures. I had to add a couple of sub panels to add new circuits for the kitchen. The studio will have it's own circuit but there's no way to isolate it other than what Mcleod is saying. I had one of those once but it only lasted a few years. I try and wire everything I can with balanced cables. And I even got rid of my wireless mouse and keyboard. They didn't get recorded but the noise in the headphones drove me nuts.

I also figured out one day that you don't even need a digital drum kit for that matter. We have drum replacer! All you need is a set of drum sticks ( or?) Mike up some cardboard boxes and play your song. Tap your foot with a mike duct taped to your sock. Now run these tracks trough drum replacer and drag those tracks to a midi track. Edit the goof ups and assign to your favourite VST drummer.

I tried it and nothing happened. The trick does work when projects are identical. I guess next I would use track templates. But saving as a midi only file should strip away any corrupted data. It's not that big a deal to rebuild a midi only project. If you save presets for your vst instruments etc.

WHat you could do if it's only the Audio missing is save the project as a MIDI file and try starting with that. To bring back all your synths and settings you could then try the MIX recall trick I just learned ( again) You take the original project and save a mix scene. Now open the new project and using the browser find the mix Scenes folder for the old project. open it and drag the cwm file into the track pane of the new version. It may or may not work but worth a try.

I think there's some confusion here as the OP's claimed he does not have any other drivers listed. , the screen shot was from Roger who is also having an issue and definitely needs to nuke the Steinberg driver. The OP is using a complicated set up with 2 interfaces involve. To test I would go direct from the Apollo via USB and see if the problem persists.

We were just going to sleep and this digital noise kept waking me up. It sounded like a fax machine sort of noise in a short burst. ?? I started looking for our cell phones and turned them off. get back into bed and every 3 minutes there it is. I get up and shut the window.. still,, I'm looking and listening where is this coming from?? I finally tracked it down to the clock radio which was on but off station. But what is that?? Then I remembered that our new ( 1964) house has 3 Smart meters. Hydro, Gas and Water. They send these micro bursts every 3 minutes I guess. I also discovered this house shares a transformer with 3 other homes. My old place had it's own and nearest neighbour was a half a kilometer away. Yiks. Haven't been recording live stuff here yet but I see trouble brewing with electric interference. The old house I had to unplug my electric fencer and hope the bears stayed away while I was recording. By the way, if you hear a ticking that might be an electric fence.

What I found helped me out was to find an album (or playlist) of 12 or so songs that are not overly complicated drums wise but has a variety of tempos and styles. Put headphones on ( so you can't hear how much you suck) and play along with it everyday from start to finish. Keep adding different songs as you progress once you've sort of mastered the first batch. I found this forced me to practice for a full hour and keep in time. It also gave me confidence to try a few rolls and fills. I have a set of the Yamaha digital drums and they are OK for goofing around and recording midi. But your not going to improve much unless you use real drums. What I'm going to do is build a custom kit with the Digital kit for Kick, toms and then percusion. The snare, hats and cymbals will be real. The only digital kits worth owning are like the $ 5,000 Roland.

Wow- This is top shelf great song and that's the first time I ever watched a video from end to end...

I think you got it sounding real good on the NMS10's .... Just love that that guitar hook , this is sounding ready for radio to me. And by the way, the more I listen to your voice the more I like it. Well done ... And the more I listen to the lyrics the more I hear and enjoy this song.

It's like I said, for me there a bit of a bug with it inserting additional busses. I've never dug in deep enough to fix this, I just delete the unwanted buss.

Bass is much better now. This is sounding really good to me. I always found strings associated with Cheezy overproduced songs from the 70-80's It's just me. I just don't like them in the music I enjoy. So when I need a sustained part I will use either a Hammond or a Polysynth patch. There's lots of great synth patches that are well know and now as you say are retro! Funny thing is most were lame attempts to emulate strings! Just like a lot of our favourite electric piano sounds were not originally intended to be trade mark sound of their own, they were just trying to make a real piano more portable. Same with those combo organs. Look in Dim Pro, Rapture, Roland Groove synth, Ultra Analog session and my favourite is the Korg Poly 800 a freebie. ( only 32 bit alas) You mixed the strings right out of there now but if you feel like bringing them back try a hammond patch first. I think it might work with this song. You've got the midi part there play with it. Use the replace synth option to swap out on the fly as the song plays and mess with different patches it one of my favourite pastimes. You never know what works and my be surprised at what you find does.

Did you install the midi driver for the Roland drums? This makes a big difference in latency. Otherwise Widows will use a crappy generic driver. And it does help to have a proper ASIO interface. I have no problem just like Max. I insert a blank midi track. set the input to my drums and the output to what ever VST drummer I choose, never makes a difference to me. I don't use simple instrument tracks I always keep midi and VST on there own tracks.

You need to read the instructions and follow through with setting things up correctly. It's not really that complicated. Did you chack and make sure the interface was the only audio device checked in the preferences ?

Great song , Loved the guitar hook and it's sound. One mix comment is the bass is not really there at all. Turn it up but be careful of the low end. I thought the strings took away from the overall great soundscape of the song. One thing you could try as a big fat Poly synth instead.

Loved that. Well done. There's an over or a lip smack at 1:05 I hear a clip. It might just be in the MP3 conversion. Damn these NSM 10's they take all the fun out of listening

Awesome! and ya we are pushin' 70 Love the outro too.

Great song really enjoyed it but like the others did not like the drums at all. When using canned drums it's best to not bring them to the listeners attention. Because of the crashes and crazy rolls they got mine and I knew without you telling me they were canned. I would dummy them down a bit. AD does have some pretty nasty crashes and I never did find a ride with a bell sound. I just recorded a band with a real drummer and now I can't stand my in the box drum tracks!

Didn't really like the style but your production is excellent.