John Vere

Funny how there's 1 in 10,000 who has an issue with what ever the latest OS version is. That's like when W7 came out and people stayed with Xp because W7 was terrible and causing issues. I Have 3 computers that run W10 and they all have the latest version of CbB. My studio has a proper audio interface the others I don't really record on but might open them to play files and they all work just fine. It's been a long time since Cakewalk froze up on me. My remote recording laptop has W7 . I just updated CbB and it warned me that W7 was not supported. But it installed just fine and I've used it for over 2 weeks now including two 4 hour sessions recording 16 tracks. Never hiccuped once. The OS it sort of a none issue for me. But Noel did say they have tweaked CbB to be optimized on W10 so you should see better performance on heavy hitting projects.

SI drums is a very basic VST I don't personally know how to change individual kit pieces. You can certainly do this is most 3rd party drum VST's. It's a freebie so along with that comes limitations.

If the audio track for the VST is not reacting to the volume changes then it is not assigned from the midi tracks. There is a MIXER you can use and it will have a master volume but the VST instrument track has the last say in level. Mute that track and if you still here the drums then you have something wrong. Here's a few tutorials a made that might help https://sites.google.com/view/cactus-studios/home

In the past if you wanted to become a recording engineer you read a few well written books or you went to a college. You would then understand the terminology and "how things work" . It a bit annoying to have people think a software company is supposed to spoon feed engineering to the punters. Read the manual and study your craft. Book or videos it's you choice, but I highly recommend this if you want to get were your going without frustration. https://bgaudioclub.org/uploads/docs/Yamaha_Sound_Reinforcement_Handbook_2nd_Edition_Gary_Davis_Ralph_Jones.pdf

I just used a W7, duo core 2.5 - 4GB of RAM Sony laptop from 2008 to record 16 tracks of audio. I have logged over 30- 50 hours of this without a hick up. I also have a W8 i3 Acer POS laptop with 8 GB RAM and it handles just about everything I do. I have about 6- 10 Midi tracks, lots or VST effects and around 10 audio tracks get recorded. We have recorded 80 song to the SSD drive. It never seems to break a sweat. More RAM is better but 8 gets a lot done.

Its super useful for people like me who are used to working with digital mixers. In other words, real audio engineers from the past and present. But I doubt if the punters making "beats" could care less. So depends on your target market. I consider it a "pro " feature. As it is, it works "OK", but what I do find is not all features get ported over to the new project. Example, for me the effects sends to a reverb and delay buss were not copied. Everything else was there. I used it successfully all afternoon and it was a huge time saver. The cool thing was buy song #4 I had some more and better tweeks added. It was a very simple matter of saving song 4 mix recall and going back and dumping it on song 1, 2 and 3. All songs are ready to master, top and tail within a few hours. Cakewalk rocks. That's all I can say. It recorded in the hot sun all afternoon to 16 tracks on a W7 POS laptop without a hick-up or glitch.

Thanks once again Steve. Yep That works brilliantly,, I knew there was a weird trick. Googling the topic brings up old threads where no one had this working. This is a huge time saver for this type of situation.

Scenario- Recorded a band yesterday live to 16 tracks. Made a blank project and used this as a template for all songs. Recorded 10 songs which are all identical as far as tracks and settings go. Worked on first song adding the usual stuff until all is sounding real good. But now how to get this applied to the other 9 songs? I am absolutely sure you can save this as a mix recall and copy that to the other projects but can't seem to get this to happen. I opened the MixScenes folder for the first song and copied the "Song 1-Mix (1).cwm" into the Song 2 MixScenes folder. Song 2 mix recall shows no scenes saved. So I renamed the file Song 2, still nothing.. Anybody know the correct procedure ?

In Track view right click the clip and choose groove clip looping. Now drag to the right.

What Lynn said. Downloaded midi files often have tempos embedded and you have to edit this in the tempo view.

I agree with what CJ is telling you. Working with a DAW requires an ASIO audio interface-Period. Any other driver mode will cause issues when overdubbing new tracks. You can use an onboard sound card for listening, editing and even recording a live band but not for tracking overdubs. There are many ways to configure your set up to have more than one mix. 1-Many interfaces offer 2 headphone jacks. Example the Scarlett 6i6 like I have has 2 headphone jacks and you use Mix Control to make 2 mixes. This is why I always advise people to make a list of features you might need before purchasing an audio interface. It's cheaper to have the feature built in than to add it after the fact. 2-A small mixer added to your output. This is what I actually use as I like to add some reverb to the headphones for some clients. My Mackie Pro FX 4 cost me $50 second hand. The client gets the mixer and I use the jack on my interface. 3-A headphone amp with levels for each output. 4- A $5 Y cable also works just fine as long as the headphones are similar in impedance.

I have a Scarlett and the RTL is as low as 12 MS if I use the lowest setting. BUT- my audio engine freeze up so I have to use the 128 buffer. which gives me around 26 ms RTL which makes using real time effects pointless so I don't.

Ya Cakewalk has never had a real audio editor built in. I found that a bit weird at first but then once I learned to tool copy audio into Wave Lab ( or any editor) all was good.

We were typing at same timer,, I edited my post above to add a screenshot

OK it took some poking around but I see that what you have opened is a Loop Construction View. I have never seen it before I guess because I don't use loops. Thanks for posting this question, I just learned another cool feature I have never used and I can see a few things I can do with this to improve my workflow. Your just not opening the view properly. I won't open by double clicking-- I have to highlight the audio track, right click and choose view , Loop construction- or easier yet Alt 7 All the audio tracks I opened including I dragged a "loop" from the browser just to test, all open normally and I can view the audio wave form. Looking at your screenshot you don't seem to have any tracks highlighted. And the other clue is there should be a tab in the lower left with the loops info.

I've never seen that window before? Is it a clip audio editor? This must be a new feature, when I double click audio clips it only highlights, This is my office computer so my version is outdated, I'll update and check back and see what I get.

Are you using an ASIO audio interface or on board sound card? The audio driver is important for using a DAW like Cakewalk.

A screen shot might help. Did you zoom in on the track?

Well I'll be darned, I also have a good version of Sound Forge came with a Sony Digital turntable.. Now you have my curiosity>

You originally said you did this no problem? Anyhow you open the Bandlab assistant. Go to the Apps Tab. go to the "Open" button and select "install add ons and you should get this screen with the options. I already have all this stuff but it still seems to proceed and reinstall them, not very sophisticated.

Yes Midi sync is what allows different midi devices to ,, well,, ya ,, sync. An example would be I gan set my 1984 Roland drum machine in Midi sync mode, then tell Cakewalk to transmit midi start stop found in preferences under "Project/ midi and when I start Cakewalk the drum machine plays along in sync using Cakewalks tempo. I also used to use MMC to sync my Yamaha MD 8.

my guess is you made a typo when submitting your address. I would try again but you'll have to use a different user name to make it work. Because the software is free you can even create a whole new account but will need to use an alternative email.

I guess the OP is talking automation. I have about 6 wave editors and none of them "re-draw" waveforms. It would be interesting to hear what that sounds like.

And Lee are you aware that the latest version of your software is available for free? X3 is real outdated and huge improvements have been made since then. https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk

When I've had issues like this there's been some sort of hidden data that I cannot see in Cakewalks event list. Close inspection of the track inspector might reveal something. Like try re setting the volume slider or gain and see if it moves when you start the song. Someone mentioned Ample Bass and this will often happen where it will jump to 1.6 in the GUI. I have to lower the midi track level to 64 to re set it to my pre set of 1.0. Never had to do that with other VST's. Tricks I've also use were to change channels ( didn't always work) or slip edit to exact first midi event or split and delete the " empty" data before the first note.