John Vere

It's not a DAW, it's a wave editor. I've been using it since 2001. I have made many live recordings, cleaned up old tapes and LP's,,, millions of hours working with stereo audio tracks. But I'm unaware that you could insert a VST instrument. It does not speak midi at all. You can use most VST effects but it's a bit fussy about that too. And it's made for adding those effects to a wave file. You can record and then add effects, but I'm sure there's no way to monitor effects while recording. Could be wrong but it's not what it is for.

There's no authorization. You create a Band lab account using your e mail and a password. You download the bandlab assistant and log in. Go to the Apps tab and install Cakewalk. From time to time you'll want to run the assistant and update Cakewalk.

Oh and you can export your presets for most VST's in the plug in manager. Some VST's have their own folder too.

You project file should have already been backed up to an external or internal data drive. It's living dangerously to not have back ups. Most of use do not store our projects on the OS "C" drive. We use a second data drive. A common set up is 3 drives with the 3rd being used for instrument libraries. I just updated 2 computers OS drives as they were getting old. I simply made a recovery USB drive, Put in the new SSD and widows was installed and updated. I then had to spend a few hours running Command center and re installing 3rd party plug ins. Because all my projects were on the data drives everything opens exactly the same as the old system. There was very little change most was because CbB updated too. A tip for those doing this if you do have the old Splat and the CCC installer is to make a copy of the Command Centers download folder and save it. I went through mine a deleted old versions and only kept the newest versions and stuff I want. Install Command center to the new machine and before you install anything else copy the content of that download folder to the newly created download folder. This way nothing needs to be re downloaded and CCC will install stuff fast. The folder is found Program Data/Cakewalk/Command center/downloads When your done running CCC delete these files to save space. Just make sure you have them backed up on a few storage drives. They will never be updated.

It's real dumb how that is probably a default setting that was from like 2008 and they never fixed it. It should stay once you set it even if the OS updates.

Did you bump your midi buffers up? I set mine to 1,000. The defaulty is too low at 200. Preferences/ MIDI/ playback and recording

You can use the "Process Effect" option right click on the audio clip to open the dialog and look for it half way down. That will render the highlighted clip. You can use Undo if it sucks. But I've used this to get rid of a POP or mike stand thump.

Do you have a copy of SPlat? Or a way to roll back your version of CbB. I find myself opening problem child files in Splat just to see what happens. I had TTS-1 crashing CbB yesterday. Couldn't load any file that used TTS-1 and even a new project would crash CbB. No problem with Splat?? TTs-1 worked fine there. The big mystery is the issue went away when I tried CbB again. It's almost sounding like a runaway. I heard of people having projects that the software just keeps building and building. It's often a plug in.

As said you should not have to remix the songs. You just need to go back open each song and make the changes at your master buss. If your mixes were balanced then you do not re-mix. You re master. And myself this process can sometimes take 4 or five runs throughs until I'm happy with an album. My set up is pretty basic. I use about 6 sub mix busses mostly to control loudness of parts. It will show me pretty quickly what is clipping or too loud/quiet. I too use the BT Brickwall limiter on my master set at - .04 db. It seems to work 100% for me at that setting. I export the file and open in Wave Lab to do last details. One of which is to check the average RMS level which is similar to using LUFS I find around -10 to -12 is good for my material. It holds up side by side with everything else I play. If I look at the songs in Wave Lab they will all show a peak of -.04 But the RMS level can vary. So if they are lower I to return to Cakewalk and hit the LImiter a little harder . If the song is too loud I definitely have to go back and then I reduce the Masters Gain control by the amount I was seeing. I could also use Wave Labs gain tool to lower levels and the Loudness Maximizer to add l but I like to have the CWP file saved with correct levels.

We are talking about a $200 Home Keyboard. I would doubt very much if it has a midi sync option. Midi sync works by sending the DAW's clock out and driving the clock of the drums in the outboard midi device be it a drum machine or a keyboard. This way the midi output of the keyboard will be in perfect sync with the DAW. But that device needs to have a midi sync/ internal clock toggle. Otherwise all you can do is set both the keyboard and Cakewalk to the same tempo and hope it stays close without drifting. You might get further in your music creating progress by using Cakewalk to directly make your drum loops. Without midi sync, as you have already discovered, the created tracks are unusable. There are thousands of drum loops available. Even SI drums has a bunch. Time would be better spent learning how to use the software the way it was designed to work. There's plenty of tutorials. I cover using a drum loop in my videos- see signature.

http://forum.cakewalk.com/Solved-General-Error-m3043705.aspx

Does this same compressor work on other projects? Is it 64 bit?

+1 to automating a EQ or filter on the master buss. Another song that does this is The Way by Fastball. The intro has this lo fi and then even the first verse is a bit off. Song kicks in on 2nd verse, very cool and impossible for me to do it live!!

Windows Media player doesn't normally enhance playback but other players might. Also if your using your on board sound card for none DAW playback those often use enhancment to make up for cheap systems that are the norm for computers. I only use my audio interface for all sound playback just to avoid things like this. I disable my on board and HDMI audio in device manager. If you want bullet proof playback then use one of the many free Wave editing programs. Gold Wave, Audacity, Sound Forge, Acoustica Basic are just a few.

I sometimes get stuck too. I have one machine that is still on 1903 and won't budge. Try changing your active hours to the whole day. The other thing that seems to work is to keep re booting a few times. Re boot, open Windows update. Re boot etc..

Did it work before you updated?

The video feature is just an add on that was not fully featured and is very limiting. it is not a video editor, just a simple player. You are best to make a working copy of the movie as a MP4 to score music to, but do any movie editing in a proper editor like Vegas. Load your movie into Vegas and create a project file. Move the movie on the time line and save as an MP4. Now use that in Cakewalk to score. When you 're done, export the music and drop that back the the original project in Vegas. Make sure to have a clear count in you can use to sync up.

Does that line 6 use ASIO drivers? It say's nothing on the web site.

So as the tempo slows down does the tempo indicator also change? In my 36 years of recording midi I have never experienced a tempo change unless the software was TOLD to change the tempo. This is why I don't understand your issue. Something is telling your software to slow down by changing the tempo, I do not think it even possible for a DAW to play back midi at a slower tempo than the tempo that has been set. A buggered system would simply burp and fart and play back the midi spazmaticly. Long shot--but you don't happen to have any external hardware patched in that could broadcast a tempo?

Ya I noticed your using 16 bit as well THat's not a normal default Here's a screenshot of a common default ASIO interface settings.

If you have One drive installed via your Microsoft account it can be told to save all "Alt/ prt scn" screen shots to it's " Pictures/Screenshots" folder. So they are automatically saved to the cloud and your hard drive too. So do you have Command Center installed? My self I would try deleting everything that says Cakewalk from the computer. Install and run Command center until everything is up to date. Open Splat and test a few things to make sure it's working normally. Now download and install the Bandlab assistant then install CbB

I just did this a few days ago. Install the XNL installer https://www.xlnaudio.com/demos Log in with the e mail account you are registered with. Follow the prompts to install the products you want. Now open Cakewalk and run the plug in scanner. Done

As I said you have to go through the process of elimination. You say the kick is clipping even when the track meters and all else show safe levels?? What happens if you try a different kick? I can think of hundreds of ways to try different things.

In it's simplest format all you need to do is export a stereo wave/Mp3 file mixed without drums ( click track) in the left and then the with the drums ( click track) in the right track. This is called a "Split track" format that is pretty common. Then it's a simple matter of splitting the stereo signal which alas is not easily done internally within a laptop but very easily done through any external sound system. Complicated ways to do this would involve using an audio interface and sending the different mixes left/right.

Your issue does not make sense to me. Hardware would not have any bearing on tempo. Glitches and pauses yes, but a tempo slowing down is normally only controlled by the software ( DAW) You re installing probably just cleared out the cobwebs.