John Vere

You need to just learn how cakewalk works with midi . Don't ever go by what you did in another DAW. If you open Cubase you will find things even more different. In my signature you will see a few tutorials on this subject,

You know all of those devices you listed are very sub standard as far as drivers go which will only cause you grief with Cakewalk. A proper ASIO audio interface is the heart of a good DAW system. They are not that expensive and then you can get on with creating music. Any other mode than ASIO will not sync properly when you do overdubbing. I have tested all the modes with a few different devices and only ASIO will sync properly because it can report its latency to Cakewalk. If you insist on using a different mode then you will need to manually adjust your timing offset. You can test your overdubbing by performing a loop back test. Take a midi kick drum track and bounce it to audio. Plug a short patch cable from your audio output back to your audio input. Insert a new audio track and set it to record that input. Play and record the new track. Now zoom in and see if it lines up with the original track.

My only solution would be to use different VST's. If I have a problem with a VST instrument I most certainly try others to see if the problem goes away. I realize you might have a lot of stuff assigned to the TTS-1 but it's worth the effort to at least try replacing tracks with at least the SI stuff. I have taken 12 tracks of midi GM stuff I downloaded and swapped out all the VST's plenty of times. It's what I do to create backing tracks. If there's a song I want to do I first look and see if I can find a good track off the internet. If it's so, so I just re do stuff using the original as a kind of guide to the songs arrangement. If its a good track then it's a simple matter of replacing the TTS-1 GM sounds with proper sampled instruments. I mosty am looking for good drum tracks.

I have installed CbB on a lot of different computers and I've yet to have any issues if I just do as I said above. It might be different on different systems with different administrator privileges etc stuff happening, but I'm always working with W10 Home fully updated. I make sure windows and all my drivers are 100% before I move forward with my software.

That sould not have made a difference that any normal person would hear. I only export 16 bits if I'm making CD's and ya they sound great. But the same file exported at 24 bit will sound a tiny bit better, not worse. Something in your playback must have changed.

Without a proper audio interface and studio monitors what do you expect? Your using computer stuff with a professional DAW. Every playback system will sound different but running stuff through a $10 sound chip on a laptop into gaming speakers will definitely give mixed results. You need to invest in a good Audio interface and a set of proper studio monitors. Or suffer unreliable mixes. Audio interfaces are the heart of a computer based studio. And a good set of monitors will hopfully give you mixes that will translate to other playback systems.

The biggest improvements will be the resolution. I think TTS-1 is very low resolution so sounds flat to me. For drums I use AD2 but also use SI drums and Session Drummer depending. SI drums is a 10 fold improvement over GM kits. I still use TTS_1 for some simple Percussion and brushes. For Bass I use the free Ample P bass lite. I will also use SI bass and for acoustic bass I really like the DIm Pro offering. GM rock bass is definitely a weak point. It's so bad that a lot of files seem to use the Acoustic bass which is more passable. Piano for sure everything else is much bigger! I use the free demo version of Addictive Keys. It's missing a few octaves I don't use. I used to use True PIanos which came free with Sonar. There's also Airs Mini grand but I had issues with it changing effect settings so stopped using it. For organ I am still on a quest but the Air DB33 is the winner so far. I also use this freebie ComboV which is very 1960's. I use a lot of Whurlitzer and electric piano parts. Once again Addictive Keys MarkII is my go to. I also use Lounge Lizard and my best is Mr Tramp. Mr Tramp sounds the most authentic but it's 32 bit so I am careful how I use it. The SI electric piano is also not bad if you run it through effects. For strings I use SI strings. That said an upgrade from TTS_1 is at least use the SI stuff as it's a big jump and it's not CPU intensive at all. Very stable. For guitars I use the free version of Ample Guitar lite. I used to use Strum session which came free with Sonar but Ample seems fuller. For Horns and stuff I use Dim Pro or even better my Air Xpand stuff. Air Xpand is forever on sale and I got mine for under $30. It came with the DB33 organ , strike drums ( don't like) and a bunch of stuff that takes up a lot of hard drive space. Good thing I put it on a data drive. Xpand is a 4 part multitimbral synth. I have dozens of others and I paid very little grabbing freebies and deals over time.

I thought Roland was a big part of the very first MIDI connector stuff. My friend had a Juno with a serial connection and a box that converted it to 5 pin so he could use his Atari. I just fired up my Cubase Elements 7 and loaded a midi file. I then tried "save as" and it had no options other than a project file. So I used Export and it does show (.mid, .midi) in the extension box but you can't choose one or the other. I exported the file and it shows as a .mid file still. So this is a Mac thing I guess. And I also realized that with the 3 character extension I was wrong as in Docx. files.

You can do a lot of midi on a computer from 1984. So it's not your CPU. And the software can only do so much to second guess what it is you are after. Think about Auto fill on cell phones. Does it ever second guess what your typing 100%? I find that quantizing works fine for putting anything from 1/16th note and bigger in place. It gets tricky if there are triplets involved. Over the years I have developed a few things that I will do to keep quantizing from moving notes to the wrong place. If I have a pre made drum beat or midi track I will try different grids in PRV until it matches up with the notes. With drums the Hi Hats are the place to look. You'll soon find out if it's 16th or 8th note triplets etc. I then use that as my setting for other parts. It will still require some editing and you get good at "seeing" the wrong note placements. I find real piano parts should be left alone And even snare parts I play on my digital drum kit I will have to manually edit. Sometimes playing a bit ahead of the beat is a good thing. If I was a super good player I would not need to quantize but I'm a guitar player, not a drummer or keyboardist. An example is I always play real bass on my songs and if I convert it to midi it's right on the money.

I thought all file extensions can only use 3 digits/letters. I have Cubase and it saves files as MID. not midi?

Possibly the TTS-1 is getting old and has health issues. I only use it to listen to downloaded midi files these days. It's pretty rare that it is used in a song. There are just so many better sounding instruments out there. The TTS-1 is a DXi instrument and I'm no expert, but I'm not so sure that it is a fully supported format in W10 anymore. I certainly have had issues with TTS-1 since W10 and Bandlab. It works fine to OPEN a midi file and play it. But If I insert it to a song I will have different issues. The most common is that a project will tell me TTS-1 is not available and it will be greyed out in the synth rack. This just happened again a few days ago. As a test I opened the same project in Sonar Splat and the TTS-1 was fine. It's sort of become unstable just like some of my 32 bit VST's. So I avoid them all.

So I have mine at 1,000? Is this not advisable now? And I just did a fresh install on a new OS drive and when I looked it was at 200. That is with the latest version. I then bumped it to 1,000 like I've always done. Certainly working just fine.

It is almost for sure a W10 driver issue with your interface. Some software is not as fussy as Cakewalk. I got that message the other day after I updated 2 of my computers with new OS drives so I had to re install Cakewalk and my Audio drivers. I've been using this old MAudio fast track pro just to test things, my studio is still in boxes. The web site warns me that the driver is not supported in W10. It may work or it might not.. Anyhow it worked fine on one computer and the other one it won't work with Cakewalk ( or Splat) Both are up to date with W10 and Cakewalk versions. Drivers are important and obviously even a different system ( mobo) can make a difference. I hooked up my Tascam and it worked fine. I haven't followed everything said here but I don't understand the SSD fix? that seems way out there.. so even though I doubt it will solve your issue it's still a good upgrade. And I wasn't saying you needed a new USB cable, I just gave that as an example of how you need to swap out parts until the problem goes away. Obviously it's the Interface that needs swapping out.

Not sure what you mean by 1st output? Are you using ASIO mode? Yes if your plugged into the Scarletts Channel 1 you would choose that as the tracks input it will say left and channel 2 would say right. Activate the record button on the track and meter will move. The tracks output should be going to your Master buss. If you don't have one make one. One reason nothing will get recorded is if you set auto punch in points further down the timeline.

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.

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