John Vere

If you gave us an example of the recording it would make answering this way easier. I can think of many reasons your recording is quiet

The OP is 15- 18 years behind the times, that's OK I drive a 18 year old Subaru. It still gets me there. But to the OP, You really need to bone up on using sample based VST's many which are free and a lot come included with CbB. Sound fonts are just soooo 2001.

Just to mention, the TTS-1 is not what most people use if you want better sounds anymore. It's a great place to start but as example the SI Bass is a huge improvement in sound quality over the TTS-1. I use the free Ample P bass lite for bass. https://www.amplesound.net/en/download.asp I use the TTS-1 to preview downloaded midi files then I replace all the sounds with better sample based VST's

If there is any automation you can't split. Cakewalk imports audio into 32 bit wave files, It doesn't use MP3's

Staff View,,,? we don need no stinkin' staff view,, we use little blobs to make da music.... only cultured peoples use notation,,, we not cultured.... we bang, bang on da keyboard... we copy paste da loop da loop...

Cakewalk is considered one the most fully featured DAWS for midi editing. You’ll figure it out in time that most of what you need to do can be accomplished. I have a similar background to yours and still use my 05/RW for big fat synth sounds. It was by “ band “ for about 13 years.

16 bit? @ 192HZ? what's the logic in that. I might be wrong but I think even 44.1 hz / 24 bit is a much higher quality than anything at 16 bit.

Did you try it in CbC, no point complaining about a bug from a 2 +year old version. many things like this are now fixed. Your on 64 bit so there would seem no reason your would not choose CbC over the older buggy version.

Why would he want to replace the synth? He just want's the proper instruments in Kontakt to play correctly. The channels have somehow gotten swapped.

Interesting. This is news to me. I’ve often wished you could repeat a pattern in PVR

You’re miss reading my post. I am saying it is the latest version not the same version as 11/2017. It is certainly not the latest version of Music Creator

If it was me I’d create two midi tracks and drag the data there. Then assign midi channels and point outputs to the vst. I dislike simple instrument tracks for many reasons and this is one

Well that explains it. I wonder why Sony sold it to Magix. I guess they have bigger fish to fry. Anyhow, cool project your working on. Now I see the need for the video cues too. I always wanted to mike up my arm chair. I can play a pretty awsome beat on it. And then think of what you can do with drum replacer and using crazy samples. We once had this guy drum for us ( in front of 1,000 people) on a old suitcase. The Elvis song Don't be cruel was played on the back of a guitar.

Yes Vegas is one of the most amazing bit of software I’ve bought in years So well thought out and lots of support from community. I was blown away when I found it has full vst support and that I can use my Cakewalk plug ins on the audio.

The groove clip looping is the fastest way To make this go faster I zoom out. Then you can drag it 150 measures in no time

Seems like you’re using the stand alone VST. You need to insert AD as a synth as scook mentioned.

The big question is do you still have your original installs of Sonar on this machine? If so then all you need to do is as above and make sure all your VST folders are included in the scan. CbB is the latest version of Splat but if this is a new machine with no other past installs then you won't have a lot of the VST's that came with the older versions. So the recommended path is to first open Command Center and install everything using that. NOW instal CbB using the Assistant. .

What you need to know is how much latency is introduced by the wireless system. If your playing is real time it might matter. But that said any sound that is coming from that far away already has a lot of latency.

Busses are a great way to organize you mix into parts. And they do make it easier to globally deal with certain details. Having to adjust each track is a lot of work. I set up a mix and save it as a mix scene. I proof the mix in the car, ear buds, ghetto blaster, home stereo, laptop speakers and in mono. I make notes then go back to re mix if needed and mostly I'm only adjusting busses, not tracks. We each have our own system and you'll want to have your own. I have a Master Buss where all the sub busses go to. I mute this buss to check this has happened. On my master I have the BT Brickwall limiter set at - 0.4db for Wave masters or ? depending on it's final destination. Lower peaks are required for MP3 etc. I then have the following sub busses: Bass Drums Midi instruments Guitars Vocals Reverb Delay

OK that would explain a lot. I used to use SI bass but it tends to lake definition which is what I'm hearing. Donload the Ample P bass lite, it is free with the only limitation of just one sample library and it doesn't go below low E. https://www.amplesound.net/en/download.asp See if that helps, I've tried a lot of bass VST's and this one is very close to a real P bass. My set up for it is this Keep the velocity below 115 or it will add slaps. I'm at around 108 vel. I set the volume knob at 1.0 I assign it to it's own Buss. I hi pass filter at 80 hz. You might want to hi pass your guitars to get them out of the way, you might have to much low end build up happening. Try 130hz I put hi pass filters on every buss. My reverb buss it is set at 230hz. Vocals at 150HZ etc.

X series? Hopefully nobody sufferes that anymore, most buggy versions ever. I think the majority of Cakewalkers use a mix of both audio and midi. I make backing tracks for live performances and record original songs so I need the midi to make a foundation. I'm mostly traditional rock/ country band instrumentations but I do like to sneak in a big fat Poly synth from time to time. VST's allow one to experiment with sounds you cannot afford to purchase as real instruments.

Yes the sound is certainly pleasing and enjoyable to listen too. But thats using good headphones. If I don't hear the bass on my studio headphones then I will say the majority of listeners will also not hear it on ear bubs or cell phone speakers. I just turned on my monitors and now I do hear a kick thump and a droning sort of bass but if you want to stand side by side with commercial releases you need your mixes to sound right on all listening systems. My guess is your studio monitors are of the bass heavy type. There is almost too much low end on my monitors. Its a sort of drone as I said. I can't hear the bass notes, there's no defining "pluck" the kick might sound OK but it's not going to come through on all systems.. It's all below 100hz. Give it some mids. Once again , if this was the sound you like nothing wrong with it, but to my listening taste I want to hear good bass.

A real Wave editor just does the job faster and without fuss. I like Wave Lab's workflow out of all the ones I've used. It's the fastest. I paid $99 a few years ago and it has paid for itself a million times ove. I also like http://www.goldwave.ca/ free to try and https://acondigital.com/products/acoustica-audio-editor/ which also is free to try. Gold wave has the best batch converter which I use to convert my Wave masters to MP3. Faster than re-exporting a song. There is a older free version of Acoustica found here https://acondigital.com/downloads/ along with a bunch of free VST's on this page. see Acoustica 6 You open the file, takes 10 seconds to edit and then save it. done. Doing this in a DAW would take too many steps. As I said what you want is to normalize the file so it's as loud as possible I give mine a peak of - 2db. Then you zoom in and cut the beginning tight. Then cut off the end were desired. Wave files seem to work, not sure about other formats.

I'm listening with headphones and I find it's a nice stereo depth of field, Guitars sound real good, mix of instruments are good,, but is there supposed to be a bass? I don't hear any bass or kick for that matter. Seems the low end is there on the guitars. It's not that you have to have these parts if that was what you wanted, but leaving out Bass and kick might be what you are missing.

For percussive sounds you can load them into Session drummer. I make my own sound effects and it's super easy. Record the sounds. Load them into Wave lab , normalize, top and tail. You want to cut right to the absolute beginning of the sound. These are wave files. Browse to the Session drummer folder. Programs Files/ Cakewalk/ VST plug ins/ Session Drummer 3 /Contents / Kits. Drop the files into a new folder and call it "My Samples" (or??) Now open Session Drummer and assign the samples to kit pieces. It's was so cool to sample my acoustic drum kit and load it up and hear SD3 playing my kit! But I also sampled things like Tamborine, wood blocks and a railroad spike among others. I'm just about to re do some brush sounds as I just scored a set of wire brushes at the Goodwill store for $5. As said it's easy to edit and export the audio using Vegas. Only reason I see not to use a Camera is it would be much better to have the samples as WAVE files rather than compressed audio from a camera. A Zoom or Tascam handy recorders are great for this stuff.