John Vere

I failed. Even with headphones on I can’t hear any difference between on and bypassing! Probably why I don’t use much eq and when I do it’s the Gloss EQ which seems as good as any others.

With black bass keys! We won a battle of the bands playing Light my Fire and the keyboard player nailed that whole song I think his was an AceTone. I have those freebies the Combo V and F which I think stands for Vox and Farfisa

Time for a new controller. All the midi input filters are on the midi inspector strip shown by Mark. There’s not much any software can do about defective hardware. You repair or replace it.

Generally there’s only a few plug ins I install from 8.5. True Pianos, Lexicon reverb and Session Drummer? Then I can use the Command Center to get the rest. Everything else came with all the newer versions including CBC. Im not sure if 8 had anything that 8.5 didn’t have. The serial numbers came on the DVD and I ripped the DVD into a disk image and I have a document with all my serial numbers stored in a dozen places. But Bandlab has been really good about helping people access their legacy products even though they most certainly don’t have to. Back it up and write down those numbers. Only a fool would depend on a 8 year old dead web site for important information.

Your welcome. Glad it helped. Sometimes a clear screenshot of the tracks showing the input and output dialogue helps us figure out what is happening. By the way if you open your screenshots in the Windows photo app which is usually the default you can quickly crop the picture. Look at the top.

I’ve been making backing track using a new trick. Cakewalk Next has stem separation tool. This gives me the Bass, Drums , Vocals and then a track called Other which is guitar and keyboard etc. I drag the stems from the Next audio folder into cakewalk. First thing I do is extract the tempo. I drag the drum track to the timeline and this creates a tempo map. First I normalize it to -4db. Audio snap is the old way and it never works perfectly. I find the tempo map created this way is most times perfect. Especially if the drums are more or less steady. And punchy. Next turn on ripple editing use Ctrl A to select whole project and then drag the project so the first downbeat is on the start of a measure. Now check out the drum track to see if the transients are on the grid through the whole song. Now I can replace parts as needed with midi and everything is tight. I find I can actually keep the audio drum track for a lot of songs. So here you have the original drummer in you band now. The bass I convert the stereo stem into mono and drag that to AmpleP Bass. A bit of editing and now I also have the original bass line too. I only use a few keyboard parts in my tracks and I just play along with the original and try to get it close. Having the original vocals and other instruments makes it super easy to nail down the proper parts and arrangement. So far I only had one song that I wasn’t that happy with but it just took extra work to get there. This is a huge step up from using downloaded midi files etc

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I was about 12 1965 and that was when every 4th house in the suburbs had a band practicing in the basement or garage. Everybody had electric guitars from Sears. Some odd ball types had drums. Even odder was a Italian Combo Organ. Nobody had a bass at first and we didn’t really notice. This friend came over one day with a Canora Short Scale bass. I said what the heck is that thing? He said a bass! Like Paul McCartney plays. I said no he played a weird violin! He handed it to me and in no time at all I was playing the bass line to like a Rolling Stone and Mr Tambourine man. I started saving my paper route money and bought a Bass made in Italy that looked like the Hofners. But every time I’d joined a band as the bass player I was always the better guitar player so they make me play that instead and I wanted to be left alone and play bass and stare at my feet. The stupid thinking was the worst player in the room should play the bass. In my humble opinion the drummer and bass player should be the best players in the band. That is a good band.

Being a musician rarely qualifies you as a tech savvy person. As a matter of fact don’t even let most of them near a Mixing board. Being a nerd who just happens to be a musician does help a little bit. The invention of the 4 track cassette just forced some musicians into becoming nerds and they don’t like it! Computer DAW’s made it even worse. That’s why many smart musicians still use studios.

Chipmunk implies a much bigger jump in pitch than you get with normal sample rate miss match. unless it was like 44.1 upped to 96. But looks like a one post wonder to me.

20 seconds in the user manual- If Outputs 1 and 2 are used, Outputs 3 and 4 are free to be used for another purpose, such as connecting to an additional recording device or an additional pair of monitors. However, please note that the balanced versions of channels 1 and 2 – i.e., the signals at the two ¼” (6.35 mm) jack sockets and the unbalanced versions of channels 1 and 2 – are affected in level by the the large front panel MONITOR volume control. The signals at outputs 3 – 4 phono (RCA) sockets are at (full) fixed level, and thus if you use these for monitoring, you will have to control the volume either at source (within the DAW itself), or by adjusting the volume on an external amplifier.

I just thought of something . I’m going to send the link to the boys in this band I play with sometimes. The test was missing a lot. It really only tested for 3 things.

This is true but most interfaces have no problem. I use a SM7b and all my interfaces easily are set at a perfect level. It’s about 3 notches up from my Beta 58 but once set it’s no different. But if the pre amp are noisy then it is a problem. There’s plenty of info about interface pre amp S/ N specs. It wouldn’t surprise me that Roland’s interfaces might not have stellar pre amps.

I'm teaching my Grandson to play guitar. I taught lessons seriously for 25 years on and off. A first stumbling block I would run into was figuring out if this was going to be a waist of time because the person had zero musical ability. I started looking into way to determine if this could be tested and found this which is from the Harvard Music Lab. It was an interesting test. Some of the questions were you listen for out of time and out of pitch were real hard to tell. But I scored OK I guess. It actually seems accurate as after all I'm just a hacker! , Have fun https://www.themusiclab.org/quizzes/miq https://www.themusiclab.org/quizzes/miq

I could be wrong, but I think the OP is trying to set up sending to the 4 outputs and just didn't communicate clearly. Otherwise the question seems strange because the interface only has 2 inputs? SO I'll take a shot at explaining the 4 output set up at least other people might learn something. First check all outputs are checked and available in preferences. Then open the track output dialogue and you will see them listed there. Select output 1/2 for track 1 and 2 and then 3/4 for tracks 3 and 4. Then pan tracks 1 and 3 hard left, and tracks 2 and 4 hard right. If you don't see the pan control make sure the dialogue you see marked above as CUSTOM needs to be changed to ALL as below. Yours is set to I/O. In this set up each track will bypass the master bus and go directly to the Hardware outputs. Often used to send to a mixer for live performance or analogue summing. This is OK if there are only these 4 tracks. If you want to separate an entire mix say 20 tracks, you would then use buses as shown below. Here I have both track 1 and 2 going to Master 1-2 and tracks 3 and 4 going to Master 3-4. They are still panned so will still go to the desired outputs. I've put a limiter on on to demonstrate the advantage of always having a master bus. The Hardware bus strips are found on the far right and are hidden by default. You can drag them into view. One small detail is Focusrite uses a software mixer ( I have the 1st Gen 6i6 ) and that can change things. Make sure the software mixer is set up for this. One reason why I don't use the 6i6 anymore. Setting up that thing was a nightmare. My Moto M4 and Zoom L8 it's all on the interface hardware.

Absolutely. But backing tracks tend to be just like a real band after sound check. And in my case the only difference between regular dance tunes and a waltz will be instead of -14 LUFS that song will be expected to be probably-15 or -16. Mostly due to the drums being more subdued. But I keep the bad the same in all songs just like you would with a real bass player. I also use backing tracks for our folk/ bluegrass band and those don’t use loud drums And the other guys make me turn any keyboards just about off. So the bass is the driving force. We run that through a bass amp. The drums and keyboards only go to the floor wedges and in ears as a glorified click track. I only make sure the bass is always the same level.

I noticed that Band in a Box uses very low levels in its midi files. So I can see it’s easy to end up there. My 2 favourite brick wall limiters after testing over a dozen freebies are LoudMax and the Boost 11. Make sure and turn the make up gain all the way down . Then set the peak level to 1.0 or 1.2 which every you like. This goes on the master at the top and the YouLean underneath. Here’s my other trick. On the master. Turn on the pro channel EQ. Now when you over load the master the on off button will turn red. So you back off until it doesn’t. You can turn the pro channel off when done but it really shouldn’t matter . The Loud Max will catch overs but it’s best they are not steady. I don’t care what anyone says that it doesn’t matter in digital, I’ve read otherwise from trustworthy sources. If that project still is peaking but has low LUFS readings then it will have something with high transient peaks. Possibly a snare of piano. Use Span or the pro channel EQ on the master to see if any particular frequency is peaking. Dang it gets complicated fast sorry ! it might be also that the bass isn’t loud enough . Bass is the most noticeable part of a backing track. That is why I always use only the AmpleP bass set at exactly the same velocity and output level of -4.0 db.

My last two interfaces have USB C ports. This is now the standard connection for devices. The old type B are fading away. The Motu came with C to A and a C to C cables. The Zoom just the C to A. I have a feeling the OP has a new laptop or tablet that doesn’t have headphone jacks. Therefore the supplied adapter and markings on the device. If it’s a tablet then the driver might not work. And since when have users manuals sucked? Possibly with certain brands but all the gear I purchased over the last few years had very good manuals. Especially the Zoom. Its important because each interface might need steps or rebooting to install the driver.

I don’t use it on the master I only turn it on to check this situation and once it goes out after turning down the input gain I bypass it again. As long as my LUFS are good I’m happy. I used to master as a second step but now it’s a simple process of just getting an export perfectly done.

That button is actually very good feature. But you have it backwards. Piano is a touch sensitive instrument that will sound boring if played flat at one velocity. But other keyboards like Organ are not touch sensitive so that feature is used when you play those instruments. The timber of a real piano changes as you play harder or softer. Midi emulates this by inputting different velocities and some VST’s respond in very good ways. They sample he instruments at different velocities. The more split point the better. This makes for a more realistic performance. Some don’t at all. I don’t think the TTS-1 will. Those just get louder. So I depends on what the piano is being used for. If it’s just a choppy rock and roll part it doesn’t matter. But if you are actually wanting a nice piano ballad sound then you would need the dynamics. Reading Richard’s post again I think the issue was actually a headphone or monitor set up issue. As in the balance between the computers audio and the mike level. Midi instrument tracks are audio tracks an treated the same way. You set them at a decent level and do not go into the red.

Yes. Using the manufacturer supplied or recommended cable. While you’re waiting, go to the website and download and read the user guide.

I did a lot of research looking for a 2x2 interface for my Grandson. Yes those are good choices. The SSL2 + was my favourite pick so we are just waiting to hear back from a few local music stores. Here’s my video I made that lists them all.

There's the problem, disable it, That's a feature aimed at novice users. Take control. You want to set input levels at your personal target. Mine is between -12 and -8db for vocals and guitars. If the interface does not allow this to happen I would be looking for a new one.

Thanks for the reply. @Jesse Jost It’s seems stupid that a lot of us are still installing ancient versions of Sonar and installing CCC just to grab a few plug ins. Every time you do a new install it’s this crazy process to get to the point we’re all things Cakewalk are up to speed. A one stop automated app would be a dream come true. I will personally thank staff for keeping all that legacy software available and assistance for the fools that lost their passwords to the account. It would be way to much to ask that staff be involved in transferring legacy products from CCC to CPC so a suggestion. Have a tool as part of CPC that says “ Import Legacy Products “ You’d click it and it would take you to your old products page? Just wishful thinking ? Your Loyal customer: John.

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