John Vere

Ah! A real Strat made by George and Leo. I Have a G&L Tele that I got in trade for that Laney 100watt tube head I mentioned earlier. It’s been my main guitar for a long time. If you hear an electric guitar in one of my songs it’s that. Or occasionally my 1964 Guild semi hollow.

Those latency figures in first screenshot look correct to me.

I was to lazy to go get my headphones so on an iPhone speaker the mix and sound is awesome. It makes me miss the days in the 90’s when I had the studio and real drums and we did a lot of this. We had those little Marshall Valvestates and a huge Laney. It was a music store as well so lots of guitars on hand.

This is why it is super important to slowly learn your way around Cakewalks interface and features. Overtime you will know exactly where to look when things like this happen. Take some time every day to open a few menus with the help module open. Poking around is how I learned. Reading the manual is also good but finding stuff in 1,958 pages is a task. Or pour yourself a coffee ( or) and sit back and watch my series. https://youtu.be/MiDmgQaAN60?si=nJHcmyRk6NQJpWjU

Is this only happening with people who are off line?

I agree with the moderator @gustabo This is an issue with using Melodyne. The belief that it only happens in the latest release is very far fetched. I’d be very happy to try and help but this to my thinking is the wrong place to do this.

What Greg said. If you are not using a ASIO audio interface this will definitely happen.

I opened Cakewalk on 2 different computers today and never got that.

I see all sorts of people from this and even the old Sonar forum on BiB forum. I spotted the Martian there.

Thanks everyone. Glad I’m not the only one who likes corny country! Hey @Bridget Murphy could you remove the quote from your post because that link will become dead later on as I plan on fixing the steel guitar a little more and will update the file. Sound cloud creates a new link. That’s why I don’t normally use it. Thanks.

As always a great track with incredible vocals- but I want to hear a better bass line. The current one sounds auto generated. And definitely needs more interest and changes in the percussion. I was thinking one more instrument like a flute or ? That only shows up once somewhere with a counter melody fill. We call it “Ear Candy “. Just little things hidden in the background that are in your peripheral hearing.

Hmm. I really hate to critique Its just kind got everything wrong! Recording is muffled. It’s like there’s one mike on the drums next to a low rack Tom. Vocals very out of pitch. Timing seems lurched. Id say get some help with the recording and production.

That actually would not work with a midi file as they are generally multi track and instruments. Let’s just wait for the OP to return. They will probably freak out at how long the thread became

Does the midi foot pedal show as a device in Preferences/Midi/ Devices? If it doesn’t then it needs a driver installed. You can check in device manager under game controller ? and see if it is listed.

This situation is usually caused by having “none” selected as the Mater bus output.

Yes you need to set the instrument or midi track in focus to highlight the input echo an make sure no other tracks are still in focus. I find a track will keep the input echo on if that is the track selected in the PRV and you put a different track in focus in Track view. There’s probably a way to assign keyboard numbers to select a track. I have always used Channels when I want to control whatVSTi is playing from my keyboard. I just change the channel on the controller. But then I toggle the global input echo button.

Or with Ripple edit on - use CTRL A to select all - snap on - drag project to desired location. This will also move automation, tempo map , arranger etc. Im not sure using insert measure does all that. As said always remember to turn ripple editing off. Ripple Editing is global to many music and video editing apps. It’s a lifesaver for inserting or removing segments of any multi track projects. But selecting all is important for it to work.

I was saying it is by design because this goes way back in time for Cakewalk/ Sonar. If you are a hardware user, as most of us were not long ago, then you would always have a midi interface connected so all your midi files when opened automatically were sent there and played through the hardware. But if you didn’t have a midi interface or a USB midi device connected one option was the TTS-1 be loaded up. But the GS wavetable synth often played because it was a Midi output option checked by default up until recently. We had to always tell people to uncheck it so the TTS-1 would then open. So by design this is so people without Midi hardware would not complain about no sound. But many audio interfaces have midi ports that users are not using but they are checked as outputs. Those will prevent the TTS-1 from loading. The OP is the first one I’ve seen complaining in reverse. They simply need to check the box for their midi interface or if using USB midi devices leave them turned on before opening Cakewalk so it will connect them . Now we are getting complaints because the GS Wavetable has been removed from Cakewalk. If it was still there and checked the OP would be happy because no TTS-1 It’s interesting that it is still available in other software.

This is simple. Choose any midi output that shows in preferences Midi devices. The TTS-1 only loads when nothing is selected. This is by design for people with hardware devices connected. Never import a midi file. You loose important data like tempo. Always open midi files. Importing is for existing projects to bring in midi tracks or clips.

Funny how everyone recommends Focusrite all the time. They actually don't make the short list if you compare all the interfaces of any given category. They are simply a "best Seller" There are possibly better interfaces in same price range. I just did a big research project on 2x2 interfaces. Here's most everything you need to know about 2x2 interfaces. Next I'm going to cover Audio interface Mixers. https://sites.google.com/view/cactus-studios/audio-interfaces

The reason you speak on an angle is the friggin thing is big and you can't read your script! But yes if you talk directly into it is very plosive. That's with the built in sock that I've never tried to remove. The extra sock makes it look vey uncool and I assumed it was for outdoor use as that's what it looks like. I used my Beta for narration for the first year of making videos with no issue but I did put a cheapo clown nose wind sock on it. I use the SM 7B for scratch vocals which I do sitting in front of the computer as you see above in the screen shot. But for the final serious, get down to it takes, I stand up and use the Beta with a proper vocal windscreen in front of it. I try and go for 4" as the closest I get. I also have to get away from my CPU which has a tiny bit of fan noise.

Ya horns are tricky. I was the sound guy for a 10 piece R&B band with a 3 piece horn section for 10 years. Sax, Bone, Trumpet. That sound is stuck in my head. It’s that Chicago horn sound. They called themselves the Hounds of Sound I created a horn section in Xpand because it plays 4 parts. Took a long time to get it satisfactory. Just a touch of reverb is all I use on horns. The sax guy liked delay on his solos.

I just joined the BiB user forum and ya I see some familiar avatars there. I asked a question and got really good answers which have helped learn how to use it. Lots of people seem to use it as a tool to start songs and then finish in a DAW. Great user forum just like here it seems.

The thing about a DAW is you can choose to totally ignore the features and use it like an 8 track. You can choose,like me, to only have 1 reverb unit and 2 compressors like I did in the 80’s. So for me the audio recording part never really changed other than Melodyne. I think the biggest improvement over the old days is what we now get out of midi. This has made the one man band sound 100% better than it did back then. I just posted a song in the song forum that is about 8 tracks. And I didn’t use Melodyne. It totally could have been done on a 8 track and midi sync to an Atari. Vocals and guitar tracks all one complete takes. It’s not my best work for sure but it was done this way on purpose.