John Vere

Good suggestion. Chord track has been requested by many. An inexpensive option that I’m now playing with is called Chord Pulse http://www.chordpulse.com/ Its only $30. I created a backing track for a song in about 15 minutes with out reading the manual. I then read the manual to learn how to enhance the song with fills etc. The free version you can’t export midi so I bought it. You export the midi and open in Cakewalk and you have a real good start to your song. The chords are super basic but if you are an ace at PRV it’s easy to move stuff around and make it work. I also bought Band in a Box but having issues with exporting the midi.It uses real tracks now so they are not midi. But it’s possible when you get better at the software. Myself I prefer the No BS of Chordpulse. BiaB was $135. So a bit pricey. It does have a zillion styles and Chordpulse I think there’s only 140 styles but I still found what I wanted. 2. It seems doubtful as the trend in software is using on line activation product managers. I didn’t get the opportunity to try Sonar but I have Next and it seems identical to CbB to activate. I think the main reason they choose this system is piracy. Serial numbers are easy to generate or bypass from the code. I can’t think of one bit of upto date software I own that doesn’t involve on line activation now.

The first like you posted is a dead end and might be because they changed servers last fall. The like Outrageous posted works and I just used it a few weeks ago and they got right back to me. They never explained what was wrong and my crash’s suddenly stopped so end of story. It was the TTS-1 crashed a project 6 times. Then it stopped crashing. I frost the ***** anyway.

Yes. My other electric is a custom built Strat. It needs better Pups because it’s to clean an quiet. I take it to gigs as a spare and on some recordings when I need the Quack. I sold off a lot of my guitar collection a few years ago. Most were pretty worn out. I mostly want them for recording and G&L covers all my favourite sounds.

Mix recall is a easy way to compare mixes. I’m not sure many people are even aware of it. I use it also to confirm I’m working with the right version of a project. When I export a mix I will save the mix scene with the date. So a year later you listen to a song and want to open the project and make changes. So you open the project and make sure the dates match between mix recall and the time stamp on the wave file. If they don’t you might have op-ed a back up version.

The guy who I traded said he didn’t like the sound of the G&L. I think it’s called a Astat. Made in Korea? I’m not at home so forget. It had 2 soap bar giant single coils. They are super noisy around my computer. So I found some soap bar humbuckers but I had to router the holes a little bigger. They were quiet but I didn’t like the sound I got. Not a Tele and not even close to a Gibson. Then I noticed the string spacing was wrong. Turns out why I like this guitar is it was designed with finger picking in mind and it is wider at the bridge but about 1/4”. So those replacements were wrong spacing. So I put the original back in at the bridge and a Jeff Beck Seymour Duncan at the neck. Sort of the opposite of your Strat. I coil tapped the Humbucker. So this gives me 5 sounds all good ones now. Oh and thanks for the PM

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?

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