John Vere

This is why I have been recommending people set everything at 48. I totally stopped have conflicts once I did this. I’ve basically obliterated 44.1 from my system and music apps and now everything always works. The other thing I also recommend is to disable all other audio devices in Windows sound settings. You really only need your interface for all your audio. I can run multiple Apps and the internet etc it all works together.

I have no clue what you are getting at. Melodyne, Normalize or any process function quickly analyzed the track and then it’s up to you to make the changes. Processing time depends on your system capabilities etc. Possibly what you are trying to say is as example the You Lean Loudness meter free version has to listen to the whole song in real time to give you a peak and LUFS reading. The paid version you can drag and drop the audio and it gives you results in seconds.

You can open older projects that are 44.1. And you don’t have to convert them if they are not important or your not recording new audio. And some projects might be to messy to work with ! You have a choice. I have lots of old backup projects etc that are 44.1 because 10 years ago I was still stuck there because of my set up with my Yamaha o1v which is only 44.1 via the SPDIF connection. I switched to 48 for all new projects about 2014 when I got the Scarlett 6i6 interface. But I still would open and work on the 44.1 stuff with out issue. You just hear a slight pop when the clock rate changes. About 2 years ago when I got into making videos the 44.1 became more of an issue because I needed Cakewalk open and playing while recording screen captures to OBS studio. That’s when I figured out how to convert projects to 48. So every time I opened a 44.1 I would take about 2-5 minutes to convert it to 48. Now everything that is important to me is 48. The only downside is the fact that all audio tracks after the export will be continuous from start to end. This might be a problem for people with messy chopped up projects. I’m not one of those. I don’t keep extra takes or use take lanes. Those might be in a back up file but my latest versions of my songs are very straight forward and at the most only 8 audio tracks. Sure there’s a transition process that takes a bit of extra effort but for me it was time well spent.

This. And with that in mind we should still post our music. Even if only 100 people stumble on my music that's 90 more people than I would have had in the 90's with my CD's sitting in stores for $20.

Not sure if you saw the videos I made last week about the L8. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7YqVth30eGs-D7nsBl0iPsavrtpnrrsg Now I've done one gig with it I'm going to make a 3rd sort of as a overview and review. I first bought it as a mixer. You can see in the picture how I need everything to be very compact and fit on the little table. I have 2 small Mackie mixers one has no effects and the other the effects are terrible. So I have used a Voice Live pedal for vocal effects. That is a nightmare of connections as well as I've started having issues to complicated to list. One being if you look at the picture you will see my X keys USB footswitch on the floor. The Voice live was beside it and sometimes my pedalboard. Three times at a show I accidentally stepped on the X keys instead of the Voice live and my backing track would stop! It's a good thing that show was not a dance or a 300 person outdoor concert!! This is just another sign of old age because I had rarely had this happen before. So the Voice live has gotta go! And you can see I also put my pedal board out of harms way. I have other larger mixers and only my Yamaha 01V has effects I can use. I've played in many bands and used all sorts of different mixers, the effects are not what I like, ever. Thus the search for a small mixer with good effects. In all the YouTube reviews of the L8 they praised the effects so that got my attention. Got nothing to lose because of Amazon return policy so I ordered it. I was blown away that there was a pre set, Vocal 2, that was almost exactly what I like. I only had to tweak it a bit. Anyways the board was amazingly easy to set up and use at the gig. Then the bonus. I often record my performances to see how I'm doing and make improvements. For that I have to connect my Tascam DR 40 to the RCA tape outputs of my mixer. This gives me a "board mix". This is now built right in. The Zoom took 20 seconds to set it up and I recorded myself into 6 tracks. If you look in the picture you will see a camera on my lighting stand. It's a terrible angle but for what it's worth I could now dump the recording into Cakewalk, tweak the audio and produce a live video with killer sound. 48/32. That's right it records at 32 if you like. I also dumped 30 backing tracks on to a SD card I had on standby just in case my Laptop finally died> You can play these directly from the mixer. Originally I was not thinking of it as a serious Audio interface. But my Motu is now sitting up on the self next to the Scarlett. I will probably sell it and keep the Scarlett as at least the Scarlett was more dependable and has SPDIF. The Zoom doesn't have Midi so I need to keep an interface that does. As an interface it is a better workflow for me due to all the inputs and having complete control over my monitor and headphone mixes. I realized I could also connect 2 more Monitors pairs as well. No need to change the Master output to 3/4. Just turn a knob. I'm running my sub off Mix B. I can now run at a lower buffer setting as well. The ASIO driver is a good one. Zoom has come along way in that regards .

Read this it’s a lot of info but they did a great job of covering the topic https://aristake.com/digital-distribution-comparison/ I just posted 14 songs as an album on Distro kid just to get them off my mind. Most of the songs were older and I kept redoing them. Now they are safe from me doing that again. I will now finish another batch this winter. I have no hopes of ever making money with them But it’s great to play live gigs and tell people that they can find me on all the music sites now. Same goes for friends and family. Im also slowly making videos for each song.

Hmm, The Op was here 2 hours ago.

Absolutely. A 320kbps MP 3 at 48/ 24. is probably as good as a 44.1/ 16 CD , least is I don’t hear a difference, not that that’s saying much! And if I need a CD Nero happily takes my 48/24 wave files and burns them at 44.1/16 automatically. And now with the Zoom interface I can record at 32 bit as well. I can stay 48/32 start to finish.

Why not switch Cakewalk to 48? I gave you the instructions and it’s fairly easy . There’s many advantages to having everything 48. Videos are 48 and so this often can cause conflicts if you try and watch one with Cakewalk running at 44.1. I personally see zero reasons to use 44.1 anymore. I find it even odd that it’s still a default for Cakewalk? All the music delivery services now ask for 48/24 wave files. 44.1 and MP3 are dinosaurs.

For this reason I just use the Arranger track now. You can use it to show lyrics and chords. And the arranger track has multiple lanes too.

When this happens there is a volume event involved somewhere in the midi data and you should be able to see it in either the event list or down in the controller pane of PRV. But there’s sometimes a hidden event and I often run into this with download midi files. Example is I need the Ample P bass lite set at 1.0 on its level control in the GUI. I set it to 1.0 The minute you hit playback it jumps back to 2.0 and there’s no sign of any controller data anywhere. Sometimes changing the midi channel fixes it. But the easiest solution is to use the track fader and set it at 64 which seems to correlate to 1.0 on the instrument. Track inspector settings overrule midi events. One more thing to check is if another midi instrument has its output set in the GUI to output midi data this can loopback to any midi tracks that have all inputs selected. Either disable all midi outputs from instruments or set track inputs to your controller or none. The controller is my choice because none seems to get reset.

Ya the old PCI cards were pretty bulletproof and usually had best performance with latency. I have a PCI sound card from 2004 called Card Deluxe. The company even updated the driver to W10. It’s just a 2 x 1/4” TRS in and Out with SPDIF as well so worked great with my Yamaha 01v digital mixer. It’s still installed and working on my old retired DAW machine. Everything I own made by Roland still works. Some is from the 80’s. The Zoom was a surprise because they used to have budget low end rep and the ASIO drivers were not very good. Seems they sorted that all out because so far after 2 weeks this puppy is a dream to work with. It’s really a mixer. So it more like a downscaled integrated system for everything

I didn't read your post close enough. follow the directions in my video as well as make sure to set up everything everywhere to 48 as @mettelus has said even windows. The places to check are Windows sound settings/ advance settings In Cakewalk preferences Audio / Driver settings The Interfaces Control panel And as in my instructions above make sure there's absolutely no trace of 44.1 audio in any projects. Don't forget to try restarting after you make the changes and make sure they took. And don't forget to "APPLY" changes. https://youtu.be/opDwsC4_llg

I made a video about this , I'll see if I can find it. It's 100 % do able and I've now converted almost everything to 48. It's well worth the hassle. But for converting older projects it's a little involved. here's the basic outline of steps for converting a project from 44.1 to 48 Midi tracks don't matter. Only audio. You need all audio to be continuous from start to end. To do this you will export the audio tracks as stems at 48/32. follow the settings in my screens shot. You then delete the 44.1 audio from the project. All audio needs to be gone or it won't work. Even hidden tracks. Use the Project/Audio file drop down menu to check. It should be clear. Now you open the audio setting in preferences and change to 48000 in the new project box and by opening your interfaces control panel. You will hear a little click and now the transport module will show 48. Now drag and drop the new exported stems back to the original tracks.

As the link to the old post says the Metronome is turned off during export and bouncing so it's not just that simple. I'll repeat it here for those who are to lazy to follow the link @Promidi posted You put a Aux send on the metronome bus and then record it in real time to the Aux track. Worth noteing is another change due to the removal of the MS GM synth engine from Cakewalk is the Midi option in the Metronome can no longer use it. You would have to send midi out to a hardware synth or loop back a midi cable and use a VST.

Welcome to the wonderful world of recording with Cakewalk. There’s lots to learn as you start out. I made this series of tutorials just for people like you.

The whole control panel concept is why I didn’t look at Focusrite when I was looking at new interfaces a couple of years ago. My M Audio and Tascam interfaces were way easier to set up headphone mixes when tracking. I had to read the owner’s manual at least a dozen times for the Scarlett 6i6. So I bought the Motu M4 which was super easy to set up as well. It has other issues however so now I just bought a Zoom L8. But all my old interfaces still work except the M Audio is stuck back in W7 land. There’s been absolutely no real changes in things like converters in interfaces and Roland is a company that has usually used quality components in their gear. Its really about your workflow and how your chosen interfaces integrates into it for you. The Scarlett didn’t and that’s one reason I shelved it. That and it doesn’t have Loopback which is now important to my workflow. Funny how most people purchase an interface based on recommendation instead of sitting down and making a list of options that you need. Everybody’s workflow is different. So your title would probably have you purchase an interface that works fine for the person who recommended it but it might be totally wrong for you. There’s nothing wrong with that old Roland and who knows what the actual quality of any of the lower price point interfaces are these days. What is most important is if you are happy with the recordings it produces. I always felt my Tascam had better sound than the Focusrite. I only shelved it because it’s sort of too big for the desktop. And at the time the drivers needed a little work. They fixed them a few months later. Which is another important point. If the unit becomes unsupported and the driver is not updated anymore then like the M Audio a Windows update will break it.

VST instruments use an Audio track to output the sound. It can be used as a Split instrument track or a Simple instrument track which is we’re you can place midi directly on the track. Because they are Audio tracks then applying effects is treated the same. You can put effects in the FX bin , the Pro Channel or create a send to a effects buss. All this including control of effects parameters can be easily automated. There are hundreds of free or very inexpensive VST instruments.

My update to this situation is I bought a Zoom L8. It is a much more stable interface than the Motu M4. 1- No more dropouts at lower buffer settings. The Zoom can run at 64. Same project with the Motu was 256. 2- No more thump in my monitors on boot up. Just a very quiet click. 3- No more random garbled audio on new audio recording. This was a super annoying issue where a total restart of computer was required to continue working.

Ya it to bad they did this It certainly chased me away. Lord help us if they do this with Sonar. That would be end for me.

The OP was only interested in pre viewing midi files. They already seem to be aware of the rest. This thread and a few others are a result of the sudden removal of the MS GM player as an option in the midi device menu. Of course nobody will really miss it. But this one situation is why the OP posted. I gave them a solution with just drag midi files to Media Player. This is most certainly a simple solution.

If you don't want that then simply use the Notes tab in the Browser and insert your own pictures.

Ha, I knew a few people would get it. There's uncountable threads there on this topic ( Tape VS DAW) most are 45 pages long and impossible to glean any solid information. I like the vintage car analogy someone used in a thread that posed the question " Is Tape Obsolete? " One answer was- " nothing is really obsolete if people still use it." They gave a Classic car as an example. A 72 Mustang is not exactly obsolete if people still drive them and it's worth a lot of money just like a 1972 Reel to Reel deck would be if it's well maintained and in good condition. I own a classic 1985 GMC camper van that is in near mint condition . In a campground full of million dollar Mega Motorhomes people always stop by to get a closer look and talk about old cars and trucks. People like old stuff that's in good shape, if it's not then it's simply a old piece of junk. I'm pretty sure if I still had my Fostex r-r 8 track it would not have been used for a long, long time now. Small studio owners would have never had the resources to purchase a 2" , 1" or even a 1/2" machine. So 1/4" or even Cassette was what you would find in small or bedroom studios before digital came along. Even brand new they were far from perfect. The only deck I would still use was a Teac half track that took 10"x 1/4" tape that was a wonderful machine. But it was still worth a lot of money when I traded it for a Sony DAT machine. And I soon was totally digital once I got the Yamaha MD 8. I still have one. The quality of my recordings took a huge leap with digital. Consumer digital was 10x the quality of consumer tape based systems. That is still 100% true to this day. I get a huge kick out of these fools who record DAW recordings back to some old Cassette deck thinking it will somehow magically make their music sound cool. I remember the transition to digital was in I guess mid 90's. A group I was in won a battle of the bands and part of the prize was 4 hours in a local semi pro studio. They had just gone to ADAT but the old tape decks were still there behind the console position. The lead guitar player had been in lots of recording studios and when the engineer said OK, rolling, the guitar player said, No where not! and pointed behind the engineer at the decks which of course were not moving. The engineer laughed and turned around a started a deck rolling and said, there do you feel better now. The guitar player said it's just not the same without watching those reels roll along when I record.

I was going to say that Mackie is well known for writing good owner manuals. Your answer will be found there. Sorry for my original answer as I didn’t realize your mixer was actually the USB model. I have a Pro FX 4 which doesn’t.

This has turned into a Gear Space thread.