John Vere

A lot of download midi files start the count at zero and if you use the metronome you don’t notice the missing or quiet first click until you export it. I’m using them as backing tracks so I need that first click. So Ripple edit and Select All and drag the project 1 measure. Or I fix it in Wave Lab.

This has been requested since the beginning of time. We all have just gotten used to starting at either 1 or 2. I often put the count in on measure 1 and song starts at 2. The reason is you can’t have midi notes at zero or they might not trigger properly. A negative measure option has been asked for many times and everyone agreed it’s a great idea but it has yet to be seen. It especially bugs people who rely on the notation view.

And never inaccurate like most of us. I learned more from him than anything else. Possibly he was AI after all and part of the old server they are dismantling. Just kidding Steve. Yes we hope all is well.

The other long time contributor I haven’t seen for a while is Mr Cook. Shows you how connected we all become here.

Mine still had the side bar but there were no recent projects. It slowly has repopulate itself. So something happened with the update. Your are the 3rd person who had this happen.

You should have looked. It’s not for audio latency it’s for system latency. It’s a standard tool everyone uses to see how their computer is doing. There are other tools as well. I had same issues last spring are all of a sudden everything seemed slow to load or even play. It turned out my SSD data drive where Cakewalk projects were stored was slowing down. I ran the Samsung Magician which determined that. With SSD drives it’s not how full they are as it’s how many GB have been written and deleted. $50 each for a couple of 500 GB Evo drives The Magician will clone your old drives in less than 20 minutes and my computer is now working better than ever. I’m going to do this annually from now on.

FYI. Most 3rd party VST drums have a mapping page and there will be a list of most common digital kits to choose from. There’s a free version of Steven Slate that has this feature. If your using SI drums the SSD 5 is a good upgrade. https://stevenslatedrums.com

Have you ever run Resplendent Latency Monitor? That’s a good start to troubleshoot computer issues.

For sure I didn’t use it much back when I have version 4 but when I upgraded to 5 I took the time to watch all of their videos a few times and I started to figure it out. Now I use it for all audio editing tasks. Timing, level, remove unwanted notes from guitar chords and then pitch correction. It’s great to tighten up harmonies. I cannot imagine not having it now.

This almost sounds like headphone leakage. This is one reason I like to take my vocal track and split it into just each phrase and remove all the “silence “ between. This cleans up the noise floor and breathing. Then I slip edit to start and end with fades. Sort of what I’m seeing in your Orange track but it’s still showing dead air. I totally remove all that. This also makes it easy to level each phase with clip gain if needed as well as making it ready for working with Melodyne.

I wonder if what the OP really should be doing is using a bus?

Not mentioned in the video is running Resplendent latency monitor app. That will help troubleshoot if your computer is not set up properly for audio.

From what I can tell this is the final release as promised. There will not be anymore updates or bug fixes added to CbB going forward. This is the version everyone needs to have installed that will allow future activation. Older versions will not activate if they time out. It would seem that all versions of Cakewalk were stand alone installers and if you had never installed Cakewalk before, it would run the course of a full new install. It then would overwrite prior versions when run if you already had Cakewalk installed. I have a lot of the old installers stored away as backup files but I will now delete them because they are now unusable with out the activation. It’s unknown how long they will keep this version available but it most certainly will still serve a logistical tool to sign up new users and give them access to a full featured demo of Sonar. My guess is they will keep an eye on user stats and go from there. If it was my business I’d want more frequent activation cycles of this demo so that info could be presented to the Boss each month as Sonar moves forward.

Ripple editing selection

This is the last update

To clarify I’m not sure my toast message was the same. I didn’t read it all. But it is definitely that the web page is slow to open or doesn’t open on the first try. On my main DAW it opened on the 3rd click to the sign in page but showed I was already signed in so I closed it and nothing happened. I opened the help / about and it was all good to go. It just seems the web page is busy right now.

Exactly what I was thinking. Your track peak levels are in the danger zone too. But if you solo just that track there should be no sound. If there is then it has to be a lane. Another place to look is the track manager and see if there’s any hidden tracks.

I finally got the nerve to install the Pine Box version of Cakewalk on my main DAW. I’ve finished everything important so if it blew up I’d just dust off my 8 track. It did the same thing and I got the activation message. Once again it was not exactly clear but I just figured it out and left it sitting for a few minutes and it updated. I even read the liner notes. Good job team. Only weirdness was my start screen of recent projects was blank? Oh well. It isn’t anymore. All I can say is they better get Sonar going soon because I’m slowly spending my Summer Gig money on other things.

You should have started a new thread you’ll be lucky if anyone makes it this far. And the solution is not uninstalling. The solution is patients. I just installed the update to a extra laptop and I got the message too. I clicked on the activation in help menu and noticed that nothing happened. I ignored this and distracted myself with tuning my guitar and miking my amp. About 5 minutes went by and I got the green light. This is normal. You uninstall now you have a bigger mess to clean up. Good luck. It’s beyond me why the first thing people do when troubleshooting is re install the software. It’s rarely the solution. Software is spread all over your system when it installs. It’s very tricky to totally erase ever last tidbit.

I don’t think they will be changing the format that we have used for a long time now. It’s really not that hard to move projects if you follow the steps outlined in many videos. There can never be a universal project file format as every DAW is different.

It sounds like you are using your on board audio and connecting the Mackie to the little input jack of your computer? Please confirm this for further information. You can also watch my videos for easy to follow overview of setting up Cakewalk to record. But if you are connected as I’m guessing you will need instructions not detailed in my videos because I always recommend you use a proper interface if you are recording audio . But in a pinch it will work

This! I have installed Cakewalk a zillion times on a zillion different computers for a zillion years. I have never once needed to fix, delete, remove, re install or rollback to an older version- nothing has ever not worked. Google “clean install of Cakewalk” for proper instructions on removing Cakewalk 100 % from your computer.

Funny how people jump on re install as a solution when it possibly never is. It actually can make a mess of things. Is what you are saying is the default factory template icons are missing as shown in the screenshot? All I can think is you changed something here.

This begs the question of exactly how many people on this planet are still on W7? I’ll put my hand up 2 x. I don’t throw out laptops until the screen goes dead. I have a 2005 running XPsp2 . A 2009 Net Book W7 and a 2008 Sony that is my live performance playback machine. It has CbB on it as well as X3 and SPLAT. I only playback projects but it is fully loaded with all my stuff with the exception of some plug ins that only allow 2 machines. The onlysituation that I can think of would be if the hard drive fails and I would have to re install W7 on the Sony. So to prevent that I just recently cloned the drive to a brand new one and swapped it out. The old one is safe on the shelf. In other words you can easily keep any machine running forever if you maintain it. I can’t think of anything else that would require access to W7 and the CCC. As if anyone would be crazy enough to build a new computer and install W7. I guess a Flat Earther would. As Noel just said it is only out of kindness that we even have what little access is still left over from 2017. Back it up!