John Vere

This is the whole series here on this playlist which i you are a new user will help you learn quickly how Cakewalk works. There's a video on the topic of Audio set up that should solve your currant issue.

Ya I deleted all my videos last winter. It sucks that You Tube has no way to update videos so links won’t die. But I probably won’t be redo that particular video because I’m not even sure what it was about? I’ve redone some of them but put that aside for now. I’m waiting for the new versions before I waist too much time on the old one. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7YqVth30eGsURWrKGeu-fFyg3ETjF-Ox&si=3cyicYjqpob4CPV2

I’m not sure what you are trying to accomplish . I have a tutorial about using the TRS-1 and how you can customize and select the patches.

On the almost free side is me using my wireless computer keyboard. Tablet control of live sound mixers is almost universal now. With our Behringer x18 everyone can access the mixer and that’s using Apple/ Android/Windows devices. If I could add to that control if Cakewalks transport I might consider using it instead of WinAmp for playback of backing tracks. Because the X18 is also a ASIO interface Cakewalk can stream multi track mixes. I’ll be checking thisTouch DAW App out today. Thanks for sharing.

Why don’t you use an external drive? I use cloud storage for lots of sharing between devices but 48/24 audio is a bit much to ask. Lots of people use SSD external drives with laptops so they don’t fill up the C drive. But I would still want a backup plan A second option is to set up a network and use a 3rd Computer as as a server. It can be an old junker with a SSD.

Well no problem and to answer that simply split the clip and drag it to a new time line and place it where you want. . I don’t use light works but in the 3 editors I use this is how you work. Video editing is a lot like a DAW.

Then use Ctrl to highlight the clips you want and then use Ctrl again holding left mouse and drag and drop. I don’t see the problem as there’s possibly 10 ways to copy and paste clips in the track pane. Try them all and use the one that works best for you. I’m a mouse person so I prefer those options.

This is a weird one. You recorded the mid in a project that was 75BPM . At that tempo the midi track matched the audio. So now when you move it theoretically it should play faster? In other words it was recorded out of sync to the tempo at 75, and now your trying to play it at 100. Midi always follows the project tempo. Are you dragging and dropping the midi track from the 75BPM into the 100BPM project with the 2 projects open? Or are you saving the 75BPM project as a midi file and importing that? Or did you Export the midi track? One option is to do just that, export the synth track as an audio stem.

Great recording and Talent involved. My kinda stuff. No noticeable sibilance here on Yamaha NSM 10 or headphones. Yes on the edge maybe but if nobody had mentioned it I wouldn't have been looking for it. Just goes to show how different playback systems can be. And then I'm also very old.....Great job.

Here's a screen shot of the project for those interested in what I used to make it happen.

https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14648196 ( updated version Sept 16 2023 ) I haven't posted here for way to long. I keep forgetting how entertaining the song forum is. I just spent a half an hour listening and enjoying the creations. I then thought I should post something. I wrote this for my 70th Birthday last January. Song facts. It was one of those songs I quickly wrote down scratch lyrics and I had a good idea for the arrangement. Being in a hurry to get something recorded before it vanished from my head I loaded a basic project added an extra track for the guitar and put it down using just the metronome. As you know the default is 120 BPM. The next day I fleshed it out with drums bass and a few other guitar parts and after the drums where down I turned off the metronome. ?? It became obvious that 120BPM metronome actually sounds like a clock ticking was going to have to stay. I went in a found some better tick -tock sounds in the metronomes collection. I had to actually watch my own tutorial on how to record the metronome as I had totally forgotten how to do it. Right, use an auxiliary track! This song has been going over real good at my live shows. People seem to "get it"

Agree with above. I just love Melodyne ( hint, hint) I think there's too much low end on the guitars so it's masking the Bass and kick. Put a Spectrograph like Span on the Master Buss and solo each part. Sort an overall boomy sound. But I like the song. Nice and loud compared to the first 5 I previewed here today.

In my collection of about 40 original songs about 15 were written and recorded when I had a Tascam 8 track cassette recorder in the late 80’s.I think this year they will finally be finished to my current standards. My newest song Time Slips Away I wrote and finished in a day . I’ve only tweaked the mix a little since and I just released it on my You tube channel 2 day ago. I’ve been waiting to have enough live material videotaped to make all my songs into videos and that’s the hardest part for me. It’s sort a different approach when you start writing song to perform live.

This is what I was going to say as well. You can see if your timing is out because all midi should be on the grid lines. But you guitar track will be visible as transient spikes that you will see if they are lined up. Take note that this will only work if you are using a proper ASIO driver. All other audio modes will be out of sync so it won’t be you but your system that is late.

Just the effects, the others are needed for your on board audio. as Glen said if you never use your on board audio then no loss. I use both on my office computer and my 2 live performance laptops. My main DAW on board audio is nuked. If I turn off my interface the computer has no audio system. But I've never had any issues swapping back and forth on the laptops I use for gigs. I actually mostly have used on board audio from the 1/8" jack into the mixer for 100's of shows. I even have a Radial DI box for when I'm on a stage with a sound guy and a snake. In a way it's more bulletproof. But you don't have that option with your set up as you need more output channels. I use a Sound craft Signature 10 which has USB stereo connection but it's a PITA and often windows doesn't always see the ASIO driver. I have to turn the mixer off and on and it doesn't even have a friggn swicth so I have to unplug it! The driver seems to be from Karmen, It works fine when it works. But USB connections scare me as they are a little hyper sensitive to being wiggled. So I mostly use the Audio cable connected. It's more bulletproof. I now also have the use of a Behringer X18 which is multi channel and connected to Cakewalk with no issues. I might get brave and try the multi channel system like you using the Playlist. My set up I use split stereo. Bass on left and Drums and keyboards on the right. We are doing that because we now might play real bass on a few songs. And even when I do my solo act I really like running the bass track into my little Fender Rumble. More bass is always a good thing at a dance. But what sucks I the sound is mono. I really like using the full stereo versions in smaller venues as so much is lost from things like a Hammond Leslie organ in mono. The Playlist is clunky but, hey, they just might give it some love in the new releases.

It's totally possible to manipulate audio in any way you desire with any DAW, that's what they do, But seems you are asking about a Movie clip? Frame? If so Cakewalk doesn't edit movies it just plays them. As far as working with clips you simply copy and paste them and then cross fade etc. It's all in the documentation https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Reference Guide.pdf

I was going to mention that and forgot. This is why you see I have turned it off. The tracks are 24 bit already and Cakewalk processes at 32. Exporting at 32 there is nothing being downgraded to a lower Bit depth. I would not use it at 24 either but that's my own personal choice really.

I understand there's still uses for them, like I have a band mate who has low bandwidth internet so I take pity on him. But I still never export as an MP3 I simply batch convert using Gold Wave and then put the songs in a Cloud drive. And I do burn CD's for old clients who don't even own computers but Nero converts the 48/24 into 44.1/16 automatically. So I should have been more clear and stated Nobody has a real need to Export as 44.1 or MP3's any more. At least I stop doing that a few years ago. 48/24 all the way. Even my backing tracks. I think there are new users who think that the MP3 is the only way you can deliver music on the internet. This is what has changed in the last 5 years or so. As I said all my Music sites like Sound Cloud, Sound Click, and the others all except Wave files now, The listener hears the stream at a reduced bandwidths I guess but at least you did the best you could on your end and then people who download have better options.

Yes exactly. Like I said, it's all about a 100% total understanding of that good old signal path. Like vocals are the hardest. I now use Melodyne for leveling but I used to use Clip Gain or even the dreaded destructive "Gain" process to optimize the vocals and then add the EQ and then a compressor. This made the work the compressor needed to do less aggressive so there was no noticeable squashing happening.

If you see "Speakers Focusrite" that tells me you are not using the ASIO driver. It should say Focusrite ASIO. The Loopback feature has become a very popular feature for ASIO audio interfaces because of the increase in live streaming. In my case I use it as the input source for OBS screen capture software. It is an internal loopback and part of the ASIO driver. Loopback Mix allows me to run Cakewalk using ASIO as well as feed OBS from Win Amp and talk into my mike simultaneously. There was nothing wrong with my Scarlett 6i6, but to use it, I had to run Cakewalk in WASAPI shared mode and use a small mixer to manage this. Sort of sucks when your trying to teach software that you are recommending ASIO but you are actually not using it yourself! So I bought the Motu M4. I see many new interfaces like Tascam and the Focusrite 4i4 have it. If it's a feature you need then just upgrade. Otherwise you go down a rabbit hole of bad solutions.

Seems any DJ software will have that speed control slider and most will have the option for if the pitch is shifted or not. Cakewalk is a DAW and they are assuming the last thing you would use if for is as a live DJ tool. The speed tools are there but designed for processing clips in track view. It would be cool to have it as part of the transport but I can think of a few reasons that could create posts here like. " My song is playing slower all of a sudden!"

Brilliant, There's always 10 ways to do something in Cakewalk. And yes as I said I never normally use Fader automation but I use Clip gain a lot. It never occurred to me why I like it better.

Glad this was posted, I've seen it mentioned a million times here but as a rule I don't have any major issues. But check out some of the garbage in here like nasty generic drivers etc. found on this, my office computer where I test stuff and write my tutorials. I had trouble finding it so I just used search once I opened C drive Users. The above pathway was missing stuff I guess. Other information would be you need to SAVE the txt file after deleting everything. I opened Cakewalk and a quick scan of preferences showed nothing had changed . And all my other settings are the same too. One thing was for sure Cakewalk opened way faster now on this computer. So that seems a fix for that. Now I'm going to do my Laptop and Main DAW. Yahoo a new tweak for performance?

I'm no expert but I've read here a lot that you can completely nuke everything in there and Cakewalk will simply rebuild as needed automatically. I have never looked there before but seeing that Mabey I should!

Glad you finally figured out that MP3 files are totally obsolete. The internet has bandwidth way beyond what it was in the days needing compressed audio. All the music sites I upload to use standard Wave files at 48/24. If you make You Tube videos of your music it will be encoded to a type of MP4 file but still it will be 48 and you can choose real high bit rates like 360kbps. So these days nobody should be using 44.1 or MP3 files. This is what my export looks like for creating a Master. For uploading I change the Bit depth from 32 to 24