John Vere

Most of these are free I depend on the You Lean Meter because it is defiantly more sensitive to true peak readings. All the other meters will show exactly what you set you brick wall limiter to but the You Lean always catches microscopic overs. Example. Brick wall set for -1.0 db All meters/ analyzers including Cakewalk will show -1.0 db. You Lean will show -0.8 or even -0.6 db. The paid version is worth it's weight in gold. And I use it on not just masters but everything I do, including my Tutorials for You Tube. The paid version allows Drag and Drop of any audio or movie files. in seconds you have your LUFS and the true peak reading. You only need one instance on a project. I always have it on the master bus but I can drag and drop any of the audio track in the project to it. I will drag and drop my guitar and vocal tracks as I work to analyze what the loudness is. Loudness tells you a lot more than peak does. You can have a vocal track that shows it's almost over but the LUFS are only -20db. A quick search for the peaks that are causing this, pull them down, and now the same track without a compressor is at -16db LUFS. Add a compressor and push it even more. Other real good analyzers I like, All are free from Plugins4free Analista MAnalyzer. Vox in go has a few, Span, Correlometer dpMeter5 Krame MS Meter mvMeter VU2 ISOL8 - this is a new one for me and has become a favourite.

You master bus output should say Focusrite. It looks like it's going no where.

I hate to mention this again but if you did follow the step by step instructions you would have had your ASIO device working a long time ago. Starting at 4:00 minutes. Is the Presonus the audio device as shown? If not then you go to the next step where you disable all other devices. If the Presonus is not on the list of available devices then the driver is not properly installed. Starting at 7:45 Minutes. As I show if there is a wrong ASIO driver showing ( you obviously will see realtek) then I show you how to delete it in the REG EDIT App. If my video is not clear enough please let my know an I will do something to fix that. I found out that many people don't actually watch the whole videos, one person said they were in the habit of watching in 3x speed. I made the video because there are many people who seem to have issues and it will always be because the have bad ASIO drivers on their system because lots of You tubes tell them to install asio4all etc.

Still a mystery ? OK Now I see looking way back to last Sunday you did say you found a plug in that was the issue. But this thread carried on I guess which made it confusing if you had been correctly dealt with. All good, carry on folks nothing to see here.. .

So how can Windows recognize a driver you say you disabled and if you did follow the video uninstall the Realtek ASIO driver in the RegEdit? If there’s no Realtek ASIO driver then selecting ASIO in Cakewalk would only have one choice. Your interface.

I’ve never had a problem with audio for along time now.

I used to have a video on this topic. But the the magic trick was get the first song sounding the way you want it. then- SAVE A MIX RECALL. Make sure each song was a SAVE AS like scook recommended above to it's own project folder. Now open the second song and drag and drop the mix recall saved from project 1 to project 2 right into the track pane. Boom, all the mix settings and EQ and effects are added. There will be a mix recall folder in project 1. Open that in the browser. Mix recall can be shared by projects that are exactly the the same layout. So perfect for live recordings.

If you watch the video you would have solved your problem by now.

Not sure this is necessary. It seems since introduced many years ago the Windows protection system has been one of the least invasive systems to audio. There are just a few tweaks the recommend like disabling scanning Cakewalk stuff. But I've personally never tried that. I most certainly want it working when I download free 3rd party plug ins and midi files!

In a way yes but you said That actually confused me. I think you made a typo and meant to say ASIO device. Not driver. The op was looking for a setting that doesn’t exist ? Since the beginning of time many of us have always disabled the computers audio system to avoid conflicts. On my main DAW I didn’t even install the driver for it when I rebuild it. But windows update screwed that up one day. Generally the majority of people simply install the ASIO drivers and never even have to think about anything else. And even thought it probably doesn’t matter I always set The sample and bit depth in Windows to match my interfaces settings. Just as you are advising. That seems to work for me when sharing other apps with Cakewalk running.

I’ve never had a problem once I simply bypass the effects. The latency goes away. The only issue that my come up is this shuts off a bunch of compressors and limiters so some tracks will go in the red. @scook plan would solve that.

Just a heads up. If what you are looking for are midi versions of traditional music like Christmas songs then save your self a lot of unnecessary work and download them. They are generally free.

The steps to solve you issue are explained here

There is no settings for ASIO in Windows. You install the driver and if you disable all other audio devices in Windows settings/ Manage devices then you are using your interface and ASIO. Open Cakewalk audio settings and you can confirm that. Interfaces these days are 24 bit and that is not adjusted in Windows. Open the Motu control panel to change clock rate and buffer setting.

If you remember the exact names just enter that in windows search in the upper right corner. For the future if you should always create a folder in the drive where you store your projects and name it. Then in preferences folder location change the pathway for projects to that folder. It doesn’t matter what software you use it is up to you to keep track of where files are stored not the software.

I only bought my Voice live play acoustic because I saw another solo act in a club one night and his vocals just blew me away. I went up to him on a break to ask. Bought one right away. It is more than just a harmonies generator. That alone is worth it and not only harmonies it can blend a pitch correction in with the dry. First it solved the issue I had with my mixer not having very good effects for vocals. Not only are the effects good quality but each patch has its own so I get what I want with a foot switch. It is an amazing processor for my acoustic guitar as well. That is global but I supplement with a zoom pedal. It’s my acoustic guitar DI as it has XLR output for that. And it got to be the fastest guitar tuner I’ve ever used. Then it’s also my in ear monitors mixer. I can not only blend my vocals and guitar but it has a AUX input that I can patch a send from any mixer into. So if I take it to shows where I’m using a house system or there’s a guy running the board I still have control over my in ear mix. Vocal harmonies, vocal pitch correction, vocal effects, guitar DI Guitar effects, Guitar Tuning , in ear monitor mixer with Vocals, Guitar and Aux from mixer.

I hate to say this but that's the cart before the horse. Unless you are trying to do this for a live performance I see no benefit in working this way. I see many reasons not to. You won't hear any effects in real time without turning on input echo. Direct monitoring is just that. It is the signal from the mike input directly to your headphones or monitors. You will only hear any DAW processing at the output stage. Running an auto tune plug is is a CPU intensive task. On most computers this requires higher buffer settings so there are no dropouts of glitches. To run at a low buffer setting you will then need to either have the worlds most powerful computer and something like an RME audio interface. A so, so computer and a so, so ASIO driver will require a higher buffer setting which equals more latency resulting in an echo in the headphones. If you want auto tune in real time then look into a TC Voice Live processor. https://www.tc-helicon.com/series.html?category=R-TCHELICON-VOICELIVESERIES

The easiest way to do this is only include the Guitar Bus in an export and export as a 48/32 stem. When the export is finished the dialogue opens to show you the location open that and drag it back into a blank space on the track pane. Mute or archive the original tracks.

They probably would have opened in SAFE MODE. 32 bit plug ins can defiantly stop old projects from loading. I always remind people to always save your projects as a Midi file for back up. Midi is timeless and can be opened in any DAW. Sure you loose the audio but for me most of the hard work was creating the midi tracks.

I agree that one could have 2 seconds of a perfect take mixed in with 3 minutes of noodles. I guess I’m more structured and tend to play what I hear in my head. So my solos are going to just be me trying to achieve that. I fully understand the process of creating by experimenting on the fly. That’s good too. And I guess comping is the better tool for that method. Possibly a difference with me is I need to recreate these parts live so comping together a solo would make that impossible. I prefer to just use 3 tracks. I record 1,2,3 and if I’m still not happy back to 1 and keep doing this until I feel I’ve got it. Sometimes that might require a dozen takes but as a rule my last take will be the best. It might be track 2. But even though it was as good as I’m going to get it might still have a few boners. Therefore the reason I have 3 tracks. I drag the best take to the top and if I find any boners I can easily cut paste from one of the other tracks or now I often use Melodyne to fix mistakes. I realize that take lanes could be used but every attempt at using it has ended up with a big mess for me because I obviously don’t understand it. I’ve lost material from using it. I used to use auto punch in but don’t really use that as much anymore because Melodyne probably can fix those mistakes. So once again there’s always 10 + ways to accomplish the same thing in cakewalk and we each use what works best for us.

Funny how I always get the real old ones before I get the stuff from the last few albums. It helps if they are songs I used to play and especially if I made a backing track for it.

I just swapped out all 3 of my music computers SSD drives because the new drives are bigger and faster etc. I always use Samsung drives and they have a Magician app. I had a 4 year old Evo 860 Data drive that was running real slow and the App showed that drive did have issues. So I ordered the 3 new drives 'cuase they were cheap. . For the C drive is was very simple. The Magician cloned to the new drive using the Data Migration you see at the bottom of the left hand list in about 20 minutes with no fuss. It's been running perfectly for 2 weeks now. There is a noticeable increase in speed overall. The broken data drive eventually came back to life somehow but is on the shelf along with the other older drives. Cost me $160 Can for 3 Samsung Evo 870. So I now have 3 500 GB drives and a increase in overall speed when opening and transferring data. I cannot say enough praise for the Magician app. It certainly seems like a well thought out tool. I have no clue about this 4K alignment is too, I looked it up, it seems way to geaked out for me. What ever it does I can't see would matter if you can replace these puppies every year for the cost of a dinner for 2 in most restaurants. 500GB = $44 can

That solves that potential problem. We can now confirm you do have a proper ASIO driver which is defiantly what you will use. Question? when you looked in the Registry was the PreSonus the only ASIO driver? If there are others remove them. I assume you watched the video. Anyhow we are then back to you should try lower buffer settings like 256 or 512 in ASIO mode, possibly this was the difference because if you used WASAPI shared it automatically uses what it thinks is the best setting and you usually can't adjust it. 1. make sure and download the latest version of the Universal control. 2. Try the VST 2 version of the plug in. Companies that focus on Mac OS don't always have the best Windows drivers, example my Motu M4 sucks compared to my Focusrite. I can run the same project no problem at 128 on the Scarlett but the Motu will stutter. I have to use 256 and even 512 on bigger projects with lots of effects. Motu is a very Mac oriented company. At this point I would be thinking it's either a faulty driver or it's a plug in that is not 100% compatible with Cakewalk. If this is the case it wouldn't hurt to contact both vendors and explain what is happening.

And to add to what Mr Cook said above. If there is audio you follow his instructions to re create the midi part. Save as a Normal CWP project and now drag and drop the audio into the new project. For others reading, this is an easy way to transfer a project between any DAW. The only prep needed is the audio should be a continuous stem starting at zero. You will need to create that in the original DAW.

Good find. That good news as this interface is only about $100. So possibly a good deal for people on a budget. It’s odd they don’t make it clear that it uses ASIO because if I was shopping I would pass it by. The minute I see “doesn’t need any drivers “ I move on. The adds seem very focused on the Mac crowd.