John Vere

Please watch this video I just released for this very reason. People get confused about the different drivers etc. This video explains it all very clearly and hopefully will sort out your issue. My main point in the video is very clear Audio interface = Manufactures ASIO driver On Board Computer Audio= WASAPI mode, Exclusive if it supports it or Shared if not. But I also cover properly setting up windows system. You can have issues when you set a buffer way to high like that. Most people mix using 256 or 512.

Well this might be the problem. Usually PreSonus have proper ASIO drivers but it appears yours does not have ASIO. So using ASIO will most likely not work. It appears to be made for Mac users not Windows. Quote from specifications- The AudioBox USB 96 is built to be used on the go with a heavy-duty steel chassis to stand up to the rigors of mobile recording. It’s USB class-compliant — no special drivers to install — and natively compatible with Apple Silicon-based Macs and iOS and iPadOS devices. A screaming-loud headphone output ensures you can hear your music clearly, even in noisy locations. I could be wrong but I don't see any mention of ASIO and searching the internet only leads you to download and install the PreSonus Unaversal Control which it is not documented anywhere as having an ASIO driver. You could check by opening the Reg Edit App and looking under ASIO and see if your device is listed. The other place to check is in Sync and Caching at the bottom. If not you will need to use WASAPI modes. Be warned that if you plan on overdubbing vocals or guitar you will need to run a loopback test and adjust your timing offset correctly or the new tracks will be late in timing sync. This is the exact same issue as with Behringer's entry level interfaces, No ASIO driver. I personally would trade it in for a interface that has ASIO drivers. I believe if you go up in price points that will happen with the PreSonus brand but this is not clearly noted on the web site.

This is happening for me as well. I tried to look up a keyboard shortcut which I always use the help menu for. It takes me to an promo page for the new upcoming software. There were no links to find help. So I tried the documentation and the same thing. Both Computers, This sucks if they leave it this way as I don't know how many of my videos always tell people to use this feature which is now been highjacked by promoting the new software.

Out of curiosity I opened Modo Drum demo version on my office computer that uses on board audio and WASAPI shared mode. Seems just fine. I put it in a project which had a lot of tracks and effects running. The office computer is from 2016 i5 4 core 2.8. 16 GB RAM with SSD drives. Have you ever run the Resplendance Latency Monitor? https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

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I loaded a midi file I made in 1986 on an Atari the other day so I beat you by 2 years About the biggest difference is those files are not GM so you have to figure out what the heck you used back then by looking at the channels and patch change numbers. Cakewalk has a long history of not abandoning old project formats I doubt they have any reason to change that. The new version is still based on the old code from what the staff are telling us.

He's marked the topic Solved but then it's an eternal mystery how?

I'm not sure why you are having so much trouble. Just last week I fired up a laptop I have Cakewalk on that I rarely use and I got the message you got I just opened the Help menu and refreshed activation, done. You don't use the Assistant now for a long time they fixed that. Everything is done inside of Cakewalk. If you are logged on to this forum you are logged on to your Cakewalk account. The Help menu is there for a good reason.

All audio interfaces come with ASIO drivers which are normally the best choice for many reasons. Make sure you have the most up to date driver from the manufactures web site. This video has all the details of setting up Cakewalk audio for optimum results. https://youtu.be/opDwsC4_llg

Not if you are getting drop outs, That tells me your computer is not coping, 512 is a pretty high setting already. Leave it alone and deal with the effects that are causing this. Pure midi projects that use something like the TTS-1 can be played on the worlds oldest computers. And even a few audio tracks that are not being processed won't make any difference. But if you start adding instruments that use sample libraries to play the sounds the game changes. Audio files are even easier in a way and a few audio tracks in a project should not cause issues, but adding processing will. So just bounce the tracks to mix the processing into them and delete the effects. The same goes for any midi instruments that are process hogs, freeze them.

This is why I asked about your computer specs. Because some computers can run at very low setting but not so great computers can't. Lot's of people use lower buffers without issues but I find a buffer of 256 handles my project without issue. Defiantly there are effect processor one should avoid especially playing live. You want stability and that comes with only using effects and instruments that are low CPU users. And then the danger is as you increase the buffer size to get stability, you will add more latency which doesn't matter for playback but it sort of sounds like you are trying to process your voice? Guitar? You would need a very powerful laptop to get away with that. The Buffer settings are found in Preferences under Driver settings or open the control panel for your interface.

I'll ditto that as well. I export everything at 48/24 wave. Cakewalks export is too clunky to bother with top and tailing the songs so I load them into Wave Lab to clean that up. If I do need MP3's , which is rare, I use Gold Wave to batch convert. MP3 are becoming obsolete anyhow. I send my friends wave files now because everyone has unlimited bandwidth and fiber optic internet. I upload wave files to Sound Cloud too. MP'3 have gone the way of the 44.1 CD.

Are you setting the Buffers high enough? What are the processer specs on the Surface pro, possibly just not enough for the projects? Also are you using effects on the tracks? That can quickly bring a Whimpey computer to it's knees'.

Thanks I was going to try Amazon.ca. I have blown lots of air on that stupid fan and even gave it a drop of lubricant it’s just a POS.

Seems a loosing battle to me about avoiding the internet or cell data plans. You can keep riding your horse or you can by a Automobile. Nobodies stopping you but you will be left in the dust. I totally sympathize with people who do live where there is no choice or it's overpriced. But that is rare for sure even in the 3rd world. These people might not have an issue once Cakewalk announces it's game plan for purchasing of the new versions. We will wait and see if they remove the time out from CbB

Question- would THIS card work in the Pavilion? One thing I didn't mention is that the currant Video card is fan cooled and real noisy. A Passive card is defiantly what I was looking at. I passed on the one you posted because I didn't think going from 1 GB to 2 GB would make much difference but it would certainly get rid if the terrible fan noise. I actually went to order the Dell you linked and it added a Canadian surcharge which put the price at $230 Can. So I chickened out. But I will still look into that. I usually build my own because any off the self computer will have nothing but underbuilt components that will then need upgrading. But that was years ago since I've done this so possibly things have changed. I have a few Laptops and personally I would never use one as a main DAW. I have an Acer I5 quad core 3.4 with 16 GB RAM and 2 x 240GB SSD drives. It's my portable studio. But it really doesn't work at all for video editing. Screen captures with OBS on it are jerky.

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Thanks everyone I figured as much. After reading these comments I think I'll send it back. I would have no problem figuring this out if it was a computer I built myself. It seems HP actually hides the bios from you and there's only a dummied down systems screen.. in the user manual they want you to send it in to the factory. It works real good for Cakewalk just that in Movie Maker ( Vegas) video editor the preview was super jerky. I have to render the movie to actually see how things like zooming and transitions turned out. It was mostly only one beep at random. But it's not mission critical for this old machine. One more reason to save up for a new one which I will build myself to get the components I need. Updated- Amazon already approved the return. No questions asked. I just printed the return label.

Reading between the lines in the announcements I think they are planning on re issuing effects and instruments that were once available with the paid versions of Cakewalk. Which ones will be offered and if they are included, or for sale as add on’s, is a just wait and see. You can now see the logic and reason they didn’t include these free with CbB. More proof that there always was a plan to start charging for it at some point.

My computer is old- HP Pavilion HPE i7 2600- Sandy Bridge- 1155 4x 3.40GHz. and it doesn't have on board graphics, I came with a NVIDIA GeForce GT 520. It only has 1023 MB of memory. I just upgraded with 3 new 500GB Samsung Evo 870 SSD drives and from 10 GB to 32 GB of RAM. I thought I should also upgrade the video card to see if that would help when editing videos. So because this computer is doomed to be shelved next year or in the fall I didn't want to spend to much so I bought a Zotak GT 730 with 4 GB memory $125. I pulled the old card and put the new one in and the computer just stalls at the Blue bootup screen that usually flashes for about 5 seconds. It say's press ESC to open settings. But even that does nothing. Only thing that makes a change is CRT/ALT/DEL which just changes the screen from blue to black. Meanwhile there is a lot of beeps. One beep mostly but sometimes multiple beeps. Eventually the screen goes dead. But the fact there is a screen tells me the card is actually working and must be seated properly. It is a very basic card , passive cooling and no power supply needed. Here things I tried. I installed the old card. Then I opened settings ( BIOS?) and set it to default. I noticed the boot order is set to Windows Boot manager. Computer boots and runs normally. I disconnected all the DATA drives and only left the DVD drive and the C drive. I thought about installing the driver and decided that was not a good idea. I put the new card back in. It came with a DVD disk which I put in the drive. The drive doesn't spin up on boot. Then a very weird idea came to me but that didn't work either. The Computer was originally W7 so I grabbed a blank SSD drive and put my W7 install disk in the DVD drive. My thinking was this is what would be normal for a brand new build, right? DVD still didn't spin. Blue start up screen, ESC still not opening Settings. I tried re starting about 20 times. I even unplugged it etc. Should I send this card back and try something else? Or it this a HP weird bios thing? The bios seems very bare bones to me.

Personally I think scook’s first method is the easiest. That way the pads will work with all the VST drum kits. Otherwise you’ll have to search for a drum map that matches your device. Google the device and drum maps.

You need to possibly disable USB sleep mode. It’s in Windows settings advanced power options. If it’s not that then the keyboard itself has a power saving option. This happened to me with my Yamaha digital drum kit. I had to go into settings and disable it. You need to disable

The ASIO driver and Cakewalk calculate your round trip latency and use that to place incoming audio in the correct place on the time line. In your case it takes 12.4ms for the playback of the already recorded audio to reach your headphones or monitors. Then you play or sing in perfect sync to that using the direct monitoring system of the interface. Now what you are performing takes another 12.4 ms to return to Cakewalk. No problem Cakewalk knows where that belongs in time because it’s aware of the 24.8 ms delay. So generally in ASIO things are always in perfect sync. BUT! If you add an effect that adds additional latency needed for its processing, Cakewalk can’t properly calculate the additional amount of latency so everything just went out the window. Therefore it is recommended you simply bypass effects while tracking Audio and even midi. And using input echo will make matters worse because your hearing you input 24.8ms after you perform it . That’s why they all have direct monitoring now. No latency. The only exception to input echo is recording a Guitar Sims. Then you will need all other effects bypassed and lower your buffer to at least 64. And a decent computer.

Those are Midi Cables. Midi is not audio it is only data. Watch these tutorials. https://youtu.be/Tce02wE_TPM https://youtu.be/YJlI6U8Rqa0 This is the playlist for all the Cakewalk Tutorials https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7YqVth30eGsURWrKGeu-fFyg3ETjF-Ox