John Vere

It’s super fast to use Alt scroll wheel.

This thread is very very old and the original posters might have passed away since. But thanks for trying to help.

No. each view is a window. So like all software they behave as separate entities.

@Starship Krupa Just the other day I was mixing a song and with headphones on I kept hearing this sub bass note? Weird because Ample p bass lite is only a 4 string so ends at E. i started soloing tracks and as it turned out a copy paste I remember doing got plunked on a poly synth track which played an octave lower. It’s now a subtle part of the bass line that you only notice with good playback gear. I love those little details like that in music. We used to call them ear candy.

@User 905133the notes are saved with templates not workspaces. They are project specific. Workspaces only save ?? I guess your workspace but not any project info. So I have my name and my studio name stored in the notes as part of my song writing template. I always put a picture in there as it makes finding songs on the start screen easy. For cover tunes I often have the pictures of the band or the 45 label. I used to leave myself notes about the recording set up but I always forgot about them. Just like the notes in tracks you forget you did it. I even used to put the lyrics in there but that was another waist of time too.

You can post full size songs on Sound cloud and make them private. Only people with the link can listen. It’s pretty straight forward and you can even drag multiple files into the upload widget. I think most of the free music upload sites work about the same. I also use Sound click and Reverbnation. The notes is found in the browser and example you can select a picture and it will now show on the start screen and there’s a place for song titles artist and album. Those will populate the boxes in the lower part of that mp3 dialogue you posted above. Saves repetition

I run the latest version on Cakewalk on a W 7 laptop I use for live keyboards as a VST host. It also has no problems at all playing projects. Only if there’s a missing VST as I have not really loaded it up with much other than what I require for live playing and backing tracks. The laptop is 2008 4 gigs of ram. I only turn on the internet to update Cakewalk a few times a year. My plan was to use it with Cakewalks playlist for live performance but I am now using videos for my songs and that rules out Cakewalk.

Seems not, one of my pet peeves. I think it's because the Mp3 encoder is actually not part of the export feature. It just opens automatically when prompted by the export. So in my thinking it's the MP3 encoder that is not retaining settings, not the export feature. It's odd because all my Wave editors seems to retain my preferences. I have actually stop exporting as MP3 once I found out that Sound Cloud doesn't care anymore. I can upload 48/32 wave files and it doesn't limit me. It goes by the time, not the file size. Only time I make MP3 is to put on a stick to play in the car. But I use Gold Wave for that as it does batch conversion and it remembers my settings! I don't get the meta data but that doesn't matter. Are you aware that you can enter some of the meta data in the Notes tab found in the Browser view?

Back in the days of tape it was critical to make sure the syncing was aligned properly. In those day you used your ears not your eyes. So that little tattletale garbage can slap back was something you learned to listen for. Otherwise the overdubs where out of sync to the bed tracks. Put your hand up if you remember this and weird things happening like print through. We were advised to store tapes on a take up reel so the print through would be after and not before on the tapes. The word Pre Delay comes to mind. For those who don't know what print through means, it's the magnetic property of tape can be so strong it transfers through to the next layer on the reel. Any how, those days and things I learned have made me hyper sensitive to hearing delay when it's not supposed to be there. Why do you think engineers had nearfield monitors as close as possible to the listening position. The Big Soffit speakers which might be a good 12 feet away were for playback listening but detailed work has always been done with nearfields. 3ms is not noticeable to any humans I am aware of. It's easy to see if your screwing up your audio overdubs. Just zoom way in on the transients. If it was played to a midi drum kit those transients should be very close to the grid. Bass is especially noticeable when it's off time by even a little bit. Not that any or all of this is going to make for Bad music, totally not. It's just we need to be aware and keep it under our control. It's part of the professional approach to engineering. And being an ADHD nerd.

Wasn't me. I did actually put lyrics in the arranger view once just for kicks. It's excellent with only limitation is the sections have a limit on how many characters are allowed. But it seems like a easy way to have the words scrolling with the timeline. I just copy pasted one line at a time, goes pretty quick too. The Focusrite Red Compressor has been one of my favorites for a long time. I always encouraged people to grab those Focusrite freebies it if they own a Focusrite product. At he time they had a value of well over $300. Not bad if all you bought was a Solo for $150. In my testing it came out at the top of the pile for clean. It also seemed to test good using Plug in Doctor. The Scarlett Compressor is different and adds more harmonics so is a good one for coloring a vocal or ? When I was making the compressor video I couldn't find them anymore on the Focusrite site so I emailed and they got right back to me to confirm they were both not for sale anymore but were still included when you purchase any Focusrite products. But this Midnight series is then again seemingly different. Seems promising. If I get a chance later I test it but kinda busy. Little strange when you first load it it is in demo mode, but I quickly figured out you just click the activate tab and then browse to the downloaded activation code and it is good to go.

Interesting about the Behringer mixer as that is similar to my sons set up which is a Behringer xair 18. Then he has a fancy line 6 pedal board he runs synths through too. I am aware of the fact that sound has latency it’s mentioned in my video but when you wear headphones any system latency is very annoying and 10 ms is very noticeable to me. I have to stay at 256 or I get static so I’m at around 12 ms RTL. I use Melda MTuner on guitar and bass so I have to turn on input echo and the slap back is pretty obvious. I guess if I turned down direct monitoring and only listen to the computer output I wouldn’t hear the slap back but then what I am hearing is the notes I play delayed buy 12 ms. Add a guitar sim and that increase to more like 16ms. Sound latency is 3 ms per meter. So that’s like standing 5meters away from your amp. I’m never more than 1 or 2 meter away from my amp. And this is why in ear monitors are a game changer for live music on big stages. It not only helps with pitch it can help with timing. But the systems are all digital now and guess what! they can have audio latency too. One just needs to be aware of latency issues and how to minimize and avoid any problems they might cause. If ignored it can lead to sloppy tracks. Or a sloppy live performance. Midi is easy to fix with quantization but audio tracks often go unnoticed which is not always desired in certain types of music. Here’s a good test of how latency can effect our playing. Outside event and your bass or guitar is wireless. Start walking away from the stage and see how far you get before you start struggling to play in time with the band. Your still hearing everything at the in time , just like the audience will but your playing late and your brain will loose it’s ability to compensate for it. This example is identical to what happens when you use input echo and RTL gets above 10 ms. Myself I noticed it at even less. When I play bass I stand as close to the drums as possible and I put my amp right next to them.

It’s true and no doubt about it ITB and all the toys is basically almost free. As your finding out hardware is still a lot more fun but it can grow and grow into a monster. I tried using VST guitar effects live and the latency sucks. it’s like that trash can slap back. I guess it can be lessened down to under 6 ms with top of the line laptops but that’s going to cost me $2,000. That will buy me some very good hardware. Like one of those Kemplers. I have done 2 gigs now playing keyboards live using Cakewalk and a bunch of VST instruments and that works brilliantly. My son has a bunch of crazy hardware stuff including some sort of moog looking one and it’s all hardware no computer it seems to be linked together through a controller/ drum machine gizmo that sync everything up. It pretty amazing what happens when you move knobs and sliders and hit different pads. Play a little riff on the keyboard and go off into space. Too much fun.

As said 99% of the time it’s actually audio latency. As in my video actual midi latency was around 3 ms. The worst was the 1986 Roland controller and even that was only 9 ms. But play a 6 note chord and add a wheel event and that could jump to much more. Midi 2 will eliminate that completely as it will allow for multiple data streams. Midi 1 each event has to wait it’s turn at around 1 ms per data package .

The thing is asking a basic question on a forum is a flag that the person might not be aware of better methods of getting an answer to a question. And that is as simple as entering the question in Google or any search engine. If the term Cakewalk is in the question you will be presented with the answer in different formats. First will be the documentation next will be old posts from this forum and the legacy forum and then the appropriate videos. This forum still serves as a good place to ask advanced questions or report issues you are experiencing. But basic information is available instantly to everyone who asks in the correct location. That includes the built in documentation found in the software itself. Search engines are how the world gets answers now, not forums. You pick up your cellphone and ask it “ How do I use VST instruments in Cakewalk “. Simple. I just tried this and there it was. A million answers and most at the top were what I needed. The cool thing is everyone is different in how they learn. Some prefer reading other like the videos so there you go.

Are you using this for live performance? As in playing a hardware synth live and just wanting to use VST effects to morph sounds?

I was wondering how keyboards like Nord worked. You sure see a lot of them on stage. I assumed they were sample based players you could use custom made samples on. I’ve heard some amazing B3 coming out them.

Thanks. The problem with you tube is there is no way to update a video you have to delete it so all the links posted are all dead after I update. I have to sort out what is happening and as I said I’m long overdue for a new computer. It’s been working very hard over the last 3 years. I’m 70 years old and I might not hear what younger folks hear anymore. But that’s all the more reason to get all my songs finished as quickly as possible! I was just at a music event where Al Simmons was performing and he’s 80 now. His hands were visually shaking due to Parkinson’s but he is a powerful performer still. I have more gigs lined up for this summer than I’ve had for a long long time. Al gives me hope I can carry on for at least another 10 years. Making the You tubes was just a distraction from what I should be focusing on . I think I’m done with that, it was fun while it lasted.?

Hmm I just listened with headphones on and I do hear very faint artifacts but only a couple and very hard to notice . My Motu has done this a lot but it’s very noticeable when it happens. Usually after I have worked in Movie maker or watched a video. I have to totally reboot to get rid of it. But I always do that before I do any audio recording now out of habit. Time for a system upgrade I think.

I always proof the video after it uploads and it’s fine on my end.

Thanks for that Mark. Good to know. I have a pretty old computer so I'm still cautious about keeping projects very simple and straight forward. As I said these are backing tracks and a steady tempo is perfect as I doubt very much the punters on the dance floor give a hoot about "natural" sounding tracks ? . A natural tempo map is a great way to go for those songs you record live, be it a band or singer songwriter tunes played on acoustic guitar or a real piano. I've done that as well taking old recording of mine that were originally done with a live drummer and I re build them using drum replacer etc. Cakewalks tools are incredible for this and it's amazing to take old tracks and bring them forward with the tools for sonic improvements now on hand. I find the tempo extraction has improved over time I guess due to Melodyn upgrades.

I know exactly what you’re saying. This often happens to me for redoing a section of a song and I go to drag the timeline to create the punch in and the end point is way off screen to the right. I have to zoom out using Alt/ mouse scroll. Then the accuracy of the points is iffy so you have to zoom back in. Just thinking about this gave me an idea. USB foot switch! You can assign just about anything to a USB foot switch. I have 4 of them kicking around. So I could assign the zoom in and out to the foot switch! I’m going to go test this. Update: It didn't work. Well I got the footswitch programed to use CTR _ Right and left arrows so that works great for zooming. But I had to let go of the mouse still. I couldn't drag a clip and zoom out at the same time. I guess that's how things work. But I'm glad I programed the foot switch as I'll use that anyhow. If I can remember it's there. That Alt/ mouse scroll get used a LOT by me.

Those dozens of small tempo changes are what makes it stay synced to the grid. It’s something that can be hidden if it scares you. I can only imagine that stuff like this puts more stress on your CPU so I never keep the tempo map after I’m done with it. As I said my workflow is to recreate the song using all midi first. Then I delete the tempo map and choose the single tempo I want. Then I would start recording audio if the project is more than just a backing track. Mostly I use tempo extraction for making backing tracks. I find it faster and easier to play along with the original to come closer to the correct vibe of the song. Especially drums and bass.

I just made this video where I get to the bottom of what midi latency really is. Often people mistakenly say midi latency when it is actually audio latency they are experiencing.

Got me thinking about midi and the end result potential of creating a real musical instrument. Piano and keyboards are easy as you can play the actual instrument and with a good controller and VST instrument for playback it will capture 90% of the emotion and dynamics. Attempts over time to capture guitar have for the most part failed and have resulted in more like 40% or less accuracy. I own a few options for that. Midi guitar VST and a Roland GR50. In the end Melodyne works the best for me but still requires editing to remove artifacts created by overtones. All my bass parts I play on a real bass and convert to midi with out much fuss. Drums have come a long way and once again it depends on the quality of the controller which in this case is a set of digital drums. My $500 Yamaha kit is only slightly better than using a keyboard. A $5,000 Roland kit is up in the 90% accurate score. Then Yamaha in particular has produced some midi instruments like wind controllers and violins that seem like they are pretty convincing. But back to midi itself. Turning a note on message into a Saxophone can work if the saxophone uses a good Sample with options for various articulations of the sound. The VST instrument is probably the most important aspect of achieving convincing results of any instrument. So a good midi controller for data input will help add extra controller data as you perform. But you could also simply draw a midi note and if your good at editing and know how to add articulations and controller data you can get close to what you want. Midi is king. It allows real players a way to capture performances using many different input devices and fine tune that performance into a masterpiece. It allows a guitar player access to drums and keyboards even if they are not proficient with those instruments. It also gives non musicians a tool to try their hand at creating music. In a way it revolutionize the way we make music now. Midi 2 is just coming out after 40 years of midi 1. Things will even get better.

You don't n if you are using an audio interface or just Windows sound. If your using Windows check the mixer. Also check you master bus