james rector

I remember this setting from years ago but don't know it off hand in CBB. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Edit - preferences - record - recording mode - (currently set to comping mode, but the other two are overwrite and sound on sound and if chosen CBB crashes back to Windows) Anyone ever experienced this? Thanks!

Thanks everyone for the links and suggestions.

You may need to seek a way for you to have zero latency monitoring while you track. A small cheap board like a Behringer would probably suffice.

It seems that with the modern drum vsti's like EZ drum, MT power drum kit etc etc, users can simply drag and drop midi drum loops to make entire songs. So the question I'm wondering is...Where are all the free midi drum loops? Not entire tracks, but little 4 bar midi loops like these things offer for users to drag n drop.

Ive got a dm5 in storage (doing nothing atm), no ac adaptor or anything, just the rack unit. If anyone is interested get at me with a pm.

Yeah I thought about something like this, and use something like joy2keys to make it press about any button. On a side note, might also be cool for pc gaming.

Thanks, those look about right.

Well both surely (if not to expensive), I don't see why a switch could not be used to do that. A toggle between two presets using a switch. One tone is a clean, the other is dirty. But where this could really outshine a combo amp or distortion pedal is how many layers to this there could be to each element.

Those are pretty cool looking. I see what you mean, they 're certainly not cheap.. Thanks.

Typically guitarist can step on a distortion pedal and go between a clean acoustic sounding part to a distorted one when playing certain tracks. I figure that if everything is being done in Cakewalk, using it like a guitar rig, there must be a way to have some kind of pedal that can interact through Calewalk to toggle effects on and off. This opens up new possibilities... For example, one could create a clean sound that might sound terrible distorted, or vice versa. Something you could likely never do with real gear (well unless you had a roadie). Any ideas about such a thing? Midi pedals, expression pedals? Perhaps even usb pedals off Amazon? Thanks!

I have noticed for a long time with Cakewalk that it allows users to go up to 64 bit file bit depth, and while that is just an internal processing thing, I wonder if there are any sound cards out there that actually do 64 bit. Anyone know? thanks

I see the choices with first set to automatic, yet it always resolves to server 1. Is there a config file somewhere to set this? Thanks

Looks like your sound card is not being detected as you have nothing listed under input and output drivers.

Could be a sample rate mismatch. Check that out.

Spoke too soon, it finally crashed

I might have just found something, I'm using a EVGA Nu Audio, in the advanced section of the panel, I check "safe mode". So far it seems to be running more solid.

I have always heard that. But I imagine it doesn't matter as much these days with the speeds of SSD's and M.2s. But I would think the best benefit would be to having the data stored not on the OS drive, that way if it (the OS drive) becomes corrupted or has to be reinstalled the data is still separate and doesn't need moved.

Any ideas?

Thanks all that posted, will check it out.

Many many years ago I tried a roland guitar synth out and was blown away. I've seen a few out there, but what promises really low latency and decent note tracking of them? Thanks -

Good to know, thanks!

Make sure the audio engine did not stop, and if it did restart it. Consider any recent VST plugins added and toggle those (or all) vst plug ins on an off and see if that changes the situation. Close / reopen the program, go to drivers in the preferences and make sure everything is ok.

I think what you are speaking of wanting is what is known as the "New York compression trick". I think to achieve this effect you send whatever to a buss and compress the snot out of it, and then feed that to the master, and have it real low in the back ground like you would reverb, then just route whatever as you would normally (say light compression) and keep it turned down well below clipping, this should give you a more solid sound, yet still dynamic and not too squashed.