CJ Jacobson

Reliability doesn't have to do with the DAW (Sonar/Bandlab). It has to do with these 4 things, for the most part: Your sound card drivers (you need a good audio interface that has good drivers written for it The way you set up your sound card driver settings (you need to experiment with driver settings to get the lowest latency and still have good performance.) Your PC specs, your MOBO, processor speed and some others The type of effects you may use. some have hidden buffers in them that make it impossible to use live

For the electric hum, I would check to make sure you have balanced cables going form your audio interface to your studio monitors. Although, I have no clue why it only does it when you enable multi-processing engine. Your CPU is multi-cored im assuming. But check your: Cables, make sure they are balanced going form your sound card to the monitors Make sure you have no audio cables crossing any electric cables Try another wall wart on a different electrical grid

You can always change the colors in the preference menu. All colors can be custom made

Try using a Mutli-Band compressor and only enhance and add gain to the high end. Maybe use some Side EQ (no mids) for the hi hats, room mics and overhead mics and boost the upper high end As others said. some saturation in the upper range. I have and would use Saturn by FabFilter that would do great things to what you are describing and want

Yes and does it a lot better

Its most likely a plugin that is not releasing and not able to close

There are a few ways to go about doing this. One way is to use an external hard drive and copy and paste it to the external hard drive. Then hook up the external hard drive to your new PC and copy and paste is to you new project folder location. Another way is to take the internal hard drive out of the old PC and hook it up to your new pc and copy and paste it the folder to its new location

Your good ?. It can be bounced/rendered down to a mono track with no harm, as long as the bounce settings are set up correctly. Usually what happens when you do that is that you just get one side of a 2 sided stereo channel, so either the left or right channel is bland and the other side has the audio/vocal track. FYI: I got your new 'mono' file

I always control 'project volume' with my studio monitors, as the master bus and the main outs in my opinion should always be set to 0db (give or take a 0.5dB) The 'project volume' levels are controlled with my studio monitors or some sort of controller, like the Mackie big knob or Central Station.

This sounds like a routing and/or export setting issue. Make sure your export settings are correct. You can use entire mix or main outs 1/2 as your source. I like using Entire mix myself Here is how your project routing should look like: Make sure ALL your tracks are routed to the Master Bus. Master bus is routed to your Main Outs 1/2 All Sends go to Bus's All Bus's go to the Master Bus

You should be exporting from your main outs 1/2 and all buses should be going to your master bus and your master bus is the ONLY bus that goes to your main outs 1/2. That can explain your clipping pops, because if you export form all your buses, you can be clipping, because of the sum of all buses Here is the typical signal flow: Tracks --> Master bus --> Main Outs 1/2 (All Bus's go to main outs 1/2)

What plugins are involved? This does sound like a corrupt project. Did you try your back-up project? Does it behave the same?

If the track is mono, then the interleave is mono. no need to set it. if the track is stereo, then the interleave is set to stereo, no need to change it. Then make sure the signal chain stays in mono.

No, it will process one channel (mono) either left or right because the original track is mono. Just activating the interleave button doesn't make the mono track stereo. Now, you can send a mono track to a stereo bus with a stereo effect and then it can be processed in stereo

You cannot go wrong with MOTU. You will get great drivers, good clean pre-amps and the piece of mind that it will perform good for you.

No, because there is nothing there original. You cannot add something that doesn't exist in the original format. so going form 44.1 to 48kHz will add nothing to your audio file and it will not take away nothing, except for this: It will be a bigger file and take up more disk space.

I suppose you can make a project template and have them all a default size

if that is the case and it is the case, then there is something that is corrupt in that project that doesn't jive with CBL.

its just a good old fashion project corruption, if all other projects play fine in both SPLAT and Cbl, If all other projects do the same, then uninstall Cbl and re-install it and see if it works

For learning audio snap -Go to page 691 - https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Reference Guide.pdf As far as you getting the Split tool when you press CTL / Alt buttons to adjust the clips tempo, I dunno. This is the default setting on how it works. Maybe you changed the keybind settings. 'S' should be the split key, IIRC. I changed my 'S' to Save ...

You can use audio snap to extract the tempo of the vocal clip You can use the (press CTL& ALT key at the same time) and slide the right bottom of the clip with your mouse to change the tempo of the clip

Yea, 2 things come to my mind, (1) auto punch and (2) your hard drive that is designated to record/store the audio doesn't have enough space or doesn't spin at 7200rpm

You need to make strategic frequency boost and cuts with different Q levels to eliminate 2 or more instruments taking up the same frequency field in a mix. Its called 'Complimentary EQ' and this technique leads to a more clearer mix. Most mixes you hear have had this done in the mixing stage. Its a very common procedure and very easy to apply. Below is how its done and you do this 'Complimentary EQ' technique when you have 2 or more different instruments taking up the same frequency field, like the bass and kick drum or the vocals and piano. For this example, I will use the most common scenario, the bass guitar and kick drum. Lets say you boost the bass guitar at 220hZ by 1.9dB with a Q setting of 2.6, you should not boost the kick drum at the same frequency range. You should actually cut the kick drum at 220hZ with the same Q setting. The amount you cut depends on how it sounds, so just dial it in until you are happy with the sound. This makes the 2 instruments coexist together in harmony in the mix.

It may be due to a hidden track in that project

The cut(split) tool and moving clips is all you need to do. You can just import your audio into Cakewalk onto a stereo track, if that is what was recorded originally. After its imported into Ccb, split each song form ware you want tit to start and end and then delete all the other stuff that you do not need. The export each song and you are done