Bass Guitar

I don't blame people for believing Cakewalk is discontinued. Because of the way they handled the release of Sonar last year the interment is now flooded with misinformation. You Tubes, Facebook etc. Right or wrong it doesn't go away. A musician friend of mine asked me what DAW I was using these days and when I mentioned Cakewalk being one of them they replied " I thought they killed that one?" There's still very little "facts" to be found. Notice how there's almost zero new users coming here now? Majority of questions in the Sonar sub forum are about licensing and authorization as well as question about older Sonar. The Next forum has had a grand total of 4 questions asked since June. This Cakewalk sub forum is the more active one but even that is slowing down.

What is being said is before you add notation or Midi events to a project you will need a Tempo map that matches the tempo of the music on the CD. It is too late to do this later on. It needs to been done first. Extracting the tempo from music that is already recorded can be done, but it totally depends on the original music and it's content. A rock song with a steady drum beat is much easier to use than a symphony piece with dozens of changes and no drums. You mention a performance track CD, those are often using drums. So that's a good sign. Cakewalk/ Sonar has two ways that I'm aware of for extracting tempo. One is really fussy using the Audio snap tools, the other is super simple but doesn't always work correctly. I would give that a try first. You need to have a licensed copy of Melodyne installed of which I'm not dead sure Cakewalk includes anymore. Got nothing to loose by trying it. Drag and drop the Audio track to the Timeline. If given a choice try the Percussive algorithm first.

Yes, SAVE AS is the best way to easily do this. Takes about 3 seconds once a project is open. Ardour? I use Ardour and it's one of the Daw's that doesn't "open" a midi file. It only allows drag and drop which then looses all the patches and the tempo etc. Possibly I am unaware of how it can "open" a midi file in Ardour, but all attempts by me failed.

For me it was the more I tried to use Reaper the more I disliked it. Ardour is the opposite. The more I use it the more I like it. It's weakest point, like many, is the Midi editing is a bit clunky compared to Cakewalk, Cubase and Mixcraft. I sent them the $45 for the continued upgrade plan as I felt they were creating good software. Harrison Mix Bus is $150+ and is 100% based on Ardours open source code.

I looked up Katana. It seems it's a sound card by Creative Labs. Doubt if the ASIO driver if supplied will work, They never did in the past because they were sort of like asio4all and were WDM wrappers. And yes Zoom makes audio interfaces which normally do have good ASIO drivers but the OP could be talking about Zoom the steaming app? Or a Zoom handy recorder? A Zoom Camera?

You didn't say which Focusrite interface you have. Most of the new ones have Loopback. The Loopback will show in preferences under Audio inputs if available. Make sure that is checked and then choose that as the input source for the audio track.

We seem to have a lot in common, Only I totally disliked Reaper, couldn't get my head around it, I chose Ardour. It is similar to Reaper in that it is open source and you can make things the way you want it. You can also pay what ever you choose from a $1 to ??

I think if the developers chimed in they would say that the pro channel modules if turned off use possibly 1 KB of data each in the CWP file. I would think it's not any different than having all the other parts of the user interface sitting there. Like the Record button. But I'm totally on your side and I dislike they way they clutter up the software with unwanted effects I would never use. I don't like many of the default settings and have to spend time getting stuff the way I want it. All Daw's are guilty of this it would seem.

Didn't you read this old thread? What was the answer? Delete any unwanted invasive drivers. You only want the ASIO driver for any devices you use. Prop[er ASIO drivers are NOT invasive and can co exist. Known to be a problem is Realtek, Steinberg Generic, Pre Sonis Generic and Magix. This is what it should look like. I use 2 devices. I can seamlessly swap them out as long as Cakewalk is closed.

Sound Click lets you upload Wave files and even Videos in the free version. And you can listen to your friends music without logging in, you just might get adds. That's how they all work. Don't like adds? then pay the fee. Sound Cloud became weird so I abandoned it. I also have a Reverb nation account kicking around somewhere but there must be a reason I never use it, I forget.

I just delete all the stuff and save that in the Pro channel where it says "Make this the default" One of the first things I do with a new install. I think you have to repeat this for Busses? The EQ is still there but if the Pro Channel is not turned on it is not doing anything. Nothing is loaded into memory etc.

I don't have a membership but I would assume all that would be in the new Product manager?

Why I said you need to bypass all effects, ALL effects and then determine if the distortion is present in the RAW audio track by turning up the gain enough to hear it but without going into the red. Look at the wave forum in the spots where you hear it. does it have a flat top? It is possible to clip some types of Condenser mikes at the built in Pre Amp. Especially cheapo's.

There's a few options for GM playback if you don't have the TTS-1. The easiest to get is found here https://www.synthfont.com/ Some are free some are very inexpensive but all use sound fonts and support GM playback. What sucks now is Cakewalk used to automatically insert the TTS-1 when you opened a GM file and had nothing selected in Midi outputs in preferences. So now open the Midi file and it will default to none as there won't be a player. Now just insert the GM player and normally the tracks should all now default to the player, if they don't globally change them using Tracks menu. Easiest way to get the TTS-1 back is to find an older installer of Cakewalk in your downloads folder from last year. You cannot manually install the TTS-1. It has to be installed with the Daw.

Yamaha only has this one driver as far as I can tell. It is used for all products including some of their Workstation Keyboards that have Mike and Guitar inputs. https://ca.yamaha.com/en/products/proaudio/mixers/mg_series_xu_model/downloads.html#product-tabs But Steinberg seems to use a driver that has the same name but the version numbers are a bit different. https://o.steinberg.net/en/support/downloads_hardware/yamaha_steinberg_usb_driver.html All my devices always use ASIO, if a device doesn't have an ASIO driver I wouldn't use it. I have no clue what a Multi client driver is, out of my league. My understanding is ASIO can only be used by one device at a time unless they are the same brand or model, possibly that is a multi client driver?? Good question as I have, CbB, Mixcraft, Protools, Cubase, Ardour, Digital Performer as well as I always open Wave Lab and Gold Wave while my Daw's are running. I record You Tubes directly to my Daw's using Loopback which is an ASIO feature. I will open Vegas Video editor while my Daw's are open, I run OBS studio while my Daw's are open. This is your Windows sound settings in W10. It looks different in W11. But never the less this is what is important as Windows audio is still in control of all your audio apps even if some are using ASIO. Obviously You Tube is not using ASIO. But if you have everything set up correctly you can open the Windows audio mixer and you will see all your Apps are there as channels of the mixer. I have never owned a Steinberg interface but their software always installs a terrible generic asio driver that you need to delete in the Reg Edit app. There was a real good tutorial on Audio set up for Sonar but it seems the links are gone now.