Bass Guitar

Seems Next has almost been abandoned or something? 61 posts here compared to Sonar 1.7K is sort of pathetic isn't it? I don't think it caught on in the DAW market. It's sort of an Accessory to Sonar so we can do stem separation.

Duh! You do realize that Cakewalk has stopped being updated almost a year ago. All updates are applied to Sonar. Cakewalk is frozen in time now forever. Go to the Sonar Sub forum and post your request there.

Yes. When you drag and drop ( import) any media Cakewalk/Sonar automatically converts it to WAV at the projects sample rate. Only the bit depth is retained. Try Gold Wave. It has a batch convertor that I've used for a long, long time now without issues. It's free to use with Nag screen on start up but I bought a lifetime license 15 years ago. I still get free upgrades. https://www.goldwave.ca/

You might want to start a new topic. A lot has changed since this was posted.

Ripple Edit. If on, any edits you make will be global to all tracks. Example- Delete one measure and the tempo map, automation lanes etc, will adjust accordingly.

It depends on the keyboard manufacturer. Korg, Yamaha and Roland and many Top brands will have the replacement silicon / carbon contact strips. I found Akai doesn't supply them. My Yamaha keyboard was straight forward to do but I counted 45 screws were involved!!

You should submit the project to staff. Your Export settings look exactly like mine and I don't get that message. Next is still in development and bugs are still going to happen.

You should submit the project to staff. Your Export settings look exactly like mine and I don't get that message. Next is still in development and bugs are still going to happen.

You should submit the project to staff. Your Export settings look exactly like mine and I don't get that message. Next is still in development and bugs are still going to happen.

Turn off snap.

What might work is to use SELECT ALL ( CTRL A) before you open the export dialogue.

Next can run different audio file formats. In other words unlike Sonar, if you drop a 48 Wave file into a 44.1 project, it does not convert the audio to 44.1. It leaves it as 48. BUT, what happens is now Next will have to convert this in in real time so it uses more resources to do this. Page 56 of users manual is one place you will see this mentioned: "Match the project sample rate and audio device sample rate It is strongly recommended that you use the same sample rate for the project and audio device. Using different sample rates will cause real-time audio resampling, which may consume extra CPU. Real-time sample rate conversion ensures that projects can play back on virtually any audio device at the correct playback speed, even if the audio device doesn’t support the current sample rate. The default project sample is Auto, which adapts to the audio device sample rate." Next stem separation returns the tracks as 44.1/16 even if they were 48/24 to begin with. I guess this is to save bandwidth on the server. I've done a lot of stem separation stuff and I always record the song I want off of You Tube directly into Next. I normally always work at 48/24 but I set up Next to use 44.1 because this is all I use it for. I then run the stem Separator and as I said it's done a lot of songs for me this way. including I did a bunch of my own originals that I didn't have multi tracks for and wanted to re mix them. But the audio is not that great for those projects.

I had a Samsung SSD drive that was only one year old cause problems. Everything was SLOW! The drive was only at 60% capacity. But apparently it's all about how many read and write cycles the have had. Audio and Video is a big problem for SSD drives. I replaced it and it was like getting a new computer. I cleaned out a lot of un wanted stuff from the original bad drive before I cloned it.

100% agree. They are good meters. I'd even say better than most other Daw's. They have a peak and hold reading, use it. If you want to use a meter plug in then the You Lean Meter will tell you all you need to know. The paid version is worth it because you can drag and drop your tracks into the GUI and get a accurate reading in seconds. LUFS are just as important as peaks. https://youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter/ If I used -18 on my tracks the overall mix would probably be way to quiet. But I realize many people advise working that way. In my world each instrument gets a different peak and I have a system that seems to work for me 90% of the time. Example my targets for bass and drums is -8 to -6 db . Because they are midi it is easy to maintain this level using velocity and setting of the instruments. Then Keyboards and rhythm guitars might be - 10 to -12. Vocal and lead guitar depending on music style, get as high as -3db. They are brick walled on to catch random peaks. I might use Melodyne to clean those tracks up and set a close level. Or a volume envelope. . Of course EQ is a big part of levels and LUFS. But I start with these ball parks on each track. Then I use Busses to mix. My resulting mixes are around -1.0 and -14Lufs. I put a brick wall on the master and I'm just about there.

My only advice would be to: Turn off the Ozone Limiter. The following is just a very, very simple approach and is not at all what a real mastering engineer would do. But it's all a beginner needs to know to get started. Use the You Lean Loudness meter placing it last in the signal path of the Master output FX bin. Then I would simply use the gain on the Master bus to set it so the You Lean is showing a ballpark target. You should open the Pro Channel EQ and the fly out and see if you have too much low end energy. That's usually where the problems are. There might be a few peaks so now you turn on Ozone to fine tune things. I would never trust it to do what can easily be done manually first. The only limiter I found works flawlessly is the Loud Max https://loudmax.blogspot.com/ Free too. I've been messing with Sonars Concrete Limiter but haven't really gotten a solid way to use it. The Loud Max is dead simple. Set it at -1.0 db and forget is. The You Lean might still show a reading of -0.8 but that's because it works at the sample level. Don't trust anything else. If you get the full version it is worth it's weight in gold. Drag and drop any media files for instant readings. Make sure and turn off the automatic drag and drop normalizing it seems they have that as the default in the new version.