RICHARD HUTCHINS

Thanks John, I was coming to that conclusion, i.e. new mixer with a monitor send on each channel. My setup is very modest ( as are my fees!) so I was hoping to avoid buying a new mixer but I reckon its needed.

For a simple 1 guitar, 1 mike, 1 keyboard setup and a monitor out to in ears do you have a recommendation? Years of being in bands and leaving it to the sound man have ended up with me sadly lacking in knowledge. Another lesson learnt too late!

Hi

thanks for replying it’s appreciated ! I’ll try this this afternoon 

Hi all,

I know this isn't really DAW related but everyone here ( not me!) is so knowledgeable I thought I'd give it a try.

I've recorded backing tracks using CW as my DAW , export to MP3 for my iPad, and panned the click track over to the left, all other tracks ( stems) to the right.

So when I play my in ear monitors need to here the click and the track but not the front of house audience.

I can do this on my Peavey Mixer as it has a monitor mix for every input. So faders off for the front of house stops the click track being hear front of house. Monitor for the click track to in ears can only be heard by me. Its usually channel 5 , using a splitter lead out.

But my little Yamaha MG82 just has a single monitor knob which controls everything.

I attach a pic.

How do I get the monitor output to play click and backing track but NOT the front of house speakers?

As I said not specifically Cakewalk related really but I know someone out there in CW land can help!

Hi all,

I have a backing track which for some reason has a long gap of no sound at the end, which I need to trim. But on the DAW there's nothing there, all the recorded tracks have ended. How to do I trim this?

Never heard of drum replacer? Its a plugin I assume?

I know I've asked this before, but;  I use backing tracks from Karaoke Version. Their click track sounds too harsh on ballads so I need a hi hat instead, to follow the click track. 

Tried doing this live manually as an audio track with my Juno but it wanders and is difficult to correct.

I need a simple(!) way of matching the two and then I will mute the original click track. I know helpful posters have shown me ways before but I am USELESS at stuff like this, is there  a simple way to do this?

Sorted thanks, dont even know how I did that in the first place!

Tried that didnt work!

As usual a novice question see screenshot. I did nothing Guvnor! But opened up the track and it was all shrank and I've tried everything to no avail. Help please I know its a dumb thing to ask but searching will take forever! I've obviously hit some button by mistake aaagh!

All sorted, thanks all

Thanks seems sensible, I'll also back up online as well as a hard drive

Hi

Usually audio files, I do a lot of backing tracks downloaded from Karaoke Version in individual stems,  ie drums, bass, vox all on seperate tracks, and edit these down to an MP3 for gigs. Not much midi these days, a little synth or piano which I plug in to my Steinberg UR22  interface from my Juno Keys. So not sophisticated.

Hi all,

I'm back after a hiatus due to arthritis in my thumb stopping me playing either  piano or guitar;  and I was  so utterly  p***sed off I didn't do anything musical for months, too painful, too upsetting.

 Anyways, I'm gradually starting to do stuff again and I now realise  backup system is not really up to scratch.

I recall  John ( Cactus Music) had a good video on this but he doesn't support Cakewalk tutorials now ( what did I miss?)

So, what's the recommended consensus on backing up? Or is it depending on the poster's opinion? I'm not that technical but...no backup, no mercy as they say!

Richie

I tried it yesterday and all seemed ok but thanks for comments and advice.

22 minutes ago, sjoens said:

Highlight the song in question (drag over it with the mouse) then go to Process > Apply Effect > Gain and enter a (-) dB number.

You can split the track into individual songs and bounce each clip to edit them separately.

Great stuff, worked perfectly! Every days a school day with me!

Thanks will try this.

Hi all,

I'm working on a backing track, from Abbey Road, so its Mr Mustard Polythene Pam and bathroom Window, which all segue into each other on the album. I use karaoke version stems. But the first 2 songs are ok volume wise at about 14.5 LUFS, and the last bit (bathroom window) leapsin volume to 11LUFS.

My problem is how to lower the volume of the last song, without effecting the first 2 as I've made them into one long track for our band. 

Beyond my limited capabilities I'm afraid! George Martin I'm not!

Thoughts?

Yep workspaces set to 0.

I've checked the binding and it seems correct, ie press i and get inspector. So I didnt change any bindings it was correct.

However, today, this time it works!

Dont know why, but for sure I was doing something odd. wont be the first time. No amount of good programming can legislate for my daily ***** ups I'm afraid. Anyway I got there.

And yes I'll place a shortcut on my desktop for the manual thanks

10 hours ago, Wookiee said:

I would check what MIDI port your tracks are pointing to.

Press I to open the Inspector. If they are just MIDI tracks all the track and port information should be displayed. 

Also if at the top of the track view you can see the word Custom change that to All andbyour Workspaces to None, so much more information and functions will be revealed. 

Thanks, that sounds helpful, but...CW as usual throws me a googly. This has NEVER EVER happened before but when I press "i" for inspector all that happens is the cursor jumps forward or back. So I went to "view" " inspector" and the same things happen. Aaaagh! I love cakewalk but I also hate it when it does this.

To add to this, all I did was open the file, and that is how it is on the screenshot

1 hour ago, Wookiee said:

@RICHARD HUTCHINS it never harms to share solutions, there is a range of users here from peeps who having been using DAW's for 30+ years and those who downloaded it yesterday. 

If it helps us oldies we were swanning in the dark 30 years ago, with no Internet and only doorstop manuals. 

As to your silence issue can you provide a little more details on what instruments you are using and how they are routed. It looks like you are not using a Master buss.

I was sent this  midi file to look at for our band. They wanted more sustain on the piano part which I did manage to acheive after help from the forum.

I simply open it in CW and then it plays, ( or it did until tonight)

I am plugged into a steinberg UR22 interface, and from there via midi in and out leads to my Juno Keyboard, which I assume responds to the midi instructions from the file. But I could well be wrong. it could be using my PC soundcard, i dont really know.

I'm still trying different things, whilst hoping for help ,  changed the midi channel to general midi from " normal " and now I get lots of sounds but they are all mixed up and its all piano,  no strings or drums just a mess of the wrong sounds. I'll still try and work it out myself but Im not holding my breath.

Okay he's back!

So, having learnt how to add sustain,( thanks all)  I then adjusted the piano track, saved the file and tonight reopened it.

And this time the CW demons had an overnight meeting and decided to annoy me with a completely new problem. Basically all I can hear now is the drum track, and it now sounds like a piano. I can see all the other tracks but they are silent. 

It all worked perfectly last time i opened the file... so what has changed? I attach a screenshot. In my defence this is all new stuff to me..

On 4/6/2024 at 8:23 PM, Canopus said:

Seriously, if you still have got your Roland Juno-DS, the only sensible way to add sustain would be to use a sustain pedal. According to the Juno-DS Owner's Manual, any Roland sustain pedal in the DP series should work. I don’t have a Juno, but I do have a Roland DP-10 sustain pedal which I can highly recommend. Simply connect it using the input called PEDAL HOLD.

I dont use the Juno for this track, I use the keyboards from the band I'm practicing with. But anyway I don't get this; surely the pedal needs to be manually activated during the songs?

On 4/6/2024 at 6:14 PM, Wookiee said:

Might be useful to others if you shared the method that worked for you.  Just a furry thought.

Yes good point.

I opened the stave view and used the pedal button to place the on and off points. As a piano player I found this intuitive.

I didn't post this as I felt my queries were so novice like, I didn't think anyone who had replied on the thread would learn from it, but I'll make sure to do this next time!

.....because there may be people out there with my level of knowledge. Or maybe a simple protozoa is reading my posts with a view to surpassing my ability!