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You can do this... however, if you've already marked all of your sections out, you can just as easily create an arrangement:

It's probably on Lane 2 (or layer 2).

It really depends on the AV / Cloudsync app. AV's in particular can jump in as every time a file is accessed. You should have all of your project and any VST content (e.g. sample library) directories excluded. Not doing this is definitely liable to slow down, but could also cause crashes. Personally I've also excluded the VST plugin directories and Cakewalk application directories too, as I'm confident as to where the exe's/DLL's have come from. For cloudsync, I use Mega rather than OneDrive and I have a batch file that copies my project files to a directory on another disk which is set to sync to the cloud. The batch file does an incremental copy - i.e. it only copies newer / newly modified files. This means that it only syncs when I want it to, and I've also effectively got another backup. The downside of course is that I need twice the space for my projects.

The clip index is always relative to the track / lane it is on. You could try adding the track index and lane index, e.g. : {tracknumber}-{laneindex}-{clipindex}_{clipname} It won't give you exactly what you're trying to get, but the numbers will be incremental.

Have you made sure that your project directories are excluded from any anti-virus and/or cloud-sync (e.g. OneDrive) software? If other software is trying to scan the files as Sonar/CbB is trying to save them, this could cause this issue.

Just to add to this... there are generally six methods of pitch shifting: 1. Simple speed up/slow down and stretch - this is what was used in early digital pitch shifters in the 80's/90's (such as the Boss half rack pitch shifter/delay - which was excellent BTW). This works pretty well, but higher pitches make you sound like the chip monks, and has noticeable quality issues with rhythmic content at greater shifts. Cheaper Karaoke machines used this method. 2. Speed up/slow down and Stretch with Formant preservation pitch shift - More advanced Karaoke machines and Auto Tune / DigiTech Vocalist used this method. The formants would be identified/removed and left as is, and the rest of the signal put through a simple stretch, then recombined with the formants. Again, pretty good quality, but bad with rhythmic content at greater shifts. 4. FFT frequency shifting - a Short Time FFT is done on the sample, the data is then moved to different frequency bins, and a reverse Short Time FFT performed. Very efficient processing wise, but prone to phasing issues. 5. Transient detection with speed up/slow down and stretch - this is what Groove Clips use. Rather than stretching the whole wave file, the parts between transients are stretched such that the transients always land at the correct time. 6. Transient detection with speed up/slow down and stretch and formant preservation - similar to 5, but with formant preservation. Fairly processor intensive, but excellent results. Melodyne uses a variation on this method.

I'm not sure if you can do that with loopback. You may be able to do it via hardware - i.e. play YouTube through your onboard sound-card, take the output into a hardware harmonizer / pitch-shifter, then plug that into the 4i4's inputs, but I don't think you can "insert" something in the 4i4's internal loopback chain. There may also be software options, like a combination of VBCable and some stand-alone guitar effects (TH-U with it's Harmonizer module for example). I may be wrong though... maybe someone else can suggest something.

Actually, just compared MHarmonizerMB to using native Pitch Markers, and Pitch Markers sound MUCH better with anything over a 1 semitone shift. It really is pretty simple to use them: 1. Drag in audio file 2. Select clip and go to clip properties 3. In the Groove Clip tab, enabled "Stretch to Tempo" 4. Check the original tempo matches the current project tempo 5. Enable "Follow Pitch", and set the reference note (if in doubt, just set it to C - everything will then be relative to C) 6. Add a pitch marker where you want the pitch to be changed. This will be relative to the reference note, so a pitch of D with a reference note of C will shift it 2 semitones. The quality can be improved by editing the transient markers, but you should only need to do this if rhythmic content isn't sounding right. I hardly ever need to do this.

I've just given Melda's MHarmonizerMB a try, and it works really well, using it's "Basic Shifter" module: You can adjust and/or automate the Pitch control as needed. I've found the quality to be best with the formants "Keep" setting to 0.0%, assuming of course you're not shifting too far. For larger pitch changes, you'll probably want to increase this setting.

That's a very nice setup. I always dreamed of either the 238S (or the 688), but they were always out of my price range and by the time I could afford one, I'd already gone digital. I used the Yamaha MT8X for years, even after I'd started using Cakewalk CWPA. I only really retired it once I'd got used to my Yamaha DS2416 cards. I knew I'd be going digital at some point, so I went for the MT8X over the Tascam 488 because it had individual track outputs for later transfer. The MT8X was pretty basic. It did have a couple of location points / loop record points, but apart from that, MTC sync was a "tape must be master" affair. Sound quality was fantastic though. A friend had the 688, and honestly we couldn't tell the difference in quality. One thing I did swear by was Maxell XL-IIS cassettes (although the XL-II's were good too). I recently found a few old tapes in the attic, some TDK SAX and one XL-IIS. The TDK's were garbage, but the Maxell sounded like it was recorded yesterday despite being 30 years old. My mate with the 688 swore by the Maxell tapes too. Very hard to get hold of those tapes nowadays, and pretty pricey when you find them!

Groove clips can do this used in conjunction with pitch markers. Every time the pitch marker changes pitch, the clip is transposed in real-time.

As @Wookiee says, the XV5080 does everything that the JV1080 does plus a LOT more. The XV5080 is a much more powerful synth, but as such, editing patches is more involved. Not saying the JV1080 is a simple synth by any means, but it is less intimidating in some respects. Personally, given the choice I'd choose the XV5080 every time.

This is exactly what would happen in this case. If you stop, then want to start recording again, you'll need to manually mute the last take before recording again.

Just out of interest, how will this work using Sonar as a master? When I did this in the past, I used my used my PPS100 to generate SMPTE code and recorded it on track 8 on my 8-track. I then told the PPS100 that measure 1:01:000 started at exactly 15 seconds in, and set Sonar to slave. At that point, I could record on both Sonar / 8 track. It was always the tape machine that was in charge though, because it was playing back the time-code into the PPS100, which was then sending MTC to Sonar. My tape machine had no feature to locate to a specific location.... maybe your machines do? I get how Sonar can tell your MOTU what the time is... I'm just curious as how the tape machines sync up their time-codes to sync with each other / with the MOTU.

I upgraded all of my Win 10 machines to Windows 11 (four of which weren't "compatible" win Win 11) a couple of weeks ago. All you need is a spare 16GB (or larger) USB stick. 1. Download Windows 11 ISO from Microsoft 2. Download "Rufus" ( a bootable USB stick creation utility) 3. Point Rufus as the Windows 11 ISO, and tell it to put it on your USB stick. 4. Rufus will detect it's a Windows 11 installation disk, and ask whether you want it to remove the TPM / CPU checks from the the install script, among other stuff like removing bitlocker / forcing online MS account etc. Check the various options, then allow it to continue. 5. Once created, don't reboot - simply open up the USB drive and click on setup.exe I had zero issues with all of my machines, and they've done at least one update since then without issue. The vast majority of software didn't need re-authorizing, with Magix / Overloud / XLN Audio being the exceptions... but all of those allow you to remove old computers online, so not an issue.

Assuming you've got a full size keyboard, to the right of the function keys, you'll see the Print Screen, Scroll Lock and Pause buttons. Scroll Lock stops the clips view from scrolling when the now time goes off to the right. Pause causes the screen to update only once a second - I think this is what you're referring to.

In the past, I've always found Cakewalk is better as a slave than a master... mind you it's been a long time since I've done it, and PC's were a lot slower then!

Try this: 1. Select the existing synth track (or if a split instrument, the synth audio and MIDI tracks) 2. Save it as a track template. 3. In the new project, insert the track template. 4. In the old project, copy special making sure it copies track envelopes 5. In the new track, make the first newly inserted track the active track and ensuring the now time is at zero 6. Paste into the new project At that point you should have a copy of the synth and its envelopes in the new project, so you can now copy the envelopes as necessary to other tracks.

Something else will reside where it used to be. It's not fully baked yet though.

Audio export runs at a much higher speed, and unfortunately not all plugins work properly when they're running at top speed (the vast majority do though). It could of course be project corruption, in which case re-creating the problem track will probably fix it. The way to determine this is to do a real-time export. If the real-time export works, then it's a plugin problem; if it's still wrong, then look at recreating possible problem tracks.

^^^ This... well actually, not your master bus, but the master fader for your hardware output. Your hardware output fader should always be at 0.0, then adjust your master fader accordingly. It's fine to also have your master bus fader at 0.0, but you must have your hardware output fader at 0.0 for it to export at the same volume.

@Milton Sica - it's always worth running your English translations back to Portuguese just to check it makes sense. Sometimes it just needs rephrasing for the translator to do a decent job.

Do NOT do this. Running a program as administrator gives a program unrestricted access to all aspects of your machine. Any plugin will also have unrestricted access, and given that these can come from any source (esp the free ones), this is extremely risky. Sometimes it's necessary to do this temporarily for older plugins (i.e. Cakewalk Dimensions), but you should not run as administrator as a matter of course. You can disable the prompt as follows: Disable the UAC dialog box via User Account Control Settings 1. Press the Windows key, type control, and select Control Panel. 2. Select User Accounts from the list. 3. Now, click the User Accounts option. 4. Go to Change User Account Control settings. 5. Now drag the bar slider to Never notify. 6. Press the OK button to apply the selected setting. 7. Click Yes on the UAC window that opens.

If you're only using delay, Pre/Post will be the same thing. Pre/Post only comes into play when you have other processing going on - i.e. Pre delays before any other processing, Post adds delay after other processing. Using Pre and a delay only on one side of a stereo signal could radically affect how MS processing is handled.

@chamlin - not seeing any issues with that workflow here. I set an 8 measure loop, with a 4 measure punch in/out in the middle, and it's correctly recording the 4 measures every time. What might be the issue, is: "Then, without touching any settings, I hit record again, but this time, my recorded tracks are offset 7 measures forward, which results in the recording being misaligned, and 7 measures not recording" Check your "On Stop, Rewind to Now Marker" setting in TV Options. If this is unchecked, and you don't touch anything before pressing record again, then recording will start where you left off (assuming that's between the punch points). I'd recommend either: - Making sure "On Stop, Rewind to Now Marker" is checked, and ensuring the now time is at the beginning of the loop before you start recording (pressing W once or twice will ensure this). Then when you stop, it'll automatically rewind back to the beginning of the loop for you, so you can immediately press R. OR - Get into the habit of pressing W before pressing R again so you start at the beginning of the loop. If neither of these solves your problem, please post a video of what is happening ( Screen2Gif is a free and easy to use utility for grabbing screen videos). Be sure to record the whole screen, as the state of other options in the control bar may give us a clue to your setup and what could be causing the issue.