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A good quality mix. Vocals are slightly loud for my liking, but well EQ'd and a good sound. The mix seems to be pumping a bit with over compression. This may be what you wanted, but personally I found it a bit distracting. Apart from that, a great cover.

Things to try: First, disable autosave, and see if the problem goes away. If it does, then it may be something accessing the files whilst Cakewalk is saving them. Make sure any cloudsync programs (DropBox, Microsoft OneSync, Mega etc) aren't syncing your project, or global audio directories. Make sure your project/global audio directories are excluded from any virus scanners. [Edit] - Even if autosave is off, you could still have hangs/crashes if any cloudsync or virus checkers try to access your audio files whilst Cakewalk is running. Make sure nothing but Cakewalk can touch them.

If you've been using ASIO, it's likely that your on-board device won't be recognised as it's unlikely it's got an ASIO driver. Try switching over to WASAPI or install ASIO4ALL.

I agree, given that purchasing a new audio interface is off the cards, using the on-board sound device might be the best bet. The drivers are likely to be more compatible with Windows 10. Personally however, I'd recommend WASAPI over ASIO4all for on-board devices, but it's worth trying them both,

Yes, Addictive Drums came with previous versions of Sonar Platinum / Producer. A comparison of the versions, and what came with them is here: http://forum.cakewalk.com/Cakewalk-By-BandLab-vs-SONAR-Versions-Comparison-Chart-4282018-m3750958.aspx

I'm assuming this is an instrument track? This should fix it: 1. Create a new instrument track with AD2 2. Select your original AD2 track, select Edit->Copy Special making sure "Copy Events In Track" is checked 3. Select your new track, select Edit->Paste Special 4. Drag any additional effects from the old track's FX bin to the new track's FX bin 5. Delete you original AD2 track. If it's not an instrument track (i.e. you've got separate MIDI / Audio tracks), then what probably has happened is that the output of the MIDI track has been changed after you froze the track, and possibly the original audio track deleted. Breaking the link between a frozen MIDI / Audio track is what causes the freeze icon to be greyed out. To fix it in this situation: 1. Create a new Audio & MIDI track 2. Insert AD2 into the synth rack 3. Set your new Audio track's input to the new AD2 4. Set the MIDI track's output to AD2 5. Select your old AD2 MIDI track, and drag the clips over to the new MIDI track 6. Delete the original MIDI track.

There's no way to get it, unless BandLab re-release it. Meng did say that Rapture Pro was likely to be re-released at some point. Hopefully the other instruments/effects/ProChannel modules will eventually become available too.

Sonar X3e Producer works fine for me on my Win 10 Laptop (Windows 10 Home 64 bit). I thought at first I may be running as Admin or with some compatibility options, but I'm not. However, even using WASAPI the buffer size has to be at maximum. CbB is is practically at the minimum buffer size. There's no contest really - by all means install X3e to get the extra plugins / softsynths, but use CbB.

Looks like you need to run chkdsk on the drive. It may be just a glitch, or it may be that your drive is damaged. Either way, run chkdsk. If the drive is damaged, backup what you can and transfer it to another drive.

It's worth noting that a video file contains two codecs: one for the video, and one for the audio. An MP4 is a container for the video & audio, where both the video & audio have their own codecs. It's quite common for MP4 files to use MP3 as the codec for the audio.

Track templates combined with drag & drop seems to work. Extra audio tracks are created, but they can be deleted afterwards. Still, it feels like a workaround... I'd still like a real track copy between projects ?

This is what happens when you try to drag/drop with instrument tracks: However "Duplicate track" within the same project works fine with instrument tracks. Adding a project selector to the "Duplicate Track" dialog, showing all open projects would be an ideal solution.

The issue for me isn't isolating a folder of tracks into one project. What I want to do is insert tracks into an already populated project from an existing project. For example, I'm writing a song, I've got the intro, verse and bridge. I suddenly remember a project with a 16 bar section that might work well as a chorus. I want to be able to open that old project and copy those tracks into my new project. Intuitively, I'd expect to be able to drag the tracks from one project to another - or at least be able to select the tracks, press CTRL +C, go to my new project and press CTRL+V to paste them in. Not only can I do not do that, but so far I've yet to find a workaround that will reliably allow me to do it.

The only reason I tried freezing the tracks, was to fix the issue with instrument tracks. With instrument tracks, if you don't freeze, all the tracks get pasted in the wrong places and the tracks are left in an unusable state - i.e. MIDI clips can end up on audio tracks, instrument tracks think they're frozen but unfrozen clip data is in there, but no way to unfreeze them etc. Although freezing before copy/pasting seems to get around the issue, I'm not totally confident that the tracks are not in some way compromised. And as you say, things are missing. I was hoping that the track template workaround would do half the job, and cut special/paste special would do the rest. But it seems there's gaps. @Noel Borthwick - any advice on how to copy a track in its entirety from one project to another?

Ok, found a workaround for this. So when using instrument tracks: Select all your tracks in source project Export as a track template In new project, insert the track template In source project, freeze all of your tracks Select all of your source tracks again, Copy Special Paste Special into new project, starting at the appropriate track, with "Replace Old with New" selected on the dialog Delete the extra audio tracks it's created at the end Note: It's really important you create your track template with the UNFROZEN tracks, otherwise after pasting into your project, the tracks get into some half frozen state: the MIDI data is in the track, but it thinks the track is frozen & has not linked up the audio, so you can't unfreeze it.

Unfortunately this goes horribly wrong with instrument tracks. So I do these steps: Select all my folder, export as a template Open my new project, and insert the template. All good so far. Copy Special from the first project Paste Special into the second... For instrument tracks, it skips a track each time, and creates a bunch of extra tracks at the end. In other words: Source Track 1 -> Dest Track 1 Source Track 2 -> Dest Track 3 Source Track 3 -> Dest Track 5 etc..

This is an excellent solution - nice one Bill.

Copying tracks between projects is incredibly bad in Cakewalk. The best you'll get is the basic events (e.g. audio / midi events). Hardly anything else is copied across. If I want to copy an instrument track from one project to another, I've got to set up the instrument track in the destination project first with the right soft synth patch etc, then I can copy the events across. Even dragging a project in from the media browser doesn't solve this, although you do at least get all your audio & midi tracks created... they're just not hooked up properly, and none of the effects or ProChannel settings are duplicated. I made a suggestion a while back that the "Duplicate Track" function allowed a "destination project" selection if more than one was loaded. Obviously with a folder, it would mean a multiple selection of tracks, but the same thing applies. Let's hope the CbB developers do something about it. Imagine not being able to copy a formatted paragraph from one word document into another. This is really bread & butter functionality. It really needs some attention IMHO.

If you select all the tracks in your folder, you can use Copy Special / Paste Special. None of the effects or instruments get copied across though.

This has been a fairly common issue with Cakewalk going back to the Pro Audio days, although it has improved. Cakewalk remembers which MIDI devices are connected & enabled as a global setting. The output devices can be are ordered, and it is the order number that the track's MIDI output is routed to. The issue arises when you start up Cakewalk with one of those devices disconnected. This messes up the order or the devices, and the output ports on your tracks then end up going to a different device. So if a track was previously going to MIDI output device #3, it's actually still going to MIDI output device #3... but now MIDI output device #3 is a different MIDI output port that it was before. There's a few things you can do to mitigate this: Always make sure all your MIDI devices are plugged in before you switch on your PC. Always make sure they are plugged into the same USB port as they were the last time you plugged them in - i.e. don't change to a different USB port. If you are using any MIDI devices that you are likely to not have always plugged in, and it has a MIDI output as well, make sure these appear is at the end of your list of MIDI output devices. In other words, your MIDI output device list should first list all the MIDI devices you always have plugged in, with any others appearing at the end.

FYI if you do find you're getting noise when recording, it's probably a grounding issue. I use a ground loop isolator transformer: You can get them from Amazon for around $9 / £6 (USA): https://www.amazon.com/InstallGear-Ground-Isolator-Noise-Filter/dp/B077Y5DLBB/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2J9QBSIG8W5P6&keywords=ground+loop+isolator&qid=1551254707&s=gateway&sprefix=ground+loop%2Caps%2C521&sr=8-4 (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ground-isolator-audio-noise-removal/dp/B000KHBU1G/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1551254798&sr=8-8&keywords=ground+loop+isolator

There's two ways of doing this: 1. If you always want to open more than one, uncheck the "Recycle Plugin Windows" settings within Preferences->VST Settings 2. If you only want to temporarily keep one open, click the "pin" icon at the top right of the plugin window. This will keep this plugin window open, whilst recycling the rest.

Behringer used to do their own ASIO driver for this, which I actually use on my old laptop. In fact, the UCA222 it's what I use to sample all my hardware instruments (it's what I used to sample the piano sound I posted up ealier this month: The UCA222 is ultra clean, however with some laptops you may want to use a ground isolator on the input if you're not running on batteries. For live use / output only, it should be fine though. If I can find the original ASIO driver, I'll post a link to it. [EDIT] : Looks like this site has them: http://www.123dj.com/audio/mp3s/uca222.html [EDIT #2] : Just tried these drivers out on Windows 10 - they work fine. The ASIO buffer can go down to 64, but I found 128 was the lowest I could use without getting clicks & pops. I also had a look inside. The UCA222 is based around the Burr-Brown PCM2902E, so a fairly respectable DAC/ADC.

I mostly do the same. The only time I'll copy the track, is if I want a distinct separation between my "sound design" effects and my mixing effects. In this case, I'll freeze the original track, copy the audio to a new one, then archive the original.

I've tried various condenser mics, and I still prefer the SM58 for my vocals. The condensers I've tried however, have been on the cheap side, so maybe a better quality one might sound better. The Rode NT-1 looks like a good contender, but I'm torn between this and the Shure SM7B as the SM7B sounds similar, but better than the SM58 in shootouts I've heard.