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yes a guy with a brain. sorry other guy but kinda critical mass for me right now, i'm gonna wait until the last week in july to jump., that way i have everything done for ECO/BMI/MLC as far as mp3 exports. they will be close enough. i love CW and now gonna love SONAR most likely. i need to take a look at the interface somehow before i actually load it up to see what i still recognize. the most concern when jumping platforms is will all settings follow and such. i hope the nags to buy premium are not too intrusive. i will buy it eventually - i don't need to be nagged to death to do it. i am readin the forums to see what issues are being found. they are doing builds so i may as well just wait.

hello, i'm still wondering about my previous question below. Will i have issues in Sonar? Some posts indicate yes. I don't need to go through a big learning curve right now. hopefully this Sonar is close enough to Cakewalk i can use it. Otherwise, will have to switch DAWs. anyway..... Ok still need some questions answered. I'm goin to use the free tier for now and eventually purchase. I need to know before i update to Sonar if like my projects will be the same settings-wise when i open them. I want the screens for Track View on certain songs and Console view for others. Will they open the same? Will all my current settings remain the same and do the exports and imports work the same? Do cut and paste still work the same with selections and copy then position the cursor to paste from that point in the track on? I was a little concerned when it said Cakewalk projects cannot be saved after a certain date. No matter how old my cakewalk projects are, will i just be able to open them with Sonar when i get back to my older projects? then will they save to the same folders ? i don't want a huge learning curve just trying to search out my projects. If the project list comes up as it does now in cakewalk when you start, then i hope if the Sonar projects save to a new folder area that it will know and manage my project list until all projects are switched over. It would be nice if all the projects i currently have are recognized by Sonar and it will just present the list regardless of if it is still a Cakewalk project or Sonar one. Or better yet, just ask to convert all my Cakewalk projects so i dont need to do anything but open Sonar. UPDATE: NO ANSWERS TO THIS YET?

i like this way also,. i have yet to get back from my travel and try it. i should be back soon. the other part of my question was when you add a synth track (or instrument) what will that do? does it detect the key of the song and "play along" or do i need to go through every measure and add chords or notes? in this case bass notes that are say an octave or maybe 2 lower than the key of the song, will this be in the instrument track options once i get in there? like setting the octave of the instrument and if it doesn't autodetect the key choosing the Key of the song? tia

just a newbie to some certain features of Cakewalk. My goal was to add a bass synth track to see what my songs (that i have produced on cakewalk for 2 years but never needed this feature) and see what the song in question would sound like with a Prog Metal version

oh i will and thanks for the answer so difficult for others to provide,

well thanks for your valued input, but, i didn't quite grasp the concepts in the tutorial. it doesn't explain a lot of stuff like "how it works if you add a synth track" and a lot of other holes in the documentation. you don't have to be bothered with my asking questions and since you want to belittle those t rying to find out information NOT a course that costs money, you can consider yourself out of touch and stay in your little corner of hell ok?

really, so i get advertisements for $79 dollar course just to figure out how to use a synth track. smh

-- I have used it for mostly tracking and "fixing things"/mastering. but never played with more than adding eq, splitting tracks, etc. i guess i don't know how to use or how synths or how to apply them and what they do, thx RR

yes it will copy seamlessly. i did it in Cubase already and you cannot even tell. but don't have it figured out in CW yet. i tried selecting a portion of the waveform then it started referring to sections and it started losing me. i didn't know if i had to use sections instead of the waveform or not. but yes, the parts are identical and have no singing to complicate cut/paste of the chorus bass part that turned out to be about a measure. also i had trouble switching back and forth between beats/measures timeline and minutes and seconds time over the waveform. sorry i'm just learning CW terminology if that is not what it is called. RR i was able to get the looping which i use a lot to work.

I just called it a "de-esser" i guess because early on when i used Wavelab in the 80s and 90s, it had a "de-ess" setting and never learning the actual purpose for it i just thought that de-essers removed hiss-like sounds. so i am not up on terminology really and am more a musician than a producer/recording engineer. so have patience with me if i mis-label stuff. thanks for the info on ReaFIR and Lisp! I will definitely try them. I can post a before and after of a song on here if that is something of interest of what i have done from raw cassettes so far. you mentioned the cymbals, in some cases i like that "slashy" highs sound that you mention that the SM-57s get when you record cymbals. not for everything but i have a use for it in some of my stuff. i need to get recommendations on the budget-friendly cymbal mic(s) because my current drum mic setup doesn't have any. Also, i am having trouble with CW trying to convert over from Cubase 12. I know practice and hacking at it is how i learned Cubase. but this is a different animal . for example, i want to copy a portion of a song that the bass player hit the wrong note with another section (chorus) where he played it correctly. i have tried to be intuitive trying to figure it out on CW but no luck. In fact, with these "basement tapes" releases i will be needing to do this a lot. can i get some quick start steps to do this because the documentation did not come up with this topic thx much and hoping to jump over to BL 100% soon. i have only experimented with it on three songs so far and it is taking me waaay too much time to do what i can do on Cubase in a few minutes. But, i want to get up to speed and use CW now. Especially with the Bandlab linkage!! I downloaded and tried BlueLab's DeNoiser but found it to lower the overall gain trying to get the hiss out RR

i do have about 3 sec of nothing but the hiss on one recording and low hum on another. one mic was near a device that produced hum on the recording thru that mic, i have eliminated a lot with EQ believe it or not but i can do better . is the Blue Lab free or have a full functioning eval? i only need it for a couple things right now and will buy it later when i am doing more stuff from other bands RR

i did not have the option to do ambient or would have. in fact that is all that was done in these recordings were ambient. i'll have to post a before and after some time just to show what i was working with and what i got for results using source cassettes recorded on a one or two mic ambient setup turned up to 11 ... yeah... anyway, i recorded directly into a Zoom R24 Recorder and used a few things on that like EQ , cutoff etc. , reverb, and a few canned effects and it was amazing how much a difference it made bringing out things like vocals, cymbals, bass drums, bass and gave it depth.

is there any plug-in that can isolate and just listen to the hum or hiss? like maybe tell the frequency range with a 'knob' and see if it eliminates it?

this is great! thanks!

hey thanks. what's with de-essers? i found a lot of DAWs don't have them or the ones out there cost a lot of cash just to process , these things were included in wavelab back in the day but it is not a free program anymore. CUbase has none unless yu pay for the premium packages which right now i can't afford. So far i'm liking Cakewalk. update - Reaper comes with a De-esser! Also, a ton of plug-ins.\

I have a full mixdown and it has a hiss on it. unfortunately, the source had the hiss and i just need to use the de-esser to limit the high hiss. i have another recording with a low hum on it but, if that requires a different technique or not i don't know. i'm hoping the de-esser has a frequency selection cutoff. i'm new to cakewalk - i have used it before but after some frustrations with other DAWs, i decided to try CW after so many years. i don't seem to be able to find de-esser in my plugins or compression tools. oh how do i add new plugins? can help? RAYRAY