reginaldStjohn

Automation? Check your automation lanes for a node or envelope

I think they are owned by the same parent company

That is a very broad question. It depends on your audio interface, latency settings, number of tracks, the tempo change amount and a myriad of other things. Have you tried checking your system with https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon?

It is not obvious from your screen captures but here are some trouble shooting tips. - Arm the second track for recording. Don't play anything connected to that track and then hit play in Cakewalk. Does the imported track sound the same or distorted? - If it sounds fine then with the 2nd track armed for recording and input echo enabled play something on the guitar connected to the 2nd track. Does it sound as you want it too? - Now hit record and record something with the backing track playing. How did that go? If any of these steps produce un desired results then back up and see if you can pinpoint where the problem happens. One last thing, Check your busses and audio outputs to make sure you don't have some plugin on one of them or that you are not clipping. http://www.cakewalk.com/Support/Knowledge-Base/2007013219/Advanced-Bus-Routing

A frozen track is just audio. It keeps the midi associated with it but it basically converts it to a normal audio track. If you want to copy the whole track then right click on the track and select duplicate. https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=Arranging.06.html On my system freezing a track takes a while because it has to render the synth's output to audio. Going back, Unfreezing, takes very little time.

Post a picture of your cakewalk setup and someone will probably be able to spot an issue. It would also help if you told us about your audio setup, audio interface, driver mode etc.

I am not sure how right clicking on the interface would make things seem smoother. Are you saying the playback head seems to move smoother? Maybe by right clicking Windows is giving more priority to Cakewalk? Have you looked through any of the optimization suggestions ? https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/pc-optimization-guide-for-windows-10/ https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/en-us/articles/360008589880-Windows-How-to-set-up-and-optimize-a-Digital-Audio-Workstation

You need to select the Riff audio driver in the Cakewalk setup. The videos referenced will walk you though it.

From the signal flow diagram it appears that you would have to use an auxilary track or a bus to put an effect in after the tracks fader. If you describe your purpose for doing this it might make it more clear if there is a different way to do what you want.

Sounds like the Drum map is pointing to a specific instance of the synth. Open the Latin Percussion drum map and change the output to point to the 2nd instance of SuperiorDrummer. https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=DrumEditor.04.html NOTE: if you select all the entries (Ctlr-A) and hold shift or control or one of those down, then when you change one columns entry they all will change to the same thing.

To lock the clips you should be able to lasso select all of them that you want and then lock them all at the same time. No need to do it one at a time. That is the only way I know of to add time the way you are doing it. The other option is to just drag select all the clips that need to move and drag them back the number of measures you want. https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=Arranging.16.html

Have you run "latencyMon" program to determine what might be causing the issues? Laptops are much harder to get working consistently because of all the power saving they try to do. Make sure you have your laptop plugged in, set to maximum power profile, turn off usb sleeping in the power profile as well.

Set the clip to not follow the tempo and see what happens. If the temp is set to the clips map then it should like up fairly good with the metronome without stretching it.

I would suggest recording the audio from the PC in one pass. Then record the vocals and guitar parts directly from within cakewalk playing back the backing track from within Cakewalk. Recording the loopback of the audio card most likely is mixing in the guitar and vocals.

I believe that midi chase is a global setting. Maybe double check your settings? https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=NewFeatures.37.html

Are the clips locked?

Looks like you might have transient enabled for that track. click on a clip and hit cntrl-A to open the transient marker toolbar. Then turn off transients. https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=AudioSnap.05.html

Probably not a bug since not everyone experiences it. It is probably due to a combination of things like video card audio interface, other software running on the system etc. If you could do a screen capture showing it happen someone might notice something.

What do you see that says that? I clicked on the link and it just shows their current plugins?

Check that you are not in offset mode like the original poster.

Seems like you should be able to move them. Will they not move in time, pitch or both? can you delete them? Can you cut and paste them and then move them? When you select one of them does a clip in the Track View hightlight?

As they say, "A picture is worth a thousand words." Post a screenshot of your PVR and maybe someone will notice something.

If you post a small project someone might be able to open it and try it out. Or at least a picture of your tracks and console view. Make sure you don't have your tracks set to mono interleave, also any busses that they go to should be in stereo interleave. You should see two meter led strips for stereo tracks and busses. When panning do the two meter levels show a panning effect? If you have plugins on the tracks bypass them all and see if it makes a difference. Make sure your main outs are stereo. Some interfaces allow changing the outputs from stereo to mono.

I would think you just could create another bus and then route that to the desired hardware output. However, I don't quite know what you mean when you say you don't want solo to affect the master channel. If you solo a track then that track will mute all other tracks.