reginaldStjohn

You could post in the feature request forum. I know Studio One has this ability

Are you using the pro channel by chance? I have had issues with some pro-channel modules not working but if I delete them and re-add them then the track will work. Maybe this is related?

Not directly that I know of. You could bypass or delete the plugin and compare the difference?

I would first do the "Beginners Guide" section in the Cakewalk user's manual. It describes how to insert and route for a midi instrument. Page 130 of the Reference Guide. Depending on if you are using a simple instrument track or a separate midi and audio track things might look different but the principles are the same. You have to route the output of your midi track to the input of the virtual instrument. Then you route the audio output of the instrument to an audio track. A simple instrument track is just a single track representation of a combined midi and audio track that have been routed for you. You also need to make sure that you route the audio track out to a master bus or hardware output to be able to hear it.

You can do automation several ways in Cakewalk. Page 489 of the User's manual talks about using automation envelopes in the track. Page 693 talks about controller lanes in the PVR (Piano Roll View) which lets you add, edit or delete controller information, like pitch wheel.

Have you checked the User's guide, Pg 255 talks about how to use and setup the metronome. Page 1503 shows the metronome settings. If you use the "Audio Metronome" you specify a bus output to which it is supposed be routed. Even if you don't here anything you should see the bus's meters moving when you hit play or record if you have the appropriate buttons enabled as specified on pg 255

This probably isn't a CPU power issue it probably has more to do with your audio card. If you list the make and model of your audio interface then others may be more likely to help. If your using a built in audio device, like Realtek, then that may be the core of your issue. Also, you may need to do some PC optimization like disable sleeping on USB ports, set your power profile to Performance etc. Does Cakewalk give any errors or warnings when you try to play like "drop out" or "audio engine" stop? Here is a fairly recent thread someone started about optimizing their PC

There are definitely 3rd party meters that do this, the Izotope Insight metering suite comes to mind. However, the only way I know how to do that in Cakewalk directly is to make a custom Theme using the theme editor. Even then, I am not sure the levels where the colors change can be set.

There is a setting to reset all controllers on stop. This could be resetting an expression or CC that controls the volume or dynamics of the Kontakt instrument. Try moving your mod wheel and see if it changes. Also, are the playback meters in the audio track of the Kontakt instrument reading the same as the bus meters?

Well, one thing is to check what driver mode you are using. You mentioned running the "Wave Profiling". Are you not using ASIO as a driver mode? You may have to uninstall and re-install your audio driver. You could also start a new project and see if it still has the same problem. If not it would indicate some kind of project file corruption.

Even though you haven't intentionally changed anything I would double check all the routing. Does the SS Drums look like they are receiving midi data? Can you "manually" play the drums and hear anything? Do the meters move indicating that there is audio or are the meters showing silence? Are you using a drum map that might have gotten changed? Look through these questions you might find your problem. If it really is your audio interface then all other tracks would probably be silent as well.

It looks like you could have automation enabled and recorded that are controlling something. However, I don't believe the gain can be automated. The half red 'W' indicates that some controls are in automation write mode. In track view open the automation filter and look for bolded controls. These are one that will have automation written on them. If you have any you don't want you can select them in the edit filter and then right click to delete.

May I suggest that you ask this in the main Cakewalk by Bandlab forum or the QA one. You will get more responses. You will also need to give much more information, What have you tried? what is your audio interface? what driver mode are you using? Post some screen captures of your setting etc.

Well, I never used Sonar 6 but if it is anything like the current, free Bandlab version then you just arm the midi track on which you are going to record the "mod" wheel hit record and then move the mod wheel. You might have to have some existing midi notes on the track? Is this the kind of modulation you are trying to record? Make sure your keyboard is sending on the desired midi channel and that the midi track is listening on Omni or that channel. As another thought, you could install the current Bandlab version and then more people might be able to help

I don't completely know what you want to do but the only way I know of to assign a bpm to an audio file is in the Inspector under groove clip.

pg 752 of the Reference manual. See the little "floppy disk" icon. That saves your drum map preset. You can also create a new one a the top and it should save it in the list of drum maps so you can select it in the MIDI track. On thing to note. There is not standard on what midi number represents middle C. Therefore, some instruments will be off by an octave. This might be one of your issue with the wrong notes. For the wrong instance all I can say is check the out port or the midi channel.

If you have read everything on pp 853 of the Reference Manual then I don't have any other suggestions. You can also check in the inspector to see if the effect shows up in the clip's effect rack. Make sure the effect is not bypassed and make some extreme setting so you can really hear it. You could also try to bounce the clip with the effect inserted and see if that affects the waveform that is presented as well.

Maybe, it depends on if the volume slider produces a MIDI CC message when moved. You could check your digital pianos documentation to see if it sends MIDI or use a midi sniffing utility on your PC to see if it sends anything. If it does then you could set the CC value it sends to control a VSTi's parameters if supported in the synth

I'm not sure you would have to remix them. Just lower the volume by not pushing the brick wall limiter so hard. You will get lots of answers to how "loud" to make your mixes. Generally, making your mixes loud is the job of mastering and not mixing. If you are mastering yourself then you should insert you desired reference mixes and pull up a good metering plug-in. See how your mix compares to the references as far as long time averages as well as how high the peaks are to the average RMS level. Then use your limiter to get at approximately the same average level without smashing too many of the peaks. There is a whole art to mastering as well as mixing but you should be able to get a decent level out of your mix without it sounding too squashed. Loudness Unit Full Scale (LUFS) metering gives you some idea of how "loud" your mix is to your reference as well.

I don't see any indication that Cakewalk supports MPE at this time. I am not expert so I could be wrong. There may be other work around ways to do something similar but I will defer to more experienced Midi-ites.

Looks like you might need to create a bus. In the right hand pane that is empty right click and create a bus. then you route the output of the bus to one of you hardware outputs. Route your tracks to the bus.

It could be that the synth, or Cakewalk, is not reporting its latency correctly. You could Freeze the track and then nudge it into time. The other thing to try is to change the "prepare using ____ ms". I don't know if it will help.

Yes, that looks like something is messed up.

You can try it and see. But my guess would be once you freeze the track all effects will be bounce in and you should be able to copy and move stuff around since they are just audio clips. However, if you ever unfreeze all these edits will be lost.

You might have to give some more information. Are many people listening to this at the same time so they need to hear the drum track but you want the drummer to not hear the drums all from within Cakewalk? Do you want to export a backing track file that has all the instruments and the click but no drums to a file?