reginaldStjohn

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?

"Another question, how do we copy and paste automation data without having to dig in menus to command it to copy and paste?" There are probably lots of ways to do this but I usually drag around all the nodes I want to copy to select them. Then I do cntr-c to copy and cntr-v to paste. By placing the now time at a different location you can paste the automation starting at a different time.

Make sure that you don't have a screen set or lens (workspace) selected. Could be a setting that is saved with one. If not then maybe contact support.

Maybe I don't quite understand how you are doing things.. But Groove is assigned to a clip not a region in the timeline. You select a clip and make it a groove clip. Then it will follow timing adjustments in the timeline. If you want to make a drum loop in 9/8 then make a meter change in the timeline, add a clip to that location and in the inspector mark that audio clip as a groove clip. If you have put many audio clips/samples together to make your 9/8 loop then bounce them to a single clip before doing these steps. I don't think the clips know about meter only tempo.

Sometimes the region effects don't show up for me unless I bounce the clip. I think if the clip is edited in certain ways it makes the region efx unavailable. Once I bounce I can then apply the Region EFX again.

I was not suggesting this was happening on purpose. It may very well be a bug and need to be reported. I was only suggesting a work around that might prevent this from happening.

In order to monitor the track as you record you have to enable the "input echo" button on the track. See the Cakewalk Reference Guide page 273

From your pictures it appears that after applying the gain that your "Audio_01_10.wave" looks to have been replaced by "Audio_01_08.wave" is that correct? I don't know why that would happen. Can you strip this project down and send it with a support ticket to Cakewalk? As work arounds you could try to bounce the clips individually before applying gain or bounce them down to one clip.

In the track view in the track header by the name of the track. You can also shift-click the clip to select clips or if you are over automation to switch to automation.

I don't have melodyne 3 so I don't see that file. However, are you sure you are supposed to be scanning that dll? That might not be a plug-in dll. What directory is it in?

Another way to do this is to route the tracks to an auxiliary track. Then you can record the auxiliary track like you did with the bus or just hide the mono tracks and treat the auxiliary track as your stereo track. A couple of thread that explain other ways to do it as well. http://forum.cakewalk.com/How-to-convert-two-mono-tracks-into-one-stereo-track-m3556324.aspx http://forum.cakewalk.com/How-to-turn-two-mono-tracks-into-one-stereo-track-m3352697.aspx

in cakewalk there is audio snap. pg 599 of the Reference manual goes into great detail. Select an audio clip and hit "alt-a" to open the audio pallet. You many need to move some of the transient markers around or add some. I actually like to time most of my audio clips by hand by splitting and moving the clips into time. This avoids any artifacts.

You can always "pin" a plug-in window so it will stay visible while opening another one. There is also an option to Recycle the plugin windows or open a new one. See pg 851 of the Reference guide

There is an option in the preferences to "group" clips that are recorded at the same time. You can also select all the clips you want grouped, right click, and group them. Then when you select, split, move etc. one clip the others will have the same thing done to them. See pg 350 of the Reference Manual ("Clip Selection Groups")

No coupon for me either.?

The only way I know to do this is have your effects on a bus or Aux Track and then "send" not route your track to the bus. Then you could export or bounce your effects bus to audio.

The person to respond to this would be AZSlow3. He has written a plugin controller that is much more flexible than the build in ones that come with cakewalk. In addition he might know how to help you. I don't have a faderport so don't know how to help you. Here are a couple of semi-related threads.

How do you have the audio loop set to follow tempo? Is it a groove clip or did you set it to follow tempo using the audio snap pallet? If you bounced the audio clip that would loose the audio snap setting because you baked it in when you bounced. You would need to select the clip, before changing the tempo, open the audio snap pallet and select "clip follows project". Then change the tempo. You could also try bouncing it once you change tempo to see if that makes it render at the correct temp.

You seem to have the basics understood. I have an X32 producer and use it with many DAWs successfully. First, you do have to set the gain on the X32 to get the desired level. The X32 will convert the analog signal to a digital version that it then sends out the USB into your computer. This is how you record. In your DAW, Cakewalk, you assign all the tracks to a bus, usually called Master but could be anything. Then the output of the bus should be routed to your X32 outputs. Usually outs 1-2 but you could route them to other outputs if desired. ASIO only allow one interface to be used at a time so you would not be able to monitor through your laptop's soundcard. You would need to use the X32 to monitor. In addition, the X32 is going to be way better then your built in sound card. Many people disable their onboard sound card so there are no conflicts as well but this isn't always necessary.