reginaldStjohn

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From your pictures it appears that after applying the gain that your "Audio_01_10.wave" looks to have been replaced by "Audio_01_08.wave" is that correct?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.

If the midi tracks are part of your project, not being imported, then you can simply drag them while holding shift it will constrain the start time of the clip to to not change as you drag it to the new track. If you want to copy it add the cntl key (shift-cntrl) while dragging and it will make a copy. If you want to use the "copy" and "paste" dialog then your best bet is to place the "now time" cursor at the start of the clip you want to copy. Then copy it. select the destination track and paste it. It should copy to start where the cursor is. You can also note the start time of the clip in the "inspector" and then choose "paste special". You can then type or copy the start time manually.

You can also turn down the metronome so it is not so loud. In fade outs or where your voice is the main instrument you can automate the metronome to fade out or be softer in those parts. You could also track with headphones that give you more isolation like earbuds or closed back phones.

This is only my opinion so take it as you would like. I usually leave things in midi formation while I am writing and arranging a song. Then, when I am ready to mix, I bounce to audio and treat everything like I recorded it to audio files. This way I am not tempted to continually tweak things. There are times I will bound to audio sooner if system resources get low. I think the best thing is to experiment and then evaluate which methods seem to work for you.

What does your automation curve look like? Can you post a picture of the automation curve. Maybe the automation is stepped?

A screen capture of your project with the tracks and console visible might be helpful.

You can select non contiguous tracks by holding down cntrl or shift while individually selecting the tracks.