jwintermute

@jmmakesmusic, thanks so much for this. I got into a loop on an older PC. Cakewalk wouldn't authenticate, so I tried offline authentication using my main PC - which had worked several times in the past, but now complained that the version of Cakewalk wasn't supported, so needed to update. I tried that and... 401 😆 Thanks to you I'm out of that loop. I'm using the older PC as it has a Soundblaster Audigy 2 with the external box, which has enough inputs to allow recording of 4-track cassettes from a PortaStudio into Cakewalk.

Hi, Just wanted to add to this post - I contacted support about the same issue, and they reset my password within hours. Excellent service, just wanted to give them a shout out 🙂

For anyone late to this discussion (as I am), Audacity works very well. I have three versions of the same song, loaded into Cakewalk from cassette using a four-track recorder (which is an interesting exercise in itself...). The versions have exactly the same rhythm and bass tracks, but the other tracks are different, and I was interested in combining them all into one master. Due to the use of different Portastudios/cassette decks, they run at slightly different speeds. Using Audacity, I was able to simulate the pitch adjustment on a Portastudio using "Change Speed and Pitch". To work out the adjustment, I loaded the rhythm track from one version (which was created using a DrumTraks, - a real one ?) to the left track, and the same rhythm track from another version to the right track. The right track was running very slightly slower. By experimentation, a "Speed Multiplier" setting of 1.005 brought the two rhythms into sync, and the sound quality was not bad at all.