Larry Jones

Thanks for clearing this up, @John. I didn't realize what was happening there, but I see now that @SomeGuy must have edited @Starship Krupa's quoted text to mislead readers.

I don't know if this is supposed to be funny, but it's certainly not helpful. The OP indicates in his first sentence that he knows CbB is crashing, and it's because of unfreezing Sektor. @paulo, this is the kind of thing you need to send to support@cakewalk.com. They may want you to send the dump file described in the error message. A little more information here. Best of luck!

I wouldn't presume to edit anything. I can barely remember what I was doing 35 years ago, much less what Cakewalk was up to. I also don't recall saying anything here about my involvement with X. Last time I saw Exene she was reciting poetry at a coffee house a mile from my home. She looked right through me, so who knows? Maybe I wasn't involved. So much for the band being thrilled. ? In any case I'm more comfortable encouraging you to do the hard work. Then I will make a few smart remarks. In this way I have wasted most of my life.

Mark - I don't use any kind of Mackie Control. Don't really even know what it is, but you da man! Thank you for your willingness to contribute.

I misunderstood. I thought you were saying the original (accurate) info had been deleted and was irretrievable. As a "registered Wikipedia editor" maybe some day you'll find a use for this interview that I stumbled on recently. A Computer Music article from the SONAR 1 era, and even then they were feeling inferior about the size of their user base compared to "the big German software program." Note the byline. I thought I'd find a lot of contemporaneous stuff written about Cakewalk/Twelve Tone, but there's not much out there.

What a shame. There must be someone who was there and knows the early history. The original MIDI sequencer is part of music/tech history. As a guitar player I wasn't there at the beginning (MIDI ?) but I hope the story can be reconstituted, and not lost.

Hahaha! I know, there's probably a plugin for that!

Right, that was my question. Thanks to everyone for showing me how. I know I'm tilting at windmills, but I thought I'd try an album. The Studio One Project Page seems like the perfect platform to sequence and assemble this, but there's all the preliminary stuff like writing, playing, singing and mixing. I'd best get started. ?

Sorry, my previous comment wasn't very helpful. The truth is I gave up on using my Impact LX61+ as a DAW controller -- I just use it as a piano keyboard. But here's a quote by @Tezza from one of the older threads on this topic that might at least get you going in the right direction. Best of luck with this:

Implementation of control surface functions between Impact LX+ series and Cakewalk (also SONAR) has been terrible for me since day one. It's hard enough to learn a device like this when it works as expected, but the Nektar Impact doesn't do what it's advertised to do. Run a search on this forum for "nektar" (or maybe this link will work) and you'll see what I mean. I haven't contacted Nektar directly myself, but those who have say they got no help.

Thanks, @Craig Anderton. I didn't mean to imply that the site is an official arm of Avid or Pro Tools. I should have made myself clearer. The site began life as an unofficial Pro Tools site, and they have now expanded to be an unofficial Logic and Studio One site. And they have apparently obtained copyrights on the notion that they are the "experts" on those DAWS.

Good points, @Jim Roseberry. For me it boils down to "Where there's a will, there's a way," meaning if I (or you) really want to work with someone on a project we will figure out how to do it, regardless of what software each of us may be using. All the other hoo-ha is just noise.

It actually is a Pro Tools site (note their domain name). They have expanded to other DAWS, however, and have actually copyrighted the phrases "Pro Tools Expert," "Logic Pro Expert," and "Studio One Expert," so no one else can be an official internet "expert" on any of those products. Maybe you or I should copyright "Total Expert on Everything." From their disclaimer in the footer: Pro Tools Expert, Logic Pro Expert, Studio One Expert and Production Expert are all copyright and cannot be used without permission.

Good news. Enjoy the music makin'!

This may be because your sample rate and bit depth settings in Cakewalk don't match your Windows system settings, and ASIO4ALL is not releasing when you switch to other programs (your browser, for example). A dedicated audio interface is usually better at this. In the mean time you might try setting up Windows the same way you have Cakewalk set up. (I would guess the default in Windows is 16/44.1, but I've messed around with my settings so many times I can't remember what it was out of the box.)

@SomeGuy: I haven't found it particularly difficult to work with people not using CbB, although it's easier when they are. I'm familiar with most of the available professional-level DAWs and have done commercial work with some of them, but I'm a long-time Cakewalker, I do the majority of the writing, playing and singing on my own projects, and CbB remains my first choice. So it's pointless to suggest that I'd be better off changing platforms. What I said in my comment on the magazine article itself is that CbB is a powerful, full-featured DAW, and that Bandlab has improved its stability and increased the level of staff support, and that the fact that it's now available for free shouldn't make anyone think it's inferior. I believe those are true statements. I wrote what I wrote to spread the word that CbB is a viable solution that has been under development for a long time and is currently being improved and maintained. If more people use it, I'll be likely to run into more people who use it. Simples. That said, thanks for 'splainin' things to me.

@gargonknight Before calling it a day, check here for troubleshooting this and other support info. I don't think you will lose all your projects.

I added my two cents in the comments. The more people who use CbB, the more people I can collaborate with trouble-free.

Try freezing the track.

It will help you in the future to read more than just the title of a post.

I'm going to guess that it will work, except for the possibility that there's a registry entry that you will also have to delete when you uninstall Theme Editor. I don't know enough to guide you on this, but be careful!

I master my own recordings in my own clumsy, DIY way -- right or wrong, I get them sounding the way I want them to sound, and over the years I've learned from here and elsewhere and from experience and gotten a little better at it. So my question is not "how to master," but rather "how to master a collection of recordings." I mean if you have, for example, eight songs recorded and you want to put them together in the old-fashioned "album" format, how do you go about it? Obviously you have to decide on a song sequence, but once you've done that do you put all your mixes on the timeline in the correct order? And what if each track requires slightly different settings for EQ, compression and level in order to make the entire project feel like it's all one piece of work? I guess you could create a region for each track and apply these FX as needed for each region. I usually make my homemade masters of individual songs in Sound Forge 11, but I've never tried to make a collection of songs fit together as a coherent whole. Is there an app for this? For what it's worth I use CbB for all my projects, but I also own Studio One 4, Samplitude X3 and Sound Forge. Years ago I acquired CD Architect 5.2, which tries to do what I'm talking about, but is not compatible with VSTs. Or is this idea really just too old fashioned? Does anyone release digital albums? Do 21st century listeners even listen to whole albums? Any thoughts on this?

That's a pretty big flaw. I'd say it would be a dealbreaker in any DAW. If you don't want help, fine - use your Mixcraft. But if you'd like to get it working I suggest you edit the name of your post to something that describes the problem -- so people will read it -- and include a few more details in your post, like what soft synth won't load, has it worked before, how are you trying to load it, etc. Best of luck!

Another place you can hear bad mixes: on the radio. Mostly on older pop records, it can get pretty bad, with buried vocals, missing bass, guitar solos that jump out of the speakers. The thing is, some of these bad mixes are on recordings that were on the charts for weeks and made the artists famous. Not saying you shouldn't do everything you can, but sometimes you should probably resist trying to "perfect" your mix, especially if you've got a good song, a great performance and the right energy.

Same here. I would note, however, that I did list my version of Melodyne in my original post as well as in this follow-up comment.