Larry Jones

The behavior you describe is normal, and that's the way it works for me in any record mode. In Preferences|Project|Record do you have "Auto Punch" checked and "Mute Previous Takes" checked? Any other tracks routed to the one you're recording? When you do this, you are either erasing parts of your track that you don't want to erase (as in Overwite mode) or moving them down to a different take lane (as in Comp mode). Are you saying you want to punch in early, have the existing track muted, but then be able to unmute that track on playback?

Thanks! That seems to be the consensus. I'll go with your advice. Wait by the phone, just in case.

Question: I haven't had any problems with my Melodyne, but I'm still using one version back because of all the issues with the newest version I've read about here. I also haven't updated CbB to 2019.5. So are we saying that 2019.5 makes it OK to install and use the latest version of Melodyne?

So you want to rerecord, for example, measures eight through twelve, you set the punch points for six through fourteen, and you want Cakewalk to mute the previous audio while you're recording and then play back the new material from 8 - 12 but also the old material from 6 - 8 and 12 - 14? Do I have that right? In comp mode, wherever you set the punch points, that's where the recording -- and the "muting" -- occurs. But the new audio is recorded in a new lane, which will be the new "top" lane and thus the only one you'll hear on playback. If your punch points are wider than the actual section you want to play over, the "muted" audio will be in the next lane down. So you'd have to then open the take lanes, select the takes and sections you want to hear, and move them to the top. This is "comping," and it's probably better done at the end, after you have recorded all the takes you expect to need to create a composite track.

I'd keep the tin foil handy though, just in case.

@Steev I see you haven't lost your touch.?

Careful, Bit. You're awfully close to the third rail of internet discussions.

I posted a question like yours on the old forum and got many great answers. Check out the thread. I'm sure you'll find something that helps.

Thanks, Craig. As long as I've been on the internet, this "tribal talk" about software has come and gone. Every so often some guy will get all opinionated and full of himself, and type a bunch of BS that doesn't doesn't really inform, but mainly says "Look how much I think I know, and how smugly I put forth my ideas." It's kind of like the weather, isn't it??

I can confirm this has been happening recently. Complete without warning crash to desktop, and no subsequent error message. In my case, I tracked it down to one offending audio track in one project. But as pwalpwal shows above, a lot of people have had a lot of this problem.

This has come up recently. You might look at this thread for a possible solution. Kontakt is involved in the other case as well.

15:18?

I don't have time to watch the entire video rebuttal. It's an hour long. I could read fifty posts in that time, many of which would have solutions that would further my own understanding of the software, some of which would apply directly to issues I've had. Maybe it's just me but I prefer a well-written post outlining a problem, or a response to someone else's request for help. Meanwhile, the perfect place for Scott's helpful tutorials is on his YouTube channel. If it's OK with Bandlab it's OK with me, but I don't think these long videos are the best way for forum members to report bugs or assist each other. [EDIT} I just saw that the rebuttal video was not posted here by Scott himself. So Scott if you read this, please don't see it as a critical of you personally. Just my thoughts on how to run the forum.

When I engineered live orchestral sessions in the 1980s (for movies), I remember one frustrated producer noting "...the string cues are arriving by bus," his way of saying the string section seems late. So the problem goes back to the days before samplers, I guess. ? That said, in the very few times I have used string in CbB I have noticed them coming in late, and I have compensated manually by increasing MIDI velocity or adjusting attack time. Easy for me to say, I guess, since I rarely used strings.

Yeah. You can automate the "mute" function, which means some people surely do mute/unmute as part of their mixing process. I feel ya. As a former studio owner I learned to be up front with clients about just what was possible and what was not. I tried to accommodate their every wish, but I told them they can't have everything (this was in the 24-track tape recorder days), and I made sure to warn them that one more guitar solo was going to erase something, take yer pick of things you can do without. When I had the chance to be in charge of a project, I tried to have a clear idea of where it was going, and kept only the keepers. I wasn't always right, but often enough. With modern digital recording, it feels as if you really can have everything, but as you've discovered, you can't. Now I work only on my own projects, at home, and part of the challenge is managing all the choices. I'm a very understanding client, though, so it's not too bad to work with me.

Sometimes it really is a hardware failure...

But you'd still have to buy a new PC every so often, to keep up with new technology.

You could bounce your comp to a new track, archive the comped track (which would archive the lanes, of course) and use the Track Manager to hide it.

Seems like if anyone has standing to ask about this it would be you. ?

This had me confused. Scott has used more than one name on this and the old forum, so I thought maybe "Jaime" was another psuedonym. I was further led astray by the Mexican beer Scott was drinking. ?

Gap between tracks?

Sorry, Noel. I have tried the Export to Bandlab feature, but a.) You can't export much to Bandlab; b.) We have always been able to export the tracks and stems we want to export and share them in various ways; and c.) When I tried to export five buses to Bandlab, the only thing that made it was the project title. All the data got lost in the endless loop of "still processing." I'm sure you'll get this working, but it doesn't seem like it's something I will ever need. Since the big DAW is available at no charge, it seems to me more likely that I'll just talk potential collaborators into downloading and installing it, and send them my tracks via Dropbox. Please show me why it would be better to go through Bandlab. I really do want to know.

Even with Cakewalk by Bandlab still might need to get access to old versions, in case plugins....

+1 to @abacab and @Brian Walton. If you just want to get started fast (and have LOUD mixes), buy iZotope Ozone Elements for $129 and use it. In time you'll want to be more sophisticated in your mastering, but this plugin will get you going right away, with almost no thinking (not that there's anything wrong with thinking).

If you can't log in to the old Cakewalk site to get your registration information, you'll have to check with support@cakewalk.com to update your login or create a new one. But while we're at it, may I suggest you download and install Cakewalk by Bandlab? It's free, and unlike SONAR 8.5, it is supported and still under development.