tdehan

I have both a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 and a PreSonus AudioBox USB96 digital interface. Wondering if when playing audio back live from a Cakewalk project through the digital interface if one is better than the other audio quality wise.

So then if I am understanding correctly, per my attached image above I would save that project with all the MIDI tracks frozen to audio on the one Cakewalk TTS track and play that live. Is that correct? With the MIDI tracks all frozen to audio on the Cakewalk TTS track the MIDI tracks aren't playing? Only the Cakewalk TTS track?

Yes, I stated that in my original post above: "The sound was really good! However, I noticed right away that each and every tune played back slightly slower then it was supposed to even though the BPM was correct". Are you saying to export each MIDI track one at a time to audio tracks? Isn't that what FREEZE is supposed to do?

I'm not clear what you mean by "Did you take note of what the Tempo in the Transport was reading?".

Can you please elaborate?

They do not play out of key.

Here is a screen shot of a tune using TTS and the instruments for all the tracks. I clicked on the FREEZE button on track 1. The FREEZE button on all the tracks lights up and on the track that says Cakewalk TTS is now audio. When I hit PLAY all the frozen tracks appear to be playing as well as the Cakewalk TTS track. How is this any advantage?

I don't know what is up your butt...but yes, it was. I found a couple videos on YouTube that show what it is, what it does and how to use it.

I am guessing this issue pertains to my most previous post. For a number of years my band has been performing live, playing midi files in BCW from one of my MS Surfaces through a Yamaha MU100 sound module as a backing track. All has worked great! However, I've been wanting to start using a number of my VST instruments in the backing track that sound much better as well as some additional vocal harmony .wav tracks. So, as I mentioned in my recent post, I've started using my PreSonus digital interface along with my MS Surface. I discovered that the stuttering I was experiencing as mentioned in my previous post was due to the effects on some of the tracks, I removed the effects the stuttering went away. Last evening was the first live performance my band did with the backing tracks which mostly consists of .mid tracks played through the PreSonus digital interface from my MS Surface. I creatted a set list of 26 tunes played through BCW through the PreSonus. The sound was really good! However, I noticed right away that each and every tune played back slightly slower then it was supposed to even thought the BPM was correct. I am wondering if increasing the buffer size would help this? Or, converting all the midi tracks within each tune to .wav tracks. Would that help that issue? I like the idea of having control in a live situation over each track within a tune but then also wondering if I export each project to just one .wav file per tune would be better? The issue I see with that is that incase I want to adjust a track or two within a tune I wouldn't be able to do that live.

I read the manual, I don't understand what it is saying about Freeze. Thus my question...right?

Like I said... I don't know what FREEZE means.

I don't know what that means to 'Freeze' the midi tracks.

Not sure how it's a mystery. I explained in my post this past Sunday what I did to resolve the issue.

I just checked the buffer size and it is set to 512. Should I change it to 256?

It plays just fine with just an audio .wav

I am not trying to process my live voice. I was trying to process a recorded backing vocal track. I will try editing the buffer size.

I think I may have fixed the issue. One of the vocal tracks had a SEND to a bus with a vocal enhancer pluggin. Once I killed that send and removed the bus the issue doesn't happen any more. I would still like to understand better what the buffer settings do. If playing with the buffer settings would allow me to use the particula effects bus I had I would prefer to use it.

Don't know about setting the buffers. I've never done that in the past. What should I set them to? Not sure what you mean by audio on the Surface. The audio is running through the Presonus digital interface.

When creating projects (.cwp) I use my main beefy PC computer and a Focusrite Scarlett 212 interface. My projects contain both .mid and .wav files. Playing the .cwp works flawlessly using my beffy PC computer and Scarlett 212. When performing live I use a Microsoft Surface with a Presonus AUDIOBOX USB96 interface. Playing the .cwp stutters when project contains both .wav and .mid files when using Presonus AUDIOBOX USB96. If the project just contains .mid files there is no stuttering. What am I missing here?

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Yes, I use the Playlist feature all the time when performing live. It's great. I didn't realize that I could use projects in the PlayList feature. I thought it was only MIDI. I've also been using MIDI since it's inception many many years ago. I used to perform with racks of keyboards, drum machines and sound modules all connected via MIDI to a sequencer. Only in the past few years have I downsized and use Bandlab Cakewalk through a single Yamaha MU100 sound module. It's been working great! I've never experienced any issues with MIDI so am not clear what issues you are referring to.

got it! Thanks

Hopefully this is not a stupid question. When I create and save a .mid file with different tracks using different VST instruments and open it back up into Bandlab Cakewalk all instruments default to the TTS instruments even though I am not using TTS instruments. When I create the .mid file there is no track with Cakewalk TTS however, when I open up the saved .mid file there is a new blank track always with Cakewalk TTS and all the different tracks are playing through TTS. I've been using Bandlab Cakewalk in live performances and running it through a Yamaha MU100 sound GM module. However, I would like to use the VST instruments I have in Bandlab Cakewalk instead and run it directly through my digital interface into the PA. But if it keeps defaulting to Cakewalk TTS instead of the VST instruments I've assigned to each MIDI track instead. Is it not possible to save a .mid file with the assigned VST instruments to each track and play as a .mid file without it being saved as a Cakewalk file? Or, am I going about this the wrong way? Thanks for any and all help

The issue is resolved. I re-saved the project with a new name and was able to export the audio.

I am trying to export my latest project. The progress bar instantly starts at 50% and just stays there. The Windows mouse spinner also just keeps spinning. Windows Task Manager shows not issues with Cakewalk nor does Windows Event Viewer. I am running Windows 11 with all current updates and 28.11.0.21 version of Bandlab Cakewalk. This is frustrating!! any help is much appreciated.