Chaps

The Augmented Mallets has some pretty nifty sounds. I'm experimenting with using it to double some harp and piano parts in a song I'm working on. Arturia also has a free version of a nice virtual synth there called 'Analog Lab Play' that also has some interesting and useful sounds (4 GB download).

My interface shows up as two sets of input drivers in Cakewalk Audio Devices. Driver 1+2 (Input 1) is what I choose when recording things I plug into my interface's inputs. Driver 3+4 is named 'Streaming' and if I use those inputs I can record anything I hear from my speakers. This is what I use if I want to record audio from YouTube, for example. I have never used it to listen to audio live and tried it just now. You are right, it does cause audio playback problems. I should have checked that first before I before I posted anything. My bad.

What kind of Audio Interface are you using? My Steinberg UR24C can send Windows audio to a Cakewalk input, which would allow me to use plugins on Windows audio.

There have been times when I tried to close Cakewalk by Bandlab with the Task Manager (not recently) and End Task in the Processes Tab didn't work, but End Task in the Details Tab did work to close the program. Sometimes Cakewalk Application did not even show in the Processes Tab, but did show in the Details Tab.

When you use the standalone AD2 the audio is going straight to your audio device. The AD2 audio in your Cakewalk is going to the master bus. Try changing the output of your Cakewalk AD2 track to your audio device, not the master bus. All other things being equal they should sound the same, unless the main audio output slider set to 0 dB is attenuating the signal enough to make an audible difference. I do not recommend this as a standard practice but for experimental purposes it might be useful.

Not dumb. Most of us are still learning all the nuances of the software.

If it's like Cakewalk by Bandlab, and you are referring to track automation, you can select the track (or clip) and then click and drag any automation node and all nodes will move with it, either vertically or horizontally. If you hold down the shift key and then click and drag a node then the nodes will only move in the direction you first move them in.

If I had to pick a favorite singer it would be Eva Cassidy. I can listen to her all day. She was a heck of a guitar player, too. She only did covers but she sang, and played, them like they had always been hers. Her YouTube channel is a great place to spend a few hours.

Hard to pick just one (or three). These three are songs that echo in my mind long after the music stops. Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson Cliffs of Dover Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy Fields of Gold Orinoco Flow by Enya Orinoco Flow

I do it all the time with Addictive Drums 2, and have done it with the Kontakt Player.

I downloaded the song as an MP3 and imported it into Cakewalk by Bandlab. It's hard to isolate the frequencies but I used the PC EQ Low Pass Filter, and SPAN, to see where the vocal frequencies reside. There's a lot going on at 200 Hz and below. Using the Low Pass Filter I can hear the voices much better and boosting the freqs at 1,933 Hz and 2 kHz seemed to add a little clarity. Hard to tell how much it would actually help since the boosting/cutting the vocal freqs also boosts/cuts everything else. The percussion sound I'm referring to is the one playing on the 2 and 4 through much of the song, especially in the beginning starting around 21 seconds into the track. The songs I had online were done in the 80's using a 4-track cassette deck and were basically recorded for my mother. I just got tired of hearing all the things I wish I had done better, thinking I would just record them again using Cakewalk and virtual instruments to back my guitar and voice. Health/medical issues got in the way and I never got around to doing anything. Now that I'm giving it another go I find that years of not playing guitar or singing has really affected my abilities. I can work on my voice but I seriously doubt I'll ever have the ability to play the things I hear in my head on my guitar again. I'm practicing every day, though. I still have some old things online, but nothing to brag about. The last piece of music I uploaded was an instrumental based on a trip to Bodie, California. It's a great ghost town of an old mining settlement. Bodie 1 I still have some of the old songs on Soundcloud, some of which I hope to replace with updated versions when I finally finish something I feel is worth sharing. Chappel/Javadude54/Casey Jones on Soundcloud.

Pretty impressive. If I were going to nit-pick I would suggest brightening up the vocals a bit. They seem to be buried in the lower frequencies in the mix. Also, that slap/wood block kind of percussion sound is a bit repetitive compared to the other song elements. Is that played by MIDI? If it is, I would consider using the MIDI FX to randomize the velocity of that instrument to humanize it. But all in all, I it's a very nice piece of music. I wish the stuff I'm working on sounded half that good.

I suggest using Revo Uninstaller to uninstall programs. It can also delete the related registry components. I've been using the free version for years and never had any problems with it or its functions. Revo Uninstaller

Very well done. Orchestration and dynamics are top-notch. I can only imagine how many hours went into this work. Hopefully, when you are done with it you can find a good orchestra to add it to their repertoire.

I have Cakewalk by Bandlab build 29.09.0.120 and I can't reproduce your problem. I have no other cakewalk software. Maybe reinstall the programs?