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You won't be able to stay with Cakewalk by Bandlab much longer. It's unsupported and eventually you won't be able to reactivate it at all.

Lots of ways to change speed. I would wait until all recording is finished, bounce the mix to a stereo track, then use Process>Length to alter the, um, length making it slower or faster, depending on which way you want to go.

Maybe hit Save after bouncing to clips before saving as a .bun file. Which isn't even necessary nowadays. Save as a normal project file making sure to include any audio. Put on CD, DVD, thumb drive or backup HD.

Welcome to the forum. If by "free cakewalk" you mean Cakewalk by Bandlab, it is dead. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that it won't work anymore since Cakewalk has been telling us for months that it is ending soon. I don't know how you missed all the pop-ups that happened every time you opened the program telling you to re-activate and/or that it can't be activated after a certain time. I read that some folks still have working apps, but the coffin lid is being nailed shut as we speak. I don't think you can even download Cakewalk by Bandlab anymore. There are other options: the free version of their latest Sonar program, or the full, for cost, version of Sonar. If you ever owned a paid, downloadable Cakewalk program, you should still be able to acquire it from Cakewalk's legacy page, and you can continue with SONAR X(x), or SONAR Platinum. As long as you still have your credentials, email, original log-in information, serial numbers and activation codes. Good luck!

This is from the Cakewalk by Bandlab Reference Guide. "Bouncing to clips Individual audio clips in the same track can be combined into a single clip with the Bounce to Clip(s) command. Note 1: Like any clips, slip-edited clips can be combined with other clips using the Bounce to Clip(s) command. When a slip edited clip is combined with another clip, any slip-edited data (audio clips or MIDI events that are cropped from view) is overwritten. Note 2: You control the bit depth of all rendering operations (bouncing, freezing, applying effects) in Edit > Preferences > File - Audio Data, in the Render Bit Depth field. The default value of 32 is the best for most situations. See “Bit depths for rendering audio” on page 1361 for more information. To bounce to clips 1. Select the clips to be combined in the Track view. 2. Click the Track view Clips menu and choose Bounce to Clip(s). The clips are combined into a single clip. Empty space between clips is filled with silence in the new clip. All clip automation from the source clips is applied to the new clip. Bouncing AudioSnap and stretched clips Cakewalk includes a command to select all AudioSnap and stretched clips. The primary use of this command is to quickly select all stretched audio clips before you use the Track view Clips > Bounce to Clip(s) command. There are two common reasons why you may want to bounce AudioSnap and stretched clips: To free up CPU resources during playback. In order to save a bundle (.cwb) file, which does not support AudioSnap data. Editing audio Basic audio editing To select all AudioSnap and stretched clips On the Edit menu, point to Select and click All AudioSnap/Slipstretched. To bounce multiple audio clips to a new track 1. Select the clips to be combined in the Track view. 2. Click the Track view Tracks menu and choose Bounce to Track(s). The Bounce to Track(s) dialog box appears. 3. Select the track you want to bounce to in the Destination field. 4. Select other options in the Mixdown Audio/Bounce to Track(s) dialog box and click OK. The clips are combined into a single clip on the destination track. Empty space between clips is filled with silence in the new clip." Presuming you're using CbB, which this forum is for.

If you're using the ASIO from RealTek and not TASCAM's, it could be a problem. Welcome to the forum.

I don't know. I've been thinking about this a bit and maybe have a project template with all of your plug-ins and synths in it and then when creating a new song, you can mute one drum synth and unmute the other or reroute your outs to another drummer and so on. Possibly have a project template set up like you want it, have both projects open and drag the new synth track to the new work. Seems impossible. Welcome to the forum.

Wow. All I had to do was click a few buttons and I am covered until next October. Easy as cake.

Is anything there? What specific guitar effect plug-in is it?

How did you "add" it? Did you run the plug-in scanner?

The errant track was probably misconfigured by me, and instead of trying to find that 1 bad setting (which I did several times and didn't see it 🥴) I found out was quicker for me to start from scratch on a different track. Or it was a computer/interface hiccup. It hasn't happened to me in a while, though.

I ignore both of them.

Welcome to the forum. Have you got the MIDI track routed to the synth? Have you got the synth routed to a bus or directly to your audio interface's audio output? If 'playing' a keyboard into Cakewalk, have you chosen the correct input channel in the MIDI track? Do you see the MIDI track and synth track meters move when you play? What audio interface are you using?

I have had this glitch before, and I just select a different track. It almost always works then.

I liked having the buttons on the front and the (almost) set and forget routing and the 8 outputs. Still have it, sitting in its box in the closet. The 4i4 I currently use is its little brother in those respects.

Except a cheap laptop I use when travelling.

I had a stock HP with a VIA FireWire card that worked perfectly for many years. It probably still works but the computer doesn't. Got a card from another forum member here with the TI chipset to try to continue using my Focusrite Saffire on a newer computer and could never get it to work due to software issues (I think). Anyway, the TI card is just sitting in a box. Free to a good home. Bapu was the donor.

That's good to know. MS has been trying to get me to enroll almost every time I start this computer. But, it's a reconditioned machine I got for $90 about a year ago, and who knows how long it will last, mechanically, that is. Still, 30 bucks ain't that much. Or a newer refurbished box which already has W 11? Under $300 and will/may last longer than the current computer. I have never bought a computer when I still had a working machine. It seems... wasteful.

Shoot, I know next to nothing about computers. It was only a few years ago that I read that they have batteries. Now, reading this, I think a low battery might be the cause of all the problems with my laptop computer. I'll have to open it up and see. I just happen to have in my desk drawer a 2032 battery I got from the dollar store.

Ensure 'Enable MIDI Output' is not checked for your soft synths. Also, change each MIDI track to different channels. Welcome to the forum.

I don't even read music (quickly) and I use the staff view a lot.

"Production Techniques".

Hundred-foot USB cable?

I think more practice is needed. Are they your songs or someone else's? If someone else's song, practice singing along with it (not your "simple starter project") until you get it right. If it's your composition, ditto. I don't think there is anything like that in the reference guide. You can look through the over 190 listings for vocals in the guide if you want. I didn't see anything in a quick scan. That's more a 'techniques' thing and there is a forum here for that. It's called "Techniques". 😉 Lots of knowledgeable folks there willing to help.