Nigel Mackay

I'll give that a go.

Can you give us a bit more info. Are you creating these backing tracks with MIDI and VSTs? If not, where do they come from? Do you have each instrument on it's own track? If starting with MIDI, do you bounce to audio before exporting? Is this scenario possible: Mute everything except the bass Play the piece and check on the master channel meter that there is not even a trace of audio on the right channel Mute only the bass Play the piece and check on the master channel meter that there is not even a trace of audio on the left channel

Open the ProChannel on that track, right-click on the blank space at the top, got to Insert module -> Style dial FX -> Smoother. Give it a go. To open the ProChannel, go to Console view. At the top, under the Gain knob it says ProChannel. Tiny little arrow to the right. Click the arrow.

Remixing 60s standards. What I did: Opened a MIDI file. Saved it as a project. Added an audio track. Imported the reference mp3. Adjusted the start point and tempo so MIDI and reference match exactly. Initially all my timing seemed ok. Started bouncing the MIDI to audio tracks. The bounced audio tracks play at the correct speed. The MIDI tracks not yet bounced now (suddenly) play too fast. The events list keeps up, but the sound overtakes the PRV. It is as if the MIDI tracks are busy playing in their own lookahead buffer. The MIDI tracks finish the piece before the audio tracks and the reference track. If I bounce a track to audio, the audio track is in perfect sync with the reference (and the PRV). But the MIDI still plays faster and finishes the piece earlier than the audio. If it helps, here are my settings.

Doesn't this work? Take lane deleting

Have a look at these. Not all of them are for Cakewalk, but they still show concepts. Start off with Video 3. Video 1 Video 2 Video 3

As NRPN in the Event List? Bit dusty on the "how to."

I like the idea of a set of starter tutorials being limited to what comes standard with Cakewalk. (They can say so in their titles.) There is plenty to learn using just the Sonitus plugins and the SI instruments. Very often beginners struggle with a tutorial showing adjusting the ratio on a T-Racks Bus Compressor and finding the slider on the Sonitus compressor.

What @rsinger is saying is: 1 Input echo must be on. 2 Make sure that you hear nothing from your input interface. What you hear must be from Cakewalk. 3 If you insert effects and enable them you will hear them while recording.

Does anything else work in Cakewalk? Especially something else loaded in Kontakt. Kontakt has to be added correctly as a synth. The output has to be routed to the audio outputs of your PC. Have you set up Cakewalk correctly? You need to supply much more information. Screenshots would be nice. Have you had a look at any of the videos in the Tutorials section about using Kontakt in Cakewalk? Be careful of terminology, otherwise there will be cross purposes in explaining things. In Cakewalk you add Kontakt as a synth with a MIDI track. In Kontakt you load an instrument (GetGood Drums Invasion in this case.) You route the MIDI track to th specific instrument in Kontakt. You route the specific audio output from Kontakt to the Master fader in the console at the very minimum. The Master fader gets routed to the hardware output you set up in Preferences. Now only is there a chance of getting sound.

Not sure in your case. Just try not using run as admin and see.

Even if you are the only user of a PC, it is better to have a Standard User, because if you must go on the internet, it is better not to log on with administrator rights. If you are say in an office environment, then it is better that people are standard users, with only one administrator that can make changes and settings that could make the PCs unusable. There are some folders in the Windows system that will only allow admin access for safety reasons (they assume an admin knows what they are doing.) But sometimes apps need access to those folders, and that is why they need to be run as administrator, or they ask for admin password to run. This is fine when you are the owner/user, because you know the password. Otherwise you need the administrator to come punch in his password to run/install those apps. If you don't run Cakewalk as admin to can't accidentally do something bad for the PC. (There is just some old stuff that needs it.) So it is better not to. And some software licenses want internet access. So it is better not to be admin. You might want to watch a YouTube tutorial. So better not to be admin. And where you get caught out, like me, is when you start off in the early days running it as admin. Then find out it is better not to. So you stop. Then you find that some of your VSTs no longer have presets. Because they were installed under admin\AppData, instead of youraccount\AppData. Then you have to move the presets. And it can happen that licenses are in the registry, but only if you are admin. So uninstall and reinstall. ?

Nothing. Except if you fix the problem by not running Cakewalk as administrator then you might have plugins that need reinstalling to put their licenses and presets under the correct user. I could have waited until you experienced the problem to tell you. ?

Yes, Cakewalk has a step sequencer. Cakewalk: Using the step sequencer Cakewalk step sequencer: Working with clips Cakewalk: Beatmaking How to create beats in Cakewalk Cakewalk: Making drumbeats

Don't know what plugins you have installed, but some of them put their licensing info and/or presets in %USERS%\AppData, so you might have to uninstall and reinstall them.

But with no Security tab it seems unlikely to be the problem.

As a quick sort of test, run Cakewalk as Administrator. Save an empty project.

Is there possibly a thing with administrator rights?

If you open the SI Drums GUI and right-click on each piece you get the note numbers for each sound. Make a neat list. Then record the DM6, playing each piece in the same order as your list. Open the piano roll view for you recording, and then add the note names in the next column of your list. Now you have all the info you need to create the drum map. And the drum map editor very kindly shows you note numbers and note names, making life easier. In the drum map, the first column you add the note names for the midi notes sent by the DM6. The 2nd column will be the same as the first column. You must change the values there to the note numbers expected by the SI drums. A bit confusing at first, but what the drum map does is change what comes out of the DM6 into what the SI Drums expect to get. As a bonus, in the drum map, column 3 is Name. There you write Kick, acoustic; Kick; Snare; Snare, rimshot; etc. Then, when you have a recording of your drum track, and you need to make changes, the piano roll view shows these names, so it is easier to see the hi-tom and change it to a mid-tom, etc.

Actually, the problem was incorrect choices made while using the File -> Export dialog.

Post the midi file so we know what it is supposed to sound like.

We need a good tutorial about installing plug-ins, but there are so many different approaches that if you even just mention a few of them the poor newbies will be totally lost. @Creative Sauce Want to give it a go?

Expand the track downwards and you will see 5 dropdowns. I Input MIDI channel for recording O Output - which instrument is the MIDI routed to. C The MIDI channel used to send to the instrument selected in O B Bank number for patch changes in multi-timbre instruments P Patch number in the bank. These all appear in the Inspector as well, just laid out differently.

Hmmm. Works correctly for me.

I have no recollection of doing the "Let's get started ... " thing.