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Thanks. Not a perfect video. Direct output works the same as using external insert in terms of alignment. External insert might make it easier to mix original with effected track live without printing our moving the send around between effects. Idk. I was surprised that both seemed to work equally well. Thanks

Hey Synkrotron... I made the new vid. What do you think?

it's quieter than i would have imagined. ?

When it happens,can you see it on the master bus? It could be feedback from routing an interface to the outputs. If it is going through cakewalk, the volume should show in the meter and the spectrum analyzer should show the frequency.

I'm thinking the video is bad advice. I'll take it down - maybe make a good one. Thanks for the info.

I think i didn't understand what you were doing. Glad it worked well for you.

@synkrotron If you find my video is now wrong or misleading, I'll take it down. I was probably following directions from a sonar power book, not online help. My info could be old, bad or both. I tend to print the data from external inserts before using it. The off set only helps me align it with the original. It isn't hard to do it manually, if you want, by zooming in on the wave form. One of my favorite plugins is melda mautoalign. This helps me minimize phase issues. I usually compare 2 alignments ... Keep the best of the 2 and do another, again keeping the best of the 2. I find that the alignment tool often correctly measures the feet between each Mic.

When i record a band with input monitoring (meaning inputs into the rme are sent with virtually 0 latency to headphones or monitors) and no pc based sounds, I usually raise the sample buffer as high as it will go because the buffer is only a risk, not a benefit, given that it isn't impacting the musicians. From your description it sounds like the musicians were listen to tracks in the computer as well. Still, I'm not sure your buffer needed to be low. It's a decent question to ask yourself when recording... What is the safest buffer i can have without trade-offs?

Thanks, Jim. I sometimes wish for two more channels. I have a spidf input. I haven't seen a good 1u 2 channel pre with spidf out. Perhaps i should look elsewhere for the spidf conversion. There are lots of 1u 2 channel pres without spidf. I thought I'd mention it in case i was overlooking something.

http://forum.cakewalk.com/m/tm.aspx?m=3804976&p=1 Quotes by Noel.

Not as tidy as some of you.

The sample buffer you are using is pretty large. If you haven't done so, try latency checker and see if some optional process is the cause of your crackling.

Just watched a video on Fyre Fest. I thought to myself, Geoff, you could do that gig. See, I've got a talent for mass hysteria. And nothing is what i get on average for the gigs i do, so the pay would be sufficient. And in my free time, i could record rich kids crying. I'll bundle the loops. Maybe Craig could help me turn them into groove clips. CbB could split all their profits with me and Craig that they get distributing the samples with Cakewalk. I'd make double the nothing i was originally booked for.

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/RNDR6--rupert-neve-designs-r6-six-space-500-series-rack This mitigates but does not solve? The idea of more kit to carry is not at all appealing.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Ty for the smile.

I'm standing in a brewery watching someone else on stage thinking being ON the stage might help me a little. All the best Mudgel. Compassion, sympathy, blessings.

Awesome afternoon.

Sounds like a plugin in demo mode to me. Did you recently install a plugin you chose not to buy? Try an empty project our disable all plugins with E key to begin to isolate the impact.

And restart cakewalk after fixing it. This whole troubleshoot had me running in all the wrong directions. I was considering buying a new interface to fix it! Not my best troubleshooting effort.

I know, I know... stop posting! But I learned something! Ok > so earlier after I got it working I added my controller back. Later I unplugged my controller and all was well. After a couple of restarts tho, midi channel 1 stopped working. It was assigned to the unplugged controller in preferences so I couldn't use it for something else. I think this is really the heart of my problem. I use the controller. I get the controller working. I unplug the controller b/c I'm not using it but I don't remove it in preferences. Now midi channel 1 (never used for the controller) gets assigned to the controller and stops being available.

OMG I love playing guitar!!

This morning, I unchecked the devices and deleted the Control Surface reference (which was set to the inputs for the midi 1 track). I clicked Apply and Ok. I re-opened preferences and selected (checked) the midi devices. Apply > Ok. It was not working. I closed and re-opened Cakewalk and it worked!! ? Yay! I went back in added the AlphaTrack and assigned Midi1 to it and it still works fine. All I can tell you is it was definitely messed up before. Seems fine now. There's a bug in there somewhere. ?

For my first year or so with cakewalk I did not use an interface. It is possible. The folks on this forum are mostly interface users because, well, it's better if you can afford it. I think you can sort out your issue but it might take some fiddling. Read Craig's post. I agree with him that you might have some routing situation that is causing two out of sync versions of the same sound to get routed to your outputs.

@synkrotron Exactly. My only problem is using concurrent midi devices in Cakewalk. It seems I can only use one at a time. In other DAWs including Sonar, all three work simultaneously. I think Noel used to use an rme ufx. @Noel Borthwick, do both of those midi inputs work at the same time for you?