Gswitz

I listened. Thanks for the working link. Great band!

I wasn't able to see the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhruFyHhuMM

That's an interesting sounding band, Rico. Do you have any live recordings to share? @Dave, You aren't too clear about what you're seeking. There are a lot of talented folks who might help. How about posting one of your songs for us to listen to.

Regarding the importance of the pre-amp, I totally agree. My bro and I decided I don't have the equipment necessary to validate the specs on my RME UCX. I would need much better microphones than I own, and I own some pretty mics. I would also need an an-echoic chamber. Now on the 'who has 24 bit rigs anyway' thing, I'm not sure I can agree anymore. I used to have to make CDs for bands when I was done, but now I only post 24 bit Wave files and they go from there. My phone handles 24/48 and that means so does my car. I don't think I'm special. I think a lot of folks have fairly good stereos in their cars. I'm not sure, but I think my kid's bluetooth speaker sounds 24 bits of good. not sure on that or how it works. The phone is surely 24 bit (again, my phone). So it may be that lots of folks can handle 24 bit. These days I don't always make 16 bit versions of a bounce unless there's an old guy in the band who has to have CDs.

Click the plus button next to send, pick you output choose pre or post fader.

For amateurs and people with cheaper gear, using double rates like 96 can help you not suffer as badly if you have gain set too low and you're too busy with your friends to notice. If you can set your levels properly 44.1 is sufficient imho. And the more tracks you have the less it matters in part because they won't all have the gain too low.

Bassface, If you have a one track project and sendout to the master bus, you can also send the track to any number of other outputs. The master bus outputs to 7+8. Send 1 outputs to 1 Send 2 outputs to 2 etc. Keeping adding sends to send the output to as many channels as you have outputs on your rme.

I shift around depending on what I need. At quad rates i can record 10 tracks. At double rates, 12. At single rates, 16. With two acoustic musicians plus synths I'll probably do 96. For a full band, 48. I've never noticed these artifacts that Sidney mentions. I've only made three full recordings at quad rates. They are favorite performances of mine, but I couldn't justify the time cost on the bounces etc for the benefit.. If any.

You could use sends to sendeach track to a separate output.

I only do big sessions with digicheck. I don't launch Sonar/Cakewalk until I get home. ? Digicheck kicks a$$. The only thing it doesn't give you is wave form over time. Make sure you know how your meters are set up. There are level bars and holds you can set. Like The meters can be RMS or Peak. If you're used to Cakewalk you might set them to peak. You can set the text to peak and the meters to RMS (I think this is the default). I use RMS +3dB which differs from Sonar RMS which doesn't do the +3, I believe. You may want to set infinite hold on. Double clicking it will reset the counters.

Ok... Since you have an rme, download digicheck from the rme downloads and make a recording with that and see if you get the problem. I'm starting to wonder if an unauthorized plugin is the problem. I know you said you bypassed all plugs but still... Recording with digicheck should help narrow down the issue. When rme loses buffers, it continuously records. It doesn't leave a space. All tracks lose exactly one buffer at the same instant. This is true in digicheck. I think cakewalk would drop out. I'm curious whether you've ever installed demo plugins that you didn't end up buying. I'm thinking that if the problem occurs in cakewalk and not in digicheck that this will help narrow down possible causes. One last thing. You can record with digicheck and sonar at the same time. That should ensure that both differ the same system wide events. Clicking record enable in cakewalk causes buffer drops btw in digicheck. I know this from the videos I make. So that is expected.

Friday I made a recording. I was shuffling around in winter in slippers and a couple of times sent static electricity through the gear. Each time, I had to power cycle my rme ucx. It did not happen during recording... Only set up. Possible something similar is happening to you?

Do the missing chunks exactly match the buffer size at the time of recording? Losing the audio in your buffer do to dpc latency could cause your symptom. Have you run latency monitor to check your system.

Ah... What about your driver settings? Are you set for asio? This is in preferences.

Click record button and input echo?

You can also use audio snap to get the midi data. Audio snap has the benefit of being able to manually include and exclude if you have time to listen to the track. It has the problem of not having the eq part that drum replacer has. I put the different drums on different tracks so i have the visual of the hits as i watch the console view. Maybe i can see a snare hit that also triggers the kick sample. I send the separate tracks to the same drum synth.

Feels comfy though. I didn't realize you all have couches. ?

My first day in the pen and the biggest inmate shows right up. Ominous.

Lol

Has anyone done a podcast and released originals that way? Looks easy and then subscribers could easily check out new tunes when they are in the car.

I know what I'm going to say doesn't give you whatyou want, but... You can highlight any midi tracks and view them together. There is only one track with dark blobs on the prv, and the others have grey blobs. You can quickly shift back and forth between which had focus.

I never organized my few hundred plugins. I know what they are and find them easily. I usually just type the name in the browser. Seems like Noel likes me best and built me exactly what i needed. #I'm the favorite

The mt2x isn't mine. Its my friend's. When i made the recording in December of this band... http://gswitz.blob.core.windows.net/tunes/20181216_Roadhouse.html The guitarist was talking about how he'd love to do tape because it changes how he feels during his performance. I mentioned it to my buddy and we wanted to try, so we broke out his 4 track to see what we could do. The answer was unfortunately nothing since we couldn't get it working. I don't think given my budget that i can spend money on the tape deck for the flight of fancy.

Maybe alt i does something? Auto adds the gooderizer?