Bill Phillips

Gain automation on three identical copies of a vocal track has disappeared. I don't believe that this has ever happened to me before. Does anyone have any idea how this happened or how to restore the missing automation? Also is there anyway to paste automation from one clip to another? Paste special won't do it because unticking the events box in the clip edit dialog grays out the automation box. The clip automation for three vocal clips circled in the top screenshot from an earlier auto save has disappeared. All three tracks use the same vocal clip. The second screenshot shows those same three circled clips with a new version of the vocal clip above them. The existing gain automation was copied manually (using aim assist) to the new vocal version (top clip in the second screenshot) making the automation identical for all four tracks.

Route their outputs to an aux track. Use the aux track fader as you would a VCA fader and use the individual track faders to adjust the relationship between the drum tracks.

Nice, detailed description of VCAs and the related capabilities of other DAWs. I used VCAs a long time ago on a live sound mixing console where we'd use VCAs to control drums, backing vocals, horns, etc. But don't have a clear memory of their function or uniqueness. I'm pretty sure that I've seen this batted down as flawed before, but right now can't understand why routing the outputs of tracks that you'd control with a VCA in Protools (drums for example) to a group aux track or bus in Cakewalk wouldn't accomplish the same thing. With the aux track or bus approach, you could control the level of all selected tracks by adjusting or automating the aux or bus fader, and you could control the relative level of each selected track independently by adjusting or automating the individual track faders. What am I missing?

I've been trying to understand how to convert IRs in my IR library for use in Waves Audio's IR-1. So I opened a 3rd party IR wav file in Cakewalk to see what I was looking at. In the screenshot below, the file I opened is highlighted in the green box in the Browser and folder contained in that file opened in Cakewalk is highlighted in the green box in Track View. It appears that my existing IR library is composed of mono and stereo IR files and that I don't have any of these quad files My questions: How was the wav file I opened created? I played it with Windows Media Player and it played. Note that this is an IR .wav file not a IR-1 proprietary .wir file. It's apparently loaded into IR-1 using a preset. Are all IR-1 proprietary .wir files sweep files? Looks like the answer is yes. The IR-1 has instructions on using a sweep file furnished with IR-1 to create .wir files. Is there a way to convert 3rd party IRs to IR-1 proprietary .wir files? Looks like that may not be possible but want to be sure. Is there a way of avoiding loading four mono files to create a "full stereo" preset?

@Noel Borthwick & @Matthew Sorrels thank you very much! Can't wait.

Another problem that @Maxim Vasilyev didn't mention is that the features in the Advanced tab are available in the VST2 version of relay but not available in the VST3 version.

RedFox, I'm not sure about Cuda Cores, but I am sure that some VST plugins use OpenGL, particularly for sophisticated graphical audio data displays. In my case my CPU is an older i7-6850K with 6 cores and 12 threads. I had an older AMD R7-250 video card. I use the iZotope Music Production Suite which has, what I consider, an awesome user interface using lots of sophisticated graphics. I've also verified that iZotope plugins use OpenGL. With my existing R7-250 video card I would get lots of pops and cracks anytime I opened certain iZotope plugins. Opening several iZotope plugins and interacting with the graphic displays would cause playback to stop even at the highest audio interface buffer size. I could see that the problem wasn't driving up or overloading my CPU and decided to upgrade my graphics card to a RX 580 to make more OpenGL processing capacity available for iZotope and any other processes that could use it. The result was a night and day improvement allowing me to drastically reduce audio interface buffer size in some situations and allowing Cakewalk to use more of my CPU's processing capacity. Here's a thread to the SoundonSound forum I used to get advice in addressing the OpenGL problem. The advice I received helped me understand the problem and select a replacement graphics card. At the end of the thread, I posted a summary of my conclusions from the graphics card upgrade. Hope you can open the link and read the thread. And I hope it's useful to you.

I'm pretty sure that you are licensed to use any samples that are included in Cakewalk as well as any you purchase. I do recall from years ago that Fruity Loops included samples that the user was not licensed to use. That may no longer be true. At the time, the fact that the user was not free to use samples in their productions was not obvious and hidden in the fine print.

I'm not at my DAW but recently auditioned them and I believe they're in the Prochannel presets folder accessed by clicking the folder icon at the top of the ProChannel module.

Correct, and I haven't tried any of those, but will now that you reminded me. Thanks @lapasoa

@Craig Anderton, thanks. I copied all of my Platinum 30th Ann, CA-X and Anderton FX presets into the Cakewalk Core FX Chain Presets folder to make them available in CbB. While I was at it, I also copied the 30th... ProChannel presets into the Cakewalk Core. I wanted to look under the hood of the Acoustic Piezo FX Chain preset but couldn't extract the plugins. The extract plugins option (which works for other FX Chain presets) doesn't appear on the Acoustic Piezo FX Chain dropdown and the shift load option doesn't extract plugins. Any suggestions?

Jim, User 905133 is correct. Let me know if you still have questions. Thanks @User 905133.

Yes the piezio pickup under the bridge (saddle) of an acoustic guitar. The bridge is where the strings are terminated on the guitar body. I guess it might also be called a saddle.

I use them for mixing. I inserted the MConvolutionEZ IR player in the FX bin of a mono acoustic guitar bridge pickup track, auditioned several of the D-18 impulse response (IR) files and selected the one I liked best. I don't know what the D-18 sounds like miced the way it was when the IR file was produced but I doubt that the IR FX makes the track I recorded using the bridge pickup sounds much like the D-18. But I think it sounds a lot better than it does without the IR FX.

I recently purchased the Past to Future Martin D-18 impulse response files from here. These IR's were recorded in Mono, Stereo, with 3 Mics and all with different mic positions. (All Vintage Neumann mics with Telefunken mic pres). Digital and audio tape versions are included. Here're clips of the acoustic guitar bridge pickup DI from a song I'm mixing with and without the digital stereo 3 IR effect in the MConvolutionEZ.

Thanks. I won't worry about it further until I need to, which hopefully will be never.

Unlike Aud.ini, Cakewalk.ini isn't available to me for viewing/editing in the Preferences Menu as shown in the screenshot below. Should it be or am I missing something? I seem to recall seeing it before.

Thanks. That description pretty much matches what I saw. There doesn't appear to be any customer support contact information. The D-18 IR's I downloaded had very short succinct info files included explaining how the IRs were made. That's it.

I entered my email address, added a password and paid $45 by credit card for the Past to Future Black Friday IR collection which included the D-18 Martin guitar IR's I was looking for. The collection included more than 4 GB of IR's that I can use along with some Kontakt stuff I can't use. Looks like there's other interesting stuff their that I may look at later.

Here's a link to nearly 50 Past to Future IR folders. I found this through a reference to the D-18 Martin IR's in a gearsluts forum post. Looks like there's a lot more past to future and other music production related stuff at gumroad.

FWIW, the slider now works in ASIO with my Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 gen 1 with Driver 4.63.24.584 and firmware 608. However the 18i8 only supports 7 buffer sizes between 16 and 1024 samples. If the slider is dropped in between I get the BSOD. So I don't use it. I can't remember who announced that the slider had been activated Cakewalk or Focusrite.

Me too! Don't know of a way to prevent it. ?

Historically, I used dashes or underscores in project file names but lately I've been using dots (like 9.01) and haven't seen a problem. I don't recall using dots in exports but may have. Am I setting myself up for disappointment?

Are you aware that you can have separate track managers for the track and console views if you untick the box inside the blue box on the image below? I like to use the console view for mixing and want to see aux tracks in the console view that I don't want to see in track view since there are no clips in the aux tracks.

That that along with track or clip name would be nice for everything (import, export and bounce).