Bill Phillips

Thank you John for the correction.

Not sure why John said that. I have Melodyne Studio so I had a license before CbB. But AFAIK, you should have the entire level of Melodyne (which I think allows you to drag the track you want to set the project tempo to the time line), as long as, you selected the Melodyne Essential(?) option when you installed CbB. Once you've dragged the track to the timeline and Melodyne is done calculating, the project tempo map should match the tempo of the track you dragged to the timeline.

There is a iZotope facebook group which I follow sporadically. I see mostly complaints about pricing, but I think I've also seen meaningful bug reports. I haven't checked if for a while but I don't get the idea that many if any experienced users are posting questions or replies.

Using the Output Gain of the last FX in the track or a Gain FX after the last FX for volume automation leaves the Track Fader at unity and available for final tweaks.

@Lord Tim I do the same thing, I think, trying to leave all faders at 0. I use the output gain of the last FX in lieu of the track fader. For me it helps me keep track of gain staging. I may use the faders to make minor changes in finalizing the mix, should that ever happen. ? Are you doing something similar?

It looks like not being able to find the clip with FX has significantly increased your studio time for this project.

If clicking on the "FX" letters doesn't display a list of the FX applied to that clip there must be something wrong with the clip. I don't know how to fix that.

I tried to follow your lead but wasn't as lucky. I upgraded Stereoizer Elements to the full version and purchase Monofilter for $98 with the voucher. Less Great Deal. Both look interesting and their UIs look different than other similar plugins I have.

I can't find a download link for aligner? I conpleted the survey yesterday. Do I need to complete again to see the aligner download link? The link above lands on the aligner landing page but there's no download link on that page. *** Problem solved. I already have it. Oops:) ***

Sorry, I don't have a clue. I'm responding since your question has been here a while without receiving a response. Hopefully someone will be able to help you. I just tried to switch outputs around in the console view for my Focusrite 18i8 and I can't. I also can't drag the strips to rearrange them. I'm wondering if there's a way to switch them around in your interfaces control user interface. The one for my 18i8 is called MixControl.

I think Audacity can be launched from the Cakewalk Utility menu.

Thank you! I've struggled grasping that concept since it was added. Following your detailed instructions, I got it! Thanks again.

In Track View, for audio tracks, selecting the clip and pressing SHFT + PLUS (+) adds a clip gain envelope and switches the edit filter to CLIP CLIP AUTOMATION. Hovering over the automation envelope shows clip gain. The edit filter text looks like it might be a bug. I didn't go any further. The CTRL + Left Click didn't work for me. Did not try the MIDI track option. I don't use MIDI enough to feel comfortable with it.

Thanks. That's amazing. My Win10 PC has a Thunderbolt 3 combo USB C port. I'll have to give that a try.

Thanks. I haven't been able to get back to it to try and duplicate in a new project. BTW, for me the blank windows are white inside the green plugin border.

I think I paid $250 to go from 4 to 5.

Wow! Thanks. I'll go through all your suggestions as I work through this. Thanks again.

Thanks. I saw and replied to a fb post in the iZotope user group, I think, about similar problems. I'm trying to recreate the problem I had in a new project. As for RX 10 Breath Control, It doesn't seem to work in several projects. What was the 'Glitches? I upgraded MPS 4 to 5 in November,

I have experienced very similar problems. See my forum post below. I've also submitted crash dump files to Cakewalk support and a support request to iZotope. This probably rules out you, me and other plugins as the cause of the problem. ?

Thanks. I definitely plan to replace the HD with an SSD. I've never done that in a laptop before but I have the Hardware Maintenance Manual. It shows 16 screws in the back cover alone. And it warns that the nylon coated screws will be difficult to remove and shouldn't be reused. But I plan to reuse them. I'll have to make sure to get the right screwdriver. As for the 8 GB SSD. AFAIR the 8 GB SSD was advertised as a SSD buffer for the 500 GB HD improving the performance of the HD. The SSD doesn't show up in the Disk Manager.

Encouraging. Thanks. I don't recall ever seeing a MeLE. And you've got 4 line and 1 SPDIF inputs left to add another 6 inputs.

I'm doing clean W10 install on a LenovoIdeaPad U530 Touch. Just creating the usb media is taking forever. My plan is to put Cakewalk on it for recording and rough mixes with a Focusrite 18i8 gen3. It has a 500 GB 5400 rpm SATA HD + 8 GB SSD and 8GB DDR3L 1600 RAM. I'm hoping that replacing the HD with a 1 TB SSD will improve performance significantly. Looks like it had an optional 256 GB SATA III drive. So maybe it supports SATA III. Am I wasting my time? If not, any suggestions?

I'm having some strange things happen and I'm wondering if anyone else might be seeing similar things. I'm mixing small project with only a few tracks and only a few plugins so far. I recently upgraded to iZotope Music Production Suite 5 and haven't had any problems with it till now. I also bought about a dozen Waves plugins during their recent sale. I mention that because I hear a lot of discussion of problems with Waves plugins mostly related to losing authorization. I've only used a few of the Waves plugins and haven't noticed any problems. So I hadn't noticed any problems with this project until today. First the RX10 Breath Control plugin doesn't respond to a very audible breath. The only other breath control plugins I have are from RX 8 and Nectar 2. They don't work either. I opened an earlier project containing the same vocal. RX 10 Breath Control doesn't respond to the breath there either. I've opened and closed Cakewalk 2022.11 Build 021. I tried a wide range of Targets, Gains and Sensitivities. The Nectar 3, Neutron 4, Insight 2, Visual Mixer plugins seem to be performing normally including Assistants. That was up until the Breath Control problems started. Since then the iZotope plugins still seem to be performing fine but when I open their UIs I'll get a blank screen. The UI doesn't draw. At one point Cakewalk crashed but it hasn't happened since. I plan to send the crash report During troubleshooting I noticed a RX 10 update was available and installed it and then deleted and re-inserted RX 10 Breath Control to be sure it was the latest. That didn't help. RX 10 Breath Control still doesn't work and when I opened the Nectar 3 UI it came up blank.

I usually use separate recording, and mixing/mastering projects. For recording I use a minimum of low CPU/OpenGL impact plugins required for for the musicians' monitoring mixes. The recording and mixing/mastering projects can share an audio folder so that incorporating new recorded tracks into the mix is relatively easy. You'll still need to toggle the buffer size but that can be handled in the Preferences for each project. I'm not sure if having both projects open at the same time will cause a problem but I don't think so.

Thank you @msmcleod. This is news to me, but it's clearly stated in the screenshot I included that the Edit filter is set to "Clips." As is so often the case, the answer to my question is staring me in the face but I don't see it. I think my problem is that automation editing is by far the most common editing I do and the editing tools are so expansive and powerful that I get lost. What I need to do is learn that "Creating and editing automation envelopes" section of the Documentation that I took the screenshot attachment to my last post from.