Byron Dickens

Reductio ad Absurdum Totally bogus examples because altering pitch and tempo through varying tape speed doesn't concern fixing substandard performances. Critical thinking is a valuable skill.

Bullshit.

Yeah. Snowflakes don't like me very much because I have a bad habit of telling the unvarnished truth.

There's no reason to spend stupid money on tubes because there ain't a dime's worth of difference. That's what people find out when they bother to apply the scientific method to actually testing them instead of voodoo marketing claims and expectation bias.

? Highway robbery!

It is possible to get a good and robust performance out of a 4 track cassette Portastudio. Just ask Bruce Springsteen. https://tascam.com/us/support/news/481 Proof right there that talent makes great recordings, not gear. My problem is using crutches to try covering up for a lack of practice. Tools like Melodyne are just the ticket for salvaging an otherwise great performance where one or two notes are out of place by nudging them back towards where they belong but using them as a substitute for skill is shameful. As far as "Every professional singer in the industry us[ing] Melodyne," that is not only just not true, but the ones who do only fix the few notes that are out of tune instead of laying it on thick like a soul-sucking blanket over everything. That "not perfect" of yours is called "human." People complain all the time about how new music just can't stand up to the old classics. And this is a large part of why: the relentless pursuit of the unobtainable which goes by the name of "perfection" and which sucks all the life out of a performance. Except that by the time the engineer gets finished making everything "perfect" it is no longer a performance but a manufactured product. Boring. Disposable. I shake my head in wonder. 20 years ago we used to spend countless hours in the studio editing robotic, sequenced MIDI tracks trying to make them sound human. Now we've turned the world on it's head and we spend countless hours in the studio editing and quantizing human-performed tracks to make them sound like they were produced by machines. If you think that pointing all these facts out is "hurling insults" then that says more about you than about me. So when your brand new wonder interface doesn't fix your problem, just remember that I told you so.

Complete Bovine Excrement. They must have forgotten to tell Frank Sinatra, Robert Plant, Tony Bennett, Paul Rogers, Elvis Presley, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Aretha Franklin.... The list goes on. Hell, even Madonna scored a couple of one-takes. Ozzy Osbourne, who is definitely no Ronnie James Dio, recorded the entire Black Sabbath album in one take start to finish live on the floor along with his band mates. In the '50s and '60s -even all the way into the '90s and early 2000s, if it took you 50 takes you'd get kicked out of the studio. As it should be. Because that's not even amateur; its just plain incompetent. Back on point: I hope your new interface works out for you, but if you're not happy with your RME, I don't see what will.

My car won't start. I drove it yesterday and it was fine. What happened?

Well, what are you doing with Melodyne and where are these "wonky syllables" coming from?

You're going to get mad at me, but what you really need is some vocal training....

There are MIDI in and out ports on the back of it, presumably so you can hook up your synthesizer. Knowing that midi data doesn't have any sound, how do they expect you to get the audio output from that synthesizer into your interface? AudioBox USB 96 PreSonus’ all-time best-selling USB audio interface, now in sleek 25th-anniversary black Record guitar and vocals at the same time: Two crystal-clear, class-A mic preamps with +48v provide power for condenser mics Combo inputs let you record line-level sources like keyboards. https://www.presonus.com/products/AudioBox-96-Studio Looks to me like a couple of people down there need to get out of their damn cubicles and talk to each other once in awhile.

Yes it does.

Wow. Talk about worthless. I can save ya ten bucks: the faders you already have can do that for free.

Must not have been that important....

I think if that was the case it would be a whole lot easier to just get in the habit of checking the seat belts than to keep getting pissed off....

Maybe RTFM? This all sounds like user error. I can't recall ever having any issues like you allude to. Sounds like you really don't want help. You just want to bitch and moan and stay pissed off.

Try starting your own thread instead of resurrecting a 4-year-old zombie. Even better, try looking at the documentation.

That and its at the point of how many console, Pultec, 1176 and Minimoog emulations do I really need....

Fixed it for you.

That is answering your question. Cakewalk is not the problem. Your lack of proper equipment is. The crackling can be anything from improper buffer settings to other applications interrupting and taking away resources from an application that is very demanding of CPU and RAM to a substandard machine that is just not up to the task. The latency is absolutely from not having a proper interface.

Nor will you. Not legally. It is WAY past time to update anyway.

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the armpits of these spammers.

⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️ Like he said: get a real audio interface. Problem solved.