Byron Dickens

Well, you don't have any audio drivers selected for starters What audio interface do you have?

Did you even read the replies just prior to yours?

It seems as though a lot of piano players can't keep their feet off that damn pedal. Is it just those instruments? Perhaps they are just not responding properly to the pedal going up

No worries. Maybe my explanation will help pacify someone else before they decide to get offended.... ?

I recommend you make it easy on yourself and pony up for an actual music keyboard. Such can be had for less than $100. https://www.sweetwater.com/c513--Keyboard_MIDI_Controllers?sb=low2high While you can certainly get by with the virtual keyboard, especially at first, if and when you take to this you will quickly run into a wall Likewise, if you are ever going to record audio, I will recommend getting a dedicated audio interface with a dedicated ASIO driver and NOT ASIO4ALL . Same reason; it is ultimately easier in the long run and you will get better results.

I was responding to Bit's comment "...when all else fails, read the manual." Again: in the world I come from, those who are really good, who really know what they are doing look at the manual first. Before they've beaten their heads against the wall for hours. The OP's question is a bit more advanced than the usual "why can't I hear my MIDI sounds" thing that crops up periodically. Maybe it is covered in the documentation. Maybe it isn't. I get that sometimes the documentation can be confusing, have stuff missing or just plain suck (I'm looking at you, Ford. You and your colored drawings with NO explanatory text). I also get that someone might be new to this and not have the vocabulary to make an effective search and that's cool. Ask away. Again, I was responding to Bit's comment. I know what he was saying and I'm certain he knows what I was saying.

Make your project's tempo 114.005?

Kinda the same concept.... I hear you. That's a valid point. However, I come from a world where you are expected to do some basic research first before asking questions. If I want to figure out how to do something, my FIRST stop is the documentation....

The only logical explanation is demons....

You should RTFM first....

Have you rescanned?

Almost certainly not a Cakewalk issue.

Yeah, well if you paid attention to what these guys were saying, it's "can you learn to sing? In tune? Of course! Will you be Mariah Carey? Of course not!" But that wouldn't prevent you from being able to complete at some level.... That's a totally invalid comparison and doing so dooms you to failure. Because the fact is that only a scant handful of even the best ( there's that word) runners in the world even get to try out for the Olympic team, let alone actually compete at the games. See, that's the problem. So many people think that they have to be "the best" (whatever that is) or "professional level" (whatever that is) or they shouldn't do it. When you demand all or nothing, nothing is what you usually end up with. Some years ago, my wife decided she wanted to run a Marathon. So she did. The short version of the story is that in 6 months she went from not being able to make one lap around the track to completing a Marathon. A real Marathon, not a half one. Did she win? She didn't even place. In fact, she was the absolute last person across the finish line. Some people see that as failure. People who don't even have the guts to try. But she ran 26.2 miles. So what I'm getting at is if you apply yourself you can learn to sing. In tune. Will you ever be singing the lead roles at the Metropolitan Opera? In all honesty, probably not. But STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED. Hell, most opera singers never get to sing at the Met. But with enough work and determination you might get to sing with a local community production. Or at least well enough for your own demos. And think how much more satisfying it would be (not to mention faster and easier) if you could go knock out two or three takes, pick the best one and only have to use your pitch correction plugin to nudge just a few not-quite-there notes into place.

Probably.

Most likely it's a bad connection somewhere.

Just select one of the cursor functions.

If you believe that, then it's true. If you believe you can do it, well then that's true too. And if you've decided that you're going to do it, well then nothing on this Earth can stop you. There's nothing magical about some imaginary number on a calendar that marks a boundary past which you can never learn to do something well. The barrier is in your head. One of the biggest barriers, too, in our culture is this notion that in order to do anything you have to do it at "professional level" (whatever that is) or you're "no good" and you shouldn't do it at all. You think you have a terrible voice? So what! I got two words for you: Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan is in the Rock and roll Hall of fame. Bob Dylan won a Nobel prize for literature. Bob Dylan is proof that if the song is good enough, nobody cares what you sound like. Look, I'm not saying don't ever use pitch correction. What I'm saying is that there is no such thing as" I can't sing." Even Amy Lee misses the odd note now and again. If you practice so that you can sing in time and in tune then that's so much less correcting that you have to do. Which ultimately makes it easier and ultimately makes for a better end product. There's also no such thing as "I'm too old." I was in my late 40s before I started learning to play drums. I'll be staring my mid-50s in the face in the not too distant future and I'm fixing to start learning how to play keyboards for real. As a matter of fact, after all this I just might start working on my singing too. Because I can. And I'm the only thing that can stop me.

That is operating as designed. Spitfire's libraries, and many other Orchestral libraries as well, use the mod wheel for volume.

Double click on the output.

There's only about 552, 000 GM sound sets out there. Find one that works and be done with it.

I have no such issue. I highly doubt it is Cakewalk's fault. Especially since no one else seems to be reporting this

That's about like when I got IK's total Studio Deluxe, which includes Miroslav Philharmonik, for less than Miroslav was by itself.

My suggestion is vocal coaching and/ or singing lessons. I'm not being snide, either. All these tuning plugins work much better if they don't have to work so hard. They are best employed to nudge those two or three notes out of an otherwise great performance that are slightly out of tune back towards where they belong. Ultimately, it is much faster as well. Singing in time and in tune is not hard. It is a natural part of the human voice. The problem is that people are told that singing is such a difficult thing and open to only those blessed few touched by the hand of God. They are told this so much that they end up believing it. It's really only a matter of getting out of your own way and allowing the notes to come out. ALLOWING them, not making them. Something that has to be relearned after believing for so long that you "can't sing." And I say this as a non- singer. I really have no desire to be a singer. I don't particularly like it. But I can. I'm not very good at it: I don't have much range, power or breath control. Because I don't practice. But I can do it. In tune. So can you.

TTS-1 & V-Vocal are notoriously problematic, so rather than deal with the aggravation, people like me just ditch them and use something that does work. And therefore our advice is to do likewise. Fighting with things that aren't working, and that many other people have issues with as well, is just not productive. I get that some people might not know; that's why they ask. Others are just trying to save them the frustration.

DX plugins are obsolete. Time to find replacements. I can't remember the last time I used one.