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Thanks! It is not that I'm too lazy, but technical things are difficult to understand. Been struggling for many years. I use stupid workarounds such as manually copying a part of a guitar to a new track to adjust the volume there, but it is tedious...that's why I'm asking what the best solution is. Clip volume used to work well...but only if I have all FX in every track WITHOUT busses. e.g. Track 1: guitar L: EZ Mix 3 distortion, C4, EZ Mix 3 bus out: master Track 2: guitar R: EZ Mix 3, distortion, C4, EZ Mix 3 bus out: master This works with clip envelopes... BUT: Track 1: guitar L out: guitar bus Track 2: guitar R out: guitar bus -> envelopes do not work. The sound of a certain track isn't changed UNLESS I use e.g. -15db or more... What am I missing? Is it because the guitar bus ignores the individual track volume (and envelope changes)?

Found it now...smart grid etc. thanks

Thanks. I don't think I had it on. What other way is there to jump from bar to bar directly?

How can I turn it on again?

Hello! In Cakewalk by Bandlab, I can click on a bar or beat of the bar, e.g. bar 155 or bar 138:3 ... with the mouse...and it jumps to the correct time. In Sonar I messed something up...or at least I cannot click bar 48 as it does not jump to the exact time, but lets me freely select any millisecond...and this makes navigating to a certain bar difficult. How can I make Sonar jump to the exact bar or beat without milliseconds?

I have two guitar tracks. One is 100% left, one 100% right...both go to the guitar bus. How can I lower a part of one of them? What is the difference between automation: volume and clip automation: gain?

Hi! How can I make a part of a track louder? e.g. my guitars are left, right and a lead guitar. During the lead, the right guitar should be x db lower in volume. There are envelopes...but what is the difference between automation: volume and clip automation: gain? The problem is that both the left and right tracks go to a guitar bus. The bus has the EZ Mix 3 sound, the Andy Sneap fix and a guitar bus from EZ Mix 3. Without busses, it works, but with the bus, the volume is not reduced when applied to the track with an envelope. How can I make a track's part from time x to time y softer by some dbs, BUT the track has a bus out?

Thanks! I guess there is no simple solution to have a plugin adjust the vocals automatically. No, I have wasted many years trying to understand compressors etc. and learning the dozens of expensive equipment I have. I am someone who writes songs and lyrics and does not understand technical stuff. I've followed YouTube tutorials, some of them doing the opposite of each other with no result and always afraid to "destroy" something in the recorded files. It's been giving me 20 years of nightmares with "I want to achieve something vs. I don't understand it and get depressed". I'll stick to manual automation then. Takes hours per song, but better than no result at all. Examples of vocals:

Thanks. It is different sessions, but also a variety of articulations. I have a metal project that uses growls, screams, theatrical passages, whispering...and when recording everything alone at home, it is impossible to have even volumes for all words and all articulations.

Thanks! Is there a way to use clip gains automatically without having to draw the line myself?

Hi! How can I get my vocals with all words equally loud..about the same level without having to spend hours on manual automation? I have Vocal Rider by Waves, but it never works...and I don't know how to use compressors either...I have a couple of plugins, but they either don't do anything or not what I want. Do you know how I can level my vocals in an easy and fast way, e.g. "reference is -6db, everything below should go x db up, everything too loud should go x db down"?

Thank you! Did not work, but I saw that I needed to click the small icon to the right of a clip and set it to piano roll.

Hey! Normally, I double-click a midi to load the piano roll, but I messed something up, maybe because I wanted to enter the name of a VSTi preset I wanted to save without clicking the keyboard icon first...anyhow, now double-clicking a midi no longer opens the piano roll, but the event task list. How can I change that?

The files are both in my documents folder AND in the default folder that Cakewalk uses. However, my audio plugins do not work...my vst instruments in the same folder do work.

No, I meant that the list "mixing" to "waves all" is my custom list of effects that I created in Cakewalk by Bandlab. When I load the file in Cakewalk Sonar, all I get is "Sonitus" and EZ Mix 3. All other folders and effects are not there: My custom layout "SeelenPuls" is selected. I loaded the layout in Sonar, then saved it and renamed it...but it does not matter if "SeelenPuls FX" or "SeelenPuls FX CS" is loaded...almost all folders and effects are missing but "Sonitus" and EZ Mix. It works with VSTi instruments, but not audio effects.