Leander

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.

Hello! I just subscribed to one year of Sonar. Everything seems to be alright but the list of audio effects. My Cakewalk by Bandlab list of VSTi instruments can be loaded without problems, but the audio list does not work. Only the stock Sonitus effects are there and EZ Mix 3...all others aren't. Loading the list, then saving it under a new name in Sonar does not work either. Here's my full folder structure. Rescanning all plugins does not help either. Any ideas what to do?

Thanks! I uninstalled it. I did not install it on purpose...it was automatically installed with some VSTi or whatever (without asking me).

Thanks!

Thanks!

Hey! When looking through the different settings, I saw that Cakewalk uses Asio4all here and not my audio device. I wanted to set it to Motu asio (my device), but it always resets to Asio4all. Why? This setting is about recording latency compensation.

Thanks! What should I set there? -1? VSL Libraries work with C1..., but I have to use articulation maps at C2...so Cakewalk is one octave too high and I need to change it to -1, correct?

Where can I set the middle C? It is one octave too high for many VSTi libraries.