RexRed

Exactly what you said! I would like a controller only version, as long as Cakewalk and my VSTs can understand the input! Thanks Teegarden for the comment!

New tune Cakewalk peeps! Hope your 2023 is great! Best! RexRed

I am sure I tried using other drivers as a workaround for this problem but the lag while using those other drivers left me no other choice but ASIO. I do not recall if the problem with a lag when adding tracks was there though when other drivers were chosen. I still use my AMD machine as a streaming rig so, hooking the RME up to it and and testing this would not be too much trouble as I do have Cakewalk installed on that as well. Thanks for posing this question Starship Krupa, I will get back to you in the next few days possibly with an answer to your inquiry.

Then there is the situation that I tested the RME device on a Mixcraft 9 DAW on my AMD machine and there was no lag when adding tracks... This then points to the possibility of a Cakewalk incompatibility with the RME device while using AMD hardware and drivers. I can attest that the RME device works fine with Cakewalk on an Intel based machine. Yet, the problem could still be Windows as it relates to AMD. Some Windows update a year from now could fix this. I really don't know. I am pretty savvy with troubleshooting and building computers and this problem has completely eluded me. I have no discrimination with pointing the finger at everyone. lol

The fact that none of my other 5 audio interfaces have this problem on the same machine, it kind of points to the RME interface drivers for AMD on that particular machine. This makes me wonder if the RME drivers are worth all the hype that seems to be common place out there in the forums by avid users. None of the older RME drivers fixed the problem either and RME has not been releasing new driver updates any faster than other audio interface companies. RME has stated their dedication to driver redevelopment but this problem still looms. Shall I blame AMD or Windows which have billions of happy users or RME for this? My bet is the RME driver. I assume that may people experience the lag when adding a track and think that is the way it is supposed to be. I, on the other hand, have been using Cakewalk since Cakewalk for MSDOS and I knew it was supposed to be instant.

Disabling or enabling extra audio ports, input and output did not remedy this problem for me. It seems like a logical step (and thank you for the suggestion) but it does not fix whatever this error is that I encountered. This problem seems to make Cakewalk sluggish in many respects like you are always fighting the program and it is very nerving. It is liberating on my Intel PC. Why? I still don't know. This problem is equally as slow adding a new track to a completely empty project as it does working throughout the project. The slowness is always there.

No, I never got it sorted out on that PC. I completely reinstalled the OS and still the same thing happened. It took a few songs but it became over a short time sluggish again. I fiddled with motherboard/chipset drivers and a myriad of other stuff and it never got fixed. It not only was slow putting in new blank tracks (up to 4 seconds) but it was also slow adding certain effects. Lots of things were sluggish only when I used the RME interface. This did not happen with other interfaces, and only when I used the RME device on that particular AMD PC. Because, I MUST have my RME Fireface UCX II device, I switched from an AMD based PC to and Intel based PC CPU and the problem went completely away. I can only surmise it was something to do with AMD architecture. It was not my interface because the interface works perfectly fine on the Intel machine. It was not necessarily Cakewalk because the problem is not present at all in Cakewalk on the Intel machine. My RME interface did not like my AMD motherboard and/or CPU. That is the only thing I can surmise from that total headache. I suspect there is some trickery going on in the way these CPUs handle caches by default. Much like latency in Cakewalk, set the latency slider to one side and recording gets favored and set the slider to the other side and playback gets favored. I assume how these processors caches work they can either favor adding new devices with smaller computing chunks or favor larger tasks with larger chunks of computational power. But this area of CPU overhead management goes completely over my head. All I know is that my Intel machine has nearly no hesitation when I add a new track in Cakewalk while using my RME interface. It is instant. What is really interesting is I used the exact same OS (Windows 11) in my Intel machine (literally). I took my M.2 OS drive out of my AMD machine and put it into my Intel machine. Windows 11 dumped the AMD drivers and detected and installed the new Intel drivers and it also detected my numerous hard drives which I switched also. So my OS's program data was completely intact but the RME problem was gone. If you figure out this problem let me know what you have learned. Best of luck to you Christopher.

https://www.expressivee.com/2-osmose The era of MIDI 2.0, VST3 and MPE has arrived. How long will it take DAWS and VSTs to catch up to this current wave of expressive technology? I have over a million patches on my PC. How long before they can all be manipulated by MPE controllers in Cakewalk?

Thanks Tim for the awesome compliment on my song buddy!

Thank you for the New Year wishes, all the best to you too in a very musical 2023 as well Teegarden! ???

Happy 2023 Cakewalk peeps! New tune for you! Critiques welcome! Lots of love in the New Year!!! ????

The song has been published! Thanks for the love and help on this tune awesome Cakewalk peeps! ?

New song version Cakewalk peeps! I just finished this new version of this song! I added harmonies, a harpsichord, some EPs, a lead guitar part and tons of time mixing/mastering. I have for a moment considered this song done until i thought of giving it some electric guitar clean rhythm to accompany the acoustic guitar rhythm. Something for tomorrow maybe. You can hear what I have done so far. I did lower the reverb a bit as well. Should I add some drums maybe? Please let me know what you think. Thanks peeps!

Wow! Lots of really helpful responses! A lot to consider, I will take all of these suggestions and give them some thought. I have a few days before I plan to publish the song. Thanks for the compliments, especially the one on the oscilloscope lol ? I will let you know when the song has been replaced with a newer version.

Brand new song, still working on this one. I needs critiques and suggestions. I thought I would give you a listen into this new piece. It still needs a guitar lead in the middle of the song, some harmonies and a few other instruments to embellish here and there. I hope you like this awesome Cakewalk peeps!

Okay, i figured it out, I had to switch to advanced workspace from basic. What a relief! ?

I installed the latest version of CBB on my friend's Windows based Dell laptop and then imported an mp4 video and there is no video option in the view menu. The video shows up in the track video view but the detachable video view is not showing up as an option in the view menu. I imported the same file on my PC and there is a detachable video option and it works fine. Anyone know why this video option is not showing? Thanks in advance for any help!

Hello Andy! The premiere is today, it is published but I can go back and edit the guitar and make a second version at some point. Thanks for the compliment on the our voices. I wonder if the song is a bit unfocused where there are too many things happening at once and they are not defined enough. That would be something to experiment with as well in a future version. There are a few tracks that you can barely even tell they are present. This song took a lot of time, especially the pedal steel parts (two weeks to complete). At one point I just became convinced it was done. I hope my intuition on that is correct and my fans enjoy this addition to my other music. Cakewalk was a breeze working in as usual! Here is a video of us laying down some tracks here: Best to you awesome Cakewalk peeps! RexRed

This song is getting published tomorrow morning on YouTube! The last song I sang with Chad got over 1.5 million listens on YouTube. We have done three songs together. Best to you Cakewalk peeps! ???

Beautiful, both mixes! Sultry and superb with a sublime James Bond/Dick Tracy theme feel... Great! Nice fidelity in all of the tracks, it seems they need to find their own place and that is what makes a mix like this a real challenge. ?

Hello beautiful Cakewalk peeps! Here is my new song titled, "About". This song may have a day or so before it gets published. Your suggestions and comment are welcome! This is my buddy Chad Erican who sings duet in my song, and he also plays the lead guitar and some of the rhythm guitar tracks. Then I set about the gargantuan tracking, editing, mixing and mastering tasks... The lyrics to this song came to me in a dream, I woke up with the title and the first 4 lines in my head. Fifteen minutes later, I had written the rest of the song. Thanks for the listens peeps! RexRed

Thank you Nigel for the lovely compliment on my song. All the best to you buddy! ...and thanks Gary for liking my tune as well! ??

Hello awesome Cakewalk peeps! Here is my new song just made it! Let me know your thoughts and critiques! Much love peeps! ?

Aww, many thanks Nigel! ??