RexRed

I am not writing this as an outright criticism of Cakewalk just to get feedback from others who may experience this same thing. I would never even dream of using another DAW than Cakewalk. Every project I make has occasional lockups where the Cakewalk program will stop responding. I also have experienced program lockups in Studio One so this in not specific to Cakewalk. But I do not experience the same lockups ever in Adobe Premiere when I am working with both audio and video. Premiere may freeze and halt for a moment but it always comes back. But in Premiere I am usually only using one or two audio tracks. When Cakewalk locks-up, I have to restart it and unplug my audio interface a plug it back in several times until Cakewalk can detect it again. First off, is this something others experience also? I have an Intel I9 12 core CPU with a fully updated version of Windows 10 and an Nvida 1080ti graphics card. This lockup problem has occurred for many years on many different systems I have used with other audio interfaces also. My current audio interface is a Roland quad capture. Lately it is usually when I am working with Melodyne studio when the program locks up. It is when I try and overlap Melodyne takes in the same track which is apparently a big no no. I have often speculated as to why this occurs. Though the lockups can occur simply editing a midi track also. I have sometimes thought it is a latency problem. It seems to happen when I have latency set really low. But it can happen when latency is high also. Latency might explain why it also happens in Studio One. This makes me think that maybe I might need a USB 3.0 audio interface and that might correct this problem. It is always my audio interface that seems to go kaput. Cakewalk "always" loses connection to my AI when the lockups occur. Am I overloading my USB bus? But these lockups also happened when I had an Emu 1820M and X3 with an internal sound card... These lockups have been happening for many years with other PC computer systems and older OS also. I have also wondered if the lockups have been occurring because of a problem with the way history saves previous edits. The lockups seem to happen when I have not saved my work for a while so I lose a lot of progress. But they can happen when I do not have a long history also. It could be a Windows problem and that is why it happened with Studio One... But this would have to be a very old Windows problem perhaps something to do with ASIO. In order for it to be a history problem Studio One would have to have the same history architecture as Cakewalk and maybe that is because both programs are borrowing from a basic Windows history routine where Premiere seems to have come out of the Mac world. I really don't know, but I would love to get this stabilized somehow. Is there someone out there who uses Cakewalk a lot on large projects and does not have Cakewalk lockups? Ever? Let me know your own thoughts on this, thanks.

New song peeps! Ever experimenting with new genres. Best to you all! RR

Thank for the awesome comments peeps! We were aiming for an Everly Brothers type of thing. I thanks for the tips too, I will work on the mix a bit more soon! Best to you all!

Yea, I have been using Cakewalk since MS-DOS lol

Here is a video I just made with Cakewalk By Bandlab and correlation trace using Izotope's Ozone 8 imager. Sorry about the audio problem I was having, my song sounds like it is in a can. I had two audio sources coming from my DAW into my recording mixer. It is only there when I play my song. The information though about correlation trace is still there. Any comments on this video are welcome. Sometime later today YouTube will be done processing the video and it will be in 4K. Cakewalk By Bandlab Correlation Trace Ozone 8 RexRed

Hello Mscleod, thanks for your comment. You have to look at the patches through a correlation trace and you will notice that most of them hover directly on top of the center line. Many of the strings, the pianos, the Hammond patch, the pad "as quiet as possible", French horn... nearly all of them are that way. I will make a YouTube video showing the trace and how it displays them, and how I correct them. I will post a link here soon.

Nvidia 1080ti, with 12 core Intel I9 PC, w/3000mhz RAM (and tons of hard drive space) sitting on the floor, Kustom speakers, (1) 4k Sceptre monitor (1) 4k TLC Roku TV and one standard def Acer monitor, M-Audio Oxygen 49 keyboard controller, Elgato Stream Deck, Logitech BRIO webcam and Logitech C920 webcam, Panasonic HC-X1000 60p 4k camcorder, Epson Tank 2550 printer, Nokia phone (taking the picture) and Samsung tablet, Audio-Technica AT2035 large-diaphragm condenser microphone, Roland Quad-Capture audio interface. (12 stringed instruments in the closet) My latest song.

I thought I would bring this subject up to help CBB people who (like me) use a lot of Dimension pro presets in their music. One day I was listening to one of my songs on a phone speaker and noticed that the song sounded bare and had hardly any music with the voice. This was when I discovered that my favorite Dimension Pro pad had completely canceled itself out when the song was played in mono. Then I discovered that nearly all Dimension Pro presets are not tuned properly in phase, someone here in a blog (I think it was Craig Anderton) said something to the effect that the presets are put out of phase to make them appear to sound better (wider). Well, this can lead to many problems down the road when using them in your "radio ready" song. I use the correlation trace feature in Izotope Ozone 8 on each and every track to make sure that they are in proper phase. Otherwise your track can completely disappear when played in mono situations. Also, my ears have become trained to prefer sources that are in phase, when they are out of phase they sometimes seem hot and aurally "excited" and appealing but they do not fit into a mix properly. A track should always have its correlation trace corrected not only for mono purposes but also for getting the song landscape to meld together in a more focused way. Nearly every Dimension Pro preset is out of phase and needs to have its correlation trace phase corrected. In other words out of the box they are unuseable in production without correcting their phase. Otherwise you may find yourself in the situation i found myself in where your instruments simply disappear when played in certain playback configurations. Also the correlation trace is necessary to give mono vocals and bass guitar some width in the mix. Both vocal and bass both often appear as a sharp spike up the center in the stereo field. You should always cut the width out of the bass frequency range but it is okay to add a little widening in the treble ranges in both the bass and the lead vocal. This helps fill out the center of your mix so there is not a huge hole in the center of your sound landscape with the vocal huddled sharply in the center. It also helps the vocal nestle into the mix better. Please let me know if you agree or disagree with what I have written here. I am interested in other opinions on this topic.

Thank you for that very helpful video msmcleod! :)Best to you! RR

How do I restore CBB back to factory keyboard shortcut layout?

Here is a new song Cakewalk peeps! Just released today I can still add and subtract changes. Let me know what you think. It is so new I still have some minor tweaks. By Your Side - RexRed

Here is my new tune Cakewalk peeps called, "Hard Love"! Well, it is actually an old tune (recorded on reel to reel) and brought back to life with Cakewalk by Bandlab. Comments and critiques are welcome!

Many thanks HIBI!

When I open the Bandlab assistant this message is at the bottom of applet: A new version of BandLab Assistant is available for update. I click on the update button, a new screen opens saying, "update failed". Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance and BTW, love the new forum!!!! :)