Lord Tim

Try a dynamic EQ like TDR Nova or the bundled Sonitus Multiband Compressor before TH3 to zero in on the band that's too loud and clamp down on it. Really, since you're going into distortion, you could probably even get away with running a Sonitus EQ before TH3 and dropping the offending frequency and it'll sound fine.

All of the guitars you hear are entirely TH3 in this: So it definitely works, but this is a real guitar running humbucking pickups. You might be able to replicate that a little better with Ample Guitar by running a compressor and a EQ to sculpt the tone a little bit by rolling off the low and highs (highs especially) to try and more closely match the way an electric guitar pickup sounds. I'd agree with the other comments though, a different guitar plugin that emulates electric guitar will give you better results if you can't use an actual guitar.

The other thing I'd offer is that my old 16x08 was getting all kinds of crazy clicks and pops on my ancient dual core laptop towards the end of its life - the interface seemed pretty good for the first few years, so I put it down to the laptop finally needing to be replaced. I put it in my new system and... same thing. I tried several other interfaces, including the onboard Realtek card and they were all flawless. A few years back, another (now ex-) user had similar issues with his 16x08. It never had crazy latency, so I'd probably suggest that the rest of the advice in this thread is valid re: Dell, bloatware, etc. but it really wouldn't surprise me if this is a combination of the both of those things.

See, this kind of forward thinking is what I need to aspire to!

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Click Options and you'll get this menu: Or in the Select Module on the Control Bar, make sure this icon is off:

^^ HAHA! That would do it! With TH3 the input makes the most difference. Most of the patches just work, whether you like the sound of the patch or not, it's fairly consistent. But if you have your input messed up somehow, be it a bad sounding instrument, bad sounding DI, busted cable, or just the wrong input level, everything in TH3 will sound pretty crappy. If this was a live instrument, I'd almost certainly say it's a bad cable or DI box. Since you're using a plugin, I'd look at first what you have dialed in. If it's an acoustic guitar patch, it won't sound great for metal - you'd want an electric guitar with humbuckers as the patch. Then I'd make sure that is 100% entirely dry with no reverb or EQ or effects in any way. Then check your TH3 input to make sure that's hitting the correct level. If it's too quiet, it'll futz out fast.

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Yeah that was some ancient DX plugin from the CWPA (or early SONAR?) days, if I remember right. I'd be surprised if it sounds anywhere near as good as the in-built tools (loop construction view, offline transpose, etc.) or any modern pitch related plugins. Happy to be schooled on this by Someone Smarter Than Me though!

If I'm remembering that Pitch Shift plugin properly, that's a Magix DX plugin, with no real UI. It doesn't sound great at the best of times but will make your audio go wildly out of sync unless you click Preserve Duration... and then it turns to absolute noisy garbage. Likely Cakewalk is quitting because it sucks so bad. ? Some MUCH better suggestions here in the replies for sure. I personally use Waves Doubler for this, but I'm sure there's more than a few free ones mentioned here that will do the job just as well.

No, this is my point - you can't currently do that, which is why I have that feature request. Currently, you save all tracks in your source project that you'd like the mix to sound like as a Track Template. Then you'd either make a new project, import in that Track Template and then copy in the tracks from your destination project, or you'd find the project you want to apply these sounds to, pair it down to just tracks, import in the Track Template from your source project, and then drag the tracks into the new ones the Track Template created. It works, but it's convoluted and full of potential error points. EDIT: or you'd do what @scook and @John Vere mentioned earlier in the thread, re: Mix Recall, if the project topology is identical. Mine rarely is, so I tend to do the Track Template / drag tracks into place method.

Import Session Data is really high on my (very extensive) wish list. You can get around it by doing track template saves and copying data over - I tile projects side by side when I do this so it's easy to see what's going on - but that would save a few extra steps for sure.

Upload them to a new Bandlab project online, then in Cakewalk, go to File > Browse Bandlab Projects and you should see your Bandlab app project there, which you can download and use in Cakewalk.

Ha, I sea what you did there!

There's no new accounts on the legacy Cakewalk site. Since Roland sold the Cakewalk company to Gibson, that closed down in 2017 and then the intellectual property was sold to Bandlab. Bandlab keeps those old servers open for legacy accounts, but you can't sign up for any new accounts there, you need to sign up for a Bandlab account now. But like @reginaldStjohn said, if you had an old account that had all of your products in Cakewalk Command Center, you should be able to download all of your purchases there, or get help to get back into it from Support, but I agree - I don't think the V-Studio drivers were ever in there. Roland themselves would be the place to try and get them from, if not some other helpful users on the forum who still have that old software. I'm maybe remembering incorrectly, but wasn't there some weird workaround to get V-Studio working on Win10/11?

If it's not throwing up a crash saying it generated a dump, you can try changing your Exception Handling Severity to 7 to make it report any issues. Info here (scroll down to the Improved Error Detection section):

This shouldn't cause a crash at all, so there's something weird up for sure. Rather than just showing the error, grab a crash dump and get it off to the devs to investigate:

Yeah, that's what I was getting at - Cakewalk was kind of bolted onto their existing installer app and I'm sure Meng would still like to see that up so people can get hold of the Bandlab Editor directly, but if you don't want that and don't need to do those other things I mentioned, the Cakewalk Installer is definitely the way I'd go.

Yeah, I think Bandlab Assistant is still on that download page partly for legacy (and 'cos Meng kind of owns the company) reasons, but also there's still a couple of good reasons to have that as well: 1. Offline Activation. AFAIK you can only do that through BA. (Calling that Smarter Than Me person to correct me if I'm wrong!) 2. The loop library. I'd expect one day that'll be integrated into the Cakewalk Browser in the app itself. But if you don't need either of those things, the Cakewalk Installer is the way to go. Bandlab Assistant is developed by a completely different team in Singapore and there's a few things out of the control of the Cakewalk dev team that people are finding frustrating (like it not showing progress bars on the initial downloads just for one - I've never gotten that to work) As far as SI goes, I'm sure if you just fire up either BA or Cakewalk Installer and choose just the Add Ons, you'd be able to get them without anything you have already being overwritten. It's been a while since I've put that on a machine though, and I don't think I've even opened BA for ages since we have in-app updates now. Again, Smarter Person always welcome to give better info than me

Yeah, what Glenn said. I don't think anyone is opposed to it being added, but at the moment it could easily be another failed competing standard (DXi anyone?). Have a look at how many vendors are doing CLAP - not a real lot. Would you pour your limited dev team resources into working all of the bugs out of something that may not take off and has a small userbase, or actually improving the core app that would benefit a great deal more of the userbase? I have no doubt we'll see it if it's more widely adopted though.

1. You really need to resize the picture first and then upload it (either to here or somewhere like Imgur). For YouTube, the forum software will embed it by default and you're stuck with that size - pretty much all modern forum software does that now. If you like, though, you can insert it as a link by highlighting some works (eg: LINK TO VIDEO HERE) and then clicking the little chain looking link icon in the reply toolbar above and pasting the video link to that. It won't embed, but it'll be less obtrusive than a big inline video - which I don't mind, I might add, and it works well to resize for diferent screen sizes and devices. 2. AFAIK it's only available as one of the add-ons, but you don't need to use Bandlab Assistant, you can also get it via the Cakewalk Installer.

@Lawrence Urquhart - you'll have better luck starting your own thread and giving us more information about your system, which drivers you're using, etc.

Press the Scroll Lock key and see if that fixes it.

Yeah, expanding on that a bit, I think the thing is with ASIO4ALL is it's entirely irrelevant in most situations (there's a few niche places where it's useful) for CbB. It was originally brought in for hosts that needed a low latency ASIO driver when one wasn't available, so it made WDM appear as an ASIO driver. There was really no performance gain at all using that over WDM if you had a host that supported WDM, which some didn't. And in some cases, this fake wrapper "driver" could cause other side-effects too. SONAR always had the option of using WDM, and now Cakewalk has WASAPI which is even more efficient for a lot of devices. WASAPI Shared is the "safer" option out of the 2 available WASAPI options because it allows other applications to play audio while Cakewalk is running. The downside to this is it adds an automatic minimum 10ms latency. Not a big deal when playing anything back, but lousy for playing things in realtime like softsynths or streaming through effects. WASAPI Exclusive is the closest you'll get to the performance of a real ASIO driver, but can get caught up if Windows decides it wants to get all glitchy, or you have some other app that's hogging the audio device. But I will say that I was getting incredible results with an onboard Realtek interface using WASAPI Exclusive, in fact much better than my old TASCAM 16x08 which actually did have proper ASIO drivers. My advice is always to get a device that does have solid ASIO drivers if you can. WASAPI *can* work, but there's gotchas. But if you're stuck with something that relies on a fake "wrapper driver" like ASIO4ALL or has actually broken ASIO drivers like Realtek does (seriously, nobody EVER use that!), then you'll likely get better results from using one of the WASAPI modes rather than fiddling around with fake drivers.