HELP! Updating the FAQs....

[moskus]

Okay, in two weeks I start my vacation, and will use some of it updating the Cakewalk FAQ, and make an english homepage.

BUT it's been quite some time since I've updated the FAQs and people have been telling me what to put in there. But I don't remember any more...

Clearly the DirectX 9 issue needs to be adressed. Thanks Dachay! Can you think of anything else?

James, have you made any new tutorials in the past 3 months?

What about you, BluesMeister? Pedullist, Toki, Paul?



GIVE ME SOME FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS, PEOPLE!

http://home.no.net/magnesiu/cakewalkfaq/



I'm gonna keep this thread alive untill everyone of the frequently visitors have given me at least 3 FAQs...

[rvf263]

Well I'm just a newbie but will be learning about HS2004 & external synths real soon. I'm real excited about this, but still a bit concerned/confused about using Midi.

Maybe you can add a topic about Midi & external synths, or something along those lines.

Thanks to all for the willingness to share your knowledge here in this forum.


Robert

[Porter]

Cracked software is a NO NO



Porter

[dachay2tnr]

Q1. Why is moskus' knee a frequent topic of conversation in the Cakewalk forum?

Ans. Moskus' knee is very fat and out of proportion to the rest of his skinny body. Homerec regulars feel an overwhelming need to discuss this whenever nothing else is going on on the BBS (which is generally most of the time).


Q2. Should moskus consider joining a freak circus on account of his malformed knee?

Ans. Well that is really up to moskus.


Q3. Does the knee hinder his ability to use Sonar?

Ans - Not really, but he does tend to have difficulty installing new PCI cards because when he kneels on the floor he is unbalanced and tilts to the left.



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That's my three!

[moskus]

Originally posted by Porter
Cracked software is a NO NO

Will be added as a disclaimer.

Or maybe an auto-"format harddrive" feature on the page...

[moskus]

Originally posted by dachay2tnr
That's my three!

LOL!!!!!


Must... stop... laughing.... can't... breathe...





But seriously: No, they will not do.

[dachay2tnr]

Originally posted by moskus

But seriously: No, they will not do.

[moskus]

Originally posted by dachay2tnr

Then get working!




Teacher, I see your online. Any ideas?

[dachay2tnr]

Originally posted by moskus
Then get working!

OK, if you insist.

Q1. How come I hear an echo when I record.

A1. Most likely this is due to having Input Monitoring enabled and also having too high a latency setting. You can fix this by either disabling Input Monitoring, or lowering your latency settings (assuming your CPU/Sound Card will allow for a lower setting).


Q2. What is latency?

A2. In short, it is the amount of time required for your computer to process a signal and deliver it to the sound card. Today, with a good sound card, WDM or ASIO drivers, and a fairly recent vintage CPU, latency settings of under 5 ms are achievable.


Q3. How do I determine what my actual latency is?

A3. In Sonar go to Options -> Audio -> General. At the bottom of the page you will see a section labeled Mixing Latency. Check in that section under the heading Effective Latency at 44kHz/Stereo: XXX msec.


Q4. Why does moskus have a fat knee?

A4. Move along Sonny, you're bothering me.

[AlChuck]

I don't know how to say this without hurting any feelings, but, as generous and helpful and nice as James Argo is, his skills at English are somewhat blurry. (But you are way better than a lot of native speakers are, James, believe me!) It makes his FAQ entries much less helpful than they could be. They need some simple editing.

[guttadaj]

Originally posted by dachay2tnr
Why does moskus have a fat knee?

When soft knee just won't do, grab the highly-touted "moskus compressor" with new fat knee algorithm.



not that I have any idea what this knee joke is about but wanted to play along too

[James Argo]

Originally posted by AlChuck
I don't know how to say this without hurting any feelings, but, as generous and helpful and nice as James Argo is, his skills at English are somewhat blurry. (But you are way better than a lot of native speakers are, James, believe me!) It makes his FAQ entries much less helpful than they could be. They need some simple editing.

Nothing perfect comes free, my man
Anyway, it's true what Chuck said Sometimes I readed my post again, and thought... "hey, why didn't I wrote this way.... " It's good someone finally comes up with an idea to edit it in propher way Go ahead, feel free to edit some words if necessary to the FAQ project


Jaymz

[James Argo]

Here's something for you, moskus...

http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthr...threadid=89451


Jaymz

[James Argo]

...and this one

http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthr...threadid=90168


Jaymz

[AlChuck]

No hard feelings, I hope, James...

[James Argo]

Originally posted by AlChuck
No hard feelings, I hope, James...

I'd prefer soft knee than hard feeling, Chuck

[BluesMeister]

Moskus, these are my humble suggestions:

1) In Piano Roll view, I copied bars one and two and pasted them at bars three and four. Now when I change one of the notes in bar four, it changes the note in bar two. What's going on?

A) When you copied the two bars (or clip as it is known) CakeWalk assumes you want them pasted as Linked Clips. You can unlink the clips as you paste them by un-checking a tick box - or you can Select the clips and Unlink them in the properties dialogue box. So next time you change one note, the corresponding note in the other clip remains unaffected.

2) I’m composing a MIDI drum track and want to get a particular drum sound where the snare drum is hit with both sticks but you can tell it’s two hits. How do I do that?

A) If you have Snap To Grid enabled it’s not very difficult. In Piano Roll View and using the Pencil selector click on the PR at the point where you want the snare double-hit. Now click on the instrument directly above the snare immediately above the same point on the PR. It may be a cymbal or handclap. Right click on the diamond shape and change the note’s position. It is shown something like [03:2:000] That tells you it’s Measure 3, beat 2. Change the 000 to 070. You will notice the diamond moves slightly to the right. You can now drag the diamond down so that it is a snare drum hit and you can see the two diamonds slightly overlapping. You can change the 070 until you get precisely the desired timing of the double hit.

3) I’ve got a SoundBlaster audio card and I just recorded a tune playing my guitar to a MIDI backing track. It starts off OK but towards the end of the song my guitar starts lagging behind the beat quite noticeably. What’s going on?

A) The audio card resampling the recording probably causes it. Some Creative audiocards are locked at 48kHz internal sampling rate. If CakeWalk is set to 44kHz sampling rate, the card has to re-sample on the fly. The resampling causes the drift in synchronisation. Sometimes it isn’t noticeable and won’t cause you any grief. The best option is to set your CakeWalk to the same sampling rate as the card, 48kHz. This will probably fix the problem. But you can’t resample your existing performance, you’ll have to record it again to fix the drift.

I would appreciate it if the rest of you good chaps could verify the level of my accuracy

--
BluesMeister

[AlChuck]

I'd prefer soft knee than hard feeling, Chuck

OK, let me adjust my ratio and threshold...

[KevinTran]

I'll get one in here and there.

I was trying to figure out on my own for a while until Sonar 2 Power! helped me out.

The default one is 2 audio and 2 midi files. I manually deleted the midi files each time I started a new project.

1. How do you set your own template?

2. What are envelopes and How do you use them?

3. What are the best reasons to use loops?



And here's a question that's probable not an FAQ but:

If I recorded a sound clip of music, is there a way to reset/move the ruler to a point in the wave file that actually gets the sound clip into the right beat?

kt

[KevinTran]

OH!

And what the heck's wrong with your knee?

kt

[Porter]

Should you include something about how to export files into PlayTools from Sonar using omf?

I dont' know what you could put in the FAQ, however it is asked a fair bit.

Porter

[moskus]

GREAT!

And I suggest AlChuck as the proof-reader...

[moskus]

Keep 'em comming!



I'll promise I'll write something about my knee...

[AlChuck]

I'll proof-read, sure.

Should I just send you emails with my "corrections?" (Less work for you, but can you trust me????)

Or would you prefer me to mark them up somehow so you can pick or choose the edits (more work for you, of course, but also more control).

[dachay2tnr]

OK, here's another one for you:

Q1 - I put a volume envelope on one of my tracks with quite a lot of volume changes. Now I want to raise the volume of the entire track by 1 db; however when I adjust the volume slider and start playback, the volume level returns back to its original settings. Wat's up with that?

A1 - As you have found out, the volume envelope and the track volume setting are tied together. In other words, the envelope dictates what the track volume will be at any given point in the track, so when you manually change the Track volume setting and start playback, the envelope will override your manual setting and set the volume level to the level dictated by the envelope.

There are actually two ways to accomplish what you want to do. The easiest, IMHO, is to use "offset" mode. In the toolkit that appears at the top of the Track View window, you will see an odd looking Icon just to the right of the Zoom Icon (I guess the Icon is supposed to represent a volume envelope with nodes??). Anyway, this clicking this icon will toggle you between Normal mode and Offset mode. When you are in Offset mode, you will notice that the volume level (and pan level) for each Track has a + sign next to it. While in offset mode you can add or subtract volume (decibels) from a Track without affecting any of the other settings (i.e., your volume envelope). Therefore, to accomplish a 1 db increase in volume, toggle into Offset Mode, increase the Track volume slider to +1 db, and return to Normal mode. The volume readings in Normal mode will remain unchanged from before, but everything will now actually be 1 db louder than the reading. (BTW, this trick also works with panning and pan envelopes.)

A second way of doing this is to highlight the entire track by left clicking on the Track number. When you do this the track will become shaded, and all the nodes on the volume envelope will become white. While highlighted, you can lower or raise the ENTIRE envelope. This will keep all your transitions intact, but the entire envelope will be raised (or lowered) by however far you move it. (BTW, this one also works with pan envelopes as well.)