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Howdy, folks. I'm using Sonar 2.2 and have some confusion on clipping. I know that digital clipping is BAD NEWS, but I'm wondering when it's REALLY BAD NEWS. If my signal comes in too hot during tracking and clips, then is that track pretty much shot? Do I have to re-track? If I...

Howdy, folks. I have an acoustic/electric guitar (an Ibanez AE series) with a built-in preamp (Fishman electronics). I figured that I should be able to take it straight through to my mixer, but the signal is pretty weak, flat, and hissy no matter what I try. (OK, you can argue that my mixer...

Hello, fellow Cakeys. Not sure if this is the right forum for this, but since I use SONAR and there are tons of helpful people here, I'll give it a shot... :) I'm looking for some level of realism in my hi-hat tracks that I have not been able to find yet. It seems like the hi-hat is...

Howdy, Cakeys. A little bit of exciting news first ... I'm a Cool Kid now! :cool: ACKUS - Yeah, baby! Just upgraded from HS2002 to Sonar 2.2 - I was sick of being a 2nd class citizen and not having all functionality available to me. ;) Now a quick question. I would like to use the...

I'm trying to achieve a moderate level of sound attenuation in the little studio I'm building. I'm not going all out like a lot of the damn nice studios I see here. I'm planning on applying a double layer of sheetrock in the manner described at Soundproofing 101 - Applying Sheetrock. It says...

I've read that you should strive for a room that should be able to float - in other words, get rid of all air leaks. I am going to give it my best shot in my room, but I know that when it's done it would sink like a brick if really given the "Does it float?" test. My question for you all...

I've read that the only thing one copyrights when copyrighting a song is the melody (most often the vocal line) and that the chord progression or music underneath can't be copyrighted... This didn't sound logical to me - what if I took an Enya or Yanni ;) musical song and slapped some lyrics on...

I'm totally pumped. We've just sealed our basement floor and are planning on finishing it, complete with a studio for me!! It will be so nice to have a place to keep all my crap out without anyone nagging at me to put it away. :D Now I am just a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none kind of...

I was so excited when I read in SONAR 2 Power about the Tablature view option in the Staff view! When I went eagerly scrambling to look for it in my lowly HomeStudio 2002, I could not find it. :( Now, I've heard lots of folks say that pretty much the main difference between HS and its big...

Hello, Cakeys! I'm getting really frustrated here with trying to use the Cakewalk Pitch Shifter. I had a thread a while back about how I was trying to use it to create an octave effect on a strummed guitar track - goin' for the poor man's 12-string :D. Anyway, I was quickly set straight by...

I have dreams of owning a 12-string guitar someday, but on my current shoestring budget, that day seems quite far away. So, in the meantime, I figured, "Hey! I'll just record my guitar part and pitch shift it up an octave and... voila... a poor man's 12-string." :D So, I selected my guitar...

Actually, MIDI tuning. Does anyone know of a way to adjust the tuning of MIDI synth output? Not transpose, but just adjust by microtones/cents? My keyboard has the option of tuning from A427.4 up to A452.6, with A440.0 as the obvious default in the middle. Is there a similar setting in...

Howdy. I just took the plunge and hooked up my keyboard (Roland XP-50) to my soundcard (Turtle Beach Santa Cruz) so I could use it as a MIDI controller for easier MIDI recording. Adding 1 note at a time in my Cakewalk Piano Roll view was growing quite tedious! :rolleyes: Anyway, in a...

I'm looking to trade in my old Yamaha MD4 unit at my local music store towards the purchase of some newer goodies. It's pretty much in brand new condition (unfortunately didn't get much time to use it) complete with the original box and manual (with front page slightly doodled on by 3-yr-old...

I just copied a good piece of one of my audio tracks and pasted it to another track. Now I want to crossfade it in over a spot that wasn't so good. So, I follow the help instructions and click the little X in the Track view to enable Crossfades, then I drag the clip onto the desired spot, drop...

Hello, fellow Cakeys. I am new to all this and am working on trying to figure out the session drummer, which looks very cool so far. There are a couple of things that are bugging me with it though. The main problem I'm having is that I can't listen to the different patterns in the session...

Here are a couple of hopefully basic questions. Can anyone shed some light on these things? 1) Balanced vs. unbalanced inputs: Could someone explain what the differences are? It would seem like "balanced" would be better, but I don't know what's involved. I'm thinking of connecting my...

I'm new to Cakewalk - just got HomeStudio 2002 about a week ago. One of the many things I'm trying to figure out is the session drummer, and I'm having no luck. I searched this forum, but didn't find any info on my problem. I select a MIDI track then choose the Session Drummer MIDI effect...

I'm new at this and read somewhere that one way to get the vocals to have a little more umpfh (hmm... never really thought of how to spell that before :D) you can always just copy the vocal track into a second track to get a doubling effect. What I don't understand is this: Wouldn't making an...

Hey, I can hear you snickering...  Well, scoff if you must, but the Santa Cruz was in my budget, plus computer recording is a recently-adopted hobbie (soon to be addiction I think) of mine.  Anyway, I'm wondering if there are any other chumps like me out there with this card, or some of the more...