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I would split your notes to different tracks (there's a CAL script that will do this - Split Note to Tracks) for more control over each "piece" of your "drum kit". Then it's as easy as turning the volume up or down on the hi-hat track or using a Velocity "effect" (adjustment really) on the...

Hey, Chill. In the piano roll view, you can press "T" or hit the button with an up and a down arrow on it. That will allow you to pick which tracks you want to see. You'll see which color each track is over on the right side. Then to edit any of the chosen tracks just select it over on the...

This is a very common problem in home recording. If you need to have your stuff sound as loud as commercial stuff, you're pretty much gonna have to send it out to a professional mastering house. They have the swanky equipment that can do that without having the results sound like crap. One...

I find that dealing with overlaying clips is nasty in SONAR. I wish they would come out with right-click "Send to Back" / "Bring to Front" options for the clip just like in many image editing programs.

I agree that the best way to fix this is would be to retrack. But, if that's not an option, I also think a narrow EQ cut would be a good thing to try. If those don't float your boat, why not put a gate on the track? This would silence the track when the level is below a set threshold and...

If you're monitoring through a mixer, then you should be able to fix this. If you send the vocals to your DAW by way of an insert/aux send on the vocal channel, then you'll be able to adjust the level into the DAW with the aux send level (and your soundcard settings) while being able to adjust...

What steps did you take? What happened when you tried it?

After laying down the whole "drum kit" in 1 MIDI track, which is probably the most convenient way, then you can run a CAL script (IIRC, it's called Split Note to Tracks) on it to separate each "piece of the kit" out to its own track. Then you can make individual adjustments to your liking...

Hey, Bob. I don't really know Cakewalk Gold (never heard of it actually), but if this were SONAR or HomeStudio, I would guess that the problem was that your Input in your Cakewalk track was set to MIDI Omni instead of MIDI Channel 5. So perhaps there's something similar to this in Gold. HTH...

You could always send out your final mixes to a pro mastering house if you really want a nicely polished product. But, if you're looking to do it all yourself (which I think lots of us hobbyists do), you can help it a little bit. First, I would identify any peaks that are higher than your...

Oh, cool!! I never knew that you could lock it like that. I have found myself rushing to try to hit the Spacebar before it's about to scroll when I'm looking at something on more than 1 occasion. Thx for that little nugget, James. :)

That sounds strange. Could it be that you have punch points set up inadvertently and are recording in Auto-Punch mode? That's happened to me a few times, where I couldn't for the life of me figure out why stuff wasn't recording (or was recording only some of it). I put the Recording Mode...

Weird... I also thought that the Audiophile bypassed the Windows audio control stuff. I'll have to check that out on mine when I'm at my computer. Anyway, great to hear that you got it figured out!! :D :)

Welcome, Dwire1550! There's no real answer to your question, except "whatever sounds good!" :D Seriously... A lot of it comes from mic placement. Do a lot of experimenting with moving the mic - try directly in front of the cone, right on the edge of the cone, slightly to the outside of...

Hey, cyan. I think I remember seeing something like this right when I first installed the card, but I think it was before I went into the Control Panel to tweak anything there. Do you have "Monitor Mixer" selected in the "Patchbay / Router" tab? Did you raise the levels on both the...

It all really depends on how you intend to use your software. If you plan to use SONAR's Input Monitoring capability, which lets you monitor the track you're recording from within SONAR (this also allows you to use plugin effects and hear them as well - most of them anyway), then you will need...

Hey, tonemonger. There are tons of external MIDI synths to choose from. You could go with just a regular keyboard with MIDI in/out's, which almost all of them have. Or there are individual MIDI synth (often rack-type) units that you could use. Your choice would be based on which unit's...

The Audiophile 2496 does have MIDI ins/outs, but it does not have its own MIDI synth, which is probably what the wizard is expecting. This basically means that the card can record MIDI instructions (like Note On/Off events for example) and can also transmit those instructions to other MIDI...

It's a good idea to put each drum in its own track, so that it makes it easier to mixdown each drum to its own audio track when it's time for that. However, it can be tedious to lay down the drum track that way from the start. I find that it's easiest for me to create the drum track in a...

Doubt it... They probably figure that the kids will pick them up in online chat rooms or on message boards nowadays. :eek: ;) :D :D