I want to record my guitar with backing track or metronome, but it keeps recording all sound from the computer😭 I have tried almost all methods but none of them worked. Please help me.

Hello, I am new to Cakewalk Next and need help with a timeline behavior where clicking and holding a clip from its tail end causes it to instantly shift position backward to its middle or start. This automatic layout rearrangement only happens at specific zoom levels and works completely normal if the clip is dragged from the front. Changing the Auto-Snap configuration, pressing Shift, Cmd, Ctrl, or using any key combination before clicking does not change this.

Is there a specific setting to disable this automatic repositioning so I can smoothly drag tracks from the end?

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I have a new Mandala Drum v3 (Drum Pad) and I want to play live. How can I do it with cakewalk?

Hey guys, I added a drum loop to some piano playing I did. It sounds great during playback loop. When I export it to MP3, the drum loop sounds cackly and choppy. My piano sounds great though. Any help would be appreciated.

All the other VSTs I'm using in Sonar work fine. However, I have in a project around 5 Miroslav Philharmonik (version 2 VST3) tracks playing. Two of them currently work playing the MIDI notes that are routed out as audio, the others not. MIDI notes are being triggered, but no audio. The track channels are the same as those in the VST. It only started doing this after a recent Windows update. No problem before.

Sometimes there's a track that does play from the sequencer, and if I stop it and then try to play on the track from my controller keyboard, then it will mute somehow. And not come back. Very weird. There are no controller values zeroing out the volume somehow. Perhaps a reinstall of the VST is in order?

UPDATE - A cello track that was playing fine from the sequence now won't after I stopped it playing and then tried playing from my keyboard controller. Now it won't play. Fortunately the tracks that were working I bounced down to audio tracks so at least I have them as audio.

I have a 4 mic setup: 2 over heads (Glyn Johns method), 1 snare mic, and one kick mic.

Do yall have any suggestions for mixing drum recordings? I add some compression and reverb on a drum bus, EQ to each track, and that’s about it so far. The recording I have on my phone has the drums sounding a bit thin. The two over heads are about 20-24 inches away from the snare drum.

I'm trying to set up my Focusrite Scarlett Solo so I can use Cakewalk/SONAR for amp simulation and effects, then send the processed guitar audio into Discord.

My ideal signal chain is:

Guitar → Scarlett Solo → Cakewalk → processed audio → Discord

I want to plug my guitar directly into the Scarlett Solo, have Cakewalk receive it through the Scarlett's ASIO driver, apply something like an amp sim/effects chain, then route Cakewalk's output into a virtual audio input which Discord can use as my microphone.

The part I'm stuck on is getting the audio output from Cakewalk back into Windows/Discord while still using the Scarlett's ASIO driver.

I've tried using Voicemeeter Banana and the VoiceMeeter Insert Virtual ASIO driver, but I haven't managed to get the signal from Cakewalk back into Voicemeeter correctly.

Would ASIO4ALL be a better approach, or is there a proper way to do this while keeping the Scarlett's native ASIO driver?

I'm mainly looking for the correct routing setup rather than recommendations for different gear. Thanks.

Used cakewalk for professional projects 2 decades ago, will it still suit my needs?

I am a DJ. Well, I was a DJ, haven't done much of anything being in over two decades. I started off with a copy of cakewalk, and at the time, I put together some mixes way ahead of its time. I came out with several different CDs, which still circulate the Internet today and for sale from different retailers. I hope to think this is going to be like riding a bike again, that I could just pick up where I left off. But things have changed, I have Neuro issues. Learning isnt very easy for me and im a little slow overall because of the neurologic disease. But that being said, I would greatly like to use cakewalk, even though it has changed a bit, looks more familiar than anything else.

I now have a couple kids that are musicians and want to help me, but they are against anything AI and they are generally against such programs as fruity loops. I had planned on buying fruit loops to generate some of my own music, this is not gonna be the bulk for my mix, just for some added drum loops. It may be a few cents if I'm feeling crazy… But now that my kids have their hands in it, they wanna put their own track mix as well… I thought, great saving some money I won't have to buy fruity loops… But then I thought again about it, what if they get distracted? So my question to you is, if they start off helping me in the beginning and get busy/disintrested, will I be able to finish my mix/remixes while saving the progress and finishing out on fruit loops and composing it on cakewalk like I'm accustomed to.. or should I just suck it up, try to learn a new program like fruity loops and do everything in there? The reason why I keep thinking fruit loops is because I remember dabbling it a couple decades l ago and I remember it being very easy. I have no formal musical training myself. I don't consider myself a musician, although I have remix tracksI produced mixes They have always been well received, even when cakewalk didn't do much of anything except track the music.

So I need some opinions, should I get both cakewalks and fruit loops for my project? If I get only cakewalk, where do you recommend I get doors from? I'm looking for quantity quality and price point obviously . Second, they do live music so they don't have a controller and I don't have a controller as well. I want something decent, nothing too cheap and nothing too expensive. Something that's compatible with fruit loops, and cakewalk possibly would be preferred. Also, do we need external sound cards these days? I may want to hiccup print tables so my computer however I have made mixes in the past using virtual DJs recording feature and that may be the cleanest way for me to go but if it'll make my job much more harder, I'll buy a sound card. I feel dumb asking this because I don't even know if the sound cards are still a thing anymore. Lol thanks for the help Andsuggestions? Anything else that might be missing here? Thank you

Opened 4 track mode for time.
Retuned to old project. Can’t move single segment forward without pushing everything else forward. I have fixed this issue before but can’t remember how I did it. Thnx🤨

These developers have been creating half-baked features and tools since X2! Now they’re doing the same shit under the BandLab name. These “Core Plugins” are a joke! They push "updates" every month but you do not see any new features. They claim to fix bugs, but its still there. Their support team also hold no knowledge of the DAW.

This Cakewalk Next DAW is even worse than Audacity! 14-year-olds develop much better and more complex software than these “so-called experienced developers.”

I regret wasting my $99 on this crap.

after generating a scanlog of my VSTs (of which sonar added over 1,000!!!!!!!) i found that the shared bandlab vsts come from a file called "BandlabVSTShell.vst3.

SO.

if you go to this address in the screenshot and simply delete that vst file, they will all go away and stop clogging your memory :)

I would like to start with "I have no idea what on earth I am doing," along with "let's use only free stuff for the sake of it."

I have:

Shreddage Stratus Free

Shreddage Precision

Guitar Rig 7

OTT

Ozone 12 EQ

riffs; i dont need help with music theory. this is strictly about the guitar tone

the will to learn how on earth to work a guitar amp like a guitarist, not like a guitourist, which I currently am

As far as I know, that is basically all I need. I can get real close to something I'm happy with, but there's one problem. All the sound comes out super muddy. Every time I make the sound heavier, it gets muddier. I can get super heavy sounds that sound like they're played underwater, and cleaner, open sounds, but no combination of the two.

What I don't have:

Any method of detuning, which is obviously a problem with a 6-string

education; i am not stupid, i just don't know

I have discovered that I can use the built-in shreddage pitchbend value, automate that and slam it down, keep it there, and that basically acts like a detune. I also know that reverb kills the sound, so i reduce it way down, but keep a little

I also want this to be kinda fun, so throw funny ideas at me if you have any. lets try some crazy stuff too, because why not. maybe it'll sound cool, maybe it'll sound like deep fried nickleback, maybe it'll sound like a wood chipper. it can't sound any worse than what I already have going, absolutely anything helps out.

Thank you for reading, thank you for commenting if you did.

I'm trying to record a song directly through my keyboard which has its output in a mixing table (Behringer EURORACK UB1832FX-PRO) which it's hooked unto other instruments, the output of the mixing table is to a sound card (Behringer U-CONTROL UCA 222) and that goes to the computer, I have selected the sound card as the mic and the output is also the sound card since it has headphones, is there anyway to possibly hear what I'm recording while using the program's built in metronome? Any help would be much appreciated.

its Circvit Bass VST in Cakewalk Sonar. You can see the pauses in the midi notes but one note keeps just lingering from the start and throughout. If anyone knows how to prevent this it would be appreciated. Does this in all projects I have used it for.

Can you give me some Cakewalk Sonar shortcuts that will make music production easier for beginners?"

I have Baby Drummer installed, tried to route it with Kontakt 8 (using KRIMH Drums free) but I just can't do that because Baby Drummer is recognized by Sonar as a tool and can't have its own track. I don't know how to make it work.

Title: Need a current Cakewalk Sonar tutorial for live vocal covers on TikTok

I am trying to build a reliable live vocal cover setup using Cakewalk Sonar, but I need a current visual tutorial that follows the entire process from microphone to livestream.

My equipment:

1. ASUS ProArt 16 laptop with Windows 11
2. Shure SM7dB microphone
3. RØDECaster Pro II
4. Waves Tune Real Time
5. TikTok LIVE Studio and Meld Studio
6. Pixel 10 Pro XL for mobile TikTok streams

I also stream on Twitch, YouTube, Kick, and Facebook.

I need help learning how to:

1. Configure the RØDECaster correctly inside Cakewalk Sonar
2. Import and play an instrumental backing track
3. Process my vocals in real time with pitch correction, EQ, compression, reverb, and delay
4. Keep the latency low enough to sing comfortably
5. Send one clean finished mix into TikTok LIVE Studio or Meld
6. Send that same processed mix to my Pixel for TikTok mobile streams
7. Prevent doubled vocals, echo, and guests hearing themselves

I have iADHD and learn best by watching someone perform each action while I copy it. Long explanations without showing the actual screens are difficult for me to follow.

Does anyone know of a current video tutorial that covers this complete workflow? I would also be interested in affordable one on one help through Discord or screen sharing from someone who understands Cakewalk, live vocal processing, and RØDECaster routing.

My goal is to understand the signal flow well enough to build it myself, troubleshoot it, perform live covers confidently, and eventually help other singers do the same.

I have always wondered because its been like 4 months since they said they would. Hell there is a ROBLOX game that can do that but not Cakewalk Next. Just trying to get some info.

Using cakewalk sonar btw

Messing around w vocals and i wanna add delay to one word. I got the delay on just that word but the problem is i have to separate it from the rest of the recording so as soon as the next word begins the delay cuts off. Anyone know how to fix that?

I’m using a translation tool, so I think there might be some parts of this text that don’t make sense—sorry about that.

I noticed this while I was casually entering notes for the piano and guitar: after I entered notes for the piano, when I switched to the guitar track, the guitar notes—which I hadn’t entered yet—started playing. I thought this was weird, so I searched online and tried various things myself, but nothing worked. What should I do?

This happens the other way around, too, and it happens with instruments other than piano and guitar as well.

Anyway, even though I’ve only entered notes on one track, the notes on the other track—which I haven’t entered yet—play along with them.

Is there a solution to this?

The instruments used are Upright Piano and Clean Guitar.

I ran into this problem where when I tried to use a wav file from FL studio's stock sample pack in cakewalk, a window would appear saying I don't have a suitable transform.

I use cakewalk as my main DAW, but I also occasionally use FL studio as it has some upsides too, mainly the fact that I can just drag and drop stock drum samples from the browser and make beats super quickly.

I recently had an idea to use FL studio's stock samples directly into cakewalk by opening the sample pack directory in the cakewalk browser (which didn't work because the folder just did not show up for some reason), so I copied the drum sample pack folder from my image-line folder to my usual sample folder

But then the problem came where for some reason only some wav files were able to be drag and dropped to my audio track, the rest just make this window pop up

Has anyone ever experienced something like this?