Questions tagged [daw]
A digital audio workstations (DAW), is an electronic system designed solely or primarily for recording, editing and playing back digital audio.
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"Collect all and save" saving unnecessary samples
I'm trying to collaborate with a friend on an Ableton project. I shared the project with them over Google Drive, and some of the samples were missing. To correct this, I opened the project and chose ...
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Time stretching / slowing down part of a MIDI file
Let's say I have a MIDI file of a solo piano performance. There's a small section in the middle of the piece that's played a tad too fast and I'd like to slow down this part slightly (while not ...
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Cakewalk by band lab refuses to export sustain
I just recorded my MIDI keyboard with velocity and sustain into cakewalk. it seems to be recorded great, but when I export as MIDI, only the velocity works and there's no sustain effect. What am I ...
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If I am to use midi keyboard only, do I still need audio interface?
I am thinking of purchasing 25 keys keyboard, but I am wondering if I need to also buy an audio interface to connect to a computer.
I will use no other instruments and no mics.
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Which clock speed metric is applicable in DAWs?
According to this answer, it is not only the number of CPU cores which matters in large DAW projects, but also the clock speed of each core. Alarmingly, the average clock speeds I'm seeing seem to be ...
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What is the process to produce vocal effects similar to Oblivion by Lo Key (using Cakewalk by Bandlab)?
I am trying to create a vocal effect similar to this in Cakewalk. I also have a tool for shifting pitch and/or formant.
So far, I have just been duplicating a vocal into several (around 3-7) tracks, ...
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How can I use Ultimate Guitar tabs for backing
I would like to record a song with tabs I find in ultimate guitar. It export tabs as GP5, but no midi files.
I want to record my guitar playing, but use drums/bass automatically generated via DAW.
I ...
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Can I have the output of an audio interface redirected to a headset that's connected directly on the PC?
I used to connect my guitar on my PC using a Rocksmith cable, and would use Guitar Rig 5 as my amp simulator.
I recently bought an Audio Interface (Behringer U-PHORIA UMC204HD) and I'm impressed that ...
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Is there a way to merge to mono without boosting the center component?
Normally, if you merge stereo to mono, the center component gets a +3dB boost because it is doubled. Is there a way to merge stereo to mono while keeping the balance between the center and sides?
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Why do some virtual instruments sound more realistic than others?
This may be somewhat subjective, though it may be verified by a breakdown of the audio. But it seems easy to find like drums and other percussion, bass guitar, piano, harpsichord, maybe harps and ...
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Creating a Mono-Only Bell Timbre in Cakewalk
This video outlines the production a sort of bell timbre which can only be heard when played in mono. I am trying to reproduce this in Cakewalk.
I think I've figured out how to make the correlated ...
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How to get a list of VST presets / parameters
So I'm trying to misuse a VST in my DAW, Reaper, for musical things. Basically I want to be able to write to and read from different files using VSTs.
The VST I'm using has a string option (which gets ...
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Church Audio stream only setup
I am part of a small congregation who worship just for a few hours in a multifunction building, setting up and packing away each Sunday.
We broadcast our service, Audio Only, over internet-radio, for ...
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Route mono to Left or Right instead of centered in FL Studio?
This is my first post and hope I am on topic. In a DAW like Reaper when you record Mono mic on a track, it is by default centered. Same sound is then heard on both speakers.
However, I have been able ...
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How do I see the kick drum on a sampled track in Reaper?
I edit many drum-fiddle duo samples to make loops in REAPER. The fiddle moves ahead and behind the beat and syncopates. The drummer plays a simple 8-beat pattern. The samples are on a single mono ...
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Using Rhodes Plugin changes loop length in MPC Beats
In a tutorial how to create a simple House Track , I use MPC Beats with an AKAI MPK mini. If you start MPC Beats you'll be asked to open a template or your stuff. I chose open a House template. And ...
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Cubase cannot detect USB microphone in Macbook Pro
I use Cubase 12 Elements in Macbook Pro.
Audacity can detect my USB microphone, but Cubase can't.
When I try to configure input bus, I can only see Built-in Audio:
Than I checked for Sound ...
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DAW sounds and sound quality
Background: I have a Roland FP10 digital piano that I'd like to use as a midi controller, ie connected to a laptop running a daw, then out to headphones/speakers.
I'm far from being a serious musician ...
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Using vst live and sound library advices [closed]
I'm an amateur keyboard musician in a band mainly playing rock and metal songs, using a korg x50. This keyboard is great for its relatively small size and weight, but I'm lacking a bit of more ...
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How is it possible to filter either high or low frequencies of a single sine wave?
I started learning music production. I created (or generated) a sine wave with the oscillator in FL Studio, but did not add any more sine waves into it (by turning the volume off for the two other ...
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How can I access the "fades" dropdown option in Ableton?
I'm having trouble finding the fades option circled in red in the following screenshot, which was taken from this video:
Here's a closer look at his options:
And here's what I'm seeing in ...
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How is a small MIDI keyboard mapped to a bass guitar strings?
Warning: total noob here.
Not sure if this is a lack of software or music knowledge (probably both). I started using a DAW (Cakewalk) and bought a very basic midi keyboard (Akai mini) to start making ...
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Logic Pro X : Select all the notes above a specific (reference) note
In Logic Pro X when you are editing in Piano Roll if you need to select all the notes following a specific (reference) note, you can do it by using the key command shift+F and shift+uparrow is used to ...
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Studio One: Map mixer faders to MIDI CC
Is it possible in Studio One to map multiple mixer channel volume faders to different MIDI CC messages, e.g. from an external fader controller?
Example:
CC 102 -> channel 1 volume
CC 103 -> ...
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Bespokesynth: play a sequence of note (notesequencer) on key press, and generally enable/disable a module on a keypress
In BespokeSynth, how could I play a sequence of notes (notesequencer) when pressing a note, and stopping it when pressing it again?
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How to miniaturize hardware for basic MIDI device control? [closed]
Currently I use Ableton on my main system, which is great but you need pretty high specs to run and needs a few minutes at least to boot up. Which is fine but my free time is much more restricted ...
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How do I transfer my garageband project to logic pro without the vocals messing up?
I exported a project to logic from garageband and everything lined up PERFECTLY. I got so excited because I recorded this song years ago before I had logic. I thought everything was perfect until I ...
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One note of chord not part of scale
I am currently analyzing a track by Deadmau5, and am almost positive that it is written in F# minor. The melody notes are all within that scale, and pretty much all of the chords are too. However, ...
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How to Logic Pro Headphone Sett-Up for Sample prelistening
I am new to Logic and want to make Live Performances. I could not find anything about setting up Headphones and Master audio split. I want to hear the Samples preview on my headphones and the track on ...
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Connecting Behringer Footswitch to Cakewalk DAW
I am using a Behringer FCB1010 midi foot controller and a Line 6 tone port UX2 audio interface (which my guitar is plugged into). While trying to assign a footswitch to a virtual pedal on cakewalk, an ...
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Good online forum to ask DAW-related questions? [closed]
I'm looking for a good forum where I could ask DAW-related questions, which can't be answered here (such as advice on commercial plugins, audio recording techniques, and so on). Would recommend any ? ...
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Play a MIDI, except use a WAV on a single channel
I used Cubase on the Atari ST in the 90s, and now a little bit of GarageBand on the Mac and Maschine/Kontakt, so I do have some understanding about computer DAWs and such but still I cannot find an ...
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Sforzando can playback samples, but LMMS cannot [closed]
I downloaded the Standard Guitar vst by Unreal Instruments.
I import the "Guitar Chord Central.sfz" program into Sforzando.
On the sforzando it can playback the sample, but when i click the ...
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How to set Alesis Q25 to transmit on only single midi channel into Logic Pro
I've got an Alesis Q25 hooked up to my Mac running Logic Pro. Everything works great. What I want to do is send midi data from the Q25 on only one midi channel, so I can have another midi controller ...
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LilyPond play pitches
Is there a way to play the notes on LilyPond?
I mean when using the Crescendo notation editor or MuseScore, there is a play button that can play the sound or complete piece.
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Ableton crash when i open ezbass [closed]
i recently add ableton 11 to my pc. Everything is fine. I want to use ezbass from toontrack. When i first open ezbass, everything is fine but when i save my project and load my project next time, when ...
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Is there an equivalent to "format painter" (Microsoft formatting tool) in Ableton when editing MIDI notes?
For example, I recently had a two MIDI chords. They were the same chord, but one was eighth notes and the other was quarter notes. Is there a quick way to apply the "formatting" (read: ...
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DAW mixing: Bass and Piano solo’d clips but not individually
I got 16 channels of a jazz ensemble, sending them to groups by instrument.
My problem is that for a range here in Logic Pro 10.6.3, the base and piano groups buses (we got several microphones for the ...
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What is an effect that changes one parameter depending on the rate of change of another parameter? [closed]
Read my comment before you vote to close.
Is there an effect/vst plugin/flow that measures the rate of change of one parameter of a sound, e.g. volume, and can use that to change the amount of another ...
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How do rhythm and melody compete and cooperate to define the horizontal space of music?
I have some conceptual trouble understanding the differences between rhythm and melody.
I get that harmony is the vertical dimension of music (thinking in terms of sheet music or a piano roll view in ...
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Is there a way to minimize interference between signals of different instruments?
Phase cancelation between different audio tracks is an issue that cannot be solved just by a constant phase offset. There are sweet spots, but no matter what the global relative phase of two tracks is,...
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I have a problem with the strummer in Ample Guitar M (used in Reaper)
When I create a riff using the plugin and drag it in the timeline (as a midi file), it's played with no legatos or really anything I set up in the riffer. It sound terrible, all the chords are played ...
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How can I create a switchable filter in Pure Data?
I have watched a tutorial series on Pure Data, but I still feel uncertain about how to think about the "execution point" in a Pure Data patch evolving over time.
Suppose I want to create a ...
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Do useable MIDI stringed instruments exist (for entering notes into a DAW) (think Guitar Hero controller) [closed]
I have looked at MIDI violins today and saw they were 1500+ $ and seemed to be basically electric violins. So this raised an interesting point to me. Whereas an electric piano is just a piano keyboard ...
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Artificially Extended Drum Duration?
I am watching a beginner's guide to music production using Cakewalk on Youtube. An interesting fact it points out is that adjusting a drum's note duration in the piano roll view has no effect, ...
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How to figure out the length (time in ms) of a bar from bpm and time signature? [duplicate]
I have seen a bunch of similar questions on the site, but I'm going to ask more directly. I know a songs:
tempo - X bpm - (eg.:120).
time signature - Y/Z - (eg.: 4/4).
I'd like to know the formula ...
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Instrument plugins with weak attacks
I have some instrument plugins that have unfortunately weak attacks -- by this I mean it sounds like they have an ADSR envelope with an attack value higher than I would like, so it makes the ...
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Sub-bass on DAW?
I don't know much about how sub-bass is generated but is it possible to program in mainstream tools such as Ableton or Logic Pro? I was wondering if can it be represented as a Midi track or if ...
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What factors are most important to DAW performance (in 2020)
When choosing or upgrading your PC/Mac with music recording/production in mind, in what order should CPU (speed, cores)/Memory/Disk/other be prioritised?
Even in something like Garageband you might ...
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Does GarageBand let me record my own vocal/instrument region as a loop?
As a novice to DAWs I recently put together a recording of a song in Garageband. I wanted to record say 'chorus acoustic guitar' once and build the song structure using this multiple times.
All I ...
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