| Home recording and general music post from the archived Yabb Recording Website Message Board. Some of the info here may be outdated but many of the audio recording and home studio tips are still good. Note: The only tags I made and attempt to convert are italics, bold, center and underline. So if you see some gibberish surrounded by brackets, just ignore it.
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Febuary 2001 Yabb Message Board Archive
Subject: OK here is a Cakewalk Question For Yah!
by Crippled_Rich | 05/10/01 at 07:54:45
I have tracks I recorded on my Tascam DA-38 where I recorded a track with timecode which my old Roland Sequencer can read to sync MIDI tracks to my deck.
What I would like to do is take those tracks & transfer them to Cakewalk so that I can add more parts etc. No problem have done that already with some things.
Here is the Tricky part: Is it possible to transfer them somehow such that the measures etc will line up in correctly in Cakewalk (for future midi editing ease)??????
I tried syncing cakewalk to external MIDI clock. No dice, it records the audio screwed up & "too fast" doing that.
I tried syncing to MTC & adjusting the offset time to try to line up where the midi notes fall to get them close to the correct measures but it always drifts & so that doesn't work.
In cakewalk is it possible to "slide" midi data AND audio data at the same time the same amount to move everything to the right place?
Any help would be nice. In the event I can't do this I'll just have to be sure everything MIDI is pretty much the way I want it for these tracks before transferring.
Thanks to anyone with a clue. I certainly don't have one. You have no idea how much time I've wasted on this because trying wierd stuff sometimes makes cakewalk hang, which in turn fucks up my soundcard drivers, which then causessss my PC not to boot, which makes me have to remove then reinstall the drivers to make thing kosher again. What a royal pain in the butt. For some reason cakewalk likes to trash my audio drivers when I use external word sync. Those bastards!
Subject: Re: OK here is a Cakewalk Question For Yah!
by Hooper | 05/12/01 at 18:09:43
There may be more to it than this: But it sounds to me like you need to set the metronome in Cakewalk to the exact Beats Per Minute that your tracks were recorded at BEFORE you import your tracks into Cakewalk. 'Cos that's also going to translate to a certain number of measures per minute and the notes aren't going to line up in the measures if they're not coming in at the same tempo.