Midi problems

What sound card are you using and what is the operating system and is it 32 or 64? 

Stuttering is often a sound card related issue but can also be a buffers settings issue.  Increase the buffers a bit and see if that solves it.  Using a factory sound card is a huge drawback in creating music in Cakewalk. Being able to play it on some other program does not mean it will run flawlessly in Cake with a factory card. Cake is a much more demanding and a much more capable program and having the right hardware is essential to a smooth experience. 

You can do what you want... in the routing listed above...... but..... why not simply use the softsynths in MC6 to play the parts rather than having all that convoluted routing? Soft synths are easy to use, are all inside the box, and have a ton of easy to use great sounding samples. 

The only thing I use my midi keyboard for is to input the midi to the midi track. Then I insert the synth I want to use and let it all happen inside the box. No complicated routing, no extra cords and connectors, and it happens reliably.  Just a thought. 

...following on from the above, another question i have about cakewalk is; 

Is there any way to merge two midi parts together?

Like say i want to just tab out one midi part and then copy it over and over so it plays a couple of times, then merge them as if they were all one part. Ive noticed when doing one midi part and then copying it again, cakewalk will play the first midi part (stuttering at the start as described above), stop the audio (literally cut it off once it reaches the end), then start the new midi (stuttering again) and so on and so forth.

Here's a audio export example of the problems im having, if anyone wants to have a listen:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9.../Test%20Midi.wav 

Hmmmmm....

Yes... using one of the external interfaces like you said..... You should be using the ASIO driver for that interface. You want to check to be sure you don't have the MME or WMD driver activated for those interfaces.  That might also cause problems.   

The UA25X should work just fine with the correct ASIO driver. 

Use the right driver that the card is designed to work with.  Be sure to remove ASIO4ALL from the computer as I have heard that leaving it in a computer may cause issues when you try to use the real ASIO drivers. 

The drop box link didn't work. 


With a modern computer...lappy or other, you should not have to set the buffers to the max..... not even close, to get good performance. My buffers are set pretty low (256?) and I have no problem. I have an older (3yrs old now) DAW and running on XP pro....32 bit. 

Double check the drivers and go to the web to get the latest updated driver from the manufacturers web site. 

OK... that link worked. 

i want to just tab out one midi part and then copy it over and over so it plays a couple of times, then merge them as if they were all one part. Ive noticed when doing one midi part and then copying it again, cakewalk will play the first midi part (stuttering at the start as described above), stop the audio (literally cut it off once it reaches the end), then start the new midi (stuttering again) and so on and so forth. 


is that what you did in that clip?  I noticed the missing audio. 


usually when midi is rendered to audio even with a cheap sound card, the computer is able to render it pretty cleanly since in the rendering process, keeping up to real time is not important. 


But... in this case, the problem is still evident. 


Here's my guess: If you copied and pasted these loops you have an overlap issue.  In that, the last note of the loop is longer than the end of the measure. The new note in the next loop starts before the old one ends.  In midi, notes have on signals and off signals.  What the sequencer is seeing is this>
note 1 on............ note 2 on..note 1 off............. note 2 off   
since the last note is on, and the next signal is also an on signal.... followed immediately by the forst note off..... you end up with that gap in the music.


The solution to this would be to go to staff mode and right click on the last note of the original loop. Right clicking it opens the NOTE PROPERTY window where you can see the note DURATION value. See if it is exceeding the end of the measure. This would be more common in a note that was entered by a keyboard as opposed to a stock loop. I do this all the time....I  hold the key down past the end of the measure and if I edit manually, the following note disappears. 


Simply lessen the duration so that it ends before the measure ends and then copy and paste a few loops to test it.  Set the snap to grid to MEASURES to allow precise on the measure dragging and pasting.