Bristol_Jonesey

JSGlen

Bristol_Jonesey


JSGlen, I'm not questioning your workflow for one moment, but using SIT's on a drum track, does this mean all your drums are in 1 stereo track?

What are you using for drum software - how do you manage to EQ & compress separate kit pieces?

Bristol_Jonesey,


Up until recently I would open an instance of TTS-1 or Dim Pro for each part of the drum kit (kick, snare, etc) so I can each each part on its own track. After fine-tuning I would bounce each part to track. I would then archive the midi tracks for later use, if necessary.


Now, after learning SD3, I use it to design my multitrack drums. So much easier than the way I was working.

Ah, that's good - I was going to suggest you adopt this way of working, it's infinitely more flexible

Bristol_Jonesey,


Thanks for looking out. Appreciate your help.

JSGlen


chaunceyc,

I'm no expert using soft-synths, but, in reading your last post you state that you "single click on the clip to select it". I believe you need to select the Track (which is what I do). Give this a try. It is the only thing you are doing differently from me. Good luck!

Bingo! - you prompted me to experiment further.  You don't have to select the track, actually - Single clicking on a SIT clip and selecting "Bounce to Track" still causes the error every time, BUT...if you lasso select a range of a SIT  that includes a clip or a part of a clip, Bounce to Track will work fine.  There should be no functional difference between clicking a clip to select it and lassoing it, so this appears to be a bug, but I can deal with it using this workaround.  I found a forum discussion on this from a couple years ago and there were definitely others who encountered this exact issue and simply stopped using SIT as a result.

Thanks again for the feedback everyone.

chaunceyc
Bingo! - you prompted me to experiment further.  You don't have to select the track, actually - Single clicking on a SIT clip and selecting "Bounce to Track" still causes the error every time, BUT...if you lasso select a range of a SIT  that includes a clip or a part of a clip, Bounce to Track will work fine.  There should be no functional difference between clicking a track to select it and lassoing it, so this appears to be a bug, but I can deal with it using this workaround.  I found a forum discussion on this from a couple years ago and there were definitely others who encountered this exact issue and simply stopped using SIT as a result.

Thanks again for the feedback everyone.

I always use the same method to select a track. I double click the track's number to select ALL tracks and then click the track again to select just it. That method has never failed me. I'm sure there are other methods but I stick to that one.

Glad you found a work-a-round Chaunceyc.

chaunceyc


The simple "instrument track" (a combined midi/soft synth track) feature was introduced in version 7 or 8 of Cakewalk, and yet it STILL can't be bounced to audio.

To this day, you still get the asinine message about "The specified selection did not contain any audio" if you try to bounce an entire instrument track or section of clips thereof.

This is daft.  Why should I have to split each  instrument track into the component tracks (midi and synth tracks) in order to bounce it down to audio (only to rejoin it back into an instrument track) 


If I select all tracks (which are all instrument tracks, btw), Sonar happily bounces everything  to an audio track, so this should not be an issue 4 years into this feature.  Grrrr....


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Hi!
 
I get the same result as you if i do it that way! It's because you doing it wrong. What you missing out is that you need.....
 
AFTER you selected the track, you need also to select the range of your selection, in the top "Bars and Beat".
When you do that, bounce Instrument tracks will work for you as normal. You can bounce it with or without included track FXs.
 
 
 

Select the range between A---C
 
 
 
 
Hope it helps!
 

Or just click-drag in the clip and select "Bounce to Clip(s)" from the track menu. No need to select the track first, the action of left-click and drag to select the part of the clip, lights the track select indicator too.