most efficient way of working (saving cpu) in cakewalk?

[wojf62902]

Hi I was wondering what workflow people having when mixing in cakewalk? currently I am getting a bit overloaded on the cpu side when mixing and was wondering the ways people approach their mix?

I was thinking of perhaps a two stage process, load the stems into the project, start putting effects on the stems to give a bit of colour to the sound, start to eq. then maybe bounce, or should I freeze?
whats the best way in cakewalk to reincorporate the stems that have had a lot of effects on them?

was thinking on the second stage of mixing I could use bus compression, and set up the master channel mixing chain, it's a bit too overloaded currently to add this to the project.

[ReleaseCandidate]

I was thinking of perhaps a two stage process, load the stems into the project, start putting effects on the stems to give a bit of colour to the sound, start to eq. then maybe bounce, or should I freeze?
whats the best way in cakewalk to reincorporate the stems that have had a lot of effects on them?

I always export stems and import them at least in another project.
Most importantly to have a new stage in the process and not go back to tweaking things in MIDI.
And it's helping that you know that all automation you see belongs to the mixing process, way easier to find things that way.

[telecharge]

Have you checked your buffer settings?
https://help.cakewalk.com/hc/en-us/arti ... recording-

Also, there are a lot of tips here for improving audio performance.
https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation? ... ce.15.html

[wojf62902]

I always export stems and import them at least in another project.
Most importantly to have a new stage in the process and not go back to tweaking things in MIDI.
And it's helping that you know that all automation you see belongs to the mixing process, way easier to find things that way.

yea I do the automation of the volume or mute lanes in the first stage usually and just generally tidy up any mistakes or timing issues there.
so just export>tracks? or is there a better more convenient way? just started using cakewalk and learning the daw.

[ReleaseCandidate]

I always export stems and import them at least in another project.
Most importantly to have a new stage in the process and not go back to tweaking things in MIDI.
And it's helping that you know that all automation you see belongs to the mixing process, way easier to find things that way.

yea I do the automation of the volume or mute lanes in the first stage usually and just generally tidy up any mistakes or timing issues there.
so just export>tracks? or is there a better more convenient way? just started using cakewalk and learning the daw.

Yes, export all tracks, use the sample rate and bit depth of your project and don't dither. And check everything to the bottom right.

[Tricky-Loops]

Export tracks = Bounce to tracks in Cakewalk

(In REAPER it was called rendering tracks?)

[ReleaseCandidate]

Export tracks = Bounce to tracks in Cakewalk

No, that exports the tracks. You don't want to bounce in the same project, but start a new one with the exported stems.

[Tricky-Loops]

Export tracks = Bounce to tracks in Cakewalk

No, that exports the tracks. You don't want to bounce in the same project, but start a new one with the exported stems.

Then you probably meant this

https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation? ... ar.03.html

[ReleaseCandidate]

Export tracks = Bounce to tracks in Cakewalk

No, that exports the tracks. You don't want to bounce in the same project, but start a new one with the exported stems.

Then you probably meant this

https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation? ... ar.03.html

No. The export in the 'File' menu.

[whyterabbyt]

Hi I was wondering what workflow people having when mixing in cakewalk? currently I am getting a bit overloaded on the cpu side when mixing and was wondering the ways people approach their mix?

I was thinking of perhaps a two stage process, load the stems into the project, start putting effects on the stems to give a bit of colour to the sound, start to eq. then maybe bounce, or should I freeze?
whats the best way in cakewalk to reincorporate the stems that have had a lot of effects on them?

was thinking on the second stage of mixing I could use bus compression, and set up the master channel mixing chain, it's a bit too overloaded currently to add this to the project.

Yes, use Freeze. It has a pretty decent Freeze implementation, either the entire track, or just the synth on a track, with 'quick' unfreeze and refreeze options.

https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation? ... ng.24.html

and you're not limited to freezing a single track in one go

[lfm]

I never saw a daw where freeze/unfreeze of tracks were smoother than Cakewalk/Sonar. I both render and release resources - so use that a lot if in need. And since multi out VST instruments gets audio in track view as well - you really see where activity is - so even better than midi in this sense.

Then check if module Prochannel is not visible in console, then make it so - and check if anything active there. To me it was by accident I had 2 modules active, saturator and compressor, that used up juice without me knowing how it got active.

Then there is a setting through preferences - ThreadSchedulingModel - which might not be optimum for your cpu. Search manual and see how that goes. It affect how things are distributed over cores.