Cakewalk Tutorial | BandLab | How To Perfect Your Performance Using AudioSnap!

Thank you

[@AudioSorcerer]

You're welcome 👍

[@mikescofield]

Sorry, you missed the mark here. This was not about using AudioSnap, it was about using AudioSnap to manually quantize a clip. You showed us how to manually quantize each beat. That is very tedious for a long song. I would have liked to see a demonstration of the auto-quantize function, just like I quantize midi tracks. Also, you glossed over the tempo functions of AudioSnap but I find them extremely helpful. I record my tracks as slowly as needed to get a smooth performance and then I use the tempo function in AudioSnap to create the tempo I want in each part of the song. The result sounds very natural.

[@jorgeaugustovarongaona4668]

Genius! You played every single detail. The single part from AudioTrn... to CLips is a small detailed, but gold for enthusiasts like me.

[@AudioSorcerer]

Glad you liked it!

[@YashpriyaEntertainments]

Excellent....Very Nice video. Explained in easy way....very informative..... Thanks a lot.

[@NeelModi_dotcom]

Great overview. The other thing I would point out is to quickly remove those "double" transients, select 1/8 note for the Resolution under the Filter section of Audiosnap, and it'll only show transients closest to the 1/8 grid. Then quantize or move transients as you please. Quantize is quicker, obviously, but you can also specify less than 100% quantize amount to make the moves more subtle and not totally perfect.

[@LBJ314]

Thanks SO MUCH!

[@AudioSorcerer]

You're Welcome! 🤘🤘🤘

[@avelmusique]

That's dope. Thanks, man. Subscribed

[@AudioSorcerer]

Thanks for subscribing! 🤘

Great! please more tutorials. Thanks

[@AudioSorcerer]

More to come! 👍

[@Columbiform79]

Excellent video. Perfect for an imperfect player such as myself. You can add lines manually using alt+leftclick.

[@AudioSorcerer]

I definitely love AudioSnap!

[@marc_leblanc]

I'm primarily a guitar player. Audiosnap compliments my crappy bass playing perfectly!! 😁

[@AudioSorcerer]

It compliments all our crappy playing! lol

[@squeezemypimple]

Great Video...Thank you

[@agentcalm]

Thanks bro. Great vid. I'd heard of audio snap but never had a clue what it was. Very useful tool by the looks of it.

[@AudioSorcerer]

Thanks for checking out the video. Audiosnap is definitely great! 👍

[@agentcalm]

@@AudioSorcerer Dan can you do anything with the transients beside move them left or right. There are plug ins called transient shapers. Witht hese plug ins you can change the attack etc of a transient. I wonder if Aud Snap can do stuff like this?

[@davidnollmusic363]

Thanks so much for your very helpful video!

[@AudioSorcerer]

No problem David! 👍🤘👍🤘

[@alan93]

That is pretty helpful looking but wondering if this would work for vocals.

[@AudioSorcerer]

I would recommend using something like Melodyne on vocals as opposed to this. You'll get a more natural sound. 👍

[@twistedwired]

I like it, thanks. Nice guitar sound in the clip too.

[@AudioSorcerer]

Thanks! I like the guitar tone also. 🤘🤘🤘

[@terrybi]

Now that makes sense to me, the way you explained it and showed what you were doing was great. Thanks. I just don't understand what the different colors mean when you were lining everything up, I think its just showing what was stretched and what was shrunk?

[@AudioSorcerer]

Exactly, the colors will be different depending on whether you stretched or shrunk the audio.

[@ThomasHume5]

Suggestions on where I can learn about using AudioSnap to "Sync Project Tempo to an Audio Clip". Other DAW users send me their projects as exported wav files w/ their audio click track clip that I import into CW. Some projects will have tempo changes in the song which their click track will align to. When I import the wav files (w/ their click track) into CW, I assumed I could select the click track clip, click AudioSnap button Sync Project Tempo to an Audio Clip (set at measure or clip), and it would update my CW project's tempo and measures to align with the imported click track, but nothing happens. The CW user doc also states this should happen w/out needing melodyne.

[@LuceroLucero22]

I love this tool, it kicks ass, you just need to work it...

[@AudioSorcerer]

It is good. I'd like to see them get it more in line with Pro Tools Elastic Audio.

[@postman9699]

Nicely done tutorial!

[@AudioSorcerer]

Thanks for checking it out! 🤘🤘🤘

[@MatthewSwasta]

I'd rather use tempo mapping to move the grid around to match my first performance...then program the drums, record additional guitars and bass. Then any midi/sample stuff will go with the performance as it started...much more natural sounding than everything conforming to a robotic sounding grid.

[@AudioSorcerer]

To each their own. 👍

[@jamesbondaygee]

This looks like a fun feature. I tried this, but it's not showing a tempo on my track. What's up with that? Anyways, I got an old track with a great tune on it. However, I made it with a crappy drum machine. I'd love "find the groove" and beat of this song so I could potentially add some new drums over top of it. Any tips would be appreciated. Cheers.

[@johnpeterson5354]

This is great! Thank you. You manually selected / knew 90 BPM. ----->> How do you get the average tempo of an audio clip if you don't know it?

[@AudioSorcerer]

You can do a tap tempo to find the tempo of a clip or song. I think I go over it briefly in the middle of this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3jbaWucj5mlj6s

[@pinto_ukes8406]

I, thank's for video. For two separate recording tracks, with acoustic guitar, same music for create like stereo sound. How I fix the tempo to be perfect in time between the two tracks? Thank's

[@AudioSorcerer]

Just work on them one at a time and get them snapped up to the grid.

[@pinto_ukes8406]

@@AudioSorcerer thank's

[@jasonsully135]

Great content! How would you do this for vocals?

[@AudioSorcerer]

Thanks for checking out the video! I don't recommend using this for vocals. If you want to modify the timing of your vocals I would use Melodyne. l.linklyhq.com/l/WkWW

[@jasonsully135]

@@AudioSorcerer wow thanks for the quick reply! :)

[@AudioSorcerer]

@@jasonsully135 No problem!

[@harveyandruss8748]

You did not mention where your cursor was with each transient to allow stretching to the click (tempo you decided). If you hit the center circle, you will NOT stretch and will just modifiy the tempo map of the clip. Interestingly, I think if you played the tempo-mapped clip back to the click (tempo mapped to a steady tempo for the larger project), it may just match up in reverse. I haven't tried it, but it seems possible that the new map for the clip, once overlayed on a steady click may indeed adjust it's varying transient markers to the click of the beat of the project. I will try it and let you know, but this may be a way to back into the same result?!

[@oamnoman6163]

Hi

[@deanc2000]

I tend to just fix the blatantly out of time transients and leave the others alone.

[@AudioSorcerer]

That process works also. 👍

[@storyoflife3262]

Please teach me how to know samples key in cakewalk

[@AudioSorcerer]

I'm not understanding the question.

[@storyoflife3262]

@@AudioSorcerer sir How to know the pitch of any samples. like drum ,clap samples

[@hutch5799]

13:38 The final audio sounds poor to me. It's still really out of time in a couple of places. Most notably at the chord change. It would've been quicker (and better) to just re-record it.

[@AudioSorcerer]

Audiosnap hasn't caught up to the level of Pro Tools elastic audio yet. Maybe someday. But yes, it's always easier to re-record but that doesn't always happen.👍

[@vatsalismusic]

how to get gridlines in the software?

[@sonicbrush]

Thanks for sharing your info. I'm still at Sonar Producer 8 and 7. The reason I'm keeping 7 is for Roland's V-Vocal. Did Bandlab retain V-Vocal or something similar that's a breeze to use?

[@AudioSorcerer]

They didn't retain it but Melodyne Essentials comes with it.

[@LuisSD80]

Hi! I'm wondering if this can also used on vocals to align many vocal tracks (i.e. at the chorus). Thanks!!

[@AudioSorcerer]

If you want to align several vocal tracks to say the lead vocal, you can use VocalSync inside of Cakewalk. If that doesn't work well enough for you then check out this video I did on VocALign within Cakewalk and see what you think of it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/imiqonqabJeJnc0

[@danpettimusic]

Thanks such a great video!! Would this technique help with guitar strumming mistakes? Or will it sound bad for strumming? What about vocal? I'll have to try. Thanks!

[@AudioSorcerer]

I use it on guitars all the time. I don't recommend it on vocals. If you want to fix vocal alignment you should use something like Melodyne.

[@danpettimusic]

Thanks a lot! Ya for vocal that would be better. Or sometimes I just grab certain clips and nudge them a bit onto the beat.

[@williamjeffreys2980]

Thank you. Could you recommend which of your videos best covers for Cakewalk copy/paste/insert/merge clips and tracks (end to end)? For example, you have a perfect 2 minutes of a backing track, so you want to simply copy it and tag the copy right on the end of the original 2 minutes without hearing any glitches.

[@AudioSorcerer]

I don't think I have any for those topics yet. I'll add them to the queue.

[@roopekivimaa]

Thanks for a great video! However, as I'm trying to do everything you did, I just can't get my audio stretched and moved. The transients move but not the audio. Why is that?

[@NitrogoatSB]

same here

[@InnerSyncMusic]

Audio snap is not working to me..anyone know why?

[@AudioSorcerer]

It never works right for me.

[@penguin...7986]

when ever i record anything on cake no matter if its my acoustic using a mic or I'm plugging my electric guitar straight to my PC, i always get this static noise and dont know how to get rid of it, not sure what to do?

[@AudioSorcerer]

You need to get an audio interface. 👍

[@masquerade0133]

Hi, thanks for the tutorial. I have a question: When I try to snap to grid like you were doing, it seems like it does not snap completely. Like when you snap yours, the white line disappears and appears to be perfectly snapped. But when I try to do mine, it moves but the line stays white, a bit off-grid kind of. Also, do you know why the track sounds weird when bounced back? It sounds like a snapping thing but I don't know how to fix it. Thanks in advance!

[@AudioSorcerer]

Can you email me a screenshot or video to [e-mail] ?

[@drumsandmore4448]

I play drums, about 6 tracks for all my drums and the drumless track is the 7th track. Do I audio snap each track? Or audio snap the final mix (1 track) after I save the recording?

[@AudioSorcerer]

Each track individually, one at a time.

[@KariKoskinen]

If you drag the drum transients individually on each drum track, there may be a problem with the leaking percussions, unless you manage to drag them EXACTLY to the same position. For instance, if the snare is heard on the kick track too, it will be make a double hit. I do it this way: I choose a vertical area over all tracks so that it contains all transients at that point. So when I drag them to the desired position, they all move together on all tracks.

[@Eric-dd8bk]

Microsoft roled out a new force update and I had been having audio issue ever since. Whichi is from yesterday. All the audio apart from audio cakewalk completely stops. I made sure that the exclusivity setting is off for the sound device and the ASIO is selected in cakewalk, but still no audio whenever cake walk is on and it all comes back when I turn off cakewalk. Has anybody else had this problem? If so, have you found a way to fix this and how? Thank you. Any help will be much appreciated.

[@AudioSorcerer]

Nothing has been reported to me, but I'll keep my ears open.

[@Eric-dd8bk]

@@AudioSorcerer Thank you. I really need to fix this because I have to be able to communicate with others while recording all on my pc. Thank you again.

[@terrybi]

@@Eric-dd8bk Try plugging your headphones into your interface. That's what I do, I have no sound coming out of my speakers at all.

[@LuceroLucero22]

Is there a vst plugin that does this that's not Cakewalk?

[@AudioSorcerer]

There isn't. All daws usually have some form of this built into them.

[@LuceroLucero22]

Are you still using Cakewalk by BandLab ?

[@AudioSorcerer]

The studio switched over to a Mac computer last year so we aren't doing anything in Cakewalk anymore.

[@endlessnameless3996]

Is this supposed to work on MIDI?

[@AudioSorcerer]

No, it's not. Check out this video for MIDI: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaulZZuQbJqUr7M

[@endlessnameless3996]

@@AudioSorcerer Thanks!

[@uniquetruth2097]

maybe its good enough for VO recordings but music has become an horror making it on this daw which cant make a differenbce between vst dll or insrument dll and office! dll and thats where it is hanging right now since hours ! im realy realy angry and im absolutly done and as i left magix and davinci so i will leave this horror which caused me real stomach pain!

[@AudioSorcerer]

I'm sorry you're not having a good experience with Cakewalk.

[@SoundDiggerFozo]

I know all about subscribing and what is really annoying is pushing listeners to subscribe to the channel before you even started.👎

[@itsallthingsdrums]

thank you

[@AudioSorcerer]

You're welcome! 👍