I use Cakewalk by BandLab. I use the free tier. Pros—free, easy workflow, powerful for even professional level recordings (the Demos sound very professional). CONS-no comprehensive learning course. There are a couple of good YT channels but it’s piecemeal approach and time consuming. I’m a windows user and play guitar, piano, learning bass. Genres rock, blues, jazz, R&B, Soul and gospel sound (Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles)

Hey, y'all. So I mixed my first beat on Reason and honestly, it'll be a minute before I go back to Pro Tools. The only thing is my beat is clipping and I cannot find out why. None of my meters are getting to the red. My peak meter gets yellow buy never reaches 0 db, even after I've added the master compressor. I even turned down the master fader to stay in the green WITH the master compressor off and it's still clipping. Initially, my bass synth was too flat. Then I thickened it up with parallel compression AND distortion which made it too thick. The clipping had to have started around that time, because when I deleted the parallel compression, that's when I noticed the clipping. And everything is clipping except my low end instruments. Even my keys are clipping and everything is well below 0 db. The mix is awesome except for that. I'm thinking it's the way I have some of the cables hooked up with this being the first time messing with flipping the rack around... but why wasn't I hearing it when the bass synth was flat? And why is EVERYTHING clipping except that synth and the kick? I used parallel channels on every track for my delays and style reverbs and at first, everything was fine except for the flat synth. I did do reverb sends for depth and dimension (which sounds amazing compared to what I was getting on Pro Tools). And that's another thing. I tried turning the sends down. Still clipping. I turned them all the way off. Still clipping. I know this is a long shot since you can't see the mix, but could simeone possibly help me out? I've reached out to support, but they take a minute sometimes. The other thing I was thinking is that maybe the file is corrupted. One time, I accidentally saved it while it was playing. It made the session crash, but it did save and I didn't notice anything at the time.

Good morning everyone, I've been using headphones for the past 5 months out of laziness haha. Just got setup to ping my studio room, I have some isolation blankets and foam bass traps installed in the typical areas of concern, after running a Pink noise generator, I'm finding a good sized hump at 125hz to 250hz. I also notice this is the frequency range I most notably fight to get right with mixing between headphones and monitors. Here is my question. Does a person continue on and know to cut those frequencies down a bit going forward knowing full well that band is boosted in the environment? or try and eliminate those nodes and deaden the room more? Really just seeing what you all would do in this case. Let me know and thank you in advance!

I am very new to all of this so I'm sure the is a simple issue, but it threw me for a bit today. I spent a few hours last night getting my UI24R setup and able to record on my mac with Pro Tools. The issue was io channels being limited so I had to upgrade my version to Studio. Once upgraded it worked nicely. Today at rehearsal I setup everything and started recording but noticed there were no meters on any of the tracks. Turns out Pro Tools started up in the free mode rather than Studio. I had to get onto Wi-Fi and restart it to enable Studio. Is there any way to disable the lesser version? Or do I always need Wi-Fi to run PT?

Hey, guys. When bouncing the final mix, how do you get the panning to sound the same in each speaker? I barely pan. The only panning I use is for my percussion instruments and even then I do it very subtley. When I put on headphones, the volume of each side is the same. Before I got serious about mixing, I panned and noticed the difference in volume in the way I had my tracks panned. When I started takinh mixing seriously, I use width to space stuff out except for percussion instruments that clash, i.e. hi hat/tambourine/shaker or bongos/congas. I'm on Reason right now and everything is analog, so there's no double clicking and deleting the (-) sign or adding it to do pocket EQ. I'm going to have to turn each knob manually. This could take like a week. I have 39 tracks in this beat. Is there a way to pan but still have everything at the same volume when I fo my final mix while keeping it stereo?