Tim Lloyd

On 3/19/2021 at 7:20 AM, Jord said:

I'm trying to install Cakewalk and I went to bed and left it open and when I woke up it still wasn't done...

is that normal?

No.

On 3/11/2021 at 4:19 PM, marled said:

That's why I would recommend to disable the Start Screen in the properties, if you perceive a long start time!

I have disabled the Start Screen for years. Actually it is not necessary as you can create a new project (also with template) and open existing projects (there is a list of the last opened projects) from the File menu. And for me Cakewalk starts amazingly fast 😄, even on my older laptop!

Since the Sonar times I have noticed that the Start Screen and the automatic plugin scanning take most of the start time, but you can disable both! They're really not necessary!

Great, that's helpful. Thanks

On 3/11/2021 at 3:50 PM, mike halgrimson said:

I am having  the some problem - the load is definately  hung up on one of the vst plug ins

mt power drum kit .  Is it possible that i have it in 2 locations and cakewalk is trying to decide from which location to load?

i also have other vsts in more than one location

any help would be appreciated

You can determine which locations the program searches for VST plug-ins by going to Preferences\Files\VST Settings. I suggest trying to delete paths to see which is causing it to hang (take a note of them first in case you want to restore them).

1 hour ago, msmcleod said:

It's actually pretty dangerous to have OneDrive directly referencing either Cakewalk (and any of its components), or your project directories.

You can quite easily end up with a sharing violation ( which will lead to a crash ) if OneDrive decides to take over while Cakewalk is trying to record audio to a file.

You need to go into your OneDrive configuration and tell it exactly which directories should and shouldn't be synchronised.

This file was archived to OneDrive from a different file location, so I don't know how Cakewalk found the path.

I know this is an old thread, but I am also finding that CbB is taking a long time to load, and I don't think this issue was fully resolved. For me, it seems connected with the startup screen that lists recent projects to choose from. One of my projects is on OneDrive, and when I launch the program I get a pop-up message from OneDrive telling me Cakewalk.exe is downloading from OneDrive - in this case a 580 MB cwb file which takes a while to download from the cloud. Why Cakewalk would need to download files just to present the list on startup, I don't know.

So if people have large files from previous projects, maybe that's why they are experiencing a long wait while these files load. I've tried to find a way to delete these projects from the list of recent files, but can't find a way. Maybe someone out there knows how to do this.