Tin Weasel

Good point about the synths still rendering, but I'd expect that having the synths rendering silently and ready for unmute could still happen with the playback meters off, and would make the most sense to a user when they've solo'ed or muted.

Came here to request almost exactly this. In the File Open dialog (Browser might be OK but I've never really used it), it would be great to have a Preview button that plays an audio snippet associated with the project. Worst case it could be a manual thing (preview.mp3) in the same folder (or audio subfolder), and I build that once for each snippet. But ideally, a setting inside a project where you effectively mark an audio track as a "preview track" and when Cakewalk saves the file, that preview file is generated if the track has changed. The preview audio could be built into the project file itself also, but from a dev point of view I can see that getting messy. This would save me hours every few months looking for those few bars I recorded that I might fit in a song or that I just want to play with. I don't know how to "+1" on a feature request, so I rated this topic 5 stars

I have an issue with the Rapture plugin. Not sure if related to this release, since I rarely use it - sorry if this is the wrong place to raise. Rapture works fine, until I route a MIDI track to it that has a Channel/Bank/Patch selected. After routing, Rapture immediately stops producing sound until I either delete and recreate the plugin or close/re-open the project. (If the project is saved with the MIDI channel already routed Rapture works fine until I hit Play on the project.) I found the silencing issue was due to Channel/Bank/Patch issue after some mucking around. Workaround of course is to set these all to NONE on MIDI tracks before routing. (They were set to external MIDI device previously, so had left-over values).

Did anything result from your report? I saw an issue today that might be (sorta) related: When a MIDI channel is silenced due to another track being SOLOed, it still shows activity in the playback meter, which can be kind of confusing. I would assume it would work the same way it does for audio tracks and not show silenced activity/data. Can't see an option to change this behavior in preferences. Wondering if this is something funny with the MIDI signal path.