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9 hours ago, Michael Fogarty said:

 ACPI Battery Control Method I think did the trick. Disabling the Dell Support Assist Remediation I will leave disabled as I don't need it. I rarely use the laptop, but I did play last night for a couple of hours and it seems no problem now. I really appreciate your help.

Great! It's helped me tremendously!

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On 10/21/2020 at 11:12 PM, Michael Fogarty said:

latest - I did these tweaks and played last night for quite a long time and no glitches.  One interesting thing though is that now the backlit keyboard doesn't work (it used to shut off and on). Now I need to see which of the two tweaks caused it.

 

PS -edit. All I had to do to reinstate the light is to toggle F10. (I use it as a hotkey when using Cakewalk).

So any news on how the system is performing? Did you figure out which of the two fixes did it?

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Have you disabled the ACPI Battery Control Method in Device Manager? On my XPS 18 it makes a huge the difference, and on my Surface Pro 3 it means I'm able to run Soft Synths on it at 64 samples buffer size all night long without a single pop or click.

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I think it's the best, free OR paid. In this here pandemic I decided to expand my horizons, bought a Mac Mini to learn Logic; it does some things great, and the included sound library is on point, but I still prefer Cakewalk overall. Protools is awful, Ableton Live does some things uniquely but has perhaps the worst UI of all.

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20 hours ago, craigb said:

So, per Jim above, the entire World must be currently in "Long Battery Life" mode... 😏

What does that even mean? LOL

Bottom line is, once you work with full software input monitoring through Cakewalk it's impossible to go back.

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I have! A couple of times now, I'd send three Tom tracks to an Aux, which worked great for a session or two. Then I'd open it up later and no toms. No matter what I tried, of course with all the settings and ins/outs correct they just would not sound. Sends toms directly to mains: sound, make a NEW Aux track and send the toms there: sound.

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2 hours ago, Danny Novak said:

Hello Friends... We are retired polish (musicians) couple, and soon we will be celebrating our 40th Wedding Anniversary. For this occasion I started composing a special song for my wife (with Cakewalk by BandLab), but recently I lost this application (comp. crush), and I can't download it using my BandLab Assistant's account. So I desperately need somebody's help, pleeeeeeas. If anybody can send me a copy of Cakewalk by BandLab to my email address (kocuro24@gmail.com) I would be very grateful... God bless... - Danny Novak.                                   PS. sorry for my bad English.  

Dude, I know you're Polish but you know this application is 100% free, don't you? Just google and download the "Bandlab Assistant" and it will download and install Cakewalk!

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19 minutes ago, shaun watson said:

 I only recently  upgraded my i5 Win 10 system from 4gb to 8gb. I use it for heavyweight DAW, gaming and photography use. I have never experienced    any memory problems  whatsoever.   It is extremely unlikely you will need any more than 8gb in my experience. A lot of the expectation for more is just from aggressive sales tactics from big PC companies trying to flog you stuff that you really  dont need. 

Now I have to take the other side: it's  not "extremely unlikely" if, as stated the OP does, one uses large sample libraries. It's almost CERTAIN that more than 8GB will make a big difference.

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But it has "Grammy Winning Presets"!

LOL

2 hours ago, Alan Bachman said:

I should have mentioned that I use a lot of sample libraries, including various Vienna libraries, and I was experiencing Ram issues.   Thank you all!   My expectations are lowered!  

 

Well, then you DO fit the profile where a LARGE improvement could be noticed! Please let us know what you find out!

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If I had $1 for every person I know (mostly Mac users of course!) that bought more RAM to "speed up" his computer, only to find out it made ZERO difference, I'd have like 2 or 3 hundred bucks! If I had $1 for everyone that recommended to someone else to buy more RAM to speed up his or her computer I'd have enough to buy a 2010 Prius.

I've done seriously big projects for years, with over 100 tracks, Addictive Drums, GPO, Kontakt etc. etc. I don't use a TON of big sample libraries, and as explained, if you DO a lot you're in a different situation, but I've NEVER seen a project on my system use more than 4 GB. I upgraded from 8GB to 16GB of RAM at some point and saw ZERO difference in DAW use. Some games on the other hand did use it so it wasn't a waste of time.

Bottom line is this: buying more RAM without first seeing how much you're ACTUALLY using is kind of silly. And the important metric here is the amount CAKEWALK specifically is using in Task Manager, NOT the total RAM used by the system which is not exactly relevant.

If you're doing Vienna Symphonic library type stuff, or to RAM video rendering previews, you could use 64GB, but for almost everyone else 8GB is more than likely enough.

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2 hours ago, lapasoa said:

For me too it's the way you play your guitar. Strum exactely on the first beat of the bar.

So conform to the robot, that's the best way of making music? I couldn't disagree more. Exactly metronomic music, made by human musicians, is why so much stuff is so lifeless and boring these days.

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Cakewalk doesn't need to do ANYTHING; the way it is is perfect, because not everybody quantizes all the life out of his or her music. There is already a way of doing what you're expecting and that is "move by" as described by Blogospherianman. What you call a "fix" for me would be a disaster!

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18 hours ago, Gswitz said:

Bit's point is that on a slow processor FX add up to unbearable latency faster than on a multi-core with high clock-speed. No big deal. He's telling the person rightly that they can record with near zero latency. I do. With few or no FX. As you add them the latency will climb and it will climb faster with a slow processor.

I have an 8 core something or other that runs at 4.x Ghz and I can overdrive it. So my bet is I could overdrive a scrawny laptop.

Except he said to use NO computer based effects and that's just BS. Of course you can overload that CPU, you can overload ANY CPU. Again, I used a 1st gen i3 for my second record, and ran all session for basic tracks with full input monitoring for four headphone mixes, EQs, Compressors, 2 or 3 Reverbs, live full drums (9 mics), percussion (3 mics), keys, guitar and bass at 64 sample buffer size for DAYS without a single dropout.

Point in case, a modern i5 can do TONS of effects at ultra low latency, not a "few" and certainly not "none". I'll give you another example: I have a Dell XPS 18 with a i5-4300U, I've done hours and hours of gigs with this rig, running Ableton Live at 64 sample buffer size, streaming 20 tracks of audio, while running Trillian, Lounge Lizard, Native Instruments B4, Addictive Drums 2 without problem.

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1 hour ago, bitflipper said:

Semantic distinction: YMMV <> BS

 

You literally said: "Just don't use any computer-based effects while recording" and I'm sorry Bitflipper but that's BS. ANY modern i5, even ultra low power dual cores, will allow you to do a LOT of effects at 64 samples with full input monitoring, as in MULTIPLE Guitar Rig or Amplitube instances and all the Prochannel EQs, CA2As, Console Emulators you want. Of course you could find plugins that might overload it, but the generic YMMV, which is quite a step back from your original statement is still kind of unfair.

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On 8/24/2020 at 8:15 AM, Kurre said:

Ok. Enough. I got that from Scook's post yesterday.

I am pointing out that not everybody testing your daw is professionals and get that. They would get it much faster if there was no gain knob in the track when they setup to record audio. They see the gain knob for master and check another track, which probably is an instrument track, and they see a gain knob there. That would be enough for most people to draw a logical conclusion about the gain knobs.

PS. Ask someone that understands people. Searching for an answer in a manual is something most people avoid until they are forced to.

Ok. That's enough from me on this topic. You can discuss among yourself.

DUDE!

You should get a Mac if that's your attitude, because dumbing down a DAW because SOME people might not get it is ridiculous. It's a serious piece of software and that's why I love it. If it's going to be built for people who will only RTM when they're "forced" it's gonna suffer....

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The CODEC is not the problem with just about any sound device. At this point a $1 IC can do near perfect DA conversion. The thing where onboard sound falls short is the ANALOG part, the actual output stage, and even more so when used with headphones plugged in directly.

That said, if you're not recording audio, and even more so, if you're only arranging, creating and not doing a final mix, as long as you can get low enough latency for YOUR use, onboard audio is fine.

As a matter of fact, lately I've been using the 1/8" out on my Surface Pro going to the 1/8" in on my Yamaha P255 for running live soft-synths and Ableton on gigs and it sounds EXCELLENT. Also, the latency, using ASIO4ALL, is incredibly low and super stable. I did have to disable the "ACPI Battery Control Method" to get it this good, but that was the case with my Zoom UAC2 as well, and that's the only interface I've tried that gets latency as low as my Motu 424s.

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58 minutes ago, bitflipper said:

Yes.

Just don't use any computer-based effects while recording, and then raise your buffer sizes while mixing if you'll be using a lot of effects. (You may think you won't be using a lot of fx, but everybody eventually does. The cornucopia of cheap digital effects available is just too alluring.)

BS, back in 2010 I ran sessions for my XR7 record on a FIRST GEN i3; it did FULL plugs on all instruments, drum set, bass, percussion and gtr, 16 to 18 inputs, with 4 individual headphone mixes, compressors, eqs, couple of reverbs, and here comes the good part: at 64 sample buffer size ALL DAY LONG. I did multiple sessions, full SOFTWARE input monitoring, without a hiccup.

A modern i5 will do even better, with a good low latency sound device of course.

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Even a modern i3 will provide more than enough horsepower; more important is the audio interface, and no, more expensive is NOT better.

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A LOW power one. GT1030, passive perhaps? As a matter of fact, my experience is built on maybe 20 or 30 systems, but it seems these days that integrated Intel graphics might actually work better for low latency operation. Just know that getting a GTX2080 will not give you any advantage over a GTX1650 .

If you want to hook up a 4K display, just make SURE you get a card that does 4k at 60 Hz will full color space. GTX 1050 will work great too.

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Don't forget the Sonitus Reverb!

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Wow, what answers you guys....

Anyways, what I think the OP means is what Ableton Live calls "exlusive" arm (and solo BTW) which means that if you arm a new track, any other track that  is armed will get 'dis-armed'. This way it takes one command to be ready to record the next thing..

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That's MORE than fast enough!

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1 hour ago, Bapu said:

Funny how old hardware is coveted but old plugins are not.

Except some old plug ins ARE! The Native Instruments B4 is still the best B3 emu ever made in my opinion. It's one of the reasons I can't switch to Mac.... on Windows it still works!

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Have the same issue, on two different machines!

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