Ricebug

Got tired of the mish-mash of what was what on my hard drive, so I wiped Cakewalk and BandLab from the drive and registry and did a clean install. For some reason, however, I found the Big Fish Audio folder on a separate drive. No big deal, since I've never partaken of that genre, but my OCD won't let me rest until it goes where it's supposed to go. Where does this folder actually belong?

When I migrated over to CnB, all of the tracks are now without grids, just smooth bars with no visible measures and subdivisions showing. The ruler is visible at the top but not in the tracks. Nothing in Preferences. You'd think a simple right-click on a track would have a menu item, "Show Track Grid." But noooooooooooooooo...!

I had a similar problem. Had to do a factory reset on the interface and disable "Receive MIDI Controller Data." Yours may not be that EXACT problem, but I suspect a Global setting on the MIDIMan may be the issue. If you can borrow someone else's interface, you could verify if Cakewalk is the culprit. Or try a soft synth, one that uses SoundFonts. Not sure on that one. Just throwing out ideas.

That's the problem with computer-based technology. One day, you're happy playing Rayman: The Great Escape, then you upgrade the OS and the oldies become distant memories. EDIT: Installed Bandlab's Cakewalk. DX instruments still cause crashes. To be specific, I can add an instrument, pick a voicebank, etc. But as soon as I press the synth keyboard or press Play on the DAW, fuggedaboutit.

Is Command Center still active? Or does BandLab have its own updater? What is "CbD," BTW? I haven't kept up since Cakewalk threw in the towel.

I'm running a Windows 10 machine with DirectX 12. Doing a dxdiag shows everything is fine. Every time I load a DXi-based synth in Sonar, however, the program crashes. Just to save you time, these are Cakewalk TTS-1 Cyclone GroovePlayer PSYN II Pentagon I Roland GrooveSynth The TTS-1 and Roland synths used to play fine. Now, they too crash the software. Any suggestions? I just gotta have that retro sound, man!