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Mark S Ellis

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  1. Just want to update: I've been troubleshooting all day. The only way I can get cakewalk to treat the 2nd sound card the same as the 1st sound card is to reinstall the sound card driver. Whatever sound card I plug in first will be "UC midi port 1". If I unplug that one the 2nd card will be "2 - UC midi port 1". This is a terrible workaround to the problem, but if no one has any other advice it'll have to do. Any advice/suggestions on best practice installing drivers over and over?
  2. Hello All! We're running Sonar 8.5 for our live rig. We have a couple of different hardware setups depending on how far we travel. We have two RME Fireface UC units, one for each rig. They're both updated to the same firmware. The problem arises when we switch rigs. When opening a file in Cakewalk, a message pops up that it can't find the same MIDI device that was saved in the file. The problem is that Cakewalk is calling the 1st fireface unit "UC midi port 1" and when we're not using the 1st unit but we got the 2nd fireface unit plugged in, cakewalk is calling the 2nd unit "2 - UC midi port 1". So it seems as though the solution is to copy all of my cakewalk projects to another folder, and go through every project and change the midi outs to the 2nd unit, and use those project files when using the 2nd fireface rig. Surely there's a better way? I was thinking if I could find the .ini file that cakewalk uses to keep track of the units I could amend or delete it so cakewalk starts fresh when changing from one fireface to another, but I can't find where that info is stored. Any thoughts are appreciated! I'd hate to have to go through all of those files to create a whole new set for using different audio interfaces... BTW, the audio channels don't change names between units and seem fine.
  3. That's the thing, though, I would open a .bun file, then save it as a .cwp file. Then when I re-opened cakewalk it would delete all of the .wav files in the /audio folder. Problem has been resolved by re-saving the .cwp files with audio to new folders.
  4. John, this fixed my problem! I didn't realize the 'save as' dialog had a spot to save the wav files... again. I went through all of my .cwp files, pointed at the backup folder I'd made of all of my .wav files to load the project (as I've had to do at a number of gigs now). Then 'saved as' and pointed both the project and audio files to new folders. That seems to have done the trick. Thank you SO much!
  5. Yes, it does. And I instructed it to unpack them all into one audio folder. Now that I've done that, there's some mechanism in cakewalk that deletes almost all of the audio files in my audio folder. I know if you open a .bun file and don't save it as a .CWB file, it will spit the audio files somewhere while the .BUN file is open, then delete them when you close it since you didn't save the bun file as a .CWB. I assume this mechanism is what's deleting all of the wav files on startup.
  6. Thanks for your response Eric. Ok. Is there a way to change to per project audio folders after the fact?
  7. I posted a while ago on having this issue, but I have more info and thought it'd be better to consolidate everything to a new post. I transferred a bunch of .bun files from an older version of cakewalk to a new laptop with the newest version of cakewalk. I had it spit the .wav files into a global folder. Thankfully I backed up the audio folder, because every time I start cakewalk it deletes almost all of the .wav files in my audio folder. This happens every time. I can copy all of the .wav files from my backup folder into my main audio folder, start cakewalk, and as soon as it opens almost all of my .wav files in the audio folder are gone. Any idea why this is happening? Also, I can't tell why it doesn't delete a few .wav files. Maybe I saved those projects differently originally?
  8. It's very strange... Opening the .cwb file I make sure "copy project audio" is checked. The WAV files go into my C:\Audio folder. Everything plays perfectly, and I save the file as a standard .CWP file in my C:\projects folder. But then when I close cakewalk and open a .CWP file back up the WAV files are just gone. Deleted from the Audio folder. So, the 2nd time around I opened a handful of .cwb files, saved them as .CWP files, and then copied the C:\Audio folder's contents to C;\Audioback. After I closed cakewalk (and cakewalk cleaned out my C:\Audio folder) I copied all of the wave files from C:\Audiobak into C:\Audio. Again, everything played fine, but when I closed cakewalk all the wav files out of C:\Audio were deleted again. As long as I keep copy and pasting the WAV files from C:\Audiobak into C:\Audio every time I use the program I can get it all to work. I'm pretty sure that if you open a .CWB file and don't save it, then close it, Cakewalk will delete the WAV files it spat into it's audio folder. I feel like that's what it's doing here, although I AM saving the .CWB file as a .CWP file, so it shouldn't be happening. It's just such a bizarre problem!
  9. Hey Guys! I have some bundle files (.cwb) made on one computer in an older version of cakewalk. I've opened them up on another computer and saved them as standard .cwp files. However, cakewalk seems to be automatically deleting the .wav files associated with the cwp. files. If I close cakewalk and start it again, all the .wav files are gone from the c:/audio folder that I have them stored in. I don't see any setting that addresses this. Any ideas?
  10. Mark S Ellis

    info page?

    Thank you, scook!
  11. Mark S Ellis

    info page?

    Older versions of Sonar had an info page (File-->Info...) that was a nice little notepad to make notes into. Does this still exist? Sorry, but I can't find it and my google-fu is lacking. Thanks.
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