Michael Menser

Just in case anyone is interested, Cakewalk is working fine for me now, although I'm not sure what I did to fix it.

I have been using Studio One for the past few months but I opened Cakewalk again recently to export some tracks and, to my surprise, it miraculously works fine now.  

I'm not sure what changed but I suspect it might have had something to do with the  buffer size.  Previously I tried to change it in an effort to fix the playback issues but it would automatically revert back to what it was set to before.  

Whatever the reason. . . I'm just glad it works properly and I now have the ability to use either Cakewalk or Studio One.

Thanks for the replies. I still haven't been able to improve the performance of Cakewalk but I tried Presonus Studio One 6 and it works just fine. I have been planning to switch over to Studio One for a while anyway. The only issue is I have a few projects in Cakewalk I still need to finish. I guess for now I'll finish those projects on my old hard drive.

I did a fresh install to the new SSD. I thought cloning would be better but I eventually gave up because my PC would freeze  on a loading screen for hours at 0%. 

Honestly, I have never heard of 4K alignment. I'm not super knowledgeable about computers 😅.

A few days I got a new SSD to replace my hard drive that was loading very slow.  I installed Cakewalk and all of my VST's. I used screenshots to make sure all of my settings are identical to how it was set up previously on my HDD (as far as I can tell). I updated drivers. I made sure ASIO is selected as my audio driver in Preferences.  Unfortunately, when I opened a project I found that the audio playback was very choppy and glitchy. It often drops out the audio briefly before resuming. The VST instruments I've tried run terribly even from playing one note. EZ Drummer 3 runs fine, strangely.... The only 2 things that I can tell are different from before are 1) I am now running a slightly newer version of Cakewalk.  2) The version of Windows on the SSD seems to be a little different/newer.

I'm running on Windows 10 using an M Audio Air 192-6 interface.  The amount of power, CPU and RAM usage is identical to when Cakewalk runs on the HDD (i switched between them to find any differences).

Everything else on my PC seems to be running very fast and smooth. I'm not sure if the issue is with Cakewalk specifically or an audio driver.

Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Michael

22 hours ago, Bristol_Jonesey said:

Delete the Neutron

Do a save as with a new name to a new location. Make sure "copy audio with project is checked"

Now see if the project plays ok

If it does, you'll know it was a problem with the Neutron and you can delete the old project

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it. It seemed okay for about half an hour but unfortunately it  messed up again

On 10/14/2022 at 2:00 AM, Max Arwood said:

I have had this happen as well. I had a ton of plugins loaded. Turning off master bus effects made the file play sometime. I sent a cwp file to support. Nothing from them about it.  Did you have a lot of effects in the project? Was the cakewalk cpu/disc meter high? I would like to get to the bottom of this too. My meters were pegged after the pop. My export was a pop then there was a full volume wave form.I didn’t analyze it to see what frequency it was.

To get help.  
You need to furnish ->

what audio card?

what is the latency set to?

computer cpu memory?

What versions -

Cakewalk?

Windows?

 

 

I'm using Cakewalk version 28.9.0.27 (currently the latest version)

Buffer size set to 256 samples

Windows 10

i7-4790K processor

8 GB ram (planning to upgrade soon)

I'm using M-Audio Air 192/6 audio interface - ASIO

There are quite a few effect plugins on this project but not really much more than an average project for me. I have several instances of Neutron in the project. I'm also using a few Arturia plugins.  The cpu/disk meter doesn't go up when the error occurs (assuming I'm looking at the correct thing for this).

I have a Cakewalk project that suddenly gives me a popping noise followed by silence. When this happens the Mix bus and Master bus both show the meters going into red. I've found that if I disable the effects from the Mix bus then enable them again the project usually goes back to normal. This also happens if I delete a track from the project...when that happens I have to close the project and reopen it to get it work again.  I tried creating a new bus to replace the mix bus... that didn't help. The only plugin I have on the mix bus is Neutron 3 elements for EQ and Compression. 

Also, when I tried to export an audio file of the project in its current state the resulting audio file begins with a pop followed by several minutes of silence.

I decided to copy all of the audio tracks over to a new project. Strangely, I get the exact same problem. I've repeated this process a few times with the same end result. 

I don't have this issue on any of my other projects. Does anyone have a suggestion to fix this?