msmcleod

I had exactly this problem with the Virtual Guitarist plugins. Enabling "Load with JBridge wrapper" within the plugin properties solved it for me (even though it's wrapping a 64 bit VST in a 64 bit VST) If you've got JBridge, give it a try.

Same here 24/44.1. I've got ADAT running between 4 (soon to be 5) bits of gear, and I want all 8 channels on each link.

I found that when I first installed Windows 10, I started losing files. It turned out that both my laptop and my desktop were both logged into the same Microsoft account, and syncing to the same OneSync repository. I ended up disabling OneSync, although you can configure it to sync to different remote directories if necessary. Have you got OneSync running on more than one computer using the same Microsoft login?

I've not ever seen release notes for the BandLap app - that's not to say they don't exist - it's just I've not seen them. Maybe someone else knows?

I think the 2019.01 release must have literally just come out. I did a check yesterday, and 2018.11 was the latest version. I'd give it a few hours until the guys in Boston wake up - the release notes should follow.

I'm certainly not experiencing this, and I'm sure it would have been mentioned before if others were seeing it regularly. Does this happen when opening up a blank (or no) project? If so, it may point to an issue with your audio drivers, in which case make sure you've got the latest Windows 10 compatible drivers installed and delete cakewalk's AUD.INI (it'll recreate it when you next start Cakewalk). If it's only happening occasionally, then it might point to a plugin issue, in which case you'll need to narrow it down. Re-installing the plugin might help. If this doesn't, using the JBridge wrapper can also help.

Well spotted - I stand corrected!

First thing, don't uninstall Sonar. The bundled plugins you would have otherwise had to pay for will still work with Cakewalk. Secondly, make sure your VST paths in Cakewalk match what you've got in Sonar. Thirdly, if you've changed any of the default folders (e.g. Picture, Global Audio, and Projects directories etc) make sure they match what you've got in Sonar. After that you're pretty much good to go.

I agree. I'm have the 2i2, 6i6 & 18i20 and I can run at around 2ms playback latency, which is fine for me. I find 6ms playback latency intolerable for piano.

The External Insert is a generic effect for any external effect, so depending on how many hardware outputs you've got, it could go to various outboard devices. So renaming the External Insert itself doesn't make much sense. What you can do, is wrap it up in an FX Chain and save that as an FX Chain Preset which you can then just drag on to your track (or ProChannel) from the browser. Here's a thread with an example:

I would say 32", but 27" is pretty large already, so maybe 40" is a better bet. I've been seriously thinking about using a 32" or 40" TV for DAW work as it doesn't need the high refresh rates gamers require from a monitor. If you've got a TV you can try it out on, that might be the way to go... that's assuming of course that you're happy sticking with 1080P, although there are 4K TV's. If there's a small independent TV shop local to you, they might let you bring a laptop along to try them out.

On the unread content list, it would be nice to have a "mark topic as read" link/button on each post. The "mark site read" is useful, but there's always a danger I've missed something in between clicking the link & clicking the confirmation box, and also the list of unread post can be quite long and it's easy to lose your place. It would be nice to just mark off the obvious ones I want to skip one by one - especially if they're short posts and I've effectively read it on that list.

I've still got Sonar 5 running on an old Intel Atom based 1U racked MicroServer. I used it alongside a Yamaha 01X for live recording / band jamming sessions. I don't get to do much recording with it anymore, but it still runs just as solid as it ever did, and its perfect for that purpose... mind you, my laptop would be my preference nowadays.

Apart from some legacy DirectX effects, I haven't found a 32 bit plugin that doesn't run in CbB. I do find that JBridge does a much better job than BitBridge though, especially as there's some options to tweak things when incompatibilities arise (mainly GUI issues).

Thanks for including me in your list - I'm glad to have been of help

It does make me wonder why BandLab didn't do this in the first place. I suspect some of the sounds may have been using libraries that were licensed to Cakewalk Inc. and there were reasons why those weren't part of the BandLab acquisition. A paid version of RapturePro however, could probably cover the cost of renewing any licenses. Just speculating tho...

If you're using your internal sound card, you probably want it set to WASAPI, with the option to share the device selected. MME is really only there for really old sound cards for compatibility, and its performance is nowhere near as good as WASAPI or ASIO.

The 688 was great as it had the MTC encoder/decoder built in, so you could stripe your timecode on to a track and use the MIDI out directly. I used the Yamaha MT8X which didn't have this facility, so I used a Philip Rees PPS100 for striping tracks/syncing to MIDI. I found for small projects or things like automation using Cakewalk was fine, but for projects with a lot of MIDI information, Cakewalk struggled to keep up - especially if starting mid way through a song. I think in those days I still ran a Cirrus P166 which probably explains this! To solve this I recorded the whole MIDI song to a Alesis DataDisk. On playback this received MTC/SongPointer information from the PPS100 (with the timecode coming from track 8 of my MTX8) and played my sound modules in time with the audio. I also used this method in the studio when working with an ADAT/BRC : the BRC would send the sync information to the DataDisk and everything would play in time, regardless of where I started in a song. So what I ended up with was the melodic MIDI information being played by the DataDisk, automation of my Fostex DCM100/MixTab mixer being controlled by Cakewalk and the PPS100 acting as the master clock. As the MIDI instruments were basically live, I then had 7 tracks left on my MT8X for audio. The 7 audio tracks, and sound module output were fed into my DCM100 so I could automate my final mix.

I've excluded all my plugin folders, audio folders and sample folders from Windows Defender. This has sped up my VST scans considerably.

Probably the easiest way to make the templates available to CbB, is to copy the SONAR templates into your CbB templates folder. I'd recommend renaming them first (maybe append _sonar to the end) so they don't clash with the CbB equivalents and potentially get overwritten by an upgrade. Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but AFAIK all a drum map defines is which notes trigger which drums. This has nothing to do with the panning or outputs of a AD2 instance. To do what you want, you'll need to configure an instance of AD2 to provide the mono outputs as required and either: Save this as a track template, which can be inserted into any project; or Make sure your templates have an instance of AD2 in them with these settings applied. [edit] - Another, perhaps easier route would be to simply save a preset within AD2 with your settings applied.

I use Alter-Ego if I've got an idea for lyrics & a melody, and I'm not able to record my voice (either on the move on my laptop, or in the evening when I'd wake everyone up). It's a great way of getting ideas down. Nata's great as a female voice. Bones is better at male vocal ranges.

I've got over 250, but a lot of them are only 8 to 16 bars. Sometimes I'll finish a verse, then think, "hey I think I wrote something way back that would fit as a chorus here" - it's at that point I'd like to open the browser and go through my previous projects. If I find one I like, I can just drag it into my current project and move the clips over. As a workaround I used the new export function to go through each project and save an mp3 of each one in a separate folder. It took a whole weekend. Now I can go through my preview folder and preview the mp3's, then go back to the project folder, pick the project with the same name and drag it in. But it means me manually doing an export every time I save a project. It would be much easier if it was done automatically. In any case, just about everything else can be previewed on the media browser - why not projects?

You can't drag projects from the start screen though. And the start menu only shows the last 100 most recent projects - not all of them.

Yeah, that would work... as long as I don't have to continue doing it manually (and remembering to keep updating them). I guess the cwp could hold a reference to the preview file (like it does for the other audio data).

Another I found helps, is unplugging your audio interface (assuming it's external). Cakewalk might recognise this and come back to life. If this does the trick, then it might be an audio interface issue rather than a plugin issue (actually, it could be the issue even if Cakewalk doesn't come back to life). The following might solve it: 1. Reboot your machine 2. Re-install your audio drivers (not always necessary, but might help) 3. Delete AUD.INI 4. Start Cakewalk