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I gave up on using computers live a long time ago. Going from a cold car to below zero outside then straight into a pub with a blazing fire going, then the reverse at the end of the night soon takes it's toll on a PC, and its a disaster if it fails or glitches during a performance. I use Cantable as a host to my VSTi's, then run SampleRobot to sample the VSTi. I then put the samples as sf2 files on to one of these, running SampleLord: While it can actually run VSTi's natively, it's way underpowered, so I find sampling my synths and using SampleLord on the V-Machine far better for CPU, and also more convenient as I can have a single sf2 with a whole song's worth of synths in it as separate internal patches. I'll maybe run dexed or Cobalt natively on the V-Machine for sounds that need extra realtime control.

For plugins, CPU performance is most important. For projects with lots of sample libraries, RAM is important. So ideally you want both. As for a performance improvement, I've used to have an i5 3570 processor which I upgraded to an i7 3770, which is comparable to your setup given it's a 3rd gen CPU. Both are running at 3.4Ghz. I saw maybe a 20% - 30% improvement going from the i5 to the i7 - not huge, but then the speed is the same, and although the i7 is hyperthreaded, there's still only 4 cores. My 6th gen i7 laptop @ 2.6Ghz matches the performance of my 3rd gen 3.5Ghz i7 3770. My i7 - 9750H @2.6Hgz laptop is significantly faster than the other machines ( at least twice as fast ), so a ~4GHz 11th gen i7 should be even faster.

Actually, @Cea - could you send your Cakewalk project file (.cwp file) to @Jonathan Sasor ? We've had another report of a crash on project open today, so it would be good to know if this is the same issue. Thanks.

@Cea - you can rollback to 2021.04 using this link: Cakewalk 2021.04 Rollback installer.

I'm not sure this is the fault of PC-2A... it's a different plugin to CA-2A. I've got both on my system, and I don't get this. It's more likely your CA-2A installation has been corrupted somehow, or maybe you moved it or have duplicate copies ? I would suggest re-installing CA-2A.

The export dialog is selection sensitive, and the source category specifies where it captures the source. Selecting a source category of "Entire mix" with a single clip or track selected, means put that single clip or track through the entire mix - i.e. through all the buses etc, and capture it after the master bus. Selecting a source category of "clips" will capture the selected clips as individual files before it hits the track - i.e. there will be no track fx, no pro channel, and no track volume or panning. Selecting a source category of "tracks" will capture the selected tracks as individual files before it hits any buses or the master bus. I quite often want to capture my tracks as it sounds through the master bus - not how it sounds before it hits any buses. In this case I'll select the track prior to opening the export dialog, and select "Entire Mix". Alternatively, I'll not select anything, but solo the track and select "Entire Mix"

Offset Tempo map works on the node selection - so make sure you have them all selected. You may find them easier to select from the tempo inspector.

Can you reproduce the issue? If so, can you send a copy of your project before the issue arises to @Jonathan Sasor along with instructions to reproduce?

VST3's should only ever live in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3 , and there should only be VST3 files in that directory. SF2 files are not virtual instruments, they are multi-samples in SoundFont format. You need an SF2 player to use them (such as Sforzando, TX816W etc)

If you're using a Workspace, save it after re-ordering your control bar modules. Don't save over the factory ones though - give it a new name else it'll be overwritten when you next update.

This was useful in the early 90's when people were migrating from older sequencers. For example, I used Music-X on the Amiga before moving to Cakewalk which had a resolution of 192 ticks per quarter note. I spent most of my time in Music-X's event view, so being able to set Cakewalk's ticks per quarter note to 192 made the transition much smoother when using Cakewalk's Event View., until I slowly changed my workflow to use Cakewalk's other features.

You can change the time base to Absolute time on an arranger track by track basis. So all sections within an absolute time track will keep their absolute time position and length regardless of tempo changes. To change the time base of an arranger track, either use the arranger track context menu, or click the time base icon in the arranger track header:

You might want to try @scook's CbB Tools - in there is a utility to populate the Utilities menu. It's towards the bottom of this page: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eiVH_I1clbbRtWFh4-3Mo7HANjCxR8SwqHJtYXy19gw/pub

When using the smart tool, you can use CTRL + SHIFT to stretch the clip to make it shorter:

@Noel Borthwick's fix was a generic one for both extra ports appearing, and ports being missing from updated VSTi's, so the fix in EA should equally apply to those as well.

+1 to this.. I had a brown out a few years ago, where the AC went down from 240V to 50V. Three SSD's were destroyed by that.

If I were to pick my top two synths, it would be Omnisphere and Synthmaster 2.9. Both synths have a learning curve, but both also have a wealth of presets, so it's not too difficult to take a preset close to what you want then tweak it. They both have multiple synthesis types. No.3 on my list is Cobalt, which is a free VSTi similar to the Korg DW8000 / Kawai K3.

There's also Sonivox Orchestral Companion Brass, which has solo brass instruments, including a french horn. It goes on sale quite often ( I think I paid about £5 for mine), but I can't see any decent deals ATM.

I'm not sure why this should be happening, maybe @Jonathan Sasor can shed some light on it... The only thing that springs to mind is that you've compressed you're drive? This is known to cause issues with ProChannel modules. If this is the case, decompress the following folder: C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Utilities\Internal

It's now consistent with the Insert Soft Synth dialog - i.e. "All Mono" / "All Stereo " means all, and the number of outputs is disabled. Using split instrument tracks is more of an advanced way of using soft synths in any case (as opposed to simple or per output instrument tracks), so its likely you'll need to adjust things manually anyway. Of course you can always choose "All" then delete the tracks you don't want.

Sounds like your scan options have been reset somehow. After the scan has completed, try setting them to this:

^^^ This . Switch your driver mode to WASAPI within preferences, and see if the problem goes away.: Note there's two modes of WASAPI: WASAPI Exclusive: lower latency, but Cakewalk will have exclusive control over your audio device (i.e. you'll no longer be able to listen to YouTube etc when Cakewalk is using it). If this is an issue for your workflow, consider checking "Suspend Audio Engine When Cakewalk is Not in Focus". Also, not all audio devices support this mode. WASAPI Shared: higher latency, but the audio device will be shared with all other applications. You'll want "Suspend Audio Engine When Cakewalk is Not in Focus" to be unchecked in this mode. You may find WASAPI Exclusive is more suitable for recording real-time MIDI, or recording guitar/vocals when monitoring through FX. WASAPI Shared should be fine for everything else.

IIRC, MidiGuitar is very sensitive to ASIO buffer size and sample rate. It's been a while since I've used it, but it needs a minimum of 128 as a buffer size and it worked best for me at 48K. Any time I used it in a project, I'd delete it as soon as I had the MIDI conversion. But yeah, I stopped using it due to it being buggy and prone to crashes.

Are you sure it's not a plugin that has decided to deauthorise itself ? XLN Audio (e.g. Addictive Drums) does this regularly on Windows updates - once re-authorized, it's fine.