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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.

It's probably easier to just zip up the folder with your project in it, so we have both the project & audio files, then send that zip file to @Jonathan Sasor

@Mark Bastable - can you send a project that crashes as a bundle file to @Jonathan Sasor , along with a note as to which track you were trying to bounce? We'll look into it.

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Ah, that might explain it. I was running on my laptop at the time, which doesn't have an iLok.

FWIW I found Melodyne was unusually slow on the very first time when analyzing the audio for your clips - Cakewalk appeared to hang, but eventually recovered. I've definitely not seen it crash though. Can you post the crash mini-dump when it crashes?

@ManuelGuerrero - I've gone through the extract tempo process through the debugger. Melodyne is telling Cakewalk it failed to extract any tempo information from the clips.

One thing I would add about choosing an interface, is think about what you might need in the next 2-3 years. I'm not saying spend a fortune on a 32 in / 32 output interface, but think about scenarios where: You might want to record more than just one or two channels Will you always be using VST effects, or will you be reamping via a real amp in the future, or might want to use external effects processing? So for example, something like the Scarlett 2i2 is a great interface, but you've only got 2 ins and 2 outs... and the 2 outs will invariably be connected to your monitors. The Scarlett 4i4 gives you 4 inputs and 4 outputs for an extra 30% - 40% of the cost. In general, you can't use more than one interface at once ( due to technical restrictions with ASIO / wordclock sync issues ), so if you do have to upgrade your interface your old interface will be redundant. One exception to this rule is interfaces that have an ADAT input. If you buy an ADAT converter, this will give an ADAT equipped interface an extra 8 inputs. The Scarlett 18i20 / 18i8 both have ADAT inputs. They're not cheap interfaces, but in saying that the Behringer UMC1820 essentially has the same feature set as the Scarlett 18i20 - i.e. 18 inputs (8 analog, 2 SPDIF, 8 via ADAT), 20 outputs (10 analog, 2 SPDIF, 8 via ADAT) - but is the same price as the Scarlett 4i4... although it's arguable that the Scarlett preamps are superior. Anyhow, all I'm saying is you might want to consider getting something slightly more than what you need now to save money in the future.