Joseph Bourke

Well...thank you again for all the help. I just figured it out. It had nothing to do with the AKAI controller, and everything to do with Cakewalk! I started Cakewalk up while holding down the CTRL key. This apparently deleted the .ini file (or some configuration file), and now the pesky G2 (note 55) is working just fine! I now have to do some housecleaning - some of my VST instruments are no longer finding their libraries, but that's a pretty easy fix. This was an odd one, and one of the first true mysteries I've run across in Cakewalk. It has been pretty seamless and easy to set up (other than the transport keys on my AKAI - finally figured out after weeks of head scratching). Most of my problems are attributable to user error.

Thanks everyone for your quick responses! I've tried all the suggested possibilities, going in to the keyboard shortcuts and seeing the pedal assignment (which is a default) but the assignment is not turned on - I also reassigned it but still no G2 (55) in any of my Cakewalk instruments or third party VST instruments. What gets me is the fact that the G2 key works just fine in ACID Pro Suite using any of the VST instruments which don't have the silent G2 in Cakewalk! I also tried the virtual keyboard, and the G2 key plays fine in there - I'm not sure what that means, but I'll be trying to track down what's going on, short of reinstalling Cakewalk (which I'm avoiding at all costs). As I said above, it's a relatively fresh install of Cakewalk on Win10, and the G2 key was working just fine until a week ago. The only major change I worked on was getting my AKAI transport working again, so it's possible I may have hit a learn key in APK by mistake, and replaced the key assignment with something else. This is a real mystery!

When I'm in Cakewalk (latest version), and I play the note G2 (note 55), there is no sound. All other notes work just fine in any native Cakewalk instrument or 3rd party VST instrument. When I play the note in MIDI Monitor, it sends the on-off signals just fine, showing the note on and off, velocity, etc.. When I open ACID 10 Studio Pro everything is working just fine with all notes playing. When I open the free-standing version of Unify everything plays just fine. It is most definitely Cakewalk. This is driving me crazy! My first thought was that it was a bad key on my AKAI MPK49 MIDI controller. This is not the case. Is it possible that the G2 note has been assigned somehow to trigger a different, out of range note? Or is there a way to reset Cakewalk without doing a full reinstall? With all of my plugins and VST instruments this would take DAYS! As a matter of fact, this is a recent fresh install of Cakewalk, since I moved from Win7 to Win10. I am running on an HP Z800 dual Xeon machine with 48GB of RAM. There are no latency problems, and my setting is 500 in the preferences. Thanks for any help you can give. Joe Bourke