Martin Schiff

Celebrating with my 96 year old mother later today.

Also with my two daughter in law mothers, and my two sister mothers.

On 5/2/2024 at 1:16 PM, David Baay said:

I would guess antivirus scanning. Make sure Cakewalk projects/content and program directories are excluded at a minimum. Watching the Windows Resource Monitor while saving might help confirm that or give another clue. It could also be casued by large zip/archive files left on the Wndows Desktop or other paths the Windows Explorer-based browser might be indexing. This usually affects loading more than saving, but would be something to watch for, especially given you presumably just transferred a lot of data from an old PC to the new one.

I did just turn off Windows Defender as well. I didn't see a great deal of difference, but it might be a bit faster.

On 5/2/2024 at 5:55 PM, Martin Schiff said:

Bingo! You win the prize. I turned off real time protection in Malwarebytes, and the same project saves in about 4 seconds.

Thank you!

-- Martin

Actually, it's closer to 2 seconds.

4 hours ago, David Baay said:

I would guess antivirus scanning. Make sure Cakewalk projects/content and program directories are excluded at a minimum. Watching the Windows Resource Monitor while saving might help confirm that or give another clue. It could also be casued by large zip/archive files left on the Wndows Desktop or other paths the Windows Explorer-based browser might be indexing. This usually affects loading more than saving, but would be something to watch for, especially given you presumably just transferred a lot of data from an old PC to the new one.

Bingo! You win the prize. I turned off real time protection in Malwarebytes, and the same project saves in about 4 seconds.

Thank you!

-- Martin

18 hours ago, John Vere said:

It depends on how many changes were made since the last time you saved. Like lots of midi editing and changing settings. All that will add to slow saving time.

So best to keep saving as you work. 
Other things that I’ve noticed are leaving regional effects un rendered and audio snap. 

This was timed with opening the project, and then saving it immediately with no changes.

1 hour ago, 57Gregy said:

What is the output of these MIDI tracks set to?
A hardware device like a MIDI keyboard or sound module? Or the Microsoft GS Wavetable synth on your sound card? Or a software synthesizer?

Each of the 10 tracks is set to Unify VST, which have mostly Roli Equator 2 synths loaded.

I just upgraded my computer to a Dell XPS 8960 with NVME drives and 64Gb of ram in Windows 11.  Both the boot/program drive and my project drive are NVME drives and are very fast. 

My projects with multiple tracks of midi instruments are saving VERY slowly. One that I did recently with 10 midi instrument tracks takes 50 seconds to save to an NVME drive. It loads in a fraction of that time. 

What's going on, and how can I fix this?

-- Martin

I've read recently that Magix is bankrupt. Be careful.

Great work!

On 2/20/2024 at 4:26 PM, kakku said:

Great stuff 

Thanks Kakku.

Very nice!

On 2/9/2024 at 9:13 AM, Helios.G said:

Very nice Martin 👍👍

Thanks!

On 2/10/2024 at 3:05 AM, jngnz said:

How are you using Unify with the Seaboard? Is that even MPE?

Unify is just a host for plugins.  If the plugin is MPE enabled, then it will work the same in Unify as it does stand alone, but in Unify you have lots of options, including adding multiple plugins to combine sounds.  It's a fantastic product. I've been using it since it was first released.

9 hours ago, Old Joad said:

Very cool soundscape🖖🏼

Thanks!

The first song on my SoundClick site among those mentioned above is now #1 in the Electronic genre, and #1 in Ambient/Electronic.

Into the Aether

Thanks Nigel,

No, it didn't take long. I am not that great a keyboard player anyway, so the fact that it was different, was not a big issue. 

The song, "Rise" was the first that I did with it on the second day I had it.

I got it just before Christmas, and I've created those 7 pieces since then.

-- Martin

Thanks Jack.

I enjoyed both the music, and the video.

Thanks for sharing it.

I bought myself a Roli Seaboard Rise 2 keyboard for the holidays and couldn't be happier with it. Very inspiring. 

The first 7 songs here were done using Equator 2, Plasmonic, and Unify on the Rise 2.

Starbirth Music

All of the songs there were done in Cakewalk and Sonar over the years.

-- Martin

I know this is an old thread, but I had a crackling problem with my new Clarett 2pre when I set it up today with CbB.  I found this thread, so perhaps this will help someone else.

The solution was to increase the Latency slider to 8ms. After I did that, there were no pops or scratchy sounds, just music on playback. This was with multiple instances of Kontakt, Omnisphere, and other plugins.

This automatically increased the buffer size in the Clarett driver.

-- Martin

By any chance do you have any USB devices connected to the computer? If so, disconnect them all and retry the boot. 

-- Martin