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Assuming you have installed all the plugins on the destination PC, on the source PC, saving as a bundle for the purpose of the transfer may work.

Windows 10 is excellent, once you tell it who's boss....

With the smart tool enabled (Sounds like you already have it enabled) If you hold the mouse button down then move the mouse slightly, the note will be placed If you hold the mouse button down and then move the mouse more before releasing you can set the duration. Moving to the right sets to duration. Moving to the left sets the duration by setting the start of the note but locks the end of the note. Convoluted, yes, but you do get used to this. Personally, I would like a single click to just place a note - to do that, select the draw tool - but you can't set the duration.

Yes, Norton has been known to be a bit of a hog. There is a debate whether turning off Windows updates is actually a good idea or not with fiery battles raging between those that say you should and shouldn't. In fact, I believe entire planets have been destroyed over this issue. Granted, the destruction is limited to merely our own galaxy. Personally, I think Windows updates should not be disabled as they usually contain important bug fixes and security updates that end users are not aware of or have not not come across. What I do, however, is tell Windows not to touch drivers as Microsoft could potentially replace perfectly good drivers with their generic ones. When ever someone has installed Windows updates and they are having issues since, this is usually the reason. There are several ways to allows Windows updates get tell Windows not to touch drivers. See. https://www.windowscentral.com/how-disable-automatic-driver-updates-windows-10

Exactly which version and build number of Cakewalk by Bandlab are you using?

Mind sharing the solution?

There has got to be something else going on. The only thing that has caused Addictive Drums to need reactivation is a milestone update of Windows 10. At other times, I have never had issues after a Cakewalk by Bandlab update or a non milestone Windows 10 update. On my machine, it just works. Have you checked the system event viewer for hardware issues that my be contributing. Especially check for any disk errors. IF CbB is crashing, drop a note to Cakewalk support and include the crash dump file - Available from here: %APPDATA%\cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\miniDumps

Check the folder as defined in the following registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Cakewalk VST X64\VSTInternalPath This folder location as defined in this registry entry should contains your Pro channel modules DLLs

That's exactly what I have.

Then I think it's more to do with with your keyboard is actually transmitting. What model MIDI controller is it? I have never had this issue with my PCR-800 and a Focusrite 2i2 and manually playing VSTis

Try increasing it further.... I have mine at 750

Preferences | Audio | Devices and settings - Driver mode

However, even if the MIDI track's channel is set to a value from 1 to 16...... the PRV controller lane for that track still takes into account the channel of the individual controller events when choosing which lane to display in single lane controller view. If you have controller events that are set to different channels on the same track, you may not see all controller events in the controller lane. On the controller lane of older versions of Cakewalk, you could tell Cakewalk to display events of "all channels". That option is not available on later versions of Cakewalk. You can only select channel 1 to 16. "all channels" is not present on the channel select drop down menu. I wish the bakers would bring that back. What I like to do is configure my cakewalk.ini file so that when I bounce MIDI clips to a single clip on a given MIDI track, the MIDI channels of all the MIDI events on that track will change to match the MIDI channel of the track itself. To get Cakewalk by Bandlab to Rechannel the events when bouncing MIDI clips on the same track, to match that of the track itself, do the following: In the file %APPDATA%\cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\cakewalk.ini under the [WinCake] section, add the following line. RechannelMIDI=1

Are you using ASIO mode?

I have updated to 4.0.7 and on my PC, the clicking issues I reported in 4.06 no longer occur. I never had the other issues you mention. If you do upgrade and you still find there are issues with 4.0.7,you can always roll back to 4.0.4

Thanks for all the hard work you guys have put into this update.

You must have one hell of a Dropbox Quota.....

In that case, you could automate the bus level (where the effect is) rather than the send level of the track. That being said, most effects do have a wet level control that could also be automated.

Yes, I use this myself - I have the paid version.

Probably because the 9th generation CPU is so efficient that it does not really need hyperthreading. That being said, if it's available, you still might want to enable it - even if "hyperthreading has little to no impact on DAW production" I am thinking that there are likely many other processes that are running on a typical Windows 10 PC that can and does benefit from hyperthreading.

One thing I can suggest is that you disable every solitary power saving feature you can find. Speedstep (sometime called EIST), C-States, USB power management - lose all of it. Set CPU min and Max to 100% in WIndows power settings. Use highest performance power settings. If you have an Nvidia card, set Power Management Mode to "prefer Maximum Performance in 3d settings...(Remember, some plugins use the GPU for any dynamic GUIs - melda plugins do this) Another thing, is fully patch your PC. Make sure you always use the latest drivers for all hardware (Video, network, Audio interface - everything). Do all this before installing CbB. Disable any audio devices you don't use. Settle on a sample rate and set every audio device you do use (and have enabled) to that sample rate - even in Windows Control Panel sound settings. Obviously use ASIO for your main audio interface. Avoid ASIO4ALL like the plague. Others will have further suggestions.

One way I can think of is set up a bus (or an AUX track) with the given effect on it. Then, for the track that you want to effect on, automate the send level to that bus (which has the actual effect. I say to adjust the send level rather than simply disabling the VST is because disabling the VST would cause an abrupt silencing of a reverb tail for example. Others may have other methods.

I have configured my Windows updates so that Microsoft never updates any drivers on Patch Tuesday. I like to manage drivers myself - for this very reason.

Not at this time, no.

I notice 13.04 has been pulled, so especially if you have this version you might want to upgrade.