Promidi

13 minutes ago, Timhisattva said:

I'm getting the stuck note when I'm just testing the new settings. Manually playing the midi keyboard...  Doesn't ,,, or hasn't yet produced stuck notes during playback.

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

4 hours ago, Timhisattva said:

I did some searching in the forum and found helpful info here...

https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/5573-stuck-midi-notes-still-a-problem/

In - Prefs, MIDI - Playback and Recording / Playback, I reset the Buffers to 250 ms... seemed to have fixed the problem.

But no... still getting a stuck note. Any other fix info would be most helpful.

Tim

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

1 hour ago, tim E said:

Not sure. Where do I find that? There is a Driver Mode drop-down that only has MME as an option. Is there another way to find out or change to ASIO mode?

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?

13 minutes ago, sarine said:

So does it actually work now?

I'm still on version 4.0.4, and I've experienced some bugs such as multi-timbral occasionally not working (sounds get cut off randomly) and sometimes after loading a project it seems as if there's a sampling mismatch and ST4 sounds too high-pitched.

Contemplating whether I should update... The one thing I dislike more than bugs is more bugs.

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.

16 hours ago, jkoseattle said:

I don't back up anything!! (But all data files are stored in Dropbox :-))

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

18 minutes ago, Bronxio said:

Thank you, Promidi! The problem is, in my case, I would need to switch between dry 100% / wet 0%  and dry 0% / wet 100%. It's ok to be abrupt, there's a silence in the middle.

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.

1 minute ago, Billy86 said:

Thanks so much.  Have you ever heard of/used this: https://bitsum.com/parkcontrol/

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

59 minutes ago, Billy86 said:

Hmm. Confused about this. I'm looking at a new Dell computer and have been looking into the issue of hyper-threading because the current 9th gen i7 doesn't have it, and the 8th gen i7 did.

From what I've been able to learn, hyper-threading has little to no impact on DAW production because the read/write process is serial in a DAW, so it doesn't benefit from hyper-threading, which is a parallel read/write process (two threads per core, so two parallel processes).

Am I understanding this correctly? Thanks.

 

 

 

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.

29 minutes ago, Billy86 said:

Thanks for any wisdom on the technical stuff...

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.

53 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

Occasionally it seems like Microsoft pushes out a NIC driver that breaks it again,

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.

On 8/16/2019 at 8:26 AM, realnameperson said:

Is it possible to change the mouse scroll mapping in Cakewalk?

Not at this time, no.

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

Note: Works only with the full version of Kontakt 5.1.0.6 or higher

Blue screens are either a driver issue or hardware failture.

Initially I was going to suggest that maybe a driver was updated when Windows perform its update.  That is until I read about corrupted files.  Maybe have a look at the SMART info for your system drive.

Can you check your system event viewer for disk errors (like bad blocks)

2 hours ago, Blacksymphony said:

Bandlab assistant can only get 3 byte/s when downloading cakewalk installer.I've downloaded for 4 days,only 5498KB completed.

That sounds like something that would have to be sorted at your end - either your router or your ISP or even your PC itself...   I have yet to have an issue downloading Cakewalk by Bandlab using Bandlab assistant.

3 hours ago, reginaldStjohn said:

Just as another data point I had an Nvidia Video card that would cause high latency. I tried all the tricks mentioned in this thread and even more. I eventually just got an AMD card (Radeon) and that fixed it. 

It must be only certain Nvidia Video cards.  I have one (an MSI GTX960, not over clocked) and I am not getting any latency issues in CbB. 

In my Nvidia control Panel - Manage 3D settings, I have my Power management mode set to Prefer Maximum Performance.  I actually measured the current draw between modes and it was only a 3 watt difference. 

In fact, all power saving features on my PC are disabled.  Those settings are really only for notebooks when battery life might be important (or maybe for those where power costs are insane).

On 8/14/2019 at 12:50 AM, sadicus said:

how exactly to remove the warning?
WarnSilentBus=0

This is done by editing your %APPDATA%\cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\cakewalk.ini file.

You need to add WarnSilentBuses=0 in the [WinCake] section

See:

https://www.cakewalk.com/Support/Knowledge-Base/20090221/Warning-when-busses-have-no-output

Adelaide, Australia

17 hours ago, Lado said:

 

Promidi, I'm curious how you "told" Microsoft not to update your drivers. I don't see any settings in the update section of Windows that would allow me to do this.

There are a couple of third party programs that allow you to do this.

https://winaero.com/

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

14 hours ago, studiodude1 said:

Promidi - I think I'll try switching to the Intel Graphics instead of the Nvidia card.

That's always an option as a test.  However, remember there are some plugin's graphic User interfaces that take advantage of the Nvida CUDA.  Meldaproduction is an example of such a plugin suite.

48 minutes ago, studiodude1 said:

Gswitz - Not sure what you mean. Where do I find system and application event logs?

Start Run and enter eventvwr.msc    However, to Interpret these properly, you really need to know what you're doing. There will be many events present, even on a system exhibiting very little issues.