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I am not sure if the driver for the iTwo is native ASIO or just an ASIO4ALL variant. The way to test is this. In Cakewalk, select the iTwo’s driver mode in Cakewalk’s audio Preferences. Play a project in Cakewalk. While that project is playing, adjust the Windows volume using the volume control in the Windows taskbar. If the volume does NOT change, then you are using a native ASIO driver. That is because true ASIO bypasses much of the Windows audio subsystem (including Windows level controls). Think of true ASIO as a Batphone to your your audio interface.

Then the Focusrite 4i4. - that has MIDI ports. I believe that the majority of your issues will evaporate if your get an audio interface that comes with native ASIO drivers, and that had 5 pin MIDI ports. Make sure you select the right device in Preferences - Audio - Devices I believe when you select the umc204 in CbB, you might get a message, Asio4all “is known to be incompatible with Cakewalk” If you do stay with the umc204, then consider using WASAPI driver mode. Most folks on here will stay away from anything to do with ASIO4ALL.

Personally I would have got a Focusrite 2i2 as it comes with true ASIO drivers. ASIO4ALL are not true ASIO drivers but are only a wrapper. Is it too late to cancel the order?

Looks like the Universal Control is still running . Personally, I would not be deleting files in c:\program files. What I would do go Start run > "appwiz.cpl" and see if there is an older version there that you can remove I am assuming that you have headed to the manufacturer's website and downloaded the latest drivers already so that you can reinstall them.

Delete Special > only select Track/Bus Automation

Personally, this is where I start thinking of another manufacturer.

I use a CAL script to set NOW to the same distance from its nearest measure that the FROM marker is from its nearest measure. Say the FROM marker (THRU marker is somewhere after) is at 23 ticks before measure 10 and the NOW marker is nearest to measure 30 and I want to copy stuff that includes the events that start at 23 ticks before Measure 10 and retain that offset at Measure 30. 1) Make sure the stuff you want to copy and paste is selected. 2) Copy the items to the clipboard (or Cut if necessary) 3) Run the CAL script, This moves NOW to 23 ticks before measure 30 4) Paste the items. Here is the CAL Script (do (dword time_now) (dword time) (dword goto_offset) (dword time_plus1) (dword offset) (dword stored_from) (dword measure) (dword measure_plus_1) (dword stored_from_measure) (dword new_measure) (dword new_time) ;move now to nearest measure (= measure (meas Now)) (= measure_plus_1 measure) (++ measure_plus_1) (= time (makeTime measure 1 1)) (= time_plus1 (makeTime measure_plus_1 1 1)) (= offset time_plus1) (-= offset time ) (/= offset 2) (+= offset Now) (= new_measure (meas offset)) (= Now (makeTime new_measure 1 0)) ;move Now to the left by From's distance to measure to the right (= stored_from_measure (= measure (meas From))) (++ stored_from_measure) (= stored_from (makeTime stored_from_measure 1 0)) (= goto_offset stored_from) (-= goto_offset From) (-= Now goto_offset) );end Scipt I use this script for every project and many of the stuff I do is not exactly on the grid. I hope that makes sense (and what you are after).

It will eventually need to reauthorise...

Have you optimised you PC for audio? You might want to look into disabling any sleep settings on your PC and optimise the power settings. See about disabling Speedstep and C-States. (This is done in the bios - if you are not sure how to do that, then get someone to physically help with this) Set CPU power settings min and max to 100%. Start + Run "control powercfg.cpl,,1" without quotes (Under Processor Power Management)

Have you used task manager to check for any background tasks that is running that could be interfering with audio playback Maybe give Latency Mon a look into. https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

Personally, since my last contribution to this thread, I have actually created a Studioware Panels (with the required CAL scripts embedded) that converts between CAT and PAT Aftertouch Events and back.

If you have an SSD, then do not defrag (reduces its lifespan).

I just use GMMIDI https://www.gnmidi.com

You can change the event type from Text to Lyric, but you lose the actual text word as CAL does not have access to the TEXT value.

I have { to set "From = Start" and } to set "Thru = End" Preferences - Customisation - Keyboard Shortcuts (Advanced)

This is a Windows issue rather than a Cakewalk issue. https://www.groovypost.com/howto/fix-broken-missing-icons-thumbnails-windows-10/

Tried saving as MIDI it instead of exporting? If default settings do not work, try type 0.

Select the bus with the automation on it, then press SHIFT + A

It's definitely the online thing. If you are online and your PC can access the Cakewalk servers, you won’t get the pop up.

Those specs should be ok. When you send the guitars to a single bus containing the Amp Sim (which is a good approach), are you sending the tracks output to the bus or are you using sends?

Reminds me of "Hello, IT, have you tried turning it off and on again!" (From IT Crowd).

Or simply copy and then start + run, and paste the following %appdata%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\Lenses\User

How much ram do you have? What CPU do you have? What audio interface do you have. You say it's ASIO, but is that a true native driver or are you using a wrapper like ASIO4ALL?

Are you using Windows Task Manager to determine what portion of your total ram is being used by Cakewalk? Are you sure that, rather being a memory issue, that this is not a CPU power issue? Memory is usually taken up by things like large sample libraries. Giving us your PC specs would be a good start.

That's good to know. Some in the past have been non commercial. Maybe Magix changed their policy.