Blake Bays

That seems like such an obvious answer, I must have done that on accident somehow along the lines. I'll know to look out for that next time, thanks!

Sorry for the double post, but it turns out it was just some cursed settings or something - I saved each track and the plugin presets and moved it over to a new project, imported the files and everything is fine all of a sudden. But if anyone still has any insights as to why this may have happened, that'd be great.

Hey guys, just facing some weird things that I wasn't having issues with before and thought you all would be able to help. I recently moved everything from a laptop 7th gen i3-7100u processor to a desktop 8th gen i3-8100 processor, 8GB RAM in each. The interface is a Steinberg UR22 with updated drivers. I figured it would give me more processing power (which it absolutely has), BUT I'm having some weird issues with Cakewalk specifically and nothing else. 1. I cannot for the life of me figure out why the first track looks like it's distorting and why the second looks so small - the second is literally a duplicate of the first one, I was using it for doubling up a guitar with the same exact input gain setting on the UR22. 2. The biggest issue is that I'm getting weird CPU spikes within Cakewalk, but not within Task Manager - at max, I'm pushing about 50% for this track with 3 instances of Klevgrand's STARK and one instance of EZ Drummer 2 - but I'm not having this issue with 6 instances of STARK and EZ Drummer 2 on the track below, unbounced. I'm just completely at a loss as to why this is happening. I know it's not the most powerful computer, but I was doing far more on the laptop than on this desktop, and it's only an issue with this one track, which is even more baffling. I've been using Cakewalk for nearly a year and never experienced anything like this. Any ideas?