Kev

Thanks. Yes, still on W7.

Aside from clips in Track View, have you tried using Nudge to move notes in Piano Roll View?

16 hours ago, Syphus said:

...At this point, the developers do not do any testing on Win 7 ...as of yet and I have not found any major problems with running Cakewalk with Win 7. ..

I'm using Windows 7 too. I guess it's us who do the testing.

I get an error message "Connection Error" (displayed twice) whenever I try to check for updates. This has been happening since the last update.

Using v2021.06, build 050.

After exporting video to AVI format (uncompressed), I use Handbrake (which is free) for subsequent conversions of the AVI file to other formats. Converting takes less time than exporting, i.e. seconds rather than minutes.

1 hour ago, abacab said:

It is best to first "open" the MIDI file, rather than "import" it. When you open it, the tempo settings are preserved.

Good idea. I usually use the drag and drop method and set the tempo manually.

If you add TTS-1 to the project before importing the midi file, the resulting midi tracks will automatically route to different channels of TTS-1. You will be able to playback immediately and get good indication of what it will sound like. From there, you can add whatever softsynths you wish, and reroute each midi track accordingly, as Abacab suggests.

On ‎9‎/‎7‎/‎2020 at 11:10 PM, Starship Krupa said:

...it's a guaranteed "safe" place to click, with few consequences if my finger slips. I don't have to be concerned with accidentally focusing or selecting  a track or muting a clip or any of the things that might happen if I clicked in the wrong place in a track...

I often click on blank spaces for the same reason, not necessarily that particular space, but yes I do this sometimes.

Apparently the problem was due to a bug that has now been fixed in the 2020.09 update:

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Changing Picture Cache to high values would cause waveforms to stop drawing. Picture cache sizes > 2GB now work properly. The max size for PicCacheMB in Aud.ini has been increased to 10000 MB.

All good now.

On ‎8‎/‎19‎/‎2020 at 2:21 AM, Billy86 said:

Neil Young plays a pump organ on his Unplugged album and it sounds really cool. 

The Beatles used one too:

4 hours ago, scook said:

Click on the expert button and try switching the precision to non-linear.

There are 4 options:

Non-linear
Low
Medium
High

I tried each of them and it didn't appear to make any difference. However if I bypass one of the plugins the GUI's behaviour reverts to normal.

I've been experimenting with the LP-MB. It's an excellent plugin and works well. However, if I add a second instance of this plugin, I get the same problem as the OP. With 2 instances of LPhase Multiband in a project, the GUI becomes sluggish. It becomes impossible to stop playback once playback has been started and doesn't stop until the end of the project has been reached, after which it then responds to any key press or mouseclick that has taken place in the meantime. It's frustrating.

[version 1.0.3.84]

On 7/11/2020 at 10:59 PM, Noel Borthwick said:

@KevMany issues with mono interleave were fixed in the 05 release. Can you share your project file that has the issue?
Without seeing the signal flow and plugins we can't investigate the cause of what you are seeing.

If Gswitz is correct, then my problem was due to my mistaken belief about interleave's position in the signal chain rather than anything specific to the project.

Thanks. I have always assumed that the interleave was post-fx. It's strange that I have never run into this problem before.

I'm finding that setting the interleave button to mono on a track doesn't make any difference. The output signal remains stereo regardless. The track contains mono clips and there are some stereo effects in the fx bin.

Version 2020.05 (Build 039)

Offline activation is apparently now possible in the latest version:

http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=NewFeatures.03.html

Stranger still, if I bounce a clip, the waveform becomes visible at all zoom settings in the bounced clip. The disappearing waveform phenomenon only applies to recorded and imported clips.

12 hours ago, Kalle Rantaaho said:

How's your display and screen resolution in your new machine compared to the old one? I think many have noticed that modern high resolution displays can be problematic wit programs that are designed for lower resolutions.

I only replaced the computer, not the screens. I also transferred the old graphics cards to the new machine. There should really be no difference.

"Display Clip Contents" is ticked.

I've got the picture cache on a separate drive.
PicCacheMB=12000
Size on disk is only 17.6MB.

On my old computer, waveforms in clips were always visible in Track View, regardless of zoom. But on my current one (with the same version of Sonar) I have to zoom in horizontally before the waveform becomes visible. I prefer to have waveforms visible at all times. There must be a setting for it somewhere but I can't find it. Is it in the configuration file?

Also automated reverb.

We had a power outage a few weeks ago and I was happy that my computer remained on while everything else in the house was off. Outages are not uncommon here, but also power dips have been have been more of a problem. I used to get random crashes on both my PCs and I suspected that they were caused by power dips. I have never had any random crashes on my DAW PC since I connected it to the UPS, but I still get them on the family PC.

On 1/10/2020 at 6:59 AM, Robert Bone said:

... It all gets conditioned power, from an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), that has automatic voltage regulation, so there is never any issues with the voltage, and no chance of a ground loop's hum...

I have a UPS, but I don't like to overtax it with too many items of outboard gear, so I only have 3 items connected to it, including the computer. I'm not sure whether ground loops ever occur in my system. The UPS itself hums continuously anyway, so sometimes it's hard to tell.

On 12/8/2019 at 1:03 AM, chuckebaby said:

If there is one thing I truly miss about the analog days was the ease of use... of a pitch knob.

I'm dreaming of a future technology that allows you to speed up and slow down audio playback by means of a continuously variable sample rate.

11 hours ago, twelvetone said:

Did all Platinums have the same plugs?

Do I only need to install the last one?

With Platinum the plugins are installed independently from the main program.  There are several separate plugin suites.