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Robert Bone

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  1. 32-bit plugins are frequently crash-prone and otherwise funky, running in a 64-bit environment. Back when 64-bit computers were just starting to be switched to, there were just insane numbers of people crashing right and left, because many 32-bit plugins - specially the freeware ones, just crapped out - made worse by all the money people had invested in their armada of 32-bit plugins., J-Bridge (commercial bridging software about $20), helped a lot of people out, as it sometimes was able to keep some 32-bit plugins running, that just did not work using the free Bit-Bridge software that came with Sonar, but it was still a nightmare, for at least a year, if not longer, until folks got farther and farther away from using 32-bit plugins. There was always the option of installing and using a 32-bit Sonar when making projects where 32-bit plugins would have to be present, and I did that for a while, until I built up a large enough catalog of 64-bit plugins and could finally fully transition to that environment. Most folks ended up switching over to as many 64-bit plugins as possible, certainly for new projects, and reported crashes came way down in numbers. Most commercial plugins offered free 64-bit versions, which helped a bunch. Anyways (sorry for the blast from the past), if any of those old projects of yours still had a 32-bit version of CE in them, that could well explain crashes. Not sure why a new project, with a 64-bit CE, would crash, but maybe the reinstall managed to clean up some leftover 'stuff' in Registry entries, or something along those lines. VERY cool you are back in business. I am curious - do you happen to have any of the error messages from any of the crashes? I am just wondering what it might have been complaining about - I was a computer programmer, so that kind of stuff makes me intrigued. Thanks, Bob Bone
  2. I had an M-Audio (aactually still have it), that suddenly started generating Pitch Bend events. After digging into it on the web, apparently some of the potentiometers (pots) and other electrical components, can go bad after a few years, and that can result in things like generated midi messages, and such. I went into the midi controller's settings, and turned off the Pitch Bend wheel altogether, and all was fine after that - but I did lose the Pitch Wheel for that controller. I would imagine unwanted events could be filtered out, as well - maybe that would help your situation, if indeed the messages are being generated by an external device, such as a midi controller. Bob Bone
  3. If your laptop supports an actual 2.5 drive, a 500 GB SSD runs about $50-$100, and a 120 GB SSD can be had for as cheap as $20, and that would make life a lot more comfortable for you - to clone your existing drive to a new SSD, as certainly a drive as small as you have will give you nothing but headaches. Additionally - is there an additional partition on your boot drive? Lots of times, manufacturers of pre-built computers create a recovery partition that is an image of the laptop's boot drive as it existed when it left the factory. If that is no longer needed, like if you created a Windows Recovery DVD, for instance, you could recover Windows from that, you could consider deleting that recovery partition and reclaiming that space to extend your OS partition, which would add that space to what is available to you on the boot drive. Lastly, while some folks use the M-link junctin or connection or whatever it is called, to move folders while they still appear to everything as being at their original locations, I move my user folders (documents, pictures, videos, downloads, etc) to a different drive, by going into the Properties of each of those user folders, and using the Location tab to specify an alternate location, and that moves all of that stuff off of the boot drive, just like those M-links or whatever those are called. That reclaims a bunch of space. And, whenever possible, I specify a different drive for any plugin's content files, like sample libraries, or whatever, just to keep it off the boot drive. (edited - forgot to add something) - if you do look at picking up a larger boot drive - a standard 2.5" SATA III SSD, I suggest you look for those that have V-NAND technology, as opposed to regular NAND, TLC-NAND, or MLC-NAND, because while a bit more expensive than the other types, V-NAND technology wears better over time, and can last a lot longer than the other types - that being said, they all should last a while. Just a thought - others may have different opinions on this - it is what I tend to choose, when choices are available). Bob Bone
  4. Here is a lnk to a similar issue from January, that was resolved: Bob Bone
  5. There is a Kontakt setting under the Engine tab, that allows you to tell it how many CPU cores you have, it goes up to 16, though mine has 32, but it works fine set to 16. Anyways, it helps Kontakt split up the workload among the multiple cores - and may help folks performance wise with large Kontakt instances. I believe splitting things into multiple instances also splits work among the cores, but why not embrace both options? Give it a whirl, and see if performance is improved. Bob Bone
  6. Could it be hiding in the Uncategorized category? If you find it there, you can change its category to Synth, and thereafter you will find it there. If the above is not the issue, check to see if the Cakewalk Plugin Manager shows it as a VSTi, to make sure the scanning of it didn't fail for some reason. Bob Bone
  7. I forgot to add - for whatever reason, this issue is not occurring on my desktop or my laptop, and I am current with all maintenance, so perhaps it is indeed something to do with system-specific conditions, such as video drivers - ie perhas NVIDIA. My desktop has a high-end EVGA video card, Geforce RTX 2070 Super XC, and I cannot recall what graphics is in it, but for whatever reason, neither experiences these clicks/noises/dropouts at project open or close - perhaps that can help a little - hope so anyway, I am no expert with this. The Geforce card in the desktop says it is NVIDIA-compatible, but I think that is as close as it gets to NVIDIA. Bob Bone
  8. In the meantime, perhaps cutting volume to any speakers or headphones, while opening or closing a project in CbB, might be worth doing, until some kind of solution is figured out.... Bob Bone
  9. BEAUTY! I will give it a whirl. I do have the Engine option, in Kontakt's settings, set to distribute its workload among 16 cores, which is the max the setting allows. My CPU is an AMD Ryzen 1950x Threadripper, which has 32 cores, so spreading workload also figures into it all, so looking forward to the outputs finally working right on the names shown as audio track Inputs in CbB. Bob Bone
  10. Thanks - I will check this out, though every instance is almost certainly going to have different loaded instruments, so not sure how saving as the default would work, but I will find out when I get a chance to test it all out. Bob Bone
  11. I have experienced that for years and years, and for the past 10 years or so, I have just limited each Kontakt instance to having no more than 4-5 loaded instruments, and that way I don't trigger the weirdness. Perhaps there are others that can offer a solution - I have never been able to figure it out, so the above limiting approach works every time. I have so much memory on my computer that I have zero issues by running however many Kontakt instances I need.... Bob Bone
  12. Just a thought - that parameter is described in the release notes as experimental, and potentially unstable.
  13. I hope others know what svchost.exe hard page faults are caused by, as I am no guru on that. I also have 128 GB of memory, so just don't see those. There are some folks in the forum community that can help get you squared away. I will do some digging into this too, to try to help.
  14. I again ask for latencymon's report on your system's latency analysis
  15. What does latencymon report on your system's latency? Bob Bone
  16. Yay! Can you please edit the initial post in the thread, and add something like 'Solved' to the subject line? Thanks, Bob Bone
  17. Are you loading a VST 3 version of Falcon in your project? Maybe, try loading VST 2, and see if that makes a difference. Also, I am aware of some display issues if the Windows Scaling is set large enough, like when using a 4k screen resolution, folks may bump the Scaling up by as much as 200%. Bob Bone
  18. Best wishes for success to you, regardless of the platform.
  19. I was only asking you to temporarily bypass your currently loaded effects, only long enough to see if bypassing them made a difference with the dropouts. So - I again ask you - please click the FX button, to temporarily bypass your effects, then hit Play, let it run for a minutes, then go ahead and hit the FX button again to engage all the loaded plugins again, and report here with whether or not your project played back properly when the effects were bypassed. It is a test that you could complete in less time than it has taken me to type this post. I am not asking you to not use effects - I am only asking that you bypass them, to determine whether or not something with one or more of your effects is causing your issues. The FX button is just to the right of the metronome button, just right of the Transport Module at the top center of the screen. Bob Bone
  20. Is it that you don't find AD as a VST synth in the Browser Pane? Perhaps it is under the Uncategorized category? I have both Addictive Drums and Addictive Drums 2 (64-bit for both) running happily in Cakewalk by Bandlab, and Sonar Platinum. Bob Bone
  21. Please detail exactly what you have plugged into what, what buttons are pushed, etc., so we can help you figure this out. Here is the Quick-Start Guide for it - I don't see any sort of actual complete user manual, on the Behringer site, so this looks like it: https://media63.music-group.com/media/sys_master/ha3/hb8/8849665064990.pdf By the way - the above link is where the link to the guide on Behringer's site took me, so it is actually their guide - don't know what this 'media63.music-group.com' site is, but it is where their link took me. Bob Bone
  22. I also think this whole thread is instructive - at least for me - as I will start asking about any tweaks or modifications folks may have made, to either Windows, or to Cakewalk parameters, a lot earlier in the diagnosing of weird issues like this thread presented. One of those 'note to self' moments. Bob Bone
  23. I changed mine, a while ago, from the default 1, to its current 2 - that works wonderfully, and my system is quite stable (haven't crashed in almost 2 years), so I am quite happy to wait for the go-ahead from Noel, before attempting to use the new value of 3 they added. My desktop uses an AMD Ryzen 1950x Threadripper, so has boatloads of cores, and it is quite happy cranking away on the setting of 2. Bob Bone
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