Noel Borthwick

When its hung you can find CbB in task manager, right click and choose "Create dump file". If you send me the dump I may be able to see whats hung.

2 hours ago, Billy86 said:

When I "check for updates" from the Help menu in CbB, it say's I'm up to date. My version is 24.11.0.31. When I launch BandLab Assistant, the Apps tab says "A new version is available

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Yes 2019.01 is the latest version. There is something wrong with the back end reporting the incorrect version to CbB thats why its not detecting it. We're waiting for it to be fixed. For now go ahead and install from BandLab assistant.

BTW if you want to reset audio to factory defaults you can do it directly from Preferences | Audio | Configuration file | Reset Config to defaults

This has the same effect but will make a backup of your current aud.ini should you want to revert.

7 hours ago, msmcleod said:

BTW @Noel - l love the new colour changes to the Plugin Browser to distinguish between 32bit / VST2 / VST3. Very handy.

Glad you like it. The suggestion to colorize VST2 came from @Jon Sasor

You're welcome. Happy to solve it if that's the only problem you had 😎

Not sure how your MIDI routing is set up. Why would the TotalMix routing have affected Cakewalk? Perhaps a MIDI feedback loop maybe.

40 minutes ago, Cookie Jarvis said:

I've never used the plugin browser, what does it do that the plugin manager doesn't?

The built in plugin browser allows you to drag and drop plugins directly to your project or insert synths directly from there. It also has search and tagging capabilities. Plugins can be assigned to multiple tags and folders are automatically created to group them (in the sort by category layout)

The legacy plugin manager existed before we had the built in browser. The only thing it does today is allow you to author plugin layouts and hide plugins. Everything else can be accessed either from the browser or the plugin window properties.

3 hours ago, John Nelson said:

I posted about this problem (might have been on the old board).  It's not closing the program Noel, it's File>Close to close the current project and so as to open another.  I get the spinning wheel hang and have to close the program using the big red X in upper right hand corner.  To be clear, I can close CbB without a hang but I cannot close the current project while still leaving CcB open.

Only MIDI hooked up is a Mackie Control connected via mio MIDI to USB adapter.  Could that be the culprit?

 

I'll try your suggestion, and report back,  Thanks!

Possibly. Try disabling any control surfaces as well.

If you contact support, I'm sure they will be able to help you troubleshoot.

If its happening simply opening and closing the program its likely driver related. As a test try disabling ALL your audio and midi devices in preferences and retest.
If its OK try turning them on one at a time till you find whats causing it.

3 hours ago, Cosmo Kramer said:

Thank you BandLab. On my machine, the Plug-in Manager is about 100 times faster loading up the plug-ins.

Nice job, thanks a lot!   👍

On 1/17/2019 at 7:43 AM, Dreamer said:

LOL. 1974 Fender Jazz, (OEM), 1968 Ampeg ABB-1....other cats drool when they see my axes...and the sound....amazing! New stuff is cool, but there's something about a well beaten classic that stands on it's own even by modern standards. Audiophiles rave about turntables,  analog sound....and there's a whole following of old technology fanatics.  There's a reason why these tools are still out there.

That analogy doesn't really hold up. The difference is with very few exceptions (maybe out of issue plugins) software doesn't retain value with age. Software is always updated and improved upon. Despite CbB being a vastly bigger program than 8.5 it runs circles around it with even the same operations in 8.5 due to the major optimizations that have been added over the years. But yes user interface changes are something you have to get used to with any major software update.
Unless there is nothing you need from a newer version and have no issues with what you are using its generally wise to keep your tools updated.

3 hours ago, Kevin Perry said:

Thing is, that wouldn't necessarily give you the audio you want: consider the case when multiple tracks feed a bus with a compressor on.

Exactly.

Here is the thing. By exporting the audio output of a track AND all its routing through buses downstream its not sonically equivalent to stems.

IOW if you export the tracks one by one this way and import the results into a new project its NOT the same as mixing all the tracks together. This is because when you have downstream plugins from the track the net effect of having multiple tracks mixed is very different since the processing will be different.

This is why there is no macro to automate what you are doing. There is however a way to export a mixdown for each track, which captures the OUTPUT of each track. To do that choose source category "tracks" in the export options.

For those who were complaining earlier - check out the external PlugIn manager tool. 
You might be pleasantly surprised by the performance improvements

56 minutes ago, scook said:

Referring to the software in general as "leased" (or rented) is misleading as most users do not understand IT terminology (especially without providing context in which the term was used) and would think the lease is a contract involving the exchange of money for goods and services. In this case lease refers to the time a token is valid for an authentication process. IOW, it is a technical term with a specific context and using the term outside of that context to describe the software is incorrect.

Thanks Scook. Yes lease was used in a technical context not monitory. Clearly there is no money involved anymore since Cakewalk is 100% free to use. The "lease" applies to the duration of the current authorization period before you have to renew it and update the software to a more current version. 
In SONAR  previously the expiration of the "lease" meant that you had to purchase a new membership. Except now there is no purchase - it is free.

Oh and 32 bit software is not coming back. We wanted to stop it due to the excessive support burden years ago. It would have been prohibitive to do with CbB.

4 hours ago, Keni said:

This makes it a bit of a chore. I don't recall as it wasn't an issue for me before, but I remember people inquiring about offline activation.

It is not available and would require a bunch of work to do since the mechanics are quite different from C3. 

The program has a lease that we set to about 6 months. It needs to be periodically updated to keep running. As mike mentioned, we release updates frequently so if you get updates you will normally never see this prompt. Also if you do run into it, simply logging out and back into BandLab assistant will give you a new lease.
One important reason for a handshake with our servers is to prevent people from putting the app on mirrors where someone can get a virus injected easily. Its a small inconvenience to put up with considering that the app is completely free now. 

The latter

On 1/12/2019 at 12:37 PM, Keni said:

Yes Misha.

 

I agree that this is obviously in need of attention. I too have run into it. IMHO, I belueve the system needs to restrict new recordings on muted lanes. Very counter-intuitive.

 

This is fixed for next release...

1 hour ago, Pete Brown said:

Also note that adding and removing a bunch of different plugins in a session can also use up slots, as it appears the slots don't always go back to the pool.

That's pretty bad. I wonder if it's due to undo history or memory leaks. Did you try clearing your undo history @Pete Brown

Thanks for the details, appreciated.

Must users use multiple instances of similar plugins. i.e if you patch 100 intances of an EQ or compressor this would count as 1. 

I think its very infrequent that anyone would run into a hundred unique plugins in a single project even if there are hundreds of tracks.

Irrespective its a good fix to have since apps could load DLL's for other stuff that counts towards the FLS limit.

Yes we'll contact anyone whos material we'd like to use. We have to since we need the project files

Click the BandLab icon on the toolbar when editing a post. That allows you to embed the URL to the BandLab song.

Hi guys if you are posting BandLab links please use the BandLab embed button on the toolbar to embed the link rather than pasting the link directly. It makes it much easier to check.

Well I could probably compile 100 copies of a test plugin just changing the guid. I'm not in the mood to wait for 100 compiles today