Noel Borthwick

Something may have modified the Cakewalk executable which could explain why a reinstall rectified the issue. You should also do a virus scan…

Be wary of these extension tools that hook into windows low level functions since they can cause unexpected side effects like this!

@cheesemandid you use the web installer for the latest 2022.06 release? We can look into it if you are still unable to install.

Mix recall presets definitely support swapping in different effects and instruments as well as their settings. If it's crashing it's likely a regression or some unexpected case.

@Hugh Blaney which version of Cakewalk are you running and what Windows OS version do you have. You can upload the dump to any file sharing service, like OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox and send a link to the file.

What version of Windows are you using and how did you install Cakewalk? Error code 20 is an error indicating that the digital signature of the application is invalid or could not be authenticated. This can happen if the executable was modified or if the cryptography in Windows is unable to validate the signature.

Obviously, a crash isn't expected. So, you saved a mix from a project containing a synth, then replaced the synth and then tried to apply the saved mix to the new project? If its crashing thats a bug. I would expect it to apply the mix from the old mix recall setting but ignore the new synth. If you choose to ignore effects in the mix recall settings when applying the preset does it work ok? Please try and reproduce it with the same steps and see if it still crashes. If so please send the dump file.

Thats good. This feature came about as a result of trying to get it to work with the Keylab actually.

I don't think this could be anything related to this update. Are you sure your mouse isn't misbehaving?

Does the same happen if you open the app first and then open your project?

If I understand correctly, is the problem only when opening a project before Cakewalk has opened? If the waves scan is hung for some reason, then that toast won't go away. As abacab mentioned that could be a waves install issue. But the project loading toast is completely independent of that. I expect that toast to always be dismissed. If you can boil it down to a project send me a link and I can try and reproduce it. I have all the waves plugins.

This looks like a bug where the end project load notification is not being received somehow. Strange because I've never encountered that one. Does it happen on all your projects or just one? Also if you let it sit there after load does the vst scan finally say scan complete? You can check if the VST scan process is still running in the background. It should go away when the scan is complete which is typically a few seconds.

This was fixed for the final update so it only happens on the EA. You can click on multiple items and they are queued and downloaded sequentially now.

Enabling local help also automatically does a check for updates when you OK preferences. So you should see the download listed (assuming you are online when you do that)

It looks like something is messed up with the Windows redist installer state. Uninstalling and reinstalling might be the only solution, or you can contact Microsoft support who may be able to help. Also see this link: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/errore-microsoft-visual-c-2019-x64-minimum-runtime/1299781

Hmm its not normal for the project loading messages to stay around, since those should automatically go away. The scan on startup message also should also automatically fade away. There should be no reason to click to dismiss them. Can you post a video if you aren’t seeing this. Its the first time I’m hearing about that. Ultimately a better solution to toast notifications would be a notifications panel, but that will take some work.

Once you install the latest it should never prompt again. Those add-ones are very infrequently updated. It only checks if the version you have is lower. Alternatively uninstall what you don’t need. (those notifications will show up when you manually check for updates but not during the automatic check)

I have a keylab 49 and the transport controls work with the latest release.

If you previously had the demo projects installed it's telling you now that there is an update. I assume most people would want to know that something they installed earlier had an update. If you no longer want the demo projects just uninstall them or download the latest. If you had never downloaded the demo projects it would not ask you unless you manually did a check for updates. We have to limit to the number of options we can have for the app.

Which toast notice are you seeing on opening the app? CbB does not suggest updates for add-on's like demo projects and help when doing automatic update checks (when opening the application). The optional updates are only shown when you manually do a check for updates. The only exception to this is if you have ALREADY downloaded one of the optional components and your version is out of date. In this case the app will let you know that an update is available. Preferences | Display | "Show update notifications" is what controls the notifications.

Are you certain that its related? There are no changes that could have affected bounce. Have you rolled back and retested the same project? If you can verify that its the new release please send a zip of the project file so we can investigate ASAP.

This will be removed. It's long overdue but the website is not something that we directly manage.

I'm not sure what the context of this message is.

That would imply that the issue is not within Cakewalk. The app cannot hang windows itself.

If you send a dump file while the app is in a frozen state we may be able to find what is causing the hang,