Noel Borthwick

Its hard to tell without looking at your project. In your picture you have the send track soloed. Also which version of CbB are you running? There were some routing scenarios where soling sidechain sends wouldn't activate the signal flow. These have been addressed in the latest early access build. Please check out that build and post in that thread if its not working. If you unsolo everything does it work?

Please comment in the EA thread

Its described in the help. PDC causes latency so disabling it can allow you to input monitor without incurring the PDC latency. Disabling it only changes it for the input monitoring and recording signal path. Audio data from tracks will still be delay compensated.

The hardware TPM is needed if the your CPU doesn't support it. On one of my older PC's the CPU isn't supported but the ASRock MOBO has a TPM header. Nothing in the BIOS I could see. Not sure I'm going to bother with TPM.

Yes that button is to OVERRIDE PDC. Is it confusing, yes ?

Read this FAQ on activation.

Some info on third party TPM modules. https://www.pcworld.com/article/545965/heres-where-you-can-buy-tpm-for-windows-11.html

You must be the first person I've heard of who got the notification, congratulations Its not even being offered for Surface books which is bizarre. I'd have thought those would be validated first and pushed through. I'm not in a rush just curious if anyone else had it officially pushed or there was something broken with Windows update!

Was anyone offered the Win 11 update through Windows update? None of my PC's are being offered it even though they are marked as compatible.

Cakewalk relies on a proper installation of various Microsoft runtime libraries for several components (as do many other Windows programs). You can read more about the Microsoft redistributables here. While the Cakewalk application only uses the latest runtime libraries, there are other components and plugins that may utilize earlier libraries. Hence the Cakewalk installer additionally installs some of the older versions of these libraries that are used by certain known modules and plugins. Occasionally the Microsoft runtime libraries installation may get damaged by installing other programs (or even Windows update itself!) by installing incompatible components or removing necessary runtime components that are required for proper operation of Cakewalk. If this happens. the typical symptoms are crashes or hangs on starting Cakewalk or opening a project. A clean install of Cakewalk will always install the necessary components required for proper operation of the program, and typically restore normal operation. Add/Remove programs should typically display something like this on a clean system. The first step to try before attempting reinstallation is to attempt to repair any redists you have. Go to Add | Remove programs and search for Visual C++. That should list all redistributables you have installed. It may look like the list above or you may have some older entries as well. To try and repair them click the ellipsis next to the entry (as shown below) and choose Modify. It should show a Repair option. Try repairing your redists and then check if your problem is resolved. If you are running into problems and have older redists installed, you can uninstall all redists and run the latest Sonar installer. However, it's not always convenient to reinstall the application, so we've built a new redistributable installer to help repair a system that doesn't contain all the necessary runtime libraries. You may download the new redistributable installer here. This installer also attempts to repair a broken C++ library installation. Running this installer will reinstall all required runtime library dependencies and should in most cases be able to recover from a damaged installation. NOTE: In some cases, you may need to manually download the latest Microsoft X64 redistributable and then run a repair install. This should repair a damaged install which can happen when another application has overwritten the DLL's with faulty versions.

This is caused by a bug in the latest Softube plugins with prochannel modules, that is causing a crash on scanning which ends up leading to this issue. It has been reported to the Softube team and they are aware of it. I've changed our VstScanner to work around the crash which should at least prevent the issue that you have in the video. However the prochannel module won't be available just the normal VST. If you wish you can download the updated scanner and copy it to the C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Utilities folder. After you rescan your plugins it should fix this issue. The wrong plugin getting inserted is simply a side effect of the main issue.

Yes the AMD fixes are out now. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/10/amd-and-microsoft-release-fixes-for-ryzen-slowdowns-in-windows-11/

Make sure you are soloing MIDI tracks that are actually routed to Kontakt. If you solo a hardware MIDI track you wont hear Kontakt You may want to post a video so people can see how your project is set up and what operations you are doing

@Marty88888 which version of Cakewalk and Windows are you using? One think you can try is to update your Microsoft redistributables and retest. Here is an installer for all the redistributables needed by Cakewalk.

I'm implemented a fix for this. Thanks for the report. The issue is not exactly with exclusive solo but with the solo override feature. (shift clicking solo)

Can you submit a project that exhibits this? Many of these issues can be specific to projects. Are you using aux tracks?

Congratulations @Chris Boshuizen Just heard the amazing news! Did you compose anything in space? I'm sure it must be very ambient sounding

The only way for us to investigate if this is the case is to send us a zip of the full project with the audio that exhibits the issue.

Follow this thread on Win 11

Its apparently a virtual memory paging error. May be worth passing the info along to them in case they have received other reports of it.

FYI Re AMD systems https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-windows-11-slows-cpus-up-to-15-patch-coming

As Morten wrote there is no error. Its working as designed.

@Laurence Levin If the program is exiting on start the most likely reason is that something has corrupted your C++ redistributables. Please download the latest redists or try reinstalling Cakewalk. Does it fail to load the application itself or is it failing to load a specific project file. If you are having an issue with a specific project please make sure you are running the latest EA build which is 145 and retry it.

This is a Roland driver bug. Drivers are supposed to handle abnormal termination properly. You have to power cycle the device after a crash.

The link in the main thread has been updated to Build 145. Thanks to Kim Strong for his assistance tracking down this issue. Issues Resolved in Build 145: S-Gear 2 VST3 plugin crashes on some systems when inserted