Noel Borthwick

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

This is fixed for next release...

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

See correction to my post above. You may actually need Bapu. You must own more than 128 unique plugins to run into this..

As long as you have rights to the material. This will be played in a public place so covers may not be permissible. It could also be featured in our NAMM feed. I updated the OP to indicate this.

Please post submissions in the main thread only please. That would depend on if you have rights to the material.