David Baay

Cakewalk is not detecting that the driver for the keyboard (if USB MIDI) or MIDI interface (if the keyboard is connected by a DIN cable) is loaded. Reseat the cable and power-cycle your keyboard/Interface or reboot with it powered up and make sure it's available and selected in MIDI Devices.

Yes that's possible. it's not clear from the tightly cropped screenshot with only the M:B:T ruler how extreme the zoom level is.

I don't understand what you mean by "previous project" here. All I know is that locking a screenset with the VSTi GUI open will cause the behavior you're describing, and I'm not sure what else would. I don't use Workspaces, and my description of how screensets work is based on that. There is interaction between Workspaces and Screensets that can get confusing. Possibly that is contributing to your dilemma. FWIW here's a discussion that covers some of that:

I can't replicate either the audio lines left hanging outside the clip or bounce failing to honor the new boundary. Was that flatline audio created by slip-editing a clip longer in the first place?

It's a little odd that SI Bass is programmed that way, but I would say in general it's a best practice not to overlap notes on the same note number. I've encountered a number of synths over the years that don't handle that well - usually when playing third-party MIDI files as my own are always recorded from a keyboard in real time and a keyboard will never generate overlapping notes on the same note number.

That would be standard operating procedure to avoid receiving input from unintended ports, either physical or virtual (e.g. output from a MIDI-generating drum VSTi). This is not a problem if Input Echo is disabled, but if you have Always Echo Current MIDI Track enabled in preferences, every MIDI/Instrument track needs to have an appropriate port/channel selected for Input.

I just figured out yesterday that the TS3.5 Max upgrade I did last week included Syntronik2 with upgrades of the 22 Syntronik1 synths I already had. It was another product, - like Sampletron2 - that was not mentioned in the JRRShop listing. So I will also be jumping in at 10-freebies mark - or before if it looks like the GB needs help getting there before the deadline. I am setting a goal for myself to compose a new piece - or re-render an old one - using at least one patch from each of the 33 synths. This may be a challenge since so much of my stuff from the past few years is solo piano; I may be forced to reach deep into the well of pre-Pro Audio WRK files that used hardware synths in order to find enough material. Apologies to the Songs forum in advance for masterpieces like Boingo.WRK. ;^)

Should have started reading at the bottom. Based on the last paragraph of your opening post, I was going to suggest the issue was exactly what you found - CPU throttling. In addition to setting High Performance in the O/S, you should go into BIOS and disable SpeedStep and C-States if available.

Selecting nothing is the same as selecting everything and is the default state when you first open a project.

So if I'm interpreting this correctly... if you have Syntronik1 Deluxe with an upgrade cost of $149 to Syntronik2 MAX and you really want to have it all, the Group Buy has to get to 2400 to equal the upgrade price (i.e. triple-dip the GB to get the last 6 v2 instruments), and 2700 to be a better deal (double-dip the GB to get the last 3 v2 instruments). And if it only gets to 2600, you either end up paying more than the upgrade price to get everything or having to live with the knowledge that some of the synths in your collection aren't upgraded (Horrors!). So the smart way to go depends on how optimistic you are that the GB reaches 2700 participants and how 'retentive' you are about having every synth at v2.

You can add a knob to control any synth parameter in the Synth Rack. It needs to be undocked or docked in the Multidock to display large enough to show the knobs. https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=SoftSynths.13.html I think I may have used the Reverb control in the Inspector once in my life. I'd rather not see more clutter there.

This deal is back. $29. When I was looking at it a month or two ago, it was the full $47 and I passed.

Hearing an FX at an unexpectedly low volume is not the same as "not working". Delays are usually used as Insert FX directly in the track. When sending to an FX, the level of the FX output signal will at best be equal to the level of the source track when the FX is set 100% wet. That would usually be enough for a delay but it's still better to use it as an insert FX and adjust the level of the delayed signal using the Wet/Dry mix. As far as FX Chains go, the chain container itself has input and output level controls. They should default to 0dB but that would be something to check.

Select in the timeline and copy-paste to a new, empty project or to a project started from a template saved from the full project if it has track names, routing or plugins you want to preserve from the original project. You can then save to a new folder with Copy All Audio enabled or save the new project in the original folder with Copy All Audio disabled to reference the same audio files. If want to save to a new folder with Copy All Audio, I would recommend executing bounce to clips in the new project first to generate audio files that contain only that section's audio. Alternatively, you could select and delete what you don't want in each case, and Save-As to a new project name with or without bouncing to clips to write new, truncated audio files. I was going to suggest using "Invert Selection" for the latter approach, but it seems Cakewalk still does not have this feature.

I've had a couple of Lenovo 'Stinkpads' as work computers provided by my employer. Fit, finish and overall feel is crap, but they have taken a beating. My current one has fallen 2-3 feet to a wood floor multiple times and the case (plastic) is cracked but it still runs fine. Both had lousy battery life right out of the box despite having fairly low-spec CPUs and the fan in my current one runs constantly no matter the load. When the first one needed replacing I requested a Dell but when that one was replaced I forgot to insist on another Dell and ended up with another f'ing Lenovo. I don't know how many more times I'm going to have to throw drop this thing to get it replaced. ;^).

MIDI track meters in Cakewalk are always showing output, regardless of arming state. The only way to know for sure whether you're getting input to the track is to try recording. If that works but you don't get a response from the synth while recording, the issue is further downstream - input echo, levels, channels, audio routing, etc. Notes having too short a duration for the attack or range of the synth/patch or simply not having a patch loaded can also be a problem but would not be relevant to TruePianos.

It's not really possible to not use screensets. Some screenset is always active and every change you make to your screen layout is automatically part of whichever screenset is currently active unless you've locked it as Bristol_Jonesey suggested. If you were to lock the screenset while the plugin GUI was open, closing it would only last as long as the session is open, and it would be restored on the next re-open exactly as you describe.

You'll need to get WASAPI Exclusive driver mode working. That will let you get down to a 3ms buffer. But I don't have any pointers for making it work if it isn't doing so right out of the box. Unless possibly some VSTi you installed added its own driver for a standalone host that is interfering with WASAPI...?

The IK site shows SampleTron 2 is already included in TS3.5 though the JRR page does not. I got just about everything included with TSM 3.5 that I didn't already have with TSM 2 during the last Group Buy, but there's enough here to make me jump: Full MODO Drum 1.0, SampleTron 2, Hammond B-3X and MixBox. These were all $199 products during the Group Buy, and I only bought in at $149 (ARC System 3 with MEMS) with a double-dip at $49 to get all the cheaper instruments and FX.

I actually looked for a model with Nvidia graphics because I'll be running RC flight simulator software, but also because its been my experience that Cakewalk does not tend to have any issues with Nvidia drivers (with one exception involving a particular VST3's UI that was resolved relatively quickly with an update by Nvidia). Default scaling was 200%. I tried initially backing it off to 160%, but my eyes couldn't keep up. I'm now at 180%, and everything seems fine. I have not noticed any artifacts or other display weirdness, but obviously I have not been working with it for very long. At 200% the top of the Track Inspector in CbB was cut off which was the main reason for wanting to scale down a bit, and, of course just to have maximum room for track headers or PRV plus Tempo View, etc. I've never actually done a lot of audio work on a laptop, and don't expect to now. Other than just having CW as a reference when browsing and posting here and using it as a 'sandbox' for getting familiar with new software/plugins and trying out demos/freeware, the main thing I do on it is editing MIDI which doesn't require great audio quality and can be done while watching news or sports with half an eye on the TV or while having morning coffee and donuts in the recliner. ;^)

FWIW, I just picked up a Dell Inspiron 16 Plus, 16GB, 512GB SSD for under $1000 from their outlet store a couple weeks ago. It's immaculate, and you would not know it's not "A" stock. The chassis is all-aluminum and is a step up from previous generation Inspirons - comparable to XPS build quality, I think. My main DAW is an XPS8900 that was also a refurb and has worked flawlessly for 7 years with just the case fan replaced. Both are pretty quiet and stream smoothly at low latency with low and stable DPC latency, even with Wi-Fi left active though I do disable Bluetooth. The notebook is Win11, but I'm okay with moving on and have had no issues with it so far. IPS 3K 16:10 display is non-touch but has accurate color for photo editing and looks fantastic. It has a slot for a second SSD, and I will probably add one soon. My last desktop DAW was also a Dell and served me well for 7 years before the XPS. A lot of people seem be down on off-the-shelf machines for DAW use and Dell, especially, but I have had great luck with them.

The issue is with editing controllers: "...when I move a controller (not always) and move it up or down other controllers in separate tracks get grabbed and move at the same time."

I'm talking about the clip-linking feature documented below. If you right-click on one of the clips, and "Unlink" is grayed out, that's not the problem. http://gaga.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Arranging.44.html

FWIW, I don't recall ever seeing any of that.