Will.

On 9/17/2022 at 4:37 PM, Cactus Music said:

Edit : Talking to the wind again.  

You sound disappointed here.  😂 

7 minutes ago, bitflipper said:

AMD Ryzen 5 5600x 6-core (which was half the price).

Yes, no issues with this series in AMD, but definitely with the 3 series and 7 series of the Ryzen series, which is weird. I had to return mine - terrible UI lagging issues. 

The reviews speaks loudly all over this thing we call the "Web of the Wide World." 

1 hour ago, Antre said:

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 8 core

Terrible CPU in general. Had one returned it within two days. 80% of this CPU has a poor review. 

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1391211-poor-performance-in-every-games-with-rtx-3070-and-ryzen-7-2700x/

https://community.amd.com/t5/processors/ryzen-7-2700x-single-thread-awful-benchmark-performance/td-p/515852

It has its goods in certain departments, but its not meant for Music Performances | Nor | Video Editing to mention a few. 

Even though i'm not permanently in CbB anymore, I would still like it to grow in to a well-oiled DAW. It has all the abilities of  90% the requests made as "New Features" already at our finger tips, but they're locked. The one i'm making now is an old favorite I used a lot and occassionally still use everytime I fire up Cakewalk.

Here goes . . . 

This is two requests as one, because they go together, but currently works independently it seems.  So i'll start with the big one everyone keeps requesting, which is already available in Cakewalk - and that's VARISPEED! Yes, people . . . Cakewalk have always had the ability to do varispeed for years. I've always used it even though it was a real pain to create, but ultimately every single time I would get a perfect result. 

Requesting to have the pitch and the format/fine tune buttons as an envelope in the clip automation section on the track itself as shown in the picture. 

The second one is to have these sync'd. The Loop construction playhead and the TV has always been out ouf sync'd. Though, for some reason I can swore they were synced in X1 LE and X1 producer. This was many moons ago, so i'm not entirely sure if they were. 

It's an oldie, but it served me well over the years with transposing 808 kicks, speeding up short vocal samples and still retain its natural tone. It was a pain creating the effect and getting the timing perfect, but like i said - it was always worth it. It was my old secret in Cakewalk, but I think it's time we introduce it to everyone. 

EXAMPLE: 

15 hours ago, Keni said:

It is still currently necessary to enable disable both global snap as well as PRV snap when working in PRV to turn snap on/off. If you simply disable PRV snap, the system reverts to using the global snap. A bit of a pain most of the time for me as I essentially never want to use my global values in the PRV. If I turn of PRV snap, I mean for snap to be off completely.

 

It would be nice. Maybe an option for off vs revert to global?

Turn off your "follow global snap" setting in the PRV - under the file tab. I'm really lazy to make video right now, sorry | or | read the doucumentation how to disable this setting. 

Everyone working in the PRV should know where to locate this. 

On 9/23/2022 at 5:26 PM, Morten Saether said:

• The minimum project loop length has been reduced to 1/128th note (30 ticks)

Everything seems to work flawless. Just did a comping test on some guitar transients to reduce some finger noise and to gain some headroom on snare hits | and | I must say: the results are candy! 

On 9/23/2022 at 5:26 PM, Morten Saether said:

• "Nudge by snap" uses Landmarks even with Snap to Landmarks button disabled

A perfect fix.

Thanks Team! 

2 hours ago, Antre said:

Read the post you quoted again - did I mention VSTi?

Well then, buy a box of kleenex and move on. 

On 9/24/2022 at 5:55 PM, Antre said:

I opened a blank project and started to add tracks. As number of tracks gets bigger (no plugins) delay gets bigger.

Well, technically - if you're using a VSTi (Virtual Studio Technology Instrument,) that's a plugin. 

This could very well be the cause in the latency you experience in Cakewalk as @Cactus Music mentioned earlier in this thread. Not every Vst(i) works perfect in every DAW. The "very best Grand Piano" might run smooth in Logic, but not in PT. The Vienna Symphonic Orchestra plugin, might run smooth in CbB, but not in reaper. The same applies to how quick it is to create a sidechain bus/aux track in Cakewalk, but requires more clicks in different DAW. 

Every DAW has its own language and mood swings with certain things. Your job as the user - is to identify the issue and report it. What works flawless on my system, might not work favorable on your system. This greatly depends on the different specs of your system and how we maintain it. You cant use your DAW system to stream movies, or for graphic designing and to store all kind of things on it and still expect it to run perfectly. That's asking for problems. 

Upgrade some of your system specs, invest in a cheap laptop and use this as your home machine and keep the desktop solely for making music on. It is also recommended to have a seperate machine for your second DAW. Often this is also the case in point. Each DAW requires different settings for your sound driver. So everytime you open another DAW on the same system (including video editors etc.) they always change the default settings in your OS. This among many reason i can mention now create playback latency. 

So instead of continuously complaining about this, educate yourself on system tweaks and if you're still unhappy about it - nothing stops you from using the other DAWs you own | or | not. It all depends on you. 

On 9/24/2022 at 5:55 PM, Antre said:

I opened a blank project and started to add tracks. As number of tracks gets bigger (no plugins) delay gets bigger.

Well, technically - if you're using a VSTi (Virtual Studio Technology Instrument,) that's a plugin. 

This could very well be the cause in the latency you're experience in Cakewalk as @Cactus Music mentioned earlier in this thread. Not every Vst(i) works perfect in every DAW. The "very best Grand Piano" might run smooth in Logic, but not in PT. The vienna symphonic orchestra plugin, might run smooth in CbB, but not in reaper. Its the same as how quick it is to create a sidechain bus/aux track in Cakewalk, but requires more clicks in another.

Every DAW has its own language and mood swings with certain things. Your job as the user - is to identify the issue and report it. What works flawless on my system, might not work favorable on system. This greatly depends on the different specs of of system and we maintain it. You cant use your DAW system to stream movies, or for graphic designing and to store all kind of things on it. That's asking for problems. 

Upgrade some of your system specs, invest in a cheap laptop and use this as your home machine and keep the desktop solely for making music on. It is also recommended to have a seperate machine for your second DAW. Often this is also the case in point. Each DAW requires different settings for your sound driver. So everytime you open another DAW on the same system (including video editors etc.) they always change the default settings in your OS. This among many reason i can mention now create playback latency. 

So instead of crying about this, educate yourself on system tweaks and if you're still unhappy about it - nothing stops you from using the other DAW you do not have license for. 

On 9/23/2022 at 4:28 AM, Michael Richards said:

For many months I was running something like 4.4 ms, round trip.

I run the same latency. There could be some cumulative windows updates that's causing your issue. It might also be some recent driver you have done. Theres also the possiblility of your antivirus slowing things down. It can be some background apps consuming cpu resources. Check any of these - if they pan out, then its a plugin you're using in your chain. Its always a cat and mouse game with this issue. 

27 minutes ago, El Gato Loco said:

it's random. Sometimes It reads all the automation and after a while, it doesn't any more until I restart cakewalk

I can confirm this. I believe i've reported this before earlier this year. 

20 hours ago, Karmamechanic said:

The vendor I'm looking at offers i9-11900K (8 cores) or an upgrade to a i9-10980XE (18 cores but lower ghz). The extra expense is no problem. 

I believe you have answered your own question. Dont just think "DAW." You have to consider the plugins you'll be using too. Vst and Vsti such as iZotope and Omnisphere requires a powerful system. 

6 hours ago, tulamide said:

I went through 3 different PCs and 2 different OS, and the latest addition of an audio interface a few months ago didn't change it either.

If this is true: There's either some routing issue going wrong | or | it could be related to a specific "favorite" plugin you have been using for years. If it was a bug a lot of users would have reported this. 

Try replacing the plugins one-by-one and see if the problem disappears. If there's an improvement in your system - then you'll know its a plugin causing the issue. You can then report this plugin here and to its manufacturer for them to look at. A lot of plugins compatibility with CbB got improved this way over the years since Bandlab took over. 

Weird indeed. Heres something even stranger. Everytime i opened the project, I would get a two second feedback of the drums which sounds like a delay. On play there was definitely an issue and as you've mentioned, toggling the interleave removed that, but also "bleeds" slightly into stereo - barely noticeble, but its there. 

Strange thing: I've replaced EZD3 with my AD3 and now I cant reproduce the problem anymore. I haven't done anything else, besides toggling the interleave back and forth and replacing EZD3 with my AD3 and back to EZD3. 

1 hour ago, Oscar Martín Díez-Canseco said:

Hello. This is happening again. Problems with the Cakewalk vst with the plugin manager. 

How can this be happening again when it never happened in the first place? The OP's entire system packed up - so it was not linked to "The Cake" what-so-ever. 

You're issue seems to be plugin manager related, this thread was open on a BSOD issue. 

I just ran into this topic that's currently open as well. 

https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/49435-audio-track-view-asymmetry/

Try cutting away bass frequencies by making slightly more headroom to correct the issue. Do this with the smallest slope curve your EQ has - around 10-30Hz. Do the same in with the highend side with the smallest slope curve and what i mean by smallest -  lean towards the linear line, as apposed to a brickwall cutoff. 

OR . . . Turn the input/output list to a flatbed - "a flyout flatlist view." Easy-Peezy! 

On 9/17/2022 at 7:07 AM, Андрей Шмальц said:

HI ALL! FOR SOME TIME I CAN'T EXPORT MIXES. A WINDOW COMES OUT "Saving is prohibited: you do not have Cakewalk activated." I HAVE NOT DONE ALREADY. DOES NOT WORK. ALREADY DELETED CAKEWALK TWO TIMES. EVERYTHING IS THE SAME. FRIENDS!!! TELL PLEASE HOW TO ACTIVATE. IN THE PROGRAM ITSELF IN INFORMATION I CLICK "update activation" I AM SHIPPED TO THE INTERNET EXPLORER, BUT HE DOES NOT FIND THE STATION. WHAT TO DO GUYS???? PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOS!!!!!! SOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SOS!!!!!!!!!!!

First of all you need to create a Bandlab account to activate Cakewalk. 

In Cakewalk under the Help Tab click on SIGN-IN. A pop up window will appear - click on "CREATE Account."

Once you have created your account return to CAKEWALK locate the HELP TAB Again and sign in from within Cakewalk. It should activate itself. 

If you're activating it by using the the B.A (bandlab assistant) app then it wont work. Here are some reports on B.A not working anymore. 

Also: This might be because "Internet Explorer" are not supported by Microsoft anymore. Cakewalk needs to install "Webview." 

It always works.

Read the manual to get a better understanding to why it works and why it might cause issues at times. 

22 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

I use dual 23" monitors at 1920x1280. I consider that to be just at the edge of legibility with my aging eyesballs.

I think i'll try out the 24 inch at 1920x1280 

Thanks. 

22 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

There is some dusty code in Cakewalk!

Definitely is, it will get there eventually. 

Try turning the 64 bit double precision engine off (if you have it on.) 

Lastly: Make sure that your Mackie driver is the only driver making use of your computer. I have never bothered with Win 8, but i believe the steps are the same. So you might want to go to control panel, audio drivers and disable every other sound drivers thats installed on your PC. From Realtek to software that install drivers unknowingly, like music players, video editors, video/music converters, lame drivers and certain codec software. Also check and replace the cables of your Mackie BB. 

6 minutes ago, Keni said:

I pray to the great god of Cake programming to solve my zoom/display issues one day soon as this does cause me constant difficulties.

Is there a thread open already on this? 😂 

For me Ctrl + ⬅⬆➡⬇ the directional arrow keys has been working great so far. 

On 9/14/2022 at 11:44 PM, Keni said:

To me, Lanes are sub-tracks. Each/all capable of being muted/solo'd etc. 

That's because The purpose of these is to identify the best Take to be used. 

To give you a better understanding. Chose a single track and expand its lane. You will see that the same track are being displayed in the lane. This mirror clip (not a copy) is basically the properties information of the original track. Now, this is what others DAWs might call "Dubs" with the original track the Guide. These dubs within the matrix view of this track are then being used for "comping" purposes. 

Like in the old days where artists such as Michael Jackson and Celine Dion would record 64 "Takes" of the original vocal track and later be used as over dubs for "comping" on pitch correction, duration and so on. . . Its an old feature from the analog era which has been implented in the digital world of today.  It was used on taping edits and nothing else. 

This is why we're saying the samething. It only ever had the purpose for "comping." We're not trying to kill this idea - we're just trying to look for benefits in this. Yes, with digital we can drag it to another track and it becomes a seperate track, but within the same matrix view of the guide track (original track) it really doesnt serve as anything else. 

To me the signal flow is the road block. The signal will have to go . . . Track>lanes back to the track and then out? Feedback issues already, and +dB increases? 

Like i said: I can only see this work with sidechain "MAYBE." Exactly the same as it works when sending it to an effects input. Here it will just be on a take lane? No . . . Also unnecessary extra input features and crazy to begin with. Wont be an improvement. 

Anyway . . . Keep it alive. It might just spark an idea somewhere useful. 

7 hours ago, Keni said:

I get your analogy, but I think it has room for depth.

Its a good suggestion that you're bringing forward, but at the moment there some high walls in the middle of this. We first need to break these walls down and be sure that it wont hinder/break the signal flow.

That was the example i was trying to bring forward. How will it fit in the signal flow. I'm really trying to picture, but i dont see a way around it. I can actually picture where it might benefit, but the signal flow it the issue. My idea on this would be with the sidechain processing as an "Input" Yet, that signal flow stands in the way everytime.