Todd Dufrene

I appreciate the response bitflipper, but that is not the main problem. Cakewalk not showing in task manager and windows running other processes that interfere with it is the main issue.

By the way, I love your tag line.

I have a weird problem. When I start Cakewalk it appears in the task manager - until a project loads. Once any project or even a blank new project is loaded it disappears. But then, when I exit Cakewalk - it reappears. Then many times it won't go away until I manually end the process.

After a project loads and Cakewalk disappears from the task manager, Windows will run programs that usually only run when nothing else is running. That, of course causes Cakewalk to run slowly and/or drop out often. It's as if Windows doesn't know Cakewalk is running.

I am running Windows 11, but it also did the same thing on Windows 10 before I upgraded.

Anybody else having this issue? Any ideas? Any existing threads about it I may have missed?

Thanks scook. I don't know if I feel like spending anymore time on it. I might just take this as a sign from God that I've installed enough free plugins for a while and need to spend more time, you know, actually recording ad mixing music.

I just installed a few freebie plugins. 3 or 4 were from NSP.  When I did a Plugin scan, it said new plugins were found. But, when I look for them, they're not listed in the Plugin Browser or the Plugin Manager. Any ideas what's going on?

I agree with the others who said to check your settings and maybe read up on Melodyne. If you want another tool though, I find Graillon by Auburn Sound works well for a free plugin.

Thanks scook! I never thought about the windows magnifier. That could be a decent workaround. Now maybe I can actually use the Airwindows plugins - and the Cakewalk DX plugins as well. I can barely read those either.