Bruce Barkelew

10 hours ago, John Vere said:

You should learn how to use track templates. You can save a complicated set up and save it. Then you just insert into a fresh project. It will even add sub mix buses. 

I have templates for everything I normally use. Example midi VST instruments all ready to go with my patches etc. And as I always use the same inputs of my audio interface for certain things the template remembers my inputs.  

Example: Electric guitar clean template- Input set to Channel 2/ Track is colored green / Pro channel has my effects and they are set they way I like/ Output inserts a Guitar sub buss/ colors it and inserts all my effects.  

Templates are a simple way to have your tracks set up the same from song to song. I never use song templates anymore, just the track templates. I can populate a blank screen pretty fast. 

Thanks John, that's what I ended up doing. it saved everything except for the colors!

12 hours ago, chuckebaby said:

More often than not it is related to Automation written on a track that exceeds the project end. It could be a hidden track, Bus automation, exc.

This has been my experience anyway.

You're correct, that can be the case sometimes, but what I'm referring to is on random occasions, you can delete all automation, etc,  but Cakewalk still thinks something is there.  

I did find a workaround: select all tracks, then save them as a track template. Load that track template into an empty project and you're ready to go. It keeps everything except any colors you may have set for console view.

15 hours ago, Lance Jones said:

This thread might help. i looked it up because you had me curious.

 

http://forum.cakewalk.com/Setting-Project-endpoint-m2626135.aspx

Looks like you: On the Track view, pull the Drop Down for Options, and select Stop at Project End. Playback will stop at the end of the last track (+ any time you have in global preferences for playing tails). Caveat: If there's any automation writing or muted tracks this setting is sometimes ignores this setting completely... Some say it's a bug, others say it's a feature.

Thanks Lance. That doesn't work. Cakewalk has had this issue/bug since back in the Sonar days. If you delete all the tracks, etc in a project to start a new one, sometimes "ghost" information stays and it thinks the end of the old project is still the end. I was hoping the current Bandlab version had addressed this. It's totally random when this happens, so it very hard to recreate it to submit a bug report. Oh well, I'll just start from scratch. Thanks for your input!

I have an existing project that I want to use as the layout for a new project (so I can keep track names, plugins, prochannel settings, etc). 

I did a CTRL-A and deleted all the tracks/clips, then deleted any automation envelopes that were there. I "save as" with a new name, but the project end point from the old project persists. It thinks I have a project with 182 measures (which the old project was). How do I get it to behave like a new, empty project?

What am I missing?