Jeremy Oakes

4 hours ago, cclarry said:

It says from ANY Advanced product, so I believe it would apply - 

JRR says 
 

iZotope Music Production Suite 2.1 Upgrade from Any Advanced Product

Price is $125.16 with code GROUP
https://www.jrrshop.com/izotope-music-productionsuite-upgrade-advanced

"Not Available in Your Country"

I'm in France.

J

On 7/31/2019 at 7:05 AM, msmcleod said:

This largely depends on the speed of your internet connection.

A full Cakewalk install (minus the addons like Studio Instruments etc, which you probably already have) is just under 600MB. So for me that's around 60-70 seconds to download with an 80Mbps connection (approx 8MB per sec). 

Once you're up to date, further incremental installers will much smaller in future - usually around 20-30MB.

I hate it when people “boast” about their download speed 🤪. If you live in the country, at the distant of an ADSL link its more like 2 to 3 hours ..... yep i’m officially jealous !!:.

J

Yes i’ve tried it a few times with results varying from embarrassing to ok.

YMMV

If you can get harmonies from vocalist(s) its better IMO.

J

I have run Defender for some years, never caught as much as a cold. 

As far as W10 goes, apart from the USB power on “tweaks” it runs very good out of the box. But then i have a lot of ram - 32Gb.

i have disabled on-board nVidia HD sound, but when you upgrade your video drivers it sometimes comes back.

There is however a great fred in the Coffee house about the 1903 version of W10 which is well worth looking into - by Jack Stoner. I’ve done as he suggested and its looking good.

YMMV

cheers,

j

@CactusMusic : many thanks, that did the trick, several "hidden" events. I'm not used to in depth midi work.

All seems to be working now.

J

I don’t use templates. 

Also I have never heard of this problem.

However what you suggested did not work. As i said, i have nothing loaded on the midi tracks.

Any other solutions ?

J

Hi,

i have a project which is a mixture of audio tracks and midi (4x Dim Pro, 1x Rap Session). 

At the beginning the volume of all tracks is “normal”. However, after a few stops and starts, for some reason the volume of the midi tracks suddenly decreases dramatically. Prolly user error by why ? Any ideas ?

the midi meters show activity, as do the audio outputs, but the audio drops down in volume after 2 or 3 plays.

CbB is up to date, W10 also (1903), plus all drivers. No effects /VST’s on any track.

any ideas ?

J

5 hours ago, craigb said:

Well, Microsoft has found yet another way to annoy the heck out of me...  I got the reminder that an update was pending, so I decided to close out of everything and install the update (NOT an easy thing with all the work I'm doing!).  Once everything was closed it now says "You're up-to-date!" even though I'm still on 1809...  *Arrghhh!!!* 😖

(Clicking on "Check for Updates" doesn't work either.  I must be down on the update list...)

Now I'm worried about getting everything up and going again.  (I'm talking usually 30-40 Chrome tabs, 4-6 Excel spreadsheets, Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, various PDF's and text docs, 3-4 different sound and video apps, Outlook, Evernote, Filezilla, Postman, PhotoShop and others!)  Then they do a surprise restart on me and dork 90% of things up...  *Sigh.*

FWIW in your list these work fine for me : Excel, Visual Studio, Acrobat PDF, Word, Photoshop, Filezilla, Outlook, and so on.

You can force the download with the MS Media Creation Tool ........ !

J

I upgraded a laptop from Home to Pro then upgraded that and my desktop to v1903. Very simple in both cases (don’t leave any usb hd’s plugged in however) and i’ve noticed an incease in overall speed...’........ We shall if its real in the next few days !

you’ll need to re-autorise AD2 as usual, but Izotope and Toontrack survived the leap. So did the audio drivers (Soundcraft MTK 22 and Focusrite 18i20 second gen. plus BCF 2000)

cheers,

J

I have, in the past imported omf files that were created in Cubase and then opened them in Sonar. I assume i could do this in Cakewalk, and also that if it works one way, it will work the other way round. 

Or am i being an optimist ?

Jerry

LS56 firewire still going solid, plus a back up of 18i20 2nd gen also rock solid.

jerry

Melda free bundle + (you unlock certain things in the paid version.). Start with a preset and tweak away.

cheers,

J

I’ll bite.

why not describe the problem(s) here, people can maybe help.

J

5 hours ago, abacab said:

Conclusion: If you are running Windows 10, you need an SSD. 

No, you don’t.

running 3 HD’s here 7200’s and even though boot time is a little slow, that doesn’t bother me. My DAW performance is great, for,what i do.

jerry

16 minutes ago, Toddskins said:

Only thing is drivers -- about the most important thing of all.

Yes that is correct.

Focusrite were on the ball.

But it was my PCR 800 that caused the problems. Luckily there was a hack published on the old Cakewalk forum which solveed that issue.

Plan your upgrade before you do it.

Jerry

iPad running iOS 12, latest update applied, no issues here.

jerry

Personally my upgrade (albeit a long time ago) from 7 to 10 went rather well.

The only hassle i had was drivers.

YMMV but there you go !

jerry