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Paul Cantillon

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  1. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at BandLab for taking over Cakewalk and keeping it alive, I can’t adequately express how important having a reliable DAW is to many of us. Had a great time over the holiday period recording in Cakewalk (I still want to call it Sonar, but I'll get the hang of it eventually - after all, I got used to calling it Sonar when it went from Cakewalk), and I was marvelling at how my new 64GB of ram was allowing my super dooper computer to handle apparently anything I threw at it, when the unthinkable happened - Audio Dropouts! Ahhg. not again, not since Windows 98 had I experienced the frustration of having "something nasty" happen. I quickly fired off a request to support and Kris was very prompt in replying with a related post from the old forum, but I had already tried all of the things latency & buffer related. Something clearly wasn't right - privately I was seething that someone, somewhere had probably released something that hadn't been tested enough, or fixed something that wasn't broken or Windows had updated something I didn't want updating or use.....etc etc Hankering to "go back to a time when life was good", I found an old 2018 version of the project I created (Yep. it takes me that long to get around to things) and loaded up the last version of Sonar - and experienced the same audio drop outs - but how could that be ? Obviously, I blamed software again, probably Windows this time. "Windows" I discovered, was throttling my CPU! How dare it! I'm in charge, not silicon. Despondent, I started having.... illicit MAC thoughts, nostalgic dreams of when hardware warmed my room and a time when desk space was non existent because there was a bloody great mixing desk taking it all up...... I was about to remove half my memory when I noticed how warm it was in the case - in fact the CPU was almost red hot... and wait a minute - there was a static air bubble in my water cooler! Obviously, the pump had failed after all these years (it's an antique Zalman reserator from the days of Windows 98) - it's incredible the thing didn't burst into flames - I was surprised the PC worked at all. Here's the thing, though, nothing had broken or failed or been released after insufficient testing - all I had done was move my PC back an INCH (that's 2.54cm), which had caused a kink in the external tubing that cools my PC, rendering it useless. An inch that created a week of frustration & internal struggle, blaming all sorts of people I would never meet. And it was all my fault for wanting to line up the PC with the front of my desk. Never again am I going to move anything.
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