Terry Kelley

The natives are restless.

I didn't think "later this year" meant 'late in the year.' I understand and support the need to make both Sonar and Next be the best they can be but this started in June and I think many of us incorrectly assume 'a couple of months.'

We were wrong. Oh well.

I've run into this multiple times. Mostly on projects with lots of VSTs. It doesn't happen a lot but enough that I have to deal with it periodically.

The solution for me is to open a different project that WILL open without crashing, leave it open and then open the problem project. That seems to work every time.

At that point I usually remove the last two VST instruments or effects and re-save it. Then figure out which one is the problem VST.  It's almost always an effect but not always the same effect. It's like there is some limit I've hit or I've displeased the VST gods.

If I can't figure out the problem VST, I will try freezing tracks to at least make the project usable but I will often have a problem of crashing when unfreezing the tracks if needed later.

Define "soon."

This is starting to feel like the first Windows announcements.

I got the impression (and only an impression) was that Sonar would be the same code and features as CbB but with an interface better supporting the scaling of various elements.

No doubt there will be some additional features but what it can do will be based on CbB. So all of these bug fixes matter.

6 hours ago, Alan Bachman said:

I understand that the text in markers cannot be made larger.  I am wondering if this is something that can be look at in the Sonar version coming out?
Does anyone else really care?  Should I just get a better magnifying glass?  😄

To be clear, I LOVE CAKEWALK, and this is a minor issue and in no ways impacts my desire for the product.  But it still would be nice to be able to enlarge the text.

I expect this to be resolved in Sonar with the new interface. One of the developers mentioned that scaling limitations was something they wanted to correct.

20 hours ago, Michael Richards said:

Back in the early 1980s when I was a working musician my band had 2 Teac 3340s decks. We used one to bounce to the other. We were never good enough to bounce again, so we only really used 6 tracks.

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We used a pair of Dokorder 7140's with modded capstans to run 15ips. Worked great for what they were. We moved to a pair of synced Sansui 6-tracks. Worked ok with noise reduction but was never going to be pro sounding. Tascam T80-8 was nice but really the same as the Dokorder - just on one transport. Eventually switched to ADATs and then multitrack DAW.

I took CbB being free as a gift for the time it's lasted. Can't complain. I do hope Sonar meets my need (function and cost.) If not, there are other options. I am certainly hopefully but I've been fooled before.

I agree. The Sonar/Next announcement in hindsight seems a bit early.  I don't think a 4 month+ heads up did anyone any good.

But if you want to see it, you gotta wait. So as suggested, I've gone and done other things. When they finally show up I'll take a look.

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On 10/4/2023 at 5:23 AM, Glenn Stanton said:

honestly, i'm only here for the sneaker ads anyways...

As long as they are similar to something Kate Middleton wears and I can get them cheaper. But hey, that's just me

Any expensive holder for my pickups and strings.

I'm running that PreSonus driver in Cakewalk in ASIO mode without any issues. Are you sure to had the correct box checked when you installed the driver? If in doubt, click them all and let it install them. Sure, most won't get used but they are small and you'll be sure to have one that works for your interface.

Maybe at a $1000 it would weed out a couple more.

On 9/4/2023 at 5:08 PM, Andres Medina said:

Melodyne Studio, 10 min joggling blops, everything fine in my system.

Used it a lot today with no issues. Clearly a supernatural issue then.

I've seen two new issues that I haven't seen before.

1. Melody (Studio) will stop responding to mouse control such as moving a blob or changing functions. I can still control Cakewalk itself. I have to close the region and reopen. It will work for awhile (hours) and then stop responding again. I left it once for an hour and it never came back.

2. I've had Cakewalk lock up and stop responding. No errors or crashes. You can't do anything and have to kill the processes and restart.

Obviously both of these could  be totally unrelated to the update but nothing has otherwise changed. If I can find a way to reproduce them I will submit.

I’ve seen this happen too. I believe I posted in another thread. Freezing the track caused it to shift in time enough that it was flat out of time with the music. Unfreeze and it moved back. Back and forth.

I never figured out why but closing the project and reopening it seemed to fix it.  In my case over sampling, FX on/off, or VST didn’t appear to matter. It’s rare but I still see it. 

I also made sure it wasn’t related to my tendency to accidental move the clip when I go to open the clip properties window. 

I tested this again and can have Ezkey, Ezkeys 2, EzDrummer 2 and EzDrummer 3 windows all open at the same time by pinning them. I also opened Mellotoon and Cinematic in two different instances and both can be pinned.

So as stated above you might have the "Recycle Plug-In Windows" enabled in Preferences>VST Settings.General>Recycle Plug-in WIndows. If so, Cakewalk will close any new VST windows unless you "Pin" it by clicking the push-pin icon on the top right of the window.

Sure but what about those of us that WANT to buy a cheaper version of a shoe that Kate Middleton wears?

I just thought it was bizarre wording. I'm not looking to solve it. There's no need to research it.

Who knows! Lol. I have zero plans on pursuing it.

It's right up there with Spice "Oh Shit #2"

Cakewalk.exe - Application Error

"The exception unknown software exception (0xe06d7363) occurred in the application at location 0x00007FFF24F7CF19."

See, I've been trying to warn about this for YEARS. Do they listen? Nooooo.....

Looks like a Windows 10 complaint. No, I ain't even going to bother sending it in.

I have Sonitus Reverb occasionally go stupid on me. I've learned to NEVER change settings while the song is playing. It will pop and max the meters never to return until I shutdown Cakewalk and or remove it and insert again.

But I too like it a lot and will keep using it. I have plenty of other reverbs but Sonitus gives me a nice full reverb with pre-delay that is easy to use.

Just .. don't .. change .. settings.

Of course.

See if Melda Productions MAutopitch is still free. Watch the formant. A little goes a long way.

You could also try Transposing Audio.