John Bradley

It'd be real handy if the Plug-In Manager could use the power of the computer brain to indicate which plug-ins in the "Registered Plug-ins" list appear (or fail to appear, either works) somewhere in the heirarchy of folders in the "menu layout" list. Rather than rely on error-prone humans to carefully eyeball the two lists. When organizing dozens, scores, or hundreds of VSTs into one or more folder structures that makes sense, some feedback on which ones you might have missed (or listed multiple times, which may or may not be an error according to your personal filing system) would be most helpful.

Not a new bug introduced in 2020.04, but still: If you click and drag on the Horizontal Zoom Control (the vertical bar-graph thing between the two magnifying glass icons) at the bottom of the Tracks pane while the track is playing, it's very easy for Cakewalk to miss the release of the mouse button (or so it seems). Practical effect is that the pop-up horizontal zoom panel remains open, the cursor remains the left-and-right-arrow thing, and there's no readily apparent way to stop the song or regain control of the DAW -- all input (include key presses) is being eaten by the popup. Or at least, that's how it behaves. I have to alt-tab away from CW and kill the process in the Task Manager, with predictable "loss of everything since last autosave" results.

Loving the "copy/paste settings" on the ProChannel modules. Would love even more an ability to copy/paste an entire ProChannel between tracks. Yes, I can save a preset and load that preset to the other channels, but would prefer to do so without involving a file dialog. There's already too many presets in that folder and don't want to clutter it up with my own -- particularly when they aren't necessarily something I'd use in another project.

Just installed 2020.04 build 179. Same problem.

I'm seeing the same thing. Rendering my AudioSnap'ed tracks using Elastique Pro occasionally glitches and shifts a transient by a most-definitely noticable amount. See the screenshot. Top track is 'live', second one is rendered. For whatever reason, that first marked transient has been shifted nearly an 8th late, and second one has been shifted nearly a 16th late. The third one (and subsequent ones) are back in sync again. Happens fairly frequently, and requires a fair bit of surgery after the fact. In my current test case, 14 bars were significantly garbled in a 150 bar (5 minute) guitar track. Using 'Bounce to Track', with the Fast Bounce and 64-bit engines selected, none of the other checkboxes checked, channel format Mono. It's deterministic. Doing the bounce again (from the live source track) results in an identical set of errors, in the same places. Exact same errors if I bounce using Elastique Efficient instead. Bouncing with Radius Mix Advanced worked correctly - no glaring errors. On a hunch, I went back to using Elastique Pro, but splitting up the track into multiple clips. (The track had been one single clip, after flattening the comp.) Split the track every 12 bars. Considerably fewer glaring errors, but still a couple. Splitting the problem areas up even further (1 bar clips) fixed it further, but never got it quite right. For now, I'm just going to use Radius Mix Advanced instead, but hopefully this can be fixed!

Minor issue, but one that should be relatively easy to fix. The "Clean Audio Folder" dialog and the "Unreadable Files" dialog that it can pop-up should both be resizable. Very easy for filenames to be longer than can be shown in the default list window. The CAF dialog at least has a horizontal scroll, which is workable, if inconvenient. The Unreadable Files dialog does not, and there does not seem to be any way to find out the full name of the items in the list. (Can't copy and paste to a Notepad or anything.)

It could be improved... Here's my use-case. I record mono guitar tracks (guitar directly into interface) and do all the amp/fx work in the box (BlueCat Axiom). I normally leave the interleave at 'stereo', because I want the stereo effects done with Axiom to play back in stereo. At some point in the process I usually do the AudioSnap thing to clean up my mediocre playing. Once I've got the timings straight, I want to render the AudioSnap using the offline Elastique Pro. I bounce the uneffected guitar audio (channel format mono, the only ticked box is 'fast bounce') to another track, delete the original recording, and move the bounced clip up onto the track with the amp fx. As I never listen to the raw guitar recording without going through the amp sim, I hadn't noticed that it was boosting it by 3db. Though at some point I thought "hey, the track is a little 'heavier' than I remember it being". Thanks to this thread, I discovered that if I temporarily set the interleave to mono, do the bounce, move the data, and then set the interleave back to stereo, everything works as it should - no additional 3db of gain. A bit cryptic, and not what would be expected given the settings in the Bounce to Tracks dialog, but at least it works. Maybe a pop-up "You know, this is going to boost your recording by 3db" dialog box should appear, along with a "yeah, I understand, don't tell me again checkbox" for those who know about it. If the semi-bizarre behavior can't be changed without breaking a bunch of other things, at can at least be documented (in the app itself) to avoid the gotcha to new users.

Cool, didn't know Focusrite had a secret beta program. Thanks!

FWIW, I'm now occasionally getting a BSOD (BAD_POOL_CALLER) when changing audio driver settings in CbB 2020.01 build 28. Using a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (version 1) with the latest driver (4.63.24). If I go to Driver Settings and change the Buffer Size slider (I typically use 256 for tracking, 512 when mixing -- 44.1/24), I can hit Apply and the dialog box will go away and come back with the updated latency values displayed. But after that I hit OK, and then the BSOD happens. Not every time, or even most times, but I've had it happen 3 times in the last week. Not pushing the system especially hard. 20-30 tracks including SessionDrummer and a few Arturia and other synths (most of which are frozen), some iZotope Nectar 2 on the vox, ProChannel comp and eq on most tracks.

Sure about that? I've followed your instructions and was able to get multiple PRVs in the Multidock, and then undock them. So far so good!. But no matter what I did ('lock contents', different combinations of auto focus and auto lock in the PRVs), I can't find a way to have a different track selected in the two PRVs, such that the notes for only that track appear, and are filled-in. Granted, I might not have the same use-case as the OP. I want to display bass and drum parts in two undocked PRVs simultaneously to show my (human) bass player and drummer their respective parts, without the notes overlapping each other. Doesn't seem possible, unless I'm missing something.