Richard Lloyd

Nearly 3 years on, I've still been getting this issue, but I can confirm that when I shut down my audio interface after exiting Cakewalk, the Cakewalk session also disappears in Windows' task manager. Then I just have to turn on the audio interface before starting up Cakewalk again. Two steps, I know, but it works for me. 

Nearly 3 years on, I've still been getting this issue, but I can confirm that if you shut down the audio interface whilst still in a Cakewalk session, Cakewalk no longer hangs after you've closed it down. Then turn on the audio interface again, before starting up Cakewalk again. Two steps, I know, but it works for me. 

I was looking at this thread and in the meantime just found the solution. In my case, I'm using a Roland E-09 as midi input, which was noticeably quieter than when using the virtual keyboard. The reason was that I had the "keyboard touch" button on. When turning it off, the midi signal with the same (max) velocity as on the virtual keyboard was transmitted.

And I now realise how it must have happened. I was fooling around with a control surface called "Touch DAW" on my mobile phone, when I noticed that faders 1 to 8 were all being set to -8.7db whenever my head was turned away. That must have also been done to the left channel on the hardware output. -8.7db!

Voila! David you're a star ...

Hi Everyone,

This is my first time up in the forum and I wanted to share some really strange behaviour in Cakewalk; the problem being that in the exported mix file the left channel is significantly quieter than the right whilst they are on a par when simply playing the song through the master bus.

I've tried everything! By-passing all the plugins, checking all the export parameters and, of course, the panning of every track. It all looks fine. However as soon as I export just one track, let alone 24, the difference in levels is already apparent. 

Fortunately I found a workaround which was to export the master bus instead of the entire mix. Same thing. And that works, so there must be a gremlin in there somewhere.

But when I uploaded the (good) mix file into another cakewalk project just to master it, the exported file also had the weak left channel !! Same workaround. Export the master bus itself instead of "entire mix" of the single mix channel through the master bus and it was ok.

Any ideas? I've only encountered the problem in this project so far, but now I'm worried ...

Richard.