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I'd saved this one particular song as a bundle.  That opened fine but I'm still concerned about some older projects.  Thanks for the tips above.

This has happened twice lately.  Today I tried to open a project from about five years ago and it continuously crashes- even when holding Shift/Enter to bypass all plugins.  I was able to open the project with Sonar Producer X3, save it, and it still crashes with the newest version of CbB. 

Anyone else have this issue?

I've been a long-time Sonar user and have been using CbB since Bandlab acquired it.  

If I create a project and use volume automation on each track, I know I can highlight all and move the automation by grabbing a line  in the track pane, hold the control key and move everything.  But it seems like globally raising or lowering the volume (in the track master pane on the left) on each track (CTRL_A then CTRL and grab the volume to adjust all tracks) DOESN'T adjust or move automation.  Am I doing something wrong?  Not designed to do this?  Every now and again I may want to ride a fader on just ONE instrument (not create volume automation for all tracks).  The frustration is if I want to globally lower all  volumes that ONE automation track doesn't get adjusted.  
 

Thanks.

Thanks JamPro!  I figured it out (see above).

Well...  it's a bug in the user...  I accidentally must have hit the slider on my APRO (midi controller).  and it was "stuck" at 6.    I appreciate martsave martin's response.  I'm good.  

And one other thing, I don't have any automation created on that bus.  

Weirdly, if I delete the master bus and then create a new one, it doesn't change.  BUT, if I create another bus right below it, I can change the volume (or adjust it to zero).  So the first bus (in the section below the tracks) is ALWAYS stuck at +6!  If you look at it in the console view it's slightly "wobbling" fast.  So my workaround at the moment is to create a bus below what would normally be the Master and assign all the tracks to it.  Weird stuff man.  A first....  I've been using Cakewalk for over 20 years.  

I noticed yesterday that the output volume on the master buss is literally STUCK at 6 and I CANNOT get it back to zero!  I even re-installed the application and nothing's changed.  Anyone have any ideas?  I'm stuck until I figure this one out.  My laptop works fine but this is my studio PC.  Thanks.

"A fatal error has occurred.

Module:  C:/program files/Cakewalk/shared utilities/Internal/PCS-BusCM.dll

 A crash dump file  has been created: ...;"

I know this has to do with the Bus Compressor.  It's only happening on one particular project as well.  When I "Safe start" (Hold shift before open) and not allow the  buss compressor to load, the project opens.  However, nothing comes through the master buss any longer.  Pretty weird but maybe someone has some insight.  I have a ton of plugins on this song and it took an hour to mix it.  

This just happened today.  It's showing up in effects but not when I right click on a clip and want to insert it as a regional effect.  I tried reinstalling it but same deal.   Anyone have any ideas?   Maybe the VST scan directory?

I've been a licensed user for ten years or so and this is a first.  

Thanks

3 hours ago, scook said:

There are no Win10 drivers for the VS-700 but here are instructions on using the Win8 drivers on Win10

http://forum.cakewalk.com/How-to-use-V700-win-8-driver-in-win-10-also-applies-to-some-other-Roland-drivers-m3206046.aspx

 

 

Dude!  Thanks so much!  I actually got it to work!

I'd love to use this thing again but all my current PC's are Windows 10 and there are no drivers that I can find.  Can anyone help?

I have a VS700R.  Anyone have Windows 10 drivers or a fix?

3 hours ago, Mark Morgon-Shaw said:

Got mine up and running now.  My Ryzen system is much more 'budget' than @MediaGary !  😀

So my system is:-

Ryzen 3900x

16gb DDR4 3600

512 Samsung Polaris NVME

1TB Samsung Evo SSD

2 x 2 TB Spinning Rust 7200 Maxtor HDD's

Gigabyte B450M H Mobo

Nvidia Gforce 710 2gb

Windows 10 Home Update : 1909

Audio Interface : Audient ID4  Other : StreamDeck  : Intuos Tablet : MAudio Oxygen 61 : Sonarworks Reference 4 ; Adam A7's : Avantone Mixcube

The PC itself was £800 without an OS from a system builder not far away that sells online a lot. Mainly gaming PCs.  

I upgraded from a 10yr old £600 unbranded PC off Amazon. Intel i5 2500 - 16gb DDR 2100 - 240gb SSD - Old Radeon passive GPU -Plus the same Maxtor Drives that had mostly ran Sonar 8.5 for the majority of it's life until this past year.

I write for Music Libraries in my spare time and I do get royalties off stuff that's been used in TV shows,  mostly reality. So it will get used in a semi-pro capacity but I'm not running huge orchestral set ups or anything. My music is mostly EDM - Future Bass - plus some trailer like stuff that gets used in certain TV shows, hybrid electronic/orchestral.

I mostly use stuff like Massive - Serum - Dune2 - AD2 - Plus a bunch of Kontakt Libraries like most of Output's stuff , Albion One, Damage ..that sort of thing.

A typical track for me would be approx 10 x Kontakt instruments, 5 x synths, some Drums and 10-15 audio tracks containing any live instruments or samples. I use maybe 40-50 FX Plugins for mixing a project of that size.  I don't master in CBB.

So the track I was working on when I swapped machines  was fairly typical, I was able to run it at 128 samples on the Audient's ASIO driver setting. I've not quite finished it but the CPU usage is hovering around the 35-40% on the CBB meters.

It would have been impossible to run barely anything at 128 on my old machine , I was halfway through when I switched and I'd already had to set the old machine at 1024 samples but it was stuttering even at that so all projects used to end up at 2048 samples and lots of track freezing.

It's great for me to still have a responsive system at 128 samples that can cope with a complete session with all the mix plugins.  I can quite happily work at 256 samples and still play all my VSTi's in a way that feels responsive.

So to answer the million dollar question is yes it's way more powerful than my old machine. I can't compare it to another modern PC as I don't have one.

It's snappy to boot up , my old system was no slouch with it's SSD but this is just a few seconds instead 15-20

I am surprised how much I can do at 128 ASIO sample buffer size as that was identified as a weak point Vs the Intel chips in the Dawbench test I saw over at Scan, so I am looking forward to having the option to drop to 256 and have more horsepower to play with on bigger projects

I haven't spent a lot of money but it far exceeds my current needs. No doubt over the years I will double the ram, add more storage etc. I doubt I'll change the motherboard though.

DPC latency performance has been fine as well, much better than my old PC which according to the tests was not suitable for audio !

I ran the test for 5hrs a mix of general use and several hours working on my latest track, as you can see from the attached image it passed the tests with no issues.

Actually it's the first time I've bought a PC that ran Sonar / Cakewalk properly straight outta the box.  Last time i.e. 10 yrs ago  I had to disable a temperature alarm in the Bios that was causing spikes and crackles.     

Overall super happy with it, I have left everything at the settings it came with - It looks like they have set the XMP profile in the BIOS already. It's running with the stock cooler BTW which I plan to leave as it's running at 40-50 degrees in use and I've no plans to overclock it. The ambient temperature in the room is 19-20 degrees usually.

I will say it's not as quiet as my old machine , it's not loud at all and I can't hear it whilst mixing and I'm pretty sure it won't be loud enough to affect recordings which I make 6ft away but if you want something quieter you may have to go to a more specialized DAW bulder and not just off the shelf.  

Hope that helps anyone thinking of getting a Ryzen based machine for CBB

Thanks man!  Good report!  Once we get through this virus lockdown here in the States and I'm back to work...  I'll be building a PC based off the new Ryzen CPU's!

I'm in the same situation.  I have a thread out here now about the AMD 3000 series which, according to a bunch of geek Youtube sites I've visited, kickeds Intel's booty.  I'm slightly concerned about some of my legacy hardware working with the new AMD stuff (RME MultiFace II that requires a PCI slot) but the world won't end if that's the case.  I'm using an RME UFX that uses USB.  

23 hours ago, lmu2002 said:

Here's good reading:

https://www.scanproaudio.info/2019/07/12/amd-ryzen-3600-3700x-3900x-dawbench-tested-3-is-it-the-magic-number/

According to this, if you are running extreme number of Kontakt instances  with small  buffer size Intel has the edge. But for normal use I wouldn't worry about it. Ryzen 3900x is a very strong cpu for daw use. I hope someone can give you a more detailed view.

Great information IMU2002!  I appreciate it!

I guess I'd like to know if there are any issues with AMD CPU's.  I've been an Intel dude since the beginning.  But it seems AMD is taking the lead right now- especially on a price/performance ratio.  Maybe a developer could chime in quickly?

I've been geeking out on these new CPU's.  Seems like some serious horsepower for a DAW.  So I'm wondering if anyone here has experience with this CPU and Cakewalk?  I've been using a fiver year old build with an Intel i7 4770K (four cores and eight threads).  It's done the gig.  But I'm contemplating building my own DAW machine with the Ryzen 3900x  (freakin' TWELVE cores and TWENTY FOUR threads!)  

Anyone with experience using this CPU commenting is appreciated!