Zac Travis

Could that be why we get the message every time we open a saved project that the plugins we used could not be found? It's another annoyance, but the FX work just fine, despite what the message states.

Looking at my FX on the track, I do have one plug in that we added, which is the SoftTube Saturation Knob. Aside from that, we have applied the Deesser, Compander, Doubler, Tube EQ, Sonitus Compressor, and Telephone Vocals. These are all from the FX Chain Presets folder that was created when we installed Cakewalk, which leads me to believe that the program came with them. We've also got the Console Emulator turned on from the Pro Channel. The first time that we had the problem with the vocal track not playing after restarting Cakewalk, it turned out that the Tube EQ was the problem. We deleted it, added it back, and all was well. Then we saved, closed, reopened again, and that same track was out again. This time, deleting the Telephone Vocals got it back. It just seems like an arbitrary and painful problem to have.

I think we might be using the pro channel for some things on that track, but the effects which appeared to cause the problem were just brought in from the FX chain thing. Could be related, though. I'll do a bit more testing in that area and see whether it makes a difference. Thanks!

We've got a really odd behavior happening with a vocal track in a project. After applying some effects, then saving, closing, and reopening Cakewalk, this track no longer plays. It shows the waveform and all looks good, but its individual VU meter doesn't show any activity. We disabled the effects, one at a time, and discovered that one of the effects appeared to be the problem. So, we jotted down our settings for that effect, then removed it from the track, re-applied it, and then it worked fine. However, the next time the project was opened, the same track had the same problem. This time, it was a different effect than before. Same process worked to get it producing audio again, but it's just annoying as all get-out. Any ideas? EDIT: All effects we're using are the ones which are included with the default installation of Cakewalk.

We've also had the issue that you mention here, with a project giving us the prompt about missing plugins when loading, but it's the included plugins that it reports are missing! Further, once we have the project up, all of the applied plugins function just fine. Annoying as heck to get the prompt about missing plugins, when they came with the program. Ideas? As a test, we created a bundle of that project and loaded it up on another computer with a fresh installation of Cakewalk (never had been on that machine previously), and we get the same prompt about missing plugins. So, it seems to travel with the project, but what could it be?