Hillmy

17 minutes ago, Noel said:

That feature is only in the new version of Sonar

Now I have to get Sonar! 🤪

So glad I didn't upgrade to Windows 11! Even though my PC meets the requirements to upgrade, three times now I declined Windows Update notices to upgrade. I remember when Microsoft said Windows 10 was the last version. So when they announced Windows 11 red flags were going up like crazy! I am glad I listened to my intuition. This is why to avoid: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3652612/windows-11-the-end-of-the-old-school-windows-desktop.html 

2 hours ago, Noel Borthwick said:

Right here in Cakewalk. Press that button.

You actually made me open up Cakewalk to see if that button came up if I pressed that! 🤣

2 hours ago, Jesse Jost said:

The main takeaway right now, as far as the community is concerned, is that this change just better substantiates our operational reality. The Cakewalk brand, though it is part of BLT, is 100% committed to desktop-domain software products with a roadmap minimally entangled with other non-Cakewalk product roadmaps. 

You're telling me Cake is now offered as dessert when I get a BLT? 😲 Or maybe I am just reading that wrong because I am hungry. 🤣

I would love to see Cakewalk support CLAP!

Tested and Wedge Force Matcha no longer hangs Cakewalk when changing presets. Thank you!

3 hours ago, Noel Borthwick said:

@Hillmy
Thanks for the dump file - I investigated it. It happens because the plugin doesn't complete its processing while you are changing presets and because cakewalk waits for it to finish processing it hangs. Its actually faulty multithreading on the plugin's part.

However the actual hang happens due to some thread safety changes we made for 06. I am fortunately able to work around the problem and have implemented a fix.
You should be able to prevent the issue for now by changing presets only when the engine is off.  (turn off the engine button on the transport when not playing) 

Awesome! Thanks for investigating and for the workaround. No hang or crash happens if I turn the audio engine off before changing presets. That's something I never thought of!

Looking forward to the fix.

7 hours ago, Noel Borthwick said:

@Hillmy upload the file to any file sharing service like google drive, onedrive or dropbox and send the link

OK. Uploading now and will PM you the link when it's done.

I just noticed one of my vst plugins crash Cakewalk whenever I try to change to any preset. Even if I select "custom preset". It seems anything selected in the preset menu crashes Cakewalk and it hangs instead of giving a crash error. This seems to happen repeatedly and not a one time crash. There are a few rare times where I tried to select a preset right after I load the vst and it didn't crash. But as soon as I select another, it crashes. 

This only happens with the latest update. I rolled back to 2021.04 and it never crashed. Then updated back to the latest 2021.06 build 53 and it crashes. I used Task Manager to make a crash dump file and unfortunately it is 2.4 GB. Compressing it to a zip file only shrinks it to 1.63 GB. The plugin name is Wedge Force Matcha (It's a Plugin Alliance instrument plugin).

So what do I do from here?

Just updated Cakewalk through the software itself instead of BandLab Assistant for the first time. Everything went well! 😀👍

So I was able to get TAL-Vocoder to work in less than a minute in Cakewalk. It's very easy.

I started a Basic template that includes 1 Audio track and 1 MIDI track. I added an audio clip. Then added TAL-Vocoder to the FX in the Audio track. Selected Enable MIDI Input from the VST menu. Then clicked on the MIDI track. Input Echo automatically turns on when I do that. And done! Now I just play the clip and use the keyboard (I used the virtual keyboard) and pressed a key when I played the track. The clip sounded vocoded.

So what you are saying is, start saving my money now so I have enough when you get back. 🤔

20 minutes ago, Doug Rintoul said:

Now I challenge you to used them all on one project.

Ha! I have not even used one, let alone all. At this point I have just accepted that I am a G.A.S. fueled plugin collector that collects stuff for some distant future where I make epic tracks. 😆🤪

26 minutes ago, Doug Rintoul said:

They have some really good ones and some unique ones too. I still haven't got my head around knifonium to make a sound that doesn't sound like a cat horking up a hairball. Needless to say that was not what I was going for. And Byome and Triad are beasts. Nothing quite like them.

You'd be surprised how "cat horking" sounds can be useful, probably meme worthy, LOL! Imagine putting it through the granular processor of Byome or Triad! 😲😛  

Well, I now officially have all their virtual instruments. 😛

I just went ahead and got it anyway because it's cheap and.....G.A.S.! 😆

So.....is it worth the €15? Especially if you don't have a guitar and only virtual instruments. I'm kinda undecided and want to know before the discount expires.

2 minutes ago, mibby said:

Have you tried removing and adding it again?  Mine eventually just showed up.  Maybe email support if it doesn't. I'm sure they'd rather get something than nothing.  🙂

Just tried. no change.

I singed up earlier to their newsletter to see if they would give me coin. No luck. Also left the item in cart to see of they would give me a discount. Still no luck. It shows the price is $22 CAD. Is it worth it for this price if I don't have a physical guitar and already have the free TH3 stuff in Cakewalk?

1 minute ago, mibby said:

You must have gotten the "coins" when you registered then, no?  I've had an account since the FrontDAW giveaway a couple of years ago...

I singed in and added the item to cart and it doesn't show the "use coins" thing like someone had screenshot.

30 minutes ago, mibby said:

Same here.  🥺  but I do have a couple of their plugins and like them quite well, especially Hyperspace!   

So does that mean none of you guys got the Royal Compressor (PB) and/or FirePressor (this month at ADSR) freeebies??

I got the ADSR FirePressor freebie. That's how I have an account and it's the only plugin I have from them. The coin thing is probably something for new people.

I already had an account. But no coins showed up.

Most fun walkthrough I've seen 

All the time spent waiting. You might have as well bought the digital version and spent all these days downloading it ....... and you still would have finished downloading hundreds of gigabytes before the supposed date of delivery! 

33 minutes ago, Paul Young said:

It's not if you don't have Reason,

Unfortunately.  😕 

Reason Studios Friktion is a better alternative to this and AAS Strings. I got it earlier this year when it was on sale for 30% off!