David DeLisle

Thanks for the tips.

Does anyone know how to flush an effect plugin during playback? I'm specifically thinking of Sonitus delay, but it might be helpful to flush other VSTs in the middle of your track. The problem is that I want a long delay loop with high feedback, and a high mix level, but then I want it to end suddenly and loop on a new audio clip. It would be nice if I could just instantaneously flush the plugin before it captures the next clip. Simply automating the mix level doesn't work, because when you bring it back up, the first clip with still in the feedback loop. Any ideas? Thanks

Glad this fix is helping other folks out. I have been stutter, glitch free with Cakewalk for over a year now with the same computer!

I've been a longtime Cakewalk user from the Original Cakewalk to Music Creator to Sonar to the current Cakewalk by Bandlab product. With the new release I've been continually finding glitching and stuttering in my recordings that were driving me nuts. It always seemed like a processor problem or something with a system interrupt. I'm running Windows 10 with plenty of memory and a decent processor speed. I've tried many things to avoid the problem without success, such as turning off wifi, disabling anti-virus software, and using Ctl Alt Delete - details tab to assign Realtime priority to Cakewalk. I've also tried bouncing down all effects to free up the processor, but I still had problems with freezing, glitches, etc. while recording. I finally found something that worked, so I wanted to pass it on. Previously I had enabled read and write caching and maxed out the buffer the buffer size thinking this would help my system performance. But when I disabled all caching, presto, no issues. My guess is that shifting to the cache while recording was in process was causing these glitches. Hopefully my issues won't come back. I wanted to pass this on in case anyone else is battling this problem. [ Preferences, Audio, Sync and Caching, File System bar ]

I finally discovered how to fix this problem. It had bothered me for a long time. First, in the track view, set the now time to the place you want the end of song to be. Then make sure all tracks are selected and that you expand all automation data / nodes. Then Select All. Go Back and select From = Now, and Thru = End. You should have all your excess measures selected. Go to Delete Special, then make sure all boxes are checked and selected delete. ***Here's the kicker. After doing this for the Track View, you have to repeat these steps in the Bus View. Make sure all Buses are selected and all automation data is expanded and selected. This is usually where you have some hidden automation nodes that are extending your song.