JohnK

I just tried creating two instances of TTS that comes with Cakewalk, and it DOES bring up the text that I enter in the synthrack. But I still believe it should do the same for 32b VSTi's

The decent name is outside of SFZ, as it should relate to the name I give in cakewalk. SFZ has no idea regarding what the host thinks, and the window holding SFZ would be created by the host, and hence the window title would be specified by the host. Yes, its 32bit. I once had a look at sforzando years ago, and from memory, I did not like its kind of system wide / non encapsulated environment. So someone else with sforzando needs to speak to that? Now I am trying to think if I have any 64bit VSTi's; I do have a LOT, but only use a few. This is my first foray of recently (ie a few days) moving to 64b Cakewalk, from Sonar 9, 32b 10+ years ago.

so is this the right location for a new feature request?

Is there anyway to force cakewalk to keep my Auto-Save's in a different folder/location? I have one folder with tens of projects of short ideas to develop later. Since I have auto-save on, the folder is now slowly filling up with rubbish files. IS there anyway I can tell cakewalk to save the files in a different folder? If not, I think it would be good feature to (optionally) have the auto-saves in a sub-folder such as ".autosave" (yes, I also use linux) or "~autosave" etc etc

As for the placement of vsti's in the rack, try telling that to the bass player that only wants to stand on the left hand side of the stage at every gig! Anyway, I understand it makes no practical difference to the outcome, but it does make a difference in using the app. With a lot of VSTi's I would need to explicitly scan down the list to pick out my strings section (which could be randomly every second item, in the above example I only have one, but other projects have many more), as opposed to logically grouping them together. The same goes for percussion, or keeping my bass in with my rhythm etc etc etc. In the above screenshot, you can see my bass is at the bottom, which irks my ***** retentive tendencies, as its away from the rest of the rhythm section and frequency wise, its at the bass. Luckily, at least my kick comes before my snare and hi-hats The above rack is pretty reasonable as I added parts in a kind of logical order. But try to image if they were randomized! I wouldn't be able to sleep at night. Colouring tracks/clips makes no practical difference, but all DAWs do it without question.

I think I may be seeing something different to what you describe. As you can see in the screen shot below, I have multiple instances of the same VSTi (in this case SFZ). when i open any of them up, they ALL use SFZ as the windows title bar text (but in lower case). In this case I can deduct which is which based on which soundfont is loaded. However, there are cases where I may re-use the same soundfont, or before I have loaded a soundfont, I can not tell which is open. So to make sure, I close it and explicitly re-open the one I do wish to modify. As I think you appear to be describing, I think that maybe the title should be a combination of the VSTi's name AND the label I have assigned. eg: "SFZ - Bass"

Actually, now that you mention it, I too have Z3ta+.dll and that DID register OK , so it looks like something else is going on... But, I have a work around for this one, and bigger issues to deal with that don't have a work around.

I use SFZ+ and found that Cakewalk did not register the dll/VSTi. I changed the file name to "SFZ_plus.dll" and the VSTi registered. Even though the folder was still "SFZ+" One thing I have to note, is that I am running Win7 Professional 64b

I mostly use Cakewalk for MIDI with VSTi's. I last used SONAR 9 about 10+ years ago, and just started with Bandlab's Cakewalk. Two things that bug me are (which may be me not knowing how to do it): 1. I can have 10+ vsti's in the synth rack, so I would like to manually order them. I cannot find anyway to change their order after they have been added. How do I change the VSTI's order in synth rack? For example, I may wish to keep all the string section next to each other, and away from the percussion synths. 2. I have a LOT of duplication in my synth rack where I have used the same VSTi more than once. An example would be SFZ to load a soundfont. For each part with a different soundfont, I have a separate VSTi. However, when I double click on one to open the config page for that VSTi, they ALL say "sfx". There is NO differentiation regarding the actual name I have assigned. So I have to make sure I remember which one I am editing/configuring. Gets confusing when they are all SFZ, and a number are a part of a string section.