Steve Ennever

1 hour ago, Glenn Stanton said:

go into your plugin manager - select the LAB plugin and click on plugin properties -> check the "configure as synth". close the plugin manager. then find it in the instruments plugin and load into the audio track. in the MIDI track select the LAB plugin. 

Excellent, Glenn. Excellent. 

Thank you. 

5 minutes ago, Glenn Stanton said:

checked their FAQ from the video:

it's an older video. this user seemed to sum it up nicely:

maybe they could fix some of their other plugins and then announce undocumented features later...

Here's the current one https://support.soundtoys.com/article/90-midi-control pertaining to specific DAWs, not relating Cakewalk obviously - thus my question here.  

I'd already checked this out. And someone else had already given this link earlier in this thread.

Quite easy to find. 

Anyway, it does indeed look like Cakewalk is limited in this area.  

Just now, Steve Ennever said:

Sorry, do you mean you're not sure if Alter Boy supports Midi... 

 

If it's Cakewalk then yes, I fear as much. 

1 hour ago, Glenn Stanton said:

dunno if it does support MIDI as there is no reference in the manual for it. you might just use envelopes to control it.

Sorry, do you mean you're not sure if Alter Boy supports Midi... 

3 minutes ago, reginaldStjohn said:

This might give you some ideas. It doesn't show Cakewalk specifically but the principles should be the same.

https://support.soundtoys.com/article/90-midi-control

Been there & no, it doesn't. Cakewalk midi simply doesn't recognise Soundtoys LAB exists.  

Does anyone know how to access the midi control of Soundtoys Little Alter Boy? 

It doesn't register on mine.

Indeed, is it possible on Cakewalk? 

Thanx...

Steve E X

On 3/22/2024 at 8:45 AM, Max Arwood said:

I had something like this with Modo bass. I was told to try 40 ms in BounceBufSizeMsec=40

You might need a different number but this number seemed to work well with missing/gapped audio bounces/track freezes 

Hi,

The buffering was one of the 1st experiments. Sadly nothing as simple as that. 

UAD still on the case. 

Thanx...

Steve E 

On 3/11/2024 at 9:17 PM, 57Gregy said:

What happens if you insert the effect in the FX bin instead of the track?
What happens if you Bounce to Tracks rather than to Clips?
What happens if you 'Process>Apply Effect"?
These are separate operations.

Hi,

No non of these, just bouncing to clip.

It seems to be a unique case of mine, only affecting UAD -2 SOLO plugins, not Spark, & not just Cakewalk either. 

UAD & I have exchanged a gazillion emails so far. 

Thanx for input.

Steve E

Hi,

As you can see in the pics, if I insert a UAD plugin into a clip & then use 'bounce to clip' it leaves a gap in the audio.

Legacy plugins are not harmful. 

UAD themselves say they cannot replicate the problem. 

Needless to say I'm inquiring as to whether anyone else has spotted this? 

Thanx 

13 hours ago, gustabo said:

nVidia card?

I didn't think of that. It appears to have been the plugin demo - but if it is not... I'll look it to that. Thanks. 

Steve E 

10 hours ago, Base 57 said:

Probably a plug-in is in Demo Mode.

Yes, I've just started Demoing a plugin on UAD Spark for the first time. 

Thanks

Steve E 

11 hours ago, Andres Medina said:

I've had this problem from time to time, and it was caused by a bad contact in the usb port of the PC. The USB audio card disconnected for brief moments, causing  random dropouts... worth double checking your connections.

Yes, this was my first though. So these were the first things I checked. Alas to no avail. 

5 hours ago, Promidi said:

I'm with the “plug-in is in Demo Mode” theory.....

If it’s not that, then something must have changed. 

What have you tried so far?

I have one plug-in in Demo mode which I believe could have started around the time this irritating random glitch manifested itself - so that is indeed the likely culprit.  

I've never Demo-ed a plug-in with the UAD Spark system before so this could account for not experiencing the problem before. Fingers crossed. 

Thanks. 

Steve E 
 

Hi,

Seem to have developed a random audio drop out & can't for the life of me work out where from. 

The audio will just suddenly stop for less than a second. Never in the same place.

It doesn't happen often & it's not CPU, buffer or AD/DA induced as the material doesn't have to be taxing the PC for it to occur.

Nor is it mechanical - speaker cables/amp etc. 

I've been using this particular system for 5 years - 8 core intel - 32 ram - Windows 10 - RME Fireface UC - and it's been fine until recently. 

Has anyone else suffered this. Is there a work around?

Thanks... 

Steve E 

Hi,

I have a project with 38 tracks. Most are used intermittently. CPU 13% Memory 16%.  Disk use 1%.

Just recently (past 3 weeks) if you've been listening to the song & just pressed stop, then left click a command (like a cut or just click on the edit box) there's an approximate 1 sec delay before the program reacts.   

Needless to say, that's incredibly infuriating. 

I ran some tests with other projects & yes, the more tracks, the longer the delay - but the amount of VST's etc did not seem to matter. 

The only changes that have occurred over the past few weeks that I can think of are an upgrade from Cakewalk & from Microsoft.

Has anyone else noticed this, or come across anything similar? 

PC's an Intel 8 core, 32 Gig RAM, SDD Drives & an RME UC. 

Best

Steve E 

This pop-up error message appeared yesterday for one (and only one) of my UAD plugins. 

Whether already being used in a track or in an attempt to add - as in the image I've provided. 

I re-scanned my VST's in the plugin manager and it no only recognizes the mono guitar amp - which you still can't load. 

I loaded Audacity & it reads both the UAD programs (mono/stereo) & loads them.

I subsequently uninstalled everything UAD & re-loaded. 

Problem still persists.

Any thought, guys?

Steve E 

P.S.  The only thing I was doing yesterday prior to this problem occurring was trying out some free plugins - Gsat I kept, others I uninstalled. 

Spitfire Strings.

GsatPlus

Burier

I'm thinking of buying Softube's Console 1 Mk 2. Have you encountered any incapability problems with it? 

Thanks  

On 8/15/2020 at 8:37 AM, Mr Matthew Gough said:

Hi All,

I'm a very (19years) long time user of Cakewalk and never encountered a problem I couldn't sort out, but this has me stumped.

I'm trying to write the fader movements from my Softube Fader (I have the Console 1 MK II as well).

I'm familiar with drawing and recording automation for native CW features as well as available plugin lanes.

I'm familiar with arming  automation 'write' and 'read' etc

Whether I choose to 'write' the CW volume envelope or select Volume from the plugin for Console 1,  it will not write.

All fader movements aren't registered as soon as I hit play with 'write' enabled etc.

Other than this the Console and fader are flawless. For static mixing

I have even tried to add Console 1 (Fader) as a MIDI input device (which shouldn't be necessary) but CW reports that there is not enough memory as reported by windows and therefore is unchecked.

 

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!