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If “Select Track Articulations with Clips” is on, and you lasso a clip, all the articulation are selected in the track are selected; this prevents you from moving the clip correctly. If you right-click to select a clip one at a time, you don’t have this problem. Lasso should only select articulations that fall within the selected clip.

Perhaps I don't fully understand how RIPPLE EDIT is supposed to work, but this example in the attached screen shots seems incorrect to me.

I recently installed Bandlab Assistant on my computer so that I can use Cakewalk. But for some reason, it says that I already have Cakewalk on my computer. Please help.

The "composite clip" of the folder cannot be labeled as'Articulation'. * Check from the version at that time by rollback. -Articulation is not correctly recognized as the start time in "Composite Clip". -The end time is also not recognized correctly. -"Composite clip" lost time when dragging Articulation by editing. -"Composite clip" cannot do anything if Articulation is deleted in this state. I thought it would be fixed soon, but I reported it because it hasn't been fixed yet. I'm sorry if anyone has already reported.

I created 4 sections within an hour long live recording and tried to export them as individual files. Not only did the process took about 20 mins for each 4 min long section but after each the exported file was deleted and another was created in its place. That is definitely not what you want. It seems that the whole recording is rendered every time instead of a single section and no suffix is added to the name of the file. What a waste of time. Normally you would spend about 2 mins or less exporting a 4 min song. Also, when you export in mp3 you have to set MP3 options for each and every file. Why not do it once for all?

I can't run NeoChip vst plugin on my system: https://woolyss.com/chipmusic-plugins.php?s=neochip also for 32-bit plugins, whenever the window is active, midi input doesn't work - atleast on the computer keyboard, not sure if this applies to midi keyboard as well.

The cursor tool intermittently stops functioning in PRV. Cannot draw notes, or erase/mute. Oddly, you can select & drag, but there is no visual feedback of the action, i.e. you can’t see the note(s) while they are being dragged. The mouse still works normally in other views. Version 2021.09

Trying to score a short video. Created a video track, thumbnails are visible when I choose them. However like others on this forum before, 'Open Video View' does nothing. I've been through Workspaces - Video View is not available anywhere. The 'Advanced' Workspace setting, where Video View at least used to be an option, (and others have solved this problem), does not appear anywhere. In no Workspace setting does a video option appear, including Custom and the 'Track Control Manager'. No video option in the views tab either. It used to be under the Lyrics view. I've also changed around all of my monitor/display settings, in case the Video View was docked somewhere I couldn't see. That's not the problem either. Maybe there's a master UI panel that I'm missing, where I choose the view options that are available overall? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hi, I found a bug related with freeze track feature. How to reproduce (Also see the video attached) 1. Freeze an audio track. 2. Insert some measures or time before freezed audio file. 3. Un-freeze the track. 4. The original audio file didn't move and stays where it was. This bug doesn't happen with an instrument track and happens in the newest cakewalk (Windows10 64bit Version 2021.09 Build 145). Thanks, bugreport.mp4

Since no one answers me about my previous question (https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/25244-some-keyboard-shortcuts-stopped-working-in-prv-not-docking/), I am obliged to open a new topic. Please, could anyone tell me how to roll back to a previous version? I just want a version that works,,,

Hi there, it's my first post here. I've had some MIDI track which behave weird lately, Kontakt volume just auto change the volume although i have no automation or read turn on. Here's how to reproduce the bug: 1. Insert an instrument track 2. Split the track into MIDI and Audio track 3. Press the automation lane button => Now it's automated, no way to control volume unless make new MIDI track. I've tried delete the automation node, delete the automation lane, unread the track, even turn of "Zero controller when play stop" under Project-MIDI setting. This specifically just happen with MIDI & instrument track. If you have an combined instrument track, or just MIDI track, this won't happen. I think it's a small bug but now if i accidentally press the automation lane of any MIDI track, i'll have to change the volume with automation or make a new MIDI track and copy everything from that track over which is so time consume. If it's not bug however, please tell me how to fix it. Regards,

seems to be just this one file, but the delete key has stopped functioning. partially. i can highlight and delete individual notes, but cannot grab whole measures. i also cannot delete sysex data or CC. went to edit>preferences>keyboard shortcuts and initially delete was set to nothing. bound it to edit|delete. that doesn't help. i checked outside of cakewalk to make sure it wasn't just a malfunctioning keyboard but i can delete text in a text file. i can delete midi and audio via the delete key in other cakewalk files. not sure what happened here though.

After updating to the most recent version of Cakewalk I booted up some old projects I've been working on but when I hit play it seems everything plays at half speed or slower, I was wondering if anyone else experienced this and how to get around it?

Hi there, I am a total newbie to DAWs and Cakewalk, and I'm having trouble in which I cannot hear the notes I play using my MIDI controller, but only when I am utilizing the different instruments that come with the DAW. When I just add a new MIDI track, I can hear the basic grand piano just fine, but the moment I change instruments, no audio. This is especially strange, because the visualizer shows that input is being detected. I tried linking the sampling rate of my windows speakers to the sampling rate of the project (this was a previously discovered fix for this issue), however it still has no audible output. If anyone can help me out here, that would be awesome. This program seems great, just gotta put in the work to learn it. (I added the tag bug report, just in the case it is a bug, but I understand it is of course more likely user error)

Hi there, I am a total newbie to DAWs and Cakewalk, and I'm having trouble in which I cannot hear the notes I play using my MIDI controller, but only when I am utilizing the different instruments that come with the DAW. When I just add a new MIDI track, I can hear the basic grand piano just fine, but the moment I change instruments, no audio. This is especially strange, because the visualizer shows that input is being detected. I tried linking the sampling rate of my windows speakers to the sampling rate of the project (this was a previously discovered fix for this issue), however it still has no audible output. If anyone can help me out here, that would be awesome. This program seems great, just gotta put in the work to learn it. (I added the tag bug report, just in the case it is a bug, but I understand it is of course more likely user error)

In the latest Cakawalk versions I got my midi devices I/O flipped when using UWP driver mode the inputs names are used for outputs and viceversa:

I was working on a track today in which I added some loops and sounds (basically some top loops and drum fills). I don't know why the tracks always tend to get out of sync with respect to one another. I have checked their time stretching of these loops and sounds but they still get out of sync most of the time. Do let me know if you face the same problem or if it's a problem on my side. 😉

Hi to all, Yesterday I noticed a bug in the midi CC to/from automation envelopes conversion function that I would like to report. I tried both in the last release 2021.04 and in the latest "early" 2021.06. If the values are of pitch wheel type, there are two distinct (or maybe there's a connection between the two, I don't know...) bugs depending on whether the transformation is performed from envelope to MIDI CC or from MIDI CC to envelope. 1) Automation envelope to MIDI CC: There is probably an error with ( + / - ) in the code of the conversion function because the result is this strange curve. 2) Midi CC to envelope: The peak value never reaches the maximum (+8192) in this case but there is a strange "beveling" on the tip. With other type of midi CC's the conversion function is correct. It's the pitch wheel values that generate problems, probably for the -8192 / + 8192 range of values. I hope that this bug report can be useful in finding the error. It seems to occur only in the presence of values of type pitch wheel in this very useful conversion function that has been recently introduced. The addition of this conversion function has actually proved a lot for me. Be able to visually work with the CC values directly under the midi track (using all the shaping functions available for envelopes) while still retaining the possibility of convert them to the piano roll view. Really useful! Many thanks to all

I can not see the woods for so many trees anymore. 1. It's an enormous pain to have Cakewalk successfully analyze an audio source for its Tempo, and apply this Tempo to the (it may be said.. awesomely improved Tempo Map view!) Tempo Map, by ways of dragging the audio clip into the tempo/measure bar (what is the right term to use here?). Ableton Live among others can do this almost without failure. 2. Audiosnap offers a feature to check the timing values of a clip (fourths or eights for example) and place those resolutions over audio transients (Edit Clip Map). It's EXTREMELY headstrong, however; when I try to move the first beat on top of the first real musical audio transient, it often refuses. When it does snap, the other values often do not follow. I then move the second, third, fourth, or even the 1 of a next measure.. expecting the algorithm to then have enough hand-holding to figure the rest of the audio transients out and place them within the tempo parameters of the audio. But nope. Why can't I input the average tempo myself, to give the struggling algorithm a hand? Why doesn't it change dynamically based on me dragging the temporal anchors (is that the name...? Clip Map Flags? I don't know) on the top of the edit clip map UI? 3. Audiosnap menu is rather wizardy in general. So many buttons.. while Live, or even Logic does it so enormously simply. I think we can do better and clearer in 2021. Although I am one of those customers that asks better and yet does not know how... sorry. 4. What is Groove clip? I can make an audio clip follow the tempo of the project by checking a box in the track/clip inspector view. Does it use the same system as Audiosnap? I've used them both, however these features seem to bite one another... and I have not gotten it to work well once. I probably need to read more documentation/watch tutorials.. but I also really think everything can and should be under the same feature set.. clearly named, with the same iconography, the same or similar UI elements, under the same overarching name, such as AudioSnap. 5. Graphical & UI/UX issues with Audio Clips that span over more than 1 tempo and/or time signature. I've had them display over more or less time than they should be displayed, and when I drag them around, it shows double or half the drag than actually executed when I release the mouse. There's some shady stuff going on there.. Of course you've inherited SONAR and Roland's code.. along with some of their talented programmers, and I'm really hoping that all that code shows promise and can be improved upon, with all these tempo detection/warp/follow features consolidating under one more modern, better functioning algorithm, and more intuitive to use UI. All in all I love Bandlab for rescuing this wonderful DAW. I'd pay a subscription if it were available Keep on rocking and improving this community and software please! ❤️

It appears when having multiple step sequencer patterns on a track, sometimes when bouncing to clips, the MIDI notes past the first point of drag extension is not processed. You can see this is going to happen even before bouncing to clips: BUT at this point it still plays the notes correctly, but when bouncing the step sequencer clip, the notes are actually MISSING!

I am having a problem with certain MIDI preferences not persisting between CbB sessions. Specifically, my MIDI/Devices setting is not persisting. I have a USB MIDI interface with 4 out of 5 ports active. I've tried to activate the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth in addition permanently, but the activation won't stick. When I exit CbB, I lose the setting. I have to reactivate the preference before I load up any song in which I want to use that device. Another preference that won't stick is the MIDI/Playback and Recording/Playback setting for "Prepare using: xxx millisecond buffers." That is set at 200 by default. I want to change the default to 400 due to some stuttering, but again this change has to be done every time I start up CbB. I have tried editing a template at Bob Bergen's suggestion on Facebook, and new files created using that template do appear using the edited preferences. However, when you save/close the newly created .CWP files, exit CbB, restart CbB, and reload the .CWP files, the preferences revert back to the original non-template settings. This is most definitely a bug and needs to be addressed. Please help, and thank you. EDIT TO ABOVE PARAGRAPH: The edited template was used without doing the exit/restart procedure. When I exited, restarted, and then tried to use the edited template, the preferences in the edited template had reverted - no Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, no 400 millisecond buffers. The bug is not fixed by editing a template.

So, recently I realized that there are bug in ProChannel, specifically the compressor UI. The problem is the UI for the compressor will be broken when I started change the compressor type (like in the left picture), it still work but in my opinion it kinda ruin the mood and also the parameter are little to cramped so it makes it kinda difficult to deal with. This problem so far as I know affecting 2 type of compressor that is PC4K S-Type Bus Compressor and PC76 U-Type Compressor (Like in the left pictures). This far I only tested it with ProChannel in the mixer, so I didn't really know if this also affecting ProChannel in Inspector panel.

New to the forums, I have an issue with audio samples folder in cakewalk. Upon creating a shortcut folder for my samples located in an External SSD and placing them in the cakewalk samples folder, I discover that these samples do not appear in the content browser. I tried searching for this issue on these forums but couldn't find any related material. Any assistance is valuable. Thanks

Hi Bandlab and Cakewalk support, I want to submit a crash report and hope you can resolve this issue. Since the latest update to Cakewalk when I load a project in progress I experience many crashes and cannot work on the song now. Could you advise what to do as I have never seen a reference to RPCRT4.dll before from Cakewalk. Please find attached the Cakewalk Version and Crash Report captures. Thank you Jozsef

Hello, if I select tracks and hold CTRL to change a value for selected tracks, it works in track view but not if tracks are in a closed folder (works if this folder is opened). Is it me or it's a bug ?