2020.08 Feedback

[Morten Saether 616]

Hi all - please use this topic to post feedback specific to 2020.08. Release-specific feedback is valuable to us, and consolidating it in a single topic is extremely helpful. Thanks in advance!

2020.08 Release Notes

[Hillmy 221]

Cool update and love the changes and new plugins. There is one fix though that was listed in the Misc bug fixes that doesn't work however:

• Cakewalk includes FX Chain presets that reference non-included plug-ins

This still happens. It still lists z3ta+_fx preset, Advanced Shaper with missing TS64_TransientShaper_64 plugin, Automate Me preset missing BT Limiter LM2S-3 plugin,....etc.

I am new to Cakewalk so I don't have old Sonar plugins.

[Craig Reeves 35]

Yay! No more sticky-selects in the PRV! Thank you! Works so much smoother now!

MODO Bass also now works perfectly as well so thank you for that too!

Unfortunately, quick-group latch automation still does not work properly, resulting in overwrite behavior rather than latch behavior until reopening the project. This bug has existed for years so I can't imagine that nobody else has reported it.

Edited August 7, 2020 by Craig Reeves

[jieva 8]

The Staff view snap does not seem to be working.

 

[msmcleod 2,181]

11 minutes ago, jieva said:

The Staff view snap does not seem to be working.

 

The staff view uses the global snap. Make sure it's switched on and set to the snap you require.

[Noel Borthwick 2,275]

58 minutes ago, Craig Reeves said:

Yay! No more sticky-selects in the PRV! Thank you! Works so much smoother now!

MODO Bass also now works perfectly as well so thank you for that too!

Unfortunately, quick-group latch automation still does not work properly, resulting in overwrite behavior rather than latch behavior until reopening the project. This bug has existed for years so I can't imagine that nobody else has reported it.

A big can exist forever if it's not reported. Things don't get fixed automatically. I have never heard of this one. Please write up a proper description and recipe for it as a separate post and we can look at it for a future release.

[Noel Borthwick 2,275]

1 hour ago, Hillmy said:

Cool update and love the changes and new plugins. There is one fix though that was listed in the Misc bug fixes that doesn't work however:

• Cakewalk includes FX Chain presets that reference non-included plug-ins

This still happens. It still lists z3ta+_fx preset, Advanced Shaper with missing TS64_TransientShaper_64 plugin, Automate Me preset missing BT Limiter LM2S-3 plugin,....etc.

I am new to Cakewalk so I don't have old Sonar plugins.

The changes we made affects new installs. If you previously had the preset it won't get automatically removed since the installer never removes existing presets.

[Jim Fogle 522]

12 minutes ago, Noel Borthwick said:

The changes we made affects new installs. If you previously had the preset it won't get automatically removed since the installer never removes existing presets.

If someone started with the first release of Cakewalk by BandLab, in other words does not have a previous install of any Sonar product, and applied every update will 2020.08 consider that a new install or might there be existing presets that reference non-included plug-ins?

Edited August 8, 2020 by Jim Fogle

[Hillmy 221]

3 minutes ago, Jim Fogle said:

If someone started with the first release of Cakewalk by BandLab, in other words does not have a previous install of any Sonar product, and applied every update is that a new install or might it have existing presets that reference non-included plug-ins?

The way I understood him: Any install from this point forward wont have presets with non-included plugins. Anything before will. Or if you do a clean install it will not have old presets. So I am just going to have to delete the outdated presets manually 😛

Edited August 8, 2020 by Hillmy

[Colin Nicholls 404]

@Morten Saether, could you expand on this UI change?

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  Allow for background colors in Synth Rack

   

[msmcleod 2,181]

2 minutes ago, Colin Nicholls said:

@Morten Saether, could you expand on this UI change?

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The active synth within the synth rack now uses the same highlight color as the active track in the track view.

[Max Arwood 151]

After I installed 2020.08 I lost the ability to authorize PSP Mix Pack 2 series.  Don't know if it is related or not.

 

Edit->

I tried with JBridge and BitBridge, No different. Sent email to PSP.

Edited August 8, 2020 by Max Arwood
added info

[Max Arwood 151]

After I installed 2020.08 I had to reauthorize Stylus RMX

[Harry C. 26]

Hi, i have problems with the installation. With the bandlab assistant the percentage display runs up to 100%, then flashes Installing..., but nothing happens. Not even after 10 minutes. Otherwise the installation was finished after one minute. (German version). The old 2020.05 still works.

[mkerl 48]

2 hours ago, Harry C. said:

Hi, i have problems with the installation. With the bandlab assistant the percentage display runs up to 100%, then flashes Installing..., but nothing happens. Not even after 10 minutes. Otherwise the installation was finished after one minute. (German version). The old 2020.05 still works.

I had the same problem. I restarted Windows and then started Bandlap Assistent as the very first App. The Insatallation finished quickly as expected (German Version, too)

[TracingArcs 199]

Trying to install. 2nd attempt. Just keeps flashing installing. Have rebooted and run Bandlab assistant first with the same results. Just sitting there flashing "installing". BLA up to date. Cakewalk 2020.05 still accessable.

[Noel Borthwick 2,275]

3 hours ago, Max Arwood said:

After I installed 2020.08 I had to reauthorize Stylus RMX

Not related to update. Something environmental caused the plugin to lose it's authorization.

[Noel Borthwick 2,275]

10 hours ago, Hillmy said:

The way I understood him: Any install from this point forward wont have presets with non-included plugins. Anything before will. Or if you do a clean install it will not have old presets. So I am just going to have to delete the outdated presets manually 😛

Correct since we have no idea whether this is a user edited preset or not, we can't remove them. Only a fresh install will have the new presets. The other alternative is to manually delete the presets from the registry and rerun CbB while holding CTRL key down, then tell it to personalize. That should recopy the factory presets. I've not tested this mechanism. 

That said many of the previous presets should work now since we added several plugins that were utilized by them.

 

[Toy 7]

When I started recording directly, the delay processing of the plug-in was not performed and the MIDI input timing did not match the sound.

When the playback mode is switched to the recording mode, it will synchronize.
Did the processing procedure change?

The plug-in is out of sync from Early Access.

[Craig Reeves 35]

12 hours ago, Noel Borthwick said:

A bug can exist forever if it's not reported. Things don't get fixed automatically. I have never heard of this one. Please write up a proper description and recipe for it as a separate post and we can look at it for a future release.

Thank you so much for your response, Noel!

I've created a separate post with instructions on how to reproduce. You can find it here: