[CLOSED] 2021.01 Early Access

[Kevin Perry 376]

5 hours ago, aidan o driscoll said:

In a sense yes. It worked last night on my laptop WHICH I HAD NOT REBOOTED then. Today I turned on both systems, driver mode set to ASIO, tried MMCSS  both enabled and disabled. Pretty much Dropout Error 0 the minute I load any file new or old. Cannot reenable the audio engine and hear a regular ticking noise over the speaker. Also the MIC Icon is flashing on and off down in the system tray if thats any help. With no audio engine, cannot play a project AND the cursor on the screen is a circle going around in circles. 

Switch to WASAPI .. all is well

 

Ho hum - I was optimistic there for a bit!

[Noel Borthwick 2,087]

The only reason it worked in WASAPI shared mode is because Windows was doing the sample rate conversion not the driver.  In his case Windows would be upsampling from 44.1 to 96K which is inefficient but would work. MMCSS is completely unrelated to this and is unlikely to cause a problem in most cases.

[Will_Kaydo 200]

12 hours ago, Noel Borthwick said:

For the record the dropout issue reported by @aidan o driscoll has been resolved. I did a teamviewer session with him and found the source of his problems.
Its a driver problem with handling multiple clients at different sample rates and unrelated to Cakewalk.

In his case his Windows configuration was set to use the EVO-4 device at 24 bit 96K and Cakewalk was set to work at 24 bit 44.1K.  When I loaded his project on his system the driver appears to go into some infinite loop trying to fight Cakewalk setting the sample rate to 44.1. You can see the icons on the taskbar flashing and the driver refuses to switch to 44.1. I can't see what its doing behind the scenes but I expect its sending an infinite loop of ASIO restart notifications to Cakewalk which would explain why Cakewalk drops out immediately and then appears to hang.

I changed the Windows sound settings configuration to 16 bit, 44.1Khz for all the input and output ports for the EVO and after that everything works perfectly. We even loaded his project with the driver set to run at 16 samples and it worked perfectly.  I'm not sure why it defaulted to 96K in Windows since Aidan said that he didn't set it up that way.  I've seen many audio drivers malfunction when used at different sample rates so the first step of troubleshooting should be to either set windows to not use the audio device or make sure that its using the same sample rate/bit depth as Cakewalk. If you have an onboard soundcard, often the easiest thing to do is set Windows to use that instead.

The fix for running the device with two apps (Windows and Cakewalk) at different sample rates would have to come from the driver vendor. Aidan please start a correspondence with them.

Yeah - I've been giving this advice a lot. Seems like new users and those who feels they have more experience don't believe this.

I haven't had any dropouts of such, since I have discovered this in my Windows 7 days and still used the LE version of Sonar using only Asio4All back in 2013. 

The only time I would and still get some sort of dropout, will be with a plugin that does not support the sample rate I use with Windows 10 and the DAW. It's also extremely important to know to check if your "Favorite" plugins support these sample rates and if they have the setting to be set accordingly. 

Another important step to know: Is to never use generic drivers other than that of the devices manufacturer - including your motherboards drivers from their website. With different machines - windows intend not to have a great generic version for it. 

I think this needs to be added in the documentation too. 

Edited January 20 by Will_Kaydo
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[GreenLight 88]

48 minutes ago, Will_Kaydo said:

Another important step to know: To never generic drivers other than that of the devices manufacturer - including your motherboards drivers from their website. With different machines - windows intend not to have a great generic version for it. 

I think this needs to be added in the documentation too. 

Is there some kind of "Dropout troubleshooting checklist", where "check Windows samplerate" and "don't use generic drivers" could be added? So that Cakewalk users easily can check it themselves before posting or contacting support.

Great troubleshooting, Noel! 😀

[msmcleod 2,054]

12 minutes ago, GreenLight said:

Is there some kind of "Dropout troubleshooting checklist", where "check Windows samplerate" and "don't use generic drivers" could be added? So that Cakewalk users easily can check it themselves before posting or contacting support.

Great troubleshooting, Noel! 😀

https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=AudioPerformance.24.html

[steve@baselines.com 93]

On 1/16/2021 at 12:30 AM, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

Even after the update, CbB is unusable. Type 1 audio dropouts every few seconds of playback, tweaking plugin parameters causes dropouts, sometimes pausing playback causes dropouts...In the current project I'm working, it takes me a few minutes to EQ a single track because you tweak a setting during playback, it causes a dropout, you go back play, then a random dropout occurs...I'm already running at the maximum latency I can.

The problem is on you, not on Cakewalk.  You need to put some money into your system if you are having such problems.  It works almost flawlessly for me and had for quite some time.

[Bruno de Souza Lino 254]

1 hour ago, steve@baselines.com said:

The problem is on you, not on Cakewalk.  You need to put some money into your system if you are having such problems.  It works almost flawlessly for me and had for quite some time.

I'm gonna grab an infinite amount of money from the magical gold pot in the sky and buy a dual Epyc 128 core system with 2 TB of RAM and 2 Quadro RTX cards. That should do it.

[steve@baselines.com 93]

31 minutes ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

I'm gonna grab an infinite amount of money from the magical gold pot in the sky and buy a dual Epyc 128 core system with 2 TB of RAM and 2 Quadro RTX cards. That should do it.

Naw.  All you need is 2k.

[Colin Nicholls 375]

1 hour ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

I'm gonna grab an infinite amount of money from the magical gold pot in the sky and buy a dual Epyc 128 core system with 2 TB of RAM and 2 Quadro RTX cards. That should do it.

Or, you could spend time systematically debugging your setup. (Throw Time at the problem instead of Money)

[Will_Kaydo 200]

1 hour ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

 

Are you still sitting with the problem? 

[Noel Borthwick 2,087]

1 hour ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

I'm gonna grab an infinite amount of money from the magical gold pot in the sky and buy a dual Epyc 128 core system with 2 TB of RAM and 2 Quadro RTX cards. That should do it.

Why not hire someone qualified to do system level troubleshooting if you have exhausted all possibilities?
 

[edward alexogiannopoulos 0]

When I "insert instrument" the whole screen disappears for a moment and then comes back. I don't remember this happening before. Has anyone else experienced this?

[Colin Nicholls 375]

Um... Does "F2" not work to rename a clip when it has articulations in it? It seems to be ignored for clips with articulations, unless I go to the Select Module and un-mark "When clips are selected, select articulation within tracks too".

Steps to repro:

• Have two midi clips. One has articulation (MIDI key switch).
• Make sure that Select Clip + ff is enabled
• select each clip in turn, pressing "F2" to bring up the clip rename window

Observe:

• The clip rename window only appears for the clip without articulation.
• If you clear the "Select Clip + ff" option, you can now rename the clip with the articulation

UPDATE

This issue is in 2020.11 as well. Please let me know if you would rather I create an official bug report instead of this post.

Edited January 20 by Colin Nicholls

[Noel Borthwick 2,087]

On 1/17/2021 at 3:42 PM, lychee said:

Hello.

Again I have the same problem with the automation curves when using fast rendering of my music.

When I try to output my music as MP3, Cakewalk lowers my expression automation line to zero and messes up two other parameters making them orphan.

I have a feeling that this is going to be difficult to fix, but I send you my saved file with and without the bug, hoping that you will find the solution.

Cordially.

@lychee Your project has reason with custom modules that we dont have so we can't test it. If possible can you please send us a project that uses standard modules or uses a different synth? Its possible that something is corrupt with the project. 
Also are you certain that this problem is related to the new release?

[msmcleod 2,054]

1 hour ago, Colin Nicholls said:

Um... Does "F2" not work to rename a clip when it has articulations in it? It seems to be ignored for clips with articulations, unless I go to the Select Module and un-mark "When clips are selected, select articulation within tracks too".

Steps to repro:

• Have two midi clips. One has articulation (MIDI key switch).
• Make sure that Select Clip + ff is enabled
• select each clip in turn, pressing "F2" to bring up the clip rename window

Observe:

• The clip rename window only appears for the clip without articulation.
• If you clear the "Select Clip + ff" option, you can now rename the clip with the articulation

UPDATE

This issue is in 2020.11 as well. Please let me know if you would rather I create an official bug report instead of this post.

Thanks for this @Colin Nicholls - we'll get this fixed for the main release.

[Vitor Melo 0]

Gostei, pra mim até melhorou o desempenho, valeu.

[Andres Medina 7]

On 1/19/2021 at 10:27 AM, solarlux said:

Thank you very much issue fixed I Switched  to Tungsten Theme and restarted CbB And all is back. Big thanks

 

On 1/19/2021 at 10:20 AM, scook said:

Possibly the result of running a user theme that needs to be updated.

Either update the theme or change to Mercury or Tungsten and restart CbB.

Hi, I wonder... how do I update a user theme? - I know how to change to another theme, but not how to update. Thanks!

[scook 2,585]

There is a dedicated area on this forum for user themes. Questions about themes and the theme editor are best posed in that area.

Here is a thread about the items that need to change for 2021.01

 

[Andres Medina 7]

11 minutes ago, scook said:

There is a dedicated area on this forum for user themes. Questions about themes and the theme editor are best posed in that area.

Here is a thread about the items that need to change for 2021.01

 

Thanks! I'll check it out -

[Asif Ali 1]

Crashing when drag copying arranger sections