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5 hours ago, NPM said:

cakewalk crashing after bouncing to tracks but sonar 8.3 does not with same project. WIn 10, Scarlett18i20

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Detailed PC specs?
Audio interface settings (sample rate, bit depth and buffer size)
Latest drivers for your Scarlett?  (https://downloads.focusrite.com/focusrite)
Plugins used and how many tracks?
Bitness of plugins (32bit or 53bit:)
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16 hours ago, Promidi said:

Bitness of plugins (32bit or 53bit:)

53 bit plug-ins are notorious for causing issues on bounce. The devs don't seem to care. 😁

Most likely culprit is plug-in incompatibility. I choose my words carefully, because I'm beginning to understand that "it's probably a plug-in" is too often read as "it's the plug-in's fault, Cakewalk is never to blame." The issue is that they're not playing nice together. I have at least one plug-in that works fine in other programs but with Cakewalk, needs to be used in VST2 form only. Otherwise it generates horrible screeching, which I do want sometimes, but not unintentionally from a chorus effect.

The VST specs are loose enough that both pieces of software can be compliant and still fall down and go boom. A plug-in can expose a flaw in Cakewalk and vice-versa. Look at the Cakewalk update release notes to see the changes made to Cakewalk so it can work with certain plug-ins.

As a practical matter, the thing to do is first try the operation with all FX disabled, then if it works, begin whittling down the plug-ins you're using until you find which one the operation is choking on. A VSTi may be what's not playing nice, but that happens less often.

At that point, you can report to both the plug-in manufacturer and the Cakewalk devs that there seems to be a compatibility problem. The plug-in devs obviously have easy access to the freeware Cakewalk, and the Cakewalk devs can usually get an NFR license for testing purposes from plug-in developers (one of the perks of being a software developer 😄).

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5 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

53 bit plug-ins are notorious for causing issues on bounce. The devs don't seem to care. 😁

 

I am glad you knew I meant 64bit.......    but everything else you mention does apply to the 32bit ones.....

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