Frank DeFede

Hi Jon, The new Presonus was delivered. I hooked it up and I had the same problem. I tried a lot of things, and finally I updated the firmware although it said it was up to date. It said update anyway and I did. That seemed to fix the problem for the audio on the 24c. I updated the one I bought in 2023 and got the same message up to date, but I proceeded to update it again. And now the original one seems to be working. However, neither on would control the Mackie Control. Cakewalk shows that MIDI is connected, but it isn't really talking to the Mackie as buttons don't work. Also, if I changed the buffer size to a different value it goes into breaking up as before, and when I put it back the same buffer number then it is still breaking up.. Then I unplug the USB, plug it back iin and it is working, still without MIDI control. Can you give any suggestions on why the midi isn't working. I have always been able to get it going before. It says that Mackie Conntrol 1 is connected. If I can get the MIDI working I will just stick with this one. I would be fine with the V-studio 100 if I can get the control surface buttons to work. Thanks for your time and help. Frank

Hi Jon, Thank for all of your information! I was able to get the Audio interface to work, but I am still struggling with the Control surface. Oddly, It started to work, but I am not sure why, but the transport light came on and I had control. I should have left well enough alone, but I hooked a MIDI PORT to run to my Mackie Control and thought I could also get it to run, control with both hands and more features. But, I couldn't get the Mackie Controller to work. When I disconnected the MIDI PORTI no longer had control with v-Studio 100. Every time I plug the USB the red DAW light goes out, and when It is plugged in and I hit the DAW button it says now USB on line., but at least I have audio. I don't think there is anything wrong with the V-studio 100. It was never really used much. It's like new. There is on option to select V-studio 100 in the control surface preference, even though it is checked in the select MDII Device The only ones that come up are the following . . . . Act Midi Controller, Cakewalk Generic Surface, Mackie Control C4, Mackie Control, Mackie Control xt, I believe i tried them all. Apparently I had it right once because the control surface started working. I tried different USB cables, different ports. I had it in a USB 2 when it worked with both audio and MIDI, it is now in a USB 3 as I read online it will work in either. I am chasing my trail. The Presonus Studio 24C delivery didn't make it today, and is delayed until Saturday from Amazon so I wasn't able to test it. If I can get the V-studio 100 to work for both audio and control surface I would much rather use it if possible. I really don't like the small size of the Studio 24C and tiny knobs. If you can think of anything else please let me know. I am feeling rather stupid as I have been on this for hours and hours. I usually can get things figured out especially with the help from fellow folks like you! I will let you know how the the test goes with the Studio 24C tomorrow after I get it. However, If I can get the v-studio 100 working again with both audio and MIDI, I won't open the box and just return it. Leave well enough alone. Thank you my friend, Frank DeFede

Hi Jon, Here's a quick overview of what I have tried. I uninstalled the V-studio 100. I went to the V-studio 100 webpage, and got the manual, but the driver is not available to download. It said that it will install when you plug in the V-studio 100. It came right on line and and the audio is working fine as before, but I still can't get the transport section working. Before I did the above I thought I'd try the same thing with my Presonus 24C and give it a try one more time using your suggestion to remove it and then reinstall it. I also deleted the Universal control software, and downloaded it from Presonus, and installed without the the presonus 24C connected. The computer recognized the Presonus 24C. I followed the manual on how to set it up. I click on the Universal Control Icon, and it came up, but looks a little different than what the manual was showing. I set the buffers etc. which I now had access too. as I didn't before. I thought it was going to work, but I am still getting the break ups and noise with all of the settings. So the audio is grabbled, and the MIDI in and OUT are not controlling my Mackie control. However, it plays a was file of a song just fine. So that is when I tried the Sonar V-studio 100 as explained above. I have new Presonus 24C being delivered from Amazon here tomorrow. I will try it as soon as I get my hands on it, and If it works then I guess that means that the one I am using does have a problem. Since the audio on the V-studio sounds fine, If I could get the V-studio 100 where I can use the transport, and MIDI I would like to use it and send back the new Presonus 24C. I think I have an idea of why of what is gong on with it. I read a lot of the manual. It says . . . If you connect SONAR V-STUDIO 100 to a computer and turn the power on, the section within the bounding rectangle in this illustration functions as the control surface for SONAR VS. https://static.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/VS-100_r_e2.pdf It's on page 19. But, when I do this it works the exact opposite and the red light goes out and in the display above it says USB arm now online. But, the DAW light goes out. I tried a different USB cable too, but I still have the problem. Thank you for listening to all of this. Any help you can provide or suggests is much appreciated. I will let you know if the new Presonus I get tomorrow works. If it doesn't I am not sure what to do next. I guess I could try Presonus Studio 1 software, but I really don't want to deal with changing from Cakewalk that I have used almost from the beginning. It's much appreciated! Frank

Thank you Jon, I will give that a try. I guess I can get the software from the Sonar V-studio 100 product page? Should I uninstall the device first? I assumed the Personus studio 24C that I used to record the tracks automatically recorded at 192KHZ, but the v-studio 100 only at 96KHZ. I didn’t know I could even change the sample rate. Thank you for your input. I will try to go Head and reinstall the software as you suggested and let you knoe how it goes. Frank

Hi Regi, I think it will work. I will try it out and let you know. Thank you for responding! Frank

Does anyone still use or have experience with the old Cakewalk Sonar V-Studio 100 that came out in 2009? I had to dig it out of the my old equipment cabinet and use it to finish a mix because my Presonus Studio 24C stopped working just as I was getting ready to do the final mix of a song I had been working on for weeks. I tried everything to get the Presonus 24C to work with no resolve. So with a few adjustments In Cakewalk by Bandlab the Cakewalk Sonar V-Studio 100 worked and I was happy to do the final mixing of a song that is now ready to be exported. I was even able to control the Cakewalk by Bandlab software with Cakewalk Sonar V-Studio 100 with the built in control buttons, and even was able to use the MIDI channels to control my Mackie Control surface as well. The Cakewalk Sonar V-Studio 100 really sounded good to my ears and I thought perhaps I should just keep using this older 2009 piece of equipment even though it has a lower sample rate of 96KHZ while the Presonus Studio 24C is 24-bit/192KHZ. Knowing I will get a better sample rate on the Presonus Studio 24C I decided to disconnect the V-studio 100 to try again to get the Presonus 24C working for the export with no avail. I connected the Cakewalk Sonar V-studio 100 back up to do the exporting of the tracks, but now none of the control buttons on the unit are working. The control buttons go out when I connect the USB 2 two the computer. The audio is working fine when pluged into the USB 2, but I have lost the control surface of the Cakewalk Sonar V-Studio 100. I believe I connected everything back up to same as I had the Cakewalk Sonar V-Studio 100 working before. When I unplug the USB the lights come on, but when I plug the USB back in they go out. Can anyone give me some advice on this. I am so made at myself right now for disconnecting Cakewalk Sonar V-Studio 100 while is was working. I should have left good enough alone and just kept using the Cakewalk Sonar V-Studio 100. Perhaps it is some setting on the unit itself, but I have been through everything on it. It seems odd that when I connect the USB the control lights go out on the control surface, but the audio works, and when I disconnect the USB the Control button lights come back on. Thank you for reading this long post. Any suggestions are most welcome!

I know I've done this before, But for some reason I can't remember how to have the tracks export with the just the names of tracks. Can anyone please explain that knows how to do it. Thank you

i want to thank all of you who have taken the time to make suggestions. It looks like the Presonus Studio 24 is the problem. I am not sure what is wrong with it. I reinstalled my old Cakewalk Sonar V-Studio 100 and everything is working fine so I now know it is not a Cakewalk issue. The audible quality seems to be good as the Presonus Studio 24. They both are 24 bit, but the Sonar V-studio 100 is only 96 KHZ and the Presonus Studio 24 is 192 KHZ. I am debating whether I should just keep using the Sonar v-studio 100 as it is working fine, or go out and buy a new Presonus Studio 24 or something else. I thought I'd try the Presonus studio 24 one more time, and disconnected the v-studio 100. It didn't work. Then, when I reconnected the Cakewalk Sonar V-Studio 100 the control buttons on the transport don't light or work. And the midi no longer works, but at least I can play from the tracks from my computer with Cakewalk. Any suggestions are most welcome, and thank you so much for your help!

Thank you for responded. I had already tried that, but it didn't work. I tried it again with your suggestion, but again it didn't work. I wonder if it could be my personus Studio 24 problem. I have the most up to date drivers on the device, and also in Windows. Everything was working a few days ago. If you have any other ideas please let me know. Thank you, Frank

Hi John, Yes, I tied S1 and S2. I have an old Cakewalk Sonar v-studio 100. I will try it now. I was thinking it was hardware too because I can’t change the buffers size in the personus control.panel. Maybe this could be the problem ***** it also is freezing. Let me ask you this. When I go into the task manager, to close it there are 2 different icons. One is red 32 bit the other is blue 32 bit. My shortcut on my desk top is the blue one that I have always used. Does that indicate a problem? I wonder if everyone has both of them? Thank you so much for your time and responding! Frank

Thank you for responded. I had already tried that, but it didn't work. I tried it again with your suggestion, but again it didn't work. I wonder if it could be my personus Studio 24 problem. I have the most up to date drivers on the device, and also in Windows. Everything was working a few days ago. If you have any other ideas please let me know. Thank you, Frank

Thank you for the suggestion. I did a search for "%AppData%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\AUD.ini" If comes up with AUD.INI. Should I change it to "%AppData%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\AUD.ini" Thanks Frank

I have a Personus Studio 24, and Cakewalk by Bandlab. Today when I went to open Cakewalk, it loaded slowly and then when it finally loaded my project it just spun. I had to restart. This time it finally got into the project, but it played the audio distorted. Usually I can fix this the few times that it has happened by opening the Universal control for the Presonus Studio 24 and changing the buffer size, but when I pull down the buffer option then try to set it the numbers come up, but when I select any of them they do not populate the screen. I think it may be running at 0. I don't know, maybe I am chasing my tail here, thinking that it's the buffer. . My system usually works. I was getting ready to make 1 final change in the project, and export it to another studio to add live drums and do a final mix. Can anyone please make a suggestion what you may think the problem is? Thank you in advance!

Thanks, I will check it out

I tried to install Native instruments Komplete Kontrol today. As it turned out it doesn't work with Cakewalk. But, now even after I uninstalled it, my Yamaha keyboard plays a note when i start or stop a song in the project with the computer keyboard or when I hit the play button in cakewalk itself. It is very annoying. Any help solving this would be much appreciated Thanks

I got a RED WARNING message today that I have 1 day left for Cakewalk and to update my registration. I tried to open Bandlab Assistant, but when it opened it was just a plain white screen. I tried several times with no success. So I decided to download the LATEST Bandlab Assistant and it installed, and opened fine, but now there is nowhere to register Cakewalk. Can anyone tell me how to proceed with this as I don't want to lose access to Cakewalk. I am working on several projects. Thanks

when I opened Cakewalk yesterday, I got a message that Cakewalk registration was going to expired. I didn't have to deal with it just then. I opened it today and it opened with no message. I went to the BandLab Assistant and opened it. It came up with a blank screen with no option to do anything. I want to be sure that my registration doesn't expiration. Can anyone give me advice on how to re-register or to fix the BandLab Assistant. Thank You

Is there a setting that will automatically mute the last take when recording a new take. I always have to mute the last take in the track lanes. It isn't a big deal, but seems like it used to automatically mute the previous take when comping. Thanks Frank

I have 3 midi tracks Strings, Celesta, and Piano. I want to bounce each of them to separate audio tracks for further mixing. I selected the string midi track an and froze it. No problem it made an audio file of just the strings on a new track. The problem is the other 2 midi tracks. They freeze along with the strings. If I hit unfreeze on the celesta and/or the piano it unfreezes the Strings. It's like they are all tied together. I also tried to use the track folder, but it says no audio is selected to bounce. I thought I could bounce midi files in the Track folder. Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks Max, I will definitely dig into these videos.

Thank you all for your help! I now have a much better understanding. It still gets a but confusing at times, but thanks to this forum and the time you took to respond with your knowledge I am most excited that I can complete the song I'm working on and my album project. One thing I still don't understand is that when I used to insert a soft synth with multiple tracks it would also insert 1 midi track and 4 of output tracks. Now I have to insert the midi track separately. Is that a software update or is there some setting I am missing when inserting the soft snyth TTS-1 in order to get the midi track at the same time? Frank

Hi Mark, Thank you for pointing this out to me. I never knew about this and it has always been confusing to me. I went ahead and followed your instructions. I had the strings working, and the Piano, but couldn't get the Celesta to output. So I went ahead and inserted a new TTS-1 with the 4 tracks. I assigned the outputs as you directed and it worked great, prefect. Thank you for this information. Now i am moving on to figuring out how to quantize the midi tracks, and hopefully i won't have to post. Frank

I did a work around. 1. Muted 2 of the midi tracks. 2. Frozen and Outputting the strings solo as suggested 3. I copied the frozen strings 4. Pasted the frozen strings to the newly inserted audio track 5. Unfreeze Strings 5. Repeated Steps 1 - 5 for each of the other midi tracks, Celesta, and piano It worked, but I still need to figure out the correct and easiest way. Thanks for all of your help.