John Deacon

Odd indeed. But there they are. And now backed up. I just hope I remember it's not a file when I go looking for it. Thanks.

There are a few posts about the location of plugin presets. But where are Cakewalk's own presets stored - specifically the Process | Find/Change presets. I want to make sure I'm backing them up. I tried creating a preset with a distinctive name and searching the file system for it but with no luck.

I'd tried all those except buffer sizes. I did try the buffer sizes just now - every buffer I could find - ASIO - MIDI - that wasn't it. The routings are from a template that's been used many many times. I even tried starting afresh from the template. All to no avail. The fix is deleting the final meter change. But no idea why. I tried other more normal meters (3/2, 3/4) at that bar and they worked. It just seems to be a time signature with a 1 underneath that glitches. It's not a huge problem. I've not some across those time signatures in any other places; just this irritating Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols; why on earth did he need 44 time signature changes! I suspect this is a bug.

Yes, if I route that MIDI track content to, say, a piano in Kontakt it also fails to play the note.

I decided to delete the meter changes from the end backwards. And deleting the very last change (3/1 Bar 327) fixed things. Still don't know why.

I'm working on a long piece with lots of meter changes. If I don't have them then it's very difficult to navigate. I need to relate a bar in the score with a bar in Cakewalk. However, I noticed that a midi note (going to a choir VST - EastWest Symphonic Choir) wasn't sounding. And this applies to that note in all four choir section MIDI tracks. That one note is silent in all. This occurs in playback and in export audio. I couldn't find any reason. (If I select the note that isn't sound, with a left-click of the Smart Tool cursor, it sounds properly.) So I started a fresh project from the same template and imported the MIDI tracks. All was fine. Then I imported (Copy/Special) the Meter/Key changes from the original project. Whole bunches of notes stopped sounding. Hit Undo - everything fine. Any ideas?

Thanks User 905133 and Jack Barton. Process > Find/Change is the solution to my original query. The Event Inspector can change the channel of notes but not CCs. And Process > Find/Change can change the channel of CCs and not notes. The limitation of these two processes are still puzzling. But at least there's an answer.

I needed to change the MIDI channel for all tracks from a mixture of channels to everything on channel 1. I select everything. I use the event inspector in the command bar to set the channel to 1. This changes the notes but doesn't change the CC events. Is this the expected behaviour? It isn't what I wanted. I have to go to the event list and change each CC event's channel individually.

Although MIDIOX saw these as new devices and I had to re-do my profiles. Take screen shots if you use MIDIOX and are about to change drivers.

Re-installing the Focusrite Control (Focusrite Control - 3.6.0.1822_0.exe here in July 2023) worked for me. I had the issue both when opening with no project and when opening with a project. Cakewalk would take a couple of minutes with the spinning blue circle before the information panels would start displaying and the start screen or the project would open.

I use MIDI OX a lot. (My main keyboard is a Nord two manual "Hammond". When it's not actually being an organ, I make use of the tons of MIDI outputs that its many buttons, knobs and sliders send - for things like CC7, CC11, key switch octaves, etc. - as well as the two manual as two keyboard controllers. ) What is the best practice for getting MIDI OX's outputs into CbB? I use LoopBe. I installed it ages ago and from what I remember it's a virtual MIDI cable. MIDI OX can see one end and Cakewalk can see the other end. Is there a better way than this kind of thing? Perhaps CbB can create/export a MIDI input input port that MIDI OX would see as an available destination for its output?

That's interesting. I didn't know about that. Thanks. It probably won't be enough however. I have a lot of tracks and several track folders, so selecting all of the MIDI tracks is difficult. And I don't have MIDI tracks showing in the console - only audio tracks and instrument tracks. The problem I'm trying to fix is a hidden track with its Input Echo set. I don't notice that it's set and I click Input Echo on another track. I start playing on the keyboard controller and two instruments sound. It's not a huge problem. I have to stop, click the Input Echo in the Mix Module to clear all the Input Echoes including the hidden track (which is what I had forgotten to do in the first place), and then again click the Input Echo for the track I want. So I still think I'd like to request the feature please.

Would it be possible please, to add a modifier key behaviour to the Input Echo button? I would find it very useful in large templates to be able to hold down, say, the Alt key when clicking a track's Input Echo button, and for that to set all tracks' Input Echo to off and then set the track in question's Input Echo to on. It would have almost the same effect as if I'd clicked the Input Echo [On/Off] all tracks button (in the Mix Module in the Control Bar) before I clicked the Input Echo button of a single particular track. I say, almost the same, because I wouldn't want my doing that to have the effect of setting all tracks' Input Echo to on should I accidentally modifier-click an Input Echo button when no Input Echoes were set to on. (If that behaviour already exists, I'd be very glad to know how to achieve it.)

Thanks for checking that. That does explain it and means that remote control of Echo Input isn't all that useful in this situation. I had a quick look to see if the Echo Input button of the Mix Module, up in the control bar, could be remote controlled but unfortunately it doesn't see to be. I've also looked to see if that button is made available to Control Surface mappings; but again, it doesn't seem to be. Still, I've learned that with track folders and with the overall Mix Module Echo Input button large templates aren't as daunting as they first looked. And if track folders in folders ever becomes available, then things will be easier still.

Thanks for the replies. I did try applying remote control to a couple of Echo Input buttons. I used a controller with a bunch of buttons that send MIDI notes. I could see that the button had learned correctly but it didn't change state when the note was sent. (I know that remote control from that controller works because one of its sliders is remotely controlling the master output volume in a template that I do use.) There is one thing I missed. I'm used to seeing Solo or Mute lit up in the Mix Module of the control bar, which is very handy for those Oops I've left a track soloed moments. I'd forgotten that Echo Input is up there. At least I can turn off all the Echo Inputs with one click (well, two clicks as the first click typically sets them all on*). With that button and track folders, I can see the light - well a glimmer anyway. Can track folders contain track folders? A quick search and a look at the documentation seems to say no. * That may have been because I was trying that on another machine where Always Echo Current Track was on and one track was on Auto.