jono grant

What I've read is that because of it's modeling design, it's more taxing on RAM than CPU. I have 64 GB, should be enough. I tried changing page file from system managed. Maybe helped a bit. The funny thing is, the performance of SWAM doesn't really get bogged down, but accessing the midi setting etc. causes it to be very unresponsive. Extreme patience is the only thing that will allow it to run... Hmmmm.

Curious if anyone has tried Swam inside Cakewalk? I notice my CPU and disk is barely being used, yet it acts as though it's using every possible resource. Curious about midi settings that might affect it>

Thanks. I suppose I could try and test it on one of these. I use CW but just to test it, I guess I could try protools. Jono

Has anyone had any luck using "Swam" VIs in Cakewalk? Super powerful stuff but Cakewalk can't handle it for some reason. I have a file with one wave file in it, no effects and Swam is causing lags and crashing behavior. I think my computer should handle one SWAM instrument. Is there a Midi or other setting I could tweak to get it working more smoothly? Buffer is crashy at 128 and too much latency at higher rates. Tried multiple buffer sizes. Any help appreciated! Thanks

Thanks, ya, trying this way of course. it just crashes. Perhaps a Mac/PC hatred issue is my guess. oh, well. Wonder if the new Sonar has fixes this.

So, I can't seem to open either OMF or AFF. I see export OMF. Any work-arounds for this? J

Thanks for the replies! I had bought Sonar Platinum before it was taken over by BandLab. Do they consider that when purchasing this, or no? New features look interesting. I was curious if they had done anything with some of the older issues: Score editor, video compatibility mainly. And yes, "decades old" I've been using cakewalk/sonar since the late 90's. Time flies!

Curious about the new Sonar version. Is it just the same-old with a face-lift? Have any decades old issues been sorted? Thanks

This seems to be helping! Thanks! I am combining UAD/Waves/FabFilter and a few other plug manufacturers. Interesting.

I am rendering in real time, yes.

Yes, I'm rendering in real time

Glitches are in the exported audio.

Hello, I'm having issues with glitches or gaps in audio, after I export it from Cakewalk. Everything fine during playback but after I export (live or not live export), there is often a glitch or a few glitches near the top of the file. I'm a long time user, I know about buffer size etc. Something else is causing this I believe. I've played with read and write caching, they don't seem to make any difference. I'm using a combination of UAD plugins (Which never seem to cause issues) and also waves and a few others. Never had these issues before. I also try disabling internet/security etc. Sometimes helps but not always. Task manager not showing any large use of disk or memory. Curious if anyone has any suggestions I could try. Thanks Jono

Hi, I'm working on a surround music mix (5.1) in Cakewalk, all is good. (Monitoring through a UAD Apollo x8P, in 5.1 monitoring mode) I notice in Vegas video, there is a single button method of monitoring the downmix on-the-fly. So you can flip back and forth between 5.1 and the stereo downmix. (It's in the monitor mixer section) Is there a method of doing this right in Cakewalk? Perhaps a workaround way, like, exporting the surround mix to a multichannel wave and then re-importing it back into Cakewalk? Would that replicate the down mix, or would it be inaccurate? Any ideas appreciated. Thanks! Jono

One more bit of info: If I just import the kick drum audio into superior drummer with the tempo map it synchs fine. It's if I try to create a kick drum midi file and bring that in. Then it doesn't sync. I'd like to have the midi file though so I can trigger to other samples that are outside of Superior Drummer 3. So this has something to do with the way I'm bringing the kick drum midi file back into Cakewalk. perhaps it want's no tempo map in Cakewalk after importing? Can't figure it out. J