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It seems random too, like sometimes the synth won't obey CW volume and other times it will. Sometimes I just want to turn up the volume slide on the kontakt track, but if I hit play and it immediately changes back to whatever it was, even though whatever it was doesn't relate to anything in the cakewalk track. Must be a setting somewhere that will alter this behavior. Not sure what.

Hey there, I can never seem to figure out why sometimes cakewalk track volume will control a synth and other times it won't, many times I have to use the volume in the soft synth. Kontakt does this all the time. I have to learn a control and automate it. Is there a way to force synths to only follow cakewalk's track volume and automation on that track rather than the synth itself? Or, follow cakewalks volume AND also allow an overall volume change from the synth. (like keep CW's volume automation and also be able to apply a global volume change to it.) Thanks Jono

Thank you! That's what I was looking for! J

Right, I can play with that a bit, thanks! I'm wondering if there's a way that Cakewalk will open a session how it was last saved in terms of the zoom?

Anyone?

Wondering if anyone knows what's happening here. I even saved the basic template at the zoom I want and it still opens with the timeline zoomed way in. Also, changing the time ruler to only show bars and beats/ saving the basic template and when I open a new file etc. the ruler is not how I set it. Why is Cakewalk not remembering these settings even when saved to the basic template? Any help appreciated! Thanks Jono

Hi, just wondering why when I save a session and I'm zoomed out to see the whole project, I reopen the session, it's all zoomed way in and not how I saved it? Thanks Jono

Yes, I do know that. Just wondering why they are minimizing behind the UI and they didn't used to.

It's supposed to!! I think it's a bug in one of the updates. What's the point of minimizing if it just flies off somewhere that you can't get at?

Actually, it does minimize, but it minimizes behind the cakewalk window so you have to minimize cakewalk and then maximize again to see the syth minimized down on the left. Is this a bug? J

Hi there, whenever I minimize a synth, it seems to completely go away. I'm used to it just minimizing to the bottom left of the Cakewalk screen. This seems like new behavior unless it's a setting somewhere. Anybody know? Thanks Jono

I've tried to do a screen shot of this but once I paste it into another program, it looks fine! It's only how it looks through the 4k monitor that is fuzzy. I understand that the graphics inside cakewalk might not be compatible with 4k and scaling but wondering why the windows menus would also have this issue. Very odd.

Thanks. The dropoutmsec setting is set to 250. What would you suggest raising it to? Can't believe my new system would get dropouts on the session I'm working on. Really not a lot in it and my new machine smokes my old on in every spec. This is why I though perhaps it was something related to the overclocking. I had issues years ago where overclocking was too powerful for the Korg 1212 sound card I was using. (Decades ago actually) Thanks Jono

They are even

Hey, I'm getting the odd dropout, very quick and occasionally in Cakewalk. I'm on a new Win 10 computer using UAD thunderbolt Apollos. The computer is overclocked, It's a 3.60 GHz but it's been overclocked to 4.73 GHz Has anyone heard of issues in Cakewalk with overclocked computers? I've also asked the UAD forum in case it has to do with that. I didn't have any issues previously running UAD firewire on Win 8.1 but this is a new system for me. Thanks! Jono

Never mind, I found the setting in vst settings. Thanks Jono

Cakewalk is only letting me open a single plugin at one time. What the heck is going on? I need to see multiple plugins like always. Is there a setting preventing me from doing this? I can insert as many as I like but I can only access one at a time. Please help! Thanks J

Hi, I have forgotten how to set cakewalk up so when you add an audio or midi track, it isn't minimized but rather a particular size/height you set up. Something to do with the "lock height" but I can't remember how to get CW to always open them that way. Thanks! J

Thanks, didn't know about the + - buttons! I was able to remove the ruler I didn't want. Awesome! J

One more question on this: I get that Cakewalk and some other programs don't scale properly at any other percentages than 100% 200% 300% etc. but I'm wondering this: If I open a windows menu from Cakewalk, like "import audio" or "save as" etc. they look fuzzy as well.., shouldn't they just look like all windows programs? This isn't part of Cakewalk's graphics is it? Thanks Jono

Hi, I would just like to view M:B:T in the Cakewalk time ruler But it seems buggy now (update?) No matter what I select in the time ruler format options, it show two things, M:B:T and H:M:S:F I only want to see one thing on the time ruler - M:B:T Is it broken now? I seem to remember not having this issue before. Also, when I go into time ruler format options, the check marks turn off and on randomly, they aren't the same every time I click on them. Is this a bug? @Noel Borthwick Perhaps you might know if this is normal behavior? Thanks! Jono

I just moved over to a brand new computer, pretty smokin' specs, Windows 10 (formerly 8.1). I thought perhaps after doing that I might have better sync with mp4 video and quicktime video in Cakewalk. It's actually worse, can't believe it! (relating to exporting the audio score you create and it being a frame or two out of sync in other programs) After years of trying to get an answer for this, I was finally told that is was a problem with the Windows audio architecture and there was nothing Cakewalk could do about it. Other windows audio programs don't have this issue. It would be so great if some brilliant person out there could think of a fix or work-around for this... like some sort of way for cakewalk to calculate the amount that mp4s/quicktime files get "padded" in a Cakewalk session, and then create some sort of accurate offset that would ensure your exported audio would sync properly when delivered to another workstation. It's also a bit random depending on the video files codec, how much they will be out of sync, otherwise I could just set a simple offset or slide move when exporting. It's kind of silly to have to load up all your final score mixes or stems in another program and move them back into sync and then re-export. My original post about this issue here:

Ha! I just wrote a post now saying that! Ya, it looks good at 200%. The only down side is switching it back and fourth all the time. It would be nice if in the cakewalk.exe, you could go to compatibility settings and set a particular scale for that program, rather than just the setting for ignoring high DPI scaling. That would be good. Thanks J

That gives me a workaround actually. If I set the scale to 200% , it's nice and crisp and big but not huge. I suppose I could set it like that when I'm working in CW for now. PS. It's less about the graphics of the program really, more about the text. The menus (File,Edit etc.) are fuzzy; shouldn't the menus look the same as any other windows program or are they part of the non-vector based graphic you're talking about? Cheers Jono