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@Noel Borthwick Hi Noel, I'm combing the internet trying to get some advice on this and wondered if you can shed any light on it? Basically, Cakewalk is not responding well to scaling on a 4K display monitor. It only looks good at 100%. Other programs I have look perfect at different scaling percentages. At anything other than 100%, Cakewalk looks all fuzzy and blurry. I have a few other programs that are behaving this way but for the most part, the majority of my programs look excellent on the 4K monitor at 150% scaling (this is also the percentage Windows recommended automatically for my 4K 32" display) Any ideas would be appreciated, thank you! Jono

I'm guessing you have your computer display settings at 100% for scaling?... with a monitor that big, I imagine the fonts and programs are all big enough at 100% I can't see anything unless I set the video scaling up to 150%

Many other programs, like any Microsoft programs, word etc, all look like I would expect. Just certain ones including Cakewalk,Sony Vegas or Sound Forge are all fuzzy and worse than I'm used to. Windows automatically adjusted my video's scaling to 150% and everything looks the right size. It seems like the latter programs I listed like Cakewalk, don't react properly to video scaling and the other ones do. My monitor is 32" as well. Already way bigger than I need. And seriously, if I set scaling to 100%, the size is ridiculously small, even for someone with 20/20 vision. (Cakewalk's resolution seems only correct at 100%) Not sure what to do. It would be great if I could set Cakewalk to run at a lower resolution just so it wasn't blurry. J

I just got a 4K monitor for the first time. Pictures and video look fantastic. But Cakewalk and most other programs are all fuzzy and look like crap! I've read about scaling and tried various things including Windows 10 dpi fix but nothing helps! Programs seem to look okay at 100% scaling but they are ridiculously small! Even Windows recommends 150% Anyone have any tips for making this work correctly? Really hoped this would work! Jono

Hi there, I like to have my plugins in Cakewalk arranged by manufacturer...all good. Is there a way to keep it like this but hide certain plugins without having to create a plugin layout? Reason for this is my UAD plugins; I only own a portion of them and the full list is huge. They aren't alphabetical either as their names all start with UAD. Kind of a drag. I just want cakewalk to show the ones I own. Any ideas out there? Thanks! Jono

Hi there. noticing that the new updates for Cakewalk have removed the scrolling cursor during a real-time render. It is very important to see the cursor during a render for different reasons. Why would they remove that function? How can I complain about this change? Assuming the forum is mainly for users. Is there a direct email anyone could suggest about this sort of thing? Thank you! Jono

Hi there, I recently asked and learned about the setting: "Hide Related VST2 Plug-ins". I've been told some or many manufacturers don't support that feature and that's why I still see vst2 and vst3 in my lists for some manufacturers. Is there a way to hide the vst2 versions manually when the manufacturer doesn't support "Hide Related VST2 Plug-ins" setting? Remove a dll or something? Thanks Jono

oooooooh.. not liking that! K, thanks J

Hey there, I'm pretty sure my cursor would scroll while rendering a file in real-time but it's not anymore. Anyone know why not? A setting perhaps? It scrolls during normal playback... Thanks! Jono

Thanks! scook informed me it was likely one of the programs was not set to run as administrator and he was right. It worked after that! Cheers! J

Yes, you are right! (Don't know how you know all this stuff man!) thanks! Great tool! Just made sure both CW and SF were running as administrator and it worked! (one of them was not set to run as admin...) Jono

Can anyone let me know if I can reverse whatever this tool did so I can try again with sound forge? Thanks Jono

Also; Is there a way to reverse whatever actions the tools editor created when I first tried to add sound forge? So I can try again? Thanks J

I just added RX7 successfully to the tools menu and it works. So it seems to be a problem with sound forge (13) Anyone else get SF13 working as a tool in CW? Thanks Jono

Thanks, I ran it as I've done with the older version. I'm adding sound forge to the tools menu, or trying to. I set it up as shown here but when I try to select a wave file and choose sound forge it says: "Cannot create process" and sound forge doesn't open. Here's how I set up the tools editor: PS: I believe when I first did it, I had an option to "add this tool" which I did. Any idea what I've done wrong? Thanks

Hey there, I wondered how to get @scook's tool for adding editors like sound forge etc. into the cakewalk tools menu. (for win 10) Thanks! Jono

I just looked and it was already checked... so I guess izotope doesn't support that feature. Can I find the vst2 dlls and move them? Or is it easier just to reinstall and uncheck vst2? (Also wondering if I open an older project where I may have used a vst2 version, will it still find the plug if I only have the vst3 version?) Thanks! Jono

Hey, I've installed some izotope plugins and it installed vst2 and vst3 versions. So in Cakewalk when I go to insert a plugin, I see two entries for each plugin, one vst2 and one vst3. How can I get Cakewalk to only use the vst3 ones and only show them? Do I remove some dlls somewhere or is there another way to do it? Thanks! Jono

Awesome, thanks!

Hey there, setting up a new machine, Cakewalk is displaying plugins by plugin type. Is there a way to get it to display by manufacturer? It's like that on my old machine and I would prefer it. Thanks Jono

Could you point me to the issue with write/rewrite on SSD that you're talking about? Don't know about it... thx

I totally agree, but these new M.2 drives are SSD, crazy speed... up to 32 GB per second transfer rate!! Libraries are loading in an instant. I guess I'll try it and see how it performs. Cheers J

Thanks! I guess what I'm asking is, is it okay to have project audio on the same drive as soft-synth libraries? J

Anyone know about this? thanks Jono

Hey there, I'm building a new win 10 machine and wondered about the best way to divide up the drives for audio. I have a 2TB m.2 drive for OS (C drive) all programs and plugins I have a second 2TB m.2 drive for Audio projects and Soft-synth libraries Then a 3rd 8TB SATA drive for file storage and back up. (SD3 library on an external as it's huge...) Does this make sense in terms of data streaming? I figure the m.2 drives are incredibly fast so put all the audio and soft synths on the second one. Is there any reason I should be utilizing the SATA drive for any of that? Thanks! Jono