jono grant

Great! Will check that out. Thanks!

Anyone?

Hi, setting up my new computer and wondering if there's a way to migrate my settings from the cakewalk on my old machine? Or is it best re set up fresh? Thanks! Jono

I often ask if that is my issue with other issues in posts but adamantly told it's not. Starting not to believe that... Windows 10 coming soon anyways. Thanks J

Yeah, that doesn't work either. Tried everything. "Paste into existing clips" is always greyed out. even between single lane separate midi tracks. Not sure how you got that to work. Anyhow.. too bad

Thanks, I'll give that a test! Cheers Jono

Yeah. I copy special, then select a second midi channel, also clicking on the target clip then paste special to that destination. It just pastes the fully copied clip.

Hmm. just tried with a midi clip, "Paste into existing Clips" is still greyed out.

Ah, okay. Thanks! J

Right, got it! Although if were able to do that and were being pasted to a different length clip, it could just apply the same envelope to that length of clip and get stretched by percentage of how long the new clip is. Ultimately though, you would be applying it to a clip of the same length. Why is "Paste into existing Clips" greyed out? Just wondering why it's there... Thanks! Jono

I tried that just now and it didn't work. It will copy/paste a track envelope but not a clip envelope. The "Events in Tracks" is tied to "Clip Automation" so if you try to uncheck "Events in Tracks" it will also uncheck "Clip Automation" Also, in "Paste Special" the option to "Paste into existing Clips" is greyed out, no matter what boxes get checked or unchecked. You should be able to select a region and go to "copy special" select only the clip automation and then "Paste Special/Paste into existing Clips" Seems like a feature that's there but doesn't work. Or a bug perhaps. Unless I'm doing it wrong... Anyone able to get this to work? Thanks Jono

Hi, I was wondering if there was any way inside Cakewalk to copy a CLIP envelope so you could apply it to a different clip? The only way I can think of is to overwrite the wave file of the clip with the envelope, inside the audio folder. Replace it with a different wave file, keeping the envelope that was on that clip. Any ideas of another way? Cheers Jono

Thanks! How do I capture a dump? Not sure what that is exactly...

I've been getting more frequent crashing in Cakewalk since the last update. I usually blame a plugin or something for crashing but when it does, I'm usually able to "end task" in task manager and move on... these days I'll get a crash (white screen) and it will hang in task manager. I see a number of entries of "com surrogate" also in task manager when it occurs, which I'm not used to seeing. Anyhow, "end task" doesn't work very well now with CW for some reason. I also find after the crash, that my USB devices get closed and re-discovered. Anyone else having any strange issues since the latest update? Thanks Jono

The bottom line here is that PDC override works as it should on a live input track, but something is causing an unrelated midi track to also act as if it's also set to have a live input and it doesn't. I'm becoming more confident this is a bug in CBL. Believe me, I know the work-arounds, I'm just tired of using them. The PDC button itself says when you hover over it: "override automatic plugin delay compensation on live inputs" therefore if you only have one live input, it should be the only one affected by PDC override and it isn't. (Edit) I should also mention that I do realize the PDC override button affects the entire instrument, so, if it were Kontakt for instance, and you had 16 channels going in Kontakt, they would all have the override even if you only had one midi track with a live input. (which also kinda sucks...)

"Always echo current midi track" doesn't seem to fix or relate to this. I think that just automatically makes a midi track live when you click on it. When I turned that feature off, it just made it so that when you click a midi track it didn't go into live input and you had to click the input monitoring button manually. But the sync issue still persisted. Gotta be something causing the random "mid track out-of-sync when PDC override is engaged on another live input track... Anyone? Thanks

+1 seems to nudge a selected clip. Does it also add a lane somehow? I was looking for a way to reorganize any lanes that had multiple clips on them.

Hi, just wondering if there is a way to reorganize take lanes similar to the old "rebuild layers" from earlier versions of Sonar? I'll sometimes find that I have two things stacked on a single layer and I want to organize it with a click. Possible?

Thanks! In my preferences, the option "Always echo current midi track" was enabled. Is that likely the issue then? I've turned it off, will see if the problem persists and report back I guess. PS. Yes, if I need to punch in a lot, I'll set up the midi track twice, so I can record to the PDC override track and move the recorded midi onto the 2nd track that has no live input button selected. It would be great if they could figure out a way to only apply the PDC override on the input itself, rather than the track so that already recorded data would play in sync and only your live instrument would have the PDC override on it. I'm still not 100% sure why "Always echo current midi track" is needed in the first place. J

You would need to click on a midi channel for it to be active or "live" though. This is not the case. And again, it's only happening on a single midi/synth track. If I delete that track it will move to another midi track and put the PDC override onto that track's instrument. Freezing all synths and not using plugins is not something you should have to do just to record a track. This is acting like a bug, the PDC button is only supposed to remove the delay on any live inputs, that is it's main purpose. Another strange thing is, it's hard to reproduce the problem if I try to. It almost seems somewhat random. Somehow when it happens, it seems to be leaving a midi channel/synth output's input set to "on" even though it appears to not be active.

I don't have the problem with tracks that have plugins, only one particular midi track at a time. Basically, it should only be overriding on a live input track and it's not, it's overriding the live input track and also overriding on a single midi/VI track. I see no reason for what track it chooses either. I've done tests to try to figure that out. It fairly random. The help says this: Some signal routings can cause tracks to be out of sync when Live Input PDC Override is enabled. To prevent any potential sync problems, follow these suggestions: Output the live input tracks directly to the final bus in the signal flow. Send live tracks directly to a hardware main *This doesn't seem to make any difference. What other routing issue could cause it to override PDC on a non-live track? Gotta be something causing this. Thanks J

Another aspect I've just tested is that only one midi (VI) track will go out of sync, not all of them. I just did this test: - Add a new VI instrument (ivory piano), played some quarter notes and quantized them. - Then added a new audio track with guitar rig, engaged the PDC override. The Ivory piano went out of sync even though not live. The other midi track (drums) was fine. - I then deleted the piano track and now the midi drum track played out-of-sync. It seems to choose one midi track and also override it's PDC as well as the live input I'm performing on

Pardon me, yes, hitting the PDC button overrides the delay which is normally always running. I wish for it to only override the live input that I'm tracking (as it says it will do) but it is also overriding some of the virtual instrument/midi tracks, which are not set to live input monitoring. On another note, if I do a punch-in on my live track, I have to listen to it out-of-sync until the point that I start playing, which is really hard to deal with as well. I have to create a seconday track to avoid that (one with recorded audio and one for new tracking)

Hello, If I have a session containing midi, audio and plugins and I wish to track something, (lets say a guitar running through guitar rig) I need to turn on PDC so that I don't hear a delay on my live input. I believe PDC should only affect live inputs: however, it seems to also disable the delay on some of my other midi tracks, which are not set to live input monitoring. The result obviously is that certain tracks are out of sync when I have PDC engaged. Why is it affecting tracks that are not set to live input monitoring? Hoping it's something I can change in the settings. Please help! Thanks! Jono

I feel the need to check in from time to time about this issue. Cakewalk for quite some time now, has an issue where it pads the beginning of any cakewalk file that has an mp4 or certain quicklime video loaded into the session time-line or perhaps the video itself contains the padding. The result is that everything looks and sounds fine in cakewalk when you are scoring to picture but after you export your music score, it is not in sync with the same video in other audio or video programs. When the MP4 or QT video gets inserted into a project, Cakewalk has about a frame of padding (or space) at the top of the file. That padding or space goes completely unnoticed until you export something as a broadcast wave or regular wave. You bring that audio into another program like Pro Tools or a video program like Sony Vegas, and that audio will play close to a frame late when brought into the new program's time line. (one of my original posts about it below. After many forum threads, the last I was told about it was that it has something to do the newer Windows Audio Architecture and that Cakewalk couldn't really do anything about it. Considering my other programs like Pro Tools or Sony Vegas don't have this issue in Windows would that be because they don't use the Windows Audio Architecture? (Hope I'm using the right term!) I wish Cakewalk would consider finding away around this or create a work-around for when you're working with MP4 or Quick Time files in Cakewalk. Like some sort of offset mode or similar. Or perhaps Cakewalk could try to work out the issue with Windows developers? Not sure what to suggest but I do know it's a really big flaw in Cakewalk for those wanting to use it for scoring or sound-designing to picture. This is one of the other older posts: Anyhow, If anyone has any insight or ideas I'd be thrilled to hear about them... Thanks! Jono