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Thanks, I will check my registry for this entry.

Hi Sock Monkey, Latencymon runs with no spikes and considers the system good for real time audio, which it is - I don't have any audio problems whatsoever. As for the GPU driver, I am using the internal GPU on the intel Core i7, mainly to minimise fan noise. I am not against buying a separate GPU but I haven't needed one for the last 10 or 15 years - I thought the current internal GPU would handle at least as well as the one in my previous 3rd generation Core i7. The GPU drivers are also by intel, not MS. I will do some testing on other DAWs to check if the issue persists, thanks for the suggestion.

Hi, I am definitely using the correct driver - this isn't the generic driver you mention. This same driver was working perfectly in my previous computer, which was a lot slower (the driver provided is for Windows 10 and 11). Thanks for the suggestion, though. Happy to hear any other ideas.

Hi, I am using the real Yamaha/Steinberg ASIO driver - it is a Yamaha mixing desk which interface via USB to the PC. My setup is exactly the same as before except with a new PC, and this never happened on the older, supposedly much slower PC. This isn't an audio issue - it is a graphical display problem. Thanks.

Hi, pressing the pause key just seems to slow down the rate that the timeline updates, it doesn't fix the issue. Thanks.

Hi, I recently migrated to a new PC with an Intel Core i7 14700k CPU, using the internal GPU and Windows 11. I have noticed I am getting a lot of hitching and stuttering on the time line (vertical now time indicator) as well as the now time display in the control bar, especially when in piano roll view. Not constantly, but fairly often. The audio always plays perfectly, this is a graphics display only issue. I have checked the performance monitor and the CPU and GPU usage both remain very low (less than 10% GPU and less than 20% CPU) when this happens. RAM usage is also very low with loads of headroom. All drives are fast SSDs. There doesn't appear to be any corresponding resource shortage causing this. Drivers etc. are all up to date. This is more of an annoyance than a show stopper, but I would like to clear it up, especially considering I never once had this issue on my old 3rd generation core i7 machine with half the RAM, also using the internal GPU. Does anyone have any idea why this would be happening and how to resolve it? Thanks.

Hi, the S Series mark one keyboards work fine with Cakewalk, including the transport controls. There may be some differences with the A series, but it should work, according to some other threads on this forum. Please see below.

A friend had this same problem yesterday - no Windows updates, no new software, no changes to the system at all but opening Cake would flash the splash screen then quit. Nothing fixed it except for a system restore.

Hi Sock Monkey, Which DAW did you buy for $50? Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestions, much appreciated.

Hi, Every now and then Cakewalk sends out some kind of MIDI message that switches local control off on some of my hardware synths. I have made sure to deselect the "zero controllers when play stops" option in my templates, and I don't use any program changes etc. that would send off MIDI when opening a track. Even so, every so often Cakewalk sends something that switches local control off in these synths. So, my question is, is there a key modifier or some other way of preventing Cakewalk from sending out any messages at all when opening a track? Alternatively something I can enter in the ini file? Thanks.

Thanks for the responses - after some hair-pulling, I found the issue. The VST2 - VST3 switch to "replace if possible on project load" was on, and the problem plugins had all loaded the VST3 version and subsequently lost their envelope assignments. Switching that off loaded the VST2 versions as before, and the automation assignments back to where they were. Ideally, losing these assignments should force the project to continue using the VST2 version, as there is no warning that the replacement is not like-for-like, and it is not immediately obvious that the automation is no longer working (in my case, anyway).

I am wondering if this may be a version issue. Is it possible to download an older version of the installer so I can test this? My previous PC was on version 2022-11. Thanks.

Hi, I bought a new PC as my previous PC did not support the Windows 11 hardware requirements. Everything appeared to be going well, until I noticed while testing that some envelopes were not automating the expected parameters. Volume and send envelopes seem unaffected, but many envelopes assigned to plugin parameters appear to have lost their assignments. The envelopes are still there but dropping down the edit filter doesn't bring up the associated parameter, so the envelopes cannot be brought into focus, or re-assigned and obviously the automation doesn't happen. This hasn't happened on every plugin but so far the Arturia Mini Filter and the Valhalla plugins have lost their assignments. This is quite an issue, as I tend to automate a lot, and there are dozens of tracks affected. Hopefully someone has a suggestion or workaround, I would appreciate it. Thanks.

Hi Promidi, Thanks for the response. I have switched this off for all USB root hubs, but this happens straight after after powering on, the PC has not yet had the chance to go to sleep (which it never does, I have the always on power option selected as it is a desktop machine). The synth is plugged into a powered USB hub, but it also happens when plugged directly into a USB port. I swapped the synth with one of my other USB enabled synths (Moog Minitaur) and it still happens only to the Hydrasynth. The odd part is that the synth is still recognised by Windows and the DAW as a Hydrasynth, and it allows me to select the Hydrasynth input for recording but nothing is recorded until I restart the synth or unplug its USB cable and re-plug. I have a support case open with ASM but they also don't appear to have an answer.

Hi, I recently bought a Hydrasynth Explorer, which has been great, but I am having intermittent issues with MIDI transmission over USB. The synth will be recognised by the DAW (I have tested it in Ableton Live and in Cakewalk, same results so this isn't a DAW specific problem) and I can select the synth as an input and start recording and playing but nothing will be recorded . If I switch the synth off and back on, and restart the DAW then MIDI will be recorded again. It doesn't happen every time, but at least 50% of the time I have this issue. I have several other synths connected via USB and none of them have ever displayed this behaviour (Moog, Dave Smith, Korg, Arturia). Has anyone experienced this issue and resolved it? Thanks.

Hi BassMasterGeneral, You can select the Draw tool on the toolbar, which will work on the velocity lane in the piano roll, if the notes already exist. You can also draw repeats of existing midi notes with the Pattern tool. There is also a Transform tool which you can select in the PRV at the bottom left, which allows you to change the "shape" of a series of controllers or velocity indicators. Hope this helps.

Just in case anyone missed this, you can open Cakewalk files in Reaper with this incredibly useful tool - it really works very well.

Hi Noel, thanks for this info, very handy to know!

Thanks for all the suggestions in this thread, I think the project has been salvaged! The crash dump pointed to a plugin that hadn't been recently updated or given trouble before, while I was looking at the recently updated plugins for a culprit. Also no idea why I could open the file in safe mode and allow each plugin to run in turn without a crash but I am not going to dwell on that! I appreciate the help, thanks again!

Yes, there is a crash dump - thanks for the suggestions, I will try the Windbg tool. @Promidi - I will check that as well. What I find strange is that opening the project in safe mode but not disabling any plugins lets me open the file without a crash, but opening it normally causes a crash each time.

Update: If I open the project in safe mode and choose to load each plugin in turn, the project opens, but if I choose load all or open the project normally, it crashes.

Hi, something has gone very wrong with one particular project. I can no longer open it without Cakewalk crashing. I have at least 10 versions of the track backed up and they all have started to crash. I thought I had found the problem plugin by opening in safe mode and removing the plugins one by one until Cakewalk opened without crashing, and played back fine (obviously without the removed plugin), but re-saving the project hasn't fixed the issue (I re-saved the project without the plugin that caused the crash). Opening that saved project again causes another crash, which doesn't make a lot of sense. Running Cakewalk by Bandlab on Windows 10. Other projects appear fine. Any help appreciated! Thanks.

Hi, I am trying to match the quality of groove clips with the preview quality from the media bay when choosing to preview in project tempo. It is mostly fine but occasionally a percussion loop will sound fine when auditioning but after dragging it into the project and groove clip looping it, the quality will be quite a bit worse. I have changed the time-stretch algorithms to the same for offline and online processing but that hasn't made a difference, so I assume groove clip loops do not adhere to this setting. Is there a way to use groove clip loops but with the stretch quality applied in the real time preview? Thanks.

Thanks for the replies - I am not having system issues as such, just looking for a tool to identify CPU usage of plugins in a project. My dropout question was answered by David - in my situation I will need to make sure there are no late buffers as I don't render offline, I mix to stereo from a mixing desk. Thanks again!