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Your antivirus must have ate the program. Have you tried to re-install with your antivirus turned off?

There's two installers for CakeWalk. One that is CakeWalk only and the other comes with Bandlab Assistant. I downloaded the CakeWalk only. Plus, I have been using CakeWalk since the 90s. I own several copies of Sonar Producer that I paid for. I also own Project 5 and Music Creator. Everyone seems to be missing the point. It's probably due to the Troll that came here to hassle me about my feature request. Do y'all think only professionals use CakeWalk? That little kids aren't in school learning CakeWalk? It's now a free program and what school wouldn't take advantage of free? I have plenty of knowledge on CakeWalk. I'm thinking about the people whom are brand new to CakeWalk, maybe don't even have our wit or knowledge. Maybe even kids from elementary school just learning about music. To make it easier on them will bring new blood to CakeWalk. I personally have no issues finding what I need and of course the majority of the users here on the forums. The problem is about other people whom are less knowledgeable and do not have the skills we have. They also may not have the knowledge on how to search for what they need. We should make it easier for them.

You know, the people whom either try to piss you off or bring up a problem that has been discussed before, to drag it on and on and on and on... Cuss at you because they think it's funny. Try to get under your skin on a topic that doesn't really need discussing. You've even got trolls that have tons of green dot points next to their names. Just saying... Anyone else come across these toxic individuals whom seem to be #1, smarter than everyone else, nobody else matters, don't think about others, belittle your intelligence, etc?

Byron Dickens, It's easy for you to tell me this because I'm on these forums, but if you think about others and how confused they would be... Think about others and don't think everyone is at your level of expertise. There are so many varieties of people out there and you should always strive to make it easier for the other guy or gal. Best Regards, El Diablo

Go ahead.. open up CakeWalk. Click Help, then Click Documentation. I get the error "Failed to launch help". There's no offline documentation??? Then you really badly need yellow hints to be much much better than the obvious! A well made program has functional hints and not "this button is play, this one is pause, this one is record", etc. and the pictures are literally already showing what it is. Unless your in elementary school, you already know what record and play buttons look like!! Documentation is only as good as the person looking for a solution. If you know what your looking for then it'll be easy, otherwise if you can't find the words of what you are looking for the documentation does you no justice!!! Plus, who wants to spend hours, days, months, and years looking for something and the developer could have just waved his hands and magically made the yellow hints make more sense. It's a very very easy fix for the developer.

I know there's a VST 3, but instead of making an agreement with Steinberg, it might be better to write plugins just for CakeWalk. I found an out dated SDK for CakeWalk based on Microsoft, but with all the advancements made to CakeWalk, I would think there would be a better SDK. Think of it this way... If we can create some really neat plugins only for CakeWalk using the SDK, it will be more native to CakeWalk, less crashing of plugins, and more features that can be added without bugging the developers so much. The developers of CakeWalk can then focus on bug fixing while there plug-in developers can focus on creating new features, new plugins better than VST3, etc. It will bring new people to CakeWalk! So, if there's not a SDK that can do this, I'll make it a feature request.

Hi, Please make the record button understandable by saying in the "yellow hints" ... You know the yellow pop-up hints when you hover over a button for a moment or two. Just say "Left click and hold for more options" instead of the obvious "Record (Comping) [R]" for the record button. Or combine two hints together! I had to do some serious research to find out what I remembered that CakeWalk "used to have"..I really thought CakeWalk might have gotten rid of that feature. All the hints should get revised and not just state the obvious. Especially if there's a hidden menu. I thought the "Step Record" was removed until recently. So, please update the hints to clarify any special menus. Not everyone is smart enough to figure out what the developer(s) was thinking when CakeWalk was created. Bandlab now has a chance to correct what was wrong and make it right. Thank you Bandlab and the developers of Bandlab! See Post for visual images of before and after: Post 382991

They should make it clear by saying in the "yellow hints" ... You know the yellow pop-up hints when you hover over a button for a moment or two. They should just say "click and hold for more options" instead of the obvious " Record (Comping) [R]. Or they can combine two hints together! Not everyone is smart enough to figure out what the developer was thinking.

When I right click on the record button, Cakewalk brings me to preferences -> project -> Record area and not the step recorder. Edit: If you left click and hold, you will then get a menu to setup the record button for step record. To change it back, left click and hold ... Choose "Comping".

I accidentally pressed quote and now I can't delete the quote. Mobile Chrome sucks. Anyhow, here's a good read https://devblogs.microsoft.com/windows-music-dev/unofficial-windows-10-audio-workstation-build-and-tweak-guide-part-1/ "The majority of your performance is going to come from picking a good audio interface with good ASIO drivers." From the above guide.

After that fixed my issue, I did some research. It appears that AMD chips are awesome for gaming, but for creating music and videos Intel has specific instructions baked into their chips that give them a upper edge when performance is needed for specific tasks dealing with music and video creation. It's been 15 years since, so I'm not sure if that's still the case? Does Intel still have the upper hand for creation of music and video? I didn't take any chances and kept buying Intel after it solved my issues. The way I see it... If you have the fastest guy in the world talking, yet you take a few key words out of his vocabulary. You might be able to understand him, but not as clearly as you would someone with a full vocabulary talking normal. AMD chips maybe still be missing those few key words, but doesn't affect games like it does music/video creation. Playing back music/video uses different instructions compared to encoding music/video.

Your specs are much better than mine, except your not running a Intel chip. Cakewalk is pretty picky in that matter. 15 years ago, I emailed support, they recommended I buy a Intel chip based computer because I had a AMD and was trying to run Cakewalk for which I was having issues running Cakewalk. I bought a Intel based computer with an Intel processor which solved my issues. The other issue I've had in the past was trying to use on board WASAPI drivers. Those drivers would constantly lag pretty horribly. So, I bought a 1010LT Delta and that fixed the issue. Right now, I have a Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd Gen. You can check my specs, software, hardware in my profile. Finally, I totally agree that Cakewalk sucks at video play back.

R.I.P. Creative Sauce. This was his last post. You can definitely say 10/12/2022 .. almost 3 years ago was his last post on Cakewalk Forums. Rest In Peace Creative Sauce! I don't know what I was thinking.. I'm wrong here.

I've found it's usually a plug-in that causes this issue. Have you tried exporting with all your plugins turned off?

Have you tried ASIO compatible hardware?

It's truly a hidden feature unless you are looking for a way to do it. This feature should be in the Views menu as Step Record View!

Ok. Found it. Shift+R Step Recording

Hi, Original Question: How to get Cakewalk to record midi strokes from keyboard while waiting between beats? I remember back in the day I stumbled on this feature long ago, but I can't remember how I got it to do that. How it worked? It waits for your input, you press the keyboard chord, when you release it moves to the next beat and waits. Then you can press another chord, when you release, it moves to the next beat and waits. Does anyone know how to set this up or was this feature removed? Please help.

Did Cakewalk by Bandlabs ever release "Adaptive Limiter" or anyone know how to get your hands on it? Also, was "Adaptive Limiter" VST3 or ??

Can someone please move this to General Discussion, I accidentally put this in the wrong category. Thanks. Yeah Cakewalk owns both products, but oh well... Technicality. I still own a copy of Project 5, but they stopped updating it at version 2. They moved it into Sonar in Sonar version 8.5 as a new feature. What I think really happened to Project 5 is that Sonar merged Project 5 into itself as the new Matrix View. Did anyone else own or use Project 5 and what are your thoughts on the outcome of Project 5?

I'm considering that Antre may in fact be a Troll on these forms because of the amount of posts he has total, putting everyone into a defensive position by saying "all other DAWS out perform Cakewalk", and in the beginning was taking his time to give us a answer on what computer systems he has ... The amount of stress put of this form is giving this Troll plenty of enjoyment as we try to defend Cakewalk. I think we should just close this topic.

Let me just say this.... Cakewalk DOES have minimum requirements: OP = Antre https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk?lang=en Windows 8.1 or higher (64-bit only) >> OP says he has Windows 8.1 Multi-core Intel or AMD CPU >> OP doesn't know if his system is Multi-core because he hasn't told us the CHIP yet 8GB RAM >> OP hasn't said how much RAM he has 3GB free disk space >> OP has not disclosed his HD free space 1280x800 screen resolution >> OP hasn't mentioned this ASIO compatible hardware is recommended >> OP says he uses WASAPI onboard audio AND not the recommended ASIO compatible hardware Windows 8.1 can run on a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III The Pentium 3 is also a single core processor which doesn't meet the Multi-core requirement. My old Atari 130 XE is a gaming PC also from the 1980s, do you think it can run Cakewalk?

I understand I might be able to edit the title and write in it Solved, but I want to know before doing that if there's a feature that does this for you?

no blame to son... neither of you know how picky cakewalk is and nobody wanted to admit it. Like I promised... My test video: Cakewalk 50, 100, 150, 200. 400 Track Speed Test https://youtu.be/wnVLcP-rEkU I don't know how to embed it.

Then it's your computer setup. I've heard 15 years ago that Cakewalk runs much better on Intel processors than AMD. Cakewalk just runs better on certain processors and graphic cards like NVIDIA. I've been running Cakewalk since the 90s. Calkwalk tends to like certain aspects of computers and is picky on what you are using. If you buy the exact laptop I have, set it up just like I have, you'll have no issues.