Santiago Nelson

Unfortunately it is still crashing at the same moment, I really have no idea why I'm maybe just going to try deleting one track at a time until it works tomorrow

there are 2 tracks I can see that come like a second or two before it, I'll try and remove those and see if it works then

still failed at the same spot, here's what it looked like at the moment as well, stayed the same pretty much throughout the entire time

I did not have write caching enabled, I went ahead and enabled it. read caching is set to 500, I could bump it up to 1024 perhaps and see if that helps at all. I'll check the cpu meter on audio processing when I attempt to export it again, but I don't recall seeing it spike or anything. Also yes, I do have quite a few Ozone plugins on my instrument tracks to add subtle width to some instruments I felt were really mono (such as the drums, for example) perhaps this is a really bad practice lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't really know what I'm doing. However, I do have all those tracks frozen, So I don't think it should contribute? regardless, I'll try again and check the levels. I appreciate your help and patience 👍

Ah, interesting! I assumed I may as well just go a bit high just for reverb or whatever but yeah I suppose it's not really noticeable, (All my instruments are 48 khz at the most anyways) still when I try with lower settings it is still crashing. interestingly when I set it to "export entire project" rather then a selection, it quits faster, does that tell anything?

I'm going to try rendering at the lower settings without the bus effects again, see if maybe it's something to do with that in tandem with the old export settings I had [UPDATE: tried it, still just quits even earlier when I do that oddly]

Okay I tried deleting that track and rendering the entire thing through and it still stops in the same spot, so I don't believe it is that track. Also I have frozen/archived all of the tracks already

Okay, I tried rendering with some more normal render settings (24bit, 44.1k) and it sounds fine, a bit more crisp though, but it still crashed in the same spot, I'm noticing though that it's also crashing in the same point were these strings start: but when I try just exporting a little snippet of the project with it in (like the range in that selection above) it doesn't crash where the strings start, so, idk if they're a problem? I will try and export it with that track deleted.

I will be honest in that I don't really understand the technicalities of how sound works that well when it comes to cakewalk, I was under the impression that the sample rate of what the project is set to purely determined what it records in, and what you hear during playback, but that the render could be higher or whatnot, Perhaps I'm wrong about that? I really don't know. Of course, regardless, 88.2k is overkill lol, any sample library/vst I'm using is almost certainly not close to that high res, but I believe I just stuck with it because it sounded weird/had a hiss unless it was set to that, or that it had some crashing issue, I can't remember for sure though. But I suppose I will try rendering at a different more normal/reasonable level now and see if it works, perhaps I just misremember. I'm not sure what you mean by this? Are you referring to the button here? If so, yes, I enabled that, and clicked "disable bus fx" on the export settings as well

Every time I try and export my audio project, it quits at the same point, roughly 3/4ths of the way through, displaying the above message ^ I've also been having issues with the automations on the Bus tracks falling behind and etc (yes I set automation sampling settings to 1 millisecond or whatever). Setting it to render in realtime seems to fix that issue but now only sometimes. I've tried rendering outside of live playback to just see if that would get it past the 3/4th mark but still no (and I need live playback anyways as mentioned above) and I've frozen/archived EVERY SINGLE TRACK and it still just fails at the same spot. (I use a 32bit plugin and thought it might have been making issues, so I thought that might have worked) I also tried turning off bus effects in the render settings to see if that would make it work, and weirdly, that made it fail 1/4th of the way in instead. I don't know what could be causing this issue or what I can do to try and find out/solve it, any ideas? my render settings are as follows: I use wasapi exclusive (only one I can use (yeah, probably not ideal)) (I am using 32 bit depth because I think 24 bit had some issues once, I can't remember honestly) PC SPECS: CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K (3.00 GHz) RAM: 96GBs DDR5 STORAGE: Samsung SSD 990 PRO 2TB (30 gbs roughly remaining) OS: Windows 11 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Cakewalk Version: 2024.12 (build 125, 64 bit) If there is some information that is needed that I haven't covered please let me know, thanks!

Okay, I appreciate the help! I'll probably do as much as I can before time runs out and then maybe upgrade to the latest cakewalk

Whenever I try and refresh the activation, it won't work, even after I log in, and try multiple times, it says: "Unable to refresh activation. Please try again later. (0,406)" I'm not sure how I can fix this, I am using an older version of cakewalk, Version 2022.11 (Build 021, 64 bit), could that be why? preferably I'd like to not update it as I don't want to risk it treating my project files differently and thus changing my mix. I'm running out of both time to use the software and time to get the activation before they stop giving them out forever, and I really need it because I have 2 projects that I've been working on and need to finish before I can move on, as Sonar doesn't quite accurately translate (for some reason, inside the DAW, the music is REALLY loud and the dynamics are all off, yet on the export it sounds the same as in Cakewalk (Cakewalk sounds the same in DAW and on export), but I can't rely on the DAW for the mix if it sounds different on export) and I want to get these done before it's too late. I appreciate any help, thank you!

Okay so, When I select my entire project, set everything up, and try to export it in Wave, MP3, or Flac (I haven't tried other ones) it just closes around 1/4 to 3/4 through, no "cakewalk ran into a problem" or anything like that, it just crashes. I tried restarting my computer, that didn't work, would like some help! Oh and I nearly forgot: Intel Core i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz 1.99 GHz 7.90 GB usable RAM (I got a pretty weak laptop lol)

Well, for some reason, it works now! I literally opened and closed it about 3 times to no avail, but now a day later it's working, I have no idea what I did unfortunately, but it's not really a problem anymore. (I am not using the latest cakewalk by the way, perhaps it was just a bug, I really don't know, thanks anyways!)

So, here is the problem: If I set my plugin to Write, and I say for example use a panner plugin, I can drag the sound around in the panner plugin, and that data will show up in the graph as it is written down; but as soon as I pause/stop it all disappears. This happens when I have Read set to either on or off, and the issue stays even if I close the program and open it up again. I have never had this issue before; any help would be greatly appreciated!