msmcleod

Take a look at this recent thread:

Defraggler is excellent on a normal HD - just don't run it on an SSD! Hopefully Defraggler is clever enough not to bother trying on an SSD, but just in case... don't, else you'll wear it out prematurely for practically no gain.

I can't say I've noticed it myself, but if it has changed, it's likely a Windows update thing as you say. I've just ran the 2018.08 version of Cakewalk, and it looks the same - i.e. a more Windows 7 look for the project window. According to MSDN however, this "feature" of MDI child windows has always been there: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/34b29567-28a1-4aeb-97d2-d1476ba856f5/mdi-child-window-appearance?forum=vcgeneral A more recent post: https://clarionhub.com/t/mdi-child-window-vs-non-mdi-child-windows-10-appearance/502

Taken in the context of the previous posts, I assumed the comment was as a joke. The ads now seemed to have stopped.

It's not part of your post. It's a Google ad appearing in the wrong place on top of your post.

To me, it just looks like the project window is not maximised. Mine looks exactly the same when I un-maximise the project. Just maximise the window, and it'll be back to normal.

Saw this on the BBC news site: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47494760 It links back to the following statement by Google: https://security.googleblog.com/2019/03/disclosing-vulnerabilities-to-protect.html Basically, anyone using Windows 7 should update Chrome immediately. But Google are saying the issue runs deeper than Chrome - i.e. it's in Windows 7 itself. Microsoft may issue a patch, but Google advising considering an upgrade to Windows 10.

Well, everyone here is likely to block the ads one way or another. If the ads persist to annoy, people will leave, and valuable help will go with them. The kind of support given here is better than any support I've seen on any other website, and is IMHO is vital for Cakewalk's success if it's going to attract new users.

You can use AdBlock in Chrome to block them. In FireFox, content settings can block them Or you can do what I did, and block them via my hosts file... doesn't work on Chrome tho.

Everyone is complaining about it upstairs too:

Indeed - and some of these ads behave badly. You hear reports of some ads doing bit-coin mining in the background on your machine. You can always install an ad blocker extension I guess.

If you're using the on-board device, try WASAPI. In order of best performance, the driver choice should be: ASIO WASAPI WDM/KS MME32

I was just about to answer saying I've not seen any adds, but now they're appearing for me at the top and bottom of the page. [Edit] They're now appearing on Firefox as well as Chrome ?

Yeah, it's a really badly worded error message. Back when I used to work with COM/ActiveX/DirectX , we always used to trap that particular error message and replace it with something less extreme. A sure way of getting your customers flooding your support line is telling them they've had a catastrophic failure! In fact all it means is, the thing your program was communicating with isn't there any more - either because it's crashed, or you've called release one time too many. I guess from a program's point of view (whose only purpose in life may be to open up MS Word, change a few bits of text, and save it), it's pretty catastrophic if Word disappears... but that's hardly a reason to show it to the user in text form.

Cakewalk is most likely regurgitating the error message from Windows.

It's a great plugin. I couldn't believe they've got a model for my Sennheiser HD201's! I bought 5 pairs of these just after they were discontinued. The only thing is I'm using ARC 2 as well, so I have to remember to switch between them. A few times I've thought "this sounds awful" and realised I've had Sonarworks through the speakers rather than ARC 2 (or vice versa).

+1 to this. Make sure you try them working too, i.e. have it actually playing a sound rather than just trying it out without it switched on. I bought a Samson Graphite a while back. It looks fantastic on paper, feels great to play, but every time you hit a key you get a wildly different velocity. At first I thought it was just dirt on the connections, but it's not. It's a bad design.

A "Catastrophic failure" message is what you get when using COM objects or DirectX effects, and you get your reference count wrong. The fact that when you rebooted it worked, leads me to speculate that a process in the background had crashed, and the other process (probably Cakewalk) tried to release a reference from it that no longer existed. It's quite possibly the worst error message Microsoft ever dreamed up. How a reference count mismatch can be described as "Catastrophic" is beyond me.

I use Crucial for my memory, almost exclusively now. I've been using them for almost a decade in one system, and since swapped to using them in another after having a bad experience with another brand (I forget what it was). I've never had any issues since using them. The website is really good too, as they'll tell you exactly what products will work on your system / motherboard. https://www.crucial.com/ I also use their SSD's. I've had two SSD drives from SanDisk which died, but the Crucials have been running without issue for years.

The && operator only works on two expressions, which is why they're nested, as there's 3 conditions: So if you change "(&& (== Note.Vel 0) (== Note.Dur 0))" to "(== Note.Dur 0)", it should pick out all notes of a duration of zero. You still need the (== Event.Kind NOTE) as you only want it to affect notes. So the adjusted code would look like: (forEachEvent (if (&& (== Event.Kind NOTE) (== Note.Dur 0))  (delete) ) )

I could never get the hang of bagpipes. I play sax & clarinet, so I'm used to the note coinciding with me blowing. Blowing into a bag at random intervals, whilst using my elbow to trigger the sound was a coordination nightmare. I guess it just need practice... but these things are LOUD. Playing the chanter on its own was much, much easier - kind of like playing an oboe though. It was extremely sensitive to over/under blowing - far more so than the sax from what I can remember. But of course, there's no drone without the bag.

deleteBlackHole.CAL Put this in your CAL directory (default is C:\Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Core\CAL Scripts ) Select your clip, then press CTRL+F1 and double click on this CAL script.

It was working a couple of hours ago. I'm getting the same 503 error as you guys now.

This will do that: (forEachEvent (if (&& (== Event.Kind NOTE) (&& (== Note.Vel 0) (== Note.Dur 0))) (delete) ) )

Ferrite choke's certainly can help. I actually use one in combination with a ground isolator, as the choke on its own didn't remove all the noise. FYI - you can buy clip-on ferrite choke's to fit on existing cables. Just do a search on Amazon/ebay for ferrite choke, and you'll see plenty of options - be sure to get one to match your cable thickness. Prices are around $1 to $3.