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It's worth noting that the 2nd gen drivers will only work with the Solo, 2i2 & 2i4. So they won't work with the 6i6, 18i8 or 18i20.

I've been caught out a few times with the control surface plugin "stealing" my MIDI ports. This is especially true when my actual control surface isn't plugged in, so CbB chooses some other ports for it instead. As a general rule, I make sure all my MIDI interfaces / control surfaces are switched on before I switch on my PC. This ensures that they are all picked up in the same order every time, and there's no weird re-ordering going on. If you do get strange MIDI behaviour, checking which ports are selected within your Control Surface setup is always a good start.

Have you set up the Icon pad as a control surface within Cakewalk? e.g.:

Ah got it - CTRL + UP ARROW / CTRL + DOWN ARROW.

What are the default shortcuts? When I go to Keyboard Shortcuts in preferences, they're both unassigned.

Here's a free tutorial on MixControl:

I don't think there is, and what's more binding keys to "Zoom In All Tracks - Vertical" and "Zoom Out All Tracks - Vertical" doesn't seem to work. There is the vertical zoom tool though (left click between the two magnifying glasses and hold, whilst moving the mouse up & down):

To be honest, I find it a bit confusing myself. It's the same mix app for both my 6i6 and my 18i20. What I found helped enormously was a tutorial on it on groove3. It explained it all very well: https://www.groove3.com/tutorials/Focusrite-MixControl-Explained FWIW, there are far worse routing apps out there. The one for my mLAN setup ( Yamaha 01X / i88x ) is an absolute nightmare. All the sources/destinations are (to my mind anyhow) the wrong way around, and the connection points are ridiculously small.

I felt the same when this was first posted. I hope BandLab consider resurrecting this as this is exactly the sort of thing users would be happy to pay extra for.

Thanks for clarifying this. I've got this option set, but still get the issue.

This issue isn't a new thing, it's cropped up several times over the years: http://forum.cakewalk.com/X1-Bug-Stop-andor-Pause-cause-continuous-audio-quotbuzzquot-m2197350.aspx http://forum.cakewalk.com/Strange-loud-buzz-m3537847.aspx http://forum.cakewalk.com/Audio-quotbuzz-sawquot-effect-m974755.aspx http://forum.cakewalk.com/buzzing-noise-m3668256.aspx http://forum.cakewalk.com/AAARRGH-Is-nothing-ever-easy-Loud-buzzing-in-Sonar-m1621675.aspx There are more reports, but they all say more or less the same thing. I believe there was a workaround for some people, which was to set the "Play Effects Tails After Stopping" option. However, this option no longer exists in CbB. For me it's a minor irritation, but it would be good to know what's causing it / how to fix it.

I got nearly 20 years of use out of mine. I've actually still got 2 installed in my studio PC along with three AX44's and an AX16-AT ADAT card , but they only work on my Win7 32bit boot (which I've now removed). It's amazing that its only recently that PC's are fast enough to do in the box what these cards could do on an old P166 with 64MB of RAM.

Actually, I get this maybe once or twice a day. Clicking the stop/start audio engine fixes it for me. The weird thing is, that when the engine is restarted I get the last "echo trail" of audio that should have been playing.

That might be handy. This would be a great idea, especially if you could drag a multi-output VSTi and it would automatically assign it to the next unused stereo pair.

I'm running the B75 chipset (Asus P8B75-V) for exactly the same reason. Not only is it a native PCI, but it also supports all the voltages. It's one of the few motherboards that still supports the Yamaha DS2416 cards.

Are you running CbB and BandLab Assistant under different users (e.g. one as a normal user, one as administrator) ?

I've been using this firmware since it came out. I'm happy with it, and it's not caused any problems for me, however: 1. They are beta drivers, so I can't guarantee you'll not have any issues and; 2. As I said previously, once you've upgraded you cant go back unless Focusrite can offer a way of downgrading the firmware. WDM works fine, but I've not used it in anger. The only time I've used it was to test simultaneous recording from my MLAN setup along with my 18i20 (48 simultaneous tracks ) WDM is a pretty old driver technology. Compared to ASIO it sucks. I doubt if you'll get lower latencies with WDM drivers than you will with ASIO.

It's in the next preference setting down ( File->Audio Data ), along with the global audio data folder. AFAIK there's no huge reason to move it off your C drive, but it is written to at the same time as the audio data is, but obviously it's a much smaller file. I actually keep mine on a separate drive, alongside my projects and global audio data.

Save your project as a project template, then you can use that template for future projects.

I'm using the latest beta drivers / firmware on my 1st gen 6i6 and 18i20 released in Sep 2018. They do offer an improvement on performance / latency, however this upgrade is a one-way path - i.e. you can't upgrade the drivers without upgrading your device's firmware, and once you've upgraded the firmware you're stuck with it. http://beta.focusrite.com/releases/scarlett_mixcontrol/

Here's a Kontakt version. You'll need to configure an ARP to repeat the sound. http://msmcleod.co.uk/cakewalk/MamaNKI.zip

Synthmaster do a showcase of the sounds on soundcloud, The Genesis ones can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/kv331synthmaster/expansion-nori-ubukata-1?in=kv331synthmaster/sets/expansion-nori-ubukata-1 The Mama sounds come in around 26 secs in. Its worth listening to the full playlist though, the pink floyd sounds are excellent too.

It sounds something has become corrupt at some point. Both CbB and Sonar use the same MackieControl.dll within C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Surfaces, so that explains them behaving in the same way. What I would do for starters, is: 1. Within C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Surfaces: rename MackieControl.ini to MackieControl.ini.bak (this will reset any issues with plugin mappings being corrupt) 2. Within %APPDATA%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core: rename ctrlsurface.dat to ctrlsurface.dat.bak (this will reset any issues with the ctrl surface preset being corrupt) If this still doesn't do the trick, you could try replacing the MackieControl.dll itself within C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Surfaces. You can download it from Cakewalk's github site: https://github.com/Cakewalk/Cakewalk-Control-Surface-SDK/blob/master/Bin/x64/MackieControl.dll Note that on Windows 10, you may need to "unblock" this by right click->properties and unblocking it at the bottom of the dialog.

You basically need an arpeggiator. CbB has one on all MIDI tracks, but some of your synths will no doubt have one too. FYI Synthmaster 2.9 has this sound (SQ Mamy) along with the lead (LED Mamy) included in the Nori Ubukata Historical Synth Giants Collection Vol.1 To me it sounds like a very quick and highly resonant sweep from high to nothing in the space of 1/16 of a note. Synthmaster seems to be using a pretty complex FM wave to produce this.

This usually means there's data further along on that track. Fast forward through your song, and you'll probably find it.