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@Andres Medina - It never occurred to me to leave the recording checkbox unchecked! Good thinking!

If you've not got a metronome bus, then it'll not sound. Also, the in-built metronome will play all the time through recording - not just at the count-in.

The only way to do this is to record your own click in the first measure, then start recording on measure 2. You can use SI Drum kit to provide the click, using the side stick sound.

Normally all you need to do is enable the meters in the Mackie Control Surface panel: I normally enable "Select highlights track", and set the Master Fader to bus 1 ( otherwise the master fader ends up only changing the left channel).

@Jeremy Murray-Wakefield - The time line scale is always displayed in musical time. Even though you can display tempo entries as SMTPE time, the tempo entries are actually always stored in musical time. The tempo itself, directly affects SMPTE time - in fact SMPTE times and sample times are actually calculated from the tempo map. As MIDI notes are musical time based, MIDI clips will change size with the timeline as the tempo changes. So a 4 measure MIDI clip remains a 4 measure MIDI clip regardless of tempo. As audio clips are absolute time based, they will change size as the effective time in absolute time changes for each measure. So, as an example if you record an clip that is 4 seconds long. At 120 bpm, this will be shown as a exactly 2 measures long in the timeline. At 60bpm, it will be shown as exactly 1 measure long.

Most probably a VST that hasn't been authorised. Quite a few VST's emit periodic white noise once their trial period has ended.

@Craig Thiem - can you PM me one of your projects that has this issue? Also, can you confirm which version of Cakewalk you're using, and whether it's a bounce or export you're doing.

This is certainly not new to 2021.12. I can get it in SONAR X2, SONAR X3, SONAR Platinum and CbB: 1. Open the PRV 2. Make the main window floating 3. Undock the PRV 4. Lock the PRV View 5. Set PRV to "Disable Floating" 6. Make the PRV full size. Here it is in X2:

No, it's the locked view indicator - see : http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=WindowManagement.05.html Locked views are particularly useful for things like the PRV, as it means you can have multiple PRV's open with each one locked to a particular track.

This is because the images are stored on a non-secure server, whereas the rest of the site is being served up from a secure server. Either: 1. Change the start of the website address to http:// instead of https:// or 2. Set your browser to allow mixed content for cakewalk.com

You can assign a keyboard shortcut to CAL scripts within Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts

Export presets don't save the file location because they are global presets of the export settings - in other words they store the source type and format settings, but not any project specific information like specific tracks/buses and location. The Export Tasks however, do store all of this information. So the way to do it is to create an export task in each of your album's projects set to your album location.

1. Select the Clip 2. Process -> Apply Effect -> Reverse

This is my go to method for moving stuff along, especially with larger or more complex projects. Comparitively speaking, from a code point of view, the implementation is very simple and therfore much quicker than moving sections or using ripple edit.

What's your dim solo level set to? The lowest level is -18db, which might be too quiet to hear depending on the project. You can change the level in Preferences- > Audio -> Driver Settings -> Dim Solo Gain:

Yes to both questions. 2021.12 Build 91 and above will try to divide the 5 button image into 8, and end up showing a garbage image.

That I'm not sure about, as its a change to an existing image - no new image resources have been added.

Aha - forgot about that one - cheers @scook !

The only advantage I can see with VCA faders vs CbB grouping is that with VCA faders, you can adjust the other tracks independently from the VCA fader. In CbB to do this, you need to first remove the fader from the group, make the adjustment, then add it back. E.g.: Yes, this can be a pain, but I normally get around this by grouping the automation R/W buttons too. This way I don't forget!

My old location recording rig was running on an old laptop with a 1280 x 1024 screen. I used a combination of @Colin Nicholls suggestion and screensets, e.g: ScreenSet 1: No browser, No track inspector, track view fully maximised ScreenSet 2: No browser, Half width track inspector, console fully maximized with narrow strips ScreenSet 3: No browser, Half width track inspector, track view fully maximized For screensets 1 & 3, I used custom control manager settings to minimise widgets available.

Just a heads up... any custom themes will need the Archive button updated to work with CbB 2021.12 EA (build 91 / 93). It's now a tri-state button similar to the mute button (i.e. 8 images), in order for folders to indicate that some of the tracks are archived. Old Button: New Button:

MixCraft is a great little DAW, and really easy to use. It's particularly good when working with video.

If you've installed anything recently, your redists could have been messed up. You can install the latest redists by following the instructions here: If this doesn't work, try launching Cakewalk with SHIFT held down. This should reset your configuration. Next think to try is uninstalling/re-installing Cakewalk. You can use the web installer for re-installation: If it's still not starting, it could be your Cakewalk registry settings are corrupt. In this case: - Uninstall Cakewalk - In RegEdit delete the following key: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Core Note: Do NOT delete the "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Cakewalk VST X64" key - this will save you having to re-scan your plugins. - Re-install Cakewalk using the web installer above.

The only way to aggregate ASIO devices from different manufacturers that I've found is to use ASIO Link. ASIOLink works in a similar way to ASIO4ALL, but instead of only using WDM, it also allows passthru to an ASIO device. It also remembers your configuration. You set up ASIOLink to connect to your devices, then use the ASIOLInk ASIO driver within Cakewalk instead of your regular ASIO driver. You can do it in two ways: 1. Run a single instance of ASIOLink using ASIO for your main driver, and WDM for the others. 2. Run several instances of ASIOLink using ASIO on each device, connected together via the network using your local network address (127.0.0.1). Once it's set up it works really well, but it's a total PITA to configure in the first place. Even with decades of experience in audio / network experience it took me ages to get my head around it... and no, I don't remember how I did it, so don't ask me ? ! In the end it was too much hassle for me, so I just bought an RME Digiface USB instead. Feel free to check it out tho:

@Alan Tubbs - on Windows 7 you can always download and install the latest version of BandLab assistant, got to the Apps tab, then select Refresh Activation from the Cakewalk Open menu: If you're still getting issues, then it's likely your Windows 7 security settings are out of date. You can solve this by going here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-to-enable-tls-1-1-and-tls-1-2-as-default-secure-protocols-in-winhttp-in-windows-c4bd73d2-31d7-761e-0178-11268bb10392 Search for the "Easy fix" link on that page and install it. You may find that after applying this, activation may start to work from within Cakewalk itself.