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Noctua products are great!

It has been invented, it's called hardware. Hardware determines the input gain, it's part of the A/D conversion.

nope

Yes it's ok, with the soft synths frozen, they are bounced to audio and do not require cpu cycles as unfrozen soft synth does.

Saving as a bundle is not recommended other than for sharing/collaborating. Id a bundle file gets corrupted, you lose the project and the audio files. Save as a .cwp

Arm or disarm the tracks in your template as wanted and save the template. If no tracks in your template, create a track, set arm or disarm as needed and save the track as default.

Save it in a template

Do you have core parking turned off on your machine?

Fast freeze or real-time? Have you tried the other than what you're using?

Maybe the update fixes an issue where an update is available but BA doesn't tell you...

Do you have midi chase turned on in prefs?

Yet the "Free" Cakewalk version is far advanced in so many ways compared to other daws

Yes, sort of. The Simple Instrument Track is a midi and audio track combined. SIT is not necessary if you select Insert Soft Synth to create a midi and audio track.

Are you increasing your buffers as meloodyne suggests?

Midi is data, not audio

Filter, automate one

Run CW as administrator as see if that makes a difference.

GSnap Free VST pitch-correction. Use with subtle settings to nudge off-key vocals back in line. Extreme settings can create sounds like the famous T-Pain or Cher effect. MIDI control mode allows you to fit a recording to a new melody. https://www.gvst.co.uk/gsnap.htm

Use a native driver for your soundcard, not ASIO4ALL

Change the streaming option within Play and fast bounce works.

Do you have an fx on that track? If so, try removing it and see if it still crashes.

https://redwirez.com/pages/support

Sounds like a MixIR problem in Cakewalkl

No crashes with SSD5 or SSD5.5 here