Chris-J

Thanks, I’ll give this experiment a try.

Thanks! I will definitely run this experiment! Just curious, why do you recommend deleting plugins and NOT bypassing them ? Wouldn't bypassing do the same thing? Pardon my ignorance, I’m not a coding expert by any yardstick!

OK, thanks! May I ask why? I had (perhaps foolishly and naively!) assumed freezing would not be necessary with a relativity powerful processor like an Intel i7-12700H; it has 14 cores and will run 20 Logical Processors. (As shown in Task Manager).

Thanks for your interest! It is appreciated! No, I am using “Render In Real -Time” and “Audible Bounce”, i.e. they are enabled. ”Live Input” is disabled, “Clip Automation” and “Synth/FX Automation” are disabled, everything else is enabled in EXPORT. Task manager shows Utilization is approx.11% Performance shows: Audio processing: 4.2% (Max 21,7%) Engine Load: 20% (Max 31.0%) No Late Buffers Audio Thread Priority: Time Critical (15) Thanks, Chris

Thanks for the tip! Lately I've been using the TDR VOS SlickEQ, which is a free plug in. I liked it so much I laid out a bit of cash for the TDR Slick EQ GE (Gentleman's Edition). I find it's really easy to dial in the tone I'm looking for, plus it has 5 different EQ curves and some nice, but subtle saturation settings. Cheers!

Hello fellow Cakewalkers! I keep encountering an intermittent problem when mixing: When I am exporting a session, I get 88 mS of silence in the midst of a mix. It is never in the same place in the song and I do not always get this "glitch" when I EXPORT, I would say I get this issue 75% of the time. Track count is 14, plug in count is 46. I am using TWO External Inserts to hardware. I am using the latest version of Cakewalk By Bandlab: Version 2022.11 My computer is a Dell Laptop, model G15 with an Intel i7-12700H processor, 16 GB of RAM, Windows 11, Version 22H2. Audio Interface is an RME FF802 with the latest ASIO driver. In Audio Settings: I am using ASIO, sample rate is 48 kHz, 24 bits. I have tried setting the latency buffer to 512, 1024 and 2048 samples, this does not fix my problem 64 bit engine is checked ON "Use Multiprocessing engine" is checked ON "Use MMCSS" is checked ON, "Enable MMCSS for ASIO driver" is checked off in Cakewalk and in the RME interface Configuration file: I have tried setting "ThreadSchedulingModel" to 2 or 3, it doesn't seem to make any difference. I have tried setting "ExtraPlugInBufs" from 0 to 128 and points in between, that doesn't seem to fix the problem either. I have increased "Playback I/O Buffer Size (kB)" from 256 to 512 to000 1024, that doesn't fix the problem either. "MinPluginLoadBalancingBufferSamples" is set to 192 I have tried setting the laptop to Airplane Mode, this doesn't help either. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Chris