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OK so what can I do about it?

REPRO: Go to Save a new project In the Save As dialog, click the New Folder icon. Error by Agile.Net occurs: "A debugger has been found running in your system. Please, unload it from memory and restart your program." Sonar closes abruptly. This error occurred on CbB too, (which is partly why I upgraded). Online searches indicate the presence of an anti-virus application, but while I had McAfee when I bought this computer, I uninstalled it a while back. What else could cause this?

When I open a certain project, it always opens in PRV with both the row and column size absurdly huge, and the arranger pane taking up the top third of the screen, and the browser pane the rightmost third. I adjust the UI to how I like it, save the project, and next time I open it it's the same, so my adjustments aren't being saved. I tried saving as a new file, but that didn't have any effect. What's going on?

I just bought a Bandlab membership to get Sonar, and it's all installed, and after importing my keyboard shortcuts and changing some folder locations, all looks to be up and running. Smooth and easy! (Sad that I'm surprised by this, but so grateful.) I'm not interested in all the doodads Bandlab is touting. That's not why I subscribed. I just want a solid, stable DAW that works pretty much as I'm used to. My question: For a long-time CbB user, what new features or procedures should I take the time and effort to first get familiar with? I'm sure there are a ton of nice new things in here, but I also know that I won't need 90% of them. I just want to know what's actually useful and great so that I can get back to work. Something someone can point me to perhaps? A "What's New for CcB users?" article perhaps?

In my thirty FIVE years of using Cakewalk I have also never run into this. My input is M-Audio Hammer 88. Anyway, for anyone else running into this, SOLVED! I've never had to change this setting, but my input for midi tracks has all been "Midi Omni" which has worked just fine. For whatever reason though, that was the problem. I simply changed the input to my piano and that solved it. Don't know why as it's never been an issue before, but moving on...

New computer, installed Cakewalk anew. When recording Midi, I am getting triple notes recorded (one of which is length 0, the other two close to the correct length but not exactly the same as each other). What's more, while playback seems ok, scrubbing in PRV does not work. Anyone know what's going on?

OK, stupid, my USB hub was not plugged in well enough so Cakewalk was looking at the ASIO driver for my monitor. Plugged it in tighter, all is well. Is it just me, or is a computer problem which comes down to a problem in the physical world feel weirdly satisfying?

Working on a new computer, Cakewalk seems to be working fine so far. However, I am now getting an error that tells me the Realtek ASIO driver is "known to be incompatible with Cakewalk. Continuing to use this driver may lead to instability." Has anyone encountered this? What am I supposed to do about it?

I find myself suddenly in the market for a new laptop. I've been using a Surface Pro 7 for five years, which has been ok, not great, but good enough. Frequent audio engine dropouts I finally had to just live with, and CW typically used > 50% of my 16 Gb of RAM, with all the synths and plugins I am using simultaneously. I'm looking at all the dizzying array of laptops and specs, and would really like to know which specs I should be looking at, and which specs I can skimp on. I'm using the EastWest Composer Cloud libraries via an external SSD, and storing my data on an external HD which is slow as hell but big. (Some of my audio dropouts were type (5) because of this, though most were type (1).) I don't do gaming, but I do some graphics and video editing. It's mostly my Cakewalk machine though, so that's the critical path I need to follow here. I've read a lot about the new Surface Pro 11 machines, but they talk about potential compatibility issues with the ARM chips they use. Is Cakewalk vulnerable to this? Any thoughts?

If there is a way to copy clip automation to a new clip, that's really what I want to know, but I think it can't be done. So here's my scenario: I have a 30 minute audio clip with a gain envelope on it containing about 50 nodes which even out volume in lots of places. I now have a new source audio file which is mostly the same but it has some minor changes in it. The gain clip envelope still applies, however. What I want to do is replace the original clip with the new audio but retain the painstakingly-crafted gain clip envelope. My understanding (now, <sniff>) is that you can't copy clip envelopes. Which is a real drag, not only for the above scenario, but also because only with clip envelopes do I get real-time waveform feedback, which for a long file like this is essential to be able to pick out the audio spikes that need repair. Track automation envelopes don't do this. Which is why I used a clip envelope in the first place. And if the answer is I have to manually create a new clip envelope on the new audio track, sigh, so be it. However, it's likely yet another version of the original audio will need to be used and I'll have to go through this all over again. Suggestions?

Don't know how this broke, but piano patches no longer automatically perform a pedal up when I stop playback, so I have to either whomp the pedal every time, assuming the piano is the active track, or else hit the Reset audio button every time. What got flipped and how do I flip it back?

Anyone who's been keeping score here knows the hassles I've been undergoing with the final work on my project. OneDrive, corrupted CWP files, crashes, etc. And here's yet another one: I moved all my work off OneDrive and onto an external HD, and that has seemed to work well. However, after working just a minute, playback takes a long time to begin, maybe 5 seconds after space bar. Also, now that I am on the final mastering stage, I have the entire suite in a single audio-only project. No effects on anything, just an audio track for each instrument and sound effect, looks to be 80 tracks, with usually fewer than 30 ever playing simultaneously. And again, no FX and almost no envelopes. Yet. But I am getting audio engine dropout repeatedly with code (5): "Disk reading overloaded and could not keep up with playback pump. Disk may be fragmented or too slow to read." I do not want to defragment the drive with my whole project on it, and as the thing has gotten little use since I bought it, that seems unlikely and not worth the risk. Is there anything I can do about it or is it just plain too slow and that's that?

Tried dragging the corrupted file into an empty project from the CbB browser. No go.

UPDATE: Part of the problem came from my reference mp3 routing through the Master Bus, which gave it a double dose of Master Bus effects. That cleared up a bunch, and more was cleared up by finding some bus envelopes I'd neglected, but this harmonica thing is still way too quiet. It's so weird. If I max it to +6.0 it's just about right.

Not sure what you're suggesting exactly, but it sounds like one of those myriad CW features I don't know about. Would whatever it is you're describing cause it to create a whole new project with data from the old project, or is it just another way to open it?