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Scrolling horizontally in PRV is mysteriously really sluggish. Using Ctrl-mouse wheel to scroll, the PRV screen goes chunk-chunk-chunk about 2 chunks per second. Dragging from the measure number bar to zoom in and out also seems really sluggish, as does scrolling left and right with the thumb. Vertical scrolling seems unaffected. Anyone know why this is? The piece is 10 minutes long but only consists of two midi tracks.

I'm using Opus pianos. Good question though because I just installed a track of Cakewalk TTS and it does NOT exhibit the issue! So it's something to do with Opus. Thank you!! I'll go ask their tech support next.

Yes that is the model. In Audacity, the input and output are set up "Speakers (Focusrite USB Audio)" and that's all I've done. If I try to set Recording to something else from the list, it doesn't work at all. But if the Focusrite doesn't have a loopback feature (something I vaguely recall come to think of it), then how might I have been doing it in Cakewalk before??

I am unable to do loopback recording in Cakewalk. I am using a Focusrite 2+2. I am not sure what settings I need to enable. I can record in Audacity, but the resulting recording is poor, full of pops and clicks. When I try recording in Cakewalk, I am recording nothing at all, but I STILL get pops and clicks from the audio source, which continue for a few seconds even after stopping playback. I used to do this all the time, but like so many of these kinds of things, it's something I got set up in like 2017 and forgot all about it. Now having to reset it all it's like I have to learn it all over. I probably don't have all the things you need to know to diagnose this listed here, so ask away.

I just re-set up my whole studio exactly how it was before (or so I believe...) I had been having problems getting Midi data into Cakewalk, but that problem just disappeared yesterday. (see previous thread). Now I'm finding a new problem with my keyboard which I've never encountered before. On the piano: 1. Play a note and sustain it with the sustain pedal 2. With the pedal still down, play the same note again and hold the key down. 3. Release the pedal without releasing the key. The note stops. The Note Off event triggered by the raising of the pedal is overriding the fact that the key is still depressed. What is causing this?

Thanks! I installed Midi Ox and it looks like overkill. So I tried yet again opening Cakewalk because I wasn't like I had already tested it 5 times in the last two days or anything... ...and I then remembered to try one more thing that is only rarely suggested but is probably the most reliable solution across all computer problems. And that is: Try doing the exact same thing you've already done like 5 times and maybe this time it will work for some unknown reason. ... and that's exactly what I tried, and it worked! I have to remember to recommend that next time comes to me with a computer problem. :-)

All this points to a problem with the physical piano itself. I had only moved it gently from one room and back, never dropped or bumped it. Is this something that happens with these, where the connectivity is fine but the keys themselves stop working?

To be clear, I did have Windows 11 on the machine for a long time before I did the reinstall. I has nothing to do with Windows 11. Go here: https://m-audio.com/support/drivers-search and choose Keyboard Controllers > Hammer 88 > Windows 11. You'll see "There are currently no drivers available for this product and operating system."

According to M-Audio, no drivers are needed, and I already have the most recent firmware loaded. I tried opening a Basic project, installed a synth, and on the standalone version of the synth it plays fine on the virtual on-screen keyboard. I thought I played a few notes successfully from the piano, but either it stopped receiving data or else it was my imagination. In any case, no difference. Yes I meant Cakewalk is not receiving Midi data from the keyboard. Or if it is, it's ignoring it. And yes, I meant the USB cable. Not only is everything plugged into the same ports, it is the exact same cables before I broke it all down. Input echo is enabled, But if it weren't I should at least see recorded Midi events in the project even if I can't hear them. But nothing. RANT: This is the EXACT reason I've been putting off remodeling my studio and doing the much-needed Windows re-install. Because I just KNEW this was going to happen and I was dreading all the stress.. It's a sad mark of the times that an entire album release (two, actually) is not happening because of this.

No Control Surfaces. I wasn't even sure what one was, then I found it in Preferences and it's empty.

I am trying to reset my system up after both a re-install of Windows 11 AND a remodel of the actual room. The room is done, and I'm plugging everything back in. I am unable to get Cakewalk to hear input from my Midi Keyboard though. This is an M-Audio Hammer 88 and before everything got taken apart, it had been successfully connected to this same computer and Cakewalk for years using the same Surface Dock. In Cakewalk Preferences > MIDI > Devices, the Hammer 88 is listed and checked for both input and output. When I create a new project, the template I am using points to the Hammer 88 already, and that pairing still seems intact for all three tracks in the template. The piano lights up when plugged in. When I unplug the Midi cable, Windows immediately complains, and when I plug it back in, it immediately recognizes the piano again. When I playback an existing project, it plays just fine, so my synths and soundcard are working. I also hear the metronome count-in when attempting to record. I have attempted this using both MME and UWP driver modes, with no difference. In short, everything looks and behaves exactly as expected. Yet playing the piano, nothing is heard and nothing recorded, on any of the three tracks. I dug out an old M-Audio Keystation Mini 32 which is the only other midi device I own. Cakewalk doesn't even see it at all though. What should I look at to fix this?

That fixed it! Wow, I wonder how long I've had that bug in there. Thank you so much!

No the Ctrl key is not stuck. Ctrl-S has never worked for me in Cakewalk. I do not have two Ctrl keys. When I unbind it, the menu still shows it as one of the two possible keystrokes for saving.

It's just a new thing. I'm talking a full 15 seconds. Used to be ~3

CW is the only application I use which does not have Ctrl-S as its default keystroke for saving a file. Arghh. So I went to Keyboard Shortcuts to bind it. But it does not work. It shows Ctrl-S (as well as Alt-S) for File | Save, but when I actually hit Ctrl-S, the default "Split Clips" dialog pops up instead. I restarted CW, problem persists. Why is this happening?

When I need to edit keyboard shortcuts, CW is taking about 15 seconds to bring that panel up. Once it's up everything seems to work fine. Also, if I close the Preferences window while on the keyboard shortcuts page, then simply hitting P makes it wait 15 seconds, because it has remembered that was the last page I was on. If I don't go to Keyboard Shortcuts, then the Preferences window opens right up normally. What's going on?

Long time CW user, I had to reinstall Windows and start over with everything, and finally I've gotten CW up and running pretty much. I opened an old project consisting of two piano tracks (different pianos). The weird thing is that whichever track is highlighted is slightly louder than the other. During playback I can click back and forth between the two tracks and merely moving to a track changes its output. I don't remember ever experiencing that before. I turned off effects for the tracks and it still does it. I rebooted and now it's subtler but still present. What's happening?

Thanks for the pointers. I got it now and that indeed fixed the problem! Whew. Now, since I've been using CW for literally 34 years (OMG) I have never run into this before. I just added a new synth to this project and lo and behold, Enable MIDI Output is checked by default. I've never had to deal with this before so I don't know why it's different all of a sudden. I poked around Preferences and am not seeing anything obvious. Can I disable this by default somewhere?

Thanks, I went into the help to figure out where I could see the Enable Midi Output option. It tells me it's in the dialog when I go to insert a new soft synth, but I don't get a dialog at all. I choose Insert > Soft Synth... > and then I choose Opus and am taken directly to the Opus plugin. Otherwise though, it sounds like the culprit all right. Where is this Enable Midi Output found? https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR X2&language=3&help=SoftSynths.19.html

Been away from CW for at least 6 months. Now I'm needing it to do some really simple demos. But weirdness prevails... The first time I went to record, I was getting duplicate Midi notes on the track. So I just recorded my stuff on a different track and moved it to the track I needed, but I never figured out why it was doing that. Then today, I had one track recorded, and needed to record a melody on a second track. Each track uses a different Opus instrument. But when recording track 2, the existing notes from track 1 were also getting recorded on track 2 along with what I was playing. The inputs for both tracks are my M-Audio keyboard "Omni", which afaik is what it has always been. In any case, I've never had to deal with any of that. Any idea what's going on here?

Thanks for the reply. I am using a Focusrite Scarlett and the drivers say Focusrite USB ASIO, and in Cakewalk the Driver Mode is also ASIO. The only thing I can think is that I switched to the newer Surface Dock, but I thought that was just a throughput device. What else might be in play?

I don't think anything has changed in my system. Now suddenly any time I switch away to a different application, when I come back to CW, I get maybe 5-10 seconds delay when hitting R to record, where the cursor spins, then recording proceeds normally. After that, as long as CW stays the active application, when I hit R to record it starts right up like it's supposed to. Then after I go away and come back, the delay and spinning cursor returns. What might be causing this?

I have been asked to contribute some music for a stage musical. Lyrics will be by someone else, so music only. I will only need to produce demo recordings and piano-vocal score. I'm taking over for a composer no longer working on the project. Some of the songs will be from scratch, while some will be fixes of the other guy's work. All of it is work-for-hire, as I am not asking for any ownership of the show or songs. The show is being written in hopes of a production (as opposed to a commission by some theatre) and I have no idea what the actual life of it will be. It is still being polished, and there will certainly be a long workshop process. Again, without my ownership in the show, I won't be involved in that. Knowing the fallow fields that are the musical theatre world, I don't have any hopes there will be wads of cash pouring in that I'll never see, which is why I want it to be work for hire. However, these people seem to be pretty experienced professionals, and while the show isn't my taste, for people for whom it IS their taste, it's decent work. They want to know what I should charge for this work. The previous composer worked hourly, which I know is a terrible idea, and they agreed it was wrong. It's a very open and honest relationship so far, so I trust they want it to be as fair as I do. There are two tiers as I see it: Songs from scratch and fixes of existing songs, which there are a lot of. Does anyone have any idea of the ballpark I should be asking for here?

Something happened to my PC and Microsoft support had me create a new user profile to supposedly fix it (which it didn't, but that's beside the point), and also copied user data over so that all my apps would run on the new profile. Somehow CW doesn't run at all on the original user profile, just the splash screen and then it exits. On the new profile, it runs, but it doesn't recognize me and opens up the brand new user wizard. I assume some critical user data was not moved over successfully. Does anyone know what this data is, what files I need to move where to get so that I can run CW with the original user settings? Or, if the better route is to reinstall CW from scratch, what data I should save off so I don't lose all my settings? I am aware of exporting and importing keyboard shortcuts, but I assume there's more to it than that.

Wow, that's interesting, because I think Michael at EW was the very same person who told me it wasn't supported at all, I believe that thread may have taken place shortly after, so he might have gotten new information which I wasn't exposed to. Thanks! Looks complicated and scary, but I'm game.