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Last I heard CAL scripts are no longer really supported. They are still there for those that know about them, well because some folks still use them and they still work. But the feature is no longer under active development, and it's been that way for a long, long time. A modern scripting language would be nice, though. But perhaps if it is too ambitious for the current development resources to implement a full new scripting tool, then I would agree it would be nice to have the most important MIDI functions that CAL supports built directly into the DAW.

And I just saw this similar thread, that you may be interested in...

I was thinking about getting an Arturia Keylab to control just my Arturia plugins due to the dedicated integration with the plugins, but don't have high hopes for making it control the Cakewalk DAW. Arturia claims that it has a "DAW" mode that supports your favorite DAWs. Cakewalk has never really had good native integrated support for 3rd party control surfaces. Will probably fall somewhere under "custom" in this case. As in manual setup required. Forum member @azslow3has created some custom control surface utilities for Sonar/Cakewalk, and is probably the best person to get in touch with regarding this, especially for his knowledge of Cakewalk's limitations and shortcomings in this department. Arturia covers instructions here for using control surface mappings with Keylab in your favorite DAW. See yours missing? https://www.arturia.com/faq/keylabmkii/keylab-mkii-tips-tricks Ableton Live Logic Cubase Pro Tools Reaper Studio One FL Studio

I wish I could list every tweak that I have done to Win 10, but I have been running the same copy for over 4 years. Now it is a well oiled machine that mostly does what I want it to. But I've been chipping away at it, bit by bit. A learning curve! ???

Yup. Thank Microsoft!

I don't use any tools other than the Win 10 settings, registry editor, or since I have Win10 Pro, I also use the GP editor. I don't fully trust 3rd party tools, because they usually mess with the registry under the hood. I prefer to make changes to that manually with a registry backup first.

And a disclaimer about any article on Win 10 settings: thanks to Microsoft the Win 10 settings are moving target, so depending on when the article was written, certain options may have moved, combined, or separated, so may not appear exactly the same in your version of Win 10. But the principles remain the same, although you may have to use Google to find the answer to your specifics...

Here are many tips for increasing PC performance in Win 10. You most likely won't need them all, but this is a good overview... 19 tips and tricks to increase PC performance on Windows 10 https://www.windowscentral.com/tips-tricks-increase-pc-performance-windows-10

One place to start with protecting your privacy in Win 10. Worried about privacy issues in Windows 10? Here's what you can do. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3025709/how-to-protect-your-privacy-in-windows-10.html

Just loaded and saved, and then reopened a new project with Waves Scheps Omni Channel v10.0.62.38, VST3 without issue. Running the latest Cakewalk 2020.09 here on Win10 Pro 2004 x64, with patch updates thru August 2020. Deferring September Win10 updates for a few more weeks. I would try re-installing Scheps, or else see what Waves support says. They are usually very responsive.

Microsoft has a compatibility hold for PCs that they will not offer Win10 2004 to. Apparently there are some hardware configurations that they are aware of issues with. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-2004-list-of-compatibility-issues-blocking-updates/

You're right, it's there. Too awkward to scroll to the bottom for that one. (As in I have a long list of synths, so didn't notice that hanging waaaaaay down the list). Agree that it needs its own tab or something... @Noel Borthwickthis looks like an easy one!

I recently picked up the Waves IR 1 Convolution Reverb, and it is fun exploring the different room responses. It comes with a 4.8GB library with over 100 impulse responses of spaces and devices. For those only familiar with algorithmic reverbs, these impulse responses are actual recordings of the sonic characteristics of these spaces. It's currently on sale at Waves for $29.99. https://www.waves.com/plugins/ir1-convolution-reverb

In addition, there is also the Add Track button shown simply as the big "+" at the top of the track view. You can choose audio or instrument tracks from the pop out menu. However, it seems to lack the "add MIDI track" option show in the other methods. Covered in detail here in the Cakewalk Documentation: http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=0x18A8C

Agreed. I've tried Reason a few times and reached the same conclusion. Same with FL Studio... My favorite WTF DAW is Ableton Live. ☺️ I think it's actually worth the effort to learn, even if you are used to a linear DAW. There are some things in there that a conventional linear DAW can't touch.

I would give them another couple of days before concluding that... but the post title itself does scream out loud with a flame baiting topic, and is most likely the result of frustration. I think most here have handled that with a bit of restraint, but ... This is not fruity loops... which I tried once and could say the same about that one... and after screwing around with it have decided that the user interface is a bit cluttered IMHO...

Those topics can be searched for in the manual. Maybe just direct links from a glossary to the appropriate manual page would be useful. For example, "Console View": https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Views.30.html But alternatively, by just clicking on the "Index" button on the manual page as shown in the screen shot above, the index entries are already hot-linked to the appropriate manual page...

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Nope. I was stupid and downloaded that manually when it was first released. Wish I had the manager then, as it probably would have saved me a week or two, LOL! But I just recently had a go with it on some new IK purchases and it worked flawlessly. The default download folder should be updated to a location that you are aware of. The default is the IK folder in your documents. It would be nice to hear from someone who has used it to install ST4 Max. The manager downloads and installs one application at a time, but I wonder how it handles all the parts and pieces of ST4? And how many installer prompts you have to deal with for the sound content installers...

I understand the desire to avoid any extra background processes if you have achieved such low latency. I don't know what to recommend there except by doing offline images, or using the Windows 7 image utility. I don't know any way to avoid background tasks if you want to run an autopilot backup schedule. I just put up with the extra tasks for the convenience. And I have never bothered with incremental images. I have only ever used the "full" image option, where each image file is a self contained copy of the drive. And I usually retain two or three copies. It only takes me about 40 minutes to take a full image of a 500GB SSD with 240GB used space. That is fast enough for me when I can continue using the PC while the image is running in the background. As far as Windows 7 image goes, it seems that it doesn't use an intelligent sector copying method. That means it probably copies everything (the unused sectors) as well. The image file size is larger and takes longer that way. I don't run it that often, but I do like to keep an extra copy of my system drive on hand in that format.

For imaging, I prefer a "press one button" approach, or even a scheduled approach to taking an image. Windows 7 image is not that. Like you said, it can be so hands on that it's a pain to use. But I have noticed that all 3rd party backup images use a proprietary file format for the image file. To mount and read them, you need to use a proprietary program from the backup program manufacturer because Windows can't do that by itself with 3rd party images. But Windows 10 uses .vhdx format for image files, which can be mounted and accessed directly on the Windows file system, without extra software. Drag and drop copies of files and folders from the image file directly to wherever you need them. So even though I use better imaging products on a regular basis, I still take a Windows 7 image about once a month. Just as insurance. Belt and suspenders. ?

A single thread about your entire new computer build would be fine. You could just change the title of this thread, for example, "I want to build a computer for Cakewalk." That way you would capture all of the information in a single context. This would also help someone seeking the same answers in the future who happens to search and find your thread. Besides the Q and A, this forum is also knowledge base that others will reference, and it is indexed by Google.

I answered this in your other thread...

My recent experience was that AIR/AKAI/SONiVOX were even faster than Eventide in restoring my iLok activations on a dead laptop. Emailed the publishers on a Saturday morning, all fixed by Monday evening. To be fair to Eventide, they were only 5 hours slower... still acceptable. ☺️

Agreed. Except I wasn't planning to kill my laptop. But it died on the operating table unexpectedly during an attempted drive swap. Leaving my iLok license activations hanging on a dead device. Lesson learned!