Jonathan Sasor

Does it happen in every project or just the one(s) you're working on? For example, if you just import a wave file to a new project and export that, does that complete successfully? If can upload a project for us to try on our end that would be helpful.

Thanks for the dump. According to the file, the crash is all within the Spitfire code, so I'd suggest passing that along to them as well.

Go to Utilities | Cakewalk Plugin Manager, find Dimension Pro in the list and hit the Plugin Properties button, then check Configure as Synth

@Michael Fogarty, what audio device are you using? If you try changing driver modes does this impact the waveforms drawing?

Confirmed on our end. The initial run of the onboarding pages should work normally, but running it subsequently can crash. The same settings can be accessed via Edit | Preferences without issue though.

I don't think this would be related to the update. I'm running a Komplete Kontrol S49 and I'm not seeing any issues with either the Komplete Kontrol VST or the controller itself. Do you have anything set up for a control surface that's using the controller's MIDI ports that could possibly be filtering it?

Did you try other projects by any chance? If there's a particular project where you're seeing the problem, that would helpful for us to diagnose the issue.

You can find the rollback installer with the release notes here: It seems unusual that this would have changed from the EA builds as there was no change in that part of the code between EA and the final release. Please try to get us a minidump for the crash.

Can you try this in other/new projects? I just moved the clip contents on my end and it worked normally.

Export/Bounce to Tracks with Fast Bounce disabled should work though. You can try an audible bounce if you want to check it while it goes.

@winkpain Also interesting, apparently if you do an audible bounce for the freeze, I'm getting the Wet level for BREVERB, but not the EQ On/Off to render. Doing a bounce to track with audible bounce seems to work for everything too.

Yeah, I can see it in the project. The one thing that might be tricky is the fact that you're using jumps, but if I replace that with linear curves it doesn't seem to make a difference. I'll see if I can narrow what's going on further.

@winkpain I can see what you mean in your project. Looks like SONAR Platinum behaves the same, so this isn't a recent thing, but we'll investigate. Weirdly enough, I was testing with the Concrete Limiter, if I add that with an envelope for the threshold to the track, that still renders correctly even though the other modules don't.

Is it specific to any particular module(s)? Also if you try a simple test automating something in a new project, does that render normally?

Is it possible you're missing something in the export/bounce options? When I try it on my end, the automation renders correctly when doing a bounce or export. Maybe post a screenshot of the Export Audio dialog?

Does turning off the Allow Arm Changes During Playback/Record option (Record tab of the Project category) correct the issue on your end as well?

We have notified Akai about an issue on the plugin side with the MPC VSTs hanging.

There's a rollback to 2020.09 in the original post in this thread. The CC drawing crash is already fixed and will be in the release version.

Can you send the actual dump files?

There's a global VST install path that gets set by any previous Cakewalk/SONAR installer, and now it's getting inherited with the current install. This is set by a key in the Windows Registry. You can change this, but you might want to make a backup of your Registry by going to File | Export in the Registry Editor if you're not familiar with making changes there. To open the registry editor, hold the "Windows key" and press "r" to bring up the Run prompt. Type: regedit and click OK. Then navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\VSTPlugins. Select the VST Plugins folder. In the right-hand pane you'll see InstallDirectory. Double-click this and put in your desired path.

yeah, i'd update the driver as @scook suggested. Can you record a clean signal if you bypass the external mic pre and go straight into the Focusrite? Also you could try hitting the "reset config to defaults" button on the Configuration File tab of the Preferences in the odd case your audio initialization file has become corrupted. @Noel Borthwick did a lot of work with Focusrite when implementing ASIO improvements.

Holding CTRL will temporarily disable docking while dragging windows.

Since SONAR Platinum, SONAR/Cakewalk by BandLab hasn't really hung its hat on the version number releases. As mentioned, we push updates on a regular basis gradually making changes to the app rather than having a big release with a patch or two per year. Cakewalk is still in active development, so there's always more in the pipeline. Nowadays the application version number simply changes with the year, so starting in 2021 it'll hit 27.xx.x.xxx.

It sounds like you may need to configure your audio card for Cakewalk. This can be done in the Preferences. If you're using an integrated audio card that came with your computer, you should set this to WASAPI Shared or MME. If you're using a dedicated audio interface, that would work better in the ASIO driver mode.

@marled Can you send us a copy of your project to look at? A lot of AudioSnap stuff is very material-dependent, so if we had a concrete example where you're seeing your project go wrong, that'd be very helpful. Thanks!