Jonathan Sasor

The release notes for 2019.01 are live now, you can check them out at: https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk/whats-new

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That sums it up pretty well. Depending on the plugins, some things you can delete (like freeware plugins that do not have installers). There's a couple different ways to not display things on the Cakewalk side, excluding removes it everywhere from plugin lists. You can also make custom layouts with what you actually want to see, but as mentioned those don't do anything to free disk space.

Cakewalk by BandLab is a 64-bit application. You can still use 32-bit plugins via Bit Bridge, but the app it self is 64-bit only.

Cakewalk will recognize plugins that are in the scan paths. The actual .dll files where the plugins load from tend not to be very large (as opposed to sample libraries), but Cakewalk will read them so long as you define any custom paths on the VST Settings tab of the Preferences. VST3 plugins use a convention where they globally install to C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3 per the spec. Native Access allows you to choose where the VST2 install location is separate from the larger content files.

You can open the AudioSnap Palette for any given clip to see if it is enabled or not. As for the larger scope of your problem though, doing a save as and choosing "copy audio with project" is probably a better workflow option than saving it as a bundle. You can always zip the new project folder if you need it compressed.

You'll want to be aware of the stretching algorithms using AudioSnap. The Elastique algorithms will give you the best bang for your buck for online rendering (what you hear during real time playback). You can set the defaults for this in the Preferences or change per clip via the AudioSnap Palette or Clip Properties.

There's a known issue for some users in the previous BandLab Assistant build that would fail when trying to update. As mentioned, if you download the BA update separately it will install normally.

1. You can download Cakewalk by BandLab at http://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk 2. CbB installs alongside SONAR Platinum (it's basically the same upgrading from previous versions- like X2, X3 to Platinum).

As mentioned, it's a general "good practice" thing. If you're running a SSD, you're not going to see a huge improvement, but as others also mentioned, if you do backups on the disk and stuff you can isolate your projects from that part. Back in the day with slower drives there would be a noticeable bump in performance when writing to a dedicated drive for your projects.

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