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Also, Make sure that when you recorded the new automation track it didn't overwrite your original ones.

Yes, Bounce to Clips

When you record over the same part new clips are created, usually in new take lanes. To merge them select all the clips in the track and bounce to track. Then you will only have one clip

This must be a VST plugin issue or some routing issue. Are those plugins 32 bit? If you enable one you say that the audio completely cuts out? What order do you have the plugins in? A picture of your EFX bin might help some. My recommendation is do delete all the FX and make sure you have audio playing with nothing in the track. Then add one plugin at a time and play with it for a while to see which one might be the culprit.

It is probably a crash in the plugin. See this to know how to submit a crash dump.

Cakewalk used to come with a limited version of Melodyne which is a pitch correction software. With that being said, Gsnap should work but I have not used it personally. Others to look at and see if there are demos or cheap version of pitch correction plugsin are Waves, Autotune and Izotope.

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Some of the pro-channel modules were paid for updates. So if you have those installed in from previous versions they should show up in Cakewalk by BL

Are all the clips marked as groove clips or has the audio transient tool been used to tell the clips to follow tempo? Audio clips don't automatically follow tempo changes you have to tell them to be able to do that. https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=4&help=Dialogs2.140.html https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Tempo.02.html

A picture of what you see might be useful but it could be that as you add and edit notes in the PVR it creates new clips, possibly even in new take lanes. To consolidate them select them all and bounce to clip.

What is the first effect in effect bin? Is it a stereo effect or a mono effect.

I would first try to uninstall Cakewalk from the windows Add Remove programs. Then try to re-install it. However, first check that cakewalk is not showing as a running process in Windows Task Manager. Sometimes a driver can get stuck and not allow cakewalk to open or close properly. If you do see it then click on it and kill it or reboot your machine. You also might want to try re-installing your interfaces drivers.

I have been making a few of my own. I would be willing to share them but I also have moved the keyswitches of most of the instruments to my liking so I thought that would put off a fair number of people from using them

Since Cakewalk by Bandlab is Free it all you have to do is download it and try it to see if it will work for your needs. The things that require processing power are not necessarily dictated by recording but by the amount of FX/VSTs you use in mixing or production.

Make sure you have the following setting enabled. Then you have to make sure you don't have any data, notes, automation nodes, tempo nodes etc. after the end of your song. There are many threads on this exact subject.

I think there are many users of Cakewalk who are successfully running Kontakt, including myself. I don't have the free player so you will have to test that one on your own but there should be no reason that you cannot run Kontakt player with Cakewalk. I would suggest downloading the free player and seeing if it scans and can be placed in Cakewalk then you will know it will work on your particular setup.

This sounds like a sample rate issue. When Cakewalk opens the audio driver it tries to set it to the sample rate it wants. If the audio device is shared then that would result in audio being played back by other applications to be slowed down or sped up. Make sure that windows audio settings have the same sample rate as those in Cakewalk's project settings

I would submit a ticket to support@cakewalk.com

I am late to the party here but I have had mostly good success with the transient detection in Cakewalk but it depends on the material. Those example pictures above seem like they would be very difficult to find the transient, matter of fact, I don't even think I would say those waveforms have a transient. What I think you want is where the sound starts which is not technically the same thing as the transient or attack of a sound.

If you use the snap settings you can do one of two things. Enable snap set to "snap to" set it to bars and then cntrl-click and drag your clip 16 bars down. In this case your clip has to start right on a bar boundary. You can drag the edge of the clip to the start of the bar then after the copy just drag it back out. Or, Set the snap settings to "snap-by" and then ctrl-drag the clip 16 bars down and it should be exactly 16 bars when you drop it. Or, set the snap to enable landmarks and set the now time cursor to the edge of the clip to copy and note the time where the now time cursor is. copy the clip, edit copy, or cntr-c. then set the now time to exactly 16 bars from your noted time and paste the clip

When windows updates it could reset some settings that affect performance. Check that your power plan doesn't have things going to sleep. Check that your on-board audio, if using another audio interface, is disabled. Stuff like that can get changed with a windows update.

You may not have intentionally used it is all I was suggesting.

Cracks and pops can happen for many reasons. Do you have anit-virus software running? Have you tried to run the program "latencyMon" from resplendent software to see if there are interrupts or other system devices that are causing long delays? I had a NVidia video card that I had to get rid of because it and its driver were causing issues. I would start with Latency Mon and see what it tells you.

Send a crash dump to Cakewalk support.

A picture of your track view might be useful. It sounds like Cakewalk thinks you deleted the Audio from the tracks but not the tracks themselves. Do you have any hidden tracks?