Noel Borthwick

I recently participated in a fun discussion with Principal PM @Pete Brown from Microsoft and Vin Curigliano of AAVIM Technology, who has been doing DAW benchmarking for a long time. We talked about a bunch of stuff, including the history of Cakewalk from the early years to now, our intersections with Microsoft’s technology over the last 30 years and lots of technical details about DAW development. You can listen to the podcast here. If you are a DAW geek and get through listening to all two hours of it, you win a prize. We’ll give you Cakewalk. Oh wait... ?

Steinberg just announced end of elicenser so perhaps it wont be an issue in the future

The issue is more than just allowing the external insert to support inputs. Its complicated by the fact that Cakewalk supports other driver modes that have stereo channels so it makes it harder to do. Its not that we don't want to do this but it requires some rework of routing to support. This is why it hasn't been tackled yet and has been lower on the priority list.

Here is the original article from 2017 where we evaluated game mode.

It looks like his project contains missing audio files. You can't save a bundle until you find and delete all clips that reference missing audio files.

Great once you have done this, assuming your login doesn't change, reactivation should automatically happen in the future.

Great we've also updated it on the web, so anybody who does an in app install will also get the new installer.

Please try the new installer. It also handles the waves server running issue by force terminating it. PS there is no need to first run the rollback. You can directly run the new installer.

Hi Folks, Thanks to @DeeringAmps I was able to reproduce the issue on his PC remotely. It was indeed a missing dependency. He didn't catch it the first time since he ran the dependency tool on 2020.11 rather than 2021.01. Here is an updated installer for 2021.01 that should fix the problem. Download and run it and please report back if it solves your install issues.

See posts above for further troubleshooting.

This makes no sense. If the regsvr succeeded then Cakewalk should be able to find the dll. I will PM you and we can follow up with some more troubleshooting.

True, its possible that is hijacking his main outs. If this turns out to be the issue let me know and I will report it to Steinberg.

@Billy86 What step did you follow to resolve it?

@ALEXANDER SHUGAYEV Hi we don't have an Apollo inhouse to look at the settings so its harder to see what is expected. 1. Only one of two input is listed (1-st) Cakewalk groups inputs and outputs as stereo pairs in preferences. Its normal to see the input with odd numbers since Cakewalk is showing pairs. You can choose to see the output ports (in the tracks) as mono by checking the show mono outputs box. 2. Main output is absent Most likely the main out is one of the ports listed in your list but named differently? I would try Mon L (Stereo), Line 1L (Stereo) or Aux 1L (Stereo) as the output port and see if that corresponds to the main out. We don't have control over the names that the device exposes. Post a screenshot of what Cubase shows.

@DeeringAmps thanks for sending that. I see the same output on my system so nothing abnormal there. Can you save the attached batch file to any folder on your system such as the root directory C:\ Then open an administrator command prompt by typing "command" into the search box. (right click on the command prompt item and choose run as administrator) When the command prompt opens, navigate to the folder where you saved the batch file by typing: cd c:\ next run the batch file by typing registerauto Let me know what is displayed by the batch file. registerauto.bat

Somehow a dependency that is required is not available on your machine. Most likely one of the VC redistributables has not installed properly and something is missing as a result.You can use this tool to diagnose what is missing. Run it and point it to the file listed CW130Auto.dll and post a screenshot of the results.

Post a screenshot of your audio settings showing the inputs and outputs. Are you using ASIO mode?

@AdK StudiosThanks for checking it out. I don't think it's cpu related. Can you send me a reference project that exhibits this so we can investigate further?

Your first step should be to upgrade to the latest build and try and reproduce it there. 2019.09 is an ancient build.

@rejkmackan can you send a link to a project file that has the problem?

I enjoy that game too. I had someone once call to tell me that my Windows was compromised claiming to be from Microsoft. I said - great I work for Microsoft too. They promptly hung up ?

We’ll look into it and try and repro it. Thanks.

Im exclusively using edge these days including on an iPad where ironically it generally runs better than Safari.

This is exactly right. If you want to benefit from higher sample rates for plugins or synths you have to use the upsampling feature. You can set the plugins to Upsample on Render and they will automatically be converted only when exporting/bouncing. Increasing the export sample rate won't do much other than upsampling the final output of your mix. So no sonic advantage.

Or worse it could appear to make it better in some very isolated circumstance and hurt performance in other cases. This is how a lot of these myths originated and people blindly follow them. The other more recent thing that is being propagated is that MMCSS should not be set by the DAW and only by the driver. This has led to problems with drivers that are not coded properly to check for error codes. It would be great if the MMCSS documentation could explain the use cases better so that developers don't make mistaken assumptions.