Noel Borthwick

Glad you could solve it. In asio mode you must deselect both inputs and outputs before picking a different device. This could be more intuitive.

The problem is something on your system blocking writing files to your audio folder as the message indicated. Check that you don't have an antivirus program blocking writing to the project audio folder. Also if you are using one drive don't use the same folder that one drive is scanning.

BandLab assistant is not developed by Cakewalk. Were working on a standalone bootstrap installer that will install Cakewalk independently. Since Cakewalk can now activate itself BandLab assistant is no longer required for this.

Most likely somehow launchpad ended up partially copying some files because the program was still running or had not exited. It should check before doing anything if the program is already running. Running our uninstaller would not have caused the issue you had.

Im not sure what launchpad is - if you use 3rd party tools to run old versions then we have no way to solve problems with that. The cakewalk installer always updates the correct automation dll. Its likely that the external utility caused the issue. The installer doesnt ask to delete files so Im not sure what you mean. Mixing and matching different versions of the program will cause crashes and unexpected behavior. Always use our official rollback installer if you need to go to a prior build.

The CmdArgs registry string is used to specify the arguments to the external tool. Its definitely used in CbB and and its how we pass command line arguments to the Plugin Manager exe. Note that this is only used for the generic tool type. Look in the registry and you will see how Plugin Manager is set up. For plugin manager its set up like this: CmdArgs --- "/ParentWnd$ /VSTInventoryRegKey$" When Cakewalk launches plugin manager it expands the /ParentWnd$ variable to the window handle of Cakewalk and /VSTInventoryRegKey$ to the appropriate registry key. Other flags present in CmdArgs are passed through unmodified to the external process. Its easy to test this. Make a batch file that echo's its arguments and set up a tool that executes the batch file.

@gmp you have a bad install which is why its crashing. The version of cwauto130.dll is from an older installation and has a version 26.5.0.39. The version in the Jan release paired with the release you have is 27.1.0.98. Are you restoring files manually? Please re-install the latest version of Cakewalk using our installer and it should fix the crashes.

Thats impressive with just 8GB RAM

@Bob Greaves which version did you install when you ran into this problem? 24.4 is obsolete. We’ll contact you tomorrow with more instructions,

I have the multiple accounts wired to my NAS not pc. It allows me to have a hybrid storage solution.

I have wrk files from Cakewalk Professional 1 that open in CBB

Updates are handled in app now. If you update from within the app it only downloads the changes from your last installm so its very fast to update. Once the installer runs it automatically restarts the app. You can chek the version you have from Help / About. 2020.01 is the latest.

Did you just try and update or was this done a week ago? Which version of Windows are you running and did you update from within Cakewalk or from BandLab assistant? Please see this thread which includes a link to an updated installer. However if you updated today from Cakewalk that installer should already be delivered to you.

This should explain why you need to activate. Regarding the error this is may be system specific. What OS version are you running?

The catch is 1TB per user. Its relatively simple though just create multiple users under the plan to expand the storage.

If hell freezes over maybe.

You would be better off brushing up on your Brit English. Meng grew up and studied at math at Cambridge, England. He speaks really fast with a Brit accent

I use OneDrive for my home cloud storage. They have the most cost effective cloud storage at about $99 per year for the office 365 family plan. You get 6 TB of data and also all the office apps included. I also have multiple NAS's for local storage. The NAS connects directly to OneDrive to backup.

Background mode raises the thread quantum which is how long it is allowed to run before being task switched. This could generally be bad for low latency audio performance on multithreaded machines when you have other multithreaded processes running, because another thread could be blocking the engine from processing in time. Its another one of those tweaks that happened to work for some system configuration and gets propagated on the internet as being the truth.

Indeed while its not unique to us, its particularly bad in our industry because many folks have a herd mentality to follow by recommendation rather than by exploring needs. We have had our share of problems in the past so some flak is deserved, but I still see quotes of completely out of date information from decades ago that has long since been addressed. Products with a legacy as old as Cakewalk are bound to have baggage that a newer program won’t have (although the new program will also have bugs, just different) The “professional” tag is downright snobbery perpetrated by biases, whether it be Mac vs PC or other factors that equate cost vs value. We’ve even had people who said we weren’t professional because for the longest time there was no copy protection. The free aspect is also a factor since free can be associated mistakenly with unsupported freeware. The bottom line is user base demographics have been changing. Its not all about how many esoteric features you have anymore but how usable and inviting the product is and new users today have different expectations now than they did 10 years ago.

Not intentionally sorry Two hours isnt long enough to cover 30+ years. I missed a few steps haha. Here is a post about GMPI from 2004. It was an MMA working group and many high level industry professionals were part of the group. Its too bad that it never materialized since it we genuinely a forward thinking cross platform spec for plugins. with support from both DAW and plugin vendors. But we all know that merit doesn’t drive adoption necessarily.

Those are just outputs from your device exposed by the same driver. The realtek asio driver is known to be buggy so use at your own risk. You will possibly get better behavior by using WASAPI shared or WASAPI exclusive mode.

It's past 30M as of today ? With BandLab the user acquisition growth is exponential. Of course that's looking at the mobile user base which is obviously massively higher than desktops. Cakewalk has also grown by many orders of magnitude of course, but not close to that ballpark. Were adding deeper BandLab integration however so we will continue to grow as more people learn about Cakewalk.

Indeed we were in favor of open standards rather than being tethered by any particular vendors direction that's why we went with WDM KS at the time.

I couldn’t afford to get my own PC until 92 so by the time I started using DAW’s it was already at Cakewalk V1 for Windows. I only used hardware synths prior to that, or 4 track tape lol.