Noel Borthwick

If you are running at 128 samples you likely won't notice any perceivable delays. Performance is project specific however.

Maybe you misunderstood. The arrangement can freely be modified during playback with no interruptions. You can add new sections, reorder, delete, duplicate, all on the fly during playback.

You don't need to use ripple edit. Just commit the arrangement to the project and it will automatically make all the edits for you. At that point you may just need to fine tune the edits with slip edits or other transitions as desired. While arrangement preview is a very useful way to audition and A/B multiple arrangements the intent of the arranger is primarily as an editing tool. In most cases preview works seamlessly and transitions are as fast as they would be when you seek to regions on the timeline. In more complex projects with lots of effects if you perceive any discontinuities bypassing effects or running at a smaller buffer size will normally alleviate this. Otherwise you can always commit the arrangement at which time it is "flattened" to the timeline with no jumps.

@Johnboy If you can send a link to the bundle I can take a look at it. Which version did you save it in? If It's from a recent version it's unlikely to be corrupted since we fixed many issues with reading and saving bundles.

Hello this was an installer problem. It has since been updated. If you are encountering this issue you can simply rollback and then reinstall the latest update again. This should fix the issue for you.

Yes Arrangement preview is dependent on the audio engine to drive it. This is by design.

@Sean Aitken I'm not sure what bug you are referring to. SONAR did not support mono in / stereo out plugins and neither does CbB yet. This is not a regression by any means. You can easily try adding any Waves mono in -> stereo out plugin to SONAR or CbB and it will only work in mono, because input and output interleave is always symmetric today. Waves is also aware of this. As Jon mentioned, it so happens that we have been doing some extensive work with an overhaul of the interleave and bypass management and have addressed many longstanding issues. However I have yet to look at the mono - stereo processing case. While I definitely agree that its desirable for this to work there are a bunch of dependencies that complicate it. I'll know when I look into it further.

@HIBICan you send me your text file? It definitely worked with some Japanese text we tried. Are you running an English version of Windows with the language set or Japanese Windows?

@Percy Ferry that link isn't accessible. You should be able to zip the minidump and drop the size a bit. If you save from task manager for a hang the dump file will be big since its a memory snapshot.

Arrangement Preview will not be sample accurate - that's why its called preview. It will improve though if you run at low latency. Can you verify that it improves? Depending on project load seeking to far apart sections may cause small discontinuities. Crossfades won't solve all problems. In general arranger is a tool for editing, experimentation and composition but before getting ready for production you typically need to render it and do some clean up.

@IanCan you share this project so we can take a look at it?

@iain mackenzieDo you have audio starting exactly at the start of the new section? Arranger preview is not sample accurate so you could miss hearing the start of the audio buffer where section jumps occur when running at high latency or if the project has very dense data. If you run at low latency the buffer loss is minimized and not perceptible in most cases. I tested this by recording a metronome click track and making sections at measure boundaries that deliberately jump around the timeline and it works perfectly with no gaps. The key is to run at low latency - in my test I ran it at 48 samples. See screnshot. Also note that once you render the arrangement to the timeline it is now linear and at that point you wont have any issues. We'll continue to improve preview in the future where possible.

There are no known issues with freeze crashing. There are several freeze fixes in this update so please update and use it. Crashes if due to external plugins cannot be solved by Cakewalk of course.

This question has been answered several times. A workspace is like a template/preset of configuration settings. Its normal for it to be restored to the state when the workspace was saved. If you want to customize a workspace you must make your changes and then save the workspace under a new name. Also make sure that the workspace is configured to save the settings you want. More info about workspaces is in the help. Alternatively set the workspace to "none" if you don't wish to use any customization presets at all.

Hi @Andris Rinkis please contact me via PM and we can do some troubleshooting. Yes uploading the project will be useful. You can also capture a dump file when it hangs that may show what's going on. Which version of Windows are you using? If it doesn't work after rollback, then it typically indicates a problem on your specific system installation since rollback reverts Cakewalk to the prior state. (check that the version in the about box says 2020.01 post rollback) Have you already done basic troubleshooting using safe mode? Hold down shift before opening the project and it will prompt you.

This issue should be fixed in the 2020.04 release that was posted earlier today. The issues below were related. Please verify that it is fixed and no longer occurs. Unexpected behavior with Instrument tracks when adding MIDI ports. Adding or removing MIDI devices can cause soft synths to be assigned to incorrect ports.

Hi Folks, The final 2020.04 release is out. Please download it from bandlab assistant. It should resolve any language issues observed since it now contains all the latest language updates. Please note that due to a bug in the early access release you may not receive a notification of an update in Cakewalk. It should be visible in BandLab Assistant, however. Thanks to all of you for your great feedback and participation in the early access. It has helped us make this one of our strongest releases.

@JM2 we've changed the mod keys for the arranger so that it wont collide with the Event view for next release.

@Ashley MillerProchannel module copy paste is already available. Do you not see it in the context menu? Click on the preset picker to view the presets and you should see Copy Settings and Paste Settings in the menu. Regarding scrolling painting in windows can't be done async since its all on the UI thread. However generally it shouldn't be that slow. Can you share a project that exhibits this very slow behavior so we can repro it here?

Just to clarify for this thread, the problem RBH was having has been resolved. He has a broken DirectX installation that causes even the Microsoft DirectX diagnostic tools (DXDiag) to crash. The new version of Cakewalk uses Direct2D for some drawing optimizations for the arranger UI and this is what triggers the problem on his PC. Normal Win7 systems are unaffected by this problem.

@User 905133 Can you send me a project that repro's this behavior? Don't save the project in the new version - send the original project file. If you load the same project in the prior release do you see the screensets working there?

The basic workspace has screensets unchecked. If you want to use that workspace with screensets you can save a copy of it with screensets turned on again in manage workspaces.

@Toy can you please capture a dump file for the hang and send me a link to the file? There are instructions for this in the FAQ but you can save a dump for a hung application from task manager. The file may be large so you will have to upload to a file sharing service like Google drive, OneDrive etc

@foldawayCan you post a detailed recipe for this and also include a link to a project with the problem? Is this something new you have observed and is it project specific - can you reproduce it in a new project?

@marled I'm not sure what you mean by "If a note starts a tiny bit earlier I want that it is included as a whole, not partially!" When you mark a section in an arrangement its up to you to set the section boundaries as you expect it. Why not set the boundary of the section such that it included the lead in notes? Then it would include the original note ons when you render the arrangement. I don't think the program should second guess and arbitrarily include earlier notes.