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Great info John. I use an AirTurn bluetooth pedal to start each Cakewalk project in a song list from my Surface tablet. As mentioned, after the song plays it loads the next song and waits for me to step on the pedal. The pedal is configured as a Space Bar to start or stop the playback. Does WinAmp allow for the use of a Bluetooth pedal in this fashion?

I agree. It is certainly a let down and face slap from them. It absolutely does not give me a warm and fuzzy about subscribing to the new Sonar...not if they pull this crap!

@John Vere Yes, I am only using a .wav audio track. I am using Cakewalk because I can create a Playlist that loads the next tune but waits for me to initiate playback. What do you use? I am also still using Cakewalk because I am planning to have a very brief MIDI track at the beginning of each tune to change the Patch on the keyboard automatically without me having to do it at the beginning of each tune.

@John Vere I also have my copy of Sonar X3 and installed it on my performing Surface tablet today. I am thinking your suggestion of using it live instead of CbB however, I am running into some issues. When I launch Sonar X3 I get 3 pop up windows. The first one says: Cannot open MASTER.INS. No instrument definitions will be available. I have no idea what the MASTER.INS is. I am not using any instrument definitions when performing live as I am only loading Cakewalk Project files with one .wav file each. The second one says (after loading a project file containing one .wav file): File Info: Project file version 17.0.0, authored using Cakewalk version 20.09.0.075. This file was saved from a more recent software version. It may sound different form the original, if new features were used while authoring it. Overwriting this file with the same name will cause loss of these features. And the third one says: Transients are in the process of being generated. Depending upon project settings, playback may be different until the process is complete. Not sure what any of this means but curious how you have gotten around these messages using Sonar X3 live.

My band had a live gig this past Saturday night. As I've mentioned prior, my Surface laptop is NOT online when we perform live. In order to work around the naggig NAG screen, I launched CbB with the Surface in landscape position. This way I can see the count down and the CLOSE button allowing me to close it when the count down finishes. When we perform I have the Surface attached to my Mic stand in portrait position. I needed to restart the laptop which is now in portrait position and again, upon launching CbB the Nag screen is not completely visable, you can't move the Nag screen and as such you cannot see both the count down or access the CLOSE button. Absolutely frustrating!! You can't interact with CbB when this happens, you can't close it or do anything with it but perform an End Task. This is insane!! I needed to take the Surface out of the tablet holder, turn it to landscape position, relaunch CbB, wait the 20 second count down on the Nag screen and finally click the CLOSE button in order to access the daw in order to perform our sets!

i saw Jesse post prior.... not what I stated...............

@Noel Borthwick I am running 29.09.0.075. I am very aware that it is common for free apps that have an upgrade path to display such messaging. However, I am also aware that such messages will either stop displaying after so many times or will have the ability to turn them off. As I stated, unless we have all been hiding under a rock we are all aware that CbB will be transitioning to a paid product. With that said, it has also been my understanding that the last final updated version 29.09.0.075 would keep running without further updates...

Correct!

truedat!

@Jesse Jost If it happens again I will. However, the description I gave as well of others experiencing the same issue is pretty descriptive...

@Jesse Jost The first time it hung the splash screen was blank white as others have indicated as well. The second time it hung the image appeared. Also, it was my understanding from the forums that in order to not have CbB stop working because of the future release of Sonar we all needed to update the the last latest update. Now we are learning that was not the case???

@Jesse Jost it indeed has hung Cakewalk twice! Also, as stated the splash screen positioning on my Surface tablet sits below the taskbar and the count down is not in view as well as the CLOSE button. When my band is performing live, the Surface tablet is mounted in Portrait position. Not knowing what was happening as there was no warning that this stupid splash screen was going to appear and block the usage of Cakewalk, the fix was finally to take it out of the mount, restart the Surface in Landscape position. Then I was able to see the count down and click the CLOSE button. I am sure you must see how nerve racking that was as we were starting our live performance! However, as also mentioned, when my band is performing live many times we are performing outside where there is no internet connection. So, in those cases in order to keep the pop up splash screen from happening I would need to use my cell phone as a hotspot, connect my Surface to it in order to be online. Not a good user experience. Also... I don't want my Surface to be online when we are performing so that there are no automatic updates etc that could happen which could affect Cakewalk in a live performance situation. Unless we have all been under a rock, we all know that Sonar will be available soon! That doesn't mean that we are all going to run out and immediatly adopt it. There is absolutely no reason that we should have to constantly be hit in the face with this annoying splash screen reminding us of that! Right? This is an absolutely terrible user experience. There either should be a counter that only shows this splash screen a few times and then not again or the abilty to turn off this annoying splash screen! And lastly.... You state that CbB will be available for some time? Are you stating that it will stop working at some point? If so...when? If so...is there a plan to let everyone know so that doesn't just stop working prior to a performance or recording session????? Geez!! PS.... This annoying splash screen does not give me a warm and fuzzy about purchasing a Sonar License. In fact..just the opposite.

I did read the other threads. I did not see an answer to my question... And needing to go online is a stupid requirement. As I mentioned in one of these threads, my band plays outside a lot where there is no internet... What a stupid requirement...

I agree....same thing is happening to me

That's rediculous! It's fine when I am home working on projects and am online however, when my band is performing live my Surface tablet is NOT online not to mention many of the outside venues we play there is no internet... What a stupid suggestion or requirement...

Perhaps a 3rd one will get some results...

How to disable this new Sonar splash screen when launching Cakewalk? How annoying! Besides annoying it causes Cakewalk to take up to 2 to 3 minutes to launch. I was wokring in Cakewalk on my computer early yesterday morning and there was no splash screen when launching the app. However, when I went to the gig and launched Cakewalk on my Surface tablet and this Splash screen appeared, it froze. Shut it down and launched it again and this splash screen came up with no way to shut it down. Again, it caused Cakewalk to freeze. I performed an End Task and launched it again and this time when the Spash Screen came up for Sonar I could see a count down. When the count down was finished it allowed me to close the splash screen. Not a very good user experience! I understand that Sonar is replacing Cakewalk however, I was under the impression that we could still use Cakewalk. As such, there must be a way to stop this annoying Sonar splash screen from popping up each time Cakewalk is launched.

Got it. Thanks!

AutoPitch? Is this available for Cakewalk by Bandlab? If so, where can I find it?

Where is the PANIC / RESET button in Cakewalk? The documentation says to use it for a stuck MIDI note however, it doesn't show where it is. Thanks

The thing is I really want to use this plugin in this project. I am leary to try it again.

Thanks! I opened it in SAFE mode and disabled the VSCO2 orchstra.dll. That worked. I am curious why this particular plugin would cause this as I've used it successfully in the past in other projects?

@Jonathan Sasor, I sent the dump files requested over a week ago. Is there any update to this issue? Thanks

Correct, I've done a hard restart since removing it. And, since removing Roxio the error no longer shows RBVirtualFolder64.dll. Event Viewer now just shows the following: Faulting application name: Cakewalk.exe, version: 29.9.0.75, time stamp: 0x653027f8 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.22621.2506, time stamp: 0xbced4b82 Exception code: 0xc0000374 Fault offset: 0x000000000010c7a9 Faulting process id: 0x0x2550 Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DA133C531A6CE2 Faulting application path: d:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\Cakewalk.exe Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll Report Id: 74fc0c3f-2b49-4afc-84fe-a64ff3c1d59b Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID: Fault bucket 1502176500308707174, type 4 Event Name: APPCRASH Response: Not available Cab Id: 0 Problem signature: P1: Cakewalk.exe P2: 29.9.0.75 P3: 653027f8 P4: StackHash_c59a P5: 10.0.22621.2506 P6: bced4b82 P7: c0000374 P8: PCH_0D_FROM_ntdll+0x000000000009FEC4 P9: P10:

What's the next move here please?