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Hi @Milton Sica Thanks but this isn't what I'm experiencing. If I grab the top of the vst window and move it it goes smoothly for a short while then stutters i.e. doesn't move then catches up with my cursor position. What you describe is exactly what I get i.e. location persistence and that is not an issue. Cheers GBT

Thanks for the quick response Noel. re controls lag - I'm using a project that was written in CbB and has no such graphic lag (I also just noticed that when I drag a vst round the screen it stutters every so often and vertical mouse scrolling is hit and miss - sometimes it scrolls sometimes it doesn't and I have to use the scroll bar instead). I'm currently getting very frustrated because I have a crash problem and I'm trying to follow the normal troubleshooting process ie safe start, excluding various plugins/vst, reloading one at a time etc and I'm having to repeatedly restart the DAW. Even though its only 15 seconds it feels a lot longer when you can't get the DAW to stay up for more than 10 minutes without a crash. Didn't have this issue with CbB on this project so the question on my mind now is - will CbB still work after 1st Aug if there is no online authorization process?

I just posted this in the general forum to get some help so apologies for double posting but thought it should go here too: I took the plunge and its a mixed bag TBH. I like the fact that side-chaining now works, that there is a spectrum on each track/bus, EQ/pro-channels seems to work properly at last, that font seems to be clearer but I am less than impressed/absolutely stuck with: Load nag screen that has a time out telling me I have an evaluation copy. I have updated to 2025.06 just in case it was pre free tier but its just the same. Is this normal behaviour? fwiw - updating to 2025.06 crashed part way through initially (my fault due to security restrictions I have on my PC) so I did a complete reinstall from product manager but its just the same. Latency on all controls - there is a small but significant delay in changing any setting which means I am constantly having to reset fader/knobs on the DAW as well as plugins as i overshoot or undershoot where I want to be. I have tried with/without spectrum analyzer display per track just in case that was the cause but it's just the same. Bus effects text - for some reason the names of the effects are harder to see as the buses seem to have less horizontal space (possibly centered text rather than left justified?). I always 'narrow' my tracks and busses so it's not that I am not used to having a narrow display. The completely out of character 'File, Open' dialogue box which seems to be a windows 7 style, all square and ignoring colour preference of the main app. Really!!? Track colours were switched off by default so had to be enabled in preferences. Also, sorted now, location of projects/audio was not copied across in preferences so when I first started I was presented with a blank open dialogue. Manually changed in preferences (and a clean pair of underpants:)) GBT (windows 10, fully patched to latest version, 32Gb RAM, CPU - Ryzen 7 3700, 8 core, 16 processors, 4050Mhz, mobo TUF B450-plus, no drive has less than 300gb free)

@noynekker - just checking if the VST3 solved the crash problem as its not clear from the thread? Cheers

that's tomorrows job sorted then 😉 Thanks peeps👍

Thanks @OutrageProductions, do you know, I never even considered using multiple Kontakts given there were so many posts about using just the single Kontakt with multi's to save resources. I never went back to review if this was still the case. My PC has a reasonable amount of grunt (although not compared to your beast) so I guess its a trade off between usability and RAM use. I'll give that a shot if no-one has any better suggestions.

Hi fellow users I've searched quite a lot in the forums but can't find an answer to this specific challenge. I have a Kontakt instance with around 12 different synths loaded into separate midi channels and separate output channels - guitars, individual orchestra instruments, basses, acoustic gtrs etc. The small issue I am facing is that when I have completed the edits on say a guitar and I want to freeze it before moving on to another instrument, all instruments get frozen at the same time. Similarly when I'm running Addictive Drums 2 or any other drum sampler and want to freeze just the kick, everything else is frozen too. Not sure if this is a different challenge to the Kontakt multi's but wanted to include it just in case this is also something that has a smart solution. Is there a smart way to prevent every instrument in Kontakt / drum sampler freezing when I only want a single track to be frozen (short of freezing all, duplicate the frozen track I have finished with, unfreeze all, archive the finished midi track - rinse and repeat)? With so many soft synths loaded my PC sometimes gets a bit winded trying to keep up with all the processing so I habitually freeze tracks as I finalise them (audio and other midis loaded directly outside Kontakt). Hopefully I've explained clearly enough but I'm sure you'll soon let me know if its possible or not🤞 Cheers GBT

Ooh, I do like the sound of that second option (having spent ages creating multis in Kontakt on the the advice of other Kontakt users to reduce the number of instances (you can't win at this game! ). I'll give that a try, thanks Glenn

Thanks John, Yes and no (system memory sits around 26% and CPU around 24%) but I've had recurring issues with glitches as I run mainly VST instruments in my songs (so they need freezing). I run an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor, 4050 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s), 32gig DDR4, windows 10 latest patches, Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 4g and even at maximum buffer of 1024 I still get glitches, very few crashes or audio dropouts (as I used to previously on my Intel system) but without freezing the tracks its a bit hit and miss on the audio glitching out. Current song has 62 tracks of which 4 are real guitars the rest are VST including the vocals (SynthV). I really don't know how Id cope if i had the 100+ tracks I see in some forums

Hi folks I think I kind of know the answer to this one but I'm looking for advice on any alternatives. I've a single instance of Kontakt 6 with eight instrument synths loaded (4 different guitars synths, 4 orchestra instruments) and I suspect Cbb sees these as a single synth even though there are 8 separate outputs track pairs (8 midi and 8 related audio) for the loaded synths. I am trying to freeze each track as I work through the mix but as soon as I select any midi track and 'freeze synth' (the only freeze option I can see when I hover over the snowflake) all 8 tracks are frozen and the individual midi tracks hidden (midi hiding is as expected). Is there some setting I am missing in Cbb or Kontakt that would allow me to freeze a track at a time rather than all at once? Thanks GBT

Hi Jenna I recently had this crop up on one of my sessions. Turns out I had somehow added the metronome output to one of my audio tracks (reverb send) so even though I disabled the metronome track and turned off the 'metronome during playback/record' I was still hearing it faintly in the distance (because of the reverb effect!). Took me forever to isolate it. It may be that you have added the output to some other track by mistake so try muting each track and bus until it stops to isolate the source and go from there. GBT

Hi @jono grant Bit late to this as I just had the same issue pop up as my PC got slower and more and more dropouts. Purely by chance I read another unrelated post that mentioned what CPU hogs the Izotope products are. I had 2 effects loaded (Insight and Tonal balance) and CPU was high (25%+) and the power usage was strong red - Very High with my GPU running at 47%. I had already frozen all of my (mainly) Midi tracks to unload the real time effects etc. I closed both apps (they were running in the background as I continued finessing the song). CPU now hovering around 6%, GPU between 9% and 15% and power Low to very low. This also dropped my GPU core temperature by around 2 degrees. May be worth adding this to any other checks you are doing (if you haven't solved it by now anyway). If you have solved it, it'd be good to post your solution? GBT

Hi @tulamide @John Vere @reginaldStjohn Just got back to look at this and, after groove looping all the analogue audio while in the original tempo, I can now adjust the song tempo??. As you said, this will only work so far as the artifacts within the audio tracks can clip/distort/glitch if you move the timebase of the song (resample) too far from the original tempo. You are all lifesavers as I didn't want to rerecord the 20 or so different analogue audio tracks just to uptempo them. Thanks for your time and input?? GBT

Hi fellow CbB users. I've run into an issue where I have finished recording all the analogue instruments and now decided to speed up certain sections. When I do this the analogue audio starts to glitch all over the place. I want to be able to speed up in places and slow down in others (as if it were a live recording). I've read about tempo maps but cant find anything within the documentation that describes how to do this for analogue AND synth/midi based instruments. I can, for example use the tempo map to increase the tempo of the EZ Drummer track but the audio might or might not follow suit but always glitches (to the point that all controls become unresponsive and I have to force quit through Task Manager - Windows 10 fully patched, cakewalk fully patched). Anyone out there that can lead me by the nose on how to do it or confirm that its not possible to use a tempo map on the fly like this? Many thanks GBT

@Codefreq - I have a similar issue ie how to access my main DAW remotely from say a lightweight laptop while working away from home. I've tried the built in windows RDP (which kind of works but the audio is pretty choppy and can be a bit laggy even if on the same LAN). One factor that helped improve, but not resolve the choppiness, is to use gpedit to set the following (thanks to J D Hodge for this): #1 on the server (the machine you are connecting to) Using the Group Policy editor, Go to Computer Configuration:Administrative Templates:Windows Components: Remote Desktop Session Host:Device and Resource Redirection. Set “Limit audio playback quality.” to “Enabled,” and set “Audio Quality” option “to High”. #2 on the client (the machine you are connecting FROM) save and edit the RDP file for the connection and add set audioqualitymode:i:2 to the file (you can use Notepad or a similar text editor to do this). Its saved in your local documents folder as default.rdp. Hopefully this gives you enough to carry on some kind of remote composing?. If you do find any alternative then please let me know. GBT @John Vere - not a really helpful reply. As you might know the only way this would work is if the external drive folders were an exact replica of the PC folder structure but remembering that any saves onto the mobile laptop would not be replicated on the main PC as CWP files use local relative folder reference so would look for files on the laptop not the PC (I found this out after spending an age installing all my VSTs & plugins onto a laptop only to find out that the changes I made to my songs were not replicated to the main PC even though I saved the CWP file to dropbox . If you do have a solution then please share (for either option ?)