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Did they use it? I thought that Mackie was the hardware company associated with Tracktion.

I'm reminded of the iZotope "glitch" several months ago when I picked up the upgrade MPS 5 Advanced for $150 despite not technically having qualifying licenses. It went on for some time, iZotope had to have been aware of it. Then IIRC, it went on sale at PB for a similar price with a much smaller requirement, maybe it was any iZotope product? ?Something else that these "glitches" do is create a sense of urgency: I better take advantage of it before they figure out what's going on! Then it strangely goes on for a week even though they must be aware of it.... I jumped on it quickly during the glitch because shoot, just Neoverb, Stratus, and RX10 are worth at least that, but I have to admit that the only thing I've used so far is RX10, on one project. Not that I won't eventually use the rest of the goodies, it's just that it's a lot of software to figure out.

Heh. Anyone else remember the free DAW that Behringer teased a few years ago? Wonder whatever became of that....

Okay, I think I get it, it's having some deadspace before "zero" on the timeline? Part of me wants to be like Marty DiBergi in This Is Spinal Tap and ask "why don't you just make 1 your new 0," but I do get it. I'm forever inserting measures at the start of a project.

Could you explain in greater detail what "pre roll" is when applied to a DAW? I know what the term traditionally means, but not in this context. None of the DAW's I've used have the feature.

DeOxit in its various forms was the lifeblood of my amp repair business. Caveat, though, DeOxit's FaderLube is the better stuff for cleaning pots because it adds a bit of lubricant for the pot shaft. A pot won't ever be as smooth as it was when it was new after it's been cleaned, but it sure can become as quiet again.

What, no love for the REmatrix Solo found in Cakewalk's ProChannel? I have no idea myself how it stacks up as an IR loader, but hey, it has handy and free going for it.

Was just alerted to the existence of Audio Sorcerer by @Kerryman. He does a lot of Pro Tools tutorials as well, which is a combo I don't think I've seen before: Note: after I posted this I noticed that Jim Fogle already alerted us. Oh well, doesn't hurt to give the thread a bump!

Welcome to the Cakewalk user community. I read your other topic and it's cool to see someone with such diverse instrumental skills. I've always been intrigued by non-keyboard MIDI controllers like the EWI. Cakewalk has some good features to help with MIDI data from "alternative" controllers. In defense of John, whom I've found to be a stand-up guy who does a lot of work to help people learn how to use Cakewalk, when someone asks a question, those of us who are trying to help have no idea what their background is or how much research they've already done. One (imperfect) clue we have to go by is the person's post count. If it's low, they're usually a newer user who we assume can use some hand holding. That assumption is not always true. Everyone who's ever started using Cakewalk has experienced the daunting number of features and ways to get things done, and most of us remember how baffled we felt. My usual way on this forum is to over explain (as I'm surely doing now?), because it's a shotgun approach that saves time and also because the original poster is not the only one with similar issues who will be reading my replies. The OP is not the only audience. "Forgive me if you've already tried this" is kind of implied, but over explaining can, I suppose, come off as condescending. I've personally had the experience of being at wits end about something, spending hours trying to find an answer, then posting on a forum where I was besieged by weenie wavers eager to display their superior knowledge (or tossing out "RTFM"). This isn't such a forum, I hope. From my observations at least, that is not John's way. He tries to help people get the same utility and enjoyment from the software that he does. The added personal bonus is that when I jump in and try to help someone sort things out, I often learn from the suggested solutions of others. John has said this is true for him many times, including in your other topic. Case in point: even in your angry reply to John, you mentioned Audio Sorcerer, who I'd never heard of despite the fact that I look for YouTubers who have series on Cakewalk so that I can add them to the list I started in the Tutorials sub. Audio Sorcerer will be added, and I thank you. I try myself not to take offense where none is intended, but I also know from bitter experience that it's possible to mean no harm and do harm anyway. The Skylight interface is a really great thing, one of the features of Cakewalk that I like best, but it took me a lonnnnng time to figure out just how I could make the best use of it. It would have been nice to have some guidance earlier on. And I still learn new things about it. So I'll probably go watch John's videos on the subject. All of this said, some personalities just don't get along and I've found it necessary for my own serenity to block certain users. Block him if you must, but you may miss some valuable info.

I move projects between multiple systems with different interfaces (16 channel Focusrite on one, 2 channel PreoSonus or even onboard sound on the other) all the time. Sometimes I get the dialog Mark mentions and sometimes I have to set the output from my Master bus, but it always works. And I do suggest setting your default depth to 24 bits (which Cakewalk uses for bouncing and imports), but not for this reason. It just allows the resulting files more dynamic range to use.

If I understand your request, this is very much already in place. The Export dialog allows you to export in any format, bit depth or rate that Cakewalk supports. Or do you mean do multiple formats at the same time? If it's the latter, I find it best to export from Cakewalk in the lossless format of choice (I use FLAC) and then use another program to convert from that file. I use MediaHuman Audio Converter, which is freeware, but there are many options.

Can you explain more about this? I'm not a programmer, and I'm curious how the developers' choice of languages could affect interfacing a plug-in with its host.

It was the swap file, I believe, not the project itself. And they said that it expanded to 33G, then down to 16MB after rebooting the system. Would that suggest there's a lot of memory in use? They said that their system uses an SSD, so speed/fragmentation wouldn't be an issue, would it? I'm very curious about this because I want to avoid this situation myself.

So taking 5-7 minutes to load or save is expected behavior under these conditions? And the cure is to apply destructive editing? I'll take a guess and suggest that the idea is that Cakewalk can read 50-100 small files faster than it can read 20-35 segments each of 3 larger files. And saving is faster under those conditions? 5-7 minutes seems like a really long time to me. It's been my understanding that reading audio files from a disk isn't an "expensive" process.

Excellent. One of my pleasures in life is watching speedruns of games where the whole point of the game is to take your time and let the story unfold, like What Remains Of Edith Finch, Eastshade, Gone Home, No Longer Home, Firewatch, etc. It's just so wrong. "You can skip through the conversations with the Esc key...."

Her rendition of Peaches' "F*** The Pain Away" (look it up on YouTube) is a modern classic.

To that end, I suggest you roll back to the previous version of CbB. I think there's a description of how to do that in the Early Access subforum. If that solves it, then let the devs know, I'm sure they'll want to know that some change in the last version borked your setup. There is a beta team, but they probably have newer and/or higher end interfaces. I agree that if an interface works with all of your other audio software and not with Cakewalk, Cakewalk needs to be examined. If rolling back doesn't solve it....yikes, maybe something else changed on your system around that time.

That feature hasn't been changed in the 5 years that Cakewalk by BandLab has been around. And I'll add to the chorus: it's past time to install CbB and join the fun. There's no risk to your current SONAR installation. You'll get a TON of new features (CbB was originally comparable to the Professional version, but with many features added since 2018) and a program that runs much better in performance and stability.

Naw man, I'm a relative newcomer. Used SONAR for a couple of years right when it transitioned from Pro Audio to SONAR, then not until Cakewalk by BandLab. Let's see what Wikipedia says....according to the Cakewalk, Inc. entry, 2008-2013. BandLab have been in charge of the software longer than any other parent company since Twelve Tone Systems. Even the Gibson period is ancient history in computer years. We're coming up on the 5th anniversary of the first issue of Cakewalk by BandLab in a couple of weeks. BTW, on "Livin' In The Wind," is that a real Hammond, a hardware emulation or a soft synth? You got a great sound with it. My current go-to for Hammond sounds is AIR DB-33, but it sounds kind of brittle. I used to have an M3, but sold it because I wasn't playing it.

Indeed they do, and it may be of value to them for you to wrap it up as a .ZIP or .CWB and get it to them. I think if you send it to BandLab/Cakewalk support and notify them that it's for the devs, that will close the loop. While they probably won't be able to figure out the initial cause, they might at least look at how it is now and get some idea of how to prevent it. They can also possibly slip you a build that has error reporting triggers in it that will write to a log file. Their call. I'll emphasize this because a few years back, I had one project that exhibited multiple issues with sluggishness, and submitted it to the devs. As it turned out, it exposed multiple issues with Cakewalk due to some uncommon settings I was using. So the devs wrenched on the code and it resulted in multiple improvements to things like drawing speed and input response. This was across the board, whether someone was using my settings or not. This kind of error reporting can help all users. Whoa, that is an excellent idea. Even if it just did an integrity check. I'm sure the support staff would love it. But really, except in your unfortunate cases, corruption is, unlike in other human endeavors, relatively rare. @rfssongs, the OP mentioned that this is happening across multiple computers, which would seem to rule out hardware issues like disk sector or RAM flakiness. Seem to. ? With this level of oddness, anything is possible.

I think you missed: That said, I would suggest to Keni that you make your topic title something like "Installing on dual boot Mac Pro" or something. As it is, it just looks like you're having issues with a vanilla install. I believe that there are others here on the forum who have gotten Cakewalk to work on dual boot Macs. And dang, Keni, that is one nice setup to be gifted. I would rock the snot out of a Mac like that! Once you do get Cakewalk to work, mmm, dual Cinema displays, 16 cores....

Yes, he's gone silent since his estimated angry 20% of the userbase were actually listened to. ? I will say, I can forgive Waves management for the move now that they've changed course and issued an apology. For management to pull a take-it-or-leave-it move like that and then admit that they screwed up is unusual. I have respect for a good apology and making amends. Of course, despite having licenses for many of their products, I've only ever obtained them via freebie offers, never spent a dime except for one round of WUP. After my latest system rebuild, only two remain installed, MetaFilter and Elements 2. I found one cool preset in Elements 2 and used it on a song and I have a thing for rhythmic filters. It's funny, 5 years ago on the old Cakewalk, Inc. forum, people recommended Waves plug-ins so often that I put a joke in my sig that if anyone ever recommended one to me I would "relentlessly troll them" or words to that effect. On the current forum, which started about 3 years ago, I don't believe I've ever seen someone outside the Deals sub recommend one. Instead, I've become the annoying one, recommending MeldaProduction ad nauseum.? That suggests to me a decline in popularity/loyalty of Waves' stuff. Maybe their policies (single seat per license, having to buy WUP in order to get updates) finally wore people down. Especially the single seat. These days, everyone seems to have a tower system in their studio and a laptop to haul around.

Whoa. I didn't know what that checkbox did, 'cause I've never tried checking it. Thank you so much for posting the solution. Would never have occurred to me, and yes, A.J. gets the Man award. I can understand when you were having trouble getting the thing to put out sound, looking at that panel and thinking "heck yeah I want to listen to this device!" With a complex interface like my Saffire Pro, which has 8 stereo outputs plus 2 headphone jacks, Mix Control was initially daunting. But once I figured it out the routing options, now I find it very useful. There are still aspects of it that baffle me. It sure looks like they let the electronics engineer design it rather than the audio staff.

You have direct monitoring turned on. Not sure exactly what the setting is (I have a Saffire Pro 40, which comes with different software), but it's in the Focusrite Control software that comes with the interface. It's an internal routing that sends the input directly to the output for zero-latency monitoring.