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weird sidenote; finding: This week I miraculously cured a BSOD error by downgrading my firewire card driver to the legacy version, and voila: no more BSOD or other random errors. Going back OT, I realized Serum is somehow working BETTER than it was before. I still get audio dropouts with complex presets, but its totally usable if I just make sounds instead of scrolling through presets. I haven't been able to tell yet, but it may be the complexity of the effects; I cannot get a dry sound to cause dropouts at all.

OH SH!T This worked perfectly, thanks @msmcleod! The Prophet VS from when MIDI was in its infancy translates MIDI Pan to be Global (like Volume), so MIDI Pan at 0 resets center pan every one of the 8 voices. Disabling this now defeats it.

I have an old wonderful synth: Sequential Prophet VS As one of the programmable functions, you can pan each voice differently-- I typically go full left/right with alternating voices. When I hit STOP then PLAY in Sonar, it seems to be sending a MIDI Pan = 0 message. This of course overrides the voice panning back to the value of "Center" Originally, I thought maybe "Zero controllers on playback" was checked, but it isn't. Is there a way to override this via a toggle in TTSSEQ.ini or something?

Found the same here: Serum 2 is unusable with my dual Xeon 8176... INIT patch works fine, but with more complexity there are constant audio engine dropouts. Cursory googling led me to compatibility issues with "some Intel" processors. Hope they get a fix!

UPDATE: This is now fixed in the new build 97 release. Thank you makers!!

Correct, no lock next to screenset. Here is how it defaults before I minimize all tracks:

Hmmm (thanks all!) F/Ctrl F: this simply (maximizes but still fits all content on screen. It doesn't go backwards/opposite or "minimize all tracks"? Screenset: nope, don't even know what that is. I found it (upper right) and toggled away from #1 and then back; it went back to about 1.5x track height? The only thing I have found to minimize all is clicking the middle of the right hand zoom and dragging up, but this moves the entire song up and out of sight for some reason.

YES! I am using 150% Zoom in Windows. While toggling between 150% and 100% doesn't change the track height, it does of course shrink the whole Sonar size. It doesn't seem to impact the track height on restarting Sonar though.

...instead, it always makes Tracks about 2x their normal width/size. Super painful to go to each track and Zoom out fully. Previously, Track zoom seemed to be preserved, or at least they were always zoomed fully out.

Still using trial mode for eval, but noted the new 2024.9 update will not show graphics/visualizations for any of the ADDED Pro Channel plugins like the LA-2A, Concrete Limiter, etc.? These visualized/worked fine before the update.

Update after a few weeks of VST2 vs. VST3: Seems like VST3 versions are ok AS LONG AS YOU DON'T AUTOMATE PARAMETERS. With this automation, dropouts and Late Buffers are constant. Freezing the audio cures the issue(s)

Daily Sonar user here.... This (still) happens to me about 4 times a week, and I always thought it was one of my hardware drivers; either the MIDISPORT 8x8 (likely) or RME Fireface UFX (less likely, but not impossible) or something along that hardware chain-- could be a Firewire driver or USB driver is the culprit. Frustrating because it just quits, and I CTRL-ALT-DEL and can't force quit in task manager. The FASTEST solution has always been to reboot.

Not a plugin per se, but DONT FORGET you can transpose audio right in Cakewalk. You just have to select "transpose audio" in the drop down. Surprisingly good results, depending on your audio source.

Wow. I'll roll back to VST2 and see how it helps. Just wish they would address us Cakewalk users... seems they did, then set us to "ignore for now"

Anyone get anywhere with SoundToys on this? I heard from Support a couple times, but it wasn't very helpful. These ST plugins are grinding this project to a halt.

I've been emailing with ST support for a few days reporting this; Little Alter Boy is giving me CPU spiking and "late buffers" (which continually increase. I assume Little Microshift is the same. Important note: I am NOT using these on live inputs, they are inserted as regular plugins. Previously, the beta cured similar dropouts, whereas in about the last month they have returned. This was around the time of the new Cakewalk 2023.09 (build 062)

I believe it overwrites it, but figured I'd ask here. Also; I think re-installing the previous version is good enough, but again wanted to ask.

I can't believe I don't know this: what is the proper way to uninstall the latest beta Cakewalk and revert to the previous version? Is it just to re-install the previous version?

Downgraded to build 55 and the problem persists. It's now CPU spiking on projects that previously werent. Anyone else having this issue?

Here is a link to the full download: link removed by admin

hey @Billy86 did you download the Soundtoys beta? The beta totally cured all gaps/glitching before this latest version of Cakewalk

Thanks Will, but I haven't installed Next Also havent tried previous versions of Soundtoys. Anyone else having these issues on the last beta?

Slight bump of this thread, since its relevant. It seems the newest beta 2023.09 build 062 has somehow re-introduced the crackling and audio gaps with Soundtoys plugins. Disabling them allows crisp and clear audio, while enabling them brings back cracking. Has anyone else noticed this happening with the latest beta?

Yes. Each "tap" (A or B) can have its own time and filter settings. This allows for wide stereo use. The real magic for me is the 2x, 4x, and 8x which changes the playback clock and lowers the fidelity accordingly. Also, the FREEZE button can be fun. Soundtoys did a pretty good job of modelling all the parts of the original, so you get saturation/distortion at multiple points in the signal path.

@Billy86 : same here. I don't think so. I wonder if they have a 90-120 day bake like other software companies. In the meantime, watch here for my comparison vs. the real hardware.