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I've never had problems receiving emails from anyone that I couldn't solve. It has always been user error. I don't ever remember seeing any forum posts in the old forum about not getting email notifications. A while back Meng even chimed in as to not be getting notifications. I'm sure he knows how to change his settings . I feel like this is Cakewalk's problem, not some random email quirk.

I checked the icon in this forum on the top right they says notifications and even that is very incomplete for instance there are no notifications listed for Jesse, or msmcleod, and only 1 for Billy86. I even have a tech support ticket started on 5/27. No one seems to have any answers or explanations and little acknowledgment that we have a problem here.

Thanks for explaining the 2 methods. My settings are like yours and have been since day 1 and I've never gotten an email notification. Many times my computer speaker is turned off, I don't care for chime notifications. I hope you can get this solved, I've been communicating with Amon form tech support about this and he doesn't have any answers at this time. Maybe he's not using the forum and in the loop like you are, so maybe you'd be better at solving this. Last I heard, not even Meng was getting notifications. I'm sure if you can figure out why he's not getting notifications this will fix it for all of us. I'll be happy to work with you or Amon to try things and get this worked out and finally fixed. Thanks for your suggestions.

Here's more important info for those still using V-Vocal. After further testing I found that with 2019.03 and 2019.05 the first V-Vocal clip many times is a problem and after that it's fine. The problem can be a blank V-Vocal screen or a crash. I've found the best method is to first disconnect all softsynths in the Synth rack, save the CWP, close CbB, wait 6-10 sec then Double click the CWP. With this method I'm getting no crashes or blank screens with V-Vocal. None of this may be necessary if you don't use any soft synths. In my situation I use a lot of soft synths and as long as they're disconnected V-Vocal behaves. I think it has something to do with old 32 bit plugins or programs only being able to use 4 Gigs of RAM even though you have a lot more RAM. The reason I think it's this is because when I disconnect all synths I end up with 3.8 gigs of RAM and V-Vocal works ok. With them connected I have 6.1 of RAM in use and V-Vocal crashes. AS far as the pausing after closing CbB and then reopening. I think this is something that's universal with CbB. It seems to need a few seconds to gather itself before restarting CbB. I experimented with how much pause is needed and for me using a fast SSD boot drive it's about 6 sec. If CbB is not open wait 10 sec more then Double click again, but don't repeatedly double click without pausing. I've done that and it can go on for minutes. Once I've gotten past the initial crash or blank screen right after disconnecting softsynths, then I've had it do over 50 V-Vocal clips with no crash. So if you use my method above, you should almost never get a crash or blank screen.

.Thanks for the email info. I didn't realize Gmail and yahoo reject emails before making it to the spam folder. That seems insane, presumptuous, and very stupid. My email server has a spam folder, but I've changed the settings so that nothing goes to my spam folder instead it all comes to me and suspected spam has SPAM added to the end of the subject line. This is great, it makes it easy to weed out. I have gotten emails with SPAM written on them and the customers weren't sure why that happened. In my music business whenever I have a conversation online or phone with someone, I tell them I'd like to have an email connection, since it's better for sending mp3's and more reliable than Messenger, etc. Sometimes I have to tell them to check their spam folder, but so far I've not had a situation that we couldn't solve. As far as Cakewalk, I've gotten announcement emails and tech support emails just fine from them, yet nothing ever from the forum, I decided to contact them about this and see if maybe I should delete my account and create a new one. I know somehow they got my old login name from the Sonar forum, I don't remember about the password, but maybe I'm using the same password too. I never had any problems with email notifications from the old Sonar forum, so I'm betting that this is some kind of weird glitch in the Cakewalk system that we can get to the bottom of. Once we do I'll post a notice and ask them to also post a notice, so everyone can start getting emails, not just a few.

I backup my 3 computers every night to a backup HD and then I backup the backup HD to the cloud using Backblaze ($50/yr for unlimited) It took me about 4 months to backup everything to the cloud. I'm still adding some things. Any of us can have a computer disaster no matter how careful we are, so if your computers and data are important to you, you need to have a working plan. I also double check my backup every night to make sure it's doing what it needs to do. Paranoia is a good thing when it comes to backing up. It may save your butt from the unexpected.

It's heartening to see at least email notifications for some are working. I just went to my account settings and changed my email to my Gmail email to see if that fixes it. If it does I may switch back to my main email and see if simply changing it makes it work or whether the system just likes typical emails like Gmail. I'll definitely post back here on the results. This may enable others to fix this if I'm successful

I've looked at my settings several times and they've always been set right. I just made a change in my settings and hit save and then changed it back and hit save again. Let's see if that fixes it.. Is your email address a common one like Gmail? Mine is my own domain email gp@gprecordingstudio.com Also I wonder if the way you receive email is a factor even as implausible as that sounds. I virtually never get my email from my email web server, instead I download all the emails as POP3 to EM Client on my computer, so have a record of all emails on my HD. I never use IMAP. I also make sure I get all my emails. Anything my server thinks is spam it still sends to me but adds the word SPAM in the subject Have you always received email notifications from CbB or has this only started recently? I think you're one of the few that receives emails.

Is Cakewalk planning on fixing this email notification problem? If anyone receives email notifications let us know, maybe there's a trick to it

I virtually never use pitch correction on my pro demo singers - no need to anymore than Paul McCartney or Paul Simon. I record a lot of independent artists for their album projects and they all need a lot of help. I record lots of vocal performances and pick out the best lines and then tune them up. I have a lot of patience and I enjoy bringing the best out of them and fortunately get paid by the hour to performs miracles. Pitch correction makes all the difference in the world in these situations. I like a more organic natural sound, so my productions don't sound corrected, it just sounds like they nailed it.

7 to 10 was the easiest most problem free upgrade I've ever done. I didn't have to upgrade from scratch. The upgrade upgraded my Win 7 computer and also my Win 8 computer. I didn't have to reinstall any programs. It was a free upgrade, not sure if you can still get it free. You can also download an ISO file so you can have a Win 10 install CD that also has a recovery console to fix install problems and you can use to to install Win 10 from scratch. I'd suggest saving your Win 7 HD and boot to it if you need to. And clone that HD and upgrade Win 10 with that HD

I went to Device Manager and checked all the USB hubs and such and had power management off. Seems like I remember many years ago Sonar having trouble losing focus on midi channels. Don't remember the solution or if it was just a bug

Thanks Craig, for the Melodyne info. All I've tried was the Melodyne Essential. I've know about the other versions, but didn't try them. I wonder if they give a trial period to see if I can get used to it? Can you elaborate on "Drawing pitch lines doesn't have an exact equivalent," I assume I can't draw pitch lines, but what's the workaround? Sometimes a vocal note is off, but it's a very short note and I may draw a straight line and as long as it sounds natural, I'll use it. Or I may move 1 cycle of a vibrato up or down. how can Melodyne do this?

Can't change project folder or wav file folder anymore If have a song started and I choose "Save as" and check the box "copy all audio with project" and then fill in a project path and audio path, it doesn't work. It keeps the original project path and audio path. I'm using 2019.03 This worked fine in the past, not sure when it changed. Can anyone else verify this and has it been already logged as a bug?

I've tried Melodyne a few times and was really trying to transition to it, but I was not able to fine tune the pitch like V-Vocal has allowed me to. In V-Vocal I can move the pitch manually and also draw pitch lines to my ear's satisfaction. It also has the Formant feature which is great when you have to move a pitch a half step or more and notice it changing the sound of the voice. Formant allows you to correct this in a manual way giving you total control. I do love the Melodyne feature of tuning notes in a chord. I know there are a few die hard V-Vocal users who have expressed the same thing. This post is really for them, to bring more stability. Although I'm certainly open to any Melodyne users who want to explain how I can do what I want, especially ones that used to use V-Vocal and aware of it's strengths.

Not that I'm aware of. I have a pretty tweaked system - only minimal stuff in Startup, Services disabled like Win Search, indexing, etc. In fact the more I think about it, if I leave the room for 30 min or a few hours, I always see the Dropout error message, even though there was no activity with CbB. This leaving the room dropout has been going on for many many months, but it hasn't affected me, since I'm gone. Yet it is irritating if I'm just playing the piano with the transport stopped and then it goes silent from a dropout.

When I 1st installed CbB 2018.04, the very first version, I was very pleased that it was very stable and really worked well with V-Vocal. Few crashes and if it crashed I could just double click the CWP and be back up and running in about 10 sec. Far better than Sonar Platinum. Today I'm happy to say that 2019.03 using Win updates from 10/7/18 is by far the most stable version for V-Vocal, I've found so far. I just worked on 3 songs tuning vocals and did 51 V-Vocal clips whit only 1 crash and that was on a spot that had 2 clips and each clip had a gain envelope. When I tried it the 2nd time I bounced to clip both clips to eliminate the gain envelopes and it worked fine. It may be fine to update the latest Win updates, but for now I'm just going to stay with this version for at least another month or so before making any changes. I'm enjoying the stability.

I don't have problems with dropouts during recording of audio or my soft synth Ivory piano, yet when the transport is stopped and I'm just playing the piano, I get dropouts often maybe every 5-10 min. I get a popup message saying "audio dropout" and the piano is silent. To get the piano to play again, I have to start the transport for a sec and hit stop, then the piano is back. I think you'd call this the piano is losing focus. Kind of like I switched the focus to another window, like Wordpad. This is very irritating, has anyone else experienced this or has a clue what's going on?

I keep my C drive as lean as possible. It's 64 gigs and my compressed Acronis image is only 30 gigs. I have an SSD drive and it takes me 7 min to revert to an old image - total time and 7 min to save an image. I have an SSD samples HD, data HD, audio wav files HD, and a very large backup HD which I run every night to backup my DAW, plus 2 more computers. After that an online backup backs up my backup HD in case my house burns down or something. I also have a 2nd SATA HD that I swap the SATA cable to in order to boot to a different HD, in case something goes haywire. My docs and desktop are moved to my big data HD. I delete the "old windows" folder using "clean up system files by right clicking my C drive, that saves 15 gigs, I never need to roll back, since I always have image files instead. My setup would take a week to build back from scratch. Any of us can have a computer disaster no matter how careful we are, so it's good to have a good plan to get back up and running in short time.

I definitely agree one image is not enough. I make an image anytime I change something on my C drive. I have so many image files, that at times I need to weed out the old ones. I average about 1 or 2 a month. Many times I've backtracked a few months and then built the C drive back up with the changes.

This is why I have Win updates disabled and always make an image of my C drive before an update that I choose to get. If I have problems I'll revert back to my saved image. This issue may also be bypassed by making sure all HD's, etc are disconnected during the Win 10 install, so it's not expecting to see other drive letters.

I know there's something unusual I think starting with Win 10, that you better remove all HD's from your system when first installing Win 10, because it add some code to the boot sector of all the HD's in the system and if you make changes it can cause boot problems, requiring you to run the recovery CD to fix it. This is especially important if you ever want to use dual boot or adding a different boot HD to your system.

Craig, I agree with abacab if you have a Macrium image file you made, you can essentially go back in a time machine and restore your C drive to that state it was in when you created that image. It doesn't matter if you even use a different computer with a different HD you want to try or your current HD or a new SSD like you said. Just boot up Macrium in a CD drive, point to the image file and tell it to restore to a different HD not the boot drive in that computer. Then remove that HD and put it in your DAW and you'll be set. You can then build your boot drive from that starting place instead of an install from scratch. Unless something is wrong with your DAW's CD drive, there's no need to involve another computer. Hope things work out soon, man.

I have Win updates disabled and only enable it when I want to update. I often make image files of my boot drive and I can restore those images either inside of Windows 10 or with a boot CD that has Acronis or Macrium. I also have a 2nd HD with a fairly current Win 10 image from a few months ago. When I want to use it I disconnect the main boot SATA cable and plug it in the alternate boot HD. A few years ago I took a lot of time researching hidden Win updates and found out how to stop them too. I few years ago in Dec using Sonar, there was a mysterious MS hidden update that messed up a lot of DAWs. Even reverting to image files only worked for about 30 min until MS applied the hidden update. Noel explained the whole fiasco, maybe some of you remember. This post is such a wake up call for all of us to have several tools in our toolbox, because this sort of thing can happen to any of us. To have to reinstall from scratch is so time consuming. I never trusted system restore points and the recovery CD enough to not have these other tools. Sometimes I feel like a survivalist, always devising means of surviving a disaster. Murphy's Law sure applies to computers.

Above is my Monday post. I thought I had this problem solved, but I was wrong. Today on Saturday I posted this, which explains how and why this happened. It was caused by the new Breverb