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I'm using 2022.02 build 29, I'm getting an audio dropout every time at 4:17. It doesn't matte if I'm playing back or recording. I'm not sure how long this bug has been present since it's rare that I play a song for over 4 min without stopping. This only happens when you hit play at 0 sec and go to 4:17. I remember this was a bug many years ago, in fact I have my own documentation describing this bug on 9/28/19. The culprit is the same as it was back then. It's the Aux track. I have an Aux track set up as part of my normal template. IN this particular song, I deleted my Aux tracks in the Track pane, but I left the Bus output to the Aux Track in the Bus Pane. I also left 2 audio tracks in my project that had outputs going to this Bus. In the past when this happened the workaround was to archive these 2 vocal tracks. I just tried that and it worked - no dropout. I read my notes and the other fix is to turn the input echo "on" for the Aux Track in the track pane. In the past fixing this bug also fixed a strange but insignificant problem of seeing this Audio dropout message popup after leaving a song in playback and leaving the room and coming back to see this error message. Hopefully Noel will remember this bug because he did fix it and it had something to do with a buffer becoming full. Let me know if anyone needs more info

Fantastic - far better than the Ntonyx 32 bit I was using - thanks

I installed it and l added the DLL and it works very good in real time with the volume pedal. All the changes you're working on sound very good and useful. Thanks for all your help

It sounds like your midi plugin will do what I want. Would you please verify this? This is what I need it to do Set up my analog external synth controlled by my midi volume pedal and have the volume pedal also control my soft synth and I can adjust the CC7 curve for the soft synth to match the volume pedal behavior of the analog synth. Can I make adjustments to the CC7 curve and hear the results in real time? This is how the 32 bit Ntonyx plugin worked.

It doesn't appear to work in real time for setting the curve, but once it's set. I think it will work. I hope I can find one that you can set in real time, so I can hear the results as I adjust. WEBSITE SAYS THIS: The MFX works on real-time input from a keyboard, also. An important thing to remember when using the plugin during playback is that changes to the settings will not be heard immediately. This is because the MIDI data is streamed to the component about two measures ahead of the time it’s actually played.

So in other words, I can set up my analog external synth controlled by my midi volume pedal and have the volume pedal also control my soft synth and I can adjust the CCMap for the soft synth to match the volume pedal behavior of the analog synth, right? I can make adjustments to the curve in the CCMap and hear the results in real time? This is how the 32 bit Ntonyx plugin worked. Have you used the CCMap?

Using Paste, where the Paste window pops up, align to measures can be checked and it doesn't align. I have to redo it, experimenting with the check-box until I can finally get it to work. I think this bug has only occurred in 2021.11

One of the synths is a hardware external synth and the other is a soft synth, but your method does work perfectly with 2 soft synths.

My understanding is that the CCMap, doesn't work in real time. It alters the CC data after it's recorded. Whereas I want something to alter the data in real time coming from my midi volume pedal.

I have 2 synths, but they react differently to the volume pedal. In other words if I have them perfectly balanced at a low volume pedal setting and then raise the volume with the pedal, 1 synth gets louder quicker throwing off the balance between the 2 synth sounds.. Ntonyx has a 32 bit mid plugin that work fines, but it won't work with 64 bit CbB. I can draw a curve that affects how the foot volume pedal tracks the midi controller #7. Any one know of any midi FX plugins

I'm still getting this bug in the Export window. When I open it it defaults to my custom Eternal Encoder preset named "Wav+MP3" Which creates both a wav and mp3 in the export. Many times all I want is an mp3 so I change it to my custom "Mp3" preset. Half the time it creates both the wav and mp3 instead of only the mp3

I use V-Vocal all the time and if you use my method, outlined in one of these posts, you won't get a crash, unless one particular CWP is corrupted

I'm still getting this bug in the Export window. When I open it it defaults to my custom Eternal Encoder preset named "Wav+MP3" Which creates both a wav and mp3 in the export. Many times all I want is an mp3 so I change it to my custom "Mp3" preset. Half the time it creates both the wav and mp3 instead of only the mp3

Hang in there, Craig, you're in great hands in this forum. Someone will get to the bottom of this. I've been using the various incarnations of Cakewalk since 1992 an CbB is clearly the best one ever. I've had a lot of issues though the decades and some have nothing to do with CbB but other things in your computer setup. And of course I've run across legitimate bugs, but all were fixed. Even after you get a stable system, make sure you make backups or learn how to use the rollback feature, where you can rollback to the previous version if you get a showstopper bug.

I just used launchpad to open 2021.08 I selected some audio, chose Export, entered the song name, chose my External Encoder preset named "WAV+MP3" and exported the files. I then opened Export again, entered the same name in the box and right below the box, the song name. mp3 and song name.wav popped up, letting me know I already had those files and I'd be overwriting them. I chose "export" and got an overwrite message about the wav file and after that I got a separate overwrite message about the mp3. So the old Export window was clearly better at safeguarding us from overwriting files. I tend to add a number after the song name like "song name 1", "song name 2", etc. So sometimes it's hard to remember the number at the end, especially if it's a different day, so these are very helpful reminders, so we don't accidentally overwrite files

I see you have a slightly different situation. Whenever I create an mp3 and wav I move the mp3 to my internet computer mp3 folder for sending to clients. This still doesn't explain why I don't get that overwrite message when exporting only an mp3

In my case I'm not using "tasks", I'm using an External Encoder. And for wav files I always get the "replace file" message, but I never get that message for mp3's. If this is the way it was intended, then it should be reconsidered, since the old export window did not do this and was better in this respect.

This is good news for me, since you weren't using an External Encoder, which I'm sure few use. So hopefully this will be fixed since the same thing is happening when using "tasks"

Export using External Encoder still doesn't ask if you'd like to overwrite an mp3 file. I have my External Encoder set up to save the wav file used to create an mp3. So if I choose my Preset named wav+mp3, Both a wav and mp3 are created in the same process, If I use my preset: wav+mp3, to create a wav and mp3 and then repeat the process. I will get a message box asking if I'd like to replace the wav file, but not a message asking to if I'd like to replace the mp3. If I choose my custom External Encoder "Mp3", it also doesn't ask if I'd like to replace the file with the same name The export window sometimes gets confused also. Sometimes if I choose my custom mp3 preset, it will create and save the wav file also

There are so many crazy unpredictable things that can happen with computers and a complex program like CbB. This is why I'd suggest to everyone to have a disaster recovery plan. Of course this isn't a disaster, but it's frustrating and you wonder where the problem is. You can spend a long time troubleshooting. The easier path is to make a clone of your boot drive when everything is working ok and put that in when things are perplexing and first see if things are ok then. Another great thing with CbB is the rollback feature where you can rollback to a previous version and see if that fixes it. I save all the install versions of CbB in case I need to go that route. I also have scook Launchpad that enables you to save the Cakewalk Core folder which is only about 200-300 meg and go back to a previous version using that. Since the problem could be an auto Win Update. The safest thing to do is to disable Win Updates and to enable Win Updates when you go to a new CbB version. After it's installed and all the Win Updates are up to date. Save that as an image file using the free Macrium or Acronis. The image is exactly like a clone of your boot drive. If you go this route you should try and keep your C drive lean - only OS and programs, no samples or data. Use other HD's for that. My C drive is about 67 gigs and the compressed images are about 33 gigs When things go haywire and they always do eventually, I first try a previous CbB, if that doesn't work then I'll make an image of my current C drive and revert to an earlier image when everything was working to try to determine if my OS got corrupted or what. Troubleshooting is far easier if you have these tools - good luck.

Yes it has to be in a separate folder. Search some of my recent posts where I describe the whole process and give you some code and also a quick way of getting the lame files on my OneDrive

Yes Keni, that's exactly what we'd both like

yes, I'm aware of that - thanks for all your help and advice

I checked it out. Pretty amazing stuff. If I were to try this I'd need to open the browser, select notes and add into the notes - artist and name (songname). I already have the artist name and songname in my CWP. So in my case it's easier to not have to type that again and just open export and paste my cwp name in there. All I have to do it delete the number at the end of the cwp and then type in a few letters or numbers. For them to change it so where my CWP name is in the box instead of {projectname) may foul up the current tasks, not sure. The simpler solution is when I open the Export window that the focus is on my filename, so I can easily edit it, instead of having to click in that box and then hit Paste. Ideally I'd prefer when I open the Export that my CWP name is already in there, not {projectname) , so I don't even have to hit Paste.

I tried adding MAST at the end of the y {projectname} and it works fine for wav files, yet I got an error for the mp3. It didn't create the mp3. It's because I’m using the External Encoder. It works fine for the regular CbB mp3