Bill Phillips

Using instructions you've provided on the forum, I'm starting today loading minimal installations of SONAR (8.5, X1-3 & Platinum) on a new PC before I install Cakewalk. I've never used the Time/Pitch Stretch 2 plugin, but I hope I get it my installs.

I suggest you read through this thread. I believe you'll see that the only person being in any way aggressively or disrespectfully here is you in your references to "they" and their undisclosed transgressions. To me, it sounds to me that you're trying to pick a fight over some past transgressions that maybe only you remember. Also, going back to 2019 might indicate you hold a grudge too long.

Does this require Loop Construction View as described here?

Exception handling to prevent plugins from crashing DAWs must be difficult or plugins wouldn't be listed as causing 99.9% of all DAW crashes by Production Experts. There are probably a number of plugin failure modes that can and are anticipated by DAW developers. But there are also probably an incalculable number of ways plugins can crash that nobody can anticipate until it happens.

Read this before posting here for assistance when Cakewalk crashes. It might save you and the people trying to assist you some time. However, the troubleshooting method proposed seems hard to implement, for me at least. I have a couple of thousand plugins and plucking (then replacing) half of the 10-20 I'm using in a project from their folders in the plugin 10 +/- Plugin folders can take a while. Maybe renaming them by adding character to the .dll or .vst3 suffix (.dllx or .vst3x) might work and be easier.

So a pet name (dropped 2 characters) not an acronym? Hmmm.? Now that I know what this discussion is all about, I can say that I do appreciate the mobile phone UI improvements and agree that it is much improved. Before, I often, but not always, had to switch to landscape and zoom/scroll to read forum content.

Sorry, what's mobi?

You're kidding, right? I don't recall receiving any X2, X3 or Platinum CD's, just hours of downloads.

I thought the same thing. Then I installed 1000 VSTs on a 2nd drive and learned that the VST3 versions of those plugins install in the Program Files folder on the System (C:/) drive. And, many of them, even the VST2 versions, store lots of data in the Users folder also on the System (C:/) drive. And then there's the installers and other small programs installed by some VST Installers. I don't have much other than the DAW on my PC and I have 300-400 programs listed under Programs and Features on Control Panel. I ended upgrading my System drive to 500 GB.

I'm not sure I understand the question. So I'll tell you what I do. I too have a Focusrite audio interface. The Cakewalk Master bus output is routed to the Focusrite Monitor output. I don't mess with that. The Windows 10 audio output is routed separately to, in your case, the laptop speakers. But other routing options exist like Bluetooth. The selection is made using the little speaker ? icon on the tool bar. To test a mix, I export it as a 16/44.1 wave file and use the Windows Media player which uses output selected with the little speaker ? icon.

Thanks, I do have some Melda stuff but it may be all free plugins. I doubt they'd add another 20% discount for something that's being offered at a 84% discount. Who's Brian Walton?

What about Melda's mdrumstrip? It's not free but for today, (I think) it's $53. I hope to try it out before that deal expires.

Thanks.

Is MFC Microsoft Foundation Class? Where are the MFC menus found/identified? Sorry for the dumb question. I see MFC in a lot of forum posts. Usually I just blow past them, but this time I'm interested. My really capable self-built DAW PC failed fatally. While I'm sorting that out, I'm relying on my not so capable Surface Pro 3 and thought this Pause thing might help. But, that's still not enough to get through your demo project (Thanks!) without pops and clicks in busy parts.

Since Cakewalk has one new product in beta testing and will have another one in beta testing soon, I thought this Production Expert blog post might be interesting: What Makes A Good Software Beta Tester

Thank you Bandlab and Cakewalk Team! Man, I can't wait to see both products! Unfortunately I'll have to wait. My DAW PC was apparently fatally injured by a failing power supply and I'm in the middle of deciding what to replace it with. Now, I've got even more motivation to get that done.

Thanks @msmcleod. I've never used Track Manager presets.

"Higher than 16bit?" Shouldn't it be 16bit?

Thanks, @John Vere That answers my question, Using WASAPI is a significant drawback, particularly for a new DAW user, to deal with.

@John Vere are you saying that a USB, large diaphragm condenser mic using WASAPI can't be used to make a decent vocal recording? I haven't tried it. So I don't know; but it surprises me that it flat won't work. I understand that the USB mic limits you to recording one track at a time and, a ASIO audio interface is needed for recording other instruments. But if your favorite mic for vocals is the USB condenser, couldn't you use it and WASAPI drivers to record the vocal?

I agree. It should work, though, I haven't tried it. Also, latency may make including the vocal in a headphones mix impossible, and additional connected I/O will be limited to the PC audio interface.

AFAIK, some VSTs use OpenGL to access GPU processors supporting OpenGL when they are available. I've noticed some now have a GPU tick box in their VST installer dialogs. So whatever they're passing to the GPU, when an adequate one is available, probably offloads the CPU and vis versa. Anecdotally, I use a lot of iZotope VSTs and I like to keep a number of their UIs open during playback. To me upgrading my video card to increase OpenGL capacity seemed to reduce the impact on performance of having iZotope UIs open.

I have long out of print 1st and 2nd editions of "Cakewalk Synthesizers" by Simon Cann. I believe he made these available to people who bought the books in digital form at that time. Those may be available online somewhere. There's about 30 pages on Dimension LE and Pro in the 2nd edition.

Oh, your zeon processor is in a Mac. I was thinking it would be in a PC. Thanks.

AFAIK, the xeon processors are considerably more expensive than the core processors. Do the xeon's out perform core i7 & i9 processors with Cakewalk?