Keni

Thanks pwal! This will be more difficult to sink in for me I'm sure. We played in bands together, built studios, and recorded music together for near 5 decades. He was a good man!

It’s my sad time to post this info. An amazing musician and one of my lifelong best friends passed away in Florida yesterday. He was a long time Cakewalk/Sonar user with many performances credits as a drummer with musicians all over the world. I’m too shaken right now to do this justice. Maybe the last website I built for him is still running? Try http://www.icepackrecords.com and maybe lucky? There is a pic of him on a page on my website at http://www.dspacer.com on the Artist page. The link on that page appears defunct. Sorry. Forgive me for not posting better/more comprehensive info. I will do my best to post more. We were just artwork and paperwork away from releasing his new album Let’s see if I can post the pic here? ?

Thanks Grem... I've tried to follow some videos I've found... Most difficult to follow. I did manage to get signal flowing for a moment using Reastream somehow. I haven't managed to get it back. Lost it while trying to organize and understand the setup. Has to do with using Reastream at both ends but I can't get Reastream to show in OBS' vst list. I'm gonna try manually copying the dll to the steinberg folder?

Thanks Grem! I don’t see any available OBS Inputs/Outputs within Preferences. In OBS I do find an area that allows me to select my available sources/destinations as it does in Cake. Meaning. I have 18 i/o 8 are pairs including preamps and such from my Audiobox 1828 8 are ADAT which connect to my Soundcsape hardware when needed 2 are SPDIF Im guessing it’s understanding the routing so that OBS is receiving the correct audio path. I’m currently blindly experimenting.

Thanks Craig... Exactly as I have been. I’m usually good with new softwares quickly if they’re reasonably designed. I haven’t yet found satisfactory info but also barely begun. I can do a screen video capture and it includes the system mic by default but I’ve been unable to get it to read my audio interface even when I found and selected them as my audio source. I'm hoping soneone can give me a simple expkanation and save me the video hunt? ?

Please tell me if I should cease. I just added OBS studio to my DAW to use for video capture of screen situations as it should be a major step up from LiCap which I had been using. I've got it installed and working, but nervous as I didn't have a streaming site to select and it got an incomplete registration... but appears to be working fine for my current needs With another bit of guidance I downloaded and installed the OBS ASIO driver... I've managed to do screen captures a bit ragedly but still unable to get it to hear Cake's ASIO output. I've tried many selections. Obviously none correct or something else I have yet to learn? Can anyone offer any guidance on this setup/situation to help me understand the workings? Thanks!

Yeah! That was easy this time. I finally got someone both comfortable enough with pc workings and with a decent hotspot connection and the job was fixed in a flash! Connected pc to hotspot Downloaded and ran the latest EA CbB activated immediately and he's back in the groove! Thanks to all for the pointers and thoughts!

Sorry, I didn’t see them as my priorities are currently elsewhere. I’m trying to solve this issue for a non-tech, no internet friend across the country from me. I will look for them now. Thanks.

Thanks again Gustabo... Nice to have the Sonar ad gone! I'll have to see about getting someone in Florida to do the update for my friend. Nice to see the offline activation finally returned. That may help too... I guess changes made to impliment this coming update may be the cause of his problem.... somehow? I should have tried opening CbB before running the update to see if the same was true on my system as his? Too late now! Wait! I just remembered I have it installed on my older machine as well.... off to look! Nope... All was well with my other CbB install. I have updated that to the EA as well... So I'm still trying to understand what's going on with my friend's machine. Half open and useless for him at the moment...

Thanks... I didn't even know there is one. My problem (as mentioned in OP is that my friend is both incapable of doing such and doesn't have internet (not even a smart phone) so it becomes involved gettting someone to visit him and use a hotspot to handle his internet needs. I will consider it, but it has been working fine until today, so I don't think it's the build, but I will download the EA for myself to check it out anyway. Thanks for the heads up. Maybe something changed behind the scenes on the server side? Still shouldn't affect the opening of the program.

Has anyone run into this? I have a friend who is stuck with this problem. I've had him close it using Task Manager and re-boot as well but when he opens CbB it only opens covering part of the screen and is frozen with the Sonar ad and nothing working. The only thing I can think to do would be to re-install CbB but that's very difficult in this situation as my friend is both pc UNsaavy and has no internet. I would go over, but he's in Florida and I'm in California. My other friend local to him in Florida who has been handling his machine and updates is in the hospital so he can't help. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!

Here's hoping that one day soon, someone will come up with better means of handling these issues. The current paradigm is a mess!

That sounds fine by me! I plan on leaving it until it (or I) dies! ? So I guess that's a benefit of the iLok... It maintains the license beyond the manufacturer once in place... Good to know (believe?)

Thanks for confirming my suspicion... I was fortunate that being recently burned, I was not ready to chance something working fine for potential problems and avoided the update. Happily still working but for how long until they stop paying the license fee for the iLok version???

Interesting observation, but often for me I don't know if I'm going to need automation until long after adding the effect

Big ouch! Luckily not necessary. Though it was painful while I was working, I didn't report this until after I'm essentially finished with my MIDI work on this song other than any necessary tweaks at final mix. So I really don't "need" to solve this to work, only to understand why it's happenning and how I might avoid it happening again... So I may do a quickie version of this idea starting a new project (empty) importing all tracks as frozen audio except loading a new instance of the VSampler I've been using for the testing and then copy the MIDI track for that one (after removing all the meter change info)

Thanks for the confirmation David. Exactly my thinking. I took it all the way down to only the single plugin in a quick test and it is still problematic. Next going to remove all meter changes, save, reopen then remove all other tracks as well. Repeat close open I'll report asap

Just tried a quick test deleting the meter changes without saving etc. No diff there but I'll do a full test in a while when I'm not multi-tasking others' problems simultaneously...

We will see some time today. Thanks for the pointer. I'm surprised I didn'[t think to look there but that's exactly what I was looking for. I remember it but couldn't remember where! I'll review it as well as test removing all the meter changes and report back...

will try asap... something came up requiring my attention

Thanks David... I don't think so either. Especially seeing that so far it's impossible to find the pause key on my system due to mac/pc differences as well as keyboard brand unusualness.. I'm more convinced than ever that it's related to the meter changes as I can see how the PRV would need to interpret such. I removed all tracks except for the vsampler midi/audio tracks and bypassed all remaining fx.... The problem still persists. In none of my other project using this VSampler plugin with the same bass loaded including projects with nearly identical instrumentation brands/models If this is the case I can easily live with it for now as I've already weathered the tedious editing for this song and all that remains are vocals with a guitar solo.... No more midi work planned and I rarely do such meter mapping... ?

Thanks, but no. That's the tempo track and displays tempo changes. These are not tempo changes. The tempo remains the same but the song changes from 3/4 to 4/4 and even to 1/4 3 times! ? It's the number of beats in a measure...

Thanks Jonesey... I'll try that in a little while. Just finished breakfast. i did try removing all tracks except the superior drummer and the vsampler used in all this. Problem still the same after save/close/reopen... A thought just came to me though. One possibly very significant item. This song has a number of meter changes! Maybe that or the crazy editing I did to figure out and map thr meter changes as the song evolved. Good possibility that either having such a map, or the sloppy way it was implemented? That’s really sounding plausible now? Maybe I’m not remembering, but is there any place to see an overview of the meter changes?

I getcha. I’m not a mac fan either though as a computer tech I’ve done support/repairs/installs fir a few companies including supporting pg&e and pac bell. So I had to be fluent in each. But I was gifted these powerhouse (each of them cost my friend over $10k new) it was impossible to refuse. I have become far below poverty level (government assessment) these days. Made it a really easy decision. I couldn’t come close to this power myself. Only downside on the trashcan is the lack of multi-drive internal setup, so I do occasionally feel the drag running anything from the USB3 external. The thunderbolt 2 drives are a smidgen better, hut nothing to write home about. Trashcan... very appropriate for more than it’s appearance as they created a dead end flagship in this machine. I love the prior dual xeon 6 core processors @3.06 in a normal mac pro tower with 4 internal ssd's... A screamer but had me trapoed at win8.1 which I didn’t mind until I couldn’t get new software running that required win10. Now I’m trapped at win10! ?

Thanks for trying... I've been doing this for a couple of machines dating back to the Sonar days and though everyone always is shy thinking it has issues due to this, I haven't discovered any one difference. Bootcamp supplies the DOS boot table and it's running on intel... When it's open as windows (the only way I use it) it is a windows machine... Period... Now the keyboard? That's always been a bit of a pain...