Michael Richards

Many times I find a snare or kick in Player I prefer. Other times I am not happy with a BFD3 kit or preset (and there are many of them) and find the simplicity of Player works for me and I just move or copy the BFD3 tracks to Player. So, I can do it your way (and it may be a better way), then it would be your way. I never had a problem before and this is not the problem. Also, if I was of right mind I would never have started my life off down the music road and would be a finance man. In college I asked a guy how he had the time to be in a frat that had keg parties every Saturday. He said he was a business major. That's how. Ten years later he was a millionaire. This was in the 1980s. My choice of doing things may be a little different. Jack Antonoff does things a little differently. Different works.

I have used many presets with many more plugins and never had this problem. Film and video score composers load up many more plugins and never comment about my issue. Also, I previous said, If I start with 4 audio tracks I have no long save. If I continually add the plugins that are in the preset I still have very fast initial saves. So you know, between adding these presets I am closing Sonar. When I have all the plugins from that preset, I no longer have a long first save.

BFD3.5, BFD Player, Keystone Piano (vst2), Ample Bass, SampleTank 4 - Fretless Bass, SampleTron 2.1, Spitfire Originals Epic Strings, Kontakt 7 Player - Spitfire Solo Strings, Neural DSP - Tone King Imperial.

I just discovered something interesting. I have a preset with 8 plugins. The long save happens with this preset. It also happens with less plugin presets. If I start with 4 audio tracks I have no long save. If I continually add the plugins that are in the preset I still have very fast initial saves. So you know, between adding these presets I am closing Sonar. When I have all the plugins from that preset, I no longer have a long save. What could be causing that? Every time I close this preset, reopen it, I get a long first save.

A couple of answers. I am not on a network, this is a personal computer. It is 2 1/2 years old. It is a 2 tb SSD with 500 gb free. CPU is i7 12700K (3.61GHz), 32 gb 4400 ram. 2 months ago this issue never happened. It never happened before. I have been using every version of Cakewalk since the early 1990s. I've asked the internet if any Dell or Win 11 update has cause a problem like this. After the initial save, the subsequent saves are 1-2 seconds.

I downloaded this file. From what I can understand WmiPrvSE.exe:4900 is the process that has the most usage.

Thank you, that is a good suggestion. I already did that. I added all vst locations but that didn't help.

I did everything you said to do. No change. First save almost took 2 minutes. I did many things. Only have a couple of projects in both C and H drive, and saved the file before I wrote any music. Completely emptied the Audio Data and Picture Cache. No changes.

I changed the Global Audio Folder to the H drive and there was still a long first save.

My files on the C drive get moved to the H drive and my G drive when the project is finished. I never have an abundance of projects on the C drive.

I don't understand this, at all. Many times the first save does not have any audio files. You say to save the project to H: before importing/recording any audio. The H drive is a hard drive and the C drive is a ssd. Why would I not use the faster drive? Please explain. I have not changed a thing in 20 years. This saving issue only started in the last 2 months.

I put my computer under a heavy strain of copying 195,000 files from my C ssd to my H hd. After the initial save, subsequent saves were immediate. So, there is not a memory, C drive space, or CPU issue. Does anybody have an idea what is causing such a long initial save time?

No matter what I do, and I have ample resources, the first save of each project is very slow, over a minute. Sometimes it even times out and asks if I want to close project. When I say no and go to save the file it saves it immediately. This happens sometimes when I reopen Sonar and save it the first time. This issue never happens when I save it any other time. I'm running Win 11 on a Dell computer.

I have been using Cakewalk since the early 1990s. I used to have a Roland firewire interface. I never lost the I/O connections. Of course my RME is running before I start up the sleeping Win 11 computer. At some point in time after restoring from sleep I have been losing the input assignments. Today, the audio connections all retained their correct inputs. But all the Midi tracks reverted from UCX II Midi Port 1 to All External Inputs.

This might have been the case forever, but I hope that it won't happen for perpetuity. I had to move some wires around, since I am in nomad mode, and disconnected my RME. When I reconnected it the audio tracks lost their correct input and reverted back to track 1. Is there already a way for me to keep this from happening? Also, in Preferences I have UCX II Midi Port 1 selected but it always defaults to All Inputs. Can this be fixed?