Michael Richards

Jonathan, thank you. As soon as I get back to the studio I will check the fill and trim durations. It’s probably been a year since I looked at that. Wookiee is probably right. The staff view (my main view) seems very similar to a 1990s staff view. I get the feeling I am the only person who always relies on it. Without it, I would leave Cakewalk. Please don’t drop it.

I get this a lot, and for a long time. Is there a reason why Sonar doesn't always display the accurate length of a note? Mark, can you help?

Mistake.

Who owns Dimension Pro and Z3TA+2 64? They were wonderful Cakewalk plugins. They covered so much ground. Is there any chance that they can be updated?

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?

I'll take a shot at this. I think he wants to hear the audio on one PC in his studio from his office PC. I recorded a vocalist on 2 songs 100 miles away from me. You have to use WASAPI Shared to hear the audio. Controlling the other computer is something I do by using Anydesk. Would that work for you? Michael

I agree, no reason for 44.1.

is it higher or lower? I can’t see why any professional would go lower. I could be wrong.

I spend a good deal of my day in the staff view, but for note durations it is much easier to view and edit in the piano roll. You can edit the lengths of each note very easily this way.

Thank you, Freddy.

That is something else, I have never heard of baking recording tape.