I have a large file (orchestral) with a lot of tracks and a lot of samples loaded from 3 different brands of samples (EastWest, Arturia, and Kontact).
When I simply "play" the file, it runs perfectly. The problem comes when I edit the midi in any track. After doing edits (from adding or changing a note or two to adding simple to complex dynamic or expression changes to controllers), at some point during the edit and playback check,the instrument on that track will stop playing audio for that track (playback with no sound for that track only) or the entire set of instruments for that group/instance. Other tracks will still play. The only solution is to save the file, close it and then reopen it. This save-close-reopen process takes over three minutes and is incredibly frustrating. I never know when it is going to happen but it always does - sometime after about 2-10 minutes.
I tried freezing all the tracks I wasn't editing (which took hours because of the length and number of tracks) just to see if that would solve the problem and it didn't.
My laptop is running Windows 10, has a Xeon Quad core processor, 64 Gb RAM, 60 free GB on disk (SSD). Cakewalk doesn't show the system as being over taxed at all.
Is it a bug or is there something I can do?
Does anyone else have a problem like this.
Are there specifics to creating a file with 64+ tracks (instruments) for an orchestral production file using EastWest Hollywood Orchestra Diamond Collection (local not cloud) without overloading the system with instances of EastWest Play (e.g. with Kontakt I can create 16 tracks per instance of of the Kontakt Player to keep the load low). With EastWest, I'm at a loss as to the details of setting this up. I've received instructions that are too general to set up the file, as in no information on how to set up each track or the mixer in one instance of EastWest Player. Is there a step by step (leaving nothing out) process for this that goes beyond the first instance and first 16 channels which all the recommendations include? My system has 64Gb Ram, 8 core i7 processor and SSD drives with plenty of space. I 'upgraded' to Cakewalk BandLab from Cakewalk Platinum.