Michael Fogarty

thank you. So, flashing the bios now with the update. I don't know what OS build means - you mean Windows 10 Home Edition? (I think it's home. On my desktop its pro.) When you say feel free to ask support questions are you saying to you Capt. Kirk or to Dell (no disrespect just complying with your avatar name.)

thank you. I had done gigs in the past and not noticed this. I have tried various interfaces recently and they all 3 seem to have the intermittent problem. I have not tried my higher end interfaces because I would not be using them live anyway. I have also not tried with midi, only usb, because hey it should work! Will turn off wifi and get a usb mouse not a wifi one.

Hi Bob. Am thinking it is wifi or bluetooth. I have no plug-ins in Demo Mode. No effects plug-ins.

Thanks David. I’ll try that. If it is the Bluetooth or WiFi, could /should I just try disabling them? One interesting fact is that with this laptop for the first time I am using a Bluetooth mouse. Maybe thats the culprit. Gswitz thanks for the thought. None of my VST instruments even have a demo version. The higher end ones don’t seem to let you demo their products before buying.

Yes, that's it. I am afraid to go try it out again because its so discouraging when you have such an expensive laptop, using it with a new Yamaha keyboard or even another interface and you are super into your rehearsal for live gig and damn - the sound comes. You've been doing this a long time, have no problems on your desktop for years or your other laptops. Is it the VST's?. I tried a bunch of tweaks, getting rid of many startup programs, background services, made sure the Realtek Onboard card is disables, etc. I will pay somebody for services online video chat, or trade some of the time by mixing, adding keys, (I even have a Hammond with Leslie - yum) backing vocals, etc. Let me know if you want samples. I am pro, but I was never a geek (I say this in great respect). I haven't run into any computer problems (software) that I couldn't handle - you can look in the signature at some of my gear. My desktop as well I can only get down to 128 samples 2.9ms (not roundtrip). For Omnisphere, Ravenscroft Piano, Scarbee, etc I can feel the latencyI have an i5-3570k CPU @3.40Ghz 16gb RAM 64bit Windows 10Pro. I was told at the time I had this computer built (not a professionally built machine - a friend) that this particular i5 model is basically as good as getting an i7. 2 Years ago close close friend of mine Laz Harris, Presonus Asian Main Guy - said it's not just the speed difference - that's where the guy who built my computer for audio made a mistake , the i7 actually does something an i5 won't do - was it multi-threading or something? I wished I could tell you by I'm a bit inept at this subject(but I can listen to your mix and tell you without a chart which frequencies to raise or lower in the spectrum or how to tweak your Ravenscroft Digital piano to sound like if you are seriously in a concert hall (not just reverb and mic placement but how to add wood sound, sneezes in the audience. (the last part was a joke sorry. I figure if you made it this far you must be drinking, blazed, or just a nice person.). Do I need an i7? How do I get the latency down. I have one of the new MOTU AVB types abd Jim said they should be able to go way down. I have a Presonus DP88/Studio 192 I will sell for beans because Laz warned me it was great with Studio One but the latency was bad with other DAW - boy is it ever. They made their DAW similar to Pro Tools in the fact that it runs miraculously better with the companies own hardware or vice versa. Seems they have fixed that with the Quantum, but I am not in the market for a new interface at this point. I just got Dynaudio BM6, a new CLP545, and other enhancements. My Dell blew its motherboard and they wanted $700 to fix that (it was 3 years old - warranty had just run out.) Anyway, all that to say, especially with the Ravenscroft which for me is way ahead of the competition (I own every digital piano except keyscape. I would love the Keyscape Rhodes, but that is a lot of money for another Rhodes. I have Scarbee EP88 - pretty amazing. Anyway, if anybody wants to talk keyboards or what it's like on the road, or studio stories, songwriting, how to make a Wurlitzer sound like a Wurlitzer or a Rhodes like a Rhodes, ADHD, give me a shout either here or PM or FB Messenger I am here/there. But yes, how to bring my computer level up to bring my latency down. Will an i7 do it. My MOBO is 7 years old. Do I need a new computer (please say no). Is an i7 chip the answer? Do I need an Apogee, RME, or UAD Unit (please say no) Thanks everyone. This is the only forum I really frequent. Appreciate all of you. I won't proofread this - time to play. Hope it is clear what I need in the midst of all the chat.

slightly off topic, but was is Fazioli F308? Do you have a 10 foot grand in your studio?

Beautiful. Thanks for the hard work.

Hi David. Yes, I guess this will remain a mystery. Had nothing to do with zooming out. I tried redrawing the wav, bouncing down the wav, reversing the wav, opening it in SoundForge - nothing. Weird stuff. But I'm good to go now after an install.

re-install fixed it. (this is 2019 - now in 2020 the same issue and re-install didn't fix it. Bye bye

sorry, I can't remember as I have rarely used that function as I mix as I go. But from what I can remeber something like that. It says :busy" so must not be drawing the wav right. There is also no picture .wov in the picture cache.

I'm re-installing.

I found this - but don't totally understand it. I got lost at "type alt enter". I typed it but nothing happened. If your Audio Clips are labeled "Busy", go to EDIT | SELECT | ALL, type ALT+ENTER, go to the Audio Files tab and click "Recompute Picture(s)" There are 3 new INI variables in SONAR 6.2 and higher that are used by picture cache generation and display. You will need to search your hard drive for the following INI files then open them in Notepad to make the edits or add the new line: AUD.INI: [Aud] EnablePicCacheThreads=1 (default) This option creates extra background worker threads for the generation of wave pictures when you load a project. One worker thread is automatically created per CPU/core. Setting EnablePicCacheThreads=0 reverts back to only using a single thread for picture computation. If you are running a system with multiple CPU's or cores setting this to 1 can greatly speed up the computation of pictures. Notes: · These threads are only active while the picture is being computed. · This option is only applicable on multiprocessor/multicore systems. [Aud] ComputePicturesWhilePlaying=1 (default) This option allows waveform pictures to be computed in the background while audio playback is in progress. Most modern computers should be able to handle this load with no problems. Note that work is only done while new pictures are actually being computed - once the pictures are finished rendering there is no overhead. CAKEWALK.INI: [WinCake] ProgressiveWavePictures=1 [default] This option enables progressive display of waveform pictures. When enabled you will see pictures being displayed in the clips view dynamically as they are being computed. The waveforms will update in the background when the application is idle. If the ComputePicturesWhilePlaying flag is set to 1, waveforms will continue being displayed progressively even while audio playback is in progress. This can save time waiting for a complete picture to be finished before you can see it. Tags

I've also tried bouncing the track -still grey - I've deleted the picture cache (actually there is nothing in the picture cache which is suspect. )I wonder if it isn't drawing. In case you skipped to the bottom, I just installed Sound Forge on the laptop and the wavs show perfectly there, but not in Cakewalk. The wavs say "busy" which usually infers it is drawing them -they play -but they are grey -kind of like me.

I've also checked colors

I wonder if on my laptop for some reason the "wav" don't have an association or something. This is so strange.

it's not locked

why do you think they are greyed out?

I still have no answer to this.

Man, weirdness. Has never happened on my desktop. I pull the corner of one of the tracks to adjust it's size and it won|t adjust. It works using the up down arrows but not with the mouse.

thanks everybody. I didn't make it in time for the gig but I just did without the crossfade. No, I couldn't edit means -I can't see where to cut. It's grey. I haven't turned on my laptop again as I am on my desktop but will try your suggestions. This has never happened on my main DAW -Desktop . Yes, maybe I pushed something by accident as it is a touch screen laptop.

they aren't muted - I hear them perfectly but they are greyed out.

Because of a busy schedule and time differences I never managed to meet with Noel - he was generous. I never showed up. As mentioned before, I rarely use the laptop and have been busy with work on my DAW desktop. So, Sverre Tofte from Norway wrote and said he had the same problem. It was a perissions/security thing. Looked online how to do and all is well. Sees to be caused by windows updates. Latest update - Noel has offered direct intervention. Long live Cakewalk. Because of our time differences and new morning work due to COVID it may take a while to jive. In good time, will let everyone know the final outcome. Re-iterating, this is not my main DAW that I use on a daily basis but a backup laptop. Update - I'm back here again a year later (I haven't used my XPS 9350 for live in a while. My daily work is on Desktop and no issues. Only greyed out .wav. Nothing in the picture cache. Is there a setting to have cakewalk draw them? I have right clicked on them and recomputed them but nothing. What is missing here? File association in windows? I have just tried recording with waveform preview on and it is not drawing the wav while recording as well - only grey. I have changed the theme to a Cakewalk default and still nothing. This is really a mystery. I have been using this product since its beginning. . None of the immediate answers below from the community apply. I have tried all of that. They are not muted. They work fine. But I can't see them - just grey splotches. Noel and others are now chiming in at the bottom. This is the second time this has happened. A year ago, a Cakewalk re-install worked. This time it doesn't. The wavs say "busy" which usually infers it is drawing them -they play -but they are grey -kind of like me.

ha! Thank you TheSteven. What I should have said is has this subject been covered - was looking for a “link” to a thread in Cakewalk about the upgrade so that I don’t duplicate. I’ll give you a heart for the effort.

this happened to me once on Melodyne Assistant and I can't remember what I did. ANNOYING! I don't think it was because loop was on. Sorry I can't help.

this is what I do. New plug-in, new scan. Manual.