saxon1066

Hey, listen. I am sick of having to go online to re-activate my free copy of Cakewalk, which seems less frequent but still necessary with this release. I do not want to have to connect my music computer to the Internet, and re-activating by signing in to Bandlab is just damn annoying. Next release: stop making us re-activate free Cakewalk periodically.

Glad those annoying nag messages are gone (for now). Hated them. (The new Sonar announcement and, even worse, the must sign in to register free Cakewalk every few weeks.) Please don't bring them back!!!!

Hey!!! I was just about start a similar discussion with a similar issue. I get a stuck note that continue on forever, but this seems to happen only with VPS Avenger synth. I don't have the same problem with Omnisphere. I have tried two different keyboard controllers--the Roland A-88 and the Behringer UMX610, both with their respective drivers installed. Both exhibit the same behavior--a random stuck note. There also seems to be a lack of reponsiveness with the keyboards, an occasional dead key strike. When I use the virtual keyboard within Avenger, there are no stuck notes. I cannot really play that virtual keyboard, of course. Moreover, I tried both keyboard controllers to trigger Avenger in Studio One. No problem there!! The problem is only in Cakewalk. Is this a bug in the Cake? I'm using Win10 with the very latest CbB.

Just discovered the Tempo Track. Didn't know it existed! Looks very promising for the very task I want to do. Need to learn how to use it. You can just drag particular sections up and down to change tempos. The transitional curves look cool, too!

Thanks, guys. The problem is that I have multiple tempo changes--like 9 changes--throughout the tune, and I may only want a temporary change in say the third and sixth tempos--so I can add drum parts at a slower speed before returning to a faster tempo. So, I'm going to have to be doing a bunch of tempo changes just to temporarily do changes in two of nine sections. It would be nice just to select a region and change only that region. Cakewalk! New feature!!!!

Thanks, guys. The problem is that I have multiple tempo changes--like 9 changes--throughout the tune, and I may only want a temporary change in say the third and sixth tempos--so I can add drum parts at a slower speed before returning to a faster tempo. So, I'm going to have to be doing a bunch of tempo changes just to temporarily do changes in two of nine sections. It would be nice just to select a region and change only that region. Cakewalk! New feature!!!!

Hello! I've been using Cakewalk since it was Sonar 2.2, but I never figured this out--probably because I didn't need it too often. I would like to change tempo in a section in the middle of a song without affecting the tempos around that section. I was hoping it was as easy as selecting the region in the time ruler, then inserting a new tempo, but that doesn't seem to work--it affects the rest of the song. Is there a way do change tempo only for a middle section? Thanks!!

Thanks, Hatstand. I'm tentatively optimistic that the issue is resolved. It appears that the 20H2 update installation may not have been complete. I ran the check for updates again, and there was a further update to 20H2 indicated, a more recent one. That, fingers crossed, seems to have fixed things. The first update was definitely a problem for me.

Everything was working fine until I decided to update to Win10 20H2, with other recommended driver updates. Now Cakewalk does not function on my system. There's a weird distortion until audio dropout every time I hit play. Anyone else experience problems?

Nope, it still happened with the start screen turned off. I'm at a loss. Already tried a clean reinstall.

I'll give that a try! Thanks marled.

Thanks for the reply, gustabo. I'm not sure what AV means here. How to do this?

Hello! Every time I launch Cakewalk (latest version and for the past couple of updates), the mouse pointer goes nuts, blinks on and off between pointer and hourglass, and is doubled. It's enough to give me a seizure and actually makes it difficult to choose an existing project from the list. Upon loading the project, the problem goes away--it's just at startup, and it only happens for Cakewalk, no other software on my system. I have attached a movie showing the problem. Is there a way to fix that? I'm using Win 10, also latest update. Pointer 1.MOV

I also did not know that!

I have a Fostex 250 4-track that I paid $950 bucks for way back in 1984. The switches were always wearing out--got them replaced about 2x each. It was non-functional (not playing the tape) for about 15 years because of a worn out drive belt. The belt is just a frickin rubber band, rather small, but no one had the specs, so I had to wait years until some guy in UK, the only guy still making them, decided to sell to USA again. Got some old stuff to digitize! I actually hated those 4-tracks.