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Audio wafeforms suddenly stop generating output
Lord Tim replied to John Roevekamp's question in Q&A
It's possible some effect has gotten itself into a bad state and that's preventing the engine from engaging. Try opening the problect in safe mode by holding down SHIFT when you open the project. Say NO to loading each effect and see if it plays (don't save the project in this state or you'll lose all of your effects!) - if it plays then, start a process of elimination to see which effect is causing the issue and removing/replacing it. -
Cakewalk runs fine on Windows 7 but it's not actively tested on Win7 or supported, but unlike 8.5, it's still actively being developed and bugs are being fixed. There can sometimes be issues with authentication if some system libraries are out of date or you're using outdated hardware, but otherwise it's working as well as it does on Win8/10/11 for most people. The kick up in features and bug fixes from 8.5 is worth the move alone!
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FX Chain not loading in Cakewalk by Bandlab
Lord Tim replied to MattBWashington's topic in Instruments & Effects
^^ this is my guess too, or it could also be a damaged plugin too - disk errors definitely happen. I tried a test then and saved a chain with Boost11 in it, then saved a blank Boost11_64.dll in the VST Plugins folder, and when I reloaded the chain, I got an "effect not found" error, so I'd rule out something being just missing - it's likely something has corrupted somewhere. -
Cakewalk not recognising external sound card
Lord Tim replied to Chris Barker's topic in Instruments & Effects
Absolutely! I'm using a 18i20 in the studio now but I'm definitely thinking of grabbing a 2i2 or a Solo for the road. This was a last minute thing where the band I was working with informed me that they need a mix in 10 days... 12 hours before I was off on an 8 day trip (thanks guys!) so it was a mad scramble to do what I could while I was travelling. I was actually blown away by how good the Realtek performed! But given a choice, I'd use a proper interface every time. -
Cakewalk not recognising external sound card
Lord Tim replied to Chris Barker's topic in Instruments & Effects
The thing is with Realtek chips, WASAPI actually gives you much better performance than ASIO4ALL does, so even then there's no reason to use it in the vast majority of cases in Cakewalk. This is different for other DAWs who don't have good WASAPI support and kind of require you to use an ASIO driver no matter what if you want good performance, but I can certainly vouch for the work the Bakers did in this area - when I took my laptop on the road a while back, I was actually getting better performance out of WASAPI and the Realtek than I was with my old TASCAM 16x08 with ASIO. -
Nope, from... sometime over the last year or so (I can't remember which version exactly) it's all handled entirely in-app in Cakewalk, so long as you're online. If you need to do an offline Auth from another machine, this is still handled externally. Apart from that, the only reason to have Bandlab Assistant these days is to access the loop library, but it wouldn't surprise me if that ends up in the Browser pane sometime in the future too, given how much they're trying to cut Bandlab Assistant out of the picture (that's made by the devs in Singapore and Cakewalk was kind of bolted onto that when it first came out, but I think the preference is to keep as much stuff in-house as possible) So basically, if you grab the Cakewalk Installer and use that to download Cakewalk, if you're online, you'll never really need to ever see Bandlab Assistant if you don't want to.
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Cakewalk not recognising external sound card
Lord Tim replied to Chris Barker's topic in Instruments & Effects
Snap! Simultaneous post! ? -
Cakewalk not recognising external sound card
Lord Tim replied to Chris Barker's topic in Instruments & Effects
It looks like you haven't installed the Windows drivers for your interface and you're using ASIO4ALL, which is designed for cheap interfaces that don't have proper drivers, which your one certainly does. You'll get MUCH better performance with the correct drivers. Close Cakewalk then uninstall ASIO4ALL. Turn off or unplug your interface. Then you want to go to the Focusrite DOWNLOADS page and get the correct driver for your interface, then install it. Switch your interface back on and let it all detect properly. Then, start up Cakewalk and go to Preferences, and make sure your Focusrite is ticked in all of the driver boxes. That should get you up and running with much better performance and make every input available properly. -
In Cakewalk, go to Help > Sign In and use the account details you signed up to Bandlab with. That should refresh the activation, but if not, after that go to Help > Refresh Activation. If that fails for whatever reason, you may need to uninstall Cakewalk and start again by downloading it with the Cakewalk Installer.
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Don't bother using that, you can uninstall it entirely if you're just planning to use it for Cakewalk by Bandlab. Scroll down for the download link for the Cakewalk Installer on THIS PAGE and use that instead. Any further updates to Cakewalk are all done inside Cakewalk itself.
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ui Feature Request-Support for Animated .png images
Lord Tim replied to Matthew White's topic in Feedback Loop
What do you say, Ben? Surely this is something you could whip up in an afternoon, right? -
Huh... the medical term for the male reproductive gland is censored here. The more you know! ?
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HAHA! I think that would require more ***** trauma than I'm willing to go through for this song!
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ui Feature Request-Support for Animated .png images
Lord Tim replied to Matthew White's topic in Feedback Loop
I do like the idea of having the option for this (I wouldn't want them on the stock themes but it'd be great to give theme builders the option for adding them in, and I'd certainly use one) but I'm wondering how easy this actually would be to incorporate into a Windows UI? It looks like a lot of stuff being added to CbB is using a different framework (eg: the new arranger track, export dialogue, VST menu, etc) and there's a big push in general for stuff to dynamically resize and be vector based rather than bitmap based like CbB mostly is now. Do we know how easy it would be to add this into the existing framework without a crazy amount of work? If things might be moving to being replaced down the track, it might not make a huge amount of sense rewriting something that might be getting retired. (That's a genuine question, though - anyone know what would be involved in adding this to this kind of GUI? I did a very quick look around and didn't see much on it) -
Thank you, sir! I definitely have my third-party favourites that are go-to effects in most mixes, but you can most definitely do a full mix and basic master with the stock effects. Sometimes it takes looking at what we have in a different way to get the most out of them (like my vocal FX Present chain having TH3 in there for signal splitting and saturation - not what you'd usually have a guitar effect doing!), but I honestly mostly use stock effects for a lot of things regardless. Sonitus might look a bit dated now but they're serious workhorses.
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Just gave it a test on a couple of projects then - one with mostly audio tracks, and one with a crap-ton of MIDI in a big orchestral template. Both saved the state of the hidden tracks as I left it. Sorry, Jerry - can't reproduce here. Not sure what might be causing that.
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A dropout has stopped the audio engine
Lord Tim replied to Harley Dear's topic in Cakewalk by BandLab
See if this page helps bring the setting back: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/usb-settings-in-power-plan-options-on-windows-10/38753b89-65d0-49c1-8f91-2bb50f9b19a0#:~:text=Open Change advanced power settings,Click Apply%2C then OK. -
Huh, maybe my MC was 120 or less then, Cakewalk definitely had better resolution than it did even way back in the day.
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https://cecm.indiana.edu/361/rsn-timing.html This is definitely a hold over from the early sequencer days. My MC-500MkII had 240 ticks per quarter note and I had it memorised where each note division was represented so I could shift around notes using my little jog wheel. It sucked. I did do a lot of electronic music using its step sequencer back in the day though, so I'm not really sure why I never took to Cakewalk's one.
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Yeah, this was lifted right from the ProAudio days I think, and never updated (EDIT: Although looking at the blue highlights, it might have gotten a minor facelift around the first couple of SONARs in the early 2000s). I don't reckon I've used Step Record since those days either, now I think about it ?
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Seems to be working OK here. But if the SUPPORT WEBSITE isn't working for submitting a ticket, then you can e-mail support@cakewalk.com and that should get to them OK.
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Same question: what did support ask you to do?
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What OS are you on? And are you running any kind of firewalls? What was in the list of things that Support said to try? There may be some other options we can help you with here they didn't cover, but it's pointless if we just tell you to do the same thing they said.