Strange Behavior with Black Rooster VLA-FET in Cakewalk

[Rafael Rebelo]

Hi!

Recently, I realized that the plugin Black Rooster VLA-FET don't work correctly (knobs and parameters don't respond to changes how it should) when a MONO audio track have the interleave button set to MONO, but when the interleave button is set to STEREO, the plugin works how it should.

I suspect that it's a problem that appeared in the last revisions of Cakewalk, because last year when I last used the same plugin, the problem did not exist.

Cakewalk and the Plugin are updated to the lastest versions.

I tested the plugin in Studio One (v4.6) and the VLA-FET is working correctly.  The same behavior that appears in Cakewalk occurs only when the MONO track have the interleave button setted to STEREO. In MONO, the plugin works properly as it should.

In Cakewalk, when I check the PLUGIN/DAW Info in the plugin, the Channel Config always shows the number 4-2 (with the interleave button in mono or stereo). In Studio One, with the interleave button in MONO, the Channel Config shows 2-1, and with the interleave button in STEREO, it shows 4-2.

Aparenttely, in Cakewalk, turning off the LINK button, does solve the problem.

It's something wrong in my Cakewalk configurations or it is a DAW related problem?

Edited May 14, 2020 by Rafael Rebelo
Correction of the text about the performance of the plugin in Studio One

[jackson white]

Had a similar problem with an Eventide plugin which has been duplicated by the vendor and is being addressed. In this case, switching the track interleave from Stereo to Mono would hang up CxB. 

FWIW, the Black Rooster plugins I've used have been really good, Don't have the VLA-FET, but just checked the VLA-3A, even though it's lacking any "stereo cfg" and did not see any problems related to track interleave. Not much help, sorry, but contacting BRA might be a good next step as you're seeing an issue in another DAW.

[Rafael Rebelo]

Sorry, I dindn't explain it well. I just edited the original post.