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Cakewalk keeps crashing even with the latest update made today, March 6th.


Mauro Gaspa

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I installed the latest patch update just today but, as I previously reported, the problem persists. Every animation and command on the screen freezes graphically even with this latest update. The behavior remains the same: every program function and animation freezes graphically, but the audio continues to play as if the software hadn't actually frozen. In fact, the processSonar.exedoes not appear to be blocked, but in reality, Cakewalk is, and I cannot control any function. Additionally, after a while, it encounters an error and generates the usual DMP file. 

I also tried creating a new project with Spectrasonics Keyscape and a loaded piano sound, and I have the same behavior. I want to clarify that in the other projects, I didn't even use Keyscape, and before the February update, Cakewalk worked wonderfully.

"I am sharing again the DMP file of one of my projects generated today, March 6th, 2025.

https://1drv.ms/f/c/05665151b61353c4/EsRTE7ZRUWYggAW3lQUAAAABi-TsVVMBy1ssf_uBBOLG1w?e=gfTOac

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/

ok just did a quick test using windbg from the above link (fwiw, there are multiple exceptions just starting up sonar (not quite latest version btw))

so, if you can repro an issue every time, and aren't scared by swathes of programmer gibberish, you can try this to identify the culprit:

  1. install windbg from above link
  2. before starting sonar, run windbg - but don't do anything with it yet
  3. start sonar (so the sonar.exe process has started) and switch back to windbg
  4. in windbg, go to the file menu and select "attach to process" then select sonar.exe from the list
  5. switch back to sonar and do stuff - if an exception is encountered, sonar will freeze and windbg will flash in the task bar
  6. switch back to wndbg and see what it's highlighting - usually something benign, but might be something so make a note
  7. switch back to sonar and continue doing stuff
  8. repeat above steps 5-7 until you hit your particular issue, give this info (and possibly the whole windbg output) to the support@cakewalk folks
  9. if your issue is a crash-to-desktop-without-warning-or-crash-dump, this should also catch that

you can also use windbg to read any dump file created, and to analyse other apps causing trouble

/hth+goodluck

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This is an application hang and based on the two dump files you provided are not in Sonar code itself. One of your dump files is from an old release not the latest.
The relevant information is below.
In both cases the hang is in ucrtbase which is the windows universal C runtime.  I assume that you are running Windows 11? 

Exception Code: CFFFFFFF (Application Hang)
OS_VERSION: 10.0.26100.1

STACK_TEXT:  
ntdll!NtGetContextThread+0x14
ntdll!LdrpGetFromMUIMemCache+0x1cc
ntdll!LdrResGetRCConfig+0x464
dbgcore!g_DownlevelShlwapiL1CallsDesc <PERF> (dbgcore+0x37048)
ucrtbase!__crt_stdio_output::string_output_adapter<wchar_t>::write_string+0x4e
ucrtbase!__crt_stdio_output::output_processor<wchar_t,__crt_stdio_output::string_output_adapter<wchar_t>,__crt_stdio_output::format_validation_base<wchar_t,__crt_stdio_output::string_output_adapter<wchar_t> > >::state_case_type+0x98
ucrtbase!__crt_stdio_output::output_processor<wchar_t,__crt_stdio_output::string_output_adapter<wchar_t>,__crt_stdio_output::format_validation_base<wchar_t,__crt_stdio_output::string_output_adapter<wchar_t> > >::process+0x169
ucrtbase!__stdio_common_vswprintf_s+0x1ba

 

Based on this stack, I'm pretty sure you somehow have mismatched system dlls caused by something installing old components. You have a lot of third party plugins in your project. Perhaps one of the installers put a bad redist on your system. If this is the cause as it appears to be based on past problems like this, there isn't much we can do other than pointing you to this article to do a clean install of your redists. You can also try loading your project in safe mode and skip plugins to see if somehow one of them is causing the issue.

 

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