Thanks a lot to BandLab and Meng. Unfortunately Im in hospital at the moment, and still havent been able to check things out. From what I can read something good is waiting for me when I get out.

MagickT
Hi!
 
I dont see drum replacer and melodyne in region FX (melodyne is avaible as VST only). Do I need to install my Sonar Platinum for drum replacer and melodyne integration?

Yep - Vocalsync only

MagickT
Hi!
 
I dont see drum replacer and melodyne in region FX (melodyne is avaible as VST only). Do I need to install my Sonar Platinum for drum replacer and melodyne integration?

Compare your VST folders in CbB with the VST folders in SPLAT.
 
After I upgraded Melodyne from v2 to v4, it put it in a different folder so maybe that's your problem.
 
If you add the missing folders to CbB, it should scan those and your plugins will become available.
 
I really wish the team would improve the plugin manager and/or vst folder settings tab. The list of folders is a tiny window with no way to resize it, or copy/paste a list of folders to the clipboard. I ended up having to take screen shots at various scroll-bar positions within SPLAT, print it out, then manually navigate to each individual folder within CbB. I guess you only have do this once per install though.
 
M.

GIM Productions

MagickT
Hi!
 
I dont see drum replacer and melodyne in region FX (melodyne is avaible as VST only). Do I need to install my Sonar Platinum for drum replacer and melodyne integration?

Sorry to hear this,but i can see melodyne in region fx,all my splat plugs are in CbB after install.
Greetings

1.What is about drum replacer?
2. If I see melodyne in VST effects list, accordingly Cakewalk scans the following folder. But melodyne is avaible as VST plugin only. I dont think that this problem with VST folder. Maybe I need to install sonar platinum again? I deleted it a few months ago.
 

acre
I used Sonar Home for a long time and am excited about this new venture! Problem: I downloaded the bandlab-assistant-windows-latest.exe file, and then downloaded the cakewalk.exe file. On installation, I received several file error messages. Most of them read like, Unable to register the DLL/OCX: RegSvr32 failed with exit code 0x3.
 
There were 12 such DLL files that would not work. Of course, when I tried to open the program itself, it wouldn't open because of these file errors. Anyone know what I can do? I tried downloading and installing it twice. Currently, I have Cubase Artist 8 installed. My computer is brand new and very powerful. Thanks.

I think it was the same with SONAR Platinum that has to do with the older plugins.
 
Sorry, my bad, I read wrongly and thought it was a problem with SONAR Home plugins. Please ignore this reply. I could not delete it.

scook
Make sure the VST3 format of Melodyne is installed and scanned. It is the plug-in used for Region FX. Celemony installs the VST3 plug-in in  C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\Celemony. If it is there, make sure C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3 is in the Cakewalk scan path. If you need to reinstall Melodyne, get the installer from your Celemony account.

Oh, My Bad, I deleted VST3 directory from Cakewalk VST folders list :) Thanks, scook!
 
Melodyne is ok now. What about Drum replacer? Is it avaible in Cakewalk by Bandlab?
 
 

I have Sonar on 2 computers, one online and one offline. What to do if in the future I need to reinstall Sonar on the offline pc? Now I copy the files from one PC to another and start the setup manually?

"For anyone concerned that downloading Cakewalk by BandLab via BandLab Assistant might mess with your system or existing software – we’ve put a lot of effort into making sure that it doesn’t affect previous SONAR installations - Cakewalk by BandLab and previous versions of SONAR can run on the same machine with no issues."
 
I have found this not to be the case.
 
I had still been running my Sonar X3 on a windows 7 machine and having read this statement I assumed it to be true and decided to install Cakewalk by Bandlab. It downloaded and installed without issue. When running it for the first time it correctly prompted me to import my settings from the X3 install which also seemed to go okay. However as soon as I opened an existing project that is when the issues started. Existing VST and plugins from 3rd parties would no longer load and reported that they were not licensed. I assumed that this may be an issue with bitbridge as i have quite a few legacy 32 bit plugins that I use. I reverted back to X3 to test the same project only to discover that those plugins wouldn't load correctly in there now either.
 
I am therefore making an assumption that the installation of Cakewalk by Bandlab had overwritten the BitBridge files and it caused both CbB and X3 to cease to function correctly. On further investigation i found that this applied to all of my legacy 32 bit plugins. As some of these are now longer available this caused me a lot of concern as it meant that I could no longer go back and edit some older projects that I have been working on. Some personal projects have been ongoing for a number of years.
 
I am assuming that this has been caused by the UAC and the installer for CbB no longer having the ability to install "for all users" option. Thus the permissions for BitBridge to access the relevant VST, plugins and registry keys. The only way around this is to run both my X3 and CbB "as administrator" which isn't ideal.
 
I have been a long time Cakewalk user and have never experienced this issue before. I have upgraded from 7 to 8.5, no issues, 8.5 to X1 Producer, no issues, all the way up to X3 producer without issue. I still have them all installed on this same machine, so that I can go back and re-edit in the original environment if needed, they all now have BitBridge issues.
 
I cant, as far as I can see, uninstall Cakewalk by Bandlab to roll back the system to its previous state. I am assuming an uninstall will also remove things, like the Studio Instruments and more importantly BitBridge completely. I would appreciate if anyone else can clarify this.
 
The Cakewalk by Bandlab installer need to be modified to address these issues. The statement that it installs in a completely different location and will not effect previous installs is competely untrue and you should make users aware of that.
 
I applaud the Cakewalk by Bandlab Team for the release of this version and wish them every success with the move forward. You do however need to address the installer issues I have outlined here.
 
If anyone has a better fix for this than always running "as Admnistrator" i would appreciate some help.
 
Regards.
 
Neal.
 

It could be that your "missing VST's" paths are not in the Cakewalk Plugin Mangers Scan Paths have you checked?

If it has installed correctly you should have a new sub-directory in your Cakewalk Tree in the Programs Directroy
C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core
This contains the core CbB program.

Then In your Cakewalk Content directory, on whatever drive that is located, three new directories
%drive%:\Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Core
%drive%:\Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Sample Data
%drive%:\Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Themes

Nothing is over written or lost.

Steve_Karl

NealClark
 If anyone has a better fix for this than always running "as Admnistrator" i would appreciate some help.
 Regards.
 Neal.

Neil,
Thanks for the heads up on X3.

This is one of the most telling posts I've ever seen for a reason to be using a partition imaging program like Macrium Reflect.
In a situation like yours rolling back would be bullet proof with Macrium Reflect because it copies a complete image of the OS partition, or any other partition you choose, to one file, that can be restored, putting your OS back to the 'exact' state when you created the image.

I have X3 running along side of SPLAT 2017.01 on my audio PC.
Before installing CbB I created an image of that OS called "SAFE_Before_CbB".

I installed CbB and had a quick look around, but didn't check to see if X3 was working perfectly because I'm mainly using SPLAT 2017.01. Even so, once I had a good look at CbB I restored my SAFE image thinking I'd wait a bit and install CbB later when I have more time to make sure everything was good with other software on the OS.

Restore took about 12 minutes, and my OS is exactly as it was when I created the image.
Restore requires booting from a USB stick that can be created using tools inside of Reflect.
It works with any version of Windows.

Macrium Reflect is as bullet proof as it gets, and it's free and very benign.

I highly recommend anyone wanting very safe roll back start using some form of partition imaging.

Also an other hot tip. Avoid Acronis.
It requires payment and is not nearly as stable and reliable as Macrium Free.

P.S. I'm not associated With Macrium in any way other than being a very happy user of the free version.

I second the Macrium vote. I'm considering getting the paid version, because it allows you to access things directly from the image, without actually restoring it. so you could, for example, find a synth you had configured in a project, before Windows annihilated itself, and you had to reinstall it, and lost all your projects etc. You could even access all the saved projects and bring them on to your new system.

Steve_Karl

NealClark
 If anyone has a better fix for this than always running "as Admnistrator" i would appreciate some help.
 Regards.
 Neal.

Neil,
Thanks for the heads up on X3.

This is one of the most telling posts I've ever seen for a reason to be using a partition imaging program like Macrium Reflect.
In a situation like yours rolling back would be bullet proof with Macrium Reflect because it copies a complete image of the OS partition, or any other partition you choose, to one file, that can be restored, putting your OS back to the 'exact' state when you created the image.

I have X3 running along side of SPLAT 2017.01 on my audio PC.
Before installing CbB I created an image of that OS called "SAFE_Before_CbB".

I installed CbB and had a quick look around, but didn't check to see if X3 was working perfectly because I'm mainly using SPLAT 2017.01. Even so, once I had a good look at CbB I restored my SAFE image thinking I'd wait a bit and install CbB later when I have more time to make sure everything was good with other software on the OS.

Restore took about 12 minutes, and my OS is exactly as it was when I created the image.
Restore requires booting from a USB stick that can be created using tools inside of Reflect.
It works with any version of Windows.

Macrium Reflect is as bullet proof as it gets, and it's free and very benign.

I highly recommend anyone wanting very safe roll back start using some form of partition imaging.

Also an other hot tip. Avoid Acronis.
It requires payment and is not nearly as stable and reliable as Macrium Free.

P.S. I'm not associated With Macrium in any way other than being a very happy user of the free version.

 
I appreciate that Macrium would have solved the issue. Shame I didn't think of that before. I did assume that the statement about the install was correct. I've been in working in IT long enough to have known better. Oh well. Thanks for the reply Steve

CbB uses them all. While CbB installs as a new product/upgrade, it is basically SONAR 2017.11 with Platinum features. Like all versions of SONAR and its derivatives, there are a common set of utilities and plug-ins. These files are in the "Shared" folders.