Customizable PRV for working with Key-Switched [Articulations] Instruments

Psychobillybob
There is a serious memory leak in your version...first of all Bandlab assistant ALWAYS starts at least three instances in the task manager...if I close them one by one not much happens until I get to ONLY two left (often there are four instances on starting the program)...

This "feature" leads to Cakewalk.exe "ghosting" meaning it shows up in task manager but does not open the gui or do anything else...when I close Cakewalk.exe in task manager it REFUSES to close...this is known as a memory leak and even if I exit explorer and restart explorer Cakewalk.exe is present doing nothing but eating up 12% of my memory (16gigs)...

I would love to Love Sonar...I have been using it since it Cakewalk came on floppys...but right now my Splat install and my Cakewalk by Bandlab install are absolutely worthless...I do sound design for a living...and I am seriously considering taking a week to relearn logic and ditching the more than 15 years and thousands of dollars I have spent here.

Three processes named Cakewalk does not equate to three instances. It's just three separate processes.
 
Exiting Cakewalk in the normal way, closes down the child processes it created and any memory they were using.
 
Abnormally forcing a shutdown of one process that may be responsible for shutting down the others is not a memory leak.
 
Unless Cakewalk is eating up increasing amount memory sitting there idle, then it's not leaking memory.

msmcleod
 
Three processes named Cakewalk does not equate to three instances. It's just three separate processes.
 
Exiting Cakewalk in the normal way, closes down the child processes it created and any memory they were using.
 
Abnormally forcing a shutdown of one process that may be responsible for shutting down the others is not a memory leak.
 
Unless Cakewalk is eating up increasing amount memory sitting there idle, then it's not leaking memory.

First of all, it is three processes of Bandlab assistant...

Secondly, Cakewalk.exe does the typical "continuous load splash screen" nonsense about 75% of the time I load it...this is running it from Start menu, running it from folder, running it from shortcut, running it with elevated privilege...pretty much 3 out of four times I go to load SonarSplat/or Cakewalk by Bandlab I get the splash screen (smaller box that indicates it is loading) and it friggin HANGS there until I come back 30 minutes latter and kill it in task manager.

It consumes my display screen space and you cannot minimize it or even see any other program since it maintains screen priority...

Third I know its a memory leak because I have loaded it in debug mode into VS...besides the fact that whe I end "Cakewalk.exe" in taskmanager
IT DOES NOT END AND CONTINUES REGARDLESS OF RELOADING EXPLORER/ETC...
 
Fourth:When in this state of perpetual existence inside of task manager it IS USING 12% of available memory in spite of no splash screen, no program actually doing anything at all...just a "Cakewalk.exe" task with no corresponding splash/program running.

So yeah memory leak...
 
I've had this DAW for 5 years it has run fine and I am updated on ALL Microsoft drivers/etc...Win 7 64 bit.

I am not trying to be argumentative, but I am not a novice and have been using this software for years...since the company folded it has been crap, no real support, no real help...I get it, we're lucky they even released a version at all, but I have paid for versions that has gone south since the company went belly up.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



 

Yes, I've spent more time trying to open Splat/BLCake than I care to admit...backed up and changed, uninstalled, re-installed...just about the time I get it to run the midi disappears...I miss the old days.

Thanks for your response...the only thing I have not done is a full uninstall and registry clean out...thats next but I need to make sure all my credentials/authorizations are intact...UAD/vsts/Softube/Kontakt re-authorizations usually takes an entire day to get through.

I went so far as to buy a new SSD replacement hard-drive (bigger than the last one) to mirror everything before I start.

You can appreciate my reluctance to get to "handsy" with this...it will be all or nothing by the end of it.

pwalpwal

KPerry
Bandlab Assistant has 3 processes because of the framework it is built in: each tab is a separate process (cf. Chrome). 

seems a bit overkill for such a small utility app

Lazy coding...rush to market, don't really dev anything just cobble together some crap in Visual Basic and slap it on a web page.

Hard to take this program serious anymore.

fresh101
Feature request= Plugin menu sub folder/categories.
 
for instance, inside your synth folder you could make your own folders for your analog, wavetable, FM, subtractive synths, etc.
Or similarly for EQ types, and the like.

 
Go to Plugin manager and setup your folders for plugins and softsynths however you like, including folders within folders.

Cakewalk is one of the few daws that let you customize your plugins folder however you like. And the feature has been there for a while, at least since 2011.

hello cakelab my request is about the abilty to save buss-template (like track-template)
thanks martin

astaub
"You can appreciate my reluctance to get to "handsy" with this...it will be all or nothing by the end of it."


And the earth is still turning.
 
The BandLab assistant crashed yesterday while updating in the background. He did not want to work anymore. After that I installed it manually. Now he works again as version 4.0.0
 
We are surfing on a tsunami called Internet, on a thin board that can break anytime - a little more positive thinking, please!

Well...if you had read any of my previous posts you would see I am no novice to Cakewalks dive into destruction...

$60.00 Reaper.
In one week I am up and running with all my paid for Cakewalk plug-ins and synths...midi works everything works has not crashed even once, opens every-time I click on it.
I'm done here...Bandlab is a wonderful toy, but it will NEVER find use in a serious studio environment if it acts the way it did with me.
Peace out enjoy the ride.

Yeah man agree with you, the should be on right and it should have Gain with Tab 1. Old gain tab 2. Should just gain with a slider and the db section where u will double click and enter the desired +/- gain eg i want 2db or -3db ect or just push a slider up/down or left/or right

if you can't kill the sonar process, it's usually because it can't (for whatever reason) release the audio driver... if the interface is external, just power-cycle it, causing windows and then sonar to drop the driver... if it's an internal card you can disable/re-enable it in control panel for the same result... this workaround has been around for yonks... having said that, sonar/cwb does seem to have more trouble in this area than other hosts (imo/ymmv, prolly depends on the particular driver) good luck!

pwalpwal
if you can't kill the sonar process, it's usually because it can't (for whatever reason) release the audio driver... if the interface is external, just power-cycle it, causing windows and then sonar to drop the driver... if it's an internal card you can disable/re-enable it in control panel for the same result... this workaround has been around for yonks... having said that, sonar/cwb does seem to have more trouble in this area than other hosts (imo/ymmv, prolly depends on the particular driver) good luck!

Thanks for the input, there was a time when Cakewalk and Sonar were really worth working in, the user base and forums were incredibly helpful with tons of very quality members, as I see tyhe current model, it is driven to promote "other" things, Bandlab and whatever else they are selling...

I just dished out $199 of AATranslaor so I can export all my projects in OMF and RPP formats so I can change DAW software...its a shame because I have spent thousands of dollars on Cakewalk over the years, constantly upgrading from since it came out on floppys, Dimension Pro/etc...

I have owned several studios over the years and currently do sound design for theater, Sonar is no longer dependable nor user friendly...I just spent an hour opening up 1 project so I could export it...I had to restart explorer/ shut down Cakewalk.exe/Sonar/Bandlab at least 6 times before I could even open a file...

I have a pile of useless Sonar discs now.

You either get wisdom or money.

Wisdom see's the writing on the wall here.

New request for an old feature:  Bring back the good old Clip's gain envelope.  The 'take lane' gain envelop is finicky and I've never have the need to have gain envelope for the entire lane.

cyberzip

micv
New request for an old feature:  Bring back the good old Clip's gain envelope.  The 'take lane' gain envelop is finicky and I've never have the need to have gain envelope for the entire lane.

What, are clip gain envelopes not available in CbB? (I'm still on the last SPlat...)

Clip Gain env works the same way in CbB as in SPlat.  I like the way it was before the Take Lanes concept where each clip is its own object.  You can move it around and the envelops stayed with the clip. 
There are so many issues with Take Lanes, for example:
You cannot edit an envelop after you move it to another lane or location.  The 'dot' you draw on the env also somehow got drawn (randomly) at some other envelop if you select a timeframe, when create a gain env, it creates gain env for all the clips in that lane, etc.

Ironically, the Magix Low Latency ASIO driver is a rebreand of ASIO4All...