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  • Problem With the Cakewalk Adaptive Limiter
2018/10/10 01:44:13
henkejs
I posted on a thread in the Software forum (http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3789334), but I'll repeat it here in case more people will see it in the SONAR forum. The Adaptive Limiter is causing occasional, barely audible clicks in a mastering project I started today. It's got only a single stereo track and, so far, two VSTs. When I bypass the limiter the clicks go away, so that seems to be where the problem is coming from.
 
Anyway, people in the other thread suggested increasing the buffers. I've tried that. Then I tried lowering the buffers just to see what that did. Same result in all cases. The clicks didn't get better and they didn't get worse either. Has anybody else found this problem? Did you come up with a solution? Thanks in advance.
2018/10/10 02:31:56
promidi
What are your machine specs?
2018/10/10 03:26:17
gswitz
Raise your buffer for your interface?
2018/10/10 06:14:31
bvideo
You could try to disable plug-in load balancing (Edit > Preferences > Audio - Playback and Recording, just below the "Use Multiprocessing Engine") to see if your clicks are related to a problem I reported about clicks/pops.
2018/10/10 15:14:21
henkejs
Thanks for the replies.
 
@promidi -- Intel Core i7-4790, 3.60 GHz. The CPU meter barely budges above baseline when running this project.
@gswitz -- I tried everything up to 1024 and down to 128.
@bvideo -- Load balancing was already disabled. I tried toggling it and "Use Multiprocessing Engine" on/off with no effect. By the way, I got an error when I clicked on your link.
 
My normal practice when I finish mixing a project is to export a 32-bit stereo track and import that into a new project for mastering. That is what I did when this problem surfaced. Just out of curiosity, this morning I tried loading the Adaptive Limiter onto the Master bus of the original multitrack project. With buffers set at 256, the clicks were gone! Not sure what this means, but it argues against the idea that the problem is an issue with CPU or other PC resources.
2018/10/10 17:40:31
bvideo
Thanks for trying those settings. Link is fixed, thank you.
2018/10/11 01:52:49
henkejs
That was an interesting thread, Bill. Did the problem you saw ever get fixed in later updates?
 
2018/10/11 03:17:24
bvideo
It has not been acknowledged by the staff, even after all the various trouble reporting methods I tried. Not mentioned in any CbB release notes.
2018/10/11 05:08:33
scook
bvideo
 Not mentioned in any CbB release notes.

Adaptive Limiter is not bundled with CbB. BandLab has not mentioned when/if this plug-in will be released.
2018/10/11 05:49:15
bvideo
Sorry for the confusion, Steve. My posts above were not about the adaptive limiter, but about a different mysterious problem with clicks, which I traced to the load balancing feature. The OP has said my bug report does not apply to his observations about the adaptive limiter, but he found my problem report thread interesting. In my scenario, I was using the concrete limiter, and I thought its only role was to make the clicks and pops easier to hear.
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