Melodyne issue with Kingston? Very weird behaviour

Hi everyone.
 
Updated Kingston yesterday and back into my current project, only Melodyne Editor is now not working properly. It seems hit and miss. Open current project, (has AD2 tracks, most instruments done, no synths except drums, still in recording stage and currently doing vocals). Been working on it the last two weeks without any real issues. Decided to do some more vocal takes today to try for a different melody, and then re-pitch for the vocalist to learn the new notes better, using Melodyne, and..
 
Suddenly being asked to activate Melodyne for this PC. It's been working fine for a couple of years now.
 
Save project. Get out, open again. all good with registration, except I can no longer hear any changes to the notes in Melodyne Editor. Useless really, as I can only guess where to drag the note. Nothing I can find will give me audio. Shut down the project again, re-open, wants to activate again. Shut down, open a past project, asks for activation. Shut down, reopen, all good again? Try to edit with Melodyne, working fine, hearing audio. Close, reopen current project, asks for activation, close and reopen, it's OK again, except, I cannot get any audio whilst editing the notes for the life of me.
 
Been at this now for hours and getting nowhere. Does anyone have any idea what to look for or try? Should  I reinstall Meloydne?
 
It worked fine yesterday before the latest update to Kingston. My PC is fully up to date with hardware and software, running Win10.
 
Thanks. Dave.

Well, Ive got around the problem, but this is not good.
 
Melodyne has been problematic for me since Splat. My workaround since has been to only Melodyne short clips at any one time, and bounce them to the clip when done, before moving onto to any other work. Otherwise I suffer multiple crashes. Fine. I can live with that.
 
This time, I had left one very short Melodyne'd clip in my bass track. Thought I had bounced the entire track to clip, but missed a bit at the end. About 2 bars. Once I bounced it to clip, Melodyne starting working again properly. I found this by deleting each track until a change occurred, and then looked at length into the track to determine the above.
 
Another afternoon lost in fault finding  

I have had many problems with Melodyne Editor until I started running SPlat with administrative startup, even though I am the administrator of my machine. 

I'm sure you guys already know this but simply having administrative users rights is NOT the same as specifically right clicking the program .exe and choosing "Run As Administrator"

Good stuff.

I've had some recent issues with Melodyne changing the volume of and adding some geef (use your imagination - it doesn't sound good, does it?) to the processed clip. Fortunately, everyone I record has a perfectly in tune voice so I don't need Melodyne - I just use it to throw in a few pitchy notes once in a while so people don't get jealous of the flawless vocals - and because it's free with SPLAT.
 
I haven't had the time to experiment with any solutions but Ed the Bapu gave me some pointers (always make a copy of the track and set it to 0dB before Melodyning) that I expect to try.
 
Maybe Celemony and Cakewalk will get together and work this stuff out if we stop saying "ain't no big deal". It is a big deal when you're actually trying to get something done. 

TStorms
 
 
Maybe Celemony and Cakewalk will get together and work this stuff out if we stop saying "ain't no big deal". It is a big deal when you're actually trying to get something done. 

 Sorry guys - my experience is similar to Steves -  running melodyne editor under Kingston platinum on Win 7. I use it often and it is rock solid. Probably time to do some of our own System trouble shooting rather than waiting or a fix from Cakewalk  as it would seem the problem is not universal with Sonar.

Whatever the problem, Cakewalk/Melodyne or something goofy with user system configuration, it isn't strictly Windows 10.  I'm still running Win 7 and have had occasional Melodyne issues from X3 up through Splat JP.

This is an interesting thread! I've always had great success with Mielodyne in Sonar Platinum. But I haven't used it over the past couple of months or releases. So this is interesting and surprising. I haven't yet dug in to see what's happening on my end yet.

I'll be watching this space.

Sorry, been away for the last couple of days. Appreciate the comments from all.
 
 I have never re-installed Melodyne Editor with Splat, deliberately staying away from installing anything from CCC like Dimension Pro, Rapture, Cake instruments, etc. They are all previously installed on another drive, including Melodyne, and I want it to stay that way. Melodyne for me has always been quirky. If I do too large a clip, or leave any Melodyned unbounced clips in tracks, things usually go haywire. Nearly all my projects are created in a certain fashion. I record my ideas with acoustic until I have the song format down, create a new track, copy and paste the comp'd and bounced track to the new track, and delete all other takes, ensuring all instances of Melodyne are gone. Then I will create the drum track, and then begin recording all instruments. Then I save as a new project to begin editing, ensuring all recorded work is kept in an original file. In the new project I will Melodyne, tempo change etc, all the usual stuff, to my hearts content, but always ensuring that I only do small parts at a time, rendering down as I go. The finished comp from each track is copied to a new track and rendered again. There will be no clips left unrendered. Once I've done all this, I will delete all tracks with takes and save as, again, to a new project, which will only contain one rendered track for each instrument, and work on vocals begins, but follows the same pattern as above. I have found this to work for me. If I don't, everything seems to continually trip up and crash, probably based around whatever effects I've inserted, but in my mind, most of my workarounds and workflow choices, are based around getting Melodyne to work without crashing my projects continually.
 
It is a great piece of software, as is Sonar. I'm not complaining really about either, except on days when I am trying to work, have artists in recording, and I have to stop for hours, sometimes days, to work out yet another problem. I come from the tape days. The digital days are just incredible. But as I get older, I get more frustrated I guess, because I just can't keep up with the amount of knowledge required to keep working uninterrupted. A rant maybe, but it's very real to me.
 
So I not happy that others are having similar problems, but I'm heartened that if I'm not alone, the problem will eventually be looked at and hopefully fixed.