Problems with sustains and VSTs

Not sure how to fix the sustain problem in the middle of the song... Have you updated to 5.2 yet? Cakewalk apparently did quite a bit of work on the VST engine, that might help.

As for the end of the song, make sure that you allow some dead space after the last note to allow for the tail of the note to decay fully. Otherwise it will be cut off.

Select the track(s) you want to export (CTRL-A for all.) Then holding down CTRL and clicking further out on the time/bar meter at the top of the main view (make sure the cursor stays an arrow or it will try to add a marker.)

Then hit ALT- F - E - A (File--> Export--> Audio) and pick your settings. Now when you export, the tail of your last note won't be cut off.


Peace,

My solution to this is to use the TenCrazy SustainFix MFX plug-in on all of my MIDI tracks that require sustain. It does away with inconsistencies between the live playback and Bounce/Freeze/Export[Render] results.

It basically eliminates the CC64 events and modifies (i.e. lengthens) the note durations to reflect the CC64 events. You have to APPLY MIDI EFFECTS from the Process menu before this happens.

I prefer this anyway, as it's much easier to edit MIDI notes that are as long VISUALLY as they are SONICALLY. I get frustrated trying to figure out what notes are being sustained by what CC64 messages and for how long and all that. It's much simpler to just convert the CC64 events into notes of the proper length with the SustainFix plug-in. Granted It's not as easy to modify pedal-down/pedal-up timing after the fact. But I find I rarely change pedal up/down timing drastically anyway. It's much easier to fine tune the exact layering and timing of notes when you can really see how long they are and when they cut off -- all in one screen (the Piano Roll).