Quantize MFX Broken - Cakewalk Please Fix !!!
This post actually has a broader scope than just the Quantize MFX, but my main difficulty is with that plugin and the lack of a 3.1.2 release. See below.
There is clear evidence that the MIDI implementaion in 3.1.1 has been reprogrammed, and that the reprogramming has caused problems. One known problem - which Cakewalk is aware of, because I've spoken to tech support - is that the Quantization MFX plugin no longer works properly. On a MIDI track with the Quantize plugin, notes disappear. The problem seems to only affect DXi synths, not external MIDI devices. The MIDI buffer setting does not eliminate the problem - higher values change the pattern of which notes disappear, but I have gone as high as 12000 milliseconds without solving the issue. Uninstalling and going back to 3.0 does not solve the problem. Reinstalling the MFX plugins does not solve the problem. If I bounce audio to clips or tracks, the notes are still missing. Cakewalk's only successful suggestion was to apply the Quantize plugin destructively.
Now I ackowledge that this workaround does work, but it changes the way I approach my creative process, and it is especially frustrating to have features that USED to work stop working. I have read several other posts corroborating this experience, and I have read others still that detail difficulties with MIDI editing, etc. Cakewalk broke their MIDI implementation on 3.1.1, and I there is no indication that it will be fixed before version 4, and there is also no guarantee that it will be fixed IN version 4, which clearly will be a paying upgrade. I went through a similar experience with Coda's Finale, where the transcription quantization was broken from version 2.7 through version 2000 (That's three or four paying upgrades until it was fixed), even though tech support knew about and was able to reproduce my problems. I have been a Cakewalk user since before there was such a thing as a digital audio sequencer, and I have spent money on a bookshelf full of Cakewalk and SONAR upgrades. I hope that Cakewalk handles this issue in a way that satisfies those of us who paid for an upgrade and lost features.
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Russell T. Graham
Keys, Vocals, Songwriting, Production
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