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Pulseczar
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is it just me, or is Cakewalk (Pro Audio 9) one of the buggiest damn s**** you have ever seen?
i've had problems with it ever since i got it.. aside from being quite over-complicated (i think), it seems extremely buggy.. it's always randomly doing things - like just a minute ago, i clicked Solo for one track, and somehow it magically put another track on Solo, with me only clicking one track.. but even worse, somehow, right now, every time i try to add a part to a song - i'm working with MIDI - somehow, after working in Cakewalk for a minute, things start to get pretty crazy.. somehow the Keys of some of the tracks get offset or something, and it ends up playing wrong notes.. i'll compare two tracks that have the same damn parts, but are playing in different keys (for some reason), and somehow one will be playing, like, a whole step lower, even though they are both set to the same notes (which you can visually see on the Piano Roll).. and if i move the one that is off in sound, down two steps from the other one, they'll play the same notes, but obviously something is wrong... on top of that, somehow even things that don't have pitches (in the program - that i know of..), like a drum beat, seem to get offset in pitch.. ???? maybe it's just my imagination, but i could swear this is happening.. how the hell does a drum beat's (an 'Open Cuica') pitch change...? again, maybe i'm just imagining this...
this is all without touching a single damn Key-change setting/controller at all..
another thing that just came to mind, that is really annoying.. is that every time i start Cakewalk, i have to change channel 10 in the Instrument Definitions to show General MIDI Drums rather than regular General MIDI - so that in the Piano Roll view, it shows percussion instruments and notation rather than the non-percussion default piano keys... why do i have to do this every single time i start Cakewalk?? it even has 'Save Changes for Next Session' always checked, but yet every single time i start the program, i have to change this setting..
i'm considering getting Sonar 4 (since i own Pro Audio 9, and can get Sonar 4 for about $150 or so), but i'm hesitant, considering all the crap i've had to put up with, with Pro Audio 9..
do you guys have the same problems? is it just me doing something wrong in the software? (perhaps where the over-complication really comes in - because sometimes it is the case that i'm doing something wrong, even though i'd really want to blame the program for being over-complex and counter-intuitive..)
i've had problems with it ever since i got it.. aside from being quite over-complicated (i think), it seems extremely buggy.. it's always randomly doing things - like just a minute ago, i clicked Solo for one track, and somehow it magically put another track on Solo, with me only clicking one track.. but even worse, somehow, right now, every time i try to add a part to a song - i'm working with MIDI - somehow, after working in Cakewalk for a minute, things start to get pretty crazy.. somehow the Keys of some of the tracks get offset or something, and it ends up playing wrong notes.. i'll compare two tracks that have the same damn parts, but are playing in different keys (for some reason), and somehow one will be playing, like, a whole step lower, even though they are both set to the same notes (which you can visually see on the Piano Roll).. and if i move the one that is off in sound, down two steps from the other one, they'll play the same notes, but obviously something is wrong... on top of that, somehow even things that don't have pitches (in the program - that i know of..), like a drum beat, seem to get offset in pitch.. ???? maybe it's just my imagination, but i could swear this is happening.. how the hell does a drum beat's (an 'Open Cuica') pitch change...? again, maybe i'm just imagining this...
this is all without touching a single damn Key-change setting/controller at all..
another thing that just came to mind, that is really annoying.. is that every time i start Cakewalk, i have to change channel 10 in the Instrument Definitions to show General MIDI Drums rather than regular General MIDI - so that in the Piano Roll view, it shows percussion instruments and notation rather than the non-percussion default piano keys... why do i have to do this every single time i start Cakewalk?? it even has 'Save Changes for Next Session' always checked, but yet every single time i start the program, i have to change this setting..
i'm considering getting Sonar 4 (since i own Pro Audio 9, and can get Sonar 4 for about $150 or so), but i'm hesitant, considering all the crap i've had to put up with, with Pro Audio 9..
do you guys have the same problems? is it just me doing something wrong in the software? (perhaps where the over-complication really comes in - because sometimes it is the case that i'm doing something wrong, even though i'd really want to blame the program for being over-complex and counter-intuitive..)
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