FYI - After much bumbling, chasing, and troubleshooting, it appears that the VST version of the free VST version of BlueCat's FreqAnalyst is causing troubles with my Cakewalk Home Studio 4 environment.
The symptom I encountered is that with a single (or multiple) insert of the plug-in, with each successive save of the Home Studio 4 project, the project file increase slightly (then significantly) in size, if though no action has been taken in the project. The size gradually increases initially, and un-noticeably the size until it is too large to save very quickly, ultimately the save taking 5-10 minutes(!) (or apparently just "hanging up") instead of the typical 1-2 seconds (even for fairly large multi-track projects). In one test example of an 8-track audio-only project, the size increased from approximately 135k gradually up to several MB. Once I remove the plug-in insert from the track/bus, and save, the size drops back to the original size.
FYI - I tried the same experiment with some of the other Free Blue Cat Plugins and did not experience the same project-file-expansion phenomenon.
I went back to the BlueCat download page and see that BlueCat recommends the Dx version for Cakewalk products. I've now installed the Dx version, and it seems to NOT produce the symptom above.
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FreqAnalyst VST version and Cakewalk Home Studio 4 problem
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Blue Cat Audio Blue Cat Audio https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=39981 - KVRAF
- 6343 posts since 8 Sep, 2004 from Paris (France)
Hi,
thanks for your report. We will have a look into this and check wether this happens on other hosts as well (nobody has ever reported such a strange behavior). Note that previous versions of Cakewalk software were not very good at supporting VSTs (it's much better now), so using the DX version in your case is really the best solution.
thanks for your report. We will have a look into this and check wether this happens on other hosts as well (nobody has ever reported such a strange behavior). Note that previous versions of Cakewalk software were not very good at supporting VSTs (it's much better now), so using the DX version in your case is really the best solution.