Arranger section inclusion of outlying MIDI notes. When dragging sections or committing arrangements, Cakewalk has logic for dealing with leading/trailing MIDI notes that overlap section boundaries.
Absolute time in Arranger tracks. The time base format for each Arranger track can be set to either Musical or Absolute. The time base format determines what happens to sections when you change the project tempo.
Cakewalk supports SSO (Single Sign-On) for activation, which allows you to log in via any service supported by BandLab as your sign-in authority. Google, Facebook, Apple ID, mobile phone and BandLab user/password credentials are currently supported.
Enhancements
Cancel VST scan. You can now cancel an in-progress VST scan with the new 'Cancel Scan' button in Edit > Preferences > File - VST Settings or via the Cancel option in the VST Scan toast notification.
Auto termination of VST scan. Shutting down Cakewalk will now automatically terminate any scan in progress.
The new 'Zoom to Fit Project Horizontally' shortcut (CTRL+ALT+F) zooms to fit the entire project in the Clips pane, without affecting the height of tracks.
Improved selection with Arranger sections. If there are gaps between a range of selected sections, the unselected clips remain unselected. You can now also unselect fully selected clips from a selection and they will not be moved with the section.
Cutting an Arranger section with Ripple Edit enabled now deletes the hole to make it consistent with the Delete command.
Clicking on an articulation (without modifiers), or changing an articulation's type or MIDI channel now sends any triggered MIDI events associated with the articulation.
Four new buttons have been added to the Control Bar's Select module in Large mode: 'Select Track Envelopes with Clips', 'Select Track Articulations with Clips', 'Select Events with Sections', and 'Select Sections with Time Ruler'.
Moving clips between Takes lanes on the same track now respects the Auto Crossfade setting.
Insert Instrument track behavior. When selected from the track context menu, the Insert Instrument command now inserts the instrument before the current track rather than after the last track.
Phase and Interleave buttons are now available in the Track view and Inspector for Instrument tracks.
Option to only use external MIDI inputs. MIDI tracks now have a new 'All External Inputs' input option, which only appears when at least one soft synth with a MIDI output is present in the project. All External Inputs means any MIDI input that isn't an output from a soft synth, such as hardware MIDI ports and virtual controllers.
Export to Standard MIDI File now respects the selection. If there is no selection, the whole project is exported.
The integrated LAME MP3 encoder has been updated to version 3.100. This includes bug fixes and stability improvements to MP3 encoding and also speeds up the encoding process. Additionally, Cakewalk has been updated to now handle discarding padding samples when importing MP3 files. i.e imported MP files will not contain extra data at the beginning of the file.
The libsndfile library used for import and export of various audio formats has been updated to version 1.0.30. This fixes numerous issues with handling BWF, Wave64, AIFF, FLAC and Ogg files.
Optimizations
Dynamic plug-in parameter optimizations and improvements in responsiveness and memory footprint when loading and editing projects with lots of tracks and high parameter count plug-ins.
Improved handling of ProChannel automation. ProChannel bypass automation is now UI independent and also buffer accurate. ProChannel bypass will also properly enable/disable with automation during fast bounce and freeze operations.
Bug Fixes
Crash when running onboarding more than once.
Crash when attempting to load new sample in Drum Replacer.
Hang on project load while VST scan is running.
Redo of crop then move of Articulation crashes.
Automation crash on project close.
Rare crash after modifying event in Piano Roll then pressing play.
Step Sequencer Clips intermittently fail to show notes.
Step Sequencer Beat Counter fails to repeat on Groove clip repetitions.
PRV does not display repetitions of Step Sequencer loops.
Track names show incorrectly in plug-ins after 2020.11 update.
Transport fails to roll with Realtime Bounce when freezing.
Cursor moves unexpected after cancel of Kind in Event List.
After deleting last event in Event List, selection should go to previous event.
Assignable parameters not created for FX Chains on project load.
Project Editing Time displays inconsistently in File Stats.
Rename clip doesn't work on MIDI clips if articulations exist on the track.
Installer Text/Progress Bar for Silent Install is truncated.
Bus pane not updating correctly after using track manager to hide/show buses.
Clicking on a note within the Piano Roll view or swapping active tracks automatically opens the Articulation Map pane.
Ripple Edit Cut not shifting Arranger sections as expected.
Section/Arrangement titles missing in 2020.11.
Allow drag move/copy of multiple articulations.
Mouse cursor gets moved/stuck on articulation events in Event List.
