Bypassing effects globally

Music Creator allows you to globally bypass all audio effects in a project. You can also choose to only bypass effects of a specific category (track, bus or clip).

With global effects bypass, you can:

Quickly compare (A/B) a dry versus a wet mix.

Temporarily reduce CPU consumption.

Music Creator also has the ability to bypass effects at a per-effect level (effects bypass) as well as at an FX Rack level (rack bypass). Any existing effects and rack bypass states are preserved when you globally bypass and unbypass effects.

You can selectively unbypass individual effects while in this global bypass state, which makes it easy to quickly audition a single effect within a mix.

Note: You can only globally bypass audio effects, not MIDI effects.

Canceling changes made to real-time plug-ins

EnablePluginCancelButton=<0 or 1>, default = 0

In Music Creator 4.0.2 and earlier, opening the property page of a VST plug-in during playback could result in a slight disruption in playback.

The cause for this problem has its roots in the little Cancel button that sits in the top right corner of the plug-in's property page. The purpose of this button is to allow the user to cancel out of any changes they might have made to the plug-in, restoring back to whatever state the plug-in was in before they opened the GUI window. To make this work, Music Creator would need to take an initial snapshot of the plug-in's state, and some plug-ins with large amounts of preset data could cause an audio hiccup if the data was captured for the Cancel button.

To address this issue, Music Creator 4.0.3 (and later) does not take a snapshot of the plug-in's state by default, and the Cancel button is not available. There is a new Cakewalk.ini variable to bring back the Cancel button if desired, but be aware that this may also result in hiccups when opening VST plug-ins during playback.

This variable should be set in the [WinCake] section. For example:

[WinCake]

EnablePluginCancelButton=1