David Govett

That fixed it Noel! Thanks! And it was ......CUBASE!!!

Thanks Noel. I saw that in freezing the frame too. I'll hunt that Generic ASIO drive down and identify and destroy it! I'll post the information I learn about it here for you too. (most likely Cubase as I have that) Thanks! Dave

I will try the new driver tonight and see what happens. Thanks. Dave

So, I got it to work temporarily. Uncheck all the audio settings, closed it and started over again. Checked Focusrite in and out, started a new song and played some audio and it worked great. Saved song, closed Cakewalk. Open Cakewalk, load song, and back to the error. However, if I disable the audio in preferences, exit program, come back and re-enable, I can get going again and be running fine until I close the program. A workaround for now as I evaluate the program. Here is a video showing the whole process and what it's doing. I can almost live with this if I don't run into other stability issues. https://www.dropbox.com/s/9hdz3mg9gv7aeqq/Cakewalk Workaround.mp4?dl=0

It simply doesn't like my focusrite interface. If I choose generic ASIO, no problem, but.. no sound. MIDI devices don't seem to be the issue. Thanks for any insight. I love your tutorial videos! (edit) Output device on focusrite is checked but scrolled to far.

Here is a video of what it is doing. The only way I can get it out of this loop is to uninstall and reinstall. But as soon as I try to enable MIDI keyboard, it goes back to this. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ajo0lwuvj12ig76/Cakewalk Glitch.mp4?dl=0

So, as soon as I make any changes to the configuration (midi devices, audio devices) I can't even do anything to the software unless I leave it empty with no new song loaded. It just goes into a feedback loop with what looks like flashes of install meter dialog windows that flash too quick to see. This goes on for ever. I have never seen something this buggy and impossible to get into like this. I love the layout and the way it's designed and I really want it to work but for the life of me, I can't even get it running. Just selecting the audio and midi hardware and loading up an empty song kills it. Changing sample rate kills it. I have other sequencers working flawlessly on same system. Any ideas before I go back to Reaper? :)