Jetrel

51 minutes ago, Noel Borthwick said:

@Jetrel thanks, are you running the newest Focusrite driver? They fixed bluescreen issues in that update. There is still one bluescreen that happens if you turn off or unplug the device while in use. I have reported that to them. Just to clarify bluescreens in drivers are always the responsibility of the vendor to fix. Just like an application can crash, a bluescreen is caused by a crash in the driver code.

Regarding the driver switching, Cakewalk does not change the driver unless you ran the onboarding process on start. Did you get prompted to pick a driver on startup? If you had an existing CbB installation that shouldn't have happened by default. My guess is that the FL driver somehow messed up the focusrite settings because Cakewalk doesn't change the ASIO driver latency unless you go through the panel or the new latency slider is changed.

 

Indeed it's vendor's responsibility, and I've reported the issue. I am running a first gen Scarlett 18i6 with the latest drivers and so far these have been my first BSODs on this build and with that interface since I got it. 

As for the latest update, I did get prompted to pick a driver on startup and I did had CbB previously installed on my system. 

57 minutes ago, Noel Borthwick said:

 

@Jetrel can you let me know whether you had changed the ASIO latency via the new latency slider in preferences or whether the buffer size was changed to 248 without you changing anything on first run? Why did you change to the FL Studio ASIO driver / WASAPI?

When I installed the new update it was working fine until I noticed that the driver was switched to FL Studio ASIO. It is when I switched back to Focusrite ASIO that I started to have all those crackles/distortion. I switched between drivers just to see if that will make any change. I usually work with the Focusrite ASIO and only switch to FL Studio ASIO driver if I want to record with OBS, somehow that is the only driver I can get to work with OBS. 🤨

And to answer your first question, I changed the buffer size via Focusrite software, not the new latency slider. But I will try the new slider, tbh I did not even knew that was a new addition in the preferences. 😶

EDIT: I tinkered with the new latency slider and it works like it should. What I did notice are 3 BSOD due to the Focusrite driver. When I try to change the buffer size to 16, no matter if it's via the Scarlett MixControl or the latency slider, I got stopcode: BAD_POOL_CALLER. I guess it's time to report the crash to the Focusrite guys.

Thanks for the help Noel! 

Finally found out the problem on my system. I installed the hotfix but same thing happened. Actually Cakewalk crashed after every single click on Apply when I tried to switch between Focusrite ASIO/FL Studio ASIO and WASAPI. I had 2 system crashes which is something that never happened on this system.

Either way, buffer size on the scarlett asio panel was set in some odd 248 and when I switched back to 256, it works like a charm. 

Thanks for fast hotfix guys

8 hours ago, msmcleod said:

@Matt Dunn - can you try the following:

1. Close down Cakewalk
2. In Windows explorer, go to %APPDATA%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\
3. Rename AUD.INI to AUD.INI.bak
4. Restart Cakewalk

This will reset your audio settings.

Once you're in Cakewalk, go to Preferences and make sure your settings are what you need them to be within:

• Audio / Audio Driver Settings - particularly Audio Driver Bit Depth
• File / Folder Locations
• File / Audio Data - particularly, the Global Audio Folder, Picture Folder and File Bit depths.

 

This helped, sort of. 

I followed the steps and it worked, I don't have any more crackles/pops/distortions/etc. but when I opened the Preference menu for Audio I saw that it only switched

to the FL Studio ASIO driver, and when I revert back to the Focusrite ASIO driver, the same problem came back. I never had any issue with any of the drivers until this update.