I've used Sonar/Cakewalk for almost 20 years and love it! But I recently bought a new Lenovo laptop (16gb RAM - Ryzen 7 - 5700U) and I'm having all kinds of problems with dropouts. This morning I had a project open that only had one empty audio track (muted) and one instrument track with EZ Drummer 3 but that was also muted and inactive. The only thing playing was the metronome and I was still getting engine load spikes up to 250% and dropouts.
I'm using a brand new Behringer interface with an ASIO driver that seems to be working OK. I've tried using a Scarlett 2i2 as well but the problems were even worse. I've tried everything that I can think of to resolve (change buffer settings, deleting/reinstalling drivers, shutting everything else off that is running on the computer etc.) but nothing seems to help.
If anyone has any thoughts on what the problem might be I would appreciate it. It seems like there must be some kind of conflict with something outside of Cakewalk on the computer, hopefully it's not impossible to track that down.
