Outputs 1&2 not come out of Lynx Aurora (n)

[Alan Bachman 25]

Hi folks;
Since I upgraded - supposedly- to the lastest Cakewalk version - I cannot get anything out of outputs 1&2 of a 24 channel Lyynx Aurora (n).  All the others work.  It is like there is some sort of conflict.  If I am not in Cakewalk - for instance on youtube - sound comes out of 1&2.  I have tried various preference settings.  It is an asio driver interface.  Any thoughts?

[HOOK 28]

Alan...I'm using the Aurora (n) 8.  All good here.

Have you looked at Cakewalk preferences to make sure it knows to use 1&2 as your main output?  Is your master buss assigned accordingly?

I have Cakewalk set to:  Playback Timing Master and Record Timing Master set to Lynx 1&2.

Also, within the ASIO panel (also accessible via Cakewalk preferences), you should be able to turn on and off which channels of the Lynx are available to Cakewalk.  Just have to make sure that 1&2 are checked off.  Then, hopefully, you'll be able to get your mains pointed in the right direction.

 

[Alan Bachman 25]

Thank you Hook.  Sadly, I have tried all that.  I suspect it has something to do with Windows making the channels unavailable for Cakewalk.  

[Alan Bachman 25]

After trying many options, I deleted windows audio as a startup option, and 1&2 did work on my Lynx output.  But then my motu midi device would not show up.  So I restored the windows audio as a startup app.  Now it all works.  Have no idea why but I am not complaining! ":) 

This all may be a fluke!

[HOOK 28]

Glad you're sorted out.  Personally, I don't think the Lynx driver plays nice with Windows and Cakewalk at the same time.

[Noel Borthwick 3,881]

You should always use ASIO mode with pro audio interfaces. In ASIO mode you can only use one audio interface at a time but you can still freely switch between them in preferences.

[Alan Bachman 25]

1 hour ago, Noel Borthwick said:

You should always use ASIO mode with pro audio interfaces. In ASIO mode you can only use one audio interface at a time but you can still freely switch between them in preferences.

Noel - I also turned off the MS Wavetable device.  Could that have been the conflict?  Other than that, I can only figure that somehow some other device was running the background, and by some miracle it got removed.

P.S. I love Cakewalk after 20 plus years!  Thank for all you do!

Edited January 9 by Alan Bachman

[Noel Borthwick 3,881]

What driver mode are you using in Cakewalk? 

[Alan Bachman 25]

7 minutes ago, Noel Borthwick said:

What driver mode are you using in Cakewalk? 

Asio.

[Noel Borthwick 3,881]

If you were using ASIO and output 1/2 was not working the problem definitely exists outside of Cakewalk. 
Something in Windows is possibly confusing the ASIO driver. I would ask Lynx support.

[Alan Bachman 25]

I ticked on the MS wavetable synth in midi out and sure enough it disengaged outputs 1 & 2 in my DAW.  But simple fix, I unticked it again, and it works.

What probably happened is when I updated to the latest version of Cakewalk, MS wavetable synth must have been engaged again by default.  At least I think this is what it is about. 

Fortunately, I could care less about MS wavetable synth.  I plan to report this to Lynx so they can see about updating their driver.  Though I am running Windows 10 and maybe Windows 11 does not have this issue.

Thank you. 

 

 

Edited January 9 by Alan Bachman

[Noel Borthwick 3,881]

Interesting. The wavetable synth from Microsoft internally outputs to the default audio output. So if Windows is using your Lynx its likely blocking the device.
I've never seen this happen with other audio devices so you should report that to Lynx. I would expect the driver to share the audio device with both Windows and the ASIO driver client.

But yeah disable the wavetable synth. It's a piece of junk that dates back to the 90's  

Here is an article on how to disable it in Windows.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/completely-disabling-ms-gs-wavetable-synth/5b2297a5-0904-4340-bdbb-ce528b3068c5

Maybe we should block it in Cakewalk itself by default...

 

[Alan Bachman 25]

Yes.  Maybe the wavetable synth can have the box with the tick available with a warning that it might cause incompatibility issues.

[Noel Borthwick 3,881]

Honestly it has no use especially in ASIO mode. Maybe we should just block it unless in MME or WASAPI shared.

[Xoo 1,471]

11 hours ago, Noel Borthwick said:

Interesting. The wavetable synth from Microsoft internally outputs to the default audio output. So if Windows is using your Lynx its likely blocking the device.
I've never seen this happen with other audio devices so you should report that to Lynx. I would expect the driver to share the audio device with both Windows and the ASIO driver client.

But yeah disable the wavetable synth. It's a piece of junk that dates back to the 90's  

Here is an article on how to disable it in Windows.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/completely-disabling-ms-gs-wavetable-synth/5b2297a5-0904-4340-bdbb-ce528b3068c5

Maybe we should block it in Cakewalk itself by default...

 

This doesn't seem to suppress it appearing in Cakewalk (or SONAR Platinum for that matter - I checked to make sure).

[Noel Borthwick 3,881]

Moot. I've fenced it out of the next release of Cakewalk

[Xoo 1,471]

We like fences 🙂