John Vere

The Tascam is selected. I got rid of the generic driver a while ago and I forget how. As you see it's back on the list. Normally there would only be my Tascam, nothing else because I always disable all other drivers. My interface is always turned on and I use it for all audio. Done it like this for years. The Generic driver I do believe originally is installed with Cubase which I have but do not use. I don't no how it came back. Other software I have installed in the last few weeks is OBS stucio and Vegas Movie studio so possibly those added the driver. But now,,, how do I get rid of it again...

Opened Cakewalk and when I tried to select an input from my Tascam interface it said "none" ??Opening preferences found that that pesky Generic ASIO driver had taken over. I got rid of it a long time ago. Only change in the last few days has been a W10 update and I just installed the BBE Sonic sweet. Any how I found a way to disable it but why does it still show in the Sync and Cashing tab? Here's what I found ( Oh my goodness, I don't have to upload to iMGUR ANYMORE cool> ) So I unchecked it and my Tascam came back, but you can see it is still using the wrong driver to calculate offset... that cannot be a good thing

EI 11 is a pointless browser to use. I manage my own web page and the software I use even states that it is optimized for Chrome, Safari and Android. I always look at my pages after I publish and they look exactly right on those and even Firefox. But IE everything is all wrong and add ons are missing. I'm only forced to use it at work and I hate it.

I do believe I remember Noel posting about this and hopefully they might chime in. It was about a few things they did that make Cakewalk fully integrated to W10. I think they spend NO time worrying about backwards compatibility. You must remember this is free software and they are no longer focusing on how to "sell" it. So why waste resources tweaking code for W7. Better things happen when we move forward and for me it's a noticeable difference. I often have my W7 laptop sitting beside my W10 Desktop system. I've been recording screen captures on it for a tutorial for my band mate and son in Law who are just diving in. The W7 machine is noticeably slower to respond even though it's specs are close and both use SSD OS and DATA drives. On the Laptop I get random freeze ups and crashes for no reason. They never happen on the W10 machine. I don't think my W10 system has crashed since last spring> And I have it on line a rule I never used to break. The laptop is even more optimized for recording as I don't use it for anything else. Latency Monitor shows better performance for the Laptop so go figure. It's not a deal breaker and what I do is save more often. But the answer to your OP is CbB is Very stable if running on an modern up to date machine. I might just spring for the upgrade to W10 on the Laptop but as it's not my main DAW I would rather spend that money on a new guitar !

Hey Bob when you get up and running and have any questions let me know. We both have a similar background. I started with the old Atari and a rack of modules. And I play both solo and as a Dou. I still have all my old midi files and the good news is you can open those in Cakewalk and if they were GM they will play just like they did in 85! There's no need for 2 computers as you can just export your mix to a wav ( or MP3) Live, I use Stereo wav files played back using Win Amp on a very small Net book. I control Win Amp with a Stealth foot pedal system. I use Win Amp because it's the only player I am aware of that STOPS after each song plays.

Ha ha, When I saw your post I just thought you were trying out the embedded music player. Thanks Mort. Good to know. Seems I cannot change my User name from John to Cactus, I don't see any edit buttons on that part of my Account settings options.

Stability is tied to W10. Your on your own when using W7. I use both and definitely have stability issues with my W7 version. ANd one of them is that crash after save I used to get on both W7 and W10. For me now W10 is rock solid. But my Laptop is licenced to W7 and I'm to cheap to pay for the upgrade

I still live in the Bush!

My Roland GR 50 menu screen only shows ( I think) Japanese. And because I can't read it I can't find the menu to change the language. No problem, it still plays my pre sets and the tuner works.

My recommendation to anyone using ANY new software is to first explore all the menu's and poke around finding things. I think a common mistake is to jump right in and try to get any work done before you have actually figured out the basic layout. A huge help with CbB is the HELP module which will show up on your right in the browser window if you select it from the "Views" menu. It's at the bottom of the list. Now when you hover the pointer over anything on the screen it will tell you what it does. If you need some simple tutorials on using MIDI see my signature for the link to my website where I have an easy to follow basic guide to midi posted.

Ya I find HUGE signatures with giant pictures large fonts and boring details of what Power supply someone owns really trash the reading experience on the forum. To the point that I have often blocked those members so I don't see those HUGE signatures. Some were like self promo adverts. What might be a cool add on to the forum is that there is just a link at the bottom which opens a sub page with all our details and photos. Really do we need to know anything about our computers anymore? I think we are well past worrying about computer specs these days.

I think us "Loyalists" where the ones who tried demos etc and decided Sonar was what worked the best for us. Also that Sonar would be "Usable" for a few years at least so why jump ship at all. Just saying in the end I'm glad I didn't change DAW's.

Yes, I think the issue with staying with Splat or any older unsupported version, is most of us will write those people off as being sort of foolish. And don't trot the 32 bit excuse out as that also seems foolish to me. I use a few 32 bit Plug ins without issue. But that said I think you'll still get good help here.

Well it was around this time a year ago we were all freaked out and people were blowing money like crazy on other DAW's.. I'm sure glad I stayed put. I was one of the "loyalists" Only other DAW i spent money on was Harrison Mix Bus for I think $32. It's been sitting there unopened since. As it is here we are a year later and look what we have. Good software-Free- and now even our beloved forum is also still going. Looks like a good year coming up. I'm more stoked about learning how to use Vegas Movie Studio Plat. My wife also bought me the BBE Sonic Sweet which I "opened" early and have been pretty stoked about what I can enhance. Check it out,, big thumbs up. http://store.dontcrack.com/product_info.php?products_id=1757

Just tried to change my picture in the profile. Anyhow I then noticed that for some reason I'm called by my name here even though my account is under Cactus Music like always. Oh well time to come out of the closet. I wonder what Steve will show up as?

He probably has already posted that many times!

I actually did have a computer that wouldn't turn on once. It was all Sonar's fault too

Ha ha, I just wanted to be the first to post Looking forward to helping all those millions of new comers.