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Hi mgustavo, Thanks, this is also a new PC (less than 6 months old) and as far as I can tell the same problem doesn't happen in Cakewalk by Bandlab.

Hi David, No signal on the preview bus, but the browser play button stayed illuminated. Had to click it on and off a few times to get playback to start again. I will upload a couple of the files a bit later, I appreciate the offer to check, thanks.

Hi, No, the browser play button stays on, just the audio stops sounding. It could be something about the specific audio files, though they are from a commercial library.

Hi Will, David, The problem is intermittent - I have made a short video where you can hear the sample play on its own, then it plays along with the track, and then stops playing after switching to another sample and back. I demonstrate it twice in the video. Unfortunately I can't get the video file size small enough to attach here, but I have uploaded a copy to Google Drive. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Nk883xKjPVBtJdI6grYg3Aj_In6QAtVg/view?usp=sharing

Hi, Selecting a sample in the media browser, and playing it (not the project) works, but as soon as I play the project the sample is often silenced. I tested it in the same project in the old Cakewalk by Bandlab and it seems to always work, but in the new Sonar it seems to work very sporadically - one sample will play, the next sample won't play and then the first sample won't play. My settings were imported from Cakewalk, so they should all be the same. Any ideas?

Thanks Bristol_Jonesy, I sees you need to create the preview when exporting. Not sure why the new Sonar would link to the old Sonar's help docs when new help docs exist.

Thanks - that isn't the reference guide that opens from Sonar's Help/Documentation menu item - that menu item takes you to a website for legacy Cakewalk documentation.

Hi, I recall reading about project previews being one of the new features in Sonar (audio previews of in progress projects from the start screen), but I cannot find anything related to that anywhere. The documentation menu item in Sonar links to the old SONAR docs, which obviously won't have info on new features. Is this a new feature or was it part of a beautiful dream 🙃? Thanks.

Thanks, will try that after this session. I don't want to end up unable to sign back in and then not being able to save my work.

Hi, I have "Sign out from Bandlab" on my help menu so I think so.

Hi, I cannot download the latest update or refresh activation - in both cases I get "failed with error code (1,401)". Checking for updates brings up the toast notification with the Download Now button so it can see the server, it just refuses to download the update or reactivate. Any ideas why? Thanks.

Hi David, You assumed correctly - it is affecting existing projects that were running perfectly on the old machine. That is why I did not suspect a plugin, as they usually run with improved performance on faster hardware. It doesn't happen in all projects, which is why I mentioned that it happens often but not constantly. Thanks for the input - I am happy to have found the cause of the problem, now to find a solution.

HI Sock Monkey, Yes, I did - similar problems with Reaper, if not quite as pronounced.

Hi, I have had some graphical glitches and slowdown related problems for a few weeks already, and eventually tracked the problem down to the soft synth Cube by Lunacy Audio. If the synth is open, even minimized, the Cakewalk piano roll view, inspector and browser all become very glitchy and unresponsive. Closing the synth window brings performance back to a normal level. I didn't pick this up as I often have minimized synths at the bottom of the window, and have never come across this kind of issue before. I also did not have this issue with Cube on my older PC with a 3rd or 4th generation i7 CPU and internal graphics adapter. The problem seems to have been introduced either by the new CPU (i7 14700 with internal GPU) or by Windows 11. Is anyone else running one of the internal intel GPUs having similar issues with this synth? Thanks.

I eventually found the problem, in case anyone else has this issue. It seems that the synth Lunacy Cube does not play well with the internal GPU on an Intel Core i7 14700 & Cakewalk. The strange thing is the issue persists whether the plugin interface is open or minimized, so it doesn't appear to be an issue with drawing the GUI, as there is nothing to draw when the plugin is minimized. Closing the synth solves the issue. I have requested support from Lunacy Audio, hopefully they can provide a fix.

Hi, no such key in the registry, just the Yamaha Steinberg USB ASIO driver.

Thanks, I will check my registry for this entry.

Hi Sock Monkey, Latencymon runs with no spikes and considers the system good for real time audio, which it is - I don't have any audio problems whatsoever. As for the GPU driver, I am using the internal GPU on the intel Core i7, mainly to minimise fan noise. I am not against buying a separate GPU but I haven't needed one for the last 10 or 15 years - I thought the current internal GPU would handle at least as well as the one in my previous 3rd generation Core i7. The GPU drivers are also by intel, not MS. I will do some testing on other DAWs to check if the issue persists, thanks for the suggestion.

Hi, I am definitely using the correct driver - this isn't the generic driver you mention. This same driver was working perfectly in my previous computer, which was a lot slower (the driver provided is for Windows 10 and 11). Thanks for the suggestion, though. Happy to hear any other ideas.

Hi, I am using the real Yamaha/Steinberg ASIO driver - it is a Yamaha mixing desk which interface via USB to the PC. My setup is exactly the same as before except with a new PC, and this never happened on the older, supposedly much slower PC. This isn't an audio issue - it is a graphical display problem. Thanks.

Hi, pressing the pause key just seems to slow down the rate that the timeline updates, it doesn't fix the issue. Thanks.

Hi, I recently migrated to a new PC with an Intel Core i7 14700k CPU, using the internal GPU and Windows 11. I have noticed I am getting a lot of hitching and stuttering on the time line (vertical now time indicator) as well as the now time display in the control bar, especially when in piano roll view. Not constantly, but fairly often. The audio always plays perfectly, this is a graphics display only issue. I have checked the performance monitor and the CPU and GPU usage both remain very low (less than 10% GPU and less than 20% CPU) when this happens. RAM usage is also very low with loads of headroom. All drives are fast SSDs. There doesn't appear to be any corresponding resource shortage causing this. Drivers etc. are all up to date. This is more of an annoyance than a show stopper, but I would like to clear it up, especially considering I never once had this issue on my old 3rd generation core i7 machine with half the RAM, also using the internal GPU. Does anyone have any idea why this would be happening and how to resolve it? Thanks.

Hi, the S Series mark one keyboards work fine with Cakewalk, including the transport controls. There may be some differences with the A series, but it should work, according to some other threads on this forum. Please see below.

A friend had this same problem yesterday - no Windows updates, no new software, no changes to the system at all but opening Cake would flash the splash screen then quit. Nothing fixed it except for a system restore.

Hi Sock Monkey, Which DAW did you buy for $50? Thanks.