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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.

Yeah...I fat-fingered the V many times. As well as other shortcuts. Drove me bananas. I eventually went through the keyboard shortcut menu and pretty much wiped out every keyboard shortcut that isn't part of my normal workflow.

Low-end rumble is generally dealt with via hi-pass filter. The one in Pro-Channel should suffice. It does for me.

This problem, with certain plugins, has always existed. Some of my favorites cause latency and droputs if I try to track with them in-line. The trick is to figure out which ones and only use them when mixing or mastering. Soundtoys, Cakewalk, Slate, Waves...I have plugins from each of these that make it impossible to track with them. Like Bill, I also have a template set up for mastering, and do that completely separately from the project after I settle on and export a mix.

I'm using this trick to re-record some 20 year old songs where I want to keep vocals and some keys from the original multi tracks - while re-recording drums, bass, guitars, etc. But there's only a very slight drift over a 4 minute window from the original drum machine I used. I could be wrong but it may be that a better solution for the OP might be to use audio stretch to force the random performance to follow the drums instead - depending on how badly that performance swings. I'm no audio stretch pro. I've never been able to get my head around it no matter how many videos I've watched.

Historically, I've been MANY versions of Cakewalk behind the current version because the older versions worked well for what I did. And since I had clients constantly in, I couldn't afford to have stuff break on update, which happened a couple times before I just abandoned updates for as long as possible. But now that I'm only using Cakewalk for my own songs, I use the current version. And I'm still constantly looking for the "Clone Track" option. I'm not sure when this disappeared exactly, or why the nomenclature had to change to "Duplicate Track".

I got a chance to setup the RME UFX II USB this weekend and compare it to the Lynx Aurora (n) Thunderbolt. Good lord....that was a hard decision. The RME USB driver is pretty shockingly great! I ended up choosing the Lynx because I thought it sounded slightly better. But that RME UFX II brings a lot to the table and the converters sound great, although I thought the higher frequencies were sweeter, and the low end was a little tighter on the Lynx. I wasn't in love with the tiny screen for input and output meters on the RME. I found that the RME was turning the meter to red to indicate clipping when things actually weren't. That was annoying. The RME was good enough that I almost kept it.

That's what I did for many years. I found it tiresome because I do a lot of it. Setting up the Fade All command does exactly that - but automated.

How that never happened to you in Sonar is a mystery to me. Cutting and pasting audio has always caused this if you're not cutting at a zero crossing as @Lord Timsuggested. His solution is one. Here's another solution that I prefer. I do ton of cutting and pasting audio while I'm noodling with ideas in the very beginning of a song, so I hear this "clicking" fairly often. I set up a custom button in the tool bar (I called it Fade All) which triggers the Fade Selected Clips function. I have it set up to linear fade 1ms on the front and 1ms on the back of each clip. I can just lasso all the clips and click "Fade All". Literally, I can lasso every audio clip in the project and click this button. Takes a split second, and every clip on the clips pane is faded front and back in a way that you'll never hear it. But it definitely fixes the cuts that are made at a non-zero point. If you set up the Fade Selected Clips function to "Only Show if pressing SHIFT", it just does it with a single button click. No need to click ok.

Thanks. I forgot to mention one important thing. This audio disturbance is after playback is paused, but reverb and echo tails are still finishing off. Long reverb...long delay....or long cymbal wash from vst drums. It's not a deal breaker...it's just really annoying. Higher buffer settings doesn't fix this issue. Once these audible tails are gone, the issue is gone. As far as the interface goes, it's external. The Lynx Aurora (n) on a Thunderboltex 4 add on card. My understanding is that this is basically PCIe, so maybe you consider that internal. I had the UA Apollo x6 up and running on this same Thunderbolt card for about 3 weeks and didn't have this issue, and I put at least 12 hours on it tracking and mixing. I mean...I got blue-screens when I changed buffer and sampling settings, but I didn't have this particular issue while tracking or mixing. I'm also trying out the RME UFX II USB, which is supposed to show up today. So I'm curious to see if it also has this issue. I updated to the latest video driver last night but that didn't help. The Thunderboltex 4 card also has video ports on it, but I don't have those jumpered to the board or plugged into video monitors. Basically, I'm probably being lazy. I still have the old video card that worked great with my now-dead MOTU 24i/o. That would be the final move to attempt a fix for this issue.

It has been a long time since I setup Cakewalk with a new computer and a new interface. I had a MOTU 24i/o running for the last say...15 years. That's how long it has been. Knowing better, perhaps, I decided to try the onboard video that comes on the i7 12700k with this Asus board. I'm getting smallish clicks and disturbances when I start playback sometimes. But this seems pretty prevalent when I stop playback and click the mouse in various places on the screen. My gut is telling the this is what happens when Cakewalk doesn't like a video driver. Does that seem right? Am I barking up the wrong tree by trying this onboard video? Suggestions? Thanks.

If I had a dollar for every time a client stood behind me over the last few years, while I was tracking them in Cakewalk, and he said...."Huh...I wish I could do that in Pro Tools", I'd probably have about $20....lol

I'm gonna go with never. Universal Audio will never change that Windows driver.

I'm glad you're not having issues. I was getting a blue screen and an auto reboot, then another blue screen when the OS came back up. Two in a row was the pattern...then it would boot properly. But it's not Cakewalk. I downloaded a Cubase trial and got blue screens immediately. Buggy Universal Audio driver for Windows, I guess. Now that I've seen it, I'm finding this to be an issue all over the internet. I just didn't pick up on that problem before I bought it. This Lynx Aurora isn't having that issue. And I'll be checking out the RME UFX II (USB) this weekend, just out of curiosity. I'm reading fantastic things about the RME Windows USB drivers. I'm really curious to see if USB can compete with the Thunderbolt low latency.

Excellent...thank you, @Noel Borthwick.

I'm using the latest driver - V2 build 25 - Jan 2022 It seems, actually, that the problem is only when I turn off MMCSS in the Lynx ASIO panel while the Enable MMCSS for ASIO in Cakewalk isn't checked. Clicks...pops...dropouts. I'm getting good performance with a couple of different configs with those 3 options. I'm just not entirely clear on what you suggest is the best. Shut off MMCSS in the Lynx driver and enable both options in Cakewalk?

Reggie...I abandoned the x6. I was getting blue screens every other time I changed buffer or sampling rate.

Noel...I switched to Lynx Aurora Thunderbolt because the Universal Apollo x6 was blue screening over and over. I'm still having to turn off MMCSS in Cakewalk with this Lynx driver.

Yes...that did it. Thank you. I actually installed a Cubase demo last week to see if I still got blue screens outside of Cakewalk. I did. Excellent diagnosis, sir. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm seeing the Generic and Realtek Asio driver folders. You're saying delete these?

I abandoned the Universal Audio x6 interface because of an inordinate number of blue screens when switching sampling rates and buffers. It was brutal. I moved on to a Lynx Aurora (n). I have that installed on Thunderbolt and it's working great until I open Cakewalk to try to set it up. When I open Cakewalk I'm getting a box that pops up and says "Generic Low Latency ASIO Driver". It pops up and disappears over and over...almost so fast I can't see it, and I can't get past that to setup. Lil help? What does this indicate? Never seen this one before.

Yes. Thank you. That is turned off. But what I figured out last night is that this happens in the clips pane, but not in the mixer view. I CAN shut it off in the mixer view. But generally, with my work flow, I'm turning monitoring on and off in the clips pane, so it's a bit of a drag.

I'm trying to figure out why input monitoring on some of my MIDI tracks gets stuck ON. It goes from regular Input Echo to Input Echo Auto Thru and I can't get it to shut off. Thanks.

I'd suggest you simply record your doubles on separate tracks. Then, correct each with Melodyne as needed. You can copy tracks and play games with Melodyne's pitch modulation...but but to me, nothing sounds as good as doubling with actual performances. There's something about the textural differences between two vocal tracks that can add up to one great track.

I just now got a chance to sit down and apply the All Notes Off option. Definitely works for me...no noticeable delay. Thanks!