Ted Franklin

Before I got around to bothering anybody at Bandlab, I came across a thread in which someone had the reverse of my problem. They were not getting any notification when devices became disconnected. All I had to do was uncheck "Show Audio/MIDI Device Change Notifications" in Preferences\Display and my torment ended. What's weird about this is that it I spent an enormous amount of time looking at audio settings and registry entries, uninstalling and updating drivers and firmware, swapping in a new HDMI cable. It never occurred to me that there was a checkbox in the display settings. Thanks to all who responded to my cry for help. The good news is I can stop looking at other DAWs and get back to making music. I started with Sonar3 and will probably upgrade to the new Sonar.

I am not an intellectual property lawyer, but, from what I recall truth is an absolute defense to defamation claims. Opinion is protected, but misstatements of fact are not. If you state something as a fact and it turns out to be false, things get fuzzy and more complicated. If challenged on a factual statement and you are being threatened with legal action, you should take it seriously and make sure you got it right. If not, issue a quick retraction and add the retraction at the bottom of your post. Opinions are protected by the first amendment, but talk it over with a lawyer friend, if you can, if someone threatens you for stating what you believe is just an opinion. Opinion: "He was the ugliest man on the whole team." Factual assertion: "He lost most of his left cheek to cancer." Reviewers and publishers of reviews should get the facts straight. As for "pressure," I do recall Boyle's law from high school.

@ Bass Guitar, I understand your suggestion is that I purchase a computer dedicated solely to use as a DAW. I would, for sure, be happy to do that if I were a serious sound engineer. However, although you are no doubt more experienced than I in setting up DAWs, you don't know what, precisely, causes Cakewalk to spin up this error message about an Intel audio device which has no connection to Cakewalk as evidenced by the audio preferences pictured in my earlier post. Perhaps I can't call it a bug because I do not have a dedicated system, but I will need to move on to a different DAW if this is not something that can be fixed on my system. I've disabled the Realtek ASIO driver, but as you note, that's not my issue. In Device Manger, disabling the Intel Display Audio in "Audio inputs and outputs" does not eliminate the problem although disabling Intel Display Audio in "Sound, video and game controllers" does, but that makes the display audio inaccessible. I've updated the driver and the firmware for the Dell monitor. Of course, it may be a bug in the Intel software that only Cakewalk is detecting. I tried a different HDMI cable just to eliminate that suspect. I haven't quite given up yet and I appreciate your comments as well as the comments of all who have responded. This seems to be a good community and I'm hoping to remain with y'all if I can get past this ... anomaly. I will try reaching out to Cakewalk support and will post here if I ever solve the problem.

Thanks, Promidi -- I was thinking the same thing but you've talked me into it. I don't use the Realtek. It shouldn't have anything to do with the Intel Display Driver, but there's a gremlin in the system somewhere so .... I won't get back to this until tomorrow sometime, but I'll report back, success or no.

Thank you, OutrageProductions. I don't think it's a cable issue. The video and audio of the display work perfectly 100% of the time. There is not actually a "disconeection." More likely, the driver goes to sleep when there is no audio signal being sent to that device. But why would Cakewalk care about the cable to a device that is not used in Cakewalk and doesn't even show up as audio output option when it is "connected"? Nevertheless, I will trya different cable before giving up. Thank you, Starship Krupa. Good ideas. "Warn about no MIDI devices" is unchecked so that isn't the problem. I will see if there is anything I can do from the Windows side.

@Promidi -- Here's the view from Preferences.

I have a 34" Dell display with built-in sound which has an up to date Intel Display Audio driver. I use these speakers for a variety of nonmusical apps (Zoom, Skype, etc.) and, for these applications, the built-in speakers work better than my studio monitors. Unfortunately, Cakewalk is bombarding me at irregular intervals with popup error messages that the Intel Display Audio device has been disconnected. The solution repeatedly offered on this forum is to disable the device. I know how to do that, but, of course, it would make Zoom and Skype unable to use the speakers. Is there any way to fix this? I don't understand why Cakewalk even needs to poll my Intel Display Audio and get upset when it is "disconnected." Intel Display Audio is not even listed as an output option (nor of course is it selected) in the Cakewalk, Preferences, Audio, Devices, Output Drivers. I hope I don't have to choose between disabling part of my current setup or switching to a different DAW.